language learning

>>77861913
just realized i reddit spaced too much. kill me

Danish, Norweigen, and Swedish are basically just a single dialectal continuem.

Mean while, most """dialects""" of Arabic are basically unintelligable to each other.

Italian- Romanian
Dutch- Afrikaans
Irish- Scots Gaelic
Russian- Polish
Finnish- Estonian
(spanish- portuguese)

>>77861913
Urdu and Hindi (other than the scripts) are 70% the same language. Plus Punjabi is similar to both.

All the Latin languages are quite similar.

Serbo-Croatian
You will understand bosnian, serbian, croatian, montenegrin and some slovenian I think.

>>77862040
>Russian- Polish
this is bullshit. that's like saying english and german can understand each other.

>Apparently if you know Czech, you basically know Slovakian.

You can understand it for the most part, you definitely can not speak it, and im not sure how this would work with non native, because Slovaks and Czechs are constatnly exposed to other language.

I have watched cartoons as a kid exclusively in Czech, played MMORPG on Czech server for 6 years and listened to lot of Czech music. I cant speak the language, i mix too many Slovak words in when i try.

Portugese and Polish

>>77861913
South Korean - North Korean

>>77862143
>I cant speak the language, i mix too many Slovak words in when i try.

it's the same case for danish/swedish/norwegian. I can understand swedish and norwegian perfectly but I really can't speak them at all since I mix them up due to how similar they are.

>>77862129
yeah, that one was a stretch

>>77862143
>>77862215
well that's sort of lame. i think knowing danish and understanding swedish and norwegian is pretty cool though.

>>77862215
I think you'd need some exposure to those languages first though. I have some Danish friends that say can't really understand Swedish.

>>77862006
does standard arabic exist so that they would understand each other if they spoke "properly"?

>>77863498
Standard Arabic is formal and mainly used in writting or official setting. Spoken Arabic differs widely.

>>77862603
its pretty much impossible at first but i think understanding danish would be pretty easy after living there for a few weeks

norwegians are pretty easy to speak to though

>>77861913
I heard that Hungarians in Slovakia who learn Slovak later in life actually can't really understand Czech, dunno how true it is tho

>>77862603
I'd say that one in ten people in Sweden understand me when I speak Norwegian. And that number is even lower in Denmark.
And I don't speak any weird dialect, either. I've lived in Oslo my entire life.

>>77864417
vocraoo?

>>77862040
>Irish- Scots Gaelic
no

>>77861913
Galician is basically portuguese that sounds like spanish

>>77862186
You mean Korea and Best Korea

>>77862999
most people don't understand swedish or norwegian here, but it's really easy if you put some effort into it. I learned it easily by watching tv shows in the languages and learning which words are different from my own language.

>>77864773
Why is it that Danes understand "standard" swedish better than scanian? Scanian is literally a Danish dialect that got swedenized.

Which kind of Russian do you prefer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBleNfmkScA - russian Russian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmok_GUQRQs - ukrainian Russian

>>77864883
You have to spell out the differences because I can't hear them.

>>77862129
Polish sounds for us like a very brutal and ancient Russian or Ukrainian, I mean when you can't understand it, because now I speak it

>>77864964
Different accent mostly. Sometimes g/h's difference, but not always

>>77864831
>Scanian is literally a Danish dialect that got swedenized.
this is exactly why, it's swedish pronounciations of words with stod like in danish. It's like an entirely different language to me because it sounds so strange.

>>77861913
If you understand English, you can somewhat speak American

>>77861913
There are languages groups, for example spanish belongs to the romance language group along with portuguese, french and italian.

>>77865045
I still find it weird desu senpai

Scanian should be the dialect that bridge Danish and Swedish, but instead it's the least understood by both swedes and danes..

>>77861913
Whelp, i'm in love

>>77864964
just compare how they are speaking

ukrainian accent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNTXecbIEHY - journalist speaks Ukrainian, he (Loik) speaks Russian. It's a normal thing for Ukraine


russian accent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFpy7JavYts

Many things vary more widely than we tend to think.
For example I overheard a South American once and it took me really long to even figure out they were even talking Spanish.

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>>77865434
>journalist
Literally this.

>>77865434
Russian accent sound manlier but that could just be due to the people [in the video] speaking it.

>>77865211
>try to learn these languages
>speak french with italian pronunciation
>speak spanish with italian pronunciation
>mix words from the 4 languages

A brazilian does not even need to speak spanish to understand what a spanish speaker means.

Portuguese to spanish - Circa 90% of intelligibility on standard language.
Portuguese to italian - Circa 60%.
Portuguese to french - Circe 40%.

Also, English, as a language influenced a lot by latin and french, have about 20% to 30% of intelligibility in written form.

>>77862129
This isn't bullshit. Once you understand how to read you understand it just perfectly.

>>77864969
>and ancient
False. Maybe it sounds ancient for you, for me it sounds as it is - as the most mutated Slavic language.

>>77862040
>Finnish- Estonian
No

>>77865579
Especially giving the fact that Oxxxymiron is a Jew who spent most of his youth in Germany and London.

As a Spanish speaker i can read Portuguese and Italian, and have a pretty solid idea what Im reading. In conversation, I have a harder time conversing with Italians, but with a lot of gesturing I can defend myself. I find it easier to hold a conversation with a Portuguese speaker.