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So I've seen a comment about learning Spanish making you get a little grip on Portugeese and Italian, my own language helps understand our neighbors.

I wonder, how to abuse that system for the most efficient pick of 3 or 4 languages to rule them all? Let the bar be just reading, text as simple as social media posts.

Again, not people (or we can just put this link, but languages treated as autonomous entities by science.

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[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

A whole bunch of slavik languages are very similar. I had an ex from Slovakia and she could reasonably communicate in Polish and Czech.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I'm a russian and I can understand written or spoken Ukrainian and Belarussian (although the last one is sadly dying), a side of Bulgarian and a little bit from other ex-USSR languages since they got their 20th century's neologisms from Moscow. Trying to get news headlines on Slovakian, Serbian, Czech and Polish were hit-and-miss tho. Tons of different words, and I recognized mostly names, not verbs, the way I have it with almost any other language written with latin script's forks.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yup, there seem to be several groups of slavik languages. From the Czech language wiki:

Czech [...] is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. [...] Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree

Also there is the Germanic languages. The youtube channel "RobWords" as a lot of interessting videos.

Two of them he talks about certain letter replacements that let's you somewhat read German or French by just replacing certain letters that turns them into English words.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Two of them he talks about certain letter replacements that let's you somewhat read German or French by just replacing certain letters that turns them into English words.

That seems very, very useful. Just encountered french instance's posts. Would love to test it if they appear again. Thank you.