Eastern Euroes, without memes, what rough percentage of people in your countries can understand Russian?
Central Asians welcome to fill in as well.
>>61808521
less then 0.1%
no one understands russian here maybe if they are from Poland B than something
My parents can understand some since during commies they had to learn it. Young generation its under 1%
like 20 people
>>61808708
can confirm I was born and raised in Poland B and speak fluent Russian
>>61808708
>>61808997
And if it's in written form, Latinised? Shouldn't it be intelligible then? I mean I can understand >90% of Dutch "everyday" text (let's say a random Wikipedia article), if it doesn't heavily employ regionalisms or slang, thought Russian would have the same distance to Polish/Czech
>>61809151
Russian has a shitload of Turkic and French vocabulary, Polish has a shitload of Latin and German
if you're acquainted with Russian grammar (or just from Poland B, rustic dialects are very similar to Russian) you could get the gist of what is being spoken/written, but no more than that
people like to say that "hurr I understand Russian" but in reality few people actually learn it, most of them from the east
Basic russian understand 34% of people, most of them are people who have 40 y.o. and more.
I know basics as well. As a polish speaker,when you have learned cyrylic and know how they construct sentences then all you have to do is to learn vocabulary. While in english we have to learn new tenses which is hard.
>>61809256
Well for me Dutch if spoken or in songs, I can only make out one word per sentence at best, but when reading a text it's much much easier. Of course I also cannot speak it myself, but "passive" reading is easy enough if you concentrate a little and use some imagination. I'd guess Russian would be similar for you if there weren't the "Cyrillic barrier" (then again I did learn Cyrillic just for the giggles a couple years ago, and knowing the Greek alphabet from math and physics classes, it literally took me just a few hours - don't speak a word of Russian though, apart from a handful of 4chan-introduced swears like suka, pidor etc.)
>>61809422
it's a matter of positive/negative transfer
when languages share some features and you understand something without any formal study, it's called positive transfer
when languages differ in some aspect and you trying to apply your own native sensibilities fails you, it's called negative transfer
it is true that a lot of Russian is easily understandable, but far more is subject to negative transfer
it's infinitely easier to understand Ukrainian, as it's kind of a pidgin, connecting Polish and Russian
>>61809384
is this google translate?
>>61809516
Weird, thought Ukrainian was just a dialect of Russian with randomly replacing "o"s for "i"s
>>61809532
No, am I that bad?
>those countries
>eastern europe
aww baby's first bait
>>61809597
when looking at language families, it's more helpful to think of a continuum, rather than individual languages
especially before the universal codification and mass literacy languages were much more "fluid" in nature and Ukrainian is of the the relicts of that period - not really a language per se until very recently, it remains a bridge connecting West Slavs (specifically Poles, as they interacted mainly with Poles) and East Slavs
>>61809613
Heh, maybe it's your earlier part
>Basic russian understand 34% of people
which would be exactly the same way we'd construct that sentence, but it's off in English
>>61809667
South-East can be subsumed under East, ya know
>>61809687
Well for Germanic at least, this only works within the subgroups. So, West Germanic (minus English) is a continuum, so is North Germanic (minus Icelandic and Faroese), but inter-group there isn't much of a similarity among the borders. Danish is no closer to German than Swedish or Norwegian are, even though Danish is geographically closer. If you spin that further it becomes more obvious: Polish is not intrinsically (i.e. loanwords excluded) closer to German than Russian is to German
>>61808708
>Poland B
Poland A is fucking Russian so stop lying
>>61809803
it generally works within the subgroups and it is the reason for their existence, their raison d'etre if you will
languages such as Ukrainian are peculiar because they are so young codification-wise, young enough to remain blurry
>>61808553
All the old people speak Russian
>>61809256
>a shitload of Turkic vocabulary
>something like 1% of the total amount of words
>shitload
>>61808521
I'm sorry, but I'm Central European.
