Re: Ukrainian language similair to Russian?
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And no one says it is. Ukranian, Russian and Belorussian are dialects of one common language of our common forefathers.
Well, in the same way French, Spanish, Romanian and Italian are dialects of Latin, perhaps so.
Speakers of Romanian will not understand speakers of Spanish. With Russian and Ukranian it's a different story - I watch movies dubbed into Ukranian and I can easily follow most of the conversations (I fail to understand only about 5%).
Re: Ukrainian language similair to Russian?
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Вы где-нибудь в Сибири или на севере "местечко" видели?
Не только видел я местечко "на севере", я еще и сам оттуда :-). У нас маленький город - это именно "мЯстеТко" (произносим со звуком "я" и такой вот как бы средний между "ч" и "т" звук).
btw, yes. Russian dialects have retained a lot more Slavic roots compared to the literary language. They are pretty much dying out though.
Re: Ukrainian language similair to Russian?
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Originally Posted by VendingMachine
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Originally Posted by laxxy
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Originally Posted by VendingMachine
And no one says it is. Ukranian, Russian and Belorussian are dialects of one common language of our common forefathers.
Well, in the same way French, Spanish, Romanian and Italian are dialects of Latin, perhaps so.
Speakers of Romanian will not understand speakers of Spanish. With Russian and Ukranian it's a different story - I watch movies dubbed into Ukranian and I can easily follow most of the conversations (I fail to understand only about 5%).
Re: Ukrainian language similair to Russian?
[quote=VendingMachine][quote=Cesar] Quote:
Originally Posted by VendingMachine
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Originally Posted by laxxy
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Originally Posted by VendingMachine
And no one says it is. Ukranian, Russian and Belorussian are dialects of one common language of our common forefathers.
Well, in the same way French, Spanish, Romanian and Italian are dialects of Latin, perhaps so.
Speakers of Romanian will not understand speakers of Spanish. With Russian and Ukranian it's a different story - I watch movies dubbed into Ukranian and I can easily follow most of the conversations (I fail to understand only about 5%).
Re: Ukrainian language similair to Russian?
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VendingMachine, are you a Spanish speaker? I have more than 33 years (meaning since I was born) of contact with this powerful language which is my native one so if you are a native speaker we can discuss deeper to what degree Romanian is understandable for us. By the way, I wasn't talking about written language.
I am not, my wife is (a native speaker of Catalan Spanish) She tried listening to a Romanian program on TV once (a talk show) and said she couldn't understand what they were saying, only a word or two here and there.