Thread: Ukrainian language similair to Russian?

Originally Posted by VendingMachine

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.

Catalan Spanish? There is Catalan and there is Spanish. They are two separate languages.

Originally Posted by JJ

Scotcher, your irony is out of place here. You cannot see the whole picture, becouse of your weak knowlage of Russian language and culture. What would you say if anyone from Honduras tried to discuss about the English influence into the Gaelic and classifide English you speak in the North like a diffrent language which came from Erin?
Calm down, dont you think it is not in your competence?

JJ

Bite me. I was mocking the fact that you and your cheerleaders always assume that anyone forwarding a theory which contradicts the way you want to see the world must automatically be anti-Russian in nature, causing you all to go into full-on Defend-The-Motherland personal-attack mode. Even on a subject that is, by nature, fairly subjective and open to different interpretations.

As with, oh... practically any other subject raised anywhere on this forum, whenever a non-Russian says something the local patriots don't agree with, from the choices:

a) he has been taught a slightly different classification, or formed his own opinion based on his own experiences

b) he is simply mistaken

c) he is part of a massive anti-Russian conspiracy

you lot will all automatically chose c) every... single... time.

It's absolutely pathetic, but really rather entertaining at the same time, and I reserve the right to point and laugh at you wherever and whenever I want to.

Originally Posted by basurero

Originally Posted by VendingMachine

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.

Catalan Spanish? There is Catalan and there is Spanish. They are two separate languages.

I think he is talking about the Spanish spoken in Catalu

Originally Posted by Hedonist

How different is the language and would Russians understand Ukrainian speech?

Учите чешский. Там всё понятно: "To bylo žradlo! - 'Вот это накормили!'.
Ещё у них есть "ходидло", "возидло", "умывадло"...

[quote=Cesar]

Originally Posted by basurero

Originally Posted by VendingMachine

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.

Catalan Spanish? There is Catalan and there is Spanish. They are two separate languages.

I think he is talking about the Spanish spoken in Catalu

Originally Posted by scotcher

Originally Posted by JJ

Scotcher, your irony is out of place here. You cannot see the whole picture, becouse of your weak knowlage of Russian language and culture. What would you say if anyone from Honduras tried to discuss about the English influence into the Gaelic and classifide English you speak in the North like a diffrent language which came from Erin?
Calm down, dont you think it is not in your competence?

JJ

Bite me. I was mocking the fact that you and your cheerleaders always assume that anyone forwarding a theory which contradicts the way you want to see the world must automatically be anti-Russian in nature, causing you all to go into full-on Defend-The-Motherland personal-attack mode. Even on a subject that is, by nature, fairly subjective and open to different interpretations.

As with, oh... practically any other subject raised anywhere on this forum, whenever a non-Russian says something the local patriots don't agree with, from the choices:

a) he has been taught a slightly different classification, or formed his own opinion based on his own experiences

b) he is simply mistaken

c) he is part of a massive anti-Russian conspiracy

you lot will all automatically chose c) every... single... time.

It's absolutely pathetic, but really rather entertaining at the same time, and I reserve the right to point and laugh at you wherever and whenever I want to.

That perfectly sums up what I've been thinking over since arriving at this forum.

Originally Posted by basurero

Originally Posted by VendingMachine

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.

Catalan Spanish? There is Catalan and there is Spanish. They are two separate languages.

I meant Catalan AND Spanish. Sorry for the typo.

Originally Posted by VendingMachine

Originally Posted by basurero

Originally Posted by VendingMachine

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.

Catalan Spanish? There is Catalan and there is Spanish. They are two separate languages.

I meant Catalan AND Spanish. Sorry for the typo.

Isn't Catalan just a francosised dialect of Spanish :P

Originally Posted by TATY

Originally Posted by scotcher

Originally Posted by JJ

Scotcher, your irony is out of place here. You cannot see the whole picture, becouse of your weak knowlage of Russian language and culture. What would you say if anyone from Honduras tried to discuss about the English influence into the Gaelic and classifide English you speak in the North like a diffrent language which came from Erin?
Calm down, dont you think it is not in your competence?

JJ

Bite me. I was mocking the fact that you and your cheerleaders always assume that anyone forwarding a theory which contradicts the way you want to see the world must automatically be anti-Russian in nature, causing you all to go into full-on Defend-The-Motherland personal-attack mode. Even on a subject that is, by nature, fairly subjective and open to different interpretations.

As with, oh... practically any other subject raised anywhere on this forum, whenever a non-Russian says something the local patriots don't agree with, from the choices:

a) he has been taught a slightly different classification, or formed his own opinion based on his own experiences

b) he is simply mistaken

c) he is part of a massive anti-Russian conspiracy

you lot will all automatically chose c) every... single... time.

It's absolutely pathetic, but really rather entertaining at the same time, and I reserve the right to point and laugh at you wherever and whenever I want to.

That perfectly sums up what I've been thinking over since arriving at this forum.

Yep....! Me too! But so far only a cranky old bugger like Scotcher has been eloquent enough to say it! .........ooh....wait a minute can I say bugger here or is that a bad word?

Originally Posted by DDT

... But so far only a cranky old bugger like Scotcher has been eloquent enough to say it! .........ooh....wait a minute can I say bugger here or is that a bad word?

I am not so sure about "bugger", but "old" is.

[quote=Cesar]

[quote=Wowik]
Por_favor C

[quote=Wowik][quote=Cesar]

Originally Posted by Cesar

[Below a short summary of what it says.

This article talks about the reduction on motor (cars) taxes in 50% will affect in 33% the production of Logan (which, by the way, I don't know what it is... perhaps an enterprise unknown in my continent...) and their effects on 35 thousand people payments...

And THAT MUCH I could figure out WITHOUT any knowledge of Romanian, Spanish, Italian, French or Latin. English was enough for me.But figuring out that "much" doesn't mean you understand the language. Professor Cesar my butt.

Originally Posted by Cesar

This article talks about the reduction on motor (cars) taxes in 50% will affect in 33% the production of Logan (which, by the way, I don't know what it is... perhaps an enterprise unknown in my continent...) and their effects on 35 thousand people payments...

As you can see there are many more than only two words we can undertand.

Ну этак-то и я всё и понял! А вот почему грядет снижение ввозных пошлин, я не усек. Что-то там Евросоюз придумал.

Is it your continent, C

Originally Posted by VendingMachine

Originally Posted by Cesar

[Below a short summary of what it says.

This article talks about the reduction on motor (cars) taxes in 50% will affect in 33% the production of Logan (which, by the way, I don't know what it is... perhaps an enterprise unknown in my continent...) and their effects on 35 thousand people payments...

And THAT MUCH I could figure out WITHOUT any knowledge of Romanian, Spanish, Italian, French or Latin. English was enough for me.But figuring out that "much" doesn't mean you understand the language. Professor Cesar my butt.

Come on? What did you expect? That I translate the whole article for you? The person who asked me about the it wanted the beginning of it so that's what I did... I work and I have a life out the internet.

As for Wowik, those cars are unknown here.

C

In other words, a native speaker of Spanish could understand a coupla words here, a coupla words there, a little more than someone with some knowledge of English and with Russian as his first language. If it was a radio programme, where people spoke rapidly and naturally, Cesar would have understood close to nothing. Quad erat demonstrandum.

Originally Posted by VendingMachine

In other words, a native speaker of Spanish could understand a coupla words here, a coupla words there, a little more than someone with some knowledge of English and with Russian as his first language. If it was a radio programme, where people spoke rapidly and naturally, Cesar would have understood close to nothing. Quad erat demonstrandum.

Relativity VendingMachine! You've forgotten such a basic term and jumped into conclusions without any further inspection. By the way, I would be very thankful if you make a little effort and write or at least copy/paste my name as it is... not "Cesar", which is a verb in Spanish.

Well, have a nice day... I'm back to work and you do the same.

C

+1 VM.

BTW, many Russians also know and like singing Ukrainian folk songs. And they understand everything they sing. The most popular are "Ты ж мэнэ пидманула", "Нэсэ Галя воду", "Роспрягайтэ хлопцы конэй", "З сиром пироги", "Дивлюсь я на нэбо, та й думку гадаю" ... these are songs I've ever heard and sung but I am not a great fan of Ukrainian songs...