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theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 neologism 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.

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  • theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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. They 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.

    • How to translate French words WITHOUT KNOWING FRENCH
    • How anyone (including YOU) can read German

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    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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