Can Germans understand Dutch?
Can Spanish understand Portuguese?
Can polish understand Czech?
Can Latvians understand Lithuanian?
Can afrikaners understand dutch?
Can Indonesians understand malay?
Can Japanese understand ryukuyan?

>>212296936 (OP)
>Can Spanish understand Portuguese?
Simon

>>212296936 (OP)
can you understand Kyrghiz?

Latvian sounds like utter gibberish to me when sober, you need to be drunk to understand it.

>>212297323
Yes

>>212296936 (OP)
>Can Germans understand Dutch?
Only written Dutch

>>212296936 (OP)
>Can Japanese understand ryukuyan?
not at all.
it is difficult even to the speakers of dialects inside Japanese to understand each other.

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No, latvian and lithuanian are surprisingly far apart. Technically there's samogitian that sounds slightly closer to latvian, but it's pretty surface level.


I once witnessed a romanian have a conversation with two paraguayans in what I can only presume was an ungodly mix of the two languages, so presumably there's some intelligibility there.

THIS SONG GOES VERY HARD

>>212296936 (OP)
if you are a non retarded spanish native speaker, you can understand like 60-75% of portuguese depending of the topic
in fact the only romance language which is actually hard to understand at least something of it, it's french.
>>212298608
romanian is also a hard one, but surprisingly not as hard as french

>>212296936 (OP)
greetings

>>212296936 (OP)
>Can polish understand Czech?
To a very small extent. I understand east Slavic languages much better than Czech
>>212298608
>I once witnessed a romanian have a conversation with two paraguayans
A lot of Romanians simply know Spanish (they often go to Spain to work)

>>212299010
>A lot of Romanians simply know Spanish
And even more of them italian, which is closer to spanish than romanian.
Italians and spaniards can understand each other a little, we have a lot of words in common.

>>212296936 (OP)
>Can Latvians understand Lithuanian?
yes if you study it for like a month and memorize some rules you can understand 50% of lithuanian

>>212296936 (OP)
/nederdraad/ is fun to read, like a drunkn mix of english and german

>>212296936 (OP)
>>212296936 (OP)
I used to be able to understand RTPI when their broadcasts were available through Spanish cable providers many years ago. The very few times I heard brazilian portuguese, it sounded like monkey talk to me, I barely understood a word.

>>212296936 (OP)
>Can Indonesians understand malay?
Yes. Only retardos claim otherwise.

>>212296936 (OP)
>Can afrikaners understand dutch?
Dutch understand Afrikaans better than the other way around because Afrikaans is Dutch with simplified grammar. They don't conjugate verbs for person