Re: OT: semi-OT: bilingual communication
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 24, 2003, 16:04 |
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--- Eamon Graham skrzypszy:
> This leads me to another question, in the opposite direction: is
> Polish at all intelligible with Czech or Slovak?
I've been there, too. Thirteen years ago. AFAIK Czech and Slovak are mutually
completely understandable (I know of several mixed marriages, BTW, where each
partner speaks his own language).
My impression is that Slovaks understand Polish better than Czechs. I
understand Slovak better than Czech. So, my very unscientific conclusion would
be that Slovak comes a bit closer to Polish than Czech. There might also be a
cultural dimension to that, though.
Jan
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