I mean, you can do it, but its speculative and thats all. In 1795, following decades of decline, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth finally ceased to exist. Because they use different alphabets, German and Yiddish are only mutually intelligible when spoken. This is not necessarily correct in terms of vocabulary, but you will find a lot in common in the grammatical rules . These images show ruined buildings in the city of Uman, located in central Ukraine, after Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at the region on Lviv is truly a beautiful city and you can see how my time went in my Lviv winter 2018 video below! It is not true that Shtokavian which I speak is not mutually intelligible with Torlakian of southern Serbia. Poland and Ukraine in cross-cultural managment 17 perspektywy kultury / perspectives on culture numer 17 (2/2017) Ukrainian and Polish Culture of Management It has been massively updated with a lot of new research from controlled scientific intelligibility studies. The matter of a different alphabet in Russian does not in itself make Russian easier or more difficult than any other language. Languages can also be mutually intelligible only in spoken forms such as Polish and Ukrainian or only in written forms such as Icelandic and Faroese. Or they will say, Well, that is about 70% our language. So, when you're learning the Polish alphabet, all you have to pay attention to are the special accents and the pronunciation. Prussia, Russia and Austria had divided the vast territory of one of Europes great powers, which had once extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Europe :), about eighty per cent of Ukrainian words are very similar to Russian words, well, Michal was in Kharkov in 1982, I figure people simply spoke Russian then, with a little Ukrainina accent, that's why he thought he understands the language so well :). So what about Ukrainian and Russian? However, it similarity implies that once you discover how to learn Russian grammarin your foreign language program, youll have an easier time reading in Ukrainian, and with practice and study, youll be able to speak in Ukrainian too. Ukraine Also, , , , and are not available in Russian. Croatian language doesnt exists. However, Russian is only 74% mutually intelligible with spoken Belarusian and 50% mutually intelligible with spoken Ukrainian. Get the news that matters from one of the leading news sites in Ghana, Asian markets open higher as investors weigh Wall Street losses, Europe's produce at stake in Spain's water war, Australia targets Big Tobacco in crackdown on vaping, Qantas names Vanessa Hudson as first female chief executive, Plus-size lady with super curvy look displays her dance moves in video, netizens gush: "Future wife", 150+ beautiful Kuwait names for boys and girls with meanings, The top 20 dancehall artists in the world right now 2023, 7 serious social problems in Ghana and their solutions: be in the know, Ras Nene, Wode Maya and Senior Man Layla linkup; shoot funny skit together, Kuami Eugene says Sarkodie did not reveal political agenda on Happy Day: "His idea was like giving praise to God", Lady shares how catching her mother in bed with another man ruined her childhood, Charlotte Derban: Beauty saloon and other businesses owned by ex-Bayern Munich star Sammy Kuffour's baby mama, Ghanaian Catholic priest uses Spyro's Who is your guy song to preach, church members sing along in video. E.g. As an example, in the case of a linear dialect continuum that shades gradually between varieties, where speakers near the center can understand the varieties at both ends with relative ease, but speakers at one end have difficulty understanding the speakers at the other end, the entire chain is often considered a single language.