What is the difference in Easter European Languages?

Question

Are they all similar where they can all understand one another, or are they very different. For example is Russian similar to Ukranian...

Also..if i learn Russian for example will i be able to communicate in other Eastern Eurpoean nations

Answer 1

Except for Hungarian and Estonian, which are unrelated to the others, and Romanian, Latvian and Lithuanian, which are only distantly related to the others, the other Eastern European languages (north of Greece and Albania) are Slavic languages. The Slavic languages are quite closely related to one another, although the amount of mutual intelligibility varies greatly. There are three main groups of Slavic languages--Eastern Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian), Western Slavic (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Kashubian), and Southern Slavic (Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian). Romanian is an Italic language related to French, Spanish, and Italian. Latvian and Lithuanian are the two Baltic languages, related to one another, but only distantly related to the other Indo-European languages. Hungarian and Estonian are both Uralic languages, unrelated to the Indo-European languages and only distantly related to each other.

If you learn Russian, you will be able to communicate with other people who studied Russian. You can stumble along if someone speaks Ukrainian or Byelorussian if you speak very slowly and stick to very simple topics (kind of like with Portuguese and Spanish). However, many people in Eastern Europe who went to school before 1990 learned Russian as a second language. If you want to talk to people in their teens and twenties, however, you are better off with English as Russian is not very popular as a second language anymore. I spent two weeks in Poland last year knowing no Polish, but there were enough English speakers when I really needed one that it was not too much of a problem. As in every country, though, a warm smile, knowing the politeness terms for "please" and "thank you", and pointing were invaluable.

Answer 2

The Passover is the Jewish banquet that commemorates their get away from Egypt. Remember Moses and the 10 plagues? The last plague was once the demise of each firstborn of each loved ones...whether or not younger or historical. For illustration, considering that I am the firstborn of my mothers and fathers, despite the fact that I am in my sixties, I might be marked for demise. To preclude this disaster, the Jews have been instructed to slaughter a lamb and mark their doorways with the blood. The Angel of Death might see the blood and might "cross over" their residence. Only the Egyptians might lose a loved ones member that night time. The Passover party lasted per week, and culminated in a conventional dinner which was once eaten at the last Sabbath, or Saturday of the competition. Easter (the identify comes from a few pagan ceremony or different, relying on who you pay attention to) is the Christian party of the resurrection of Jesus. For us, He is "the lamb of God", and replaces the pascal lamb. His blood covers the door to our hearts, and seeing that of Him, the "moment demise" that is the wages of sin has no vigor over us. He died at the Friday earlier than the last day of the Passover banquet, or "Good Friday", that is why the Easter party coincides with the Jewish Passover. In truth, He was once being crucified while on the Temple, the pascal lamb was once being slaughtered. Interesting?

Answer 3

They can be similar but not the same..So I don't think that if u know Russia, you can communicate with other Eastern European people too..But learning language is very important..You should learn a country's language which comes you more near.Because every language has its speakers..

Answer 4

yes, there is a differens although there are some similar words. I'm Macedonian and although we are in the same group of Southern slavic languages, I can hardly understand Bulgarians and Slovenians for example...

Answer 5

no.for example romanian is totally diferent from russian,or any other eastern language...it's true that russian,bulgarian,ukrainianetc. are very similar,but aren't identical

Answer 6

I speak russian and belarussian. I'd say that it is easier to understand other slavic when you speak belarussian, not russian