Then they proceed to have a twenty minute conversation in Polish. (Which by the way sounds like Russian to my ear. I honestly can't tell the difference.)
That's not odd at all. The two languages have a lot more in common than English and German that are similarly related. I don't speak Polish but I can sometimes understand it when I hear it. I often have a harder time telling exactly which (non-Russian) Slavic language I'm hearing than understanding what's being said.
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Date: 2022-02-28 02:43 pm (UTC)That's not odd at all. The two languages have a lot more in common than English and German that are similarly related. I don't speak Polish but I can sometimes understand it when I hear it. I often have a harder time telling exactly which (non-Russian) Slavic language I'm hearing than understanding what's being said.