lse123 Newbie Cyprus Joined 5060 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: EnglishC2
| Message 1 of 8 10 September 2011 at 11:19pm | IP Logged |
I am currently Skype learning Russian, well I am curious what other language(s), are most relative to Russian [meaning the easiest mastered once Russian mastered]? By "mastered" here I just mean learned well not more...
Belo-Russian
Ukrainian
Baltic Languages
what is the sequence from easiest earn to most difficult...please list 5-6 lang at most!
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floydak Tetraglot Groupie Slovakia Joined 4854 days ago 60 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Slovak*, English, German, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 2 of 8 10 September 2011 at 11:22pm | IP Logged |
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zrak0plovac Diglot Newbie Croatia Joined 5185 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishB2 Studies: Russian
| Message 4 of 8 12 September 2011 at 12:07am | IP Logged |
I'd say definitely Ukrainian & Serbo-Croatian as my first pick. Also, Belorussian & Bulgarian to a slightly lesser extent.
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 5 of 8 12 September 2011 at 1:04am | IP Logged |
Belorussian is very close to Russian - the main difference being when the Russians just pronounce /a/ for unstressed 'o' the Belorussians also write the a.
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Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 6 of 8 12 September 2011 at 7:41am | IP Logged |
The closest are Ukrainian and Belorussian. Others are farther. Bulgarian has similar
phonology, spelling and vocabulary, but very different grammar. Czech, in the opposite,
has different phonology but similar grammar.
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Haukilahti Triglot Groupie Finland Joined 4964 days ago 94 posts - 126 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Polish
| Message 8 of 8 12 September 2011 at 11:42am | IP Logged |
Though for the original poster most Slavic languages are pretty close to Russian, and I am not so sure that the nearest language to Russian (Belarusian?) is automatically the easiest to learn after Russian. I'd choose a language a step or two farther, but still Slavic.
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