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| SII Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5791 days ago 184 posts - 194 votes  Speaks: Russian* Studies: English | Message 9 of 13 16 December 2009 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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West-Belorussian lands many years were under Poland occupation, so Belorussian language has many Polish "elements". As result, many words in Russian and Belorussian are very different.
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| Cherepaha Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6588 days ago 126 posts - 175 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Polish, Latin, French | Message 10 of 13 23 December 2009 at 6:05am | IP Logged | ||
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You can view Russian and Belorussian tests next to each other on the same page on a site called "Небесное Искусство" (The Heavenly Art): http://www.sky-art.com/andersen/tales/be/050_1_be.htm
To get both texts to display 1. scroll down the page to the section that reads: "Эту сказку можно посмотреть на 2-х языках одновременно. Выберите языки:" (You can view this fairy tale in two languages at the same time. Select the Languages:) 2. select "Русский (Russian) and "Белорусский" (Belorussian) from the pull down menus 3. click on "Посмотреть" (View) button This way, if you speak any one of those languages, you can see how much you can understand of the other, and also look at the translation for any unclear areas. I found it a great tool! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Grammaticus Hexaglot Newbie Norway Joined 5752 days ago 36 posts - 40 votes Speaks: FrenchC2, Norwegian*, EnglishC2, GermanC2, Italian, Russian | Message 11 of 13 23 December 2009 at 5:00pm | IP Logged | ||
Russian is the native-language of the vast majority of people in Belarus. Go for a stroll on the streets or in the Metro o Minsk and I can almost guarantee you, you won't ever hear any Belorussian. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6271 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 12 of 13 24 December 2009 at 7:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have little contact with Belarusian other than listening to some music and looking at some written text. It reminds me of Russian, with some Polish elements. I think it is a little closer to Russian than Ukrainian is.
Re Minsk, Lee Harvey Oswald was sent there during his temporary defection to the USSR. He made a number of references to Russian in a diary he kept - I don't think he mentioned Belarusian at all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6271 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 13 of 13 29 December 2009 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had the strange experience of understanding someone speaking recently without knowing what the language was. It was Slavic, like Russian but not Russian, and included words of recognisibly Polish origin.
It turned out to be Ukrainian. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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