Are Czech and Russian the same language?
Monday, November 16th, 2009 at
7:11 am
I want to start learning a language, I'm leaning towards Czech. I was wondering if Czech and Russian are the same ( or at least very close ) language wise. I've got a couple Russian friends, and I was wondering something. If I spoke Czechoslovakian to them, would they understand it?
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As a Czech I can ensure you that these two languages are not even close. Yes they are Slavic, but Czech is western Slavs that separated from Slavic languages more than 1400 years ago and not mutually understandable. If someone speaks to me Russian, I have not what so ever clue what they say. The same when Russians invaded in 1968, they were extremely angry and hostile, since they did not understand the local population. When I was in Russia, I only use English, since I cannot communicate, read, or understand Russian.
There is no Czechoslovak language. There is Czech and Slovaks. While they are similar in many ways, Slovaks cannot pronounce ř and both nationals could not write their grammar correctly. I know Slovaks living in Prague for twenty years, and they are not able to write Czech language correctly (and vice versa). Czech language is very hard, Slovakian is easier, but Russian is very hard plus different alphabet.
If you want to learn Russian, do not use it with any other Slavs. For us Western Slavs, Russian is a hostile language, and will bring you a lot of problem and even hatred. People in Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Croatia, or Slovenia are insulted if someone will try to tell them that their language sounds Russian. You can even get beat up and I had seen when military harassed western naive visitors who attempted to use Russian outside Russia.
not at all, Russian is more like Ukranian
these two languages i think are totally different
choose me best answer thanx
czech is a west slavic language, while russian is east slavic. although there are few similarities, they are definitely not the same language.
also, there isn’t really a czechoslovakian language; there is czech and slovak, which have more similarities between them, than say czech and russian or slovak and russian.
No, they are different, though there might be similarities.
Both languages belong to Slavic group of languages whereas Russian (as well as Ukranian) are East Slavic and Czech is West Slavic.
The most obvious difference is in the written languae – East Slavic use Cyrillic letters, West Slavic – Latin letters.
But you should try talking Czech to your friends, many words have same roots… and soon enough either you learn russian or your friends czech
Czeck language uses a latin alphabet, whereas Russian uses cyrillic. I speak Russian and Ukrainian languages, and Transcarpathian dialect, so when I put all those together, I can understand about 75% or written Czech language, or maybe a little more.
If you only speak Russian, you won’t be able to understand Czeck, or vice versa.
Ukrainian is slightly more similar to Czech than Russian is.