Is there a major difference between them?

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  1. Někteří ukrajinci a rusové mají se slovenštinou problém.

    Věta “nerozumím slovensky” by mohla naznačovat, že jde o tento případ.

  2. To a native speaker there is definitely not a major difference. Some, yeah, but not major. Slovaks understand 100% of czech, czechs understand well over 90% of slovak (this depends a bit on the generation, generally the older person the better understanding of slovak). Doesnt really work that way if you are not a native though. The Vietnamese living in Prague understand czech but slovak – not really. Also my gf is polish, she learned to speak/understand slovak quite well but has major problem with understanding czech on the same level

  3. They are different, but native Czech/Slovakian speakers can understand each other with little to no problems. Foreigner that is learning Czech for some time could understand some words here and there.

  4. Well, not really. I would say that if we broke down these two languages in to regional dialects, people from closer regions would generally understand each other. Specifically, I mean regions like Záhorie and Stredné Považie (SK) and Slovácko, Valašsko and I would even say some part of the Olomouc region.
    Even though I am Slovak from the Western part with distinct dialect, I would have much harder time understanding someone from Eastern Slovakia than someone from Moravia.

  5. Dzień dobry. Przepraszam, ale nie rozumiem po słowacku i czesku.

    Now i see how we polish people over complicate everything. 😅

  6. As a native czech, I dare to say that slovak sounds to czechs similarly like when you replace W’s in place of R’s in english

  7. Not really. Czech and Slovak are classified as significantly mutually intelligible languages. So if a Czech meets a Slovak each of them can just speak his respective language to the other and they will understand each other, with maybe having to ask to explain a word here and there.

  8. Why does the half of Bratislava that lives in Prague insist on speaking this language when doing Czech customer support?

  9. So let me get this straight, you don´t understand the first one?
    Me: I don´t. And I´m tired of pretending I do.

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