question from student re Russian vs. Ukrainain language

[J.Golubovic]

I don't have any particular reference to offer, but I am working on mutual intelligibility of Slavic languages and very loosely (since I am not working on east Slavic languages at the moment), Czech and Slovak are too closely related, a better analogy would perhaps be German-Dutch. 

Jelena

On 22.03.12, Stefan Pugh  <stefan.pugh at WRIGHT.EDU> wrote:
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>     This is also amateurish, but I'd say Czech vs. Slovak, BUT add a
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> >           question to the list:  “How different are the Russian and
> >           Ukrainian languages? As different as, say, Spanish is from
> >           Portuguese? Mandarin Chinese from Cantonese?”
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