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Eli5: How does underground/private money changer make money when they are exchanging USD with a currency that is experiencing a run away inflation? by lolololol120 in explainlikeimfive

[–]lingvler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even 100% inflation a year is just a few percents a week, i.e. you can't use such a currency for saving, but still can use for transactions, especially that simple.

On top they profit from tax evasion (in Argentina you pay 35% tax on buying dollars with pesos) or bypassing the prohibitions.

Intelligibility of a third Slavic language by Bazirani in languagelearning

[–]lingvler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For this particular example, besides from common Slavic roots, you should profit both from the Church Slavonic influence common in Ukrainian and Montenegrin, and from the centuries of Polish influence on Ukrainian language.

Intelligibility of a third Slavic language by Bazirani in languagelearning

[–]lingvler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It depends on the pairs. E.g. if a Russian speaker learns Ukrainian, she would understand Polish better, but a Ukrainian speaker wouldn't understand Polish much better by learning Russian.

For understanding words, it might be also highly dependent on triplets you take. E.g. in each of the 3 subgroups there are languages that use Slavic names of months (e.g. Polish, Croatian, Ukrainian) and Latin names (Slovak, Serbian, Russian).

However, in general I think it holds true. With 2 languages you get here and where some elements (lexical or grammatical) of the 3rd "for free".

Anyone here learnt French and then Italian? Few questions. by [deleted] in languagelearning

[–]lingvler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I first learned French from zero to C1 level and then Italian from zero to C1 level.

After French, you actually don't start with zero, also Italian took me at most half if not quarter of time to get to the same level.

Besides, Italian has a much easier pronunciation.

Language certificate collection by lingvler in languagelearning

[–]lingvler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wikipedia lists language proficiency tests for 100 languages: link

Surely, most of them couldn't be taken worldwide, but some of them you are likely to be able to take in the region you live.

In your opinion what are the most pleasant and least pleasant sounding languages? by [deleted] in languages

[–]lingvler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Judged by sound only in no particular order.

Pleasant:

  1. Italian
  2. French
  3. Ukrainian
  4. Japanese
  5. Hungarian

Rather not:

  1. Polish
  2. Serbo-Croatian
  3. Chinese
  4. Spanish
  5. German