What Two Slavic Languages Will Allow Me to Understand All?
Anechka,
Your comments are very interesting. Would you then perhaps considere learning Czech-Russian to give you an efficient advantage over other combinations in order for you to understand more Slavic languages and to a greater extent?
Yes, I definitely consider studying Czech, I believe it is precisely the "missing link" in my personal case. :)
"K.T. I suppose you need Russian and Slovak or Czech.
Russian shares many words with Southern branch (Bulgarian, macedonian, Serbo-Croatian and of course Ukrainian, Belorussian), and it uses cyrillic like southern languages as well (apart from Croatian and Slovenian), while western language will help to understand all other western languages and will add new lexicon for better understanding southern branch. IMHO."
Thank-you for your thoughtful answer. You answered some of the unspoken questions in my head!
Ah, the message to Linguist was written by me.
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Anechka,
Your comments were also very helpful. Since I know a little Russian and am learning some S-C-B, it seems that Czech would be the "missing link"...
Thanks to everyone who commented!