How close are Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian as languages? Is it like Spanish and Portuguese...

How close are Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian as languages? Is it like Spanish and Portuguese, where speaking one means you almost speak the others, and you can understand most of what's said and written?

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I can understand most of what Ukrainians are talking about and I only speak Russian

>Is it like Spanish and Portuguese, where speaking one means you almost speak the others, and you can understand most of what's said and written?
Yes

There was a old-Russian/Ukrainian/Belorussian language and each is based on some dialects. Russian is on Moscow dialect (middleRussian). Others on whatever they based on. If you speak (an official literature form of) Russian you cannot understand something in rural babushkas speech from Russia.
Naturally Russian cannot understand Ukrainian without learning some words.

How about Bulgarian?

More like English proper (Russian) and hillbilly speak (hohlandian)

i can't understand ukrainian it is non-human

>Is it like Spanish and Portuguese, where speaking one means you almost speak the others

Listen, Spanish people have a REALLY hard time understanding Portuguese and while Portuguese people are more prone to understand Spanish, they have to ask them to speak slower to understand what they're saying. And this disregards idiomatic expressions and such.

I can understand like 70% of ukrainian and like 90% of belarussian (which is hardly a language). Both ukrainians and belarussians can understand 100% of russian and all of them can speak it perfectly.

>almost
RU: yizyk;UA: mova; EN: Language
RU: ocheñ; UA: duzhe; EN: very
RU: ya govoryu; UA: ya razmuvlyayu; EN: I do speak.

It sounds something like this:
>Russian
Fighter-bomber
>hohol
Winkie-dinkie

i love how they are making russians black haired while in reality its the ukrainians who are browner

goebbels tier propaganda

how different is hoholspeak from southern russian dialects

russia is now fully non white in the eyes of the west

I've asked this question before and the general conclusion I got was that the uninitiated will have a hard time understanding the other but if they spend a month or two with the other speakers they will be able to understand what they're saying. There's not a very good word to describe it. They're like half way between dialects and separate languages. They're closer than the Nordic languages are to each other.

Roots of these ukranian words are recognizable for russians. mova = molva (speech), duže = dyuže (archaic very), razmuvlyayu = molvlyu ("[i am] speaking" using archaic root molv)

Those 100% uks and bels "can understand 100% of russian" because they know Russian. How many per cents of Russian langauge would some Brazilian/Canadian born Ukrainian would understand if he could speak only EN/PTetc and UA?

>Those 100% uks and bels "can understand 100% of russian" because they know Russian
Yeah that's what I meant

there's an amalgamation called "surzhik", both southern russians and eastern ukies speak it

That's because many Russians are not Russian but assimilated Baltic(Pskov) or Finnic(Kostroma etc). Actual Russians and most Ukrainians are not very different genetically.

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The question is would Ukrainian only speaker, Belorussian only speaker and Russian only speaker would understand each other. For example Russians from Brazil and Ukrainian from Canada.

Also easy

>Actual Russians
Actual Russians were established around Moscow and father up north.
Everything southward from Tula was a step controlled by not-slavs. And then repopulated in XVIII-XIX centuries. Donetsk was establish in 1860s same as Vladivostok.