German and Russian?! Maybe to a person not at all familiar with either Germanic or Slavic languages, but they are not as closely related at the other 2 pairs.
dan1101@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Spanish and Portuguese
German and Russian
German and Dutch a bit
Yaky@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
dan1101@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I almost didn’t put this one because I don’t get it, but several people I know have confused them.
phr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
most people go by sound. tgere is a phenomenon that (european) portugese gets viewed as ‘some slavic language’ by laypeeps. it is just arbitrary what people will think your language is.
trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Spanish is my first language and one of the most embarrassing moments of my life was asking two people if they were speaking Portuguese and they said no, Spanish.
Which would be okay because we all have different accents… But we were from the same country.