Id say its a bit more, I need azeri speakers to speak slowly there are quite some terms that I need to take an educated guess at. (para=pul for instance)
syd@lemy.lol 2 years ago
It is like British and American English.
I can understand %90 of Azeri from either directly from words or context of the sentence. Azeri sounds more accented too.
mathemachristian@lemm.ee 2 years ago
syd@lemy.lol 2 years ago
Maybe you’re right 🤔 The Azeri people I interacted had very clear accent than the average. So I guess we can lower the assumption to %70? 🙂
mathemachristian@lemm.ee 2 years ago
70% is faiI think when theyre talking to me, but if theyre talking with eachother it drops dramatically lol.
scottish english might be a good analogy. If they talk to someone who only knows plain english they will take that into account, but amongst eachother youd be lucky to get the general gist of the topic at hand.
GroteStreet@aussie.zone 2 years ago
If you think American v. British are at 80%, Scottish is around 30% and that’s being generous 🙂
syd@lemy.lol 2 years ago
I learned English from mostly American sources and I can barely understand Brit English :) It’s not just words, the accent makes it harder too. I guess I would never understand Scottish one then.
The Turkish/Azeri situation is close to this, at least for me.