Board Thread:Theories/@comment-29978021-20160915234054/@comment-8458738-20160930151658

Shan48 wrote: As for the Czech and Slovak language relations, they are simply the same. A person from Slovakia can understand from 80 to 90 percent of Czech words. Only some special type of words like the names of the vegetables or some science terminology can be viewed as a problem. Since I'm from the western part of Slovakia, I can understand up to 90 percent of Czech words and I can also speak Czech fluently (but with distingtive Slovak accent). My classmates from the middle and the eastern region of Slovakia usually have more problems with Czech language (since some of them are closer related to Poland), but even they can understand at minimum about 80 percent of Czech language. The understanding between Czechs and Slovaks is so good, that even movies, books or comics doesn't need to be translated and nobody seems to have problem with it (except of the ultra-nationalists) :-) Also as for the culture, sports interests, cuisine and arts we are still very close with Czechs.  WOOOW, so interesting, but Slovakia did recovered itself right after Vladimir Meciar administration ended, right? However even if you split up you can never forget your roots in culture and history and language, same way goes for Yugoslavia which is now: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, and Slovenia (which somehow I find that confusing with Slovakia), Macedonia.