> I can speak Polish in Slovakia*, get responses in Slovak and mostly understand each other. i'd call slovak a "middle-slavic" language, the phonetics and the

> I can speak Polish in Slovakia*, get responses in Slovak and mostly understand each other. i'd call slovak a "middle-slavic" language, the phonetics and the lexicon makes is easy for the other slavic spekers to understand say, i can communicate with slovaks in ukrainian and there are no significant issues with understanding too. strangely, it doesn't work for czech. at all.