Which languages are most similar? if you speak such a language, can you understand other(s) to a reasonable degree

Same for the Dutch but they actually understand German better than the opposite according to studies.

Cree and Ojibwe
actually, most algonquian languages can be understood to a certain degree for native speakers.
probably better understood than most Indo-european langs

Audibly kek'd

What sort of Swedish is considered standard? Been learning it hoping it'll let me understand Danish and Norwegian

Also I speak intermediate German and can somewhat understand basic Dutch sentences for whatever that's worth

Swedish from the Stockholm area.

spanish and that thing they scream in mexico.

So... Not Southern then. How much can you understand Danish and Norwegian anyway?

I guess the Iberian languages

i can understand swedish to a certain degree, danish gets pretty hard because of all the guttural howls

The more west you get the more "norwegian" the Swedish sounds like and the more south you get the more "danish" the swedish sounds like. If it's written you understand both languages 95% of the time with a word here and there every 4th sentence that might throw you off but then you can just guess what it is from the context. When spoken you understand Norwegian but you might have to ask them to repeat themselves before you fully get it. Danish is really hard to understand spoken, you can understand it pretty good if you really put an effort into it though.

Yeah I've read horror stories regarding Danish being an unintelligible mess. Been deciding between committing to Dutch and Swedish (beginner level in both) as a third language, anyway thanks

Dutch and Afrikaans and German and Yiddish

Spanish and Portuguese, of course

Slovenian and Serbocroatian
Czech and Slovak
Russian and Ukrainian
English and Scots
Irish and Scottish Gaelic

Spanish and Spanish for retards (Portuguese)

American and British.

Check en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility out if you want to know some more about this.

Polish and Sorbian
Ukrainian and Rusyn
Kirundi and Kinyarwanda
Spanish and Chilean Spanish

I've heard that English is just French in disguise.
It's getting easier for me to understand.
May be due to constant exposure in this country though.

german and bavarian

>thanks to Frankish influence.
*Latin influence

Both are full of arbitrary bullshit and nonsense pronunciation, so sure

Stockholm is in the south.

Huh, for some reason I remember it being halfway up

I can speak Japanese only.....

If you count Scots as a language, it seems to be recognised and taught in schools these days, then Scots and English are very similar. I can switch between either.

Because German is way more relevant than Dutch, so it's more likely a Dutch speaker has come into contact with German than the other way around.
And Dutch is a bit closer to the original ancestor of our languages, but i don't know if that plays a significant role

Can the English decipher Scot accent though?

youtube.com/watch?v=2ELqp4LALkI

eesti and finnish

we can somewhat understand each other