Czech Republic - Eastern or Western

[Mans not hot]

lol, you're the troll. I'm trolling you in a parallel universe.

Right. That's it. I'm going to report you.

[Windischer]

Czechs having Russian accent is like Indian spaceship landing on Venus


Czech accent is stably located on 1st syllable. Intonation is often similar to German.
Russian accent is totally different (I think its not even stable...). And Russian intonation makes the language almost unintelligible to Czechs (and to me too).

As an Eastern Slavic person born in Czechoslovakia I say Czechs are Central European. Both culturally and geographically.

[Äike]

Czechs having Russian accent is like Indian spaceship landing on Venus


Czech accent is stably located on 1st syllable. Intonation is often similar to German.
Russian accent is totally different (I think its not even stable...). And Russian intonation makes the language almost unintelligible to Czechs (and to me too).

As an Eastern Slavic person born in Czechoslovakia I say Czechs are Central European. Both culturally and geographically.

My 100% ethnic Russian coworker named Dmitri thought that the people who he talked to in English, were Russians, because of their accent. Heck, I don't speak Russian, I couldn't differentiate between accents that well, but Dmitri is an ethnic Russian.

I'll bring you an example, Finns & Estonians have the same accent in English, as our languages are so similar.

[Windischer]

I respect feelings and impressions of Mr. Dmitri, maybe he just mistaken term accent for pronunciation (happens), however Czech is one of my native languages, so I am quite sure about what I know on this matter.

[Äike]

I respect feelings and impressions of Mr. Dmitri, maybe he just mistaken term accent for pronunciation (happens), however Czech is one of my native languages, so I am quite sure about what I know on this matter.

but Russian isn't, thus your ignorance. I as an Estonian always recognize an Estonian accent in English. Same goes for Russians with Russian accent, Swedes with swedish accent, Germans with German accent etc.

The Czech are Eastern-European Slavs, also the Slavic languages did split quite "recently", thus the big similarities aren't that surprising.

[Legion]

Going by east-west mindset, I would place Czech Republic in the same category as Slovenia or Estonia. Eastern with strong western influences, or vice versa.

[Äike]

Going by east-west mindset, I would place Estonia in the same category as Slovenia or Estonia. Eastern with strong western influences, or vice versa.

lol. The Slovenes are Slavs who are Catholic. They're Eastern-Europeans, you can't even compare them to us.

Also, what "Eastern influences" could us, the Estonians, have? I know about none, except the food.

What is more Northern-European than a historically Lutheran Finnic population. And Estonia has been part of the West since 1227. The border between the West and the East has been on the Narva river for the last 800 years.

2 forts overlooking each other, one representing the West, for almost a thousand years, the other representing the East

Please abide from making further ignorant statements, like comparing someone like the Estonians with some random Slavs.

[Legion]

lol. The Slovenes are Slavs who are Catholic. They're Eastern-Europeans, you can't even compare them to us.

Also, what "Eastern influences" could us, the Estonians, have? I know about none, except the food.

What is more Northern-European than a historically Lutheran Finnic population. And Estonia has been part of the West since 1227. The border between the West and the East has been on the Narva river for the last 800 years.

Please abide from making further ignorant statements, like comparing someone like the Estonians with some random Slavs.

How about Czechs then? They are not less western than Estonia. Both Czech Republic and Estonia are considerably western, and both were part of Eastern Bloc.

[Windischer]

but Russian isn't, thus your ignorance

Your must be double, then? As you have no idea about either of those languages, apparently. I really wont comment your remarks about "semi-russian surnames" and other things you wrote. I see you have a strong urge to force your "nordic Estonians" and "Eastern European XYZ" thing almost everywhere, can you please ventilate it somewhere else? Because Im not willing to discuss with you in this thread anymore. kthxbye

Legion, this thread isnt about Estonia or Slovenia.

[Legion]

Sorry, typing on this OS was problematic. I meant to put Czech Republic not Estonia as the first country in my post