Also Russian language has almost no words with the letter Ъ, as I think there’s only less than 400 Russian words with that letter. Bulgarian on the other side uses the Ъ letter a lot in their words
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The best way to distinguish Russian from other languages is learning it (trust)
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I aint doing that much 
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Also, in ukrainian you can look out for the words “вулиця” (street) and “це”(the, it)
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As a Russian, I can confirm that. And if you ain’t doing that, you will have to learn… Cough cough… Car meta
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Anything but car meta 
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Sadly I am forced to do that because of some crazy sweats who region guess everything and I will have to become one of them
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dw i dont know it tho i do seasons
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Even knowing Russian doesn’t let/help you regionguess (I can speak from experience)
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unless you’re in a good town with a billboard that says the town’s name(doesn’t work if that town is insanely small, however i did carry a lot of games with that. Found Barnaul and Lipetsk written on billborads and got some really good guesses)
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You can always just memorise every town name, and thus find the location. There can’t be more than 100k towns and cities in Russia.
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Tho turkey is prob a good pick cuz 99% of bins have the small region name
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From Plonk It: Galician can look very similar to Portuguese. Some ways to tell them apart is the use of ñ and the lack of ç in Galician.
Streets are commonly called Rúa in Galicia, whereas in Portugal they are called Rua (without an accent). However, you can sometimes find signs without the accent in Galicia.
What I noticed: The Portuguese version of ñ is nh, (eg. Galician is señor while Portuguese is senhor.) Additionally, the word for I am in Spanish is soy. In Galician, it is son. In Portuguese, it is sou. Adding on to the ñ vs nh thing, Portuguese will also add the h after l too, while Galician’s spelling is more based on Spanish (eg. the Galician word for mirror is espello while Portuguese is espelho).
You can see the sample text here.
Galician: Este é un texto de exemplo. Ola, como está? Señor, señora. Son vello. Son de Corea.
Portuguese: Este é um texto de exemplo. Olá, como está? Senhor, senhora. Sou idoso. Sou da Coreia.
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hi greafer
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The nice thing is that norway and denmark look different in landscape even though the languages are almost the same (written only, spoken danish is genuinely harder to understand than finnish) and swedish is different enough
one difference between norwegian and danish is that compared to norwegian, danish has a lot more “soft” consonants, like “fløde, gade, løbe, kage” compared to “fløte, gate, løpe, kake” in norwegian. These “softifications” don’t apply to the first letter of words though.
another one is that, as in “vej” danish often uses “j” instead of “i” (as in norwegian “vei”) at the end of words.
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True
If you know the basic differences between the landscape, the languages are js a double check
(Or vise versa, sometimes)
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The sample text makes the danish and norwegian translation seem basically the same, especially since “Dette er en eksempeltekst. Hei, hvordan har du det? Herre, frue. Jeg er gammel. Jeg er fra Korea.” (which has literally two different letters from the danish one) is perfectly normal norwegian (also i assume you used some translator? Danish for “sir” is also “herre” when not shortened)
A better example for those two might be something like “Hei, kan du løpe over den gaten og hente litt kake fra bakeriet?” which becomes “Hej, kan du løbe over gaden og hente lidt kage fra bageriet?” in danish
(That btw means “Hey, can you run across the street and get some cake from the bakery?”
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norweigan sounds like a really heavy accent to me
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Also also, for polish-german (however those are confusing to anyone but jacksucksatgeography) If you see any of these letters or letter combinations, especially multiple, it’s almost certainly polish:
ę, ś, ć, ł, ą, cz, dz, sz, rz, rdz, zd, ws, wt, cj, wy
if you see any of these it’s almost certainly german:
ä, ö, ü, sch
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how dare you
ok tbf it’s true in the opposite direction too
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