Yeah, if you're from The Netherlands, Dutch, German and Afrikaans are pretty much understandable by ear. But Russian..! Have you seen the movie The Terminal? Well, me and my friends were using a Russian flight company to fly to Japan, so the trip was long to say the least. While getting bored as heck, we started deciphering the movie guide which was completely written in Russian. Well, after a while we managed to decipher most of their alphabet by using the real names we know of the movies (they translate most of the movie names). So then we applied a bit of a sore throat and started reading text and we really sounded Russian
After the weird alphabet, most of the words were very recognizable as words you know from either Dutch, German or English. Surprisingly not
that hard of a language.