How Easy Is It for You to Understand Related Languages?
For an example, how much do you understand Kyrgyz or Tatar as a Kazakh or vice versa? Pashtun as a Tajik?
And how familiar are you with those languages? I have been told Turkish shows are fairly popular in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (and maybe Kazakhstan too?) which means they have some experience with understanding Turkish. Would you agree that is a big factor?