“…Voegelin and Harris (1951) were among the first to describe this phenomenon which became known as receptive multilingualism (RM). Since then, the interest in the topic has increased and there are several studies concerning the mutual intelligibility of languages (Lüdi 2013, Blees, ten Thije 2016, Bulatović et al 2019, Sağın-Şimşek, Antonova-Ünlü 2019, including Finnish (Kaivapalu, Muikku-Werner 2010, Verschik 2012, Härmavaara 2014, Muikku-Werner 2014, Kaivapalu 2015, Härmävaara, Gooskens 2019.…”