The Slavic Languages and What Makes Them a FAMILY

This video is all about the Slavic Language family, one of Europe`s major language families.

[mympearl]

I am Japanese and I understand 0% of Russian, 0% of Polish, 0% of Czech, and even less of other Slavic languages

[oyasunachan]

Slavic time! : Tea
Belarusian : чай (čaj)
Bosnian : čaj
Bulgarian : чай (chaĭ)
Croatian : čaj
Czech:čaj
Mcedonian:чај (čaj)
Russian:чай (chay)
Serbian:чај (čaj)
Slovak:čaj
Slovenian:čaj
Ukrainian : чай (chay)
Polish:...
Czech:No, NO YOU DON'T
Polish: *BREATHES IN*
Polish: HERBATA!
Rest of family: You rebelious little shit...

[ukaszbanasiak]

I am Polish but spent a week in Moscow. When coming back I heard very weird Russian at the airport. After few seconds I realized that it was actually Polish. In one week I totally oriented my mind to a different melody of language... and forgot my own :)

[natanielgarro]

Understanding different Slavic languages ​​depends directly on the knowledge of one's own language and vocabulary. For example, in Russian there are basic words to describe a thing or phenomenon, but there are also synonymous words that are not used very widely in Russian, but in other Slavic languages, they can be basic. If a person knows Russian or Ukrainian well, knows a lot of synonymous words, then he will have no problems understanding another Slavic language.

[projectx]

I'm from Serbia and I have the most difficult time understanding west Slavic languages such as Czech, Slovak and Polish although Slovak is the least difficult out of three. Macedonian is really easy to understand both spoken and written and Bulgarian is a bit more difficult than Macedonian. Slovenian is also somewhat understandable and Russian is understandable to me but that's because I studied Russian in school. I wonder if it would be the same if I haven't been learning it. I haven't heard a lot of Belarus and Ukrainian so I can't judge although I assume Belarus is pretty similar to Russian. And of course we understand Croatian perfectly clear, there are only some minor differences in vocabulary and dialects and of course alphabet but Serbia uses both cyrillic and latin so it's not a problem.

Love for all my Slavic brothers ❤️

[wojciechkrotoszynski]

Oh man you NEED to do an episode on the Interslavic language just amazing. You have an experiment where south, west and east Slavs are on a call and a guy tells them what to draw in Interslavic - they all draw the same scene with similar details.

[nfkzeen]

I am a Korean and I am currently learning Polish. It is a challenge for me, but I think it is so systematic and beautiful-sounding. I’m looking forward to learning other slavic languages as well

[mariomusic]

Ja sam Hrvat i radim sa turistima. Sve Slavene se može razumjeti ako govore pomalo. 80% do 90 riječi je razumljivo, možda 10 do 20% jezika treba naučiti.

[абобус]

I'm Russian.I can understand Belarusian by 95%.Ukrainian by 40%.Polish and Czech by about 8%, Serbian by 40%, Bulgarian by 65%.

[acacioluanstocco]

Jestem z Brazylii. Uczę się polskiego i bardzo lubię mówić po polsku. :-)

[Helios]

As an English speaker, I'm oddly fascinated by how much of a basic vocabulary is shared across the Slavic languages. I'm practicing Russian, but I'm playing a Czech-produced game called "HROT" (which I believe means "pike" or "stick") and being able to read the Latin scripts is so helpful. I noticed that the words for "friend", "work", "honor", "meat", etc. all had very similar pronunciations and spellings. It's also absolutely bonkers watching the Slavs in the Balkans argue about their language differences, just another reason I find the place so, um... interesting.

[alexbelyaninov]

I’m Russian-American whose second language is Russian. My American mother and I did a trip to Slovenia last year. While we were at a cafe to get something to eat, our server (a Macedonian) spoke Slovenian to us and didn’t know English. I had an easier time picking up on what he was saying than my mom since I grew up speaking Russian. Although the server and I understood the gist of what we were saying, it wasn’t enough to have a full on conversation in Slovenian and Russian.

The biggest plus behind this story though is knowing one Slavic language is very useful for picking up on others. The closest languages I could understand are Ukrainian and Belarusian, although not 100 percent. I heard Bulgarian a few times, and I found I could pick up on it because it’s similar to russian despite being a southern Slavic language. I could understand bits and words of the western Slavic languages and some of the Serbo-Croatian family, but not enough to have a conversation.

[oliviapetrinidimonforte]

Yes! My late husband spoke Croatian, and he could have conversations with Russians, Poles, Slovaks, Ukranians, Slovenians...he claimed the only Slavic language he could not fudge was Czech. He understood it, but could not reply.

[locturui]

I'm Russian and I have a friend from Bosnia. We use English to communicate, so we never really tried to see how much we would understand from our respective languages. But one day she came to Russia and naturally she heard a lot of Russian. I also heard quite a bit of Bosnian when she talked to her mom on the phone. We agreed that we could at most understand some words, but the meaning was lost almost completely, so like 10-20% probably is intelligible both ways

[ilijanacro]

when I am drunk, I understand them all. From the heart.

[Ellary_Rosewood]

I hope to see you do a video on Bulgarian soon! I just started learning in and have been finding it so interesting, especially how it's so different from the other Slavic languages. 🇧🇬

[radoslavliptak]

I am Slovak and i can understand 100% Czech.

[georgimihov]

I’m Bulgarian and can easily read and understand almost everything in Serbian, but when I tried to have a conversation with a cab driver in Belgrade I was really clueless what he was saying. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I think that goes for all Slavic languages - reading them is one thing, understanding spoken language totally different.

[nikola]

I think this two words will be 100% understandable in all Slavic languages: SLAVA RODU !!

[rodelle]

I'm Korean, and I love the slavic languages! Currently, I'm learning Russian♥️🇷🇺