The FASTEST Way to Understand 19 SLAVIC Languages

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Dive into the fascinating world of Slavic languages with Tim Keeley, a Professor of Cross-cultural Management and a polyglot with a passion for Slavic languages and cultures. In this comprehensive video.

Tim shares his 40-year experience studying Slavic languages, offering unique insights and effective strategies to learn and understand this diverse linguistic group.

Embark on a journey through the largest Indo-European ethno-linguistic group in Europe, exploring the intricacies of Slavic languages that range from 11 to 19, depending on classification criteria.

Tim introduces a methodical approach to grasp the essence of Slavic languages by focusing on just a few key languages, revealing how mastering even just three of them can provide a solid foundation for understanding the rest. He then reveals which other Slavic languages should be learned thereafter to gain the best understanding of all of the languages in the group.
0:41 My Slavic experience
1:34 Slavs background
2:18 How many Slavic languages are there?
2:07 3 groups of Slavic languages
3:38 The East Slavic languages
4:15 Russian
5:00 Ukrainian
7:46 Rusyn
7:56 Belarus
8:35 Demonstrate of East Slavic languages
9:53 The West Slavic languages
10:24 Polish
12:12 Kashubian
13:26 Silesian
14:07 Czech & Slovak
14:49 Czech
15:12 Croatian
15:39 Serbian
16:21 Sound demonstration
19:31 Slovene
20:46 BCMS

🌟 About Tim Keeley:
Tim Keeley, a seasoned professor and language enthusiast, brings four decades of experience living in Japan and mastering multiple Asian languages. His insights provide a roadmap for language learners eager to unlock the synergy among Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.

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[joseamategarcia]

I am a Spaniard and I could speak in Russian with a Serbian guy who was speaking in Serbian but we both were a bit drunk.... in that situation one can speak any language.

[maxvalbircahang]

I am from Hungary. I am almost native in Bulgarian, my paternal ancestors were gardeners from Bulgaria. I studied in Russian school. I understand 95 % of Macedonian, 70 % of Belarussian, 60 % of Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian -Montenegrian and Ukranian, 50 % of Slovenian, 30 % of Czech and Slovak, 20 % of Polish. Understanding in writing is better, for example written Ukranian is easier for me than spoken, same with Polish.

[Ignisan_]

This is the first "Slavic languages" video I've seen where Slovak is talked about more than Czech, almost always its the other way around. We Slovaks often get overlooked, or confused for Slovenians.

[yasho]

As a Bulgarian I understand 99% Russian but it’s difficult to speak, because of all the cases, I can’t remember which case to apply at which time. But is very easy to understand. The words are practically the same…
BG „човек”, - Ru „человек”,
БГ “хляб” - Ру “хлеб”
Бг “небе” - Ру “небо”…

[geronimoqa]

“I met many polish people among the way and they were very surprised to hear that I’m a Japanese citizen”
Also me, the viewer :0

[gamermapper]

As a Russian speaker which knows a little bit of Belarusian and Ukrainian actually Polish is really easy and I actually love Poles and their language

[danish]

This is so unique, that you can do the whole review including all the Slavic languages. Salute! I really admire how knowledgeable and understanding you are in Linguistic. 🙏

[zekralftzen]

I came back 2 weeks ago from Poland, I loved it, though I learned some words before heading there, I wanted to see which slavic language is worth it and I won't lie: I will keep learning Polish, the difficulty is what makes it fun in my opinion, thanks for explaining the slavic languages, greetings from México :)

[rabomarc]

As a Polish native speaker, it always amazes me that I find Slovak much more intelligible than Czech even if these two languages are so similar to one another.

[AmonRa-zw]

In general, the Russian language is more connected with the languages ​​of the South Slavs, since the Church Slavonic language came from them and we have many words with two spellings, for example the word Град And Город

[karczameczka]

A curio: Slavic nasal vowels was common in proto-Slavic and round (“bulgarian”) glagolic script has got characters for them. Nowadays they only exist in polish.

[iknet]

Your passion really convinced me to watch this video until the end and it has inspired me to continue learning Polish!

[VELVETVOICE]

I really love this kind of content. I enjoyed every minute. I lern polish and felt in love with Slavic languages. Would love the see more like this, cause I am absolutely interested in language science.

[redhidinghood]

As someone from Bosnia I can confirm that Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are all just different official names/standards for the same language.

They are a product of not just modern nationalism, but also historical divisions. Afterall, we don't have any single unifying name for the language, only the local country names.
Interestingly, most of us just say "naš" (which means "our (language)") when we're referring to our language in everyday life, and especially when we're meeting someone from "our" countries in a foreign land like Germany where many of us emigrate to.

[Max-UA]

7:19 One thing to note is that the country name is Belarus and the language name is Belarusian (with one s) but not “Bela-russian”. This is important because otherwise it sounds as another version of russian, which is not the case. From historical perspective and language genesis, Belarusian is a successor of Rusian [roosian] (called after the medieval state of Rus’) just as Ukrainian.

I’m sure that author knows all of these facts. And many thanks for explaining the history of Ukrainian language for the English-speaking audience.

[Slonceism]

I’m a native speaker of Polish and I have to say that the easiest way to understand other Slavic languages is to learn a very interesting artificial language called Interslavic - at least for native Slavs, not sure if it would work with non-Slavic speakers. I’m not very good at understanding other Slavic languages or even the varieties native to Poland such as Kaszubian or Silesian but experiencing the Interslavic speech was a mind-blowing experience. Picture this: I’m on holidays in Croatia and some dude comes up to me and wants to sell me a cruise or something. I’m not interested so I tell him to leave me (in English because I find it easier lol). Instead of leaving me be this guy asks me where do I come from, and immediately starts speaking a weird mixture of Russian, Croatian, Polish, probably Czech and I don’t know what else! And I understood 99% of what he said! I was able to understand all the details about the cruise, prices, discounts, places it visits, time schedule, the boarding point, whether lunch was included, what else was provided- without actually knowing most of the languages this Interslavic speech was based on. Needless to say I was so amazed by this experience that I bought what he was selling just to thank him for the opportunity to learn about this interlinguistic project :D I think we Slavs should get to know that Interslavic thing, it helps a lot with communication:)

[jakjak]

It’s great Tim that you’ve decided to start your channel, you’ve got some knowledge to share

[AndyJugglesLanguages]

Hello Tim, I really enjoyed searching this video.

I started with Russian many years ago but didn't get to a very high level. Since then, I studied Croatian and then studied Polish. I found Polish and Russian the most useful for me as I worked in a shop where there were lots of Polish and Lithuanian people. Polish is my best Slavic language because of my exposure to it.

I then went on to learn some Ukrainian in 2022. I found it relatively easy because of my Polish and Russian. Now, I just started learning Czech as I'm going to the Polyglot Gathering in Prague in May
Hope to see you there.
Thanks for the great video. and for your passion for languages.

[Iza-zaz]

I am a Polish native speaker who has been studying Russian dance childhood. I might say this: when I listen to Ukrainian or Belarussian I quite a lot from the conversation. The między knowledge of Polish and Russian helps a lot. I know both, the Cyrilic and Roman alphabets and this helps me with written Bułgaria n or Croatian 😊 Thanks to Cyrilic alphabet I can even read signs in Geek 😊

[langueenjours]

I had exactly this intuition: that speak one of the three languages of each sub-group, you could perfectly communicate with every Slavic-speaking folks (at least, have simple conversations). Myself, speaking ok Russian and rather broken Serbian/Montenegrin, I could already grasp some words in Polish conversations or newspaper and I could communicate with Bulgarians when I was in Sofia last summer.

This video encouraged me to start Polish. It's kinda far on my lanuages waiting list so I'll have to be patient... But I'll do it for sure one day!

Hvala puno/spassiba/merci!