I'm English and have lived in Poland for the past five months, and I like this! As much as I'm enjoying the challenge that Polish presents, the grammar doesn't half kill my head sometimes. That and I'm still finding my natural inability to roll my Rs embarrassing in public ;)
Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
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Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
My native language is Czech, and all sample texts looks very similar to Croatian or Serbian :-) Not much Polish. And yes, even for me it's very hard to read :-) (Though, that might be because it has quite different spelling from polish. Spoken, it could be similar. It feels very ancient. :-))
Wow, I'm Polish and it looks Czech/Slovakian to me.
I think this is because we look for properties that are foreign to us, and skip properties that we familiar with when trying to understand the language. So, for example, you didn't notice some things taken from Polish, because you already know them, but you noticed things that look Czech to you, and thingie didn't notice Czech things, but noticed Serbian ones.
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
My native language is Czech, and all sample texts looks very similar to Croatian or Serbian :-) Not much Polish. And yes, even for me it's very hard to read :-) (Though, that might be because it has quite different spelling from polish. Spoken, it could be similar. It feels very ancient. :-))
Wow, I'm Polish and it looks Czech/Slovakian to me.
I don't know. It could be Czech… but 500 years ago :-)
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#14I am Bulgarian and I find that very hard to read. Much harder than Russian or Serbian. Many of the phonemes could be simplified to be made more universal. It feels very influenced by Polish, though, so I'd probably be easier for Central Europe Slavic countries.
My native language is Czech, and all sample texts looks very similar to Croatian or Serbian :-) Not much Polish. And yes, even for me it's very hard to read :-) (Though, that might be because it has quite different spelling from polish. Spoken, it could be similar. It feels very ancient. :-))
I speak both Polish and Czech and this is very easy for me! I think I understand it all, but it really feels to me like Croatian/Serbian language :)
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#15I am Bulgarian and I find that very hard to read. Much harder than Russian or Serbian. Many of the phonemes could be simplified to be made more universal. It feels very influenced by Polish, though, so I'd probably be easier for Central Europe Slavic countries.
My native language is Czech, and all sample texts looks very similar to Croatian or Serbian :-) Not much Polish. And yes, even for me it's very hard to read :-) (Though, that might be because it has quite different spelling from polish. Spoken, it could be similar. It feels very ancient. :-))
I'm Czech too and it doesn't really resemble any existing language to me. Definitely not Slovak, Polish or Russian. Maybe something several hundreds years old.
Yet, I found that just looking at the samples I'm not having much trouble understanding it.
Suggestion: try to read it out loud -- it helped me quite a lot with Polish. And here too.
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#16I am Bulgarian and I find that very hard to read. Much harder than Russian or Serbian. Many of the phonemes could be simplified to be made more universal. It feels very influenced by Polish, though, so I'd probably be easier for Central Europe Slavic countries.
My native language is Czech, and all sample texts looks very similar to Croatian or Serbian :-) Not much Polish. And yes, even for me it's very hard to read :-) (Though, that might be because it has quite different spelling from polish. Spoken, it could be similar. It feels very ancient. :-))
I'm Czech and i think i understand almost everything
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#17I am Bulgarian and I find that very hard to read. Much harder than Russian or Serbian. Many of the phonemes could be simplified to be made more universal. It feels very influenced by Polish, though, so I'd probably be easier for Central Europe Slavic countries.
I'm Russian, and I can read and understand about 90% of their sample texts. It reminds me Serbian (though I don't know it or any other Slavic languages, and I've read more Serbian and Macedonian than any other Slavic language, so maybe there's a bias because of this). BTW, Bulgarian is harder to read for me than Serbian or Macedonian.
Slovenian here and It's completely same for me.
Although I do understand southern Slavic languages and I also managed to pick some words from Czech in the course of my life.
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
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As in all natural Slavic languages, nouns in Slovianski have three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and two numbers (singular, plural).
That's not true - Slovenian has three numbers: singular, dual and plural.
But then - Slovenian is maybe not a natural Slavic language?
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#19As in all natural Slavic languages, nouns in Slovianski have three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and two numbers (singular, plural). That's not true - Slovenian has three numbers: singular, dual and plural. But then - Slovenian is maybe not a natural Slavic language?
Wikipedia says that Proto-Slavic language (the proto-language from which Slavic languages later emerged) had dual. But it was lost in every Slavic language except for Slovene and Sorbian:
Of the living languages, only Slovene and Sorbian have preserved the dual number as a productive form. In all of the remaining languages, its influence is still found in the declension of nouns of which there are commonly only two: eyes, ears, shoulders, in certain fixed expressions, and the agreement of nouns when used with numbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)#The_d...
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#20I am Russian and I confirm that I can read text from their front-page right away. Both alphabets.