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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

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I 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.

Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days

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I 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. :-))

Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days

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post #3

I 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.

Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days

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post #3

I 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. :-))

Wow, I'm Polish and it looks Czech/Slovakian to me.

Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days

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This is pretty silly given that if you teleported any slav living in the range of Gdansk to Podgorica and Ljubljana to Ekaterinburg, it would probably take them a couple of weeks to gain enough proficiency to buy groceries. Hilarious misunderstandings will undoubtedly occur but if you take out the severe outliers like Bulgarian and Macedonian, this is about as useful as another hole in the head. Russian serves reasonably well as a Slavic lingua franca, in the few marginal cases such a thing is needed to begin with.

Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days

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I 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.

Yep, totally agree. I'm Russian too and language is completely understandable.

Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days

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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.

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