Happy New Year's, 2025 will be a strong year 💪

Nick, the meal you've chosen to eat at Slovenská reštaurácia a piváreň wasn't a traditional Slovak meal at all. "Schwarzwald ham" is actually a ham from Germany ("Schwarzwald", a German word, translates as "Black Forest"). 🙂 Even though I believe it was a delicious meal. A typical Slovak meal, especially on Sunday, would be a baked chicken with rice (Pečené kura s ryžou) or Pork schnitzel with potatoes (bravčový rezeň so zemiakmi), though a variety of traditional Slovak meals is wider than that.

Hi. The music ("lullaby") you've heared was played from the watchtower, not from the church. You can hear various different melodies being played at various different times of the day.

Not the slovak spirit. Go to Nebra

Thanks for sharing!❤ Could you help me with something unrelated: I have a okx wallet with some money, and I have the seed phrase: iron observe slam major mad decorate feed photo awesome vast kitchen faint. What's the best way to send them to Binance?🤔

Are you doing the fast? Or anything else to prep for next year? I'm working on content that' more traditional to my channel in the background, aiming for tomorrow or the following day. Buy me a coffee to support the channel! ko-fi.com/sterba

That's funny. I just finished reading about how great ketosis is for killing cancer cells!

Will you be doing the fast with me?

try beer - Zlatý bažant. It has improved taste

the best way to learn slovak: 1. learn pronunciation 2. learn the basic language principles as mentioned in the video (dont go full hardcore) 2. build decent vocabulary 3. read a few books (you'll get many of the really difficult grammar principles without realising)

I was there back in September for a week. I stayed in Kosice and Banska Bystrica. I did the day trip to Bratislava from Vienna. Right on about the language barrier. Beautiful country.😅

Nice informal video. I too live here, on & off for years. Never ever used Zdravim - but I'm going to start. I think most of us English speakers use Ahoj for hello & Ciao for goodbye...because of our associations with them. Funnily enough, having also lived in Bulgaria, they use Zdravy ( or Zdravyte) as a greeting and I used it every day, and it's basically the same as the Slovak one. And Ciao too, but they only use for goodbye. I had to end my habit after entering rooms.,saying Ciao, and getting curious looks or " you just got here " from colleagues. Thanks again - going to use Zdravim on my friend's elderly mother.

You dropped varené víno in the middle of fluent english like a total bomb :D Cannot stop laughing :D

The image at 3:30 also shows excuse me as prepáčte(im not including the other mistakes because i saw you already noticed someone mentioning it so im just trying to tell better version of that transalation) but in most scenarios you would want to use “Ospravedlňte ma”because in a sentence like Excuse me for a moment you wouldnt normally say “Prepáčte ma na moment” it actually might not be unuseable but i think “Ospravldeníte ma” its diffent because its declensioneted(sorry if this wrongly used) and the part about declensioning words in slovak there is another form called vokatív which is like calling someone lets say a teacher would want to bring a student to the board and she says “Ján poď k tabuli” its same as Nominative but used in diffent scenario and when learning these declensuions i reccomend learning the base form for those genders “vzory” and then trying to identify which “vzor” is the word and memorize how its declensioned and just make it simmilar to its base form

Moldova was way more fun they have a great Winery called Cricova

I was there in 2022 for 3 months hated it back in Ukraine so much better in every way

I hope you moved to Sunny California already, full of junkees on Fentanyl, homeless people living in horrible tents on the street and beaches!!

The word kontrola also has the English meaning, but only in certain contexts. For example "mať niečo pod kontrolou" is the English meaning of the word.

The word robot has exactly the same meaning in Slovak as in English, of course. The kitchen "robot" is a secondary meaning, a colloquial abbreviation of "kuchynský robot". So, both meanings exist, but the first one is more correct. The word robot is an artificial word created by a famous Czech writer during his stay in Slovakia based on a suggestion of his brother (if I remember correctly) who recommened using the local, i. e. Slovak (not Czech as is often errenously thought) word robota = work as the basis for naming the entities. Using the Slovak word robota (or robiť) as a basis was the Czech writers' second attempt, his first attempt was to use the Czech word (dělat(i)) as the basis of the word, but that would sound weird. Having said that, the word robota and robit(i) also exists in Czech, but only regionally or in specific contexts, while in Slovak it is the standard word for work. It also exists in German (taken over from Slavic) etc.

Akcia has all the meaning of its english counterpart plus some. So "action and reaction" translates to "akcia a reakcia". Movie directors do actually say "Akcia!" at the start of a shot. But as you said, akcie means stocks and akcia can also mean sale :) Depends on the context. Hit me up if you ever want to get into the weeds of Slovak grammar. I love these kinds of conversations.

I can speak Croatian-Serbian but English is my 1st language. I understand Slovak..

The comments are more informative than the video, maybe you need to investigate the subject more thoroughly before putting it on youtube.

Robot je slovo ktoré vymyslel český spisovateľ Čapek, je to stroj ktorý vykonáva robotu (prácu) za človeka , preto je sekcia ponúkam prácu / robotu pre ľudí

Did you ever make it to the cafe at Blava Station to see the crazy lady?

It's good to see Slovaks and Slovak-Americans coming together. When I was young, we were all separated due to the Iron Curtain.

I think I found the word that could possibly be the king of false friends between Slovak and English. The word "no". Slovak word "no" has a lot of meanings, one of them is even English "no" in certain contexts. Let me explain: We the Slovaks use the word "No" with many meanings and the context changes depending on HOW you say "No". Here are some examples: "Yes" and "Ok" 👍🏻 Example: Q: Bol si tam? (Have you been there?) - No (Yes) // Short, low-to-high sound "But" ☝🏻 Example: Išiel som do roboty, no prišiel som neskoro. (I went to work, but I was late.) // short flat sound "Come on!" 💪🏻 Used during the watching of any kind of sport: Nooooo! (Come oooon!) // Long, high-to-low sound "I'm listening" 📱 Used when you pick up the phone call, considered a bit rude, though: No? // Short, low-to-high sound "Let me think about it for a while" and "Well..." 🤔 Example: Q: Pomôžeš mi odniesť tú chladničku? (Can you help me to move out the fridge?) A: Nooo, rád by som ale bolí ma chrbát. (Well, I'd wish to, but my back hurts.) // Long, flat sound "Can you talk to the point, please?" and "I get what you say" Someone is talking too much and it gets boring, so you say "No, no, no" to encourage them to talk straight to the point. Some say it's active listening, others say that's rude. // short, flat sound "You're kidding!" and "I doubt about what you have just said" 🤨 No! // Short, high-to-low sound "You cannot do that!" ❌ Used around small kids: "No-no! // First "no" high, second "no" low, both short sounds The funny thing about this word is that you can here someone calling and the entire call is just "no" in almost all of these context. It's like: - No? (I'm listening) - No... (Yeah) - No, no, no... (I understand, get to the point, please) - No! (You're kidding!) - Nooooo... neviem (Let me think... I don't know) - No, no... (Yeah, yeah...) - No, čau. (Ok. Bye.)

Rifle is an Italian brand of jeans. That's why.

Robot means always exactly the same as in english a robot machine-like human imitation, and never a kitchen appliance, unless you combine it with the word kitchen-robot which is obvious. I think your tutor did a very poor job!

6:46 - the pronunciation of body in Slovak, is like body in English, but the "o" is pronounced like the "o" and not the English way 😀. The translation - telo, is pronounced very soft - the way you pronounced it the second time (the first one was wrong, than you said it right and than you come back to the wrong pronunciation). Actually, it is a grammar rule: de, te, ne, le / di, ti, ni, li are pronounced very soft, even when are written like this d, t, n, l and not with the special sign, for example "ď" like in the word "ďakujem" and d in the word "deti" are pronounced the same way. It is because "e" and "i" soften the pronunciation of the previous letter ( d, t, n, l). That's why "body" (points) is pronounced hard - it content "y", which is known as hard y (tvrdé y) a "i" is known as soft i (mäkké i).

Control in this context is also used at international airports ''border/passport control'' in many European countries :) Rifle was an Italian clothing company. Their jeans were popular in Central/Eastern Europe in the 80s and people still use that word when referring to jeans

Rifle was originally a brand name for jeans, but over time, people started using 'rifle' as a generic term for any pair of jeans

Linguistics is not one of your strengths. Perhaps it would be wiser to avoid such topics in the future...

The term 'kuchynský robot' refers to a specific kitchen appliance called a 'stand mixer.' It has nothing to do with the word 'robot' as we typically know it. When I was a kid, I had a problem understanding this too :D

Rifle comes from wild wild west. It used to be worn by cowboys who also had a rifle.

If somebody is talking about robot in kitchen, it is just one type of kitchen appliance ... but robot means just robot, like wall-e 😅

You know that English word robot comes from Czech novel written by Czech author "Čapek" called RUR (Rossum's universal robots). So it means pretty much the same in Slovak as Czech and Slovak languages are pretty close to each other here. The word robot was derived from the word robota which means in Czech (and Slovak) "a work" or "doing labor". So robot means the same in Slovak as in English, Japanese and million other languages :) And yes it was invented by our brothers Czschs. But you were right, we also call the kitchen appliance "kuchynský robot".

Great video as always. Can I contribute with one false friend word? The word is hole. Hole is plural, it is derived from word holé (nake), singular is hoľa. It is an upper part of a mountain without forest. For example Martinské hole, or Kráľova hoľa.

6:15 You got most of the uses of "bod" right, but you wouldn't use the word "bod" in "What's the point of this conversation". You'd most likely say something like "Aký má tento rozhovor zmysel", zmysel meaning "meaning" ("what's the meaning of this conversation"). 8:00 I don't agree with this point. The word "Robot" comes from Czech (look up Karel Čapek and his R.U.R.), more specifically from the word "robota" (labour/work) and means exactly what it means in English. It's a universally recognized word at this point and refers to any robot. We still use both words - Robota meaning labour/work, robot meaning robot (whether it be an android or a kitchen robot). So the addendum in the video you made after talking about this was definitely right :) Also puška is indeed a rifle, that was correct :) Looking forward for the next video!

You guys definitely roasted me in the comments section of the last video for not getting everything 100% accurate, and that's good. I've noticed that it can depend on who you ask what some of these words can mean, because I've had conflicting answers from different Slovaks regarding different words here and there. Let everyone know what your interpretation is on these words are down below. I have a few more words written down for another future video like this one. Suggestions for another video are welcome! Buy me a coffee to support the channel! ko-fi.com/sterba

Your name is STERBA? Like the resort village, Štrba? My grandmother's maiden name was Strub, also spelled Straub or Stroup. I think we have a Slovak connection because the people of Śtrba look like my aunts and uncles. The name, as far as I can research it, has to do with silver, specifically silver mining. Slovakia is known for its silver, striebro (s = š), which is a loanword from a non-European language, possibly Akkadian. A lot of Germans went to Slovakia for the silver mining. My grandmother's German maiden name was Strub, also spelled Straub or Stroup (in most German dialects this S is pronounced like Š). I can read a lot of Slovak and Czech, and even some Polish, having made a hobby of Indoeuropean linguistics, including the Slavic languages. How do you learn your Slovak? Do you trade Slovak for English. This is Czech, but the high field reminds me of it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2q3pX1nbq96has

I love Souvlakia LOL!!!

As a slovak i dont agree with the winter. In bratislava is usually more than 0°C in winter. Which is sad :(

Instead of the word fakt you can also use the word vážne, it has the same meaning in this connotation you’ve mentioned. And the word pasta, as for the toothpaste we use zubná pasta, not just pasta because we have a variety of pastes, the actual definition of our pasta is a semi-solid substance, usually of a cream or gel consistency, for coating, cleaning, maintaining something. Have a nice day!

With all due respect -> the word fact means the exact same thing. When a Slovak asks "fakt?" it literally means "Is that a fact?"

cool bro

You read Slovak very well!!

I found that english people say "aye" when I would say "hej". Suggestions for new video: cream-krém; kozmetika-cosmetics

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Každý Slovák/Čech pozná bazoš.sk/bazoš.cz 😅

A No, N yeah.