Are Slavic Languages Similar? | Polish Bulgarian Comparison | Guess a City

Are Slavic languages similar? In this video we continue looking for an answer to this question.
We’re testing mutual intelligibility between Polish and Bulgarian.
Pavel a KZbinr from Bulgaria has to guess 5 cities I describe to him in Polish. Pavel has never learned any Polish before. With the 6th city, we turn the tables, and I have to guess a city that Pavel describes to me in Bulgarian. Will we succeed in communicating?
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[Ecolinguist]

Polish Macedonian Conversation 🇵🇱💬🇲🇰 → kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIu3Yaada82Gn80 😎 🤓You can navigate Polish Bulgarian video with the following TIME STAMPS: 1. City - 0:43 2. City - 3:37 3. City - 4:31 4. City - 7:45 5. City - 11:04 6. City - 14:34

[Victor Brushko]

Шановний @Ecolinguist , мені дуже подобається ваш канал. Він допомагає спілкуванню між народами, допомагає дізнатися один про одного багато нового і цікавого. Але нажаль, ваш канал використовують кремлівські тролі, мета яких посварити нас, залишаючи в коментарях провокаційні політичні повідомлення та брехню. Будь ласка, припиняйте такі спроби. Дякую.

[Ecolinguist]

@Victor Brushko Moderuję komentarze jak tylko mogę, żeby nie było obraźliwych komentarzy. Jeśli zobaczysz jakiś trolowski komentarz to śmiało zgłaszaj.

[Drago Zhekov Dragov]

Tý jseš od Pána našeho nám na zemi poslán !! Je vidět že je Tvoje dílo Bohu našemu libo👍👍🇧🇬🇲🇰❤🇵🇱🇨🇿🇷🇺......

[Roman Yarkov]

Зачем вам вот эти все ж и ш? Ржека висла

[OPTools]

*Македония е Българска*

[Mashadov]

You guys made a pretty decent job, considering Bulgarian and Polish are probably the most distant Slavic languages from one another

[Ecolinguist]

I was surprised myself.😲 I think keeping it within one topic helps. 🤠

[pegasBaO23]

Тhe root sounds of about half the words were similar, so as bulgarian I feel confident, that if told to me slowly I could understand them

[Ecolinguist]

@pegasBaO23 Yes. Speaking slowly helps a lot. :)

[Slav Kafegiev]

Lol no??Man when russians come on holidays in Bulgaria we have to speak english to understand each other (if you haven't studied russian).And these guys understood each other almost fine.It's not even close to be the most distant slavic languge.

[John Smith]

The pronounciation is extremely different. Look at the polish word for wall - "sciana" and how it sounds. In bulgarian it is стена оr "stena". The words look similar but Pavel couldn't guess it.

[Petar Yakov]

As a Bulgarian I am impressed that the Bulgarian guy could understand so much without subtitles. I was reading them all the time. :D

[John Smith]

I thought exactly the same.

[Curious Pavel]

It was quite challenging when he puts 2-3-4 words I'm not familiar with.. all in one sentence 😅

[Fast Means Of Transportation]

There were like 3 or 4 words I could understand and that s all

[Fast Means Of Transportation]

MDTWN MDTWN and it produces 80 or 90% of the worlds rose oil used to make perfumes

[MiMaTsa]

Със сигурност поне половината от коментарите под това видео са наши (написани от българи), включително твоя😏 Но беше интересно видеото. Мен също ми хареса, че той позна всичко🇧🇬

[el desconocido]

здраветей Аз съм от Чили и обичам българския език. това е един от любимите ми езици и мисля, че е един от най-красивите езици по свете 🇨🇱 🇧🇬 ❤❤

[Niki Neykov]

Благодаря

[Anton Murtazaev]

Я русский и всё понял без перевода)

[Denis Fedailov]

❤🇧🇬🇧🇬

[Ekaterina Grnvc]

Мне начинается казаться, что чем больше я смотрю этот канал, тем все лучше и лучше понимаю разные славянские языки. И это очень мне нравится!!

[Ecolinguist]

Miło mi słyszeć, że oglądanie moich filmów przynosi efekty. 🤗

[ammaterra]

@Ecolinguist жаль что этот эффект, не очень распространяется на письмо. Тут уже помогает google.) Но большое спасибо за ваши видео.

[Даша Pro]

Польское письмо это ад.

[В]

@Даша Pro потому что в латинском алфавите нет столько шипящих, сколько в польском языке, поэтому в их словах такое нагромождение букв и всяких чёрточек в этих буквах. Кирилица - лучший алфавит для славянских языков, поскольку разрабатывался с учётом их фонетики

[Q]

@В вы чертовски правы

[Маргарита Кузнецова]

I'm Russian, most of the time it was quite easy to understand Polish like 80% of it, and with Bulgarian it was weird: sometimes it sounded practically like Russian and sometimes it was like Marsian, completely unrecognizable words, verbs that you have no idea where they could come from.

[Rodriguez]

Какой ты русский, я тебя не понимаю.

[MadDeuceJuice]

Евгений Я думал о мясе каждый раз он это выговаривал

[George]

Bulgarian and Russian share about 80% of the vocabulary, but the grammar is quite different - Bulgarian has no grammar cases. This makes it easy for Bulgarians to understand Russian and also makes it almost impossible for the Russians to understand Bulgarian. Also, it makes it hard for the Bulgarians to speak Russian. When I speak to my Russian friends in the US - they speak Russian and I speak English. It’s very funny

[Rositsa Petrova]

@George no they do not. you have no idea what you are talking about. Polish is closer to Russian

[Rositsa Petrova]

@George Bulgarians understand Russians because they studied Russian. If they did, no Bulgarian understands it. People age 30 or below in Bulgaria do not understand Russian even one bit

[blackthunderwolf]

I speak Bulgarian and surprisingly I was able to understand a lot! It makes me really happy to know we can understand each other with our slav bros! 💕 Поздрави! - Pozdravi!

[Ecolinguist]

Dzięki! Pozdrawiam! 🤠

[Dr. Sergio]

аз също съм бгггг поздрави

[lucho von doss]

Сърдечни поздрави от България!😃

[LOKATOR __]

🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬❤❤❤❤❤ Slavic brothers

[Antoni Czeluskin]

Поздраві. = Pozdrawiam po Polsku

[Tim G.]

I’m Slovenian and I find it amazing that can speakers of Slavic languages that live “far away” north of us and Slavic speakers that live “far away” south of us communicate to each other in their Slavic languages! Sometimes Slovenian is more similar to Polish sometimes to Bulgarian, it is very interesting to listen Polish-Bulgarian conversation from the Slovenian perspective.

[Curious Pavel]

I've had listened to Slovenian in the past and if I remember correctly, I would understand it more than the Polish. But yes, I agree. It's amazing:)

[Anna Hrovatin]

Here I am polish person living in Slovenia and speaking Slovene intermediate level . I’d say now I can understand Bulgarian, basically most of what Pavel said . It’s really surprising how learning just one more Slavic language opened me a way to understanding so many more of them !

[alckinoy]

@Anna Hrovatin Indeed

[Goran Jovic]

@Anna Hrovatin Yes it is fantastic ! If you know any of southslavs language you can easily understand almost all slavs !! :)

[Branimir]

You would be the translator :) This guy hasn't studied Russian which used to be mandatory in Bulgaria, otherwise he would understand 90% :)

[Евгений Кизилов]

Уважаемый Норберт, вас надо показывать по телевидению во всех славянских странах!

[Ivan Vasilev]

I'm Bulgarian and I'm glad to hear slavic conversation 😀💪 repsect from Bulgaria to all my slav brothers 🇧🇬❤

[John Smith]

Полският е доста труден за разбиране без субтитри и ако някой говори бързо. Трудно е да се досети човек коя е думата веднага, твърде много съгласни. 😂😂

[Vova Bragin]

The Bulgarian prononciation is much more clear than the polish one. And this makes Bulgarian easier to get ( for Russians ). Although the vocabulary is quite similar for both Polish and Bulgarian.

[Anush Mikael]

No rasism but bulgarian is jusy better

[Vlad Rangotchev]

I am a Bulgarian and I think it is very inappropriate to make such categorizations between languages that are so similar and both derived from the same source. It would be just as inappropriate to say that about somebody’s kids. I am sorry but I don’t agree with you.

[Roats KM]

@Vlad Rangotchev Нали знаеш че при Българския всичко което се пише се чете! И нямаме меки звуци! :)

[Nikola Ivanov]

It's not that easy in School. Hehe

[antonarset]

@Roats KM Нямате в шопско и затова в цяла България се подиграват на шопите, че говорят развален български, ама вие си знаете своето.

[Itak Niepowiem]

Бях в България, красива страна и страхотни хора, Поздрави 😊

[emilia]

blagodarim❤️

[Alexander Shaldybin]

Вот и болгарский непонятно... Хотя по контексту вроде можно понять Бях, это по русски был? Или говорил?

[Mladen Vass]

@Alexander Shaldybin BG-Бях, EN-I was, RU- был

[v v]

@Alexander Shaldybin Аз бях в Русия Аз съм бил в Русия. Това са 2 различни минали времена

[[руzzке]+[ctrl+x]]

Страхотни звучит как страшные, но значит абсолютно другое)

[Patrick Romanowski]

I thought Bulgarian would be a lot closer to Polish than I thought. The only reason I understood some of the Bulgarian because I know and understand a bit of Russian. I speak Polish fluidity but I noticed on all these Slavic language videos, knowing Russian is a common denominator in terms of helping you understand, except for Slovakia and Czech, knowing Polish will help you with those two. I grew up in NYC but i am extremely thankful that my parents and grandmother made sure I learned Polish and English as a kid! Bilingual is truely a gift that many take for granted

[Samo Nek Ide]

I understand both of them very well without any help of subtitles and I'm Serbian. Slava! Greetings for every Slavic nation!

[q0w1e2r3t4y5]

what is the left flag in your avatar?

[Samo Nek Ide]

@q0w1e2r3t4y5 Romanian but it is horizontal

[q0w1e2r3t4y5]

@Samo Nek Ide Oh. I'd be all in for a Central European 'Empire'. A very much extended V4 Union. Thanks for the reply.

[Maxim Gunnarson]

Slavic Soldier dont believe you, if you havent studying a west slavic lang. Then its almost inpossible understand Polish without looking at the subtitles, they have totally different pronuncation than serbian

[lucho von doss]

Slavic Soldier Pozdrav brate!

[Polina from Moscow :)]

It's a feeling when you are Russian, and you understand both of them better than they understand each other. 😁 It was funny to watch, especially when Norbert was trying to explain what a "ściana" is. (Btw, we have the word "stena" in Russian.)

[Мирослав Марков]

На болгарском тоже Стена а sciana когда изговаривается звучитна на болгарском как сцена

[Vladislav Slavic]

Slavic languages are from the same family roots. Love how close we are ❤️Proud to be Slavic

[Denitsa Peneva]

As a Bulgarian myself I loved the video and found it very amuzing and inspiring to learn some other slavic languages. It seems so rewarding to be able to communicate with other Slavs!

[Curious Pavel]

If you known another language, you are really close to another culture. I wish I knew that from younger ages. We are kinda lucky there are people from other countries we might talk to without learning a new language.

[Ивайло Иванов]

Да. Странното е, че по-често разговаряме с англичани, французи, японци и хора от къде ли не, отколкото със съседите си.

[Denitsa Peneva]

@Ивайло Иванов така е! А усилието да научиш сръбски, руски или особено хърватски е толкова по-малко в сравнение с езиците, които всъщност учим... Тъжно е. Аз самата си поставям за цел да започна да уча самостоятелно хърватски :)

[HeroManNickBG Gaming]

​@Denitsa Peneva Хърватският език не е ли на практика почти еднакъв със сръбския и босненския език? Само разликата е че при хърватския и босненския език се пише само на латиница, а пък в сръбския го има варианта и на кирилица и на латиница.

[HeroManNickBG Gaming]

Catch_Me_If_You_Can This is same to tell Russians are 100% percent slavs. Bulgarians may mixed with slavs in the past but and came from Central Asia but we have similar languages, culture. Also we gave birth to the Cyrillic to other countries for example Russia.

[FRANK MYONK]

For me it was very funny because my mother is polish and my father is bulgarian. I was screaming STENAAAAA :-) Ściana (PL) = Stena / Стена (bg), also MORZE (PL) = MORE (МОРЕ) (bg)

[Ecolinguist]

😂It must have been a very interesting experience for you. 😂

[Paperlight Boy]

what got me the most when Norbert struggled to describe a wall was when he used the Polish word for China, when it has a completely different term in Bulgarian - Китай - that's more synonymous with the Ukrainian and Russian term so the Great Wall description completely went over Pavel's head 😂😂

[FRANK MYONK]

@Paperlight Boy amateaurs

[Arthur Feigin]

Было очень интересно и субтитры очень помогают. Действительно когда знаешь русский и украинский то это очень помогает в понимании обоих языков.Я иногда разговариваю с болгарами и они предпочитают английский язык а некоторые изучали русский и могут на нём говорить более или менее а вот на болгарском не очень охотно общаются со мной. Спасибо вам за славянские "посиделки"

[Georgi Mihov]

Можем да си говорим на руско-български когато пожелаеш 😉

[Arthur Feigin]

Спасибо

[Dead inside]

Разбрах почти всичко, това е уникално!!!

[Vlad]

Никога не съм срещнал хора в България, които не искаха да говорят българския с мен 🤔

[Arthur Feigin]

@Vlad Я живу в Израиле

[MagyarTigris]

I greater love Poland and Bulgaria too! Greetings from Hungary! :)

[Kasia B.]

@Botond Badovszky Éljen a magyar-lengyel barátság :) From Poland with love ❤️

[Ecolinguist]

Köszönöm szépen! :)

[John Smith]

Thank you, man. We in Bulgaria always considered Hungary as a great country.

[0 D]

@John Smith Yep, Hungary is pretty cool 👍 Добра бира, добри хора 🍺

[Боро Иванов]

Respect to Poland from Bulgaria 🇧🇬❤🇵🇱

[Michael Gask]

as an English speaker, forced to read the subtitles, I was amazed at how much you two actually managed to communicate. I'm jealous... I wonder if there is a language close to English where we could do the same? 🤔 What a cool idea. Thanks for the video. 👍

[Антон 9 generation]

Frisian is the closest language to english (not counting scottish, welsh, irish etc. variations of english). You may listen to it on youtube and then write here how well was the understanding. I think it would be interesting for us to know about your experience being a native english speaker. But i suppose the mutual intellegibility between english and frisian is nowhere near as it actually is in case of two slavic languages.

[Michael Gask]

Антон Иршутов Fantastic. Thanks Anton. 👍

[Vova Bragin]

You may understand some Dutch and Friesian

[Ecolinguist]

Have you ever tried to talk to a Dutch person like that? 🤓

[Michael Gask]

@Ecolinguist Even though historically, we came from the same language, we are not intelligible... I guess it's because English is such a mix of languages in terms of vocabulary... I'm sure we can understand each other's swearing, though. :-) Thanks for your video... it's really interesting.

[M-Bomb Productions]

Myślę, że robisz tu coś wyjątkowego. Bardzo podoba mi się ten projekt. Tak trzymać!

[Hira]

I've been learning Bulgarian for 2 years now and I was waiting for this video for a while since you started this series :P My Bulgarian is still very limited so it was a nice challenge for me to see how much of the Bulgarian I can understand without reading the subtitles. As for Polish, I understand almost nothing because I don't speak any other slavic languages (I speak English and Greek)

[Ecolinguist]

I'm glad to hear you got to practice your Bulgarian today. Happy learning! 🤓

[LIUKLER]

Много се радвам, че има чужденци, които намират българския език и култура за интересни. Поздрави и успех :)

[Curious Pavel]

Understanding most of it without subtitles is a pretty decent achievement! Congrats :)

[Branimir]

Polish has phonetic changes like more - morze (rz is read like Ж in Bulgarian), reka - rzeka, also S, C, Z (с, ц, з) in front of I have become palatalized and pronounced like шь, чь, жь, also where Bulgarian has Ъ (pronounced close to Polish Y), Polish has ą (on) and ę (en). Because of them it is the most difficult to understand for Bulgarians (if they haven't studied another Slavic language).

[Imperion]

Харесва ми че има чужденци които се опитват да научат Българският език. Поздрави от България!

[NiiTro]

Damn they’re pretty different but if you really have to talk you can make it happen🇧🇬❤️🇵🇱

[Curious Pavel]

It was a bit challenging 🙈

[Voyvoda BG]

@Watchman of MKDN what Macedonians? lmaooo

[да звъни]

@Watchman of MKDN Putin is president, not historian sooo yeah😀

[Vlad Rangotchev]

I am sorry to be the one informing you that during the creation of the alphabet the location was not referred to as Macedonia. I am sorry that Serbian communists have done so much damage.

[Dimitar Kandev]

@Watchman of MKDN братче недей така! Църковно славянският знаеш че е старобългарски!

[Emmie]

I’ve been studying Russian for over one year now and I actually recognize/understand some of the words and sentences, especially Bulgarian. Very interesting video! :)

[Grande Maw]

That's interesting:) I am a Russian speaker and I was able to understand Bulgarian at ease at most cases. In comparison with polish, Bulgarian is way easier to understand for Russian ears, especially since the subtitles in Bulgarian were written with Cyrillic. I felt more at home! :) Thanks for the video ;)

[Rumen Marchev]

Our languages have very similar vocabulary

[Perigali1]

Bulgarian is the ONLY Slavic language that have NO CASES and possess ARTICLES! (see: the, les, das). It is strange maybe but having these features it is more close to Latin languages as a grammar.

[Rumen Marchev]

@Perigali1 it lost its cases, over the centuries it got simplified but still it posesses several cases.

[Perigali1]

@Rumen Marchev So it was but i mean the Bulgarian of today.

[Rumen Marchev]

@Perigali1 its true but also macedonian(west bulgarian dialect) has the same grammar.

[EpizodBG]

Когато поляците говорят ясно и имат добра артикулация се разбира почти всичко с изключение на някои думи.

[Вадим Теплых]

Я сначала подумал ,что это ты написал на русском ,просто не грамотно 😃😃

[Igor Podgórny]

А хотите переведу : «Когда поляки говорят понятно и имеют хорошее произношение я понимаю почти всё за исключение некоторых слов» .

[Николай Нейчевъ]

@Igor Podgórny Ihor, Вие сте до голяма степен точен с превода си, но вместо "я понимаю" е по-правилно да се използва "можно понять" или може би дори и "разумеется", което звучи по-близо до българското "се разбира", но не съм сигурен дали би било точен превод в руското си значение. :)

[Anton Murtazaev]

@Вадим Теплых так болгарский это и есть то, как иностранцы говорят по-русски) Типичные ошибки иностранцев-неверные предлоги, существительные не склоняются для удобства.

[Anastasiya Rakova]

Watching this as a Russian is fun. I feel like I understand multiple languages because they're so similar to Russian (of course though I wouldn't be able to speak them). Slavs unite! I had a Polish boyfriend before and it was fun listening to him talk to his mom and how Slavic their apartment in San Francisco was

[Kamil V]

I’m Polish and I have never studied Bulgarian and yet I could understand what that guy was saying. Slavic languages are all very similar and all Slavic speakers can communicate to various degrees with one another without ever having learned the others language. In all honesty Slavic languages are more like dialects of one language then actual separate languages.

[Ecolinguist]

It linguistics they call it a dialect continuum. 🤓

[Goran Jovic]

@Ecolinguist Tako je ! :) ))

[Страцимир Иванов]

Bulgarian (analitic) language = old lang. Slavic (sintetic) = not old. Slavic dialects is a Bulgarian. And history maps is fake. Bulgarian history is hidden !

[Warner BF]

I find it fascinating to see how two people from two extremes of the Slavic world can still manage to communicate with each other. True, there were a few moments where communication was somewhat hindered but overall the conversation went on relatively fluently. I look forward to more of these excellent videos. Saludos desde Costa Rica.

[Aces High]

I agree. Beside of that, the regions had different influences. For example westslavs had german influence, southslavs had latin and turkish influence

[Warner BF]

Bulgarian and Polish are two of the coolest Slavic languages. It's amazing how in spite of the linguistic distance, communication is still possible. What I noticed though is that one of the biggest misunderstandings was caused by the Polish word' Ściana' which does have a very similar cognate in Bulgarian (стена, stena) and was not immediately recognized by Pavel. Why do you think that happened? This has been one of the most interesting videos so far. Bulgarian sounds very different from Polish indeed. Best regards.

[Ecolinguist]

Thanks for the comment! I was actually surprised how successful our communication was despite the linguistic distance. I think having the context clear from the stat was a great help. 🤓

[Szalony Kucharz]

The reason might be that Pavel had not known any Polish before, so was was probably unfamiliar with 'ć/ci', which *can be* confused though *is not* equivalent to 'ч' ('cz' in Polish). Polish 'Ć' is the result of evolution of palatalized 't', just as 'rz' (now phonologically merged with 'ż' / 'ж') is the result of evolution of palatalized 'r'. So, instead of hearing something resembling 'стяна' he might have heard 'счяна'

[Georgi Mihov]

The issue is Polish pronunciation - the language must have undergone additional palatalizations, so sometimes both languages have the same cognate word but in Polish the pronunciation has changed to a point where it is difficult to understand. When you see it written out is much easier - for example I could never understand when he says in Polish "zvjezh" but when I saw it is written zwierz, then it is obviously the same like Bulgarian "zver/zvyar". :) Same with Ściana - it is pronounced "shchyana" which is too difficult to guess from the original Slavic *steana.

[Ecolinguist]

@Georgi Mihov Yes. Pronunciation usually is the key in understanding other languages. 🤓

[Szalony Kucharz]

@Georgi Mihov Oh yes, we've turned palatalization into an art form that even our other Slavic fellows may have a hard time mastering. :) Many a Polish child had to spend long hours at a speech therapist office having their ś sz szcz si ć cz corrected with electric shocks. Just kidding... but only a little. ;)

[Valentin Apostolov]

I'm an older guy, I was in my yearly 20-s in 1980. Living in Burgas, at Bulgarian Black Sea coast, me and my friends have got to make friends with many Polish in the summer. After few days communications in Bulgarian and Polish, we were reaching quite high intelligibility, that was really great, because we had good fun together. Now I realized I still remember well some Polish words, not that close to Bulgarian.

[Ecolinguist]

The magic of languages! 🤠

[opa laa]

Norbert, your channel is super awesome, it brings people together, and it's a joy to watch. Норбърт, каналът ти е супер як, сближава хората и е радост да го гледаш. P.S. I wish I knew Polish, so I could read Stara baśń by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski in Polish. I have a translation in Bulgarian, and it's an incredibly moving book. послепис: ще ми се да знаех полски, за да мога да прочета "Старинно предание" от Йозеф Крашевски на полски. Имам български превод и е изключително въздействаща книга.

[Gangrel Antitribu]

я украинка и спустя полчаса видео на этом канале я стала понимать польский на 50 процентов больше.) привыкаешь к особенностям произношения - и вуаля! болгарский тяжелее. наверное, половину уловила без субтитров.

[Szalony Kucharz]

Another great comparison and hats off to both of you for being able to overcome those awkward moment of misunderstanding or complete non- understanding. Of all the Slavic languages that I've ever had a chance to encounter, I find Bulgarian the most distant to Polish, not just in terms of vocabulary, but prosody also. I spent two weeks in Sozopol back in 199X and remember how hard it was to understand spoken Bulgarian. Written made much more sense to me, but there were times when I wasn't even able to separate one, similar-sounding word out of a spoken sentence. So we used English, German and Russian to communicate, because you know, Cyrillic alphabet, so naively we assumed it must be Russian's close relative. Fortunately, the lady that owned the B&B where we stayed just so happened to have studied Polish, in Poznań to boot - just the city we'd come from.

[Szalony Kucharz]

@UChkmTGRMrJWOcBWVSGxxsjw I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean.

[Ecolinguist]

Somehow in this video I understood Bulgarian better than in my previous Bulgarian episode. I think knowing the context in advance helps. When you're traveling the pressure of a situation doesn't give time to listen in what Bulgarians are saying but in a relaxed environment I believe we can easily find a way to communicate batter.

[forbidden]

@Ecolinguist Interesting enough, I have rewatched your previous episode with Bulgarian and I would say that it was easier for me to understand Nadia than you did, at my impression at least. You have been confused by words like Художник, Преподаваш, Учиш - but they are pretty understandable for my russian ear.

[Ecolinguist]

@forbidden I've gained much more experience talking to other Slavs since I talked to Nadia. I think it became easier for me now but still I'm not actively learning those languages. I'm just developing my linguistic intuition, I guess.

[forbidden]

@Ecolinguist 👍 You are enriching your vocabulary, I think

[Chnsomatrop]

Давным-давно начинал учить польский язык и со временем забросил. Сейчас насмотревшись ваших видео, я возобновил изучение. Спасибо!😉

[Konrad Banys]

stary, te wideła zbliżają narody, nawet te które politycy starają się skłócić - i to jest chyba ich najważniejsza funkcja. Nie przestawaj robić!

[Rio Enoshima]

As a Bulgarian, I'm so glad I found this channel. I like doing these experiments along with them. I listen to what the other slavic person is saying without reading the English translation and try to understand it myself. It's amazing how easy it is to understand most of it.

[Peter Cholakov]

Let us make a slavic union really... Its damn so cool that we understand eachother, even with hard words we still manage to do it, our blood is so!! Love from Bulgaria brothers!!!

[L.U.]

As Ukrainian, I can understand Polish because I speak Ukrainian, but I understand Bulgarian because I learned Russian at school and fluent in it. :D So, by knowing two languages Ukrainian and Russian this conversation is super easy to understand! 😁

[Rafael Knuth]

Awesome video. Keep up the great work! As a native Polish speaker, I find our language excessively difficult to understand for other Slavic people. That being said, kudos to your Bulgarian friend who managed to guess most cities correctly without any subtitles.

[Ivaylo Kostov]

I am Bulgarian myself. I work with polish czech and russian. I find that the old words that my grandparents use are very similar, if not the same and it's not only that. There is town in Poland called Sopot and in Bulgaria we got it same. also in Slovakia there is town called lovech just like in Bulgaria. We like pivo alot and we have similar food and folklore and tales.on the end of the day the third main language group in Europe is Slavic.

[Ecolinguist]

Are you saying there is a city named Sopot in Bulgaria? 🤔

[Ivaylo Kostov]

@Ecolinguist yes, it's not very big. One of the biggest Bulgarian writer is born there.

[Ecolinguist]

@Ivaylo Kostov Interesting. 🤓I didn't know that. Who is this big writer? 🤠

[Ivaylo Kostov]

@Ecolinguist Ivan Vazov is his name

[Ecolinguist]

@Ivaylo Kostov I googled him. He was quite an accomplished author! 🤓

[Petya Asparuhova- Georgieva]

Много си приличат езиците ни! Не е невъзможно да се разберем, но трябва хората да говорят по-бавно и да слушат съсредоточено. Много хубаво видео!

[Ecolinguist]

Dzięki! :)

[Pan Adolf]

Nic dodać nić ująć :)

[Curious Pavel]

:))

[L.U.]

Звучить наче піп з церкви говорить, молитву читає..: D прекрасна вельми мова та є Болгарська.

[Anton Murtazaev]

Ну тут уже половину не понял) Первое и третье предложение) Но второе понял))

[Marsu Karhu]

I'm surprised how much Polish I can understand after a tiny bit of studying! I'm so proud of myself!

[Earl Hassel]

This is great! I love all slavic countries. It's amazing so similar for Polish and Bulgarian given how far apart and the very different histories.

[petiost]

Great video, my friend. So many similarities between our languages that make me want to learn more Polish in addition to my native Bulgarian. I've actually had a Polish colleague in my university, she was such a great person and very similar as a personality to me. I feel that your videos could help us Slavic people communicate better between ourselves. Keep going, we should be able to understand and support each other. Поздрави от България! ^_^

[Ecolinguist]

Thank you for your kind words! I have a lot of videos for Polish learners on my channel so check them out if you do decide to learn Polish. 🤓Pozdrawiam z Polski! 🤠

[ross emmanuel]

It is better to communicate by using a Russian language. But it is only my opinion😊😊😊

[Curious Pavel]

Поздрави обратно 🇧🇬❤️

[Phiusmes]

I'm Ukrainian and know Ukrainian, Belarusian (not fluently) and Russian languages. This allowed me to understand Polish through Ukrainian and Bulgarian through Russian. The latter is based on old Bulgarian but with a Ukrainian pronunciation basically. I found that I was able to follow both conversations pretty easily. In Ukrainian we have both stina and mur for wall, misto and hrad (archaic for a fortified settlement) for city. The funny part was when the Bulgarian said that he has been living in London for five hours 🤣🤣 because in Ukrainian hodyna is an hour, but I was able to understand that he meant years because in Russian "god" actually means a year! It's interesting to note that Bulgarian was spoken by the educated elite here in Kyiv since we adopted Christianity in 988 AD and monks continued to write in Old Bulgarian until just 150 years ago. In Russia, however, they adopted the entire language but kept Ukrainian (old Ruthenian) grammar, so in a way Russian is a frankenstein creature of Ukrainian and Bulgarian! 💁

[Niki Neykov]

Браво

[В]

Т.н украинский - Франкенштейн истинный. Его создали искуственно только в 20в с одной лишь целью - разделить единый русский народ, для этого в малороссийский диалект из иностранных языков внесли слова, которых нет в русском, а некоторые слова просто придумали, благо у евреев, которые создавали т.н украинский язык, был богатый опыт в этом - они точно также оживили иврит.

[Anton Murtazaev]

Так приятно видеть адекватного украинца! Ещё если мир был бы, вообще было бы классно!

[Phiusmes]

@В Как интересно, мой прапрадед руссифицировался в 80-е годы 19го века, оказывается ещё до того как украинский даже создали! 😂

[Phiusmes]

@Anton Murtazaev ещё бы найти адекватного русского

[Панночка померла]

Обожаю Норберта! Мне кажется он может объяснить все и всем) вообще интересно смотреть и понимать 80% речи славянских народов. Помню в Черногории заглянули в винодельню деда Драгона и спокойно друг друга понимали. Беседовали около часа. Так замечательно было.

[Sarah Weis]

А видео как всегда очень интересное и занимательное! Узнала, какие русские слова совпадают с польскими и что их лучше не использовать с болгарами 😂, а, допустим, части света, такие как запад, север, юг и восток с ними можно смело задействовать в разговоре ☺️ большое спасибо за замечательный урок !

[Ecolinguist]

Bardzo proszę. Miło mi słyszeć, że moje materiały mają wartość edukacyjną i rozrywkową. 🤓&🤠

[pegasBaO23]

@Ecolinguist Разбрах повече от коментара на Алина който е на руски, от колкото от твоя на полски. Мисля, че каза "Много Благодаря. Радвам се, че видеото успя да те научи на нещо, докато те развлича.", обещавам, че не съм използвал гугъл.

[Apostol Asparuhov]

@Jessie-Daniela Kaneva Ja bym zmienił Pani komentarz.

[lucho von doss]

Alina Kovaleva Ух, Вы, что Вы говорите, какие слова совпадают с польскими и что их лучше не использовать с болгарами? Ето шутка такая западная, северная, южная и восточная?

[•💞seCret lovE💞•]

Здравейте, клипа много ми хареса, трябва да има и продължение. Павел е много забавен 🤣🤣 Разбрахме, че който говори на полски и друг на български, горе- долу могат да се разбират *10:50* 😂😂

[Curious Pavel]

😅😁

[Izabela Gizdra]

-Pięć godzin czy pięć lat? -Da -aha to fajnie xD

[Konstantin Galperson]

Very interesting! Knowing Russian helps a lot, but some Polish words I recognized only through Esperanto: muro, pilko.

[Ecolinguist]

Esperanto does contain a lot of Polish words. :)

[Roats KM]

Thank you very much for the video! As a native Bulgarian speaker I understand a medium part of Polish, because they sometimes are quite similar! I hope you'll continue with this comparisons and cool stuff! Greetings from Bulgaria, Dzięki bardzo, Благодаря (Blagodarja) thx in Bulgarian! You have a new sub +1 :) 🇧🇬🇵🇱❤👍

[Ecolinguist]

Dzięki za komentarz! Pozdrowienia z Polski! 🤠

[Roats KM]

@Ecolinguist For nothing! :) ❤ Are you can make another video with Pavel?

[Ecolinguist]

@Roats KM I think it's up to Pavel now. 🤠

[Roats KM]

@Ecolinguist Ok!

[Curious Pavel]

@Roats KM we're setting up the date for the next one already:)

[Дмитрий Степанов]

Владею только русским языком, но понял обоих спикеров лучше, чем они друг друга)))

[Alex Goranov]

Nice! As a Bulgarian speaker it was really difficult to understand most of the Polish words :) Well done!

[Curious Pavel]

I can't agree more 😅

[Δοσίθεος Τρνηνητς]

I am from Serbia (another dinaric slavic country) and I was surprised how much i understand polish :) I always thought about 30% but its actualy 50%-70% :D I understand like 80% Bulgarian so that wasnt problem

[Jetty]

Λουκάσ SRB my best friend is polish and in our community we have a lot of Serbs, he seems to understand almost everything they say, like word for word...he’s even had times he’s conversed with older Serbian people,

[Δοσίθεος Τρνηνητς]

@Jetty cool :D :]

[Jurij Nebov Krasnodar]

I'm Russian with some knowledge of Ukrainian. I got Polish and Bulgarian about equally well. The idea is great. Thanks.

[Batman]

"Some knowledge"? It's a same language...

[Jurij Nebov Krasnodar]

@Batman hardly so.

[Mr. Onion]

@Batman Russian and Ukrainian are pretty different. There's Surzhyk which is like 70-80% mutually intelligible with Russian though. Russian-Ukrainian mutual intelligibility is much lower than that. Around 30-40%.

[Stormy]

I can learn polish and bulgarian at the same time Thanks you guys rock!

[Ecolinguist]

Any time, Marcel! 😉

[Curious Pavel]

Two birds with one stone 😁

[Ирина Михайлова]

С удовольствием смотрю выпуски, которые время от времени «дает» Интернет. Я - русская, лучше всего понимаю македонский и, пожалуй, чешский. Очень нравятся выпуски, где участвует польский молодой человек!

[Georgy Grahowski]

Very cool video! As a bulgarian it is very difficult for me to understand polish when I'm listening or reading. However, when I'm listening and reading simultaneously it starts to make a lot more sense.

[Free on RV]

Wow! I’m Russian and I understood both of the guys. Polish 60% , Bulgarian-90%. It was so interesting to hear your discussion👍😀

[vecnaidila]

As a Serb, i could understand the Bulgarian guy almost perfectly, but Polish seems like a language from a different planet to me. You guys did a good job, velik pozdrav ❤.

[Ирина Сулейманова]

Обожаю Болгарию и болгар. Моя болгарская подруга знает русский язык не в совершенстве. Мы с ней разговариваем на русском языке с введением болгарских слов. Я гордилась, что понимаю по-болгарски. А потом она повернулась к своему мужу-болгарину и что-то сказала. И мне стало ясно, что я ничего не понимаю по-болгарски, и что она старается говорить на русском, насколько его знает. Теперь я стараюсь знать болгарский хотя бы настолько, насколько она знает русский.

[Anton Murtazaev]

Ого! Может быть, какой-то сленг был там) или просто такая фраза) А так понятность можно увеличить, коверкая слова на лад языка собеседника)

[Ирина Сулейманова]

@Anton Murtazaev нет, нет, коверкая слова, на болгарском не заговоришь. Но Вы меня рассмешили и растрогали.

[Anton Murtazaev]

@Ирина Сулейманова ну это не болгарский, это увеличение понятности. Ну можно, например, сказать устаревшее слово или поставить не там ударение, заменить буковку в слове и т. д.

[HuoLong]

This is a perfect way to highlight similarities and study intelligibility between languages! And also amazing job w the subtitles, since (even if I'm not learning any of these languages) it let me understand how the digraphs and sounds relate to the languages' sounds. Awesome!!!

[Ecolinguist]

Thank you! 🤓

[ultimatecompbg hehe]

we have 95% of the polish words in bulgarian, but their sound is so changed that they aren`t understandable. For example at 11:15 we have the word "czesci", but in bulgarian its "chasti", also "podzielone" is "podeleno", and "sciana" is "stena". The word is the same, but because of the different pronunciation the bulgarian guy didn`t understand it. Also we have the word "smok" in bulgarian too, but "drakon" is used more nowadays so the bulgarian guy forget it. Next time you must invite people who live in Bulgaria at the moment and they will maybe understand you easier :)

[Monke]

Ти чуваш ли се ? Едва половината думи са подобни

[Mike Kobyliatskyi]

Very interesting. It was understandably Polish and a bit Bulgarian. I do not often hear Bulgarian, very beautiful. It was difficult for me to guess Krakow. For the first time I hear dragons living in Krakow. By the way, the word Mur is also available to us. But we call it simply Berlinśka Stina.

[Ecolinguist]

Wow! 'Stina' sounds almost like 'ściana.' The dragon of Kracow is called Smok Wawelski - This video explains its story exceptionally well → kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWe2doN7ep6Bn5Y&t.

[Mike Kobyliatskyi]

Ecolinguist Dziękuję Bardzo interesujące. Kolejny powód do odwiedzenia Krakowa. Nawiasem mówiąc, w języku białoruskim jest też słowo Cmok, ciekawe słowo.

[Ecolinguist]

@Mike Kobyliatskyi Czy w białoruskim 'Cmok' to też smok? :)

[sarkasian83]

@Ecolinguist In Bulgarian "smok" is a species of snakes.

[Ecolinguist]

@sarkasian83 "smok" is a species of snakes? That's very interesting can you send a link to a Bulgarian wikipedia page about it? 🤠

[Galin Rizov]

I'm very impressed by Pavel and how much he was able to understand. Polish is a lovely , lovely language but I can only understand words here and there. But if I listen to it often enough I'm sure that it will become easier. Much love to my brothers and sisters in Poland :)

[Curious Pavel]

I just tried to make associations with the words I know from each sentence. greetings from London :)

[SilverusScrScr]

nice job guys i understood almost everything of bulgarian and to some less extent of polish. greetings from romania!

[Krisztina Kroó]

It's nice that my country's friend nations getting well with each other!Hungary loves Bulgaria and Poland! 🇧🇬❤️🇭🇺❤️🇵🇱

[Krisztina Kroó]

Valeriy TV That's correct,hungarian is not a slavic language.

[Andrei Piontkovski]

Polish has a very complicated phonetics, even cognate words (words of the same proto-slavic origin) sound very different from other slavic languages. If the Bulgarian guy had some subtitles generated on the run, he would celebrate an easy win. Sometimes latinisms and other loan words were used to explain things that could be explained using slavic vocabulary only, that sounded like switching to foreign language for a short-while.

[Unrecognizable User]

Nowe wideo! Jak zawsze ciekawe i dobrze zroblene) dziękuję z Białorusi)))

[Ecolinguist]

Cieszę się, że się podoba!

[Kristina Sun]

Знаю русский, украинский и болгарский. Сама с Украины, по национальности болгарка🇧🇬. И знание этих языков позволило мне понять обеих парней

[Ecolinguist]

Wspaniale. Ze znajomością tylu języków wszędzie się dogadasz. 🤠

[Omoikane Omake]

обОих парней, обеих девушек)

[Олег Александров]

For a language nerd like me, your videos are a great entertainment. Thank you, Ecolinguist! Bulgarian greetings from Slovakia ;)

[kqenn kqenn]

ale fajnie, że się tak można dogadać :D super kanał! Leci sub

[Alexander Brodski]

I understand about 70% of the Polish language in the video. Greetings from an American descendant of Bulgarians from Macedonia!

[Georgi Mihov]

God, Spoken Polish is just so difficult, so many sound changes from the original Old Slavic sounds :) What you may find interesting is that certain Bulgarian dialects preserve features very similar to Polish and different from any other Bulgarian or Slavic dialect, including the nasal vowels, which are extinct in all other Slavic languages including Standard Bulgarian. Also in Bulgarian there is only one L letter, but really there are two different L sounds - hard and soft, very similar to Polish. When I say words like "Plovdiv" to foreigners, they think I am saying "Puovdiv".

[rashkov]

Типичен пример са думите Лук и Люляк

[Georgi Mihov]

Всъщност точно обратно - при лук и люляк имаме две видимо различни фонеми - л и ль. Буквите ю и я в българския, когато не са в началото на думата, служат като у и а с омекотена предходна съгласна - ль, нь, и т.н. По-интересно е когато няма видимо обозначение на твърдината на л-то, но ние по инстинкт знаем, че в “малък” имаме твърдо л (в полски Ł), но в “лек” имаме меко л (полски L). Но в западните диалекти дори “лек” е с твърдо л и звучи по-скоро като “уек”. Реално това са два различни звука, но нашата писмена система не различава между тях, разчитайки че носителите на езика знаят къде кой звук да произнесат.

[Branimir]

Also only Bulgarian and Polish have IA for the Slavic jat: "miasto" is the same in Bulgarian just means "place"

[Jooni]

Oh this is a nice explanation! I am learning Bulgarian and one interesting thing i found is that the diversity of L pronounciation. Sometimes it should be pronounced like L, sometimes it is very subtle and changed to some other consonant like (Plovdiv) Puofdif, (кола) Коwa, благодаря(Бъгодаря) село ( cewo) It is really interesting language!

[Roats KM]

@Branimir Yep! And one more example is the word Obiad (lunch) Same in the two languages! :)

[Artsiom Kukharau]

Im Belarusian, understand most slavic speech from such videos. Not easy but if to speak slowly it's clear to me.

[Mario]

Hi I am from Slovakia and I have to say that I went to Poland when I was on highschool and I didn’t understand a word they said to me. But once I started to be in contact with Polish daily after few months I was able to communicate. What I find very interesting that if you speak to a average thinking Slav I would say that you can use your mother tongue and if you know a words or phrases from the other Slavs language which you have to use, you just fit them in a sentences and from mine point of view we can have pretty decent conversation thn.

[Robert Kukuczka]

For me as Polish who was born on the border with Czeh Republic and Slovakia in Istebna, just because of our Polish Istebnianian dialect, it is so easy to understand Slovaks and Czechs for us. Some people who come to visit us from like Warsaw very many times have to ask me what I am speaking about in my dialect, because of a lot of misunderstandings. :)

[Crockettt1984]

Jak zawsze świetna robota Norbert!

[Zloy Chel]

Это так мило,что любовь ко всем славянам появляется автоматически)

[Sergey Draganov]

Болгарскому парню здорово мешает незнание русского языка. У польского - падежи как в русском, что делает понимание слов ещё труднее. В болгарском языке падежи отсутствуют. "Чим" был построен "мур" ("мур" заимствовано с французского), т.е. кем была построена стена был одним из забавных моментов. На объяснение слова "стена" ушло много времени, а использование "хинской" (китайской) стены в качестве аналогии усугубило непонимание ещё больше. Только в России и Болгарии говорят "Китай", в бывшей Югославии говорят "Кина", а в Польше - Хина. Вообще-то, забавный ролик. И образовательный тоже.

[forbidden]

Только не кем (ким, kim), а чем (чим, czym) был разделен Берлин.

[Ecolinguist]

Dzięki za klaryfikację w kwestii Chin. Nie miałem pojęcia, że tym słowem wprowadziłem więcej zamieszania. 😂

[Victor Brushko]

В українській мові також є слова "мур" i "замурувати" (останнє також є і в російській)

[Branimir]

В Словении тоже: Kitajska

[Вика Вика]

Я понимала всё. Я живу в Болгарии😂-Родилась в Болгарии

[Hristo Stefanov]

Hi there, Main difficulties were стена (wall) and север (north) Both words are the same in Bulgarian and Russian but differ in Polish Congrats 🍾 for the video I really believe polish originates from old Bulgarian Cheers 🥂

[Toni Penkova]

Great work ! With love from Bulgaria ♥️🇧🇬♥️

[Curious Pavel]

♥️🇧🇬

[Bob Berg]

Knowing Russian and Ukrainian, it's absolute piece of cake to understand both on them ... :o)

[askadia]

😍 You were talking of my home country! 😍. Anyway, I've never studied a Slavic language, but I was able to pick up a few words of Latin origin ('popular', 'wall', etc...). I love these videos! Hug from Italy!

[YoungBitcoin]

Amazing video. To my untrained Dutch ears these languages sound so similar. I guess that Bulgarian and Polish are very different, like for example Dutch and Swedish, where you might only understand a few words here and there.

[Testcards and more]

I have studied Russian in school many years ago, I also have some very basic knowledge in Serbian. So... I understood some Bulgarian but Polish is just crazy! :) In east- and south slavic languages I can read a text and kind of figure out how to pronounce the words (even if I don't understand them), but Polish is a completely different story. I mean, you combine letters in ways that I didn't even think was possible. Oh well, I'm sure it makes sense when you're used to it.

[Анна Колодяжна]

I feel like for me was too easy to understand both of you)) I'm from Ukraine and for me Polish is very similar to ukrainian and bulgarian is kinda similar to russian That was really interesting, your video are get me interested in learning more about slavic languages. And now I really wanna speak to each nearest country people and try to understand them Дякую тобі!

[Esmira Slipets]

Wow, for me Bulgarian was even more challenging 🇺🇦

[Inna K]

We don't have the word "mury" in Russian but we have a verb "замуровать" (zamurovat'). That means to wall up :)

[Robertosław Iksiński]

Probably you don't have a Polish verb "kafelkować" (кафельковать) in Russian, but you have in Russian synonym for "kafelkować" (in Polish: "kłaść kafle albo płytki" i.e. in Russian: "класть кафель или плитку" :)

[Pierre Abbat]

French has "mur", but I didn't know that the word is in any Slavic language. But I did recognize "śćiana" as "стена".

[Robertosław Iksiński]

@Pierre Abbat Generally in Polish: "ściana" means any type of wall (also geometric wall) and "mur" is used only as "brick wall" or "stone wall".

[Kasia B.]

@Pierre Abbat Le polonais et le français ont beaucoup plus de points communs qu'il n'y paraît ;) Le «ę» polonais correspond (approximativement) au «in» français et le «ą» correspond (approximativement) au «on». En effet, parmi les langues européennes modernes, à part le français, il n' y a que le polonais et le portugais qui con­naissent les voyelles nasales :)

[forbidden]

As far as I know, the verb муровать came to Russian from Polish.

[Bryczka Fabryczka]

No tej Pragi to nawet po polsku ciężko było zgadnąć xD Ale fajny film. Widać duże podobieństwo rosyjskiego i bułgarskiego. Kilka nowych słów wpadło do głowy. Dzięki!

[Nana T]

I’m both Polish and Bulgarian and although there are lots of differences between languages there’re also many many similarities in grammar as well as in vocabulary. 😊

[Ecolinguist]

I agree! I'm always surprised by how similar those languages are. :)

[сергей крайнов]

Было много моментов, когда они друг-друга не понимали, а мне по-русски было понятно и одного и второго. Как интересно все переплелось в наших языках!

[chetosco]

Again, very cool. Basically, there are just two things in Polish language that complicate understanding for non-Polish Slavs. They are vowels 'z ogonkiem' (they add the extra nasal N which confuses us) and the 'rz'-combination (actually, the R turns into ZH). Once you pronounce 'morze' as 'more', it immediately becomes understandable. Thanks for your videos!

[Nikola Ivanov]

It was really interesting for me to listen. We bulgarians are known when we can't understand, we start explaining with hands. 😀🇧🇬 While I was listening you, I was thinking how I'll try to translate it, and of course I started using my hands. As you can see in the video Pavel also use them but still try understand you. 🇧🇬😁🇧🇬

[Ecolinguist]

Indeed. The hand gestures grabbed my attention too. 😂

[Curious Pavel]

I'm a person of gestures. It probably comes from my days of being an entertainer whether I had to communicate with people from countries which languages I didn't speak. I did well ;)

[sky1Army]

Peace for my brothers 🇧🇬🇲🇰❤️🇵🇱🇸🇰🇸🇮🇷🇺🇷🇸🇧🇦🇭🇷🇧🇾🇺🇦🇨🇿 And ❤️ for ours not Slavic friends🇭🇺

[Ecolinguist]

Peace to the World ❤

[Angel Naydenov]

You forgot the Czech flag! 😉

[Curious Pavel]

❤️

[Maxim Gunnarson]

Angel Naydenov Well, Czechs are more Germanic than Slavic😉

[sky1Army]

@Angel Naydenov are they Slavic and sorry for my mistake

[Meow thecat]

this video must have been a lot of work to be edited, I love watching this channel ❤️❤️❤️

[Christian Weber]

I love your vids! I learn so much while having fun!

[Laptop Parts Directory]

"SCIANA" - "STENA" in Bulgarian. I understood pretty much everything. Some Polish words are close to German (MUR) - (MAUER).

[el desconocido]

In spanish we say "muro" which is certainly similar to *mur* and *Mauer*

[Irina Mitkova]

Latin - murus