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

[@MrBruvis]

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]

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

[@dragozhekovdragov8377]

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

[@romanyarkov8426]

Зачем вам вот эти все ж и ш? Ржека висла

[@bgking2157]

AlexVinta *Agree Съгласен*

[@nbss]

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. :)

[@slavkafegiev3474]

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.

[@JohnSmith-gh9lw]

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.

[@petaryakov5428]

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

[@JohnSmith-gh9lw]

I thought exactly the same.

[@CuriousPavel]

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

[@fastmeansoftransportation2719]

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

[@fastmeansoftransportation2719]

@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🇧🇬

[@r9iden_9]

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.sergio4601]

аз също съм бгггг поздрави

[@luchovondoss8985]

Сърдечни поздрави от България!😃

[@lokator__940]

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

[@antoniczeluskin4136]

Поздраві. = Pozdrawiam po Polsku

[@ekaterinagrnvc6848]

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.

[@Pro-ou2df]

Польское письмо это ад.

[@user-hx1kw4mc9t]

@@Pro-ou2df 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

[@kievlyanin]

@@user-hx1kw4mc9t вы чертовски правы

[@timg.5400]

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.

[@CuriousPavel]

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:)

[@annaPolonia]

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]

@@annaPolonia Indeed

[@goranjovic3174]

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

[@Huyedelomalo]

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

[@ivanvasilev5091]

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

[@eldesconocido5734]

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 🇨🇱 🇧🇬 ❤❤

[@NKNEYKOV]

Благодаря

[@antonmurtazaev5366]

Я русский и всё понял без перевода)

[@denisfedailov3620]

❤🇧🇬🇧🇬

[@MagyarTigris1999]

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

[@KasiaB]

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

[@Ecolinguist]

Köszönöm szépen! :)

[@JohnSmith-gh9lw]

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

[@0d138]

@@JohnSmith-gh9lw Yep, Hungary is pretty cool 👍 Добра бира, добри хора 🍺

[@MagyarTigris1999]

@@KasiaB Polak, Wegier dwa bratanki i do szabli, i do szklanki! :) ;)

[@samonekide4051]

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?

[@samonekide4051]

@@q0w1e2r3t4y5 Romanian but it is horizontal

[@q0w1e2r3t4y5]

@@samonekide4051 Oh. I'd be all in for a Central European 'Empire'. A very much extended V4 Union. Thanks for the reply.

[@maximgunnarson3291]

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

[@luchovondoss8985]

Slavic Soldier Pozdrav brate!

[@niitro1464]

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

[@CuriousPavel]

It was a bit challenging 🙈

[@vinceguerenski]

@@WatchmanofMKDN what Macedonians? lmaooo

[@user-cb6th4dh2t]

@@WatchmanofMKDN Putin is president, not historian sooo yeah😀

[@ke2delight]

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.

[@dimitarkandev7349]

@@WatchmanofMKDN братче недей така! Църковно славянският знаеш че е старобългарски!

[@FrankMyonk]

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. 😂

[@wayfaringspacepoet]

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 😂😂

[@FrankMyonk]

@@wayfaringspacepoet amateaurs

[@vovabragin7109]

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.

[@anushmikael2540]

No rasism but bulgarian is jusy better

[@ke2delight]

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.

[@roatskm2337]

@@ke2delight Нали знаеш че при Българския всичко което се пише се чете! И нямаме меки звуци! :)

[@nikolaivanov3344]

It's not that easy in School. Hehe

[@antonarset]

@@roatskm2337 Нямате в шопско и затова в цяла България се подиграват на шопите, че говорят развален български, ама вие си знаете своето.

[@denipeneva]

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!

[@CuriousPavel]

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.

[@KanasAudan]

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

[@denipeneva]

@@KanasAudan 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 :)

[@heromannickbggaming287]

​@@denipeneva 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.

[@heromannickbggaming287]

@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.

[@user-ul5ve3bu6o]

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

[@itakniepowiem6893]

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

[@xiiv.emilia]

blagodarim❤️

[@alexandershaldybin6018]

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

[@MladenVass]

@@alexandershaldybin6018 BG-Бях, EN-I was, RU- был

[@vv-cj8rv]

@@alexandershaldybin6018 Аз бях в Русия Аз съм бил в Русия. Това са 2 различни минали времена

[@zzctrlx6119]

Страхотни звучит как страшные, но значит абсолютно другое)

[@kingneo4186]

- Pięć godzin, czy pięć lat? - Da xD

[@bojanbojic9230]

Лажни пријатељи.

[@user-nd9ks6eo5q]

Respect to Poland from Bulgaria 🇧🇬❤🇵🇱

[@liliyankrumov9003]

That made me put on my polish t-shirt! Greetings from Bulgaria!

[@Ecolinguist]

🇵🇱❤️🇧🇬

[@sergandra]

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.

[@forbidden9531]

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. 😂

[@MrBruvis]

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

[@Huyedelomalo]

В Словении тоже: Kitajska

[@vickychka]

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

[@kirayoshikage7102]

-Five years or five hours? -Yes -Ok. Great, That's cool.

[@Nora-sw6uh]

:D

[@bojanbojic9230]

How that difference happened?

[@gklkjuhylpoiuyuiojhjklkjuh9976]

@@bojanbojic9230 that's because there are some differencies in time unit names. "Godzina" is "hour" in Polish and Ukrainian, but its root "god" refers to "year" in Bulgarian and Russian. Then Norbert asked "5 godzin or 5 lat?", but the word "lat" refers to the "year" too, so i'm not surprised that Pavel didn't get it well.

[@beast1680]

Like Poland from Bulgaria

[@vitalg777]

Знаю російську та українську. Російська допомогає розуміти болгарську (70-80%), а українська допомогає розуміти польську (90-95%).

[@Ecolinguist]

haha 😂Bardzo dobry układ!

[@mesofius]

так само і в мене

[@YuriRadavchuk]

That is the third Slavic language I'm learning . After Polish and Czech.

[@user-wy1yl6oc3x]

@@aleksandrsl4328 нихуя не понял твой комментарий, но очень интересно.

[@CzechwithaPraguer]

@@aleksandrsl4328 What does Navalnyj have to do with anything on this channel? Nobody cares if you dislike him, this is about languages :DD

[@MandragoraFlower]

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.

[@TRW87878]

Какой ты русский, я тебя не понимаю.

[@MadDeuceJuice]

@Евгений Я думал о мясе каждый раз он это выговаривал

[@George-nc4kv]

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

[@RositsaPetrovarjp7]

@@George-nc4kv no they do not. you have no idea what you are talking about. Polish is closer to Russian

[@RositsaPetrovarjp7]

@@George-nc4kv 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

[@valentinapostolov8828]

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! 🤠

[@hira6481]

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 :)

[@CuriousPavel]

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

[@Huyedelomalo]

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).

[@imperion8238]

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

[@warnerbf]

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. 🤓

[@SzalonyKucharz]

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'

[@georgimihov2690]

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]

@@georgimihov2690 Yes. Pronunciation usually is the key in understanding other languages. 🤓

[@SzalonyKucharz]

@@georgimihov2690 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. ;)

[@michaelgask]

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. 👍

[@9generation35]

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.

[@michaelgask]

Антон Иршутов Fantastic. Thanks Anton. 👍

[@vovabragin7109]

You may understand some Dutch and Friesian

[@Ecolinguist]

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

[@michaelgask]

@@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.

[@freelikesummer931]

Стена бе, брат, стена! берлинската стена :D Хахах стена = stanya

[@kristinatodorova4000]

😂😂😂😂

[@CuriousPavel]

Е á де 😅

[@valentinapostolov8828]

Mura е от италиански. И значи стена, в смисъл крепостна, Китайска, Берлинска, от такъв тип. Не стените на къщата или стаята.

[@valkiller1562]

Ее само българи ле

[@maria-by3df]

Ей развалиха я тая държава бе

[@user-pl3zh8lu3i]

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

[@BudgetGainsByJJ]

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,

[@user-pl3zh8lu3i]

@@BudgetGainsByJJ cool :D :]

[@vladislav89ify]

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

[@philin68]

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"

[@georgimihov2690]

Можем да си говорим на руско-български когато пожелаеш 😉

[@philin68]

Спасибо

[@deadinside4063]

Разбрах почти всичко, това е уникално!!!

[@vladivassilev7]

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

[@philin68]

@@vladivassilev7 Я живу в Израиле

[@xenergyx362]

Българии тук ли сте?😀😀💕

[@0d138]

Нееее, бегахме за Полша 😄

[@CuriousPavel]

@@0d138 😅

[@CuriousPavel]

Намираме се 🇧🇬❤️

[@youngspunky2835]

A NE BE!

[@luruboo]

Избягах ме 😂

[@EpizodBG]

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

[@user-gm9nc8pk3k]

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

[@igorpodgorny236]

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

[@nikomn]

@@igorpodgorny236 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. :)

[@antonmurtazaev5366]

@@user-gm9nc8pk3k так болгарский это и есть то, как иностранцы говорят по-русски) Типичные ошибки иностранцев-неверные предлоги, существительные не склоняются для удобства.

[@Ankiriko]

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

[@Robertoslaw.Iksinski]

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" :)

[@pierreabbat6157]

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

[@Robertoslaw.Iksinski]

@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".

[@KasiaB]

@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 :)

[@forbidden9531]

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

[@prince223681]

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

[@Ecolinguist]

Any time, Marcel! 😉

[@CuriousPavel]

Two birds with one stone 😁

[@JohnSmith-hq6fl]

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. 😂😂

[@sky1army423]

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

[@Ecolinguist]

Peace to the World ❤

[@anaydenov]

You forgot the Czech flag! 😉

[@CuriousPavel]

❤️

[@maximgunnarson3291]

Angel Naydenov Well, Czechs are more Germanic than Slavic😉

[@sky1army423]

@@anaydenov are they Slavic and sorry for my mistake

[@izabelagizdra6250]

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

[@grandemaw9326]

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 ;)

[@rumenmarchev3031]

Our languages have very similar vocabulary

[@perigali1881]

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.

[@rumenmarchev3031]

@@perigali1881 it lost its cases, over the centuries it got simplified but still it posesses several cases.

[@perigali1881]

@@rumenmarchev3031 So it was but i mean the Bulgarian of today.

[@rumenmarchev3031]

@@perigali1881 its true but also macedonian(west bulgarian dialect) has the same grammar.

[@SzalonyKucharz]

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.

[@SzalonyKucharz]

@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.

[@forbidden9531]

@@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]

@@forbidden9531 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.

[@forbidden9531]

@@Ecolinguist 👍 You are enriching your vocabulary, I think

[@patrickromanowski5911]

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

[@noturbbyy6136]

I speak the both - Polish and Bulgarian. Great job!

[@unrecognizableuser9464]

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

[@Ecolinguist]

Cieszę się, że się podoba!

[@kosmicheskiprah]

Супер видео! 18:01 Апропо, Торино на български се изписва с "о" а не с "у" ;)

[@Ecolinguist]

Dzięki! :)

[@martindamyanov6590]

@@Ecolinguist кво е dzieki

[@Ecolinguist]

@@martindamyanov6590 Благодаря.

[@Nora-sw6uh]

А от кога Жокер на български е Жоквер? :D ;))))

[@jurijnebovkrasnodar7802]

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

[@Milos596]

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

[@jurijnebovkrasnodar7802]

@@Milos596 hardly so.

[@MrOnion-js1ls]

@@Milos596 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%.

[@huolong437]

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! 🤓

[@alexgoranov5049]

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

[@CuriousPavel]

I can't agree more 😅

[@kristinasun3280]

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. 🤠

[@omoikaneru]

обОих парней, обеих девушек)

[@anastasiyarakova8517]

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

[@m-bombproductions31]

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

[@polako215]

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. 🤓

[@goranjovic3174]

@@Ecolinguist Tako je ! :) ))

[@user-yw1fw1qh3m]

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

[@warnerbf]

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.

[@aceshigh6085]

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

[@Painmanish]

Bulgarian language is very similar to Church Slavonic language, witch we use in worship in our ukrainian Ortodox Church.

[@JohnSmith-gh9lw]

Dude, Old church slavonic = ancient Bulgarian. The Soviet and Yugoslav communist propaganda invented the "Old Church Slavonic". The idea is to repesent bulgarian successes in the past as slavic successes. During the Communism Bulgaria was ruled by a puppet prorussian government and no one really opposed the idea of the existence of Old church slavonic. Just look at its ridiculous name - Old church slavonic. Why would anyone create a separate language only to be used by priests....

[@SpiritGuy88]

@@JohnSmith-gh9lw Modern Old Church Slavonic is actually not the same as Old Bulgarian, especially pronunciation-wise. This actually caused problems back when Modern Bulgarian was being standardized. An example off the top of my head would be how you see "живущ" on documents quite a bit, even though "живеещ" is how it "should" sound, and there were a lot more of these before they got phased out. There is an actual, practical reason to distinguish between the two. Also, the Latin used by the church is similarly different to how the Latin spoken by Romans sounded, so It's not like a language for use by the church is some novel concept.

[@Raoxsttelle]

"Old Church slavonic" is language that never existed... its real name is old Bulgarian(СтароБългарски) and it was spoken druing first and second bulgarian empires. Many "known" things that are "known" today are communist propaganda especially this country called "fyrom", north macedonia or w/e their name is..

[@svetlinsofiev6729]

Old church Slavonic is old Bulgarian. Not to sound like a crazy nationalist or something but slavic languages to come from Bulgarian

[@SpiritGuy88]

@@svetlinsofiev6729 Look man, I'm Bulgarian. And that's not how languages work. First, the Old Church Salvonic used by the first Bulgarian Empire is Old Bulgarian, yes. The Old Church Slavonic used by the modern Russian church is not, it's had a bunch of phonetic changes. It's close, but not exactly. Second, slavic languages didn't "come" from Bulgarian. All Slavic languages do descend from a single proto-Slavic language. However, the various dialects of that language had likely already started to diverge from eachother by the 9th century. Old Church Slavonic did definitely have an influence on them, but it is not the origin of these languages. English isn't descended from German or from French, for example. Third, the Bulgarian spoken during the second empire had already diverged from OCS. A lot of the changes are things that are characteristic to Modern Bulgarian. For example, Bulgarian is noticably less soft than other Slavic languages, and this process of "hardening" of sounds had already started. This is reffered to as Middle Bulgarian and is different to both the Old Church Slavonic and Old Bulgarian.

[@CzechwithaPraguer]

Norb killed this vid as always ☺️👍 Bulgarian is super interesting))

[@CzechwithaPraguer]

@@aleksandrsl4328 How is Bulgarian "almost the same with Russian"?

[@Ecolinguist]

Thank you! 😂

[@CzechwithaPraguer]

@@aleksandrsl4328 I speak Czech, Slovak and Russian and understanding Ukrainian is very difficult for me. Norbert helps in this aspect, because I guess Polish and Ukrainian are really close, so it's getting better now :-)

[@CzechwithaPraguer]

@@aleksandrsl4328 I can't, because as I said, I don't speak Ukrainian ...

[@CzechwithaPraguer]

@@aleksandrsl4328 But knowing some Polish words from Norbert helps me now and then.

[@Vessy95gg]

I'm glad I learnt "Smok" means "dragon" in Polish. Cause you know, dragons do "smok" in a way! XD

[@jonarthritiskwanhc]

And it's 'Cmok' in Belarusian

[@azraksash]

"Смок" = types of snakes in Bulgarian. The guy in the video was confused by a foreign word in Bulgarian "смог" = "smog" in English (comes from smoke+fog).

[@user-sb4ng6ul8c]

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

[@bp9762]

Bulgarian and Polish are probably the two most distant from each other extremes of the Slavic languages. Polish because of the pronunciation and the intermingling of Germanic words; Bulgarian, because of the many words from Indo-Iranian origin and Grammar different from most other Slavic languages. As a Bulgarian, who also speaks Russian, Polish is probably the most difficult of the Slavic languages for me to comprehend. Any other Slavic language for me is somewhere on the Axis between Bulgarian and Russian. Polish, I feel is closer to Russian but also sidestepping from that axis.

[@cheerful_crop_circle]

No , Polish is very similar to Bulgarian

[@MacaquitosGames]

The word "wall" he didn't understand because this word in polish has a latim root (murum). In portuguese we say: "muro".

[@Ana_Al-Akbar]

In german we say Mauer.

[@CuriousPavel]

Thanks for the explanation:)

[@vovabragin7109]

Mur is a French word. And in Russian we say ' stiena' , like in Polish and Bulgarian. He did not understand it from Polish because of the prononciation

[@SzalonyKucharz]

@@vovabragin7109 'ściana' in Polish refers only to walls inside a building. A free-standing, outdoor wall is 'mur' or 'wał' (if it's not a brick or stone construction'. So we have 'Mur Chiński' = the Great Wall of China', but 'Wał Hadriana' = Hadrian's Wall. And 'ściana nośna' for load-bearing wall.

[@pierreabbat6157]

@@SzalonyKucharz French and Spanish have AFAIK only a two-way distinction. In Spanish a wall in a building is "pared' and a free-standing wall is "muro". French uses "mur" for both, but a cell wall is called "paroi".

[@canko15]

I was expecting you to explain the Krakow and Dragons relationship lol

[@Ecolinguist]

Charlie in Westeros explains the Karokow Dragon amazingly well. You can check out his video → kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWe2doN7ep6Bn5Y&t

[@gklkjuhylpoiuyuiojhjklkjuh9976]

@@Ecolinguist I was remember Krakow because I saw the great series "Legendy polskie" on youtube. So I knew what the word "smok" means :)

[@christianweber2334]

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

[@yu_li_yayu182]

These videos are addictive..love it 🙌

[@Chnsomatrop]

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

[@christosm2547]

I really needed these videos in my life! xD

[@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!

[@evast5801]

Неплохо так, говорят болгарин и поляк, а русскому все понятно) думаю украинцу тоже все понятно. А вообще обидно, что для объяснений используют английский и молодые люди в видео и в коментах.

[@leonbishop7404]

Я вот украинец, вроде понимаю, но в некоторых моментах из-за жевания звуков и быстрого произношения очень сложно обработать и подставить по контексту слова

[@andrewdronsson9028]

@@leonbishop7404 А если смотреть на субтитры (не английские! я специально на них не смотрел), то почти всё понятно.

[@Ivaninho]

Согласен

[@Moonlislav]

@@leonbishop7404 Вот да, когда они говорят немного медленнее, можно понимать о чем речь без раздумий.

[@loccay-rh7wl]

На слух сложнее намного воспринимать речь

[@georgygrahowski5730]

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.

[@roatskm2337]

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! 🤠

[@roatskm2337]

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

[@Ecolinguist]

@@roatskm2337 I think it's up to Pavel now. 🤠

[@roatskm2337]

@@Ecolinguist Ok!

[@CuriousPavel]

@@roatskm2337 we're setting up the date for the next one already:)

[@user-nu3fe8sp1s]

Amazing! Greetings from Bulgaria!

[@Ecolinguist]

Thank you! Greetings from Poland! :)

[@CuriousPavel]

❤

[@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! 🤠

[@rossemmanuel6545]

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

[@CuriousPavel]

Поздрави обратно 🇧🇬❤️

[@georgevelosipedov7327]

Замечательное видео! За исключением нескольких слов, практически все понятно (85% как польский, так и болгарский). Но, тема разговора легкая, да и суббтитры можно читать. Благодарствую!

[@Ecolinguist]

Cieszę się, że tyle zrozumiałeś! 🤓

[@mesofius]

well if you're reading subtitles then you should understand 100% 😂

[@user-oo8xg9gx3m]

Спасибо за видео, Норберт!

[@killedbydeath3599]

I also have a polish friend and we were able to understand each other pretty easily, awesome video, really enjoyed it!

[@Ecolinguist]

That's great! Thanks! Say Cześć to your Polish friend. 🤠

[@noelkosobucki9722]

That was best one yet. Keep up the good work. P.S. he gave you a very difficult city.

[@Ecolinguist]

Guessing Turin wouldn't be that difficult for any football aficionado. The only association I have with Turin is the Shroud of Turin. 🤓

[@noelkosobucki9722]

@@Ecolinguist like wise. It would be like you throwing Poznan out instead of Krakow. But all in all your videos keep getting better and better.

[@CuriousPavel]

I decided not to go easy on him 😁 Poznan was going to be my next guess as these are the 3 Polish cities I know on the top of my head:)

[@noelkosobucki9722]

@@CuriousPavel all in all you both did a wonderful job. Cheers from USA.

[@opalaa5874]

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.

[@raschied2929]

Love this!

[@Ecoman365]

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

[@user-lj4nh4mr9r]

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

[@dimdim2793]

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

[@eldesconocido5734]

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

[@irinamitkova4992]

Latin - murus

[@Crockett1984]

Jak zawsze świetna robota Norbert!

[@krisztinakroo5254]

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

[@krisztinakroo5254]

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

[@kk_1212]

In Bulgarian 'miasto' means 'place'. 'Grad' means 'town' or 'city'. 'Barzo' in Bulgarian means 'quick' or 'fast', not "very' like in Polish. Conclusion: Many common words, but with different meanings!

[@LORDVADER357]

@Steven Moore There are also many words from english which pronounced on bulgarian means entirely different things. "Die" in english neans that someone dies. In bulgarian "Die" means "give/to do something". Forcing word. To force somebody. To ask, to beg, to want something from somebody. "Bye" in english is salute to somebody which leaves. "Bye" in bulgarian means "elder person" "Chai" on bulgarian means "Tea" "Grey" said to bulgarian is "shine/glows" So if bulgarians speak:: "Бай Иване дай да пием чай" In english will sound like Ivan is dying and we say bye to him. "Bye Ivan Die..."While in reality we gonna ask/offer him to drink some tea.

[@amjan]

It's "bardzo", so not the same sound as 'barzo'. The archaicword for city in Polish is "gród".

[@kk_1212]

@@amjan I know. bardzo mi się podobasz -the only phrase in Polish I know ;)

[@Apo5308]

Zabawa była przednia! Забавлението беше чудесно!

[@Ecolinguist]

O tak! Zabawa była przednia! 😹

[@CuriousPavel]

❤️

[@tonipenkova4325]

Great work ! With love from Bulgaria ♥️🇧🇬♥️

[@CuriousPavel]

♥️🇧🇬

[@shabbat_ssm]

Как наткнулся на этот канал не знаю, но очень интересно :) просмотрел почти все видео на канале, спасибо!

[@sarahweis7360]

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. 🤓&🤠

[@jessie-danielakaneva6559]

Този българин е много тъп. Той български не знае, как полски ще разбира?! This bulgarian is very stupid. Hi doesn't know even bulgarian. How could understand polish!?

[@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.

[@Apo5308]

@@jessie-danielakaneva6559 Ja bym zmienił Pani komentarz.

[@luchovondoss8985]

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?

[@georgimihov2690]

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".

[@rashkov82]

Типичен пример са думите Лук и Люляк

[@georgimihov2690]

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.

[@Huyedelomalo]

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

[@ConectoP]

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!

[@roatskm2337]

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

[@eddykohlmann471]

I love this. Made my day 😁

[@CuriousPavel]

☺️

[@mesofius]

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! 💁

[@NKNEYKOV]

Браво

[@user-hx1kw4mc9t]

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.

[@antonmurtazaev5366]

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

[@mesofius]

@@user-hx1kw4mc9t Как интересно, мой прапрадед руссифицировался в 80-е годы 19го века, оказывается ещё до того как украинский даже создали! 😂

[@mesofius]

@@antonmurtazaev5366 ещё бы найти адекватного русского

[@SpokenStuff]

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.

[@vuhdeem]

When you were talking about a smaller copy of the Eiffel Tower, I was thinking Las Vegas.

[@user-ki4gx3mm4r]

мне показалось, что польский понятнее чем болгарский, ЭТО НЕОЖИДАННО, ПОТОМУ ЧТО Я ОЖИДАЛ, ЧТО БОЛГАРСКИЙ ДЛЯ МЕНЯ БУДЕТ ПОНЯТНЕЕ

[@user-mj4pp9hi3p]

Странно, я из польского понимал от силы половину, а в болгарском почти все, кроме пары отдельных слов.

[@user-ki4gx3mm4r]

@@user-mj4pp9hi3p не думаю что из болгарского вы понимали почти всё, может процентов 50% от силы.

[@user-mj4pp9hi3p]

@@user-ki4gx3mm4r да нет, вполне себе понимал. Если не само слово, то хотя бы по смыслу, т.к. словообразование похожее, и язык созвучен. Я четко понимал все звуки, и от чего образованны конкретные слова. Была та часть, которая чужда для русского языка, но даже там было понятно по общему смыслу. В польском же - очень много звуков, что просто не воспринимаются моим ухом, потому что они у нас не используются. Так что даже те слова, к которым у нас имеется созвучный аналог мною не воспринимались на слух.

[@user-ki4gx3mm4r]

@@user-mj4pp9hi3p это да, к польскому надо привыкнуть, я к нему давно привык и он для меня понятнее болгарского раз в 5

[@brigadderbrig2430]

@@user-ki4gx3mm4r Если бы не все эти шипяще-дребезжащие звуки в польском, то польский понятнее болгарского.

[@jvv-r]

Really nice video man ! Pozdrawiam z Bułgarii

[@Ecolinguist]

Dzięki! Pozdrawiam z Polski! 🤠

[@E.M.7777]

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* 😂😂

[@CuriousPavel]

😅😁

[@l.u.7834]

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! 😁

[@meowthecat1229]

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

[@Mixer000999]

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. :)

[@chandu1534]

Эх братове славяне! где угодно живём только не дома...Поляк Норберт-в Мексике,Болгарин Павел в Британии ,когда дома нам хорошо будет?

[@opalaa5874]

Нивга, за някои. Но аз съм си в София. Поздрави

[@teodortodorov1662]

Европейский союзе унищожает Болгарии

[@earlhassel2400]

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.

[@Meneng1]

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! :)

[@bade4ever]

Great content, I'm enjoying all these videos even though I'm Arab and don't speak any Slavic language.