BASIC SLOVENE🇸🇮 PHRASES (ultimate travel vocabulary for visiting Slovenia)

If you're traveling to Slovenia this video will guide you through all the basic sayings you will need to navigate dining, public transit, greetings and making friends. I have added phonetical transcriptions for every word. Learn how to say hi in Slovene, how to order coffee in Slovene and how to invite someone to a concert!
Check out my Slovenian channel where I post videos in Slovenian with English subtitles: ‪@slovenskapopotnica‬
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[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Check out my Slovenian channel where I post videos in Slovenian with English subtitles: www.youtube.com/@slovenskapopotnica

[@ivanpetro8464]

I went to Slovenia one year ago, and all of my slovenian is: Dober dan, pivo prosim.

[@Nikipedia0411]

😂😂😂😂the only sentence you really need to know in Slovenia

[@t.s.7688]

😂👌🏽

[@bibujska2609]

Lmao

[@gregorpolajnko7655]

More than enough!

[@azamutu1413]

Wow! It’s like Slovenians have a word for everything!

[@MarkYaklich-fm3ty]

Ive been taking online Slovene classes here in the US for two years. Nice to know the natives have difficulties with some of the pronunciations!! Hvala!!

[@valentintapata2268]

There are also 50+ dialects in Slovenia, so there could be some confusion sometimes.

[@growthnook]

I am Slovenian, and I just watched the full video. Not sure why, as I really do not need to learn Slovenian anymore :D but enjoyed it :D Thanks Barbara!

[@maciejniedzielski7496]

Dobry wieczór

[@therealfingolfin]

Dober Večer🇸🇮🤝🏻🇵🇱

[@yellowbeardjamesgibson9297]

Hi 👋 Miss Barbara !!! We The People 🇺🇲 Look forward to you coming Back to Enjoy our many National Parks & Hiking 🥾 areas 😊. As always the like button ✅ has been Illuminated 😁👍👍😎🌍☀️🌞

[@MegaJudai]

Fun fact: "Oj" is itself short for Osti jarej which in old slovenian means "stay young" / "ostani mlad"

[@batner]

Stekelinca - "A glass thingy" - bottle. Jedilnik - "eating-thing" - menu. you are very practical people.

[@danobrien155]

10 out of 10 😊

[@bhurley1743]

💯 out 10

[@maciejniedzielski7496]

Pozdrawiam wszystkich

[@youcanttakemyDIGNITY]

Horvat! 🤩🤩🤩 Sweet Jesus! You had me at thumbnail 💕💕💕

[@davorkala]

Barbara sa tvojim kratkim filmićima se jako zabavljam a posebno sa onim "navrh brda vrba mrda" Pozdrav sa Koločepa.

[@DeViLNisH80]

Već neko vreme živim i radim u Ljubljani. Od prvog dana pratim tvoj kanal i Ig profil. Mnogo toga sam naučio o kulturi i jeziku od tebe. Najlepša hvala❤ Odličan video,kao i svi ostali🤗

[@SvendleBerries]

Lovely as always, Barbara. And great lesson :D najlepša hvala!

[@thomascvelbar9811]

Hvala Barbara! Great job!

[@sabretooth9132]

Loved the language lesson video, hopefully there'll be more in the future, you made it easier to understand than other lesson videos too, you must me gifted at teaching

[@illillyillyo]

Thank you, Barbara! I absolutely adore languages, especially Slavic ones, especially since I already know Russian and some Ukrainian, so it’s super fun to compare them. Determining which syllables are stressed/unstressed in Slovenian is so hard, they’re so unpredictable, I get them wrong almost every time I try 😂 but that’s similar to other Slavic languages, of course, because we Slavs don’t do things the easy way, no no!

[@notgonnagetmydata8221]

Been to your beautiful country a lot and been thinking of u learning about it. Ty for the funny content. Take care!

[@M13C7]

Kaj pa "zdravo" XD I find it very interesting to see this kind of content as a native slovene speaking person, but i also rarely ever find slovene people online so nice!

[@luffymaster47]

cool i am 100% not from slovenija

[@TroyPosey]

Zdravo moj Lepa! I hope you're having an amazing and wonderful weekend. 🙂👍🏼 Excellent video, as always, and you are looking absolutely gorgeous, as always, too. You get more beautiful and amazing every year. I hope the rest of your weekend is awesome and fun...And that you stay awesome, stay positive, and I love you, too, moj Smol Potat. 🤟🏼❤🌹😘

[@wilorules]

Thank you Barbs!! Xx

[@user-cg2zc8oi3e]

Like your videos greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina :D

[@manfredbismark6688]

Oj Barbara. Bravo, good work! Have a beautiful day. Bye. Rudi.

[@KeanoMUFC1]

Hvala za ta odličen video Barbaro! Pozdravljam te iz Poljske

[@dannailsteff3711]

To je pa zanimiv in uporaben video. Bravo, Barbara! 👏

[@karendavis3796]

Hvala!

[@longtimeninerfan1309]

Hvala! (And yes, I am scientifically subscribed).

[@grahamrowlinson54]

Hi I'm hoping to go to Slovenia in the Summer. Please make more like this. Hvala

[@therealfingolfin]

Hi! Where do you plan to go? Greetings.

[@peter_oso]

Last 2 seconds - most fun

[@johntthurmon]

Cool video barb keep it up! Subbed for many years, you keep growing

[@eshchoodin2414]

Inter-Slavic literal translation is always a bunch of fun and better understading of yourown language. Slovenian sounds for me Russian as a mix of Serbo-Croatian and Polish. Hvala te lepotice.

[@outcast3397]

if i ever make it back out to the Redwoods... be cool if you'd take a hike with me and my pup. Find you wicked cool my friend and would enjoy you talking my ear off about your life and country. Thankyou for all the good vibe content. you are much appreciated!

[@RahulSankrithya]

11:16 the rise of Slovene 🔥🔥🔥🔥but Hvala vam

[@magusmagus4400]

You're beautiful and smart and thank you. I have always wanted to visit Lake Bled

[@skylaxx]

Very educational video. You are the best :) Maybe regarding no. 1, for informal greeting you could also say "seos" or "serbus" especially in Štajerska region ;) Comes from austrian/german "servus" which derives from latin word "slave/at your service".

[@bostjanmodic1155]

Vrhunsko.

[@sulajkovski]

You look wonderful.

[@jeffsaviola2109]

Hvala that was great I definitely learned a few … but will watch few times b4 my next trip .. one that I’ve said zdravo .. which I thought was hello also ??

[@beanguy]

You look Amazinck.

[@tak178]

It's amazing how similar Slavic languages can be, but Slovenian has it's own very unique flavour. In that spirit, I now ask you a question in Klingon, Barbara: nuqDaq yuch Dapol?

[@a3hmax913]

I don't knew there's so little amount of people, you really must know each other 😮

[@danobrien155]

❤

[@MegaKorvus]

Dej Petko!

[@josephhudson7378]

Miss Barbara, you are looking so gorgeous in this video.

[@limakiks6106]

I'm a simple men. I see a Barbara video - a give a like.❤

[@morjenetaha2600]

Zanimivo !

[@retep739]

😍😘

[@chrispierce2819]

Hey Barb :)

[@dunwitch]

This is really awesome, thanks! Just what I wanted to learn. Traveling there in July with my girlfriend and want to learn enough to at least get by. If you happen to do another one of these - my girlfriend is a vegetarian (but she eats eggs and dairy) so it'd be cool to memorize a phrase or two to help her out with that. Like "does this have meat in it?" Maybe "What do you recommend for a vegetarian?" or "She doesn't/can't eat meat."

[@valentintapata2268]

English is widly spoken in Slovenia (and other languages as well) so there will wery rarerly be a problem. Does this have meat in it? - ali to vsebuje meso? What do you recommend for a vegetarian? - Kaj priporočate vegeterjancem? She doesn't/can't eat meat. - Ona ne je mesa. I would like a vegetarian menu please. - Želim vegetarijanski jedilnik prosim.

[@dunwitch]

@@valentintapata2268 Thank you so much! I know I could probably get by with English but if I can I want to at least know the key phrases to look for and be able to stammer out a little Slovenian if necessary.

[@valentintapata2268]

@@dunwitch Prosim (please), hvala (thank you), dober dan (good day), nasvidenje (goodbye), račun prosim (check please), koliko to stane? (how much does this costs?), dve vstopnici/karti prosim (two tickets please), kje je najbližja restavracija/gostilna? (Where is the closest restaurant/inn?) Ali lahko tukaj parkiram (can I park here?).

[@thurin84]

these are some great phrase that ill forget 15 minutes after watching this video. i suck at languages. i only speak 2; english, and bad english.

[@gazoontight]

Barbara je moja najljubsa KZbinr.

[@gazoontight]

najljubša

[@maciejniedzielski7496]

04:00 café au lait, s'il-vous-plait

[@lorenzoparri8531]

Ljubim te

[@thorralf]

Very well done and fluently presented. Anyways - Most words are killing me and some are really the same in German (i.e. Konzert)

[@illillyillyo]

Can you share with us some Slovenian/Yugoslavian movies/cartoons you grew up with? I would love to see that!!! It’s always an interesting experience to show my American bf Soviet movies/cartoons for the first time.

[@etche1897]

Last time I was in Slovenia and someone told me "daj petko" raising his hand I stayed looking at him thinking he was crazy.

[@ryancallen2698]

Slovenia has some of the nicest trains I have ever been in, but they are always "V ZAMUDI." It is true that Slovenians take interest in foreigners. I went to a rock concert, and word spread quickly about my presence. I was invited backstage by one of the bands. So does "Podčetrtek" mean "under Thursday?"

[@hudy2735]

Yes it means under Thursday. The castle overlooking the village/town was called called Četrtek/Thursday. It is assumed because it was market day on Thursday.

[@sergiotraverso4081]

Barbara, how do yo say: you are a lovely lady?

[@hamishmackinnon2231]

I've always wondered what 'volim jozeka' means in Slovenian.

[@valentintapata2268]

Nothing, it's in Serbo-Croatian. It means I love Jozek. Slovene version is rada imam/ rad imam Jožeka.

[@proehm]

Please, Thank You, Hotel and Toilet in the local language along with a little pantomime will get you a long way. In Rio, I had a conversation with the driver of the car taking us to the airport with my (about) 30 words of mangled Portugese.

[@michaelpudney]

'Bela Kava', could be also \kava is good', kava is a body numbing drink which is an illegal (but sometimes available ) in most countries except New Guinee.

[@nickmitchell6443]

Katero toceno pivo imate, thats important I think 🤔 Its really hard when you're thick like me.😢

[@AdamBurianek92]

As a Slovak, my experience from last year vacation in Koper, Slovenia was that I could speak my language slowly and people would get what I was trying to say... in fact, Slovenian seems even closer to Slovak than Croatian to me... however, there are some false friends to be aware of... for example, "otrok" in Slovenian means "child", while in Slovak it means "slave"... but it was definitely easier to order coffee in Slovenia than a year before in Croatia, because when you say "please" in Slovenian - "prosim" instead of Croatian "molim", it's basically the same as Slovak "prosím"... so "Dva espressa, prosim" was the easiest thing I could say in Slovenian and since I visited the same café every morning during my vacation, after three days I didn't need to say anything and the waitress already knew what I'm going to order :)

[@valentintapata2268]

Slovenian in reality is not a South Slavic language, it is a mix of South Slavic and West Slavic, but history made it so that the South Slavic component became stronger. Edit: Slovenian is overall also the most arhaic living Slavic language.

[@flagshipbowtie]

@@valentintapata2268 Yeah it sounds like it to the Russian at least when it comes to words. What about grammar? Archaic too? Russian is defintely most advanced and refined. The rest of the slavic languages sound like a villager to me.

[@flagshipbowtie]

otrok means a teenager in Russian. Old word. Not used nowadays except maybe by very old people or in villages. prosim means ask in Russian molim means pray for in Russian

[@valentintapata2268]

@@flagshipbowtie Pretty much all of Slavic languages retain some arhaic form that others lost, but in general Slovene has preserved the higest amount of them. Slovene/Slovenian grammar is very hard, we have 6 nouns and we retain dual dual grammatical number (...). Arhaic means that it is closer to the Old Slavic - older language forms are usualy more complex. Modern Russian is simpler and has more words of foreign origin. I heard several times that Slovene resembles old (medieval) Russian or the language of the old fairytales. In Slovene prosim is please and molim is to pray.

[@flagshipbowtie]

@@valentintapata2268 "we have 6 nouns and we retain dual dual grammatical number (...)." What does that mean? You mean 6 cases? We still have those. I'm not sure what duel duel means though. "Modern Russian is simpler and has more words of foreign origin" Actually not. Russian is not simple. In fact some things got more complex due the said advancement. You can say it was simplfied and advanced in the same time. It's things like we got rid of the verb est (to be) added vowels to some words so they would flow and sound better. Refined the spelling to reflect how words are actually pronounced. Polish has more foreign words than Russian despite people thinking otherwise. What do you mean by simplification? What's changed? Here's another thing. English is a very archaic language in all regards. Still Slovene sounds more advanced by comparison. The English have been always forming words from the root blatanly just like vizovnica means a ticket. From the verb vezti (carry or pull). Buulgarian doesn't have cases. It sounds like English. They put words in order to make sense. Chinese is very archaic as well. Especially the writing. Japanese made it even more confusing adding 2 alphabet on top. As far as I know Russian is the most advanced and refined language on the planet. Slavic languages are superior (except Bulgarian) due to the ability to move words around freely due the existance of the case system. Nobody can do that.

[@ivanmares4299]

Hello, i have one question, i am Czech and if i want to order black coffee i use ¨Turecká káva¨ (Turkish coffee) or short version ¨Turek¨, will Slovenians understand me or i get Balkanised? Thanks for answer.

[@ninabogataj8986]

Turška kava. If you say turek, this means in slo. A person from Turkey or a sort of mushroom. Not all of coffees Will have turkish coffee, we manly cook it in our homes.

[@vojta4242]

Can I have one majica for malica, please? 😂

[@vikingoi]

Oi Barbara kurde jakie nasze jezyki sa podobne slava Sloveni SlawaPoland Slava Slovian salut

[@gsbguitarsgsb679]

So really I’m hoping I could depend on you to translate and travel guide along with me because at this point you are like family in my eyes anyway. Your the Slovenian sister I’ve had my whole life but just never hung out with. It’s like our parents didn’t tell us about one another or something like that. I’m sure I could learn a lot from you and probably vise versa as well. But maybe this is all just fantasy and it doesn’t really matter. So ya thanks for the language barrier and really driving in how much I love the difficulty of learning the intricacy of your speaking correctly so to not be misunderstood in anyway. I can’t imagine how much embarrassment that would bring a native Slovenian sister like yourself. I apologize in advance for my foul words and behavior. I hope you can forgive me and my bad American manners. Hoping this comment brings a hint of entertainment to your life. Sarcasm lives in the minds of many and the lives of few. lol… wow, I’m not that funny at all. Sorry I’ll see myself out now. Hopefully this isn’t a China cabinet.

[@beauregardrippey5508]

After looking at the Burmese language, this looks like a breeze! 👍🏻😅

[@zeroforce9102]

I actually didn't know that slovenian is way more similar to serbian than even chech... very much same words in serbian and slovenian. 😄

[@sulajkovski]

Kako se kaže kafućino?

[@pauljensen4773]

Hi

[@nicoladibara1936]

Barbara, were you born in Slovenia? You sound like you were born in the USA or Canada.

[@PureMaddnessOne]

Wonder if some work in other countries where they speak (south) Slavic langauge. The bro-tap, you mean the bro hug? Dober dan sould like saying dog named Dan. What mean with draft? Fruit tea sounded a lot like fruity. Wait, wine made of mold? Missed Energy drinks with the drinks. Wait trains r 24/7 in Slovenia, there r not here. How did the names of the weekdays came 2 be? Either a week starts on Sunday, a workweek starts on Monday (with weekend at the end). Should do 1 in reverse for the Slovenian channel. Either make 1 were Disney/Marvel/DC/Alfred Jodocus Kwak/Pokemon/whatever characters r translated as in Slovenian, like Donald Duck isn't called Donald Duck in every language, same with characters like Spider-Man (where can do the superhero and the civilian identity, as sometimes only 1 of the is translated). Stay awesome and positive yourself, Little Squirrelie🐿🐕. The cute sound at the end is cute and funny.

[@valentintapata2268]

Mulled wine is in Slovene kuhano vino (cooked wine). Donald Duck in Slovene is Racman Jaka (also Jaka Racman) which translate to Jake the (male) Duck.

[@tudorm6838]

Some words or expressions are almost the same in Bulgarian (more similar than in Russian)

[@suic86]

Is "ali" like "czy" in Polish?

[@stevensugars3957]

Zhiyoua?

[@MrBlond479]

It is written Živjo, the Ž is pronounced similar to g in genre, you then emphasize the I, to make it easier you can say the V more like an U, finish with a JO like in yogurt :)

[@stevensugars3957]

Hvala

[@luffymaster47]

ka pa bog daj

[@AdamMutter]

You're beautiful

[@scottinphoenix739]

O-M-G !! That looks soooo complicated. Do Slovenians take 15 years to learn that language?😁😁😁😁

[@TucsonBillD]

Actually when you’re very young, it comes easily. When everyone around you speaks Slovenian, you don’t realize how difficult it can be when you’re older. However, unless you learn to read as a young child you often have a difficult time reading and writing Slovenian. Barbara feel free to ask me how I know that…

[@therealfingolfin]

​@@TucsonBillDEven if i'm not Barbara. How do you know that?

[@edrapiko]

upravna enota prosim

[@vediglagol]

Влачится влак наследный В замуде был весьма Извините, не удержался.

[@NinjaZXRR]

If I try to speak slovenian to a non speaker they will think I’m making it up.

[@hekamteam]

seos

[@viktorlafontaine6222]

I suppose that nobody has been saying the phrase : "you are so beautiful." In this moment is a request that I do without any particular interest. Your lips are so cute and its movements cause some kind of curiosity in the world of wonderland, so, I'm this moment I think that somebody had thought in this phrase :" your lips are like a hot pillow, interesting and exciting". Thank you for your lovely lesson. This language is very beautiful. Thank you.

[@stuffbymax]

za pokojnú Bosnu

[@thurin84]

hey, maybe i want to sound hungarian! you dont know!

[@user-tn2zw1vr5k]

I am sorry for you.

[@xPumaFangx]

I can't sub to the channel. Can I just like the video instead?

[@wedrownysowianin9387]

Slavic languages are basically the same. South Slavic languages are even more the same.

[@miran248]

Yes and no. Lots of false friends, different rules, vocab, ..; but _pivo_ is the same in all of them (ignoring spelling), remember that and you'll survive.

[@ginismoja2459]

Not really

[@flagshipbowtie]

As usual just a bunch of old words in Russian they would be or words that have different meanings. Most are jsut the same with some weird spelling or sound Jedilnik sonds so funny in Russian. Sounds like a monster machine that eats everything on its path kosilo is what you use to cut the grass in Russian not lunch. Makes sense though if you wanna remember. You cut food off the plate and place in the mouth boom ha vozovninca literally from the verb to VEZTI. Sounds like something a villager would say prostem casu literally means idle hour in Russian Daj Petko sounds funny. Just like Czechs when they speak they sound like children Na Petko! Can I say Na petko in response?