Croatian Language | Can Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Polish speakers understand it?

Mutual intelligibility refers to the fascinating phenomenon where speakers of closely related languages can comprehend each other without formal study. As we dive into this linguistic experiment, we're excited to reveal the threads that bind these Slavic languages together.
Croatian, with its rich history and distinct characteristics, serves as the focal point of this linguistic journey. Through a series of language challenges, we're on a mission to uncover the extent to which speakers of Polish, Ukrainian and Bulgarian languages can understand Croatian, and vice versa. The magic of mutual intelligibility lies in its ability to bridge language gaps and foster cross-cultural connections.
Croatian, an official language of Croatia and one of the standard varieties of Serbo-Croatian, holds a significant place in the Slavic language family. Rooted in the Indo-European language group, Croatian is a South Slavic language with distinct phonological, grammatical, and lexical features. It utilizes the Latin script, a result of historical influences from the Roman Empire. Throughout its evolution, Croatian has been shaped by a mix of linguistic influences, including Latin, Old Church Slavonic, and various neighboring languages.
Despite its shared linguistic roots with other South Slavic languages, such as Serbian and Bosnian, Croatian retains its individuality through specific vocabulary choices, pronunciation patterns, and cultural references. However, due to their mutual intelligibility, speakers of these languages can often understand each other without formal training.
Let's see to what extent Polish, Ukrainian and Bulgarian speakers can understand the Croatian language.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:45 - 1. Word
5:30 - 2. Word
11:33 -3. Word
14:36 - 4. Word
21:30 - 5. Word
24:05 - Commentary in English
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#croatian

[@yakobboi6764]

I feel like the ukranian lady being able to speak 3 slavic languages gave her the upper hand in this challange

[@MyAndroidChanel]

саме так !)

[@choboltovski]

Basically 99% Ukrainians speak 2 Slavic languages, and ~20% speak 3, usually Polish, Czech or Slovak. Personally I speak Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Belarusian.

[@frostflower5555]

I think the Polish and Bulgarian ladies have an English accent?

[@lenas6246]

що ще придумаєш?@@janlatos2

[@petergolovatyi2447]

@@lenas6246чому він придумує? У мене друзі до 25 років зі Львова якось ще розуміють російську, але не вміють нею розмовляти.

[@tongobong1]

I understood 100% Croatian, 50% Bulgarian, 30% Ukrainian and 20% Polish. Greetings from Slovenia.

[@monikaurban1294]

z Polski. rozumiem ukraniński 8/10, chorwacki 4/10 bułgarski 1/10

[@vladimiradoshev5310]

@@monikaurban1294 the Bulgarian pronunciation is very different. That what it makes so hard to understand without reading.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@vladimiradoshev5310 Не само това, но и самата граматика. Погледни останалите, които използват по 6-7 падежа, ние фактически имаме само 2 живи падежа - именителният, (който се съчетава с определителни членове) и звателният падеж, както и няколко остатъка има от винителен, дателен, творителен, родителен и местен падеж думи, но те вече са само като местоимения или като наречия останали. Например ''съвсем'' е остатък от старобългарското ''съ вьсѣмь'' или в съвремения български - ''с всем,'' но тази форма е архаична. Или като със ''сбогом'' - съ Богомъ, която се е използвала до 1945. А и също така, нямаме инфинитивна форма, която всички имат, освен нас и македонците, но сме имали все някога, ала вече не.

[@user-hk3pj5xl3u]

​@@vladimiradoshev5310In Bulgarian, from one region to another, Slavic languages ​​have different features, although the exception is Russian, which is more similar to Bulgarian, but because the Russian language it is the language of non-Slavic tribes who were baptized Orthodox, and Old Bulgarian is Church Slavonic.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@user-hk3pj5xl3u Russian like Bulgarian, addopted many French words, which other Slavic languages addopted more Turkish and German words.

[@joaodossena]

Great video! As a speaker of Brazilian Portuguese, I understood everything by reading the English subtitles

[@martiniliyanov]

😂

[@Damian.D]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@renatomsoborghi]

Hahahaha, same here

[@checsheere]

Lol

[@sasho888prm]

You win the internet.

[@dmytrodanilov9334]

As a Ukrainian I was surprised I understand Croatian much easier than Bulgarian. It's because of pronunciation deferences, I guess.

[@alareiks742]

And grammar. Bulgarian is an analitical language,unless Croatian is synthetic/flective like other (most of) Slavic languages.

[@dmytrodanilov9334]

@@alareiks742 yes, and grammar too

[@CelestialWolf246]

It could be because the Old Bulgars were speaking a Turco-Mongol language in the past before switching to Slavic later on. This might have an influence on the mutual intelligibility

[@itsmaxhhheadr00m73]

​@@CelestialWolf246retard tier take.

[@alareiks742]

@@CelestialWolf246 in fact Turkic Bulgars were shortly assimilated around Slavs (and the rest of Thraco-Roman population) . They were no more than a dominated class that formed a state, like a Vikings that have formed the Rus, quickly assimilated and gave its name to the predominantly Slavic state. So I doubt about your agrument.

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

🇧🇬❤🇭🇷🇺🇦🇵🇱 Much love, from Bulgaria!

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

@@IEthereaI I want love and peace between my Slavic brothers and sisters, that's what I want. Based on your other comments, you have stated that you are North Macedonian, shame we can't just get along! Besides, based on your comments: "tartar", "mongol", and undermining Slavs, I can tell you are unaware of not only your own history, but European history in general. Please have a check before you insult others. You state that you are Orthodox, but you don't show it. We only want love between our Slavic brothers. 🇧🇬❤

[@HeroManNick132]

@@IEthereaI Посърбена българко, трай си!

[@HeroManNick132]

@@cerebrummaximus3762 Те завиждат, страх ги е, че като се признаят за българи, няма да имат свободата да се нарекат ''македонци'' и да крадат история!

[@br1ognloid]

🇺🇦❤️🇧🇬 ;)

[@krwnik8419]

@@IEthereaI you are Bulgarian

[@lenarteler4453]

I love how the word "kruh"(bread) is completely unique to Croatian and Slovenian while all other Slavic languages say "hleb"

[@JmMateo933]

True

[@HeroManNick132]

I'm pretty sure Polish and Russian have this word too but they use chleb/хлеб.

[@lenarteler4453]

@@HeroManNick132 it's literally the same. No need to point that out

[@HeroManNick132]

@@lenarteler4453 Croatian used to have the word ''hljeb'' which is from Chakavian dialect, but Croats took the word for bread from the Kajkavian dialect so that's why it's not ''hljeb'' but ''kruh.'' I know older generation have heard of the word ''hljeb'' before but ''kruh'' is more used there.

[@lenarteler4453]

@@HeroManNick132 we Slovenes also use the word "hleb" sometimes but "kruh" is just more common

[@denis.makovskyi]

Dolazio sam 2 godine prije u Hrvatske na ljetovanje i pred puta učio sam jezik oko 3 mjeseca, jer je to po meni izraz poštovanja prema zemlji u koju idem, i mislim loše je kad slaveni razgovaraju međusobno na engleskom. Pa da, sve mi je jasno tu))🇺🇦🇭🇷

[@doppel5627]

Zato bismo trebali učiti Slovio ili neki drugi konstruirani Međuslavenski jezik.

[@Antonijosenkovic]

Moja zena je Ukrajinka....ja na Hrvatski pricam a ona na Ukrajinski.....Kosmar 😂😂😂 ali snalazimo se

[@houserouterhouserouter5808]

Medžuslovjansky is the way my friend, a language to unite all slavs!

[@Miculjka]

@@doppel5627 Medžuslavenski

[@sharkan01]

Tako je imenjace. Svrati nekad i za Srbiju u Beograd, Nis ili Novisad. Ima dosta ukrajinaca ovde. Nisu samo rusi dosli. Slavenska braca su uvek dobrodosla.

[@nikolainikolov4620]

As Bulgarian I understand Croatian at 80%, Ukrainian at 70% and Polish at 60%

[@user-rh6kl1rc9g]

Если ты понимаешь украинский, то и русский понимаешь, они очень похожи.

[@nikolainikolov4620]

@@user-rh6kl1rc9g да така е , просто във видеото не е упоменат руски. За мен украинския е руски език.

[@user-rh6kl1rc9g]

@@nikolainikolov4620 украинский тоже разный, здесь девушка говорит на суржике ( смесь русского и украинского) а есть украинский в деревнях, он больше похож на старославянский, там будет сложнее понять.

[@nikolainikolov4620]

@@user-rh6kl1rc9g "старославянския" или "староцърковнославянски“ е „старобългарски език“. Диалектите на един език не означава, че е различен. Има села на 10 км от града в който живееш където не мога да разбера какво говорят. Това не означава, че говорят различен език.

[@jonbovi9410]

Love your videos,this one was one of the most interesting for me! Thank you for your work and greetings from Ukraine!🇺🇦🤝🇵🇱

[@viper6741]

I'm Ukrainian and even though I got all the words it is still very controversial to say that it is easy to understand Croatian. I just got some key words which allowed to understand asked words. But I'm pretty sure that it would be impossible to understand even 20% of whole conversation

[@andriy-nimec]

зважаючи, що біля української (За Карпатами) є русиньска, багато слів з усіх слов'янських мов і хорватська дуже близька (причому давно навколо Карпат жили хорвати)... і так, кіфлик, до сих пір в Закарпатті є це слово "кіфлик" - рогалик або круасан (французською)... це в цілому якесь закручене тісто

[@claudias.4094]

я думаю, за кілька тижнів можна схопити основні слова і почати орієнтуватись.

[@Picinacici]

why are you on the internet and not fighting?

[@zagrepcanin82]

you just need to listen more carefuly and for a longer period of time.and read a lot. this is how I learned to understand russian and ukrainian but it is far easier for me for the reason i mention in my general comment to the topic.

[@user-mh6pz8rq9d]

Croatian is very beautiful. For a Russian it sounds like a mix of a Slavic language and Italian

[@stipe3124]

Not far from truth but it is bit more complicated ;)

[@tongobong1]

Slovenian sounds like Italian. Croatian doesn't sound Italian at all.

[@mario-mk6gc]

​@@tongobong1honestly, I live in Germany and when I spoke in Croatian, a couple of foreigners told me that to them Croatian sounded like Italian, and I was quite surprised, but a couple of people in different situations is no accident

[@tongobong1]

@@mario-mk6gc I live in Slovenia and I can tell you that Croatians sounds very different from Italian. Slovenian on the other hand sounds like Italian especially the western dialect close to Italy.

[@mario-mk6gc]

@@tongobong1 Croatian and especially Slovenian doesn't sound like Italian to me either, I wrote myself that I was very surprised when I heard that from different foreigners who listened to me talking to a colleague in Croatian, just that much. Slovenian is not similar to Italian,for me, maybe Czech language more

[@Ivan-fm4eh]

Love the return to the Slavic mutual intelligibility videos. Keep them up!

[@scronic9652]

Дзяка за відэа!🤍♥️🤍🇺🇦🇵🇱🇧🇬🇭🇷

[@filipmjertan1691]

I am Croatian, and I am happy the guy spoke very nice and clear Croatian, allowing them to really be able hear words properly and were able to understand a lot!

[@JaKamille]

❤ Hrvatski ❤ Polski ❤ Українська ❤ Бългрска ❤

[@HeroManNick132]

Български* But it's okay.

[@JaKamille]

@@HeroManNick132 благодаря ❤️

[@IEthereaI]

​@@HeroManNick132 Не е тој бугарски бе што се губиш 😂 Да беше бугарски ке звучеше нешто као у Казахстан Ви зборите словенски јазици не му давај турску придавку хехе

[@HeroManNick132]

@@IEthereaI Щяло ви се е да звучите като Сашо Маймунмагаревски, но не звучите като него ни грам даже! Що така, кого лъжеш, сърбоманке?

[@br1ognloid]

🇺🇦❤️🇭🇷🇵🇱🇧🇬

[@maksymkulik1551]

As a native Ukrainian speaker, who knows Polish at B2+ level, I was able to understand pretty much everything and guess every word even before the end of explaining. If I new Croatian language at least at A1 level, I feel like I would understand 95%. Amazing video and great job!👍

[@andriy-nimec]

але не 95%, граматика і фонетика буде сильно заважати ;)

[@numeroVLAD]

As Ukrainian, it was hard to understand Croatian especially at the beginning during fast speech. There are big gaps in understanding sometimes, but then a few key words and it’s getting very clear. Child game was really easy to guess, all words were very familiar.

[@gurudk3378]

Ну так, спочатку було важко, авже десь з середини розмови коли звикаєш, то стає набагато зрозуміліше.

[@dannyboy536]

I believe if he slowed down and intentionally chose other words while still speaking 100 percent Croatian, he could make himself well understood to Ukrainians.

[@alexandertumarkin5343]

I'm Ukrainian and didn't have any major difficulties with Croatian. (but Slovene language is a different story, I barely understand it)

[@OlesMenzer]

As a Ukrainian, I didn`t have major difficulties. The hardest one was a speaker, but it was achievable after a few additional sentences. (But in the very beginning before the challange it was hard to understand Croatian in case of the speed of pronunciation)

[@stipe3124]

Maybe Ukranians can understand this more easy, dialect from City of Split Lyrics from "Naše Malo Misto" song Svako naše malo smišno misto jema svoje stvari Jema porte, jema pjace, jema kale i šporke kantune Svako ovo naše malo smišno misto jema svoje brige Svoje snove, lipe želje, one stvari i svoje gafijole Svako naše malo misto U duši je uvik čisto Jer sve ča mu na um sine čini da mu vrime mine. A ako se i dogodi da nikoga zlo pogodi A moj bože, ča se može Moglo je i svrsit gore! Svako naše malo smišno misto ka da je od cakla Sve se vidi, sve se čuje, svi se znaju, sakrit se ne može Svaki svaku, svaka svakog skroz i na skroz gleda Kliki li lipi bože krvav ispod kože

[@ordakiller]

I am Ukrainian and the most easiest was Polish, then Croatian and the hardest was Bulgarian

[@anuskas9244]

Im Polish and I understand Ukrainian, with croatian i have a problem

[@Morrov]

I'm Polish and could understand most of what the Ukrainian lady was saying, but Croatian and Bulgarian were quite tough

[@Pes_patron.]

@@anuskas9244на мою думку🤔 Нам українцям допомагає розуміти хорватську ще й російська(на невеликий відсоток).

[@andrzejmikolajczyk9561]

Yeah, Polish and Ukrainian are suprisingly close.

[@ordakiller]

@@andrzejmikolajczyk9561 surprisingly?😊 why surprisingly ? 70% of lexical similarity, also we lived for a long time in the same state

[@krumcvetkov]

I am a Bulgarian with quite a bit of exposure to Serbian and Russian and I understood most of Croatian 🇧🇬❤️🇭🇷

[@tayebizem3749]

Croatian = Serbian

[@a.n.6374]

@@tayebizem3749 except for words like kruh which nobody understood :D

[@HeroManNick132]

@@a.n.6374 То и на словенски е така. Те имат hljeb също така, ама почти никой не използва.

[@ent2220]

It was much harder for me to understand than it should've been. Similar to the video with the belarussian guy, this format is a little weird. Instead of speaking slowly and clarifying every unknown word in a 1 on 1 conversation, they have these 1 vs 3 conversations where they speak fast and dump a lot of information at once. Unless the speaker speaks slowly, formally and clearly (and provides synonyms or explanations), I'd have trouble understanding ANY slavic language (maybe except Macedonian since it's almost Bulgarian).

[@a.n.6374]

@@HeroManNick132 Имах предвид в случая с обяснението за пекар. Каза, че пече крух, което никоя от другите учатнички не разбра. Това, че аз и ти го знаем, няма значение. Ако беше казал, че "пече хлеб", този кръг приключваше още в тоя момент.

[@Wyraxx]

For me as a ukrainian croatian is easier than polish because we share common feature (phonetic writing), for example its easier to "catch" word MORE or RIJEKA and not MOZHE and ZHEKA, etc

[@HeroManNick132]

Well Bulgarian should be too, I guess (despite the stress being slightly different).

[@zagrepcanin82]

true....we have a letter for every sound. that is why i have problem with reading polish.understanding pronounced words is different because i can find same or similar word in croatian dialects. and we have 3 main and hundreds of local dialects. for example....i do not understand islanders on their local dialect.they sound to me like polish...very few words I can understand. but literal croatian,we all speak it.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@zagrepcanin82 As far as I know the oldest Slavs are the Slovenians. They keep some archaic features that Croatian no longer has like dual number and even tones that some Serbo-Croatian dialects have them. And besides that Upper and Lower Sorbian also keep the dual number. I'm also from the Balkans and I understand what is like. Since every nation was formed (after the colapse of Yugoslavia mainly) there began people who claim they are older than anyone else and this has been always the case here. It's not something new. We people tend to do that, while watching how our countries are losing people each day until our corrupt politicians fully destroy our countries.

[@Aloalokae4839]

@@HeroManNick132 Slovenes as a nation were not a thing up until 16th century

[@claudias.4094]

This is so sweet. I feel myself a part of big family. thank you guys.💛💙

[@nofosho3567]

Me not speaking any Slavic language but growing up with Slovene Baka and Croat Teta, I understood way more than I thought lmao never underestimate old people yelling at you in another language, it’s a great tool lol hvalaaaaa

[@loraivanova8635]

As a Bulgarian person I can confirm that Croatian was the easiest to understand which doesn't surprise me. I'm not boasting but I got all words right haha which proofs that we South Slavs can understand each others. Great video! I'm waiting for more videos like this. 🖤🇧🇬🇭🇷

[@HeroManNick132]

Чудно ми е какво ли щеше да бъде, ако българският, както полския да е могъл да си запази носовките? Явно щеше да бъде още по-усложнен за останалите, но пък по-лесен за поляците? 😅

[@loraivanova8635]

@@HeroManNick132 Хаха носовките са много трудна работа. Ако ги имахме в българския език, само поляците щяха да ни разбират. 😅 Преди време се опитах да се науча да чета на полски, защото мисля, че е много красив език. Но наистина е мъка.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@loraivanova8635 То и ние сме ги имали до 1920-те години за последно отпадат в някои диалекти в Северна Гърция. Да не кажа, че сме имали големия юс до 1945 - ѫ, който е станал на широко Ъ, тогава, но отпада от българския, както с ѣ. В някои думи си личи, че е трябвало да се пишат така, но поради реформата тогава вече не се, като например ''тѣ сѫ'' е станало на ''те са.''

[@hansmiller8465]

I'm German and I speak Polish, Ukrainian and a little Russian and Czech. Subs in Croatian and Bulgarian helped a lot to understand. Couldn't have done without them. Croatian seems to share more vocabulary with West Slavic languages, whereas Bulgarian for obvious reasons (Old Church Slavonic) has a lot in common with Russian. Sometimes Ukrainian helped to understand Cro/Bul. Number 5 was the easiest. Numbers 1 to 4 - I didn't get exactly what he was talking about, but after the others had asked their questions I got them all right.

[@HeroManNick132]

Bulgarian with Macedonian have the most different grammar, even though both of them still have 2 cases remaining (nominative - paired with definite articles) and vocative (which Russian and Belarusian lack of it). This is why for most Slavic people find Bulgarian with Macedonian to be the hardest for understanding but that's due to the distance and the grammar. Macedonian might be slightly easier than Bulgarian, because of the accent being more similar with Serbo-Croatian. But yes it's true. However Bulgarian is older than Russian. Bulgarian and Macedonian lack of infinitive forms like other Slavic languages, even though Bulgarian used to have at some point but it's lost from like 15th century where cases started dropping from the language, but still accusative, dative can be seen in mostly pronouns and some words are with instrumental case leftover. And also Bulgarian is also the only Slavic language where it lacks ''je'' sounds in native words and after consonants like others.

[@IEthereaI]

​@@HeroManNick132 Thanks for including Macedonian, you are very respectful bulgarian 😊

[@HeroManNick132]

@@IEthereaI E, ако не говорим за политика, то е един език, макар че, наскоро се разделиха двата езика.

[@MrDmitryC]

The three young ladies all did amazingly well, having the written text on screen, I still had a hard time keeping up, while speaking fluent Russian, Ukrainian and Polish. Croatian is a beautiful language!

[@user-kc5oq4kd8p]

pozdrav iz poljske, ucim hrvatski 4 godine tako da meni je sve razumljivo

[@HeroManNick132]

Значи сръбският и останалите езици няма да са ти проблем? :D

[@a.p.9077]

Svaka čast!

[@MajklShon1976]

I'm an American living in the Czech Republic. My level of Czech is around B2. I'd say that so far I understand the Croatian guy the most. I've finished the first two rounds. I got the first word correct and I was a bit wrong on the second one (I was thinking "veslice," which means "rowboat"). This is great! Love it! But my brain is about to explode 😂

[@HeroManNick132]

What about others?

[@tongobong1]

Odd because I speak Slovenian and Croatian very well. I understood Croatian 100% yet the Czech language is the least understandable for me of all Slavic languages.

[@Starkiller935]

Interesting, for me, a Czech, Polish is easiest to understand by far, followed by Ukranian, then Croatian and Bulgarian is the hardest. Maybe I should have been going on more vacations in Croatia, like my fellow countrymen lol, I've only been once.

[@tongobong1]

@@Starkiller935Shame on you for not visiting Croatia more often!

[@russiangrammar]

I was mentally going back and forth between rowboat and oar the whole time! 🤣

[@ramfdruid]

I am Ukrainian and had lived in Bulgaria for 1 year. These 2 languages really heped me to understand Croatian. Some words or expressions are like Bulgarian, while others seems close to Ukrainian. This video gives inspiration to learn more languages. It is just so cool to be able to understand foreign speach without learning it in advance. Thanks!

[@dannyboy536]

I would say there are many more cognates with other south slavic languages such as Bulgarian, but Croatian grammar is more similar to Ukrainian grammar than to Bulgarian. Personally, other than Croatia's neighbouring languages, I find Slovak the easiest to understand.

[@cotofeya]

The same, a Ukrainian living in Bulgariia now:) Bulgarian helped me understand Croatian. It is interesting though that I began to understand it better when I stopped looking at the screen with subtitles in Croatian.

[@IEthereaI]

Meanwhile if you knew Macedonian you will understand Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian 200%

[@br1ognloid]

@@DomiDorul23і як взагалі у вас відбувалося вивчення? ви користувалися якимись застосунками? можете порадити? теж цікаво було б повчити якусь південнослов’янську мову)

[@br1ognloid]

@@DomiDorul23 от пощастило знати закарпатський діалект)) дякую за відповідь)

[@andriyzas1995]

As a Ukrainian, I understand 90% Polish, 60% Bulgarian, 40% Croatian.

[@voyageur8208]

I am from Poland and I understood the most this beautiful Ukrainian language. It was the most easy. PS SLAVA UKRAINIE !

[@yogiaol]

@@voyageur8208 Sorry I am from Bulgaria Slava Rossii! Долой наци Украина!

[@user-mg1om3fy1c]

@@yogiaol посмучи ми пишкута

[@georgyk6252]

​@@voyageur8208And Slava Bandere

[@vladimirzunic9152]

Mnogo zanimljivo je bilo! Baš sam uživao. Pozdrav, ljudiii

[@teopilemalakia1444]

ti ruski zmia okupant

[@liubomyr-peteliuk]

In Precarpathian (Ivano-Frankisvs'k oblast), Ukraine, the tag game (Lovice) we call "Лови" ("Lovy")

[@loudseik9997]

Hey, thats where White Croatia was. Greetings from Zagreb. Slava Ukrajini.

[@petosiris173]

The name of the game is LATKI in East Ukraine.

[@stanislavlovesukraine7126]

@@loudseik9997 Herojam slava! 🇭🇷❤️🇺🇦

[@a.p.9077]

Loviti = Catch

[@_kukaracha_]

Дякую за творчість! 💙💛 Вдачі та всього найкращого!

[@slavzahariev3901]

As a Bulgarian I understand 70-80% Croatian, 50% Ukrainian and 30% Polish.

[@a.p.9077]

As a croatian from Dalmatia I understand you all.

[@skytech9427]

Here, in comments, there’re so much words about languages, and nothing about beautiful Ukrainian lady🥰🇺🇦

[@AnastasiaOstr]

Thank you Norbert! Please make more videos like this. Love your videos, this one was one of the most interesting for me! I am really looking forward to the video with Slavic languages. ♥️

[@user-xj7vi6me1o]

I even didn't realize that i can quite good understand Croatian ( and i'm ukrainian)

[@intel386DX]

Very strange, i am Bulagrian and serbo-croatian speaker and i can understand a little bit Russian, but Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish and Czechoslovakian are very hard for me and can not understand them at all .

[@a.p.9077]

Because of you are not croatian speaker, only serbo-croatian

[@staspetryshyn]

As a polish-ukrainian I was suprised I understand Chroatian more than Bulgarian 😮

[@HeroManNick132]

You understand it better because of the accent and grammar which are more similar to Polish, Ukrainian. Bulgarian is mostly similar with Russian but keep in mind that Bulgarian and Macedonian have the most different grammar from all Slavic languages, and even if they still have some cases, most of the time they are replaced with definite articles like how some Northern Russian dialects have that.

[@engineer_notes]

Спасибо за ваш комментарий! Согласен, болгарский как будто бы самый дальний язык от русского, не понимаю практически, при этом украинский польский хорватский более менее, хорватский понимал потому что сейчас учу сербский язык. Какая же у нас большая языковая семья. Мечты конечно, но было бы здорово если бы славяне учили межславянский в школах и коммуницировали с друг другом на нем.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@engineer_notes Най-далечен по кое? По граматиката ли? По думи украинският е най-далечен от руския, така че не ме разсмивай с глупостите си и чети повече книги!

[@engineer_notes]

@@HeroManNick132 почти не понимаю что вы пишите, то ли вопрос, то ли подшучиваете надо мной) Наверное если вводный курс по Болгарскому пройти будет сильно легче. Украинский и белорусский понять довольно легко, ближе всего и легче белорусский.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@engineer_notes BG - RU най-далечен - самый дальний (наидальний) кое - что По граматиката ли? - В грамматике, да? думи - думы/слова така че - так что не ме разсмивай - не рассмешить меня глупости - глупости чети повече (боле) книги - читай больше книг Сега стана ли по-ясно? - Теперь стало яснее?

[@fyrhunter_svk]

Amazing! It was a bit harder for me to understand Croatian than I expected. :D Spoilers! Words that were being guessed in Slovak: 1. reproduktor, reprák (slang) 2. veslo, pádlo (apparently there's a slight difference between those - veslo is already attached to a boat while pádlo is being held in hands) 3. pekár 4. naháňačka, baba (hrať na babu), chytačka 5. holub, holubica (dove) in Czech: 1. reproduktor, reprák (slang) 2. veslo, pádlo 3. pekař 4. honěná, hra na honěnou, na babu 5. holub, holubice (dove) in Russian: 1. (звуковая) колонка (zvukovaya kolonka) 2. весло (veslo) 3. пекарь (pekar') 4. догонялки, догоняшки, салки, салочки, пятнашки, квач... (dogonyalki, dogonyashki, salki, salochki, pyatnashki, kvach) 5. голубь, голубка (dove) (golub', golubka)

[@veronivhbr5244]

Super pomysł z tymi rozmowami!

[@pegazorozec]

As a Pole who learns Croatian I was surprised how much of the others I understood (especially Bulgarian, because before learning Croatian it was pretty difficult for me). I guess Slavic languages are like a video game where being a native speaker of one gives bonus points and learning one is like a quest which unlocks the achievements of understanding more of them :D

[@charlescourvoisier3600]

Great guest as usual. Love the content ❤

[@judgeclaudefrollo8042]

I'm from Italy and l love the slavic language.❤

[@HeroManNick132]

You mean the slavic languages?

[@JmMateo933]

💀

[@PapaJoAdventures]

E noi Sloveni amiamo l'italiano :D

[@user-oq3ei4ng5e]

Ciao l'italiano ! Sono l' ucraino. Sono innamorato in tutta affascinante Italia. Sono visitato il Suo Bellussimo Paese , 12 citta. ❤La Lingua, La Musica( Nek, Negrita, Francesco Gabbani e Renga, Eros ..) La Cucina (la lasagne, i tortolini, , i ceneloni ....) Il Calcio - Forza Napoli ! Se abbia il desiderio imparare l'ucraino, La aiuterei volentieri !

[@lukask7445]

It's really amazing that little training and exposing to different languages e.g. during short trips to neighbouring countries or even YT videos opens your brain to understanding at least 50% of 8 large foreign languages (not counting local ones like Silesian or Sorbian). Belarussian and Ukrainian are a piece of cake for Polish. Short exposure gives you 90% of passive knowledge (in everyday speech). In the world known to me perhaps only Danes and Swedes (maybe Norwegians) have this privilege to near fully understand another language without learning.

[@VeryClearLanguages]

Excellent video! It is worth adding that the Croatian language is subdivided into three dialects: Čakavski, Štokavski and Kajkavski.

[@DD-tu2jr]

And only čakavski is real Croatian...štokavski is Serbian and kajkavski is Slovenian😊

[@tzvsrbisuhrvati5531]

​@@DD-tu2jrseljačino opančarska bez jezika, identiteta, tradicionalnih jela i svega ostalog. "Srpski" jezik ne postoji zato što je odavno izumro pravi srpski jezik je onaj iz Zone Zamfirove vi ste Hrvati pravoslavne vjeroispovijesti miješani sa Bugarima, Turcima, Vlasima Cinčarima i Romima koji žive na Bugarsko Albansko Rumunjsko Mađarsko Hrvatskoj zemlji koju nazivate smrdija. Umjetna tvorevina nastala otimanjem tuđih teritorija na nasilnim provođenjem posrbljivanja. Pogledaj seljaku opnačaraki kako vam priča 1.6 milijuna Bugara na otetoj Bugarskoj zemlji tzv istočnoj smrdiji

[@tzvsrbisuhrvati5531]

​@@DD-tu2jrizmišljena nacijo i tvorevino

[@rsabinioan]

I’m amazed that as a Romanian speaker I could get 3/5 words (with subtitles) and from hearing similar words, for first one it was glasnu - glas which is voice in Romanian, and for the second one it was voda - i know it’s water in slavic languages and the way he talked about sports made me think of kayak but then the others questioning made me think “omg it’s vâslă” and I was surprised to see it was the same in all the languages as in Romanian. Not so latin after all eh? Just kidding, ofc Romanian is a romance language, I’m just amazed I can undestand like 20% of what these people are saying.

[@zbigniewkoza1973]

I've heard the Romanian language has borrowed a lot from Slavonic languages, "Sfântul Duh" being my favorite example. Perhaps that's why you understand so much, especially when being able to simultaneously hear and read the language?

[@doppel5627]

I am always surprised with some beautiful misunderstandings, like Romanian word biserică - it sound like something that has to do with a biser, a pearl, in Croatian :)

[@jonarthritiskwanhc]

@@doppel5627 'Biserică' is inherited from Latin 'basilica'

[@ivrtaric]

In Croatian there is actually a word "bisernica", which refers to a specific mandolin-like instrument played usually in the Slavonia region. It got its name because its sound is compared to "pearls dropping from above".

[@user-uk1bi4fp4z]

Romania was a part of Bulgaria for many years, so your "Slavic" loanwords are Bulgarian words, but, of course, you can't admit it. ;-)

[@CKsWorkshop]

This is amazing!! I love when they compare the different languages and see if each other can be understood.

[@KasiaB]

Ja sam iz Poljske i malo govorim hrvatski, tako da nisam imala problema s razumijevanjem onoga što Daniel govori, but it seems that we Poles have the most difficult task in this episode, because Bulgarian, just like Croatian, is a South Slavic language, and Ukrainians are rather bilingual (as we know, the more languages from a given language family we know, the easier it is to understand another one). Dzięki, Norbert!😘

[@amjan]

Ha, szukałem tu Ciebie, wiedząc, że znasz chorwacki ;)

[@amjan]

The interesting fact I just realized is that many Ukrainians today are 3-lingual knowing Ukrainian, Russian and Polish.

[@KasiaB]

@@amjan Tko traži, naći će ;) Ciebie też zawsze miło widzieć!

[@Robertoslaw.Iksinski]

Znalost češtiny též je pomocná v chorvatštině, podobně jako znalost polštiny, Kateřinko :)

[@goranjovic3174]

ha ha @KasiaB znaš ti odlično srpskohrvatski iliti hrvatosrpski ! :) ))) Slažem se s tobom , ja razumem poljski i pomalo govorim ali Srbi Hrvati koji retko čuju poljski imaju problem da razumeju poljski izgovor samo. Inače su naši jezici jako slicni i zato je Hrvat rekao da je njbolje razume Bugarski i Poljski što i jeste tako :) )) Ukrajinski izgovor je jako težak za nas jer vuče sve na slovo i ! Ko to shvati razume dobro i Ukrajinski !

[@user-jb1zu7xe4q]

Супер! Классное видео получилось.

[@alexberko9706]

In Ukraine, every region has different names for the game "tag". And I was surprised to hear that Polish word for "tag" is "berek", because I live in Dnipro region, and it's very far away from Poland, but we still say "берик"(Romanized: beryk)

[@Andrii87]

У нас, Мариуполь, игру называли лов.

[@StefanStefan-uv4cc]

Understood all 4 of them. Being from eastern part of Serbia Bulgarian comes as almost a mother tongue due to there being a lingua franca called Torlakian dialect. And Croatian and Serbian being like 99% the same language xD Polish and Ukrainian are really close to Slovakian where i lived for like 3 years

[@tayebizem3749]

100% same language just thanks to history and politics you're divided

[@TheKs94]

@@tayebizem3749it‘s because of politics that they have the same standard language. The first literary language of Croatian was based on a dialect more akin to Slovenian than to the Stokavian dialect today.

[@a.n.6374]

Yeah, north-western Bulgarian practically forms a dialect continuum with south-eastern Serbian. I'm from Sofia and once had an odd situation when it was easier for me to understand serbians in a village close to the border than a bulgarian policeman in a town on our side of the border. Back in the late 00s using internet abroad was a no-no and our GPS map on a memory card was a bit outdated, so we had to ask for directions like in the old days. We got a bit lost and missed a turn to reach the regular Gradina/Kalotina pass, so we kept going south and had to find an obscure border crossing - Strezimirovci. I asked locals in some vilage where is the border crossing and understood absolutly everything. Then once back in Bulgaria, we asked a policemen in the town of Tran for the way to Sofia and just kept blinking at his response. He repeated it - still nothing.

[@marijar.6612]

​@@tayebizem3749 the languages are very similar but not 100% the same language, that is just not true!! I hate when people make inacurate statements with so much confidence !!!!

[@tayebizem3749]

@@marijar.6612 the main differences are in some vocabulary or sounds which literally means different accents and dialects because linguistically speaking Serbian and Croatian are different major dialects of the same exact language I hate when you guys insist because just calling your own language by the name of your ethnicity is a huge part of your identity

[@katrynasunrise1015]

I'm Ukrainian, l know Bulgarian, easily understood Croatian, but had some problems with Polish .. Thanks for interesting content!

[@anuskas9244]

I'm from Poland but I understand Ukrainian well but that's because I have many friends from Ukraine and they taught me a lot. I can't speak well, I can't write at all, but I understand well

[@nataliyadanylyuk1240]

Ви зросійщена українка? Бо українці , зазвичай, добре розуміють польську, хоч і не вміють нею розмовляти

[@andriylysyy3266]

@@anuskas9244 Same here) I’ve learnt Polish I just by having Polish friends. I can speak and read, but can’t write at all

[@katrynasunrise1015]

@@nataliyadanylyuk1240 ахаха, зросійщена українка? Мене ще так ніхто не ображав. Уявіть: в університеті вивчала болгарську 4 роки, поряд моловани, болгари, гагаузи, польську чула 2 рази за своє життя. До чого тут зросійщення, коли весь час була в іншому контексті?) Чи ми почали вже перевіряти завдяки польській чи справжні ми українці? П.с. старослов'янська (яка з'явилася на території Болгарії), з якої русня пиздила собі слова, була першою і дивно, що ви не розумієте болгарську.

[@morokhovets222]

Me as well. Sounds are important. "Не заходить" мені польська вимова в порівнянні з іншими. 😉

[@betelgeusestudio_1369]

As a Ukrainian I enjoy 💛🩵Ukrainian and understand all present 🇧🇬🇭🇷🇵🇱languages ) Thnx )

[@SB-fw3yr]

I'm from Russia. Croatian is the most beautiful language ❤ Volim hrvatski

[@markczarnecki4166]

russia is a terrorist state

[@Josip9888]

Spasibo kolega

[@debathor9346]

As a Polish I can easily understand most of Ukrainian, lots of Croatian and just a little bit of Bulgarian😅

[@Andrei-lr7kb]

I'm surprised I understand Polish and Croatian better than Bulgarian. I'm Ukrainian and originally from Kyrgyzstan too. My native languages ​​are Ukrainian and Russian. I urge all Slavs to pay attention to the Medžuslovjansky language. This is a very interesting thing that was invented by an polish programmer and linguist. We will begin to understand each other easy with the one.

[@HeroManNick132]

Actually it was Czech but close. And why this will be surprising when Bulgarian with Macedonian have the most different grammar out of all Slavic languages?

[@Andrei-lr7kb]

@@HeroManNick132 It's just ridiculous when Slavs use English to understand each other.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@Andrei-lr7kb Ми, добре тогава? Разбираш (Разумяваш) ли български?

[@Andrei-lr7kb]

@@HeroManNick132 Добър ден. Определено. Но лошо. За мен българският език е най-загадъчният от славянската група.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@Andrei-lr7kb Е, нали искаше да си говорим на нашенските си езици, пък ужким са разбираеми, но казваш, че не са всъщност толкова? Ама щом си украинец без бесарабско потекло, нормално е и е жалко, че бесарабските българи са само 1% от вашето население...

[@sonofelice6876]

Хочу в майбутньому вивчити Болгарську і Хорватську щоб спілкуватись з південними слов'янами , зараз вчу Чеську. Привіт зі Львова

[@croatianwarmaster7872]

Slava Ukrajini 🇺🇦🇭🇷

[@Dantrag123]

Та краще вчити германські та романські мови.

[@stanislavlovesukraine7126]

@@croatianwarmaster7872 Herojam slava!🇺🇦❤️🇭🇷

[@MaxGavrilov]

I understood all the words from just explanations which is cool because I always thought that Croatian might be less understandable for me. I think that Daniel did a good job: his explanations were clear! I'm a Ukrainian.

[@user-oi3hu6nf1s]

The 4th word in ukrainian language is "Квáч"("Kvach")😊

[@nazzyyoo1192]

Kvač, так правильніше,зазвичай ch позначає х

[@redbaron9420]

@@nazzyyoo1192 Залежить від мови. В англійській транскрипції звук /х/ частіше за все пишуть, як "kh".

[@nazzyyoo1192]

@@redbaron9420 ну в слов'янських все таки в більшості так позначають

[@Starkiller935]

@@nazzyyoo1192 exactly, when I know it's a Slav transcribing it, I would expect "ch" to be /x/, not /t͡ʃ/ as if it was an English trancription

[@lililaj]

в тернопільських дворах ця гра називається "лови" (lovy) :)

[@moondancerpony7897]

I'm Ukrainian, lived in Croatia for month. It was very difficult to understand speaking, but with reading I was preaty confident. Of course I speaking about shop or tourist sighting reading, but still. I didn't know that our language that similiar. Maybe knowing Russian, English and a little bit of German played role too, but I don't know for sure.

[@malimate2660]

Google "Біла Хорватія".......

[@TheAndrzejs]

Daniel, good to hear Croatian language:) I try to learn but isn’t easy. Hvala vam 😊

[@user-uu3fw3rh5k]

I`m Ukrainian and even in Kharkiv which is close to russia we called tag game "квач"(kvach) Ukrainian variant and russian name is "салки".

[@Timo_UA]

In Kharkiv, I only heard "kvach", when I was a child. If I had been told "salki" back then, I just wouldn't have understood the word.

[@klangtao]

Вона ж на початку казала, що не в Україні дитинство минало...

[@misssy86]

Vrlo zanimljiv koncept videa

[@vidopliasov]

In Ukraine this game is called differently in different regions. We call it catching (lovitki, lov). In other regions it is called kvach or salo.

[@SA-so7jah]

Лов це російська назва, поширена серед російськомовних.

[@janlatos2]

В Івано-Франківській обл. це "квач" інших назв ніколи не чув

[@vidopliasov]

@@janlatos2 В Каховке и Николаеве квач, в Херсоне лов, ловитки, в Одессе Сало (наверное от салки), а в Киевской области совсем другое название, сей час и не вспомню уже.

[@antonsurstrom6603]

Харків, завжди називали її "квач", так самое не чув інших назв.

[@masia6255]

​@@janlatos2на Волині теж квач, і ніколи не чула інших назв

[@arrionelton]

As a Russian-speaking person, I understood Croatian quite well without subtitles. :)

[@mitchyoung93]

Croatian/Serbian are, despite what the Bulgarians think, the closest languages to Old Church Slavonic. Russian has distinct diglossia which incorporates a lot of OCS...think 'grad' or 'glava' (literaly head in Croatian, 'head' of an organization in Russian) or many others.

[@stefanreichenberger5091]

I'm in Croatia on holiday at the moment. I notice that Croats and Polish tourists communicate in English (either because mutual intelligibility is very low or they just don't try). I find that my limited knowledge of Russian and Czech helps a bit with understanding Croatian and Slovenian, but my rudimentary knowledge of Polish not so much.

[@andrzejmikolajczyk9561]

Mutual intelligibility between Polish and Croatian is indeed very low.

[@annafirnen4815]

Haven't been in Croatia but my friend was and in her experience she had easier time to communicate in Polish than in English actually, but that was a few years ago so idk, maybe something changed.

[@Robertoslaw.Iksinski]

From my Polish perspective, using English in Polish-Croatian conversation is like a pushing at an open door :)

[@sjepanmelsa5634]

@@Robertoslaw.Iksinski yeah i feel the same. I would speak with a polish friend and say something in mix of our languages (something like "do nastupnoga časa prijatelj moj" - for a 'good by') and he would say smting like "pls speak english i cant understand"... some ppl just dont have that something, idk

[@HeroManNick132]

@@andrzejmikolajczyk9561 It's not that low as like German and English for example. German and English only share 51% similarities, while Polish and Croatian share probably like 65%. This not being mutual inteligible comes because we are not used to that dialect of what is based of the literature form of each Slavic language. Just like how Romance languages are dialects of Latin, same goes for Slavic languages that share 1 common ancestory and they are just like dialects of Proto-Slavic. If you get more exposed to every Slavic language every day it's actually quite easy. Well, in terms of writing is different compared to speech. And not to mention that not everyone is using the Latin alphabet so learning Cyrillic also may require some effort or like understanding Bulgarian and Macedonian's grammar because they are the most different from all Slavic languages, when it comes to that. But in common words every Slavic languages shares at least 60% similar words.

[@KXKeytinho]

Super film!

[@Rozum-Razum_Slavic-linguistics]

I really enjoy listening to all these Slavic speakers and languages in a context of mutual intellegibility! I'd really like this to be part of the educational path in Slavic countries, it would mean so much for the discovery of the neighbour's cultures, languages and for mutual respect in general! Thank you for these videos!

[@UDetochkin]

Изначально трудно понять хорватский на слух, помогало только чтение, дальше стало проще. Было очень интересно, спасибо.

[@ukrnika]

I am Ukrainian, I understand Polish almost 100%, Bulgarian maybe 70% (because many words are similar to russian), and Croatian maybe 50%. But interesting thing is that Croatian language seems to me much close to Ukrainian, than Bulgarian is.

[@mordegardglezgorv2216]

Ну еще бы тебе иначе казалось. Хорваты же братушки в последние лет 30. Не зря же националисты из Украины воевали на стороне Хорватии в югославских войнах. И по-уй, что с Болгарией многовековые связи и куда более близкий язык)

[@colinemusesong]

@@mordegardglezgorv2216 Яке їхало таке й здибало. При чому тут твій веєлікасоскій нацизм до мовного відео, ви знищили сотні мов і народностей в себе на болотах. Звичайно тобі путька сказав вболівати за Сербів, такий ж узурпатор там сидів на престолі і вчиняв геноциди. Ви просто гниди без моралі, ідеології, нічого. Ми канєчьна нє прізнайом Косово, но динири прізнайті!!!!11 Вот дамбили Бєлград, ми так тоже можим!!!11 Ну і чтьо чтьо ми не налажилі вєта!!! Будім ділать так же))) Ну і чтьо чтьо ми самі начялі вайну на бімбасє. Просто недокраїна котра існує досі тільки через наявність ядерки.

[@ivanosokor3997]

@@mordegardglezgorv2216 *пук

[@mordegardglezgorv2216]

@@ivanosokor3997 хрюк

[@tongobong1]

You are wrong. Bulgarian language is 160 km from Ukraine and Croatian is around 300 km (Between Ukraine and Serbia)

[@frankb1]

Cool!

[@Ne0LiT]

Bulgarian here, I'm actually confused why Diana got confused on the 4th question. I actually clearly understood what he said, so I was split at first between tag and hide and seek, but when he explained a bit more after Diana prompted him about teams, I already knew it was tag since he said there are many variations of the game and can be played with different rules. I don't know why she kept insisting on народна топка, when he never mentioned a ball, I believe she was more confused as she might have not played tag or hide and seek too much during her childhood, but who knows. I believe most bulgarians would have understood the 4th word, lol

[@thnrd6618]

The tag question was child's play for me as well (also Bulgarian)

[@a.n.6374]

The problem is he didn't understand топка. And she wold've probably not understand lopta either :D The polish girl asked the same as well - if there is a pilka involved in the game.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@a.n.6374 ''Топка'' и ''лопта'' са почти едни и същи с леко разменен словоред и букви.

[@DianaAleks]

Може би си прав 🤣 Честно казано не си спомням да съм играла играта, въпреки че ми звучи супер познато описанието. Аз си спомням игри като "криеница", "ръбче" (ако сте я играли) с топка, както и "народна топка". И разни викания на духове със сапун... 🤣

[@dukov_zlati]

Абсолютно :)

[@chrismne92]

Loved this one! It turns out that even though bulagian is south slavic lanugage, they cant understand BCMS languages so easily. I was surprised that Daniel said he understood polish more than ukrainan. (while ukrainan is closer to south slavic languages than to polish). Looking forward to seeing more languages from BCMS group in future videos :)

[@tatqnadelcheva5509]

What is this "BCMS" languages, please?

[@chrismne92]

@@tatqnadelcheva5509 bosnian, croatian, montenegrin, serbian

[@TheCamillo4ka]

4 of 5, cuz I thought it was a boat instead of a paddle. I love these puzzles in Slavic languages soooo much! ❤ My mother tongue is Russian, also I understand Ukrainian quite well. P.S. Anna, you’re just gorgeous! 5 out of 5 in all senses❤

[@ent2220]

During his description he said "интензивни спортове" or something like that. I'm pretty sure it's the same in Russian. It's the same in Bulgarain at least. Idk how people missed that. That basically gave it away right then and there.

[@TheCamillo4ka]

@@ent2220 in Russian it’s интенсивный спортивный or smth like that. But I thought it was a boat but not a paddle. Both a boat and a paddle may have smth to do with интенсивный спортивный))

[@PatrikCROTV]

Dobar video.

[@rusmoscow1971]

Великолепный канал и прекрасный жанр

[@MajklShon1976]

Got 4 out of 5 correct! I speak Czech at a B2 level. The Croatian was probably the best for me.

[@vladimiradoshev5310]

Russian native speaker who speaks some Polish and has further experience with Slavic languages. I understood all those languages pretty well. I could guess 2, 3 and 5 on spot. With the speaker it was a bit more difficult because it could have been a player for example. About the game: I understood almost on spot but forgot what is it called in Russian. But note that I read the subtitles which was obviously not the case with the participants. It made the thing much easier, especailly with Bulgarian. Came back from Croatia couple of days ago

[@stanbatakarata6081]

❤ Всички сте супер .Поздрав от България

[@JosephMiller]

As an English speaker with a very elementary Russian vocabulary and a bit of dabbling in other Slavic languages, I was very impressed that I was able to correctly guess speaker, boat (not paddle), baker, tag, and pigeon. It still seems like magic to an American English speaker that even starting to learn another language allows you to sort of understand four other related ones. I definitely used all four languages here to narrow down my guesses, as I wasn't getting a lot of cognates from Croatian alone

[@user-bv2kn9cp2b]

Я говорю на русском и украинском и мне было почти всё понятно на польском, чуть труднее хорватский и совсем трудно понять болгарский. Спасибо за эксперимент

[@Robertoslaw.Iksinski]

In literal translation: Croatian: "zvučnik" = Polish: "dźwięcznik", Polish: "głośnik" = Croatian "glasnik", but the most understandable literal translations are often the most non-official :)

[@HeroManNick132]

Polish is like Belarusian that replaces Z with Dź sound and unlike Belarusian it replaces A with O and uses nepolnoglasie like South Slavic languages and not like polnoglasie like Eastern Slavic languages where ''glava/głowa'' becomes ''golova.''

[@stalker3839]

Man i wish u was there as well , i really like when you speak polish

[@stanislavlovesukraine7126]

Pozdrav svima! Vaš jezik je vrlo lijep i vrlo sličan ukrajinskom. Lako nisam bio u Hrvatskoj, volio bih tamo otići. Zaljubio sam se u vaš jezik. Usput, moj poljski🇵🇱 nije loš, ali volio bih naučiti vaš prekrasan jezik. Također suosjećam s onim što se dogodilo prije. Živjela slobodna Hrvatska! Vaša zemlja je lijepa. Hrvati i Ukrajinci braća zauvijek! 🇺🇦❤️🇭🇷 Pozdrav od Ukrajinca iz Njemačke!🇩🇪👋🇺🇦

[@croatianwarmaster7872]

Stanislave legendo uviek si dobrodošao kod nas, posjeti Pulu, Opatiju i Rieku. 🇭🇷🇺🇦

[@stanislavlovesukraine7126]

@@croatianwarmaster7872 Dobro, hvala ti. Usput, bio sam u Poljskoj (u Krakovu)🇵🇱 04.05.2022. Posjetit ću Hrvatsku 🇭🇷

[@amjan]

4th word was a FANTASTIC idea for a word! I loved it! Especially since the explanation of that game must be understood by a child. in Polish: ganiak, goniony (gra w ganianego), because "gonić" means "to chase". Berek (gra w berka) is a more official name, but probably less used among children.

[@metroudelnaya]

In Russian (do)gania(l)k(i)

[@novy1198]

jakim cudem berek jest mniej uzywany??? pierwszy raz slysze takie slowo jak ganiak

[@bartoszwojciechowski2270]

Nobody says "ganiak", lol. The only word for that I've ever heard and used myself is "berek".

[@annafirnen4815]

Ja osobiście nigdy nie słyszałam wersji ganiak czy gonito. Może kiedyś tam ktoś wspomniał o "grze w gonionego/ganianego" (choć możliwe, że przeczytałam to w jakieś starej książce), ale dla mnie od dziecka zawsze to był po prostu "berek". Tak samo mówiło się w moim otoczeniu.

[@magpie_girl3741]

@@annafirnen4815 Agree. When I read "ganiak" I needed to google it. And not even Polish Google knows this word ;) 'Ganiany' yes, but 'ganiak'? Maybe it's some regional school slang?

[@frostflower5555]

Uniquely among Slavic languages, and unusually among modern Indo-European languages, the Western South Slavic languages (Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian) have a lexical PITCH-ACCENT system. That is, the languages permit "phonemic tone, but where only one or two syllables in a word can be phonemically marked for tone, and many words are not marked for tone at all". The vowel systems are especially rich in those Slavic languages that have preserved prosodic differences in pitch (tone) and quantity (length versus shortness)-Serbian and Croatian, Slovene, and Northern Kashubian.

[@juniormateusz]

Best video ❤

[@manometras]

Wow, it goes fine when people get more and more words in the longer conversation.

[@luckyluckydog123]

a very interesting episode with such nice, intelligent and beautiful guests!

[@VigelanteVictim]

I love these 'could different language speackers understand each other'! It would be really cool to have a similar video with Macedonian language.

[@HeroManNick132]

Bulgarians won't have a trouble because it's just a 20th century Bulgarian Western dialect mixed with Serbo-Croatian.

[@IEthereaI]

​@@HeroManNick132You guys spoke turkic when you came here with your Khans and now you want to claim Macedonian?! 🇲🇰☦️🌟👑🦁

[@HeroManNick132]

@@IEthereaI And Alexander spoke Slavic? Can you read his coins? Stop the propaganda, I'm getting really sick of you!

[@IEthereaI]

​@@HeroManNick132 And your Khan Asparukh spoke Slavic?! 😂

[@petmen657]

I am Latvian but I am fluent in Polish and russian. I can fully understand Ukrainian and 30 % Croatian, but Bulgarian was hard.

[@HeroManNick132]

Bulgarian is hard because you don't understand the grammar of it. And you know how cases work in Russian, Polish but you don't know how definite articles work in Bulgarian.

[@lil_weasel219]

@@HeroManNick132 i (speaker of shtokavian croatian that is featured in the vid) dont know the grammar of bulgarian either, yet that doesnt make it hard. cro is just closer to polish than bulgarian. Bulgarian is the most distant to polish. Another really distant combo is probs slovene and russian

[@HeroManNick132]

@@lil_weasel219 Croatian is closer to Polish only by grammar. Most of Croats can't understand Polish unlike Bulgarian. Bulgarian has many more similar words than Polish. The only other similar thing that Polish and Croatian share is ''Ć'' that Bulgarian used to had before 1945 but no longer. And just like Russian ''ж, ш, ч'' are never soften but in Russian is ''ж, ш, ц'' instead. Bulgarian still has cases (even if linguists say they aren't any) just only nominative, paired with definite articles and vocative case remained. Many case leftovers in adverbs and pronouns can be still spotted but these cases are rarely used, due to Bulgarian and ''Macedonian'' being analytic Slavic languages, while others are still syntetic. However what is truly missing is the infinitive form which both Bulgarian and Macedonian don't have anymore and sometimes like how Serbian does we do it ''да + verb''

[@dstr769]

@lil_weasel219 "cro is just closer to polish than bulgarian" non-sense

[@HeroManNick132]

@@dstr769 Croatian is closer only grammatically to Polish because you both have 7 cases, while Bulgarian has only 2 cases and it uses definite articles. But I agree Bulgarian is much more mutually intelligible to Croat, than Polish. Polish has many hushing and nasal sounds which are harder to understand to most Slavic speakers, even though Poles love to go on vacation in Croatia. Not to mention the false friends in Polish.

[@maksym_x]

I'm Ukrainian, I understand 100% Polish, maybe 60% of Croatian and 60% of Bulgarian

[@velotolik909]

Thanx a lot for this perfect episode and for your work in general. I always say "give us more of Slavic languages", this is what I personally wait for and always happy with, especially Ukrainian, but other ones also good! In Ukrainian we also call this game "в ловки", but I spoke with my friend from neighboring region and he says they called it "латки" which is strange for me. So yes, different in each region.

[@paralisedcucumber3761]

My experience tells me "латки" is from predominantly Russian-speaking regions, the East mostly. Central regions call this game "кеч" in Russian, and in Ukrainian "кеч" or "квач". Maybe internal migration has changed something, dunno, the last time I played the game myself was, like, in 2012-2013.

[@velotolik909]

@@paralisedcucumber3761 my friend from Poltava region says "латки" (its very Ukrainian speaking region), I come from Kyiv region (also Ukrainian speaking), and we always used to say "ловка".

[@Vithimerius]

@@paralisedcucumber3761 Russians don't call this game "латки". It is a Ukrainian name which is present in all Ukrainian dialects of the southeastern group (from Poltava to Kuban balachka).

[@CalliAMusic]

I love the Croatian accent so much 😍

[@maricallo6143]

Sorry to burst your balloon, but he's speaking with a very well felt American pronunciation of many sounds.... Also, some gramatics, while not incorrect, are not really used.

[@lovro1518]

@@maricallo6143 doslovno prica normalno kao tipican covjek iz zagreba, kaj ti pricas?

[@SionTJobbins]

Once again, as a Welsh-speaker I say, Slavs are so lucky to have their own languages but which are also not so far appart that they can understand one another fairly easily. So cool. Wish I was a Slav ... and I'd really get into Interslavic! Maybe an interslavic person some time, Norbert, with speakers of other Slavic languages guessing? Have you done that yet?

[@TycTycHehe]

Interslavic is really very understandable (to me as a speaker of Russian). I don't think such a video would be too interesting, because the listeners would just immediately answer.

[@tayebizem3749]

Am glad that am not a slav because the reason there are a lot languages because slavs hate eachother and like to split

[@ps2progamer814]

​@@TycTycHehethere is a video like this one but with interslavic

[@SionTJobbins]

@@TycTycHehe yes, that may be true, but it may also be interesting for people who don't know Interslavic and how it choses which words to use. As a non-Slav, I'd be interested in learning basic Interslavic so that I could travel to various Slav nations.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@SionTJobbins I really don't get it why some Non-Slavs want to become Slavs, despite the fact that many Slavs don't want to be Slavs?

[@gstoujou4277]

Interesting

[@Petar_Savic]

When I was younger, and traveling around the other European countries. I was very surprised, but also happy how similar are all the slavic languages. I could understand them very well, and it was really helpful during my travel.

[@HeroManNick132]

Съмнително е, че ги разбираш (разумяваш) всеки от тях (них) еднакво. Ако ти побългарих твоето име, щеше да бъде Петър Савов.

[@canko15]

The Ukrainian lady looks like a 30's hollywood diva 🥺

[@martinomasolo8833]

I love slavic languages, I want to learn one so much 😢

[@vexator19]

Do it!

[@Ana_Al-Akbar]

Me too.

[@censord6960]

Can't choose?

[@pegazorozec]

what are you waiting for then? start right now :)

[@mitchyoung93]

Upper Sorbian is where it's at!

[@slimetyphoonprod]

As a Belarusian I got 4/5. The one I haven't gotten is "a paddle". I thought it was a boat. Great content, thank you! Subbed.

[@HeroManNick132]

čamac is wooden boat came from Ottoman Turkish - čam (type of spruce wood) so that's why you didn't understand it.

[@slimetyphoonprod]

@@HeroManNick132 I see! Thanks

[@ytfeh]

Very interesting video. I am Finnish as mother tongue, both parents Finnish, but fascinated by languages. I was glad I can understand "mostly" what this is about :)