What Serbian sounds like to foreigners/kako srpski jezik zvuči strancima

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I asked some Canadian students what Serbian sounds like to them. I started by playing them the audio from the a of a Serbian TV show. Then I asked them to guess which language was in the sample played to them. After a few guesses I gave them visual clues from the video so they could see the script and ethnicity of the people in the sample video.
Most of them thought it was one of the romance languages, like Spanish or Italian. In fact, I also thought the first few seconds of the clip sounded like a romance language.
Finally, I asked them to imitate what they have heard for native Serbian speakers to hear what their language sounds like to foreigners. This segment took some convincing because the subjects did not want to offend anyone or seem racist. Therefore please do not blame them if you are offended, I asked them to do it and most of them did it reluctantly.
I used "Miljana Gavrilović - Tačno 9 (4.3.2014)" as the sample.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcmVK...

[@bankrow]

"Russian...? Polish..?" "You're very close..." "...German?" Lol wtf

[@IlyaSmirnov1980]

Она думала о географической близости...

[@jelenacvetic3261]

DYnamite BEATS yeah haha hahahah

[@user-st7wr7nb2f]

hahahahah omg i died on that part lol she dumb af 😂😂😂

[@lov3masterns]

Yap what Ilya said, she was going for the geographical "near" areas... :(

[@katja8095]

I don't think he meant geographically but as a language group, which is Slavic for all of them. So, in comparison to answers like "Spanish", it was close. I'm Slavic as well and if they would hear my language as Russian I'd tell them they're close eventhough I'm Sovenian, (and Slovenia is quite far from Russia).

[@rachel-cs8ou]

Watching this video as Serbian is very funny xD

[@dolanduck1906]

Indeed :)

[@vermindubstep392]

+Deks12 jes vala xD

[@sophiadomazet6017]

bogami jeste 😂

[@antiplex88]

e je stvarno

[@vica7165]

+Deks12 Aha

[@JDB-tc5rs]

PRICAJ SRPSKI DA TE CEO SVET RAZUME!

[@dragoljubpetrovic5195]

JDB 1113 Srbski*

[@JDB-tc5rs]

Dragoljub Petrovic oba su gramaticki pravilna, mada mislim da ne ide veliko slovo na ski, ski, cki :)

[@dragoljubpetrovic5195]

Tako je.... Tel sve sam ispravlja

[@Cerez]

JDB 1113 Ne ide veliko slovo na ski, ski, cki

[@JDB-tc5rs]

ShadesSrbija to sam i rekao :)

[@BlunderCity]

Don't worry dude, Serbs won't be offended if you compare them to Russians.

[@goldenthorn7333]

BlunderCity I will

[@damijedonald6591]

BlunderCity I will

[@ognjenvukoje126]

ZIVA ISTINA

[@iva8548]

Istina

[@knezfikol5010]

Jer individualizam je mrtav.

[@piros100]

In my family nobody speaks Serbian but me, and I was listening Serbian music at home and my father asked me if it was French. Serbian sounds beautiful.

[@mountains400]

How did you find our music, where are you from ?

[@fraewaru]

Thank you :)

[@iamgonnagocryagain1401]

Aww thank ya UwU 💕💕💕

[@majadoumayrou9173]

Karleušu ili Rastu?

[@alchemist1202]

How come you speak Serbian if your family doesnt? I mean no one learn it in schools :D

[@Cris-hd1wb]

Serbian is an amazing language, from Romania !❤

[@NunoVippan]

And we do share a couple of words like Avion, Kamion....Sarma 😋😋😋 Живели Noroc 🥂 🇷🇸 🇷🇴

[@Cris-hd1wb]

@@NunoVippan those are borrowed from other Romance languages and from Turkish. Words like vreme in Romanian or je in Serbian are borrowed from one another :)

[@NunoVippan]

Ah, yes, you guys also say Vreme, I know this from a Bucharest based Romanian friend 👍

[@sofistacy4176]

Greetings ❤

[@katarinaivkovic9216]

ma nije bre speniš!!!!

[@kapetanvutra5174]

bravo da nije

[@voulezvuk808]

ofskroz!

[@zentar2646]

to je srbiš!!!! hehe :P

[@keineahnung9414]

Katarina I 7

[@tmutsk]

lol carica

[@AndjelkoNS]

Greetings from Serbia! Good imitations.

[@laki8165]

AndjelkoNS vidi ga anđelko s vukajlije

[@thrmove6915]

This was so fun to watch. Thank you for the video! Greetings from Serbian person! :)

[@HeritageInmoshun]

+Thr Move (ThreeMove) Thank you I made another one about Serbian that's slightly different. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6WcoaiCg8elipY

[@smajilcausevic4641]

Thr Move fuck serbia bosina

[@p3r0uE]

Thank you so much Shunfu for accepting this request of mine! It was very interesting to hear what foreigners think of my native language, as I've always wondered that!

[@HeritageInmoshun]

***** Thank you for suggesting! This has got to be the best received video. It was even shared by Telegraf.

[@nujabes7227]

Heritage Inmoshun Its shared on B92 news as well!

[@HeritageInmoshun]

veljko kostic Yeah, based on the comments it seems like everyone came from B92. B92 must be really popular

[@sismissasa]

Also telegraf

[@srbin825]

Heritage Inmoshun It's like 4th most popular TV Station, and 3th most popular news website. It's not quite accurate, but it's really popular.

[@morjahd1455]

јако лепо да ли има неког србина овде real serbian

[@Anchy58]

✋✋

[@BlackeyeVuk]

Pogresan komentar :D . Ima ima nas. Krijemo se.

[@morjahd1455]

+Rinderhof Delvasterov vidim glumimo engleze

[@nikolinamartinez6617]

Morja HD ❤

[@nbgdnbgd9572]

Morja HD evo me

[@porschashaniqua577]

Best 4 melodic languages in the world are Serbian, Italian, Portuguese and French.

[@zivkili]

@Legendary Balkan tbh i think that bosnian and croatian have only a few changes with grammar and words, while 'montenegrian' is just serbian

[@gavriloprincip3342]

@Није ти лако It all Serbian lenguage

[@gavriloprincip3342]

@@zivkili Bosniak language (as it is called by Bosnian Muslims because Serbs live in Bosnia as well) and Croatian are actually Serbian language, grammar is the same Serbian language that was reformed and standardized by Serbian philologist Vuk Karadzic .

[@petritzeka]

Albanian

[@ajmosutra7667]

AND WHERES SPABISH WTFF

[@patryk7792]

KOSOVO JEST SERBSKIE!!! kosovo jest serbia

[@TheOverkloker]

Thank you for your support! Kosovo IS Serbia!

[@Lozo6160]

Thank you for your support. Kosovo is Serbia !

[@fivestars5428]

Zoran Lozo if is Serbia,whay called Kosovo?

[@Exekutioncro]

Kosovo is just a regional name for the territory of the location of the battle of Kosovo. Kosovo is albanian just as albania. Kosovo doesnt exist, it was albania, is albania and will always be albania.

[@fivestars5428]

ExeKuTioN Cro Exactly

[@mZStarCraft]

Russians are our brothers, we wouldn't be mad if you compared Serbian to Russian. :)

[@pincopallo6458]

Don't worry guy we love russians they are our brothers

[@thefirstorion7815]

istina

[@morjahd1455]

+Yeoube no

[@morjahd1455]

+Yeoube go and teach school kid we,slavs,was came from area between river(on serbian)дњепар,and mouten карпати than some slavs went to south like serbians,croatians,slovenians some on east like russians and ukrainians and some on west like czechs so go educate kid or be stupid

[@damijedonald6591]

Pinco Pallo Hell no

[@morjahd1455]

+JustinBieber VEVO fuck justin biber coming straight from underground

[@golubovicvladan]

I often say to foreigners that my language sounds like russian because it's the biggest slavic language. But when you hear both languages you see that serbian has very few soft sounds. Russian has two complete sets of hard and soft sounds.

[@HeritageInmoshun]

+Vladan Golubovic some people expressed how they think Serbian is softer than Russian in this new video I made kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6WcoaiCg8elipY

[@Gusararr]

Cool video! Greetings from Serb Republic!

[@Mandrak789]

My English speaking friends are usually telling that our language (Serbian) sounds somewhat harsh and that it's nothing like comparably soft and mellodic Russian; plenty of regular everyday words are quite challenging for them to pronounce - it's always fun to listen them struggling with their tongues :) They also think that Serbs tend to speak a bit too loudly :)

[@InkubusGames]

1:42 that girl said "veći prostor" perfectly! Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian is almost identical and not an easy language to learn. Partially because of certain sounds that we use like Ć, Đ, Ž and most vicious of them all sound "Lj". On top of that, grammar is full of exceptions. The only easy part of our language is writing - it is without any exceptions and each character bears same sound regardless of it's position in the word. Also, combination of characters do not affect sound of the character as it is typical for almost all Western spelling.

[@klistiranikrupije1724]

+InkOnTube Wtf is Kurvatian and Baliyakian language?

[@Porkeater2610957]

+InkOnTube Not almost identical, they are one and the same language. 100%.

[@InkubusGames]

+Porkeater2610957 I know, I am Serbian. True, it can be said "south Slavic" and our national languages could be treated as dialects.

[@Porkeater2610957]

Not even as dialects. There are several dialects within Serbian language, yet it is probably the most homogenous language in Europe. The dialects have nothing to do with quasi-ethnic borders of former Yugoslavia. For example, the "East Herzegovinian" dialect, which is the foundation of Serbian language (Just as the Moscovian dialect is for example, the foundation of Russian language) is found in Herzegovina, Eastern Bosnia, Semberija, entire Krajina, Machva, Western Serbia and most of Montenegro. Serbian language is spoken by over 20 million people. The foundations and rules of the modern Serbian language have been formed by Vuk Karadzich, and the "Croatian" and "Bosniak", so-called "languages" are merely a political division of the Serbian language, and have nothing to do with linguistics. It is their own schizofrenia and personality disorder that they will claim they speak a completely different language, just because they hate Serbs so much, and the fact that they too are Serbs and speak Serbian. A unique situation in the World. You don't see the Irish of Americans or Australians call English language "Irish", "Australian" or "American", don't you?

[@InkubusGames]

***** "Piši kako govoriš, čitaj kako je napisano" or in English "Write as you speak, read as it is written".

[@HeritageInmoshun]

They guessed Spanish and Italian based on the first 10seconds of the sample. That short portion was cluttered with elements often associated with Italian or Spanish. I'm sure very few would have guessed Spanish or Italian if I eliminated that part.

[@MrKimi994]

Heritage Inmoshun Can u ask Canadian students about their geography skills, can they show Serbia on the map, and about some Serbians, Novak Djokovic, Nikola Tesla ... Do they know about their nationality, we would like to know. Again, thanks for this video! :)

[@schmucker1989]

Heritage Inmoshun Are these students studying linguistics? Some of them came pretty close by saying that it's Polish or Slovak, because Serbian is directly connected with Polish and the Czech and the Slovak language, while it's indirectly connected with Russian. All in all, it's a great and interesting video.

[@pokojnitoza1190]

schmucker1989 Well, Serbian is not any closer to Polish, Czech or Slovak than it is to Russian. If you consider a linguistic division, Serbian (IMHO more properly Serbo-Croatian or Croat-Serbian, whereas Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin are rather political categories) is Southern Slavic language, together with Slovenian, Macedonian and Bulgarian. On the other hand, if you would like to know who do we understand better of those listed above, my impression is - Russian, then Slovak, then Polish and then Czech (for Czech I'm quite certain that it is the most difficult to catch).

[@stenxx]

Pokojni Toza serbian is closer to slovak and czech than russian language.

[@HeritageInmoshun]

schmucker1989 No, I just went up to random students. I did not ask for their majors. My only requirement was that they were not Serbian speakers

[@user-rh3to9cu4x]

all slav lenguages are similar and diferent in their way..so it is not offensive to think that it sounds like russian or any other slav language.. greetings from serbia

[@uberkatt8223]

Од Бихаћа, до Петровца села, до петровца селаааа, српска земља, нападнута цела, нападнута целаааа

[@user-rh3to9cu4x]

UberCat Караџићуу води Србе своје води Србе својее

[@dacha6012]

Mislim da se možemo lepo razumeti Myslím si že se môžeme pekne rozumieť

[@elenaspasic]

Hi from Serbia. I'm SERBIEN girl🙋🤗🇷🇸

[@DaDa-nm4fx]

Your english sucks

[@DaDa-nm4fx]

Причај српски ☘️

[@misteraxl1]

Thing is the most common accent of Serbian isn't even standard Serbian, but very harsh and slang-influenced Belgrade accent (our capital Belgrade) which is what is heard in video...Real Serbian is a lot softer but we Belgradians are most numerous among Serbs (2 out of 7 million in the country) and most commonly heard in music, films and tv shows.

[@misteraxl1]

Bjorn Langeskjegg rekoh ''in the country'' a ne ukupno od svih Srba, znam da nas ima i hvala bogu ima nas dosta, i vise van Srbije nego u Srbiji...Beograd ima 1.7 miliona stanovnika, zaokruzio sam to na 2 miliona, sta znaju stranci...ajoj oko kojih gluposti sitnica se ti cimas!

[@christinakiki75]

whats more standard serbian? in which region they talk that?

[@MrKimi994]

Thank you for this video. It's very interesting. Come here to visit our culture, cities and nature. You're welcome! Greetings from Serbia.. :)

[@annacornykova9023]

MrKimi007 Cool language, and I can tell nice people from your part world. This American would like to visit. Is Serbia Eastern Europe or S. Eastern Europe?

[@MrKimi994]

Anna Cornykova eastern :) balkan peninsula, serbia, slovenia, croatia, greece, bulgaria, romania... are here too. U can google and see on the map.. :)

[@annacornykova9023]

MrKimi007 It looks like Serbia borders all those countries. Do you have similar cultures and is the food the same? I'm a foodie. I like to try international food from all over. We have a few Yugoslavian restaurants in my Northern California city.

[@MrKimi994]

Anna Cornykova well, long story, u rly must come here to understand everything or google it on the internet. You can ask Charles Cather, he's an American guy who came here to understand us and our culture, he's living now here... Serbian food is the best in the world. :))

[@annacornykova9023]

MrKimi007 You just made me very hungry! lol. ( :

[@invictus_9323]

Greets from Serbia! Ive enjoyed watch the video!

[@108everest]

Thanks for doing this, really enjoyed it.

[@milankovacevic1774]

Svaka čast na prilogu,znam da je teško pogoditi tuđi jezik,mnogo mi je smješno kad čujem ljude da se muče sa izgovorom.Veoma interesantan prilog svaka čast. Samo mislim da bi srpski studenti pogodili 90% jezika bar sa sjeverne hemisfere! Srpski je veoma težak ali kad se nauči svi ostali jezici su laki! Pozdrav! Congratulations on the attachment, I know it's difficult to guess other people's language, I'm so funny when I hear people that are struggling with pronunciation. Very interesting favor of congratulations. I just think that Serbian students hit 90% of the language bar on the northern hemisphere! Serbian is very difficult but when you learn any other languages are easier!

[@uzelac1372]

Iskreno jako interesantan video. Nisam ocekivao da ce nas porediti sa Spanskim. Thank you for making this

[@serbianbeyonder3847]

1:51 Ja sam iskarana xD

[@permafrosty]

ahahahah tek sam sad skapirao

[@miender3287]

kaze "ja sam iskreno"

[@knezfikol5010]

Šta je babi milo...

[@serbianbeyonder3847]

Bubi Woof Rekla je ona koja je ponavljala ja sam iskarana umesto

[@sinqzedits2383]

Bubi Woof ma likusu slusaj ne ovu sto je on pustio na fon

[@g.a5391]

Why the f would we be offended if you compare us to Russia? 😂 We love Russian!! 😂😂

[@remabre5341]

Anastasija Gnjatic we love you :D

[@damian3025]

any other slavs hate rusia (WW2)

[@ludak94]

Nice video dude its good to know that people are actually doing some nice stuff like you just did made an video about Serbian language which is really nice from your side :) keep up a good work you get a huge thumbs up from me and from Serbia too :).

[@natiaqochaqi]

Not all the foreigners have such difficulties recognizing Serbian. I usually recognize it immediately. :)

[@dexterslabbb]

I don't think none of us would be offended by this clip or by someone who never spoke our language before trying to mimic it after they had just heard it for the first time. A close enough guess was to recognize it as a Slavic language. Keep it up! :)

[@jovanprastalo2514]

OMG, this is so cool, i always wanted to hear how does my language sound to other people!

[@djoledjordjevic5688]

Thank you for this video! :) Greetings from Serbia

[@sussurus]

How can you even confuse Slavic and Romantic languages?

[@freightliner_86]

+Sussurus Serbian is packed with 'borrowed' words from Latin-based languages.

[@pezos5]

+Александар Сајков Pa nema toliko reči pozajmljenih iz romanskih jezika, oni prepoznaju kao španski bilo koji jezik koji ima vokale a,e , i, o, u.

[@freightliner_86]

+пезос5 ''Традиција, хармонија, конструкција...'' да не набрајам. Учио сам шпански неколико година и изненадило ме је колико има сличности са српским. Наравно, неко ко зна мало више о језицима би тешко помешао српски са латинским језицима, али могу да разумем збуњеност упитаника.

[@pezos5]

Tradition, harmony, construction зашто мислиш да су баш те речи препознали као шпанске? Видиш да су у енглеском сличне. Добро хармонија је из грчког. Англосаксонцима је сваки језик који има чисте вокале звучи на шпански јер њега имају прилике да слушају у непосредној близини.

[@freightliner_86]

+Denis И? Што се џема тиче, ''џем'' имаш и у енглеском.

[@cls9705]

Srpski jezik najjaci na svetu!!!!!!

[@ekk4674]

@masha no u

[@bigj5172]

Rusi su nasa braca, naravno da se ne bi ljutili. Russians are our brother, of course we wouldn't get man. :D

[@milostivi]

Russian??? Polish??? Very close. German Seriosly

[@Fran-ji6sk]

LenixTV yeah haha not even close

[@stevanmilanovic756]

pa sta se cudis budalo svakom strancu srbski lici na ruski poljski ceski ista grupa jezika

[@milostivi]

@@stevanmilanovic756 brate, ovo je bilo pre 3 godine, nisi ni morao da odgovoris. Ali svejedno, ja se nisam cudio sto su oni mislili da je ruski ili poljski, nego sto su rekli da je nemacki

[@3majJova]

Great video guys! :D I enjoyed and smiled! That's what's important! Nice people in the video.

[@pokvarenaploca]

Interesting video and we like Russinas so we dont mind compering. ;)

[@Sonjayu]

pokvarenaploca Not everyone would appreciate that. Russian is a different language, from a different culture and sounds very different. Calling everything remotely Slavic as Russian just shows one's ignorance.

[@marijagrujicic1370]

***** no, acctually most of us don't mind being compared to Russian and those are too very very simmilar languages. I know cause i speak both of them:*

[@Sonjayu]

Marija Grujicic They are not "very very" similar, Spanish and Italian are much more similar to each other. I know because I *don't* speak Russian and I can understand only bits of it, yet I can understand Italian from knowledge of Spanish and French. If they were as similar as you say, I would've understood at least over half of it. The one language actually very very similar to Serb-Croat is Macedonian. Also, there is nothing offensive about Russian language or Russia, what is offensive are presumptions based on ignorance.

[@SlaanaKostic0509]

Marija Grujicic Sto odmah vredjas kada se neko ne slaze sa tobom? To sto ti govoris Ruski je lepo, i sto je tebi slican i to je lepo. Ali vredjanje zbog toga sto nekome je to potpuno razlicit jezik? Koliko imas godina? 12? Potpuno se slazem sa Sonjom, mozda svaku petu rec uhvatim da razumem od Ruskog. Za mene je to potpuno stran jezik, a verujem da je i za mnoge. 100 ljudi 100 cudi i malo vise tolerancije.

[@3majJova]

Marija Grujicic I speak Russian and it's nothing like Serbian. You can understand some words but it's not even close. Grammar, words... Serbian has same words as Russian? Maybe some similar, very few of them with the same meaning even if similiar. And if she isn't good with languages, that doesn't mean she should be a waitress... Maybe she is good in math, and she shits on your language knowledge? Chill out. I wouldn't find it correct if he tried to speak it as Russian. So what? You wanna say that you are the only Serbian person who speaks Russian and is good with languages and that only your opinnion counts?

[@milankalajdzic2260]

I'm half Polish half Serbian LMAO

[@srkimdm5884]

By the Serbian calendar we live in 7526 y. So Serbian language is one of the first language in the world. “Serbian Cyrillic is the most perfect script in the world” Bernard Shaw. 😉

[@BecomeNika]

Like the video and the idea to ask randomly people so you can see from different perspectives how people understand differently the same thing! Thumbs up!

[@MiljanaGavrilovic]

Hi, greetings from Serbia! Thank you for making me laugh, I didn't expect that this will happen. I was surprised that somebody used a video of TV show where I was a guest, since there are many other videos available on the web. Thank you once again, it was very amusing to hear foreigns repeating my words because our language is very specific for pronunciation. :) Salute!

[@SnebivljivaA]

I love how people listen very carefully and are willing to participate in this little game with languages. Can you do Portuguese or Swedish, I think it would be very interesting, too. Greetings from Serbia!

[@mram3644]

Ha I was always wondering about this! Thanks :)

[@FlowerTrollSan]

2:33 Aww, this guy is so nice. :) And we don't mind being compared to Russians. Greetings from Serbia! ❤

[@ReStOrEdLiFe88]

no we are not mad when it's compared to Russian, they're our brothers :)

[@orfyreus1961]

You have brothers among mongols?

[@milica.jovanovic]

No man, trust me, there is no reason why we would get offended that you compared Serbian to Russian, we actually really love Russians :)

[@slobodani]

I really liked this video. Good job on the methodology and preparation.

[@serbianassassin]

Hey man, I'm Serbian. And this is amazing! hahahah very funny, thanks for this video 😁

[@Nobody-xk2tx]

Serbian language is MOST BEAUTIFUL AND MOST SEXIEST LANGUAGE ON PLANET!!! Big love from Brazil!

[@lov3masterns]

Our language, especially letters and stuff, was modified from old Russian, so yeah, you wouldn't be wrong if you are imitating Serbian like Russian. :) It was modified a lot tho, the most things that got hit was grammar, some new letters were introduced and the rule that I think not even one language in the World has that's one letter on Serbian represents one short pronunciation, which means you don't pronounce letters in words so they sound like two letter parts but each letter is singularly sounding. Example of multi letter pronunciations in English: "A" is pronounced as "EY", or "B" letter sounds like: "Bee", well in our language there aren't any letters that sounds like any multi-letter words. They are like chopped off sort of speaking. Also grammar is very complex, one of the most complex grammars in the World, it's one of the hardest languages to learn along with Chinese for example. It's because we change our words accordingly to many stuff, in sentences... We have something that exists in German for example, which is "gender" of words, so if word is kinda "womanish" then we add some letter(s) to it, and if it's "man-ish" then some other letter(s), and if it belongs to "it" sort of speaking group, then some other letter(s) are added, that rule especially counts for verbs which then you can use without subject in sentence and it's understandable who is doing the thing that is explained by the sentence (it's not needed to say "he", "she" or "it" like in English or some other languages; it's enough to say like: "The car was washed" on Serbian, the verb "washed" can be modified in 3 ways so we know exactly if it was female, male or "it" person who washed it [if that's known], otherwise we say in general that "the car have been washed"). In German you have "die, der and das" for nouns. :) The other things about grammar is that there are a lot of rules and some exceptions... I'm glad that I've been born here, because this language makes us kind of unique and it's natural for us. :) Proud to be Serbian!

[@byunhanyoong661]

lov3masterns Srpski jezik dođe jedan od najljepših slavenskih jezika, ćirilica je jedna od najljepših pisama i biti Srbin je stvarno čast😇

[@hotdog7167]

u jebote ti si napisao cijeli esej u pm hahaha

[@peraperic8775]

Really? Old Russian? Serbian had a state before Russians...And we do not speak Russian,thats just ridiculous in every way.

[@sinqzedits2383]

DenjaRI hahah lud covek nisam sve ni procitao

[@jelenagavrilovic282]

nikog ne zanima lmao

[@sessizgozlemci]

this is such an interesting series

[@AleBgdYu]

'veći prostor' that one was perfect! :-)

[@njegosgirl]

This guy with glasses sounds like a language expert. Respect! :)

[@gabrieleberle4422]

The Recording is Louder than the People Answering.

[@Lolylander]

You should make a part two!

[@Damir8472]

Hvala.

[@kristinak2930]

How can they say Spanish or Italian? I mean, have they not heard Italian/Spanish in their lives before?? I'm sorry, but I honestly can't believe someone can be so uneducated. I am Serbian, and there are a lot of languages out there that I am not familiar with, but I'd never ever confuse them with such well-known languages as those two are. I mean, people, come on. You don't have to speak a language in order to recognize it. I don't speak Chinese for example, but I'd always recognize it. Same goes for almost all European languages, Japanese and Korean. Inform yourself, people. It's high time you did that, really.

[@KathrynSrce3719]

I love Serbian. Glad I know some of it. 😄

[@ZeroMadeByME]

Great video... Thank you... :)

[@12.56AM]

Lmao this is great!! It's funny how some actually do pronounce some words quite good :pCould you please make people listen to croatian, serbian and bosnian?? I know its basically the same language but they do sound quite different. That's why I want to hear foreigners comparisions lol. It would really be fun to see their aspects as some people from our countries still debate over the languages

[@Mina-qe1wx]

I love how a lot of them says ,,Russian" 😂

[@vuhdeem]

In Russian, "kak serbskij jazyk zvučit inostrancam" - so similar!

[@lilaavallonia]

great...loved it :)

[@anapanic9595]

Great.... love it greeting from Serbia!!!!!!!!!

[@kakarot4425]

nobody: Americans when they hear any Slavic lanhauge: oMg iT iS rUsSiAn!

[@alexkachur6358]

Spot on! :)))

[@nenadjovanovic8101]

PRICAJ SRBSKI DA TE CEO SVET RAZUME ;)

[@MUHDOFFICIAL]

+Nenad Jovanovic valjda postoji tu neka glasovna promena, srpski*

[@MUHDOFFICIAL]

-T-X-M- Ne, Srbi pricaju srpski, samo ne skolovani, relativno glupi, plitki ljudi ne znaju za glasovnu promenu; Jednacenje suglasnika po zvucnosti.

[@nenadjovanovic8101]

+Nenad Jovanovic CCCC , ajmo malo tolerancije!

[@milancosic04]

hahahahahahhahaha

[@user-jg8do2kz6n]

Nenad Jovanovic srpski**

[@Partizanovac20]

Awesome! bravo!!

[@forg_tful.]

this is awesome lol greetings from serbia guys!

[@arijana6199]

Trebali su da puste dok neko psuje :D

[@sinqzedits2383]

bila bi fora do jaja hahah

[@knezfikol5010]

Ja ne znam kako neko može biti glup da se ponosi što mu jezik miješaju sa nekim drugim, umjesto da im je drago što ljudi prepoznaju NJIHOV jezik.

[@Sara-gc8nn]

good video :)

[@BlazVeber69]

Svaka Čast

[@milosjovanovic9213]

Ja sam iz srbije i ako razumete ovo svaka vam cast ;)

[@wtfneksen6816]

HAHAH JA RAZUMEM

[@wannabegreek4837]

Drago nam je da razumemo 😊

[@oliverasekulic]

Hvala brtx😂

[@utekosam1427]

koga boli kurac

[@utekosam1427]

@grga nije ti to zdravo

[@HeritageInmoshun]

Which website did you guys use to see this? I know it's KZbin, but which website posted the link to this video? I'm getting unprecedented number of views and I don't think they came directly from KZbin.

[@dukinho8870]

Heritage Inmoshun I see from Telegraf ,they put out link of this video beside Telegraf is serbian newspaper/publisher GREAT VIDEO DUDE!

[@HeritageInmoshun]

DukaAMV Thank you! Can you show me the link to the page that has my video? This is the first time any major website showed my video.

[@dukinho8870]

Heritage Inmoshun www.telegraf.rs/zanimljivosti/1584073-presmesno-evo-kako-srpski-jezik-zvuci-strancima-video there it is.

[@dukinho8870]

Heritage Inmoshun facebook.com/telegraf.rs?fref=ts Telegraf facebook page

[@HeritageInmoshun]

DukaAMV Wow! that's awesome, thanks

[@abigailmills2603]

hearing this as an american serb who has very rusty serbian is literally so funny lmfao it half makes sense, sounds like gibberish and sounds familiar yet forgein

[@Dushan88]

Учи српски лепотице

[@lilliancarland7077]

Well done!

[@annalewin6700]

I am from Serbia and heyy to everybody!!!!!!!!! Hope you understand: Zdravo svima, moje ime je Ana, pozdrav

[@vaarikabatoon]

You should do what Estonia sounds like to foreigners.

[@HeritageInmoshun]

+aariproductions What would recommend as the sample. Could you send me some links?

[@SvedskiKuvar]

Like Finnish and Hungarian.

[@vaarikabatoon]

SvedskiKuvar doesn't exactly sound like Hungarian but Finnish, yes.

[@SvedskiKuvar]

For people who never heard Finnish, but often listen to Hungarian, it really sounds like Hungarian.

[@SvedskiKuvar]

Similar melody like Hungarian...

[@millasolaja7408]

Great topic :) And yes, people that speak Serbian don't mind when people say they sound Russian...any slavic language will sound similar =so all good :) Serbian language , I must add is also known as : Serbo- Croatian language, Croatian language and Bosnian language...the main difference is in dialect and , it is something like American English / Australian English / Irish English and British english.. good to know...for all of those who study Serbian , they will be understood in Bosnia and Croatia as well :))))

[@LukaKili]

Može li išta proći bez glupih komentara, inace hvala ovom momku što je uopšte ovo uradio, jer o srpskom jeziku u svetu gotovo niko ne zna ništa, inače logično je da će im zvučati slično kao ruski ili poljski jer su to slovenski jezici i to njima zvuči sve isto, ne znaju oni da prave razliku,kao što ni mi ne pravimo razlike izmedju nekih drugih srodnh jezika tipa skandinavski zvuče nam isto,logično.... Inače početak klipa kad im zvuči kao španski ili italijanski i to čak nije čudno i ranije sam se sretao sa tim čak i od rusa sam čuo da srpski na momente zvuči kao italijanski ili neki od romanskih jezika, u principu srpski jezik u odnosu na ostale slovenske je najmekši i najmelodičniji.

[@ivicabelic2161]

Živela Srbija🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸❤❤❤

[@ObscureMusicInCatalan]

Србија до Токија!

[@ilija200]

cool video

[@beckerekzrenjanin2731]

Serbian language, along with Croatian and Bosnian, has a quite good advance compared to other languages. It is "Read as it was written".

[@gamerivan9168]

#SRBIJADOTOKIJA

[@andro7862]

Hrvatska do Zemuna

[@bojanstamenkovic6653]

Hrvatska do zagreba.

[@redstarsrbija]

How could you possibly think serbian sounds like spanish? They sound nothing alike!

[@MojeBlu]

The fact that almost no one connected it to the Slavic branch is really surprising to me! I guess it does not sound as harsh as I thought it did... and I speak it, so I'm allowed to give my opinion :D

[@hnaufalkau5393]

jako interesantno

[@jebcar9618]

at 1:51 on serbian it means honest, but she said im fucked xD iskarana

hello shin fu, i would like to know how they think about turkish in canada, and if they are able to see differences between turkish and azerbaijaani (both are very closed to each other, and i have to say that turkish and azerbaijani arr not a arabic languages they both are tutkic languages with their origins in the huns😉😉, so they are related to languages like syberian, kazakhi, kyrgyzi,turmeni,usbekish,tatarish,krymtatarish and other turcik languages, BUT İT İS NOT A ARABİC LANGUAGE) 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@HeritageInmoshun]

Watashi wa Dәsu lol, I won't be surprised if people think Turkish is an Arabic language. Thank you for the suggestion, I will definitely do a video like that. Which of the Turkic languages do you speak? Can I come to you for questions when I plan the video?

i speak turkish and azerbaijani and yes you can come for questions

[@marecare2682]

Cool video, and to answer guy's dilemma, naaahh, we wouldn't be offended if someone had mistakenly identified Serbian as Russian... Although these are different languages, and we do not quite understand each other, both languages are Slavic, have similar grammar, and share a lot of common words...

[@filipmilovanovic6735]

Yuhuuu 🙌

[@markiz_io]

Heritage Inmoshun I got this from one of serbian most popular news websites - b92.net. Here's the article link bulevar.b92.net/srpska-posla.php?yyyy=2015&mm=05&dd=27&nav_id=996713 Nice video, thou. Thanks for popularizing our language!

[@laveritequifaitmal8477]

They can said : Croatian too, because croats speaks Serbian. Or maybe Montenegro, same, or Bosnia speak Serbian too. Haha Kosovo je Srbija :)

[@30sandrita1]

When my friend and I spoke Serbian in Budapest, people told us we sounded like we spoke German. One guy told us we sound like it was Italian. They are all right. Germanlike is that "š"(sch), we have a lot of that, and Italianlike is that "ti", we have a lot of that as well. 🙂

[@thehoebehindthedumpster9389]

I'm from greece Serbian sounds awesome 😀😀😀