Similarities Between Russian and Slovak

Along with all other Slavic languages, Russian and Slovak descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, descending from earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language. There are over 20 different Slavic languages, divided into 3 major subgroups, with Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian belonging to the East group, Polish, Czech and Slovak to the West group, and Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian to the South group.
In today’s language challenge, we will compare some of the similarities between these two Slavic languages, with Bogdana (Russian speaker) and Linda (Slovak speaker) challenging each other with a list of words and sentences.
Russian is an East Slavic language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and many minor or unrecognized territories. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine and to a lesser extent, the other post-Soviet states.
Slovak is a West Slavic language. Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, and is also native to the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and a portion of western Ukraine.
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[Iceychilli]

Please Do Pakistani Urdu And Kurdish 2 languages match each other

[Saeid Ezatolahi]

@Iceychilli what's the difference between Pakistan Urdu or India Urdu?

[Siham El Omari]

Hello, i don't have any social media where i can contact you. So i write you a comment. I dont know if you have an idea about AMAZIGH PEOPLE ( the indigenous of north africa and other parts of Africa ). I'm 100% sure that they exist in Canada, from different countries of north Africa and regions of these countries... they're also called BERBERS. With so many dialects ( tachelhite, tarifite, zayane, kabyle, chaouia, tamasheq ( touareg ) i think this will be a big challenge for you, to discover ( if you don't already know about it) this language and to find similarities between it's dialects and maybe other languages. I would love to hear back from you regarding this comment. I really enjoy watching your videos, and i wish you all the best. Sincerely from Morocco.

[Oľga Hlubeňová]

Pozdravujem zo Slovenska. OĽGA🥀 I am understand....

[Goran Milovanović]

LOVE RUSSIA AND SLOVAKIA FROM SERBIA.❤💕💞

[xDASSLERx]

[mickey 21]

kosovo je srbija :)

[Dezider Stefunko]

Goran Milovanović I am Slovak and I love Russia and Serbia. Ja som Slovák a ľúbim Rusko a Srbsko.

[Roats KM]

Здраво брате од Бугариjа! :)

[Dezider Stefunko]

Dark gamer Shadow Pozdrav bulharskému bratovi zo Slovenska (Slovakia)

[Slavo Danko]

The more I travel through the eastern europe, the more I feel Slav, not Slovak. Big greetings to all Slavic countries! Nice people there! 🇧🇦🇧🇾🇧🇬🇭🇷🇨🇿🇲🇰🇷🇺🇷🇸🇺🇦🇸🇰🇸🇮🇵🇱

[Roats KM]

Pozdravime do Slovencina z Bulharska! :)

[_P4TRIK_ csgo]

Greetings from slovakia

[Владислав Епанешников]

You're high positively man, thank's!

[Klára Dědková]

Slovaci jsou ale Slovani taky 😂😂

[Tim G.]

I’m Slovenian and I find it interesting and fascinating that people in countries, which are not even neighboring countries of Slovenia, so often use same words or very similar words as we do. Fortunately, we Slovenians have a lot of Slavic brothers and sisters!

[Roats KM]

Same here for the Bulgarians! :)

[Samuel Porubsky]

I know love this live in England but am slovak

[Marcin Kowalski]

Pozdrav from Poland! My mom and sister learn Slovenian because they have a lot of friends from there. My mom even listens to the Slovenian radio everyday :-)

[Dávid Macko]

We slavs have very similiar languanges

[Michal Barsfajny]

I once read, that Slovakians and Slovenians were probably sometime ago neighbouring tribes, because blood of Slovakians is similiar to Slovenians. Even Czechs are more different

[34 34]

Je tu nejaký Slovák? 😃

[Tim G.]

Pozdrav iz Slovenije!

[nazortube]

ano

[Robertosław Iksiński]

Som Poliak, ale móżem napodobniť Slovaka, pokial neodpovedaju skutoćni Slovaci :)

[Владимир С.]

@Robertosław Iksiński, Som Rus aj ja možem napodobniť Slovaka, pretože študoval som sam Slovenčinu :-)

[MadreTerra555]

Nepoviem.

[Marko Zdravković]

I understand everything(I'm Serbian) 😊👍🇷🇸

[Roats KM]

Me too, I'm Bulgarian! I ja isto! Ja sam Bugarin! 😘😉❤

[shahbanu]

me to im poland

[Marko Zdravković]

@Roats KM hahaha super, mi se razumemo 🤙😂

[Roats KM]

@Marko Zdravković Daaa! 😂😉 Jа желам пиша на кирилицу! (знам jе на српски не се пише с К ама немам српски jезик, извини 😁😉😘) Верваj jа могу разума веома част од српски jезик, и можно да го причам! 😁😉❤👌💪

[Marko Zdravković]

@Roats KM Нема проблема😂🤙 И ја исто мислим да могу да разумем бугарски језик 🤣✌️

[дед Матвей]

Мы славяне ..нам надо объединится под одно знамя...тогда мы будем великие!!!!!!! Всем привет с Минска Беларуси !!!

[Edritulla Fath]

Это фантастика, больше и не скажешь!

[Tora]

Personally as being Russian I’ve found the similarities between Slavic languages very interesting.

[skaf201]

Because all of em come from Poland 😄 Even Russian, because cyrillic was our at first And it's amazing that because of that we are able to speak in our native Slav languages and we are able to understand each other ^^ I really really love it

[Andrey Antonov]

You should also try the Ecolinguist channel on KZbin, where you can find some more talks between Slavic people, and even some videos on the Interslavic language 🙂 Hello from Russia, privet, hejka!

[Status Quo]

@skaf201 Then you should go back to Cyrilic, it will save money for paper and ink.

[Balkan Forestboy]

I didn't realize Slovak was so similar. I don't know if Czech is the same. But I am thinking that with a little training they could understand each other pretty well on a basic level. Greetings from Bulgaria! I know what it feels like to be hearing your mother tongue for the first time in a long, long time. Sounds great, doesn't it?

[MaX VyRoS]

@skaf201 Cyrillic came to Rus' from Greece

[John Golofit]

I’m a French born American citizen of Polish descent. When words were being spoken slowly then it was easy to understand-whether Russian or Slovak. It is truly amazing the close connections in language different Slavic countries have. I feel the closeness of blood, heritage, and language that I secretly share with all my brothers and sisters out there. Dzienkuje i Dakujem moi Bracia i Siostry. Niech Bog blogoslawi!

[Gabriel Biel]

It's crazy how lovely the Slovak language sounds ! Beautiful !

[BEASTMAN TV]

Thank you.

[Simon Low]

Wow, the word for "people" also have cognates in Germanic languages. For example: Old English - lēode German - leute Dutch - lieden Icelandic - lýður

[Di Almighty Spartan God]

Simon Low Germanic languages have influences in every language due to English

[Strzelba Stian]

The word "people" is of Latin origin (populus) :). The word leed/lede (from leode etc.) was the native word for people in Middle English and then it got gradually replaced by peeple/peple.

[Robert Heilmeier]

@Strzelba Stian Interesting! Thanks for the info

[94Lich]

Fascinating, never knew we could find similarities still today :D

[Денисъ Степановъ]

Хорошо что славянские языки так близки друг другу

[Александр Плиткин]

Очень удивлен, что понимаю словацкий. Казалось западно-европейские языки очень далеки от России )

[Miсhael96]

Не так далеки.Всего лишь изменены на латиницу, и диалект.

[Просто Юра]

@Miсhael96 Соромлюся спитати,діалект якої мови?

[Juraj Kozáčik]

Hello from Slovakia, russian Brothers

[Gábor Gyólai]

*Felvidék 😉

[_P4TRIK_ csgo]

@Gábor Gyólai your are not SLAV

[Gábor Gyólai]

@_P4TRIK_ csgo i am not slav, i am finn ugrish

[Tomáš Nagy]

ahoj!

[Juraj Kozáčik]

@Tomáš Nagy čauko

[RodeRika]

Som slovenka ale ruský jazyk milujem 🥰

[Владимир С.]

Ahoj z Ruska. Tiež milujem vaš jazyk, Привет из России. Тоже (мне) нравится ваш язык. ;)

[Luka]

I love these "Slavic language vs Slavic language" videos 😁 There are not too many Sorbs around the world, but it would be really cool if you could do Serbian vs Sorbian one day since they are both Slavic but different branches

[Bura]

I was looking into it.. and it seems there are very little similarities actually.. Sorbian is basically archaic Polish with some German loanwords.

[Luka]

@Bura There are two different versions, the Upper and Lower Sorbian. I've heard that one of them is more similar to Polish while other is more similar to Czech. As for similarity to Serbian- it would be just as any other non-West Slavic language which is still pretty much a lot on a "word only" level I guess. Therefore Sorbian video could be cool with either south or east Slavic language, and Serbian would be a good candidate given the obvious name similarity 😁

[Bura]

@Luka I would agree to some extent.. . you also gotta consider Sorbian has probably take in some Germanic influence while Serbian has taken a major Turkish influence, ... so not really sure how that would play out.

[Luka]

@Bura That is of minor significance given the fact that both of those languages are Slavic in the core, thus making Turkish/German vocabulary insignificant compared to the root one. It is not even needed for languages to be extremely similar to get an episode on this YT channel, the only thing needed are two people speaking 2 different languages that have connection in any sense so there could be common words- and surely Sorbian and Serbian fit that.

[Bura]

@Luka Oh yea that would be interesting to see.

[Anamarija]

I am Croatian and I understand everything 😊🇭🇷

[Angela McElroy]

A few weeks ago I heard some Croatian girls speaking. I speak Russian so many of their words stood out strongly for me, but I didn’t I understand much. Hearing them made me think that with a little work I could learn.

[이삭]

I love Croatia♥️. I was there with my wife in promajna☀️🏊‍♂️ Anyway i also understand this videos. Lebo môžem rozumieť po Slovensky. Moja manžeľka hovorila že Slovenčina a Chorvačina jazik je podobne hej?

[Anamarija]

@이삭 Well, I don't know Slovak, but I've heard some though and I think there are some similarities. P.S. I'm glad you liked Croatia :)

[Roats KM]

Ja isto brate! Ja sam Bugarin i razumam veoma cast od Hrvatski jezik! Pozdravi! :)

[Marcin Kowalski]

Greetings from Poland, sister! :-)

[Марко Мирковић]

Love both from Slavic brother Serbia 🇷🇸💓🇷🇺 🇷🇸❤️🇸🇰

[Roats KM]

Greetings from Bulgaria bro! :)

[Марко Мирковић]

@Roats KM hvala bratko, ne treba da se mrzimo Love from Serbia 🇷🇸❤️🇧🇬

[Roats KM]

@Марко Мирковић Da! :)

[Владислав Епанешников]

Здорово, мужики! Вы же мужики, да? (Hallo, mans! Cause you're mans, that's right)?

[Марко Мирковић]

@Владислав Епанешников da hahaha ja sam muškarac 💪

[이삭]

I Love Slovakia 😍 Ja Rozumiem haha som z kórei ale moja manžeľka je Slovenka😎 Ďakujem že Spravili ste toto Video😊 Bolo zaujmavé

[Verella]

where are u from :o

[Reinhold]

Verella he said he is from korea, but his wife is from slovakia.

[Verella]

@Reinhold ohh. i cant speak slovakian. i knew he mentioned a country but like google translator didn't help that much

[이삭]

@Verella I from korea but already someone told that^^, by the way i am living in Slovakia with my Slovakian wife 2 years :>

[Michael Lanák]

@이삭 niceeee

[Kobuletely]

I am Georgian. I stayed in Slovakia for holidays 21 days 4 years ago, in Tatra mountains(mostly) , Kosice and Bratislava. I spoke with locals with russian and english mixture and we understood each other perfectly. Funny thing is that next year I was for holiday in Georgian mountains, in Racha and our neighbours were couple from Slovakia. Slovak people are very kind, friendly and really interested when you have conversation with them.

[jnb]

A Slovak here I understand every Russian word here, but when I hear Russian I get about 20% of meaning and usually get lost. I think Russian girl helped a lot with her pronunciation.

[Davit Evoyan]

the Russian girl was pronouncing the words naturally. It is easier to understand separate words when you are prepared that they have the same roots in your language, rather than trying to understand whole sentences which contain not only words with similar roots. Anyway I speak Russian as a second native language and it takes me 1-2 months to get used to the differences between Slavic languages and understand them (~mostly). For example, palatalized Rj almost always changes to RZ in Polish. If a Polish person doesn't know this, (s)he won't understand MORjE in Russian, and a Russian person won't understand MORZE in Polish and there are hundreds of such paradigms. If you know all of them it will be easier to understand another Slavic language. And one thing to keep in mind, is that Russians understand all Slavic languages better than other Slavic People understand Russian. This is for several reasons: First, Russian vowels reduce when they are not stressed, however in some dialects they keep their authentic pronunciation and Russians are used to both reduced and not reduced pronunciations of words. For Example "Milk" is written MOLOKO and pronounced like that in some dialects, while in modern Russian it is pronounced MALAKO (close to MLAKO). So Russians understand all versions of this word, E.g. MLEKO. So it is difficult for other Slavic people to understand versions of Russian words with reduced vowels but easy for Russians to understand not reduced versions in Slavic languages. Second, Russian language contains all the layers of Slavic languages. In Russian "eye" is written and pronounced GLAZ and other Slavic people don't understand it's meaning, while Russians understand OKO, OCHI etc, as those words are used in poetic language and in some dialects. Third, Russian language usually has tons of synonyms for each word however those synonyms are used in different contexts. For example: Doctor can be translated as DOKTOR (general word), VRACH (for medical specializations), LEKAR' (traditional medicine) etc. So Russians can understand all these words used in other Slavic languages.

[Andrea Hoffman]

@Davit Evoyan To understand different slavic languages is easy for Slovaks too. Slovakia has sooo many dialects - words from eastern and western part of country are sometimes very different. Is little bit like mix of all slavic languages.

[p u s s y s l a y e r]

@Davit EvoyanСпасибо за разьяснение 👏👍

[Aeneas]

такая же ситуация, когда я слышу словаков, которые говорят медленно, я понимаю почти все слова, но как только вы переходите в обычный режим разговора, понимаю где-то процентов 30...

[Kora Na]

@Davit Evoyan Very well put. Also we have MLEKO in Russian too. In it's scientific form as Mlechnij Put' (Млечный путь) . If you are an educated Russian, then theres almost no problem for you to understand other Slavic languages.

[ᴇᴛᴇʀɴᴀʟ sᴜᴍᴍᴇʀ]

Love Slovakian and other Slavic from Russia🇸🇰♥️🇷🇺

[Stefan Mirković]

Serbian: Vetar - wind Ljudi - people Beli - white Krv - blood Deset - ten Krilo - wing Zamak - castle Zdravi - healthy Mirror - ogledalo Čisti - clean Led - ice Grass - trava Rast - growth Igla - needle Šapat - whisper Svaki - each Sto je dosta široki. Ja jedem jabuku.

[вкусная пизда]

Zamok

[Zayed Al Remaithi]

Slovak is easier than Russian, because of the writing script and easy to read. I love the Slovak language. Ďakujem! 💓

[Marty toofree]

I don´t think so.. I understand slovak by birth, because I´m czech, but anyway I think russian modified their language so it is not so easy to understand to other slavs, they basicly simplefied it and putted new rules on their speach, but they have rules clearly set in their grammar, meanwhile in czech and slovak it is all over the place, yea we have grammatical rules, but they are much harder to get than russian grammatical rules so slovak is definetely harder than russian for english speaker for example, and azbuka is pretty easy to read or to learn, just because slovak has latin letters doesn´t mean it is easier, you will have to learn new letters anyway... because it is modified latin, to fit slavic language, because slavic languages has sounds that other languages hasn´t ěščřžýáíél´éůúáýí etc.. polish has done it differently, croatian has done it diferently, but you still will have to learn it, they have combination of letters which is maybe even harder

[Филип]

This is so damn interesting. After watching these videos I realise how well I could potentionally understand a fellow Slav from another country

[Алекса Миливојевић]

I'm Serbian but understand all🇷🇸♥🇷🇺♥🇸🇰

[FyrHunter_SVK]

Understood every 🇷🇺 Russian word. Greetigs from Slovakia 🇸🇰 I love these videos. 😃👍🤞✌️💓

[BEASTMAN TV]

Čau

[Владислав Епанешников]

I'm too understand all Slovak words! Greetings from Siberia!

[FyrHunter_SVK]

@BEASTMAN TV čau čau, po dvoch rokoch :D

[alexander palkovic]

I'm from Slovakia 😂 and I love so much Russia.

[emilvisk]

... then tell me brother, why do you love so very much such an aggresive country ? ....

[Daniel Jamrich]

@emilvisk We are most russiafilian country in Europe, it's fact you have to respect

[Эли Кьютер]

Hi from Russia !

[Ardi Surya]

alexander palkovic if u like russia u must watching turah partayana you tube cannal

[иван неместный]

a mne nravitsya slovakiya!👍

[Katharina Huth]

Very intressting video these languages are also close with the Polish language . In Polish : wind is wiatr , people = ludzie , white = bialy , blood = krew , ten = dziesiec , wing = skrzydlo , castle or lock = zamek , healthy = zdrowy / zdrowa , mirror = lustro , zwierciadlo , clean = czysty , ice = lod , grass = also in Polish trawa . Needle = igla , to whisper = szeptac . Everybody / Every = kazdy .

[Viktor Ivanov]

but a very different prononsation ... byalorussian language more close to polish ... hello from minsk

[pplayer666]

"skrzydlo" - similarly to Slovak, Polish adds the "d" before "l", interesting.

[Steve Kaczynski]

Slovak seems rather closer to Polish than to Russian.

[René Barát]

@Steve Kaczynski It is.

[Micsim_04]

We love Russia🇸🇰❤️🇷🇺

[BEASTMAN TV]

Forgot Slovakia. Cuz Slovakia is Európe

[Micsim_04]

@BEASTMAN TV yes Slovakia is Europe.Slovakia is heart of Európe.

[Евгений Золотавкин]

We love you too!

[Beatrix Takács]

🇭🇺🇭🇺💕🇭🇺🇭🇺

[Micsim_04]

@Beatrix Takács wtf

[Jelena Ivanović]

Awesome!! I'm not Russian or Slovak but understood all of it! Love you all ❤❤❤

[Vlad S.]

Are you Serbian?

[Jelena Ivanović]

@Vlad S. Yes :)

[Владислав Епанешников]

When all understandably:) That was not difficult, yes?

[Jelena Ivanović]

@Georgy - Seattle, WA can't say no to that 😉

[Финдюшкин Джек]

I was in Bratislava. I don't understand why people joke about it in the movies. A lovely cozy city. I liked it more than Budapest. A very pleasant and hometown.

[Paul Kachur]

These are fascinating videos: my mom's family is Croatian, my dad's Slovak. I grew up hearing these languages but never learned them, but had no trouble learning Russian...no wonder!!!

[joededimanadedi]

I took a few Polish courses on duolingo and I understood the I am eating apples sentence 😄 Wish it was longer, this was fun! Greetings from Istanbul!

[Benjamin Turner]

As somebody who studies Slovak and Russian, this was good fun and useful for me! Thanks

[Karol Hrycaj]

Pozdrawiam z Polski braci Słowian!

[Janna Balich]

Finally a new video! Thanks a lot. Please do more Slavic languages. It’s so fun to watch language comparisons

[Haseo596]

Do more Slavic languages, especially Russian!!!

[Владислав Епанешников]

I'm absolutely supporting you!

[Andrey Antonov]

Also you can try to find Ecolinguist channel, there are a lot of videos :)

[Kik0]

I love Russia (im from Slovakia) 😊

[Владимир С.]

S laskou z Ruska ;)

[Roats KM]

@Владимир С. Поздрави за Словакия от България! Greetings for Slovakia from Bulgaria! :)

[togo 99]

Ja tiež 😂🙂

[Lea Beňačková]

Ja tiez😁

[Gábor Gyólai]

*Felvidék 😉

[Viktor Ivanov]

самый приятный и понятный для меня славянский язык - словацкий ... когда еду на машине через Чехию, Словакию - всегда включаю местные FM радио слушать

[OD]

Love from Czech Republic ♥ Rozumím všechny jazyky

[TeaTime Lolo]

So many good wishes from Slovakia to Russian. Wow. We love you guys too. You are the best ^^

[Roats KM]

Almost all of the words between Russian and Slovak is the same in Bulgarian! And I mean cognates, like ветер(veter) in Russian and vietor in Slovak is Вятър (Viatûr) in Bulgarian! 😊😉❤👍 Pls do one with Bulgarian some time! And also great video! 😉❤👌💪😘

[pplayer666]

"Viatûr" sounds very Polish.

[Roats KM]

@pplayer666 Ahahah, it is practically the same word between Bulgarian and Polish! :)

[Марианна]

♥️ There's always so much love in the comments under videos related to Slavic languages, isn't it wonderful? Всегда столько любви в комментариях под видео о славянских языках, разве это не замечательно? Привет из России 🕊️🇷🇺

[Elena Tsareva]

Девочки, какие вы умницы, what a great idea to compare our languages! People all over Europe ( and all over the world, as well) should live feeling love and respect to each other, because we have the same background.

[김유진]

I'm from Macedonia 🇲🇰 and it was so easy to understand both

[Lucia Duranova]

I understand everything❤❤❤ I'm from Slovakia❤❤❤ and I love russian language

[Rafał Sufin]

Hi. I am from Poland and I was able to understood both girls. Slavic languages are very similar to each other.

[Robin Mangala]

Yet Russians and Poles aren’t able to have decent conversations with each other if they spoke their language to each other.

[Дрон Герцена / Herzen Drone]

Many thanks from a Russian! Welsh vs Breton and Scottish Gaelic vs Irish (Gaelic) would be very intriguing for me.

[Marcin Kowalski]

As a Pole , I understood almost everything, including the sentences that sound nearly same in Polish. The only words I could not guess were Russian "krylo" and Slovak "zrkadlo". In Polish "krylo" is "skrzydło", I thought it could mean anything that covers something, for example a tablecloth (In Polish "[za]kryć", "zakrywać" means "to cover"). When the word "zrkadlo" appeared, I betted it referred to taking a peep at something (Polish "zerkać" stands for "to peep"). The rest was very easy :-)

[Anton Slavik]

Зыркать zyrkac in Russian too

[Marcin Kowalski]

@Anton Slavik I know Russian word "odkryvat" means "to open" while Polish "odkrywać" means to uncover or discover. The Polish word meaning to open is "otwierać".

[Anton Slavik]

@Marcin Kowalski odkryvat can mean "to discover" too.

[Marcin Kowalski]

@Anton Slavik I did not know it :-)

[magpie_girl]

So you knew that rost = wzrost?

[NT]

I'm from Peru and my gf is from Slovakia, she's here in my country this year but next year I'll have to go there to meet her family, so I'm trying to learn Slovak and is hard to find resources in yt to learn the lenguage so I found this video very useful to increase my vocabulary ! Thanks a lot.

[Diana Džavoronková]

I never realized that our languages has so many similar words. :) love from slovakia.

[cimbalok]

I got all of the Slovak words and most of the Russian ones. Bravo! Beautiful video. Keep doing this. Bahador Alast you are doing a great service. Continue!

[Filip z konopii]

Jestem z Polski i rozumiem prawie wszystko, to jest piękne w słowiańskich krajach :)

[Tayirnull]

That moment when you're a speaker of any Slavic language and you could somehow eavesdrop a conversation even though it's not completely understood.

[Carl Barns]

Please, please, please do Belarusian! It’s such a rare language these days, so it would be really cool to hear someone speak it!

[berzengi1]

пока что почти любой белорус или украинец будет билингвом и даже подспудно будет этим пользоваться, по сути понять почти все славянские языки

[Oksana SPb]

А в Белоруссии говорят на чистом белорусском в каких - нибудь регионах? Ч была проездом только в Минске, там русский используют... В Украине зависит от региона... А в Белоруссии?

[Edritulla Fath]

@Oksana SPb Будут мовить и в Беларуси, запретив язык. Нужно только немного подождать, процесс не так быстро развивается как на Украине.

[Taurica]

@Edritulla Fath Я понимаю ваши патриотические чувства, но как не крути, а городское население на белорусском не заставите говорить, только если они сами этого не захотят.

[Edritulla Fath]

@Taurica На Украине тоже не особо то хотели мовить на украиньской, а к власти придут васюровцы и заставят бачить. Беларусь в этом плане ничем не отличается от Украины. Нац патриоты эвроiнтеграння заставят усих. Поддерживать русский язык и русскоговорящих некому, обычный народ будет безмолвствовать.

[Tommy GinShop]

As an Englishman studying Russian, I loved this video! Totally going to pester my Polish co-worker tomorrow, as she speaks Slovak! Great post :)

[D P]

Oh thanks a lot for this extremely interesting video. I have never known Slovak is so similar to Russian. I am planning now to have a touristic visit with my family to Slovakia!

[Lukas Kubovcik]

Slovak and Russian = Slavic brothers 💪

[Johnny Gulya]

Росіяни не слов‘яни! Вони вкрали назву в теперішніх українців! Подивіться назву їх країни 300 років тому! То є московити!

[push it to the limit]

@Johnny Gulya а ты смешной

[Johnny Gulya]

Росіяни окупанти! Ти забув російські танки в Празі??

[Irdorath]

@Johnny Gulya кукарекай сколько влезет, но русские имеют индо-европейские, конкретно славянские гены. Просто факт.

[Johnny Gulya]

@Irdorath всі ваші гени з окупованих наших і білоруських земель!!

[Don Kitek]

Nawet zrozumiałem 2/3. Pozdrawiam z Polski!

[The Number1]

As a person who learnt russian, this video is absolutely great for learners! I learnt 2 words I never would've needed such as Крыло, рост and широкий 😂

[Estremo]

też na początek nie zrozumiałem słowa skrzydło, ale jak się zorientowałem co to znaczy to faktycznie podobnie to brzmi po słowacku, rosyjsku i polsku

[Bura]

Understood every single word...from both languages. Regards from Croatia.

[Beka Lusty]

I'd like to see them often. They're so fun together.

[snoopi]

It is strange that nobody noticed that subtitle for Slovak language were actually written in Czech. Our languages (Czech and Slovak) are similar but not so much especially in writting.

[Veronika Olsova]

I'm so happy I found Slovak language in your channel 😊

[МазУр]

Велик и Могуч ДревлеСлавянский Язык!!! УРА!!! Привет из Сибири!!!! Всем Здравия!!!

[no doubt]

так интересно что существуют славянские языки и мы можем их понимать 😁 правда, возникают трудности иногда)

[Johnny Gulya]

Насправді росіяни не слов‘яни і не здатні зрозуміти слов‘ян! Українську мову не розуміють!

[no doubt]

@Johnny Gulya хахахах кто же они по вашему

[Johnny Gulya]

@no doubt вам не соромно не знати своєї історії і свого народу?? Чи вам соромно, що Московія створена на основі угро-фінських племен ??

[no doubt]

@Johnny Gulya что за бред, впервые читаю такую информацию, везде написано что русские - славяне, да, они произошли от финоугорских племён, а украинцы что? появились из неоткуда на Евразии??

[Johnny Gulya]

@no doubt ти сам відповів на своє питання! Фінно-угри не слов‘яни!)) Вас навчили штучній мові і ви від того не стали слов‘янами! Якщо я вивчу китайську- я ж не стану китайцем!!))

[Aztec Tajger]

Love Slovakia from Poland 🇵🇱❤️🇸🇰

[Hon Slo]

The difference between those languages is much bigger than one might guess based on this video. Just similar sample words were selected. These languages are intelligible to some extent but I'd say that reasonable comparison would be the difference between Italian and Spanish. And remember, recognition of isolated words is much easier than understanding a natural conversation.

[CMC Nadejda Надежда]

Really nice video! All words, as mentioned in other comments are so similar to Bulgarian as well. I guess it might be fun to make one video with three different languages instead of two?!?!

[Silesia Gameplay]

Damn, i'm Polish and i was having only problem with guessing one word-wings, in polish-skrzydła. :D All slav languages are so similiar. :)

[Yofis Ormchofeli]

Oh, wow! Me,Kurdish girl from Georgia,who speaks Russian somehow also understands Slovak!

[Tahereh Gharbi]

Hi Bahador, You are doing a great job! Keep it up pls. I am from Mazandaran, Iran. Mazandarani language is very interesting and has lots of things in common with the countries around the Caspian sea. Could you consider making a video regarding that pls?

[Bahador Alast]

Thank you!! That is such a great idea. I can definitely look into it :)

[Tahereh Gharbi]

@Bahador Alast Awesome! Thanks a lot!

[Jakub Gutowski]

Do a video about the similarities of Polish and Russian

[Tima Nur]

Oh, yes. Good idea! But have you watched about polish and ukrainian?)

[Jakub Gutowski]

@Tima Nur Certainly did, great video ;)

[Payam Abbasi]

@Tima Nur Ukrainian have been massively affected by polish, i think it would be easy for a Ukrainian to understand polish, but russian and polish evolved separately

[Tima Nur]

@Payam Abbasi Exactly! Is Polish has borrowing words? If yes, where?!

[Петр Мажуга]

@Tima Nur Latin, German, French

[xXxLLIaMaHxXx]

It's interesting to hear how one language decided to add a sound or two to a word and another happened to drop one :D

[dadabasss]

Also in Serbian: крыло/krylo means both a wing and a lap.

[Кирил Методиев]

На български също: крило.

[Marina Faedo]

I’m half Serbian and half Italian and I’m shocked, I understood everything. I mean WTF?lol

[Şevket Coşkun]

Because he chose Slavic terminology

[Maxim Gunnarson]

Mars 1234 He choosed the same words...these languages are different..there are tons of different words

[Marina Faedo]

Michal Pastrnek I know that, I was just saying

[Matteo Balmasse]

@Василий Иванов hahahah im Italian

[Црни Jарац]

Da li živete u Srbiji ili toliko govorite srpski?

[Spyofspace]

Забавно было наблюдать, как на английском общий язык ещё находили в итоге. Зачёт! ))))

[Dugi Devet]

Položio sam sve s Vrlo Dobrom ocjenom sva pitanja u videu. Svi mi slaveni pričamo isto, samo treba pozorno slušat i ujedno je dobra igra asocijacije.

[Valg Ant]

Great video! Yeah, really, our languages have lots in common.

[O K]

So loved the video, both young ladies are sweethearts and fun. Happy Eid to people who celebrate it and all the best wishes. Best salaams to khanumha; Shahrzad, Cerena and Shimal.

[Nikola]

Wow, acutally it's amazing. I understood everthey they said as serbian speaker. I love slavic languages 😁

[etlrduce]

Do Ukrainian - Croatian. Love your channel

[RandomTherapyVRC]

Ahh the classic Motherland (Russia) and Slovakia 🇸🇰. Sending hello's from Slovakia 🇸🇰

[Павел Паршев]

"Na zdoroviye" is not cheers in Russian. There is "za vashe zdoroviye" - "for your health (we drink)". "Na zdoroviye" you can say, when someone thanking you for something.

[Robert Heilmeier]

+ Павел Паршев Oh, does this mean that one can use "Na zdoroviye" in the same way or in the same context as "pashaluyista", or is there a specific difference? Greetings from a German who is learning Russian :-)

[berzengi1]

@Robert Heilmeier also like bless u

[Robert Heilmeier]

@berzengi1 Thank you very much! This is surprising, but makes sense now I come to think of it :-)

[Павел Паршев]

@Robert Heilmeier Yes, like "bless you" but only when someone thanking you. If someone sneezed, you should say "Bud' zdorov!" in simple form, and "Bud'te zdorovy!" in respectful form.

[Robert Heilmeier]

@Павел Паршев Balshoe spacibo, Pavel! This was very helpful and informative beyond what I could expect. Greetings and best wishes from Germany!

[David Lipovsky]

... When You are Slovak and Watch the video with english subtitles and crazy google translations 🤣🤣🤣 ! Love youu brothers my Slavic people! ! nice video 😎🥳🇸🇰

[My Saviour Jesus]

Many of these words are also cognates with Croatian (what I speak). Amazing!

[Kobulione]

I am from Afghanistan because of Russian language I understand many words in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Czecho-slovakian , Montenegrin , Macedonian, Polish and Bulgarian . Самый лучший и боготый язык это Русский 😉

[Mariusz Kozłowski]

Kobulione peace for your country

[Goran Jovic]

Da Russkiy i kazdiy Slovyanskiy yazik !! Oni vse tak pohozie vdrug druga ! :) ))

[Владимир С.]

​@Goran Jovic Zvuči jak nejaky vse-sloviansky jazyk :-))))

[Goran Jovic]

@Владимир С. mix vseh sredinah sovyanskih jazyka jest jak nejaky vse-sloviansky jazyk a to je dnes Medžslovjansky jazyk Vojteha Merunke i Jana Van S . ! :) )) Vse Sloviany go razumeju , bez uczenia ! :) )) Fantastičny jezyk ! :)

[Stefan Mirković]

@Goran Jovic Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin are 1 language. Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-croato-bosno-Montenegrin language

[Pavel Sanda]

You should have picked the words that have the same root and origin but mean something very different in modern languages. That could have been quite funny. ;)

[Dmitriy F.]

Отличная работа! Great job, Bahador! :-)

[fensizor]

It is so strange that we slavs can understand each other languages when it is about simple phrases or words, but an actual speech is very hard to understand. Especially without previous exposure to the language

[L]

Very similar to Croatian 😀 could you do Turkish vs. Kazakh?

[Roman Ridzoň]

I speak slovak, english and russian, so this was really entertaining

[Эли Кьютер]

Where are you from ?

[Leandro R]

I'm Brazilian. I knew jablko because of a lovely cartoon I used to watch when I was a kid (but it's Czech) "Koulelo se jablícko" "A minhoquinha que morava na maçã" in Portuguese

[Ľuboš Holička]

"Koulelo se jablícko" = an apple was rolling ... word 'koule' (czech) = guľa (slovak) = kugel (german) = kula (polski) = kulja (ukraine) = kuula (suomi, finnland) = klot (swenska) = palla (italiano) = bola (portugese.) = ball (en) = Шар schar (ruskij) = lopta (serb. , bosnia) = Krogla (slovene)

[Leandro R]

@Ľuboš Holička and that apple does roll all the time haha. it's a very funny cartoon

[FyrHunter_SVK]

@Ľuboš Holička Shar in Russian? Wasn't it myach?

[Ľuboš Holička]

@FyrHunter_SVK sféra, mjač, šar .. ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0

[FyrHunter_SVK]

@Ľuboš Holička The heck did Shar come from.

[ZajkoKokorajko]

I am Bulgarian and understand everything! Very close! поздрави на всички! Do Bulgarian and Macedonian LOL How about Bulgarian and Serbian?

[Dejan Stoimenovski]

How about the three in a same episode, that would be interesting.

[Dayan Balevski]

@Dejan Stoimenovski Yes so we can all see how many words Macedonian borrowed from Serbian and modified the original Bulgarian in Macedonia with Serbisms.

[Dejan Stoimenovski]

@Dayan Balevski they feed you theese myths since you clearly doesn't know us. It's like some random guy from Burgas know my great grand father born in 903 better then me and how he spoke in his local dialect from his village.

[Dayan Balevski]

@Dejan Stoimenovski so if I dont know "macedonians" then tell me, what makes you any different than Thracian Bulgarians? Macedonia is a region of Bulgaria, stolen from Bulgaria. People from Burgas are from eastern Thracian Bulgaria... they are still Bulgarians, no matter the regional name.

[Dejan Stoimenovski]

@Dayan Balevski I'm not regionaly Macedonian, I am ethnic Macedonian. I can not say about Thrace, I can not speak in their name, like you obviosly can for people you don't know.

[magpie_girl]

Hello :) I haven't been here for some time, and here such a surprise. Slavic languages :) 1) vietor = wiatr [v'atr] But I have to admit that at first I thought there was D (viedor) and not T, so I was shocked that in Slovak wiadro [v'adro] 'a bucket' is masculine :) 2) krov = krew [krev] I was like, "isn't there -a?" I really thought that 'O' was accented (because it sounded oddly) and '-a' was magically Russian reduced :) I thought about 'krowa' [krova] 'a cow' :) 3) krylo = skrzydło [skr'ydl'o] I totally forgot that East Slavs are into vowels (or honestly, we West Slavs aren't into them, Slovak and Czech like semivowels R and L, so they don't need vowels, and we like consonant's clusters), and if they can't put them comp. Polish krowa and Russian [koróva] or dłoń = ladónʹ 'palm', they get rid of consonants, e.g. widły = víly 'a pitchfork', mydło = mýlo 'soap', zerkalo = zwierciadło [zv'erćadl'o] (the same root but more sound shifts, a cognate to wzrok 'eyesight' and zerkać 'to peek, glance') 4) rast = wzrost I thought that it is róść [rós't'] 'to grow', because I was fooled by earlier Slovak: l'ad = Polish: lód :) Of course after seeing the word and after a moment of reflection, similarities are easily seen, but the first associations are the purest :) As always nice video :) PS. I needed to edit it, because for some unknown for me reason YT puts empty paragraphs when I press ENTER :(

[Jozef Masný]

1. Vedro "a bucket" is actually a neutrum not a masculinum.

[Dacha]

I speak 🇸🇰 and 🇷🇸 and can understand 🇷🇺 😁

[Son of God]

Здорово! Почти всё понятно на Словацком!

[Rob]

I'm serbian but my grandmother was Slovak and she and my mother always talked in Slovak when I was in Bratislava I understood everything when people spoke to me , but I had to speak slowmo Serbian so they could understand me

[ENENEY]

Do similarities between Amharic and Tigrinya they are so similar 😃