Slovene Alphabet: Letter Pronunciations + 25 Useful Words | Learn Slovene with Sandra

My first episode of ‘Learn Slovene with Sandra’ is finally here! Today we’ll be learning how to pronounce the 25 letters of the Slovene alphabet and 25 useful words to go along.
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[@lizalfos8627]

Please make these regularly, my girlfriend is Slovene and I want to be able to speak to her in her native language

[@SandraPotisek]

I'll have a new lesson up every week/every other week! :)

[@saandaah]

are you guys still together? how’s the progress? are you still learning?

[@SandraPotisek]

@rhluisenrique Unfortunately not, but I’m working on a proper course now, and searching for someone to offer extra support one on one. 🙏🏻

[@darinepalemorotuni1641]

Thanks for your help all love from Algeria🇩🇿❤️🇸🇮

[@julija8142]

I'm from slovenia and u made me feel so proud 💓☺️😂

[@urbannlol]

Man y u gotta speak english then

[@bosilafarit1686]

Are you Slovenian?

[@pompea7]

Same

[@patrik5743]

Im too slovenia

[@ayushjain5016]

I am impressed From India. Welcome in India As. A tourist visa

[@geugoryrodrigues4012]

I really wanna learn Slovenian because this language is an amazing and it sounds awesome to me. Thanks a lot

[@Robbyred_220]

I visited Slovenia for the first time this week. I don't know why I left it so long. It was beautiful. I plan to return! So I need to learn some Slovene. 😊

[@mrfisher1072]

You're videos have helped me learn Slovenian more then any other video on KZbin thank you.

[@SandraPotisek]

So happy to hear!

[@kitahenigman9600]

My family is Slovenian and I grew up speaking Slovenian with my family but slowly over time stopped. I’m using your videos to freshen up my speaking so Hvala they are so helpful!

[@SandraPotisek]

So happy to hear! 🤗

[@akokarimi8376]

Please do it every week that we could learn fast

[@kapilkumar-th9yz]

Thanks! You are wonderful

[@animalsloverstv2494]

Hi Have a nice day thank you teacher I want to learn Slovenia language Good bless you.

[@Cobracobalt]

Thank you so much Sandra, you are very clear and gifted at teaching!! Please do more videos!!

[@SandraPotisek]

Lots more coming! :)

[@richacquah1]

@@SandraPotisek Waiting for them. Hvala:)

[@sweetlovefoodadventure]

My first time to learn Slovene language and I enjoyed it. I'm from Philippines

[@lifeisgood923]

Thanks Sandra!!! You are an excellent teacher. Best wishes.

[@katarinav.4725]

Sploh ne vem zakaj sem tu ampak reči hočem, da ti zelo dobro gre!!! 👏👏👏👍👍

[@dennisrockwell7834]

You are very helpful and easy to understand! THANK YOU and GOD BLESS FROM VANCOUVER WASHINGTON USA

[@ayazsaiyed313]

Gracias.

[@KRYoung_dev]

Thank you very much! I'm talking with a Slovenian guy online, so I want to learn some of his native language.

[@ZljubeznijoAbby]

Hello Sandra! Thanks for this video!

[@CCaall-o5b]

I am an American who wishes to work and live in slovenia, I didn't know where to start for learning the language. These videos are going to help I hope !

[@leonida68]

Congrats you are a good teacher.

[@saandaah]

just discovered a slovene band, Joker Out. i fell in love with them and the language and i decided to learn it!!

[@SandraPotisek]

Yay, I love their music too! 😊

[@kolumbijcan]

Nina Puslar is the best of Slovenija, actually she should be worldwide

[@STARISPUNK_]

I'm trying to learn Slovenian by basics, this helped a lot, especially being English as well for me to understand

[@dajanabizzle]

I knew almost everything cause it's very common with Serbian! ❣ Can't wait for the next video!

[@SandraPotisek]

Yay! You'll be fluent in Slovene in no time. :)

[@pinapeanstropunz9526]

Miss u Sandra,hvala ❤️❤️

[@kfora649]

Visiting in October! thanks for being the best teacher of Slovene on the internet ! =D

[@misstarshiny1]

That was so useful! Good job!

[@SandraPotisek]

Thank you!

[@prabhakarsapkota1029]

Thanks sis. from Nepal

[@jelly2.b853]

Also we need a slippers to go into for example school preschool kindergarten in oh and you are actually really helped me out

[@DelilahUnknown]

Your vids have been very helpful. I've become close to a good friend from there and I very poorly said but did my darn best to learn to say "moj dragi prijatelj." To him and even though it was not great it made him so happy so I am going to keep working and trying on it cuz he is so special to me.

[@eumochileiro5593]

obrigado pela sua ajuda!

[@haidar438]

I'm Haidar from Zanzibar,in Zanzibar I'm working as a professional English & Russian tourguide. Today is my first day to learn Slovenian language,andI decide to learn this language because a lot of Slovenians who come to us seem to be unable to speak English especially children and teenagers.

[@SandraPotisek]

That's so nice of you! Slovenes LOVE when foreigners try to speak our language, so you'll be a big hit. :D

[@haidar438]

@@SandraPotisek Thank you so much for encouraging me.

[@pinapeanstropunz9526]

Wow 😲 this is it,hvala Sandra 😘😘

[@ibrahimhatata8091]

You are amazing 😀

[@nurealam4268]

Thak you for the great job-can I have the pdf file please?

[@ingemarhammarstrom9207]

In Sweden we also use the same word for kite & dragon. It's "drake". Drake = Kite and/or dragon

[@SandraPotisek]

Ohh, so interesting!

[@Kingdom_heart_mind_soul_spirit]

This was very helpful. Just need to wrap my head around how Pica looks :) Hvala!

[@loniecaay202]

Watching from Philippines, thank you Sandra for making this vlog, now I have already learned your words like (hvala, thank you)(lahko noc, good night) (lepo spi, sleep well) hvala Sandra 😊😊❤️👍

[@free-birdrocker8809]

Yeah, there it is, Thank you Miss Sandra, the Sloven alpha bet sounds similar to the Germanic alphabet. Wow! Awesome-blossome! Thanks Miss Sandra, you are number 1.☺

[@mrboo_]

I really enjoyed this whole video session because its very effectual, but please I'll be supporting some of those that commented here suggesting if you can make these regularly because my girlfriend is also Slovene and I want to be able to speak to her in her native language. And probably moving to Slovenia in about 6month time. Thank you so much.

[@SandraPotisek]

I'll be launching a proper course soon! If you're interested, make sure to sign up to my newsletter.

[@patrick.991]

I'm austrian - living very close to the slovenian border - and I started to learn slovenian a few months ago (just a little bit) but it was so hard because I couldn't find good videos. There are very good videos for learning spanish but none for slovenian. Your simple videos help me more than beginner language courses you can buy on Amazon - here I remember a lot more. Hope you continue your little course ;-) PS: would be interested in how many slovenes speak german nowadays. Whenever I meet older people in slovenia they speak german (many of them learned it at school) but I'm not sure if there are many younger slovenes who speak german(?) Today you learn english and later french at "high school" someone told me(?) And what films do they show on TV in slovenia... english ones with slovenian subtitles? :-)

[@SandraPotisek]

Yay, I'm so happy to hear that! I'll have lots more videos coming up. ☺️ A lot of younger people still take German. It really depends on what foreign language classes are available at a particular high school, to be fair. Mine for example only had German as an option for the second foreign language, so the whole high school learned German. But many high schools have more options now. Apart from German, Spanish, French and Italian are most common, I'd say. It's a personal preference if there's more to choose from. Yeah, most movies shown on the TV over here are American with Slovenian subtitles. They're never synchronised, apart from animated movies/series for little kids.

[@patrick.991]

@@SandraPotisek thank you, interesting to know. Here in Austria everything is synchronized and in german. Our common foreign languages apart from english are french, italian and sometimes spanish. In secondary modern school we had the chance to learn slovene but not many did that. I'm often hiking in the area around the border (Radlje, Muta) so I'm very interested in slovenia at the moment. Looking forward to your videos :)

[@shonaanderson8348]

This was so helpful!! I’m from Scotland and am starting a university semester abroad and was curious about the language ☺️

[@SandraPotisek]

Yay, happy to hear that! :)

[@BG_Andy]

Great video - Thanks. I always struggle with those letter, especially the ones with an apostrophe on top.

[@SandraPotisek]

Hope it was helpful! :)

[@BG_Andy]

@@SandraPotisek I've already found out about a few names that I've spelled wrong for years :D

[@SandraPotisek]

😜

[@mirkoarkuch3152]

My family is from Slovenia, I'm from México so I speak spanish, but now I'm learning slovenian all by my self and your videos are a great deal, love them. Do you have instagram?

[@SandraPotisek]

So glad you find them helpful! Yes, my username is sandrapotisek. 😊

[@MrBunney91]

Omg guest slippers must be made a universal thing!

[@omkarkibe]

Very interesting video and very well done! Thanks a lot Sandra! :-))

[@SandraPotisek]

Thanks for watching!

[@merrilymud7304]

Hello! I just find this video - in Dec 2021...are you still making these videos? Its very good!

[@SandraPotisek]

I took a year off, but I'll be back soon! :)

[@merrilymud7304]

@@SandraPotisek thank you looking forward!

[@amiesa9809]

Tys bc i am moving to slovenia and im gonna start school there 🤗🤗🤗

[@andreastefani8393]

Lepaaa res 👍👍😃🔝🇸🇮

[@luzkessler9314]

I really loved this video. I found it today, and I find many parallels to my native language, Spanish. the c letter of the word caplja sounds like a Spanish CH (although the sound is harder than an English SH--as in the word she, I find it is softer than the CH sound even in English, in the word chinese, for example). I loved the lesson, the Slovene language is not only beautiful, but fascinating!

[@SandraPotisek]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@WindyGardener]

My maternal great grandfather was from Skofja Loka. My home town in America is Skofja Loka's sister city, Rock Springs, Wyoming and the family names are Porenta, Taucher, Yerkovic, Pivic, among others.

[@jennprimozic5795]

Hi,thanks for this video. I'm in kranj. Learning Slovene is very difficult. Turning one month today.

[@GöktürkSeckin]

This is very helpful. Thank you very much. I'm from Turkey and I'm going to move to Slovenia very soon, i hope :). Actually I'd be settled already if Covid-19 wouldn't hit to world :) I just started to learn Slovene and you help a lot, thanks again :)

[@SandraPotisek]

So happy to hear the videos are helpful!! Keeping my fingers crosses you can move to Slovenia soon. :)

[@GöktürkSeckin]

@@SandraPotisek you are very kind, thank you.

[@latrecheatef9351]

Good job

[@RajuBk-cg6zz]

Raju hi😊

[@patangkhan5767]

I really love you

[@zabadmoth4282]

Sandra! I like your way of presenting The language. Would it be possible to make a video about all The countries from all around The World? Or at least Eurasia? I'm cheering you on! 💓

[@SandraPotisek]

Thank you! I wish I could, but I'm unfortunately not fluent in all these languages. :D

[@zabadmoth4282]

@@SandraPotisek Oops, my Bad. I meaned how you pronounce in slovenian The name of The Europe /Asia countries.

[@SandraPotisek]

@@zabadmoth4282 Ahh, that I can do, haha! I actually already have it on my to-film list, so should be up in the next few months. :)

[@thanhtuyen3968]

I am starting to learn Slovenian, can you share the book files for me to download?

[@lucynjagi7721]

Useful hvala lepa

[@thanguyen8888]

i cant speak the letter R

[@davidbarber4431]

I am from slovenia

[@rahimomar4944]

Your laughing lovely

[@saharasomo1458]

I need the PDF. Please sent me. With best regards. Dr. Suman

[@rahimomar4944]

I am a new arrival to slovinia,i am trying to start this language,can i find any private coursear to learn slovinian language?

[@janceleste]

How to write the alphabet please

[@vind8675]

I randomly came to your video when watching some videos about Slovenia and I am aghast to know how slovan alphabet is exactly sounds same to my mother tounge "Marathi" spoken in Maharashtra (capital Mumbai) or even 'Sanskrit' from where North Indian languages has originated

[@SandraPotisek]

Yes, the Slovene language is in fact very similar to Sanskrit as an old version of Slovene is where Sanskrit actually originates from apparently! The Venetians brought the language over to India. Fascinating history.

[@deyknees]

I find it interesting that Turkish has the letters Ç and Ş which are pronounced exactly the same as Č and Š and it seems that it doesn’t have diphthongs either

[@aryandharmarajan]

It's seems that Slovenian language is one of the easiest language in Europe• I appreciate your work👏👏👏

[@mc-not_escher]

Thank you so much for this! It is so much easier to learn than I had anticipated even by this impression since the glyph- and sound-set is so similar, but yet much more practical and (not to deride, but rather praise) simpler than Russian (which I had studied for some brief time). Since it's close to the time - vesel božič! Pedantic Edit: The symbol over š,č, and ž is called a Caron (inverted circumflex) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron

[@SandraPotisek]

Hvala! :)

[@angelinalilijana]

I was wondering if you could help me out. So my family is Slovene and my last name apparently starts with Š but the pronunciation is different in the English alphabet than in the Slovenian abeceda.

[@mariadoloresŽVAB]

It’s sh I believe. My original last name starts with a “Z” and it’s sh but I have forgotten almost everything so here I am

[@baishalisarkar6227]

Hi Sandra, It's so good to listen to the explanation of all of these words in Slovene. I am originally from India and I am starting to live in Maribor .Your videos are very useful to learn Slovene language and culture :) I would love to meet you in person! Please write me when you visit Maribor :) Please check PM.

[@imrehundertwasser7094]

Ura (clock / watch) is "Uhr" in German (from Latin / Italian "(h)ora)"), and both "Kamera" and "Fotoapparat" (slightly different spelling) exist in German with the same meanings. Though "Kamera" is also being applied to still cameras more and more. And lastly, "Drache" means both dragon and kite (the device, not the bird) in German.

[@SandraPotisek]

Very interesting! Knew of the first two, but the dragon/kite combo surprised me. ☺️

[@imrehundertwasser7094]

@@SandraPotisek Yes, me too :-) Officially the word for the kite is spelled "Drachen" with an additional -n at the end in German, but that can also be used to mean a dragon. (Or an annoying, quarrelsome, mostly older female in the household, like a wife or mother-in-law :-))

[@SandraPotisek]

We have that too! 😂😂😂

[@AdimYoussef-mv2in]

😊😊😊😊😊hvala

[@celesefernal2490]

I wanna learn Slovenian because my crush is from Slovenia and I wanna surprise them.

[@nidriks-yt]

Does the ć exist in Slovenian at all? In looking at Slovenian football I am seeing some player names end in ć rather č, but I read somewhere that ć is only in other Slavic languages. Is this due to mutiple ethnicities in the country? I have been playing Football Manager as FC Koper and this is something I have been wondering about for a while. Been watching Slovenian language videos on YT and thought it couldn't hurt to ask and see if someone can answer. Is it possibly just errors on the website I find these player's names written? Example: Dejan Djermanović on wikipedia. Thanks, in advance.

[@SandraPotisek]

No, ć does not exist in the Slovene language, however we have a big diaspora of Bosnians and Serbians in Slovenia - their last names most often end with -ić.

[@nidriks-yt]

@@SandraPotisek Hvala. When I play Football Manager I really do try to explore the places where I find myself in game, so this helps a lot. I can imagine there is a lot of variation in many a European country - something us Brits really don't experience as much. You do great, easy to follow videos by the way. I would love to visit Slovenia one day and these videos would help so much. Keep up the good work.

[@fr.varghesepadijnarekkara4078]

❤

[@tirpitz61]

As a German it helps a lot to know Russian a bit....

[@OfficialWindshineMusic]

It sucks there are no easy resources to learn Slovene. I have been dating my girl for a few months and want to get to know her language. Any other suggestions where I can learn?

[@SandraPotisek]

I'm working on a proper course right now to solve this issue. Should be available in a few months!

[@thewandererfoodie96]

The alphabet Q is missing?

[@SandraPotisek]

There is no letter Q, X or Y in the Slovene alphabet.

[@nasehatbaik5933]

are you native speaker sloven or not? i've subscribe yours

[@elesvazul]

I'm a native Hungarian living in Hungary. I work as a software developer, I have university degree in business informatics. I'm very fluent in English and I can speak some basic Russian and Chinese. I have a driving license and a car. My income is average and I could have a fulfilling life here, but here in Hungary we have no basic human rights. Me as a homosexual I can't officially marry a man and adopt kids. Since I want to have a family one day in my own way, I have to leave. Slovenia is my plan, since they have basic human rights like LGBTQ rights, and they seem to be very safe and welcoming. I hope one day when I move there, they will welcome and accept me. I will do my very best to learn their beautiful Slavic language. 🤗

[@edzanjero353]

I want to learn Slovene for 2 main reasons: 1. Slovenian women are the most beautiful in the world, 2. Slovenian musicians are the most dedicated to polka music (Oberkrainer Polka Madels, Monika & Nina)

[@tekrajkarkee180]

Zelo si lepa

[@grotesquehag2416]

HAHAHAHAHAHA ČAPLJA I don’t know about slovenians but in Bosnia when someone is REALLY tall we say:”vidi ga,kao čaplja!” Hahahahahahahahaha that word was really useful Sandra 😂😂😂😂😂

[@SandraPotisek]

😆😂 I blame it on the temperature! Filming with the air con off makes my brain melt. 🙈

[@grotesquehag2416]

Sandra Potisek girl don’t worry about it,it’s an underrated bird we must all appreciate!!!

[@ZoeDiary256]

I really need to learn slovene language my fiance is Slovenian so would like to learn and make communication easy between us. May I please send you an email? Thanks for the good work thumbs up for you 👍

[@SandraPotisek]

Sure! I have my e-mail written down in the description of every video. :)

[@volpixrossi3589]

Oh wow that’s kinda like how the English word alphabet is named after Greek letters alpha and beta

[@johnvalenciagomez2030]

She is beautifull!!

[@Kuricchin]

Ðđ and Ćć aren’t ones?

[@SandraPotisek]

No, we don’t have those in the Slovene alphabet.

[@bloodfounder1239]

i came here bc my bf is teaching me this and i keep failing on h and r, i still cant do this ;-; im trying my best but keep failing

[@MyTwoSteps]

SLOVENIAN :))

[@shantoreywilkins651]

🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️🤗👌

[@versatilemind9130]

To me Slovenian pronounciation just widely seems like most other European languages. The only one I know with much different pronounciation is English. English sounds really offbeat compared to other European languages. I only know that in English, a is spoken as [a] or [e], e as [i], i as [ai], o as [ou] or [a] and u as [a], where in (most) other European languages it's just [a], [e], [i], [o], [u]. This also partially appears in English dialects.

[@bernmr1]

Laibach brought me here.

[@saralampret9694]

Elektrika's first 'e' is indeed open, but the second one is narrow. Maybe in Ljubljana's dialect that's fine but this isn't proper slovene...

[@SandraPotisek]

Thanks for your input, but at this stage of learning, I really don't think confusing beginners with such things is the smartest. And besides, I'm trying to teach people how to function in the real world, not to pass a grammar test. This is the most common pronunciation I've been hearing all my life. I've never heard anyone pronounce it with a narrow e.

[@saralampret9694]

@@SandraPotisek Heh well I am pretty sure the second 'e' is the narrow one. Well that's fine, I only think you should maybe choose one word that actually has only open 'e' in correct slovene, e.g. odeja, interpretacija (even though the second word isn't the best slovene word) but off course they are only beginners so not a big deal.

[@SandraPotisek]

@@saralampret9694 I was choosing random words that start with the letter I was pronouncing. Elektrika was just the first that popped into my head. :)

[@saralampret9694]

@@SandraPotisek yeah yeah, makes sense :) keep up, I might do the same in the future ;)

[@shitfuckm8a277]

Sara Lampret no one speaks proper slovene in slovenia so it doesnt matter

[@Cvetka873]

Č-češnja - čeri (pa pride še izgovorjava č-ja) 😁

[@SandraPotisek]

Bo šla v PDF tale zadeva, hvala! :D

[@urbannlol]

Nerabim se naučit slovensko 😎 Translation: i dont need to learn Slovenian 😎😎😎😎

[@SandraPotisek]

Your translation of the sentence (which has two major mistakes in the first place) is actually incorrect... :D

[@wescleyr.l.5114]

54/5000 LETTER (W) IS NOT IN THE GREAT SLOVENE VIDEO ALPHABET

[@neesxar3127]

It's a bit scary how much this pronunciation is similar to Polish.

[@SandraPotisek]

They're both Slavic languages. :)

[@mariadoloresŽVAB]

I want to go back to our original Slovene name, but no American would ever get it due to the upside down Caron.

[@sajidulhaque989]

Speak slowly