The Easiest Slavic Language to Learn

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Golyplot

Golyplot

Күн бұрын

In this video I'll share my thoughts on why Bulgarian is the easiest and most accessible Slavic language to learn!
Bulgarian has definite articles and does not use grammatical cases compared to all other Slavic languages!
It is also a great stepping stone to learning all other Slavic languages!
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Where, who (why) is Bulgaria?
03:19 - Definite Articles
04:30 - Grammatical Cases
05:17 - Bulgarian Alphabet
05:55 - Phonetic Writing System
06:18 - Verbs
07:17 - Syllable Stress
08:49 - Slavic Stepping Stone
10:13 - Flexible Word Order
10:59 - Lots of Loan Words
12:37 - Conclusion
13:12 - Outro
Thank you for watching!

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@golyplot
@golyplot 2 жыл бұрын
Skip the ads, the channel is not monetized, if you see ads they are auto-generated by youtube.
@name7692
@name7692 2 жыл бұрын
dang youtube
@fubuki908
@fubuki908 2 жыл бұрын
your pfp is a bulgarian country ball, based dude, as a Bulgarian, I wish to handshake you
@RedTitan5
@RedTitan5 2 жыл бұрын
Yes sir
@attilathepun7983
@attilathepun7983 Жыл бұрын
you should get monetized since youtube brings ads anyways. you deserve money for your education!
@golyplot
@golyplot Жыл бұрын
@@attilathepun7983 you saw ads?
@ame7165
@ame7165 3 жыл бұрын
Hungary: We'll take those extra cases if you aren't going to use them...
@micreper
@micreper 2 жыл бұрын
wait,Hungary is slavic?
@ame7165
@ame7165 2 жыл бұрын
@@micreper no, but it has a ton of grammatical cases 😆
@proudslav5394
@proudslav5394 2 жыл бұрын
who asked mongol?
@wasabista1613
@wasabista1613 2 жыл бұрын
Georgian: Step aside, amateur.
@mattiamele3015
@mattiamele3015 2 жыл бұрын
Hungarian doesn't have cases. It has suffixes. The word itself doesn't change its ending, you just chuck a particle to it. That's not how Indo-European cases work. Hungarian is an agglutinative language, it's totally different from Slavic, Romance, Germanic etc. I majored in Hungarian at the university, I was pretty fluent and versed in it. I can assure you you can learn Hungarian without ever having to decline words as you do with languages that do have cases.
@WeShallOvercome_
@WeShallOvercome_ 2 жыл бұрын
A slavic language without cases is a gift from the gods :)
@damyankolev5662
@damyankolev5662 2 жыл бұрын
We have but there are only 4-5. Not like the Russian language :)
@trumpgaming5998
@trumpgaming5998 2 жыл бұрын
@@damyankolev5662 Not like the polish language :)
@xsc1000
@xsc1000 2 жыл бұрын
@@damyankolev5662 Russian have 6, Czech 7...
@vitaminxbg
@vitaminxbg 2 жыл бұрын
Actually, there are case remnants, but only in personal pronouns, and some are even falling out of favour, or have fallen already, to more analytical variants of the same expression. For example the dative case in personal pronouns - E.g."whom" in the dative usage (not sure, if this is the right way to put it). For example - Eng: give to whom?; Bulg(dative): да дам кому?(da dam komu?);Bulg (analytical/preposition + accusative case): да дам на кого?(da dam na kogo?);
@naskok007
@naskok007 2 жыл бұрын
@@damyankolev5662 no we don't . There are just remains from cases in the Bulgarian language
@canko15
@canko15 3 жыл бұрын
I'm a simple man. I see a video about languages, I click
@emiln3340
@emiln3340 2 жыл бұрын
@@mattlikestotaldrama8534 what is it called??
@maskttr
@maskttr Ай бұрын
same
@nukeohio7227
@nukeohio7227 3 жыл бұрын
I like people like you. Rather than push away outsiders, you encourage them to embrace your culture. I'm not Bulgarian in the slightest, but you've encouraged me to learn about it.
@tylerblake4028
@tylerblake4028 7 ай бұрын
@@lgbtq_hitlr-4256I’m black and I’m curious about Bulgarian culture?? What is the issue ?
@larslarsen7457
@larslarsen7457 2 жыл бұрын
As Swedish living in Bulgaria, I would like to note that Bulgarian was easy to learn once the alphabet was in place. It took me 6 months but then it fell into place. Only to pronounce Копривщица took some time. It is a good base for the rest of Balkan and we are able to communicate.
@vapidcity
@vapidcity 2 жыл бұрын
I started learning the alphabet about 3 weeks ago and it really opened up a lot for me. Usually, I'll find a random word and try to read it, once I do I never forget it, much better than just memorizing a list of vocab, context + alphabet helps
@realahiga
@realahiga 2 жыл бұрын
Har märkt själv att Ryska är rätt likt svenska (Norrländska iaf), även om det tar sin tid att lära sig. Men har inte studerat Bulgariska. Skulle du säga att det kan vara ett bra alternativ?
@larslarsen7457
@larslarsen7457 2 жыл бұрын
@@realahiga Hej, vid Uppsala universitet studerade man först Bulgariska för att förbereda de Ryska studierna. Förklaringen är enkel då den Bulgariska grammatiken är enklare att förstå för oss Skandinavier så fick man vokabuläret och till viss del grammatik. Ryskan med sina kausus och tidaspekter är svårt. Som Svensk är Bulgariska språket lättare att lära när du fått det Kyrilliska alfabetet på plats. Sje ljuden är väldigt lika våra.
@antontarantey3500
@antontarantey3500 2 жыл бұрын
>It took me 6 months but then it fell into place. As a Russian, now i'm really surprised with it. It seemed, westerners need about 15 minutes to learn Cyrillic azbuka - they just have to memorise that "в != b" and З, Ч & Б aren't numbers. ;-) Nevertheless, it's not a Devanagari, Arabic or Hiragana. Indeed, i think Bulgarian is in fact a good step to slavic languges, especially Russian having the same Cyrillic and sizeable layer of Church-slavonic, that came from ancient Bulgarian kingdom, with its words and forms (sometimes as an elevated and poetic stile - "злато/золото", "врата/ворота" etc).
@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic536
@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic536 2 жыл бұрын
@@antontarantey3500 no idea what he's on it took me a day to learn cyrillic
@samdelacruz8289
@samdelacruz8289 3 жыл бұрын
I speak four languages, but I don't speak any Slavic one yet - So I'm definitely going to take up Bulgarian. Thanks, dude!
@timonzdeib9295
@timonzdeib9295 2 жыл бұрын
Are you sure about not speaking any slavic language while having the flag of Poland in the background of your profile photo 🤣🤣?
@samdelacruz8289
@samdelacruz8289 2 жыл бұрын
@@timonzdeib9295 but it's not a flag, it's a red bath towel.😅
@alvaros3168
@alvaros3168 2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Which languages?
@samdelacruz8289
@samdelacruz8289 2 жыл бұрын
@@alvaros3168 Portuguese (native), English, Spanish, and Greek (intermediate). I'm also learning Italian.
@september2remember164
@september2remember164 2 жыл бұрын
Learn Russian instead.
@GuzelKyrim-Ukraine
@GuzelKyrim-Ukraine 2 жыл бұрын
I speak fluent Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, Belarusian and Slovakian. Bulgarian is easy to understand because it is really connected to Russian via Old Church Slavonic.
@aleksbozik4607
@aleksbozik4607 2 жыл бұрын
Odkiaľ si?
@user-zd3su3td4p
@user-zd3su3td4p 2 жыл бұрын
Ой! Круто я русский
@Pk-wu9tl
@Pk-wu9tl 2 жыл бұрын
How do you recommend learning Russian efficiently?.
@erenyavuz1695
@erenyavuz1695 2 жыл бұрын
where are you from ? your surname is so familiar here
@nikolaisedov2295
@nikolaisedov2295 2 жыл бұрын
@@Pk-wu9tl play Stalker haha
@duroshebanja6810
@duroshebanja6810 3 жыл бұрын
A Bulgarian friend of mine told me he thought , aside from the Macedonian language, Serbian was probably the most understandable Slavic language to him.
@golyplot
@golyplot 3 жыл бұрын
very true, I can understand most of serbian especially in folk music ♥️
@schmucker1989
@schmucker1989 3 жыл бұрын
@@golyplot And I as a Serb understand shit when I hear spoken Bulgarian. 😅 It's not that I didn't try.
@Aleks_Ovski416
@Aleks_Ovski416 3 жыл бұрын
@@schmucker1989 how about spoken Macedonian?
@kirilpopov7888
@kirilpopov7888 2 жыл бұрын
Yes. It is true. And for me polish and Czech languages are most difficult to understand
@kmarcin48
@kmarcin48 2 жыл бұрын
@@kirilpopov7888 as a Pole I can tell that Blugarian and Macedonian are true black magic for me haha, however if native Macedonian or Bulgarian spokes slowly, it's not hard to find many similarities, as in every other slavic language :) Czech is understandable for me in 80%, Russian in 70%, Serbo-Croatian in about 40-60% (in written croatian I understand much more). Haven't study other slavic languages then my mothertongue polish so far, but I will start to work with Russian and Czech)
@romanianguy21
@romanianguy21 2 жыл бұрын
Bulgarian is the best slavic language for me as a romanian 🇧🇬🇷🇴❤
@aDionisss
@aDionisss 2 жыл бұрын
Love from Bulgaria🇧🇬❤️🇷🇴
@MrEndeavour7
@MrEndeavour7 2 жыл бұрын
Why don't you adopt it over there in Romania? 😈😈After all you already used it till the middle of the 19th century. 😁😁
@verloren_ruhe
@verloren_ruhe 2 жыл бұрын
@@MrEndeavour7 we've only used the cyrillic alphabet till 19th century but the language was still romanian as it is today..
@anymega3540
@anymega3540 2 жыл бұрын
@@verloren_ruhe well, there was the re-latinization of the language (at the time i believe it was 40% slavic as opposed to today which is 15% slavic) so it wasn't really the exact same language but that guy is still wrong.
@robertcostea4463
@robertcostea4463 2 жыл бұрын
@@anymega3540 No such thing as a re-latinization of the language, only the standardization of Romanian, which meant transforming Old Romanian into a standardized language. Still, the old language and the contemporary one are pretty much the same thing (look up Neacsu's Letter from 1521, which I, as a native Romanian speaker, can understand fully).
@tamasdupcsak2989
@tamasdupcsak2989 2 жыл бұрын
2:43 Finally! Someone finally said it! As a Hungarian (who is extremely bulgarophile), this makes me happy :) Greetings from Унгария! Да живее Българя!
@HeroManNick132
@HeroManNick132 2 жыл бұрын
България* :)
@TeoAnimations
@TeoAnimations 2 жыл бұрын
Me also likes Унгария! Поздрав 🇧🇬❤️🇭🇺 Да живее Унгария! (i like the Hungarian waltz also)
@supervivo7069
@supervivo7069 2 жыл бұрын
I've been learning Bulgarian for a few weeks and I appreciate this video. I didn't start because it was easy but rather because a friend speaks it. The lack of cases and similarities to English and Spanish are just a bonus.
@aDionisss
@aDionisss 2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I’m Bulgarian learning Spanish, it’s very easy learning some words because we use them too or are very similar. And when it comes to pronunciation it’s not hard at all!
@k0pera
@k0pera 2 жыл бұрын
Yo soy Bulgaro para mi Español es facil pero yo practicar casi nunca. Eso es muy mal
@brandoncooper4680
@brandoncooper4680 Жыл бұрын
@@aDionisss I'm an American currently living in Peru. I went from zero Spanish to reasonably fluent in about a year, and I don't study at all. I learned the 2000 most common words, and just hung out with people speaking Spanish. I will be in the Balkans next month. Nice to know that there are folks in the Balkans that I can practice with. I'd be happy to exchange Spanish practice for teaching me some Bulgarian. I have a working knowledge of Serbian/Croatian, but I haven't really spoken it in ten years. Buena suerte con tu aprendizaje. Saludos desde Sudamerica!
@louiserocks1
@louiserocks1 2 жыл бұрын
Im russian living in England, i have a lot of Bulgarian colleagues, some of them don't even know English, and I realized that If I spoke Russian they understand me 90% of the time, and I understand them too. I decided to study a bit of Bulgarian so I could actually make proper sentences which are grammatically correct, and I realised that it's almost all the words are the same as russian but with English grammar, it was extremely easy to learn, I just had to learn the words which are unique to Bulgarian and different from Russian (which isn't many) and in just 2 weeks I could speak pretty fluently and explain anything I needed to say without any problems. I found that the "English grammar" was very easy. I've tried to learn Polish too, since there's many Polish in the UK too, and grammar is exactly the same as Russian. So, intuitively, it should be easier, since it's just like my native language. But actually I found it a lot harder for some reason. Learning how all the endings of words are different depending on case was harder to get used to... English/Bulgarian grammar is definitely so much simpler
@golyplot
@golyplot 2 жыл бұрын
Precisely what I aim to show, Bulgarian grammar is pretty similar to English considering it's a slavic language. Thanks for watching 😊
@user-co2ef5rc7m
@user-co2ef5rc7m 2 жыл бұрын
I like the mechanism of Bulgarianisation.👌😄😃 This may be the new linguistic toy. Interesting !
@Falanu
@Falanu 2 жыл бұрын
Wow that is so cool to know
@ibnenkigalileo9256
@ibnenkigalileo9256 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, Polish is way harder than Russian
@jeljel-vb7ur
@jeljel-vb7ur Жыл бұрын
Your post is full of so much nonsense that I don't even know when to start. First, I highly doubt you are actually fluent. Bulgarian grammar is similar to English only on the surface level, however if one wants to express himself in anything beyond the basics it diverges significantly. Lexical aspect, evidentials, and tenses work differently from other Romance/Slavic Languages and have nothing in common with English. So I'm calling bullshit on this post.
@14HristoYavuzov88
@14HristoYavuzov88 2 жыл бұрын
I am Bulgarian Turk and I love my language. Slava rodu!
@55Klat
@55Klat Ай бұрын
🇵🇱 Slawa!
@mihanich
@mihanich 2 жыл бұрын
Bulgarian and Russian exchanged vocabulary a lot. First it was the Old Bulgarian that came to Rus as the literary and liturgical language along with Christianity, then it was Russian who came to Bulgaria as a source to restore literary Bulgarian language after hundreds of years of Ottoman Yoke
@golyplot
@golyplot 2 жыл бұрын
absolutely right
@aDionisss
@aDionisss 2 жыл бұрын
Very true
@vaggfoud
@vaggfoud 2 жыл бұрын
I prefer Russian Language over Bulgarian, which is a lot more important to learn gor s number of reasons. Cases are not so difficult to master. In the russian language you will find a wealth of books such as grammars, dictionaries and many coursebooks while in other slavic languages these are very limited
@mihanich
@mihanich 2 жыл бұрын
@@vaggfoud you can find plenty of material in other Slavic languages. I'm Russian and I found enough materials on Polish even in Moscow bookstores, not to mention online stuff.
@vaggfoud
@vaggfoud 2 жыл бұрын
@@mihanich In Russian for example i found books on Verbal government, Cases, Vocabulary books with examples, Adapted Literature, Practice tests for all exam levels, Listening Comprehension books. In Russian there are books that help you pass the certification test TORFL
@michaela4228
@michaela4228 3 жыл бұрын
I'm a Bulgarian American and though I do admit I may have been jumpstarted by a lot (having Bulgarian parents lol), I never started to actually go out of my way to learn the language outside of learning phrases and sentences. I can understand a majority of it spoken but I don't know any grammatical rules. Definitely gonna start learning now :-) it's a very nice sounding language!
@plrc4593
@plrc4593 2 жыл бұрын
Can you speak it?
@snipermoneyivan
@snipermoneyivan 2 жыл бұрын
u alive bro?
@Hi7man663
@Hi7man663 2 жыл бұрын
даваайй батее урааааа
@k0pera
@k0pera 2 жыл бұрын
I think closest to our grammer is the French. The tricky parts are to find the word gender and to know how to form plural form also how to use articles in the ending of a word just like in THE English. END - the END КРАЙ - КРА(й)ят
@BasedRcist
@BasedRcist 2 жыл бұрын
A Chinese man once said: "Аз съм Българин"
@sam_does_stuff
@sam_does_stuff 2 жыл бұрын
Lol
@purpleboy
@purpleboy 2 жыл бұрын
Periodt sis 🥵
@alexnikolov2654
@alexnikolov2654 2 жыл бұрын
but his father was MACEDONIAN
@sam_does_stuff
@sam_does_stuff 2 жыл бұрын
@@alexnikolov2654 PLOT TWISTTT
@alexnikolov2654
@alexnikolov2654 2 жыл бұрын
@@sam_does_stuff ne te razbrah geri
@fulviolumachi4940
@fulviolumachi4940 2 жыл бұрын
Bravo, Viktor. I'll say it in english. I am Genovese, married to a Bulgarian. In these sixteen years I have learnt a lot lot lot, and despite my big mistakes I think I do speak Bulgarian well enough (for a foreigner, needless to say). Add also that Bulgarians, when they see a non Bulgarian trying to speak their own language they literally S....T in their pants from happyness to see that, that they encourage you to keep speaking and ooo you speak great even though you speak maybe a very little bit. In other words. Bulgarians are nice people, it's a peaceful country, an old people, one of the oldest in the whole whole world, and the people are nice, friendly and warm. Да живее България, Българите и Български. Long live Bulgaria, the Bulgarians and Bulgarian! Love from Zena (Genoa).
@nikolaospeterson2495
@nikolaospeterson2495 2 жыл бұрын
Имах на 12 години хубава бавачка от София. Роден съм на границата между Афганистан и Таджикистан, така че имаме и кирилица на таджикски.
@no_u420
@no_u420 2 жыл бұрын
I've lived in bulgaria and it's an amazing country, has amazing people and an amazing culture!
@superdragon720
@superdragon720 2 жыл бұрын
That is the most detailed, genuine, beautiful and truthful video on Bulgarian I have seen on KZbin! A lot of love from Stara Zagora❤
@ricktownend9144
@ricktownend9144 2 жыл бұрын
Yes - I'm English, now living in Stara Zagora (beautiful city), and I agree this video is great
@therusreport2924
@therusreport2924 2 жыл бұрын
This was so interesting, I had no idea that Bulgarian had definite articles - I thought that all Slavic languages didn't. Fascinating. Please make more videos!
@JustsJordan
@JustsJordan 2 жыл бұрын
The Bulgarian language is so westernised and specifically Anglicised the now day Bulgarian language you see in everyday speaking is closer to English than russian
@kyarden7971
@kyarden7971 2 жыл бұрын
@@JustsJordan Anglicised? What a joke! Bulgarian dropped its cases in the end of the 14th century while English was in its Middle form. Moreover, Russian has a gigantic influences from Bulgarian, obviously. So please first educate yourself and then comment.
@huskytail
@huskytail 2 жыл бұрын
@@JustsJordan what nonsense 😂 I suggest you learn a little bit about Proto-Slavic and the history of Bulgarian language compared to the other Slavic languages. Another topic for you is the Balkan sprachbund.
@k0pera
@k0pera 2 жыл бұрын
@@kyarden7971 He is right only if he talks about grammer but if he talks about words a Bulgarian can understand 70-80% in Russian and i think the Russians can understand us as well. The same is with Serbo-Croatians and i think with them is even higher 80-90%. When it comes to grammar i can't barely start make a sentence in close slav languages.
@martinyovkov5822
@martinyovkov5822 2 жыл бұрын
Това сигурно е първият коментар на Български оставен от Българин,няма значение,радвам се че си направил видео за България продължавай недей да се отказваш!❤🇧🇬
@user-abuser_i_ball_was_wrote
@user-abuser_i_ball_was_wrote 2 жыл бұрын
The best introduction to a language i've seen. Bravo!
@RobertSeviour1
@RobertSeviour1 2 жыл бұрын
Victor, this video sets a very high standard for a factual piece, I am impressed. No waffle, information dense and presented in a very lucid way. Thank you. I knew nothing about Bulgarian before and now find it most interesting. The advantages for learners, which you describe, are very valid.
@user-dz3sp5ou3z
@user-dz3sp5ou3z 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely true! That's also the reason why we as Bulgarians learn English easily, because both languages are analytical and use articles, prepositions and word order to convey the meaning of a sentence instead of cases.
@alexnikolov2654
@alexnikolov2654 2 жыл бұрын
golqm smqh
@alexnikolov2654
@alexnikolov2654 2 жыл бұрын
bulgarian english is one of the worse
@petarpetrov4418
@petarpetrov4418 Ай бұрын
Абсолютно вярно, много по-лесно е да научиш английски отколкото руски, въпреки общите корени на думите.
@pravoslavn
@pravoslavn 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you from the US. Your command of English is amazing... you never stumble on a pronunciation you don't even pause to think about the syntax of a sentence ! I have a beginner's-level comprehension of Russian, and am using Russian as an entering wedge to learn more Old Church Slavonic. And Bulgarsk interests me because it is said to be a very old form of Slavic. I would like to hear you do a lecture on the history and development of Bulgarian phonology, the use of the Yers (Jers) in Bulgarian orthography, and explain why Bulgarian has no diphthongs. I have subscribed, so get my lecture ready ! ☺
@svetoslavstanchev9977
@svetoslavstanchev9977 3 жыл бұрын
Old Bulgarian (9th to 11th centuries, also referred to as "Old Church Slavonic") - a literary norm of the early southern dialect of the Common Slavic language from which Bulgarian evolved. Saints Cyril and Methodius and their disciples used this norm when translating the Bible and other liturgical literature from Greek into Slavic. Modern Bulgarian dates from the 16th century onwards, undergoing general grammar and syntax changes in the 18th and 19th centuries. The present-day written Bulgarian language was standardized on the basis of the 19th-century Bulgarian vernacular. The historical development of the Bulgarian language can be described as a transition from a highly synthetic language (Old Bulgarian - "Old Church Slavonic") to a typical analytic language (Modern Bulgarian) with Middle Bulgarian as a midpoint in this transition. Bulgarian was the first "Slavic" language attested in writing. As Slavic linguistic unity lasted into late antiquity, the oldest manuscripts initially referred to this language as языкъ словяньскъ, "the Slavic language". In the Middle Bulgarian period this name was gradually replaced by the name языкъ блъгарьскъ, the "Bulgarian language".
@pravoslavn
@pravoslavn 2 жыл бұрын
@@svetoslavstanchev9977 Thank you for the reply. Do you know the work of Horace G. Lunt? He was the principal Slavicist here in the U.S. for four decades, and his OCS grammar went through seven editions (Old Church Slavonic Grammar, 7th ed. published 2001.) He also did a grammar of early Macedonian and a fine monnograph called Progressive Palitalization in Common Slavic (1981.) Keep up the good work ! ☺ -- кириллослвъ, самий малий
@raynatumbeva780
@raynatumbeva780 2 жыл бұрын
I must say, Bulgarian is indeed the first recorded Slavic language. So it's old in age, but you can't say that it's old in its content. In fact, it's probably the furthest from the so-called Proto-Slavic. Many words that are the norm in other Slavic languages are archaic in Bulgarian. Other (usually native) words have taken their place. We also have gotten rid of the letters we don't need and reformed the spelling. Scratch that, we are constantly reforming the spelling.
@TimeTraveller625
@TimeTraveller625 2 жыл бұрын
Nice. As a Polish speaker with some knowledge of Czech and Russian, now I will denifitely give Bulgarian a shot. I would like so badly to speak fluently in other Slavic language, so Bulgarian seems fine now :D
@Mr.C_101
@Mr.C_101 2 жыл бұрын
You can take pride in the fact, that this video convinced me to learn Bulgarian first... and save Russian for later (I'm going to Bulgaria soon)
@HeroManNick132
@HeroManNick132 2 жыл бұрын
Супер, добро прекарване ти пожелавам тогава. :D
@dmitrykozhin5316
@dmitrykozhin5316 3 жыл бұрын
From the grammar standpoint Bulgarian/Macedonian are probably the most non-slavic slavic languages. However from the point of the vocabulary Bulgarian is quite similar to Russian as there was a significant influence from Old Bulgarian to Russian in 14-17th centuries. Once I read a 'Captain Blood Odyssey' book in Bulgarian and I understood 90% of it :)
@5p4rt4k
@5p4rt4k 3 жыл бұрын
Great video and many new insights into the BG language! One small omission regarding the shared vocabulary between Rusiaan and Bulgarian is that the influence went both ways; through Old Church Slavonic (which is very close to Bulgarian) and influenced many words in Russian.
@jaimegarcia8447
@jaimegarcia8447 3 жыл бұрын
loved the video. I didn’t know there were any Slavic languages with no cases.
@OkurkaBinLadin
@OkurkaBinLadin 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Great video, you make everything very clear for us new learners. Greeting from Czech republic.
@KingCrusoe
@KingCrusoe 2 жыл бұрын
This video is quite interesting! My native language is (predictably) English, and I know some beginner Spanish (from a few years of Spanish classes in High School), but I've started to learn another language the past week (and have made a goal to be proficient or fluent in 4 or 5 languages by the time I'm 30, which is just over 10 years now), and the first language I've started to learn is Russian. I've become very entranced by Slavic languages as a whole, and the Cyrillic alphabet is just so intriguing and interesting to me. I got the advice from many other videos and people I know to start with Russian as my first Slavic language tho just because it's the most well-known/widely spoken Slavic language, and so that's what I did lol I'd be very interested to learn Bulgarian later down the line tho, mayber as my 4th or 5th language overall, my second Slavic language. Great video tho. You earned my like :D
@andreman2767
@andreman2767 2 жыл бұрын
Как успехи в изучении русского?)
@kallelellacevej2234
@kallelellacevej2234 2 жыл бұрын
You make a lot of interesting points! I actually found Bulgarian to be the most difficult Slavic language to learn. 😅 My native language is Hungarian🇭🇺. I learned Polish & Slovak when I was teenager. I recently took up Russian & Bulgarian & of all four, Bulgarian is hardest. It is so distinct from the other 3 because of the outside influences you mentioned.🌐 Also, even though my native language has articles, I'm not sure if it makes it any easier for Bulgarian to have them too.💬 You can just "ignore"(for lack of a better word) the concept all together in most the other Slavic languages. Plus, the articles have gender inflections which I found very bizarre.😮 As my first South Slavic language, maybe I'm biased in that way. Or maybe it is the lack of learning materials for Bulgarian compared to Russian/Polish/Slovak for me.📚💻 I still think it is a beautiful language & I am loving learning it!🇧🇬❤🇭🇺 You got a new subscriber today; I look forward to more of your videos!😁
@SimeonShinovski
@SimeonShinovski 2 жыл бұрын
Finally someone said that bg is the hardest hehe
@gabrielametodieva8360
@gabrielametodieva8360 2 жыл бұрын
intersting! As a Bulgarian I found Russian quite hard because of the cases but there are areas of the language which I realised are easier - eg the tenses, the articles, we also have an extra inclination (witnessed vs unwitnessed actions). I also find it so bizarre Russians don't have "to be" in present and also that specificity in the tenses. "I have been in a room" is the same as "I was in the room."
@RositsaPetrovarjp7
@RositsaPetrovarjp7 2 жыл бұрын
There are no such outside influences. Analyticism is an internal process of the language. Bulgarian is the oldest literary language among the so called Slavic languages and is the basis for Old Church Slavonic, which in turn influenced Russian. The complicated verb system of the Bulgarian language shows how ancient it is.
@golyplot
@golyplot 2 жыл бұрын
I'm aiming to make it seem the easiest. Gotta get some more lessons out
@Kinotaurus
@Kinotaurus 2 жыл бұрын
​@@gabrielametodieva8360 Superficially "Я был в комнате" does translate both "I have been in a room" and "I was in the room", but chances are in most contexts the formert would be translated as "Я побывал в комнате". The verb "to be" in the present tense does exist - "я есмь, ты еси etc" - but it sounds very old-fashioned and is usually omitted.
@serafinleal4746
@serafinleal4746 2 жыл бұрын
Victor, awesome videos. I speak English and Spanish but have an interest in learning other languages to expand my knowledge. You have such a clear way of explaining things. Thanks
@its_kolesza
@its_kolesza 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. I'm brazillian and I have a lot of interest to learn new languages, especially slavic ones. And when we think of good slavic languages to learn, we often imagine russian or even polish, but we forget the balkans. And Bulgaria is between europe and the middle east, as you said, so its vocabulary contains a lot of other languages words, so if you learn bulgarian, you end up learning numerous other languages.
@HeroManNick132
@HeroManNick132 2 жыл бұрын
I mean yeah but it doesn't automatically mean you learn other languages cause they may be similar but also different and of course there are false friends. For example the most common Russian and Bulgarian false friend is "направо" - in Russian means right but in Bulgarian means straight so you have to be carefull with that. Like you know that English has similarities with the Latin languages but doesn't mean you can understand them imediatelly.
@nickysimeonova818
@nickysimeonova818 Ай бұрын
😂 false friend ' v djoba ' в джоба' Knowing Bulgarian helps you to catch up not only Slavic but also other languages And phonetically is easier to pronounce.
@mark-howgh
@mark-howgh Ай бұрын
@@HeroManNick132 I suppose the English pronunciation of Latin words is far from the original one
@itsisk2043
@itsisk2043 2 жыл бұрын
Once I started learning russian. I still can read cirillic quite well and understand many words in a sentence. Discerning if a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter is super easy, but man, the case system is so tough!!! And there are so many exceptions!!!
@amyheaney
@amyheaney 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video! I am currently learning Bulgarian and this definitely helped understand understand language. It was very reassuring!
@ginabee1212
@ginabee1212 Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad I found your channel! I recently discovered that an acquaintance of mine grew up speaking Russian, so now of course I want to learn Russian. I found your video on how to learn the Cyrillic alphabet, and found this video as well! I learned a bit of Polish about 10+ years ago and already noticed a few similarities. I will have to add Bulgarian to my list, as well! Thank you!!
@user-tk2jy8xr8b
@user-tk2jy8xr8b 2 жыл бұрын
Bulgarian definite articles are rather native to Slavic langs. There are dying Russian dialects with functional definite articles "-то", "-та", "-те" and maybe some others, but "-то" particle (not sure on its classification, may it be a clitics?), which has the same meaning as a definite article, is widely in use. It came from pronouns like "that one/those ones", the modern versions of which in Russian are "тот" (sing. masc.), "то" (sing. neu.), "та" (sing. fem.), "те" (pl.). The very same process happened to Germanic langs including English long ago: "ðat" ("that", whatever its form was) became "ðe" - "the", "one" ("ein", again, whatever its form was) became "an" and "a"
@Rabid_Nationalist
@Rabid_Nationalist Жыл бұрын
And then we also differanciate distance of the object/person
@mariteamarillento8006
@mariteamarillento8006 2 жыл бұрын
I want to learn to speak Bulgarian, because my fiancee' is Bulgarian from Sofia and he expects me to learn the language fast because i have already stayed in Bulgaria for 7 months. I want to be ready with my basic conversational Bulgarian when i go back for the second time. Thanks for your tutorial videos.
@omer-beer-6347
@omer-beer-6347 3 жыл бұрын
You are very convincent in your points, young man...hahahah I´m going to have your language a try! Greetings from Brazil!
@wakkozDeLaShit
@wakkozDeLaShit 2 жыл бұрын
Abraço da Bulgária mermão, o sotaque brasileiro é mt lindo mesmo. Até me levou a aprender o português! Kkkkk
@moonwalk3rr
@moonwalk3rr 3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video man keep making more, I want to learn Bulgarian completely thank you ❤️
@acikacika
@acikacika 3 жыл бұрын
can't believe you guys don't have any cases!? Such a relief
@zenzenyokunai
@zenzenyokunai 2 жыл бұрын
My parents are from the Western Balkans and I am learning BCS. I speak German fluently so the cases aren't that bad but it's really difficult. Once I am fluent in BCS I might pick up Bulgarian just because it's so easy and the culture, country and people feel very familiar and are beautiful!
@elsakristina2689
@elsakristina2689 2 жыл бұрын
I agree with you completely. I love the Slavic languages all the same, but to me I think Bulgarian is my personal favourite and the ur-example of modern Slavic next to Russian. Some comments on some of what you say as the video goes by. The Caucasian theory about what language was spoken in Bulgaria before the Slavs arrived actually doesn’t shock me. For example, the first part of the word for hominy “качамак” is the same as the Chechen word for “food”. Their word for finger can be seen in the name of the children’s game “илига-пилига.” But honestly I think that the pre-Slavic Bulgarian language might have been an Eastern Iranian language that had taken some words from Turkic and Caucasian languages before its arrival in the Balkans and the Slavic language eventually adopted some of the words from that language. The same thing happened with Hungarian (it’s distantly related to Finnish and Estonian), after their Uralic ancestors left Siberia and as they migrated toward Central/Eastern Europe, their language took on words from Iranian and Turkic languages. There was even a now extinct Iranian language spoken in Hungary called Jassic, it was related to Ossetian, which itself is the only surviving Sarmatian or Scythian language. Ossetian is surrounded by Russian and Caucasian languages. Also, I think the Swedish and Volga Vikings might have travelled through Bulgaria while on their way to trade in Constantinople, so there might have been some language contact along the way.
@Carlos-xy9wr
@Carlos-xy9wr 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Is it worth learning Bulgarian first? If I'm interested in Slavic culture... especially Russian.
@elsakristina2689
@elsakristina2689 2 жыл бұрын
@@Carlos-xy9wr Yeah
@ricktownend9144
@ricktownend9144 2 жыл бұрын
Hi! - I just discovered your great channel (and subscribed). I absolutely agree your thesis; before starting to learn Bulgarian I already spoke a little Russian, Polish, and Czech, and found that Bulgarian appeared to be a kind of common thread between them all, in basic Slavic vocabulary and, to a great extent, in grammar. It's interesting to me that the Bulgarian language is so regular: in English one can say that almost every rule has its exception(s) - and some exceptions even have exceptions of their own (e.g. - [when the sound is 'ee'] it's 'i' before 'e' EXCEPT after 'c' - EXCEPT for the word 'seize'). In Bulgarian, I'm actually starting to collect a list of the few exceptions that there are - e.g. words ending щ/ст are feminine - except for мост and пръст (when it means 'finger/toe') - or maybe there are a few more I have not yet come across! I'm English but now live in Bulgaria - very happily: I love the culture, food, scenery, music and dance etc., and people have been very kind to me. I'm making very good progress with reading (if I have a dictionary to hand) and am not bad at asking for things in shops, or making short sentences. What I'm still finding hard are (1) understanding and joining in with colloquial speech and (2) listening to people talking on the TV and Radio, especially news and comedy: although Bulgarian words are - in general - longer than the English equivalents ( 'in words of one syllable' would make no sense in Bulgarian) the language seems to be well designed to be spoken at great speed; in conversation I frequently have to say 'по-бавно, моля'. Would you be able to address these issues in future videos? I take your point about stressed syllables; this seems to be the thing you have to learn word-by-word in Bulgarian - but, to me, it is easier than learning English spelling or German genders! Just going to have a look at some of the other videos on your channel - thanks again for this one!
@huskytail
@huskytail 2 жыл бұрын
You have understood so very well the country, it's culture and a lot of the language. About the stress.. When I started learning French and English what I did is I tried to think about it, in addition to the rules and grammar, as a music. Each language has its own melody and Bulgarian is very smooth in this regard. There are no phonetical stops when you talk. It's the same as in French and English. So what helps a lot is to sing and listen to music. Additionally, Bulgarian is like English where you can create poetry not only with rhymes and number of syllables but also by the melody of the sentences. Good luck and I hope you enjoy your time in Bulgaria and learning the language. 👍
@k0pera
@k0pera 2 жыл бұрын
Имаме доста диалекти, които доста променят думите.
@jassenjj
@jassenjj 4 ай бұрын
It's interesting how are you doing today, 2 years later. You have properly identified that all words ending in "-oст", "-ест", "-аст" are feminine, but "пръст" is not of this group and has different meanings in the different genders - the masculine means "finger"(only), the feminine is "soil", "ground", "mould", "clay", the thing that one gets buried in... So, again, there is a hard rule with no exceptions that defines the grammar behind these words. Maybe the real exception are the words ending in "щ": "плащ" is m, "мощ" is f but I can't think of other examples.... Have you met other exceptions?
@frankparis9408
@frankparis9408 2 жыл бұрын
Ne ne ne ne! When I don't put the stress where it's supposed to be, they don't understand me! Also, I would suggest you'd acquire a grammar of Old Bulgarian language, just to see: - where the vocabulary comes from - who influenced who. The Bulgarian language we speak today is based on a selected dialect spoken around Cyril and Methodius, which spread around with the translations of the Bible and others, followed by Clement. That's what Old Bulgarian is based upon. You can still hear it when a Pop reads something you don't understand, at all :) The Old Slavonic evolved, traveled to Russia which sent back some good old vocabulary later. It's a physical property. Your video is nice anyway, good step for foreigners to agree it's the easiest one to learn and open all doors to the other Slavic languages afterwards. BUT!!! : after about 12 years practicing everyday, my lovely wife is Bulgarian and I live in Bulgaria, there's still a huge gap between the Bulgarian I speak and the one a native Bulgarian speaks. The language is veeeeeeeeeeery rich, the verbs are very sensitive to all kinds of nuances, it takes a lifetime for a foreigner to speak it properly.
@golyplot
@golyplot 2 жыл бұрын
I understand what you mean, I applaud you for the effort. Nothing beats love as a motivator. The video was meant as an introduction, hopefully in the future I'll put out more specific video that can be a help for you too, so your bulgarian can reach the native level. Thanks for watching!
@jeljel-vb7ur
@jeljel-vb7ur Жыл бұрын
Yes, foreigners never actually become fluent in Bulgarian.
@itspronouncednikolaj333
@itspronouncednikolaj333 3 жыл бұрын
Are you planing to make any more videos?
@annasilva6766
@annasilva6766 Жыл бұрын
thank you so much this video was very helpful!! (also your smile is super cute)
@martachudek2555
@martachudek2555 2 жыл бұрын
Very nice video 😊 I'm Polish and I've learned cyrylic alphabet on my holidays on Bulgaria years ago to be albe to choose ice cream flavour 😉 (prorites when you are 11yo 😂). Anyway, I found reading in Bulgarian easy. Two years ago I visited Moscow... Oh God. Reading in Russian is much more difficult! Words are longer and accent is in diffetent places depending on situation
@Mr55330
@Mr55330 3 жыл бұрын
Хубаво видео.Преди да го изгледам искам да кажа ,че причината в българския да няма падежи е ,че са отпаднали още 14 век, има няколко теории за това езика ни стане аналитичен.Но сме имали падежи и то 7 на брой.Все още имаме ,понякога се ползват някои падежни форми.Та появата на определителен член е ,че езика ни става аналитичен същото се е случило с английския само, че заради многото езици навлезли в езика и падежите му отпадат.Така съм чувал.
@soenekken
@soenekken 3 жыл бұрын
the definite article at the end of the noun is common in Scandinavian languages. In our languages, like for you Bulgarian or me Romanian, part of the Balkan Sprachbund, this is not really an article, but a suffix to create articulation. Point is, it must have been a Dacian, Thracian feature that's been preserved in the Balkans. Now, Hungarians call themselves "Magyar", the name Hungary comes from Latin and more directly from Ungrī which was latinized into Ungari, Bulgarians have a completely different etymology. I really don't think there's a connection there
@user-nh6op5rq4y
@user-nh6op5rq4y 3 жыл бұрын
I do not think that the postpositive article in Bulgarian (I know little about Romanian) has anything to do with the Dacian (or Thracian) substratum. The fact is that in the ancient Slavic languages, for example Old Russian there was a similar directional pronoun - то (with variations - от (masculine), - та (feminine), - те (plural), which could be in a position not only before a noun, but also after it. But unlike the modern Bulgarian, it was not an article, because it could be omitted without losing its meaning. This feature has not survived in modern Russian, but still used in some northeastern and eastern dialects (for example, in the Kirov region) and even declines in cases (муж-от, мужу-тому, мужем-тем, and so on). I assume that the Bulgarian definite article originated from this demonstrative pronoun and became entrenched in the language because the latter began to lose cases. In order for a connection between words in the sentence, the demonstrative pronoun was transformed into an article and became a permanent feature of the noun, indicating its definiteness and role in the sentence, which in Russian is precisely expressed by means of different cases). So the definite article in Bulgarian for me has a pretty obvious slavic base. And the connections of Bulgarian with the Scandinavian languages in this case are quite random.
@dimonspirow6830
@dimonspirow6830 3 жыл бұрын
@@user-nh6op5rq4y Никакого письменного древнерусского языка нет, все древнерусские летописи написаны на староболгарском. "Древнерусский"язык был языком церкви, и даже знать, не говоря уже о простом населении, на нем не говорила. Разумеется,, будучи единственным из славянских письменных языков на территории древней Руси, он оказал огромное влияние на формирование общерусского языка, но отождествлять староболгарский язык с русским это слишком притянуто за уши.
@user-nh6op5rq4y
@user-nh6op5rq4y 3 жыл бұрын
@@dimonspirow6830 Основная масса литературных текстов (летописи, религиозные сочинения) на Руси были созданы на церковнославянском языке древнерусского извода. Ставить знак равенства между последним и древнеболгарским я считаю, не верно, потому что это уже был своего рода гибридный язык, адаптированный под нормы восточнославянского произношения, фонетики, со своим, сформированным именно на Руси словарным фондом, которого не было на территории современных Болгарии и Македонии. Что касается именно на древнерусского, то на нем были написаны юридические документы, например, Русская правда, а также образцы древнерусского языка сохранились в различных записях торгового и личного характера (переписки между людьми). Если говорить про диалектные черты, то особенности употребления указательных местоимений (напоминающие болгарский артикль) в постпозиции задокументированы в Житии Протопопа Аввакума, написанном в 17 веке.
@dimonspirow6830
@dimonspirow6830 3 жыл бұрын
@@user-nh6op5rq4y "Гибридный" древнеруски язык появил'се позней, в13 14 веку, точно на ем была написана ПВЛ. Оригинала11 века до нас не дошел, за то и нем у нас никоих источников дабы утверджати, кой реальный письменый язык ествовал в древней Руси, альмо найверойатне'ше он мало был одличный од староболгарска. Во все фейки типа берестянях грамот, але слова о полку игоревом я не вере
@mimisor66
@mimisor66 3 жыл бұрын
@@user-nh6op5rq4y read about the Balkan Sprachbund.
@user-zeleno
@user-zeleno 2 жыл бұрын
Викторе радвам се че правиш такия видеа :D
@crusher4819
@crusher4819 Жыл бұрын
Hi Mr. Golyplot, I was wondering if you knew of any apps for learning Bulgarian that you find personally to be quite reliable. Duolingo and Babbel don't seem to have it.
@Pining_for_the_fjords
@Pining_for_the_fjords 2 жыл бұрын
Just because it has definite articles, that doesn't mean it's easier to understand for an English speaker. I'm a brit living in Norway. Norwegian has definite and indefinite articles like English, but they are used in slightly different ways and in different contexts than in English. It's not very difficult to learn the rules, but it definitely doesn't make a language easier. I also speak Polish, and one easy thing about Polish is the lack of articles. Even as an English speaker, I've never found the lack of articles to be a barrier to understanding or communication.
@s.eremin
@s.eremin 3 жыл бұрын
I am from Russia. I traveled across Bulgaria and several times across all the former Yugoslav countries. I also find Macedonian easier than Bulgarian.
@1merkur
@1merkur 3 жыл бұрын
True. Also, the writing is 100% phonetic in Macedonian.
@David-qq5yf
@David-qq5yf 3 жыл бұрын
What is macedonian?
@s.eremin
@s.eremin 3 жыл бұрын
@@David-qq5yf It's a language of North Macedonia closely related to Bulgarian. North Macedonia borders Bulgaria and has a population of around 2 million people.
@David-qq5yf
@David-qq5yf 3 жыл бұрын
It was an Ironic question. As a bulgarian I can admit that it's the same language.
@1merkur
@1merkur 3 жыл бұрын
@Sergey Eremin he's just one of many in Bulgaria who try to deny the existence of Macedonian culture & language, it's been going on for more than 130 years.
@yayayeahyeah6606
@yayayeahyeah6606 5 ай бұрын
such a great review! very useful
@edburkey6152
@edburkey6152 10 ай бұрын
Love your content 😊 keep it up
@zazanova7327
@zazanova7327 3 жыл бұрын
Funny thing as a BG myself I’ve never had problems learning other languages myself, there was always something I could pronounce back with BG background, in order to learn the language.
@aDionisss
@aDionisss 2 жыл бұрын
Same I’m Bulgarian learning Spanish isn’t that difficult but when it comes to pronunciation I’m perfect unlike my English classmates
@salamilid4125
@salamilid4125 2 жыл бұрын
What about French? It's not very difficult, but some words are hard for me to pronounce even with two language backgrounds.
@yasagarwal859
@yasagarwal859 3 жыл бұрын
Hindi has 8 cases being retaining all the 8 cases of PIE we put cases after object but before verb as its SOV. But the S and O often change places as OSV in ergative case which is a part of absolutive cases. We write what we speak. The cases are like prepositions. Hindi has no gender pronouns we use vaha in eastern dialect waha in western dialects. Every character represent 1 sound श represent an ś or š or щ sound as they are same ष is like श but pronounce by the pallet.and glotis together. Many sounds are indistinguishable by english speakers like क (ka)and ख(kha) and कि (ki) की(kī) k with long I. Like this bulgarian and hindi is related we have articles.
@cindysattelberger6278
@cindysattelberger6278 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
@VWApachey
@VWApachey 22 күн бұрын
Hi, I just discovered your channel because I was searching for channels where I can learn Bulgarian quickly and easily, especially for an older English speaking person who doesn't speak another language. I will look at other episodes to see if you are the one that can help me. Oh, by the way, I have liked and subscribed too .😊
@stefanhansen5882
@stefanhansen5882 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome! I want to learn Bulgarian!
@Sk0lzky
@Sk0lzky 2 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if lack of grammatical cases is such a great perk for someone who wants to learn other Slavic languages. I'd rather jump over the obstacle in the beginning than have to bother with it later on
@verao8626
@verao8626 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing 🙂 Merci beaucoup ! Дякую !
@sukromnevideo
@sukromnevideo 10 ай бұрын
Perfect video, well explained. I would choose the slavic language 1, depending on where I would travel/live or 2, depending on my friends, what language do they speak 3, or definitely Slovak, because slovak has a lot in common with Latin and with Germanic as well, and it's a central slavic language well understood by other slavs as well, it's kind of slavic esperanto 4, there is a new project "interslavic" language, which realy works, all slavs understand it, and the gramma is simplified, just like the simplified english.
@Allan-et5ig
@Allan-et5ig 2 жыл бұрын
I'm learning Russian. I guess I should have picked Bulgarian - articles and all. Excellent video; thanks.
@alexnikolov2654
@alexnikolov2654 2 жыл бұрын
stay with russian
@angel11111
@angel11111 3 жыл бұрын
Много добро педставяне!
@blagoslavpetkov3190
@blagoslavpetkov3190 2 жыл бұрын
Great video, Golyplot! Very well done!
@bradkarpenko4568
@bradkarpenko4568 Жыл бұрын
Thank you . I am Ukrainian/American but we have Bulgarian friend where I live . This helps me to know what to expect when learning some Bulgarian .
@HeroManNick132
@HeroManNick132 11 ай бұрын
Знаеш ли украински поне? И колко успяваш да разумяваш български? 😁
@maalmi
@maalmi 2 жыл бұрын
The Bulgarian verb system is super tricky!
@pathfinder2reality
@pathfinder2reality 2 жыл бұрын
I am Serbian, but I also speak Russian. When you speak two Slavic languages from different groups it is much easier to understand other Slavic languages. For me, Polish was weird at first. The accent and pronunciation was strange, but I could recognise many words that are common with East Slavic languages, but could most definetly recognise others that are common with South Slavic. In couple of months it all came to place and now I find it more similar to Serbian then Russian. As for Bulgarian, I can understand 70%, but to me sounds very archaic and at times very funny.
@HeroManNick132
@HeroManNick132 2 жыл бұрын
Същото бих казал за твоя език. Буквално като поставяте ударенията на първите гласните ми звучите сякаш твърде много си отваряте устата и да не говорим, че звучите като онези западни сръбски, македонски диалекти, които са по-близки до българския от стандартните версии.
@mark-howgh
@mark-howgh Ай бұрын
My superficial knowledge of Russian from the times when it was a compulsory language taught in Poland and my knowledge of my native language mean that today I understand almost everything that Belarusians and Ukrainians say.
@kilo9975
@kilo9975 2 жыл бұрын
unikalno video brat evala
@pravoslavn
@pravoslavn 2 жыл бұрын
Okay, Стевославъ, I see that you have the linguistic background necessary to answer a question which has perplexed me. In your estimation, which modern Slavic language in closest to Old Church Slavonic (considering, phonology, syntax, lexical stock, handling of verbs, etc) ??? Thanks for your time. -- кѣриллосавъ
@ClifffSVK
@ClifffSVK 2 жыл бұрын
There's no universal answer.
@Moonlight-wf3iz
@Moonlight-wf3iz 2 жыл бұрын
I know suuuper many people that are saying that Bulgarian is one of the hardest languages./Знам суууупер много хора,които казват,че българският е един от най-трудните езици.Благодаря на всички,които казват,че ще учат български! :)
@golyplot
@golyplot 2 жыл бұрын
I'm trying to convince them otherwise 😊
@emiln3340
@emiln3340 2 жыл бұрын
@@golyplot Аз уча български след 3 месеци и съм щастлив защото разбрах този текст. Еала. И благодаря за видеото❤️.да, Не е толкова трудно, но трябва да spend? време.
@TheTeme61
@TheTeme61 2 жыл бұрын
@@emiln3340 Мога да помагам, ако имате нужда. Поздрави!
@areloTET
@areloTET 2 жыл бұрын
Bulgarian doesn't seem too difficult. I could consider studying it. Edit: fixed a typo
@ihavepie9
@ihavepie9 2 жыл бұрын
So what happened, is it hard for you
@areloTET
@areloTET 2 жыл бұрын
@@ihavepie9 Haven't started yet.
@MrNiMo
@MrNiMo 2 жыл бұрын
how would you suggest to learn it ?
@BrianGreco
@BrianGreco 2 жыл бұрын
You’re a good presenter! Good luck on subs :)
@Vengir
@Vengir 3 жыл бұрын
One thing about stress in West Slavic languages: while Czech and Slovak stress on the first syllable, in Polish we stress on second to last. There are some exceptions to that rule, but we don't have words that only differ in stress, so there is no risk that you will be misunderstood. We also have a fairly consistent spelling… when you pronounce written text. Writing down speech is a whole different beast, as there may be more than one way to write the same sound, so you'd better know the language already before attempting that.
@user-sb2gt8dy6i
@user-sb2gt8dy6i 2 жыл бұрын
Czech is the most difficult, than polish, or, maybe they're like on the same level, but slovakian is the easiest by far. Czech to me sounds so alien. Love from croatia!!! Btw, i think that also because the polish one has lot of common words with other slavic languages, czech has so many that i don't understand :D
@katarzynaporoszewska3204
@katarzynaporoszewska3204 2 жыл бұрын
@@user-sb2gt8dy6i as a Czech - I have learned Polish relatively well, and I would say that while Polish grammar is maybe a little bit easier, all the weird sounds compensate for it :D but the most comprehensible language to me (after Slovak, of course) is Slovenian, which I havent even learned in any way. Btw I actually feel like Czech has more Slavic words than Polish, which seems to use quite a lot of German ones. However, many of those Slavic words were made up in the 1800s, so they cannot match other Slavic languages.
@AW-dt8ct
@AW-dt8ct 2 жыл бұрын
@@katarzynaporoszewska3204 Because Common Czech is a reconstructed language based on rural dialects, other slavic languages and extreme aversion for non-slavic words :)
@zahari20
@zahari20 2 жыл бұрын
Why is Bulgarian language so perfectly phonetic? The answer is very simple - the Cyrilic alphabet was created in Bulgaria in order to match the spoken language.. For every sound a letter was created. Many Greek letters were used , but also other letters were designed to match slavonik sounds that were not in the Greek language. This way letters for the sounds "sh", "ch", etc. were created.
@RanmaruRei
@RanmaruRei 2 жыл бұрын
Yet it has some Russian influence, because Я and Щ were not invented in Bulgaria, in fact.
@xsc1000
@xsc1000 2 жыл бұрын
Its more complicated. Before cyrillic there was glagolic. It was the first alphabet which has the right letter for each (slavic) sound, but letters were very complicated to write. So cyrilic was the way how to simplify it, it took standard greek letters and added similar looking letters for the rest. In fact you can do the same with latin script too - add letters for slavic specific sounds - so Czech is also phonetic, because we did this with latin script.
@MyNameIsSteveYesitis
@MyNameIsSteveYesitis 2 жыл бұрын
The original Cyrillic alphabet wasn't perfectly phonetic though. Even though it was more phonetic than most other alphabets. The simplest form of the Cyrillic alphabet is the one used in Serbia because it has been "dumbed down" essentially. They got rid of letters like я ё and ю, which are essentially ja(ya), jo(yo) and ju(yu). Instead adding a standalone letter for J(y sound). Because those 3 letters are composed of 2 sounds and not 1.
@Gameworks1407
@Gameworks1407 2 жыл бұрын
It's.not.phonetic it's phonemic 💀
@RanmaruRei
@RanmaruRei 2 жыл бұрын
@@MyNameIsSteveYesitis Vuk Karadžić reform for Serbian made sense because Ю, Я and Є was on the begining of a word or after Л, Н and vowels.
@bobandonevski7266
@bobandonevski7266 2 жыл бұрын
Good job bro, well explained
@evgeniaangelova6556
@evgeniaangelova6556 3 ай бұрын
3:13 We also share some words that are the same (at least in Norwegian) like basseng - басейн, svinekjøtt - свинско, svaker - свекър, koffert - куфар,... And many nore that I don't remember now but I found it really interesting as I've been learning Norwegian.
@lonelyhetaliafangirl4936
@lonelyhetaliafangirl4936 2 жыл бұрын
Proud Bulgarian here 🇧🇬
@Kurdedunaysiri
@Kurdedunaysiri 2 жыл бұрын
I picked Bulgarian and Macedonian as my 8. and 9. languages
@AvOs1976
@AvOs1976 2 жыл бұрын
Hi from Rio de Janeiro city! Wich Slavic language could be the Slavic language? Is it right to say that exists a central Slavic language? Dobra den!
@felixsilvestri9428
@felixsilvestri9428 2 жыл бұрын
what do you mean? There is no central Slavic language. They have similarities and these similarities can vary depending on which group this or that Slavic language belong to. I am a Russian speaking guy didn't understand a word when I was in Bulgaria. I mean I could understand written language ( just a bit of course) but I couldn't understand oral speech at all.
@ivanpetrov5185
@ivanpetrov5185 2 жыл бұрын
@@felixsilvestri9428 That's a common thread. Bulgarians understand pretty much 90-95% Russian (there are very few words we have no clue what they mean), but Russians don't understand any Bulgarian at all. It is possible that is because of Soviet times everybody was studying Russian. And Russians never studied Bulgarian. By the way, we understand pretty much 100% of Serbo-Croatian, but Serbs don't understand anything that we say. And we never studied Serbo-Croatian language.
@felixsilvestri9428
@felixsilvestri9428 2 жыл бұрын
@@ivanpetrov5185 young people, who were born after the collapse of USSR don't understand any Russian. They ask only English for communication.
@gerriettevanewijk
@gerriettevanewijk 2 жыл бұрын
How can there be inflexions, when there are no cases?
@klarkz
@klarkz 2 жыл бұрын
There are genders and inflexions mark the gender in adjectives and participles.
@RanmaruRei
@RanmaruRei 2 жыл бұрын
Inflection is any change of a word by grammar. Even nouns lack cases, they yet have numbers (singular and plural), vocative, count form and articles (it's not separate, but, in fact, an iflection in Bulgarian). Adjectives yet have gender. And inflections of the verbs in Bulgarian are insane, the most complex among Slavic languages.
@marcellotenarta5233
@marcellotenarta5233 2 жыл бұрын
You know in Indonesian, we have no cases, no verb conjugations, no genders (not even for he/she), no plurals (words can be reduplicated but it is not a must), the verb 'to be' is not a must so it can be eliminated, no weird spellings/irregular stuff, and the phonology is relatively simple!
@HeroManNick132
@HeroManNick132 2 жыл бұрын
What about Malay?
@ksawerykaminski2606
@ksawerykaminski2606 6 ай бұрын
@@HeroManNick132 about the same simplicity
@wojciechmytnik828
@wojciechmytnik828 2 жыл бұрын
In 99% of the cases Polish puts the stress on second syllable from the end, for example koLEBka (a cradle), koleBECZka (a little cradle).
@katarzynaporoszewska3204
@katarzynaporoszewska3204 2 жыл бұрын
People from the Northeast Czechia (Silesia and a bit around it) do the same, which makes listening to them pretty annoying for the rest of the country, who put stress on the first syllable :)
@catamountcubing4851
@catamountcubing4851 3 жыл бұрын
really wanna learn bulgarian, do you know of any good places to learn?
@glen4757
@glen4757 2 жыл бұрын
I can't seem to find any good online resources (for free), I really would love to learn the language but it's difficult..
@winniemaereact1391
@winniemaereact1391 Жыл бұрын
Anybody knows of ressources/materials to learn Bulgarian?
@konstantinkodzhabashev1694
@konstantinkodzhabashev1694 3 жыл бұрын
Start learning it and you'll find out that it isnt easy at all
@dav2ry7
@dav2ry7 2 жыл бұрын
Easiest Slavic language tho.
@setts9416
@setts9416 2 жыл бұрын
it's easy you dim-wit
@xXrandomryzeXx
@xXrandomryzeXx 2 жыл бұрын
No language is easy to learn. The more you get into a language, the more you see how much harder it is.
@setts9416
@setts9416 2 жыл бұрын
@@xXrandomryzeXx i don't trust anyone with the name AlexProBG
@jeljel-vb7ur
@jeljel-vb7ur Жыл бұрын
@@dav2ry7 It's not.
@topazbutterfly1853
@topazbutterfly1853 3 жыл бұрын
Bulgarian and Macedonian are very similar, including the no case system and the articles, so I assume Macedonian is also really simple.
@BeerRepublic
@BeerRepublic 2 жыл бұрын
So called "Macedonian" is Macedonian dialect of Bulgarian language, not a separate language.
@topazbutterfly1853
@topazbutterfly1853 2 жыл бұрын
@@BeerRepublic It was until it got more vocabulary from Serbian. It now has enough differences to be considered a language itself
@BeerRepublic
@BeerRepublic 2 жыл бұрын
@@topazbutterfly1853 OK, it's Balkan Esperanto, a mish-mash of a language, a kind of Serbo-Bulgarian dialect. Lol 😂😂😂
@BeerRepublic
@BeerRepublic 2 жыл бұрын
@@topazbutterfly1853 No. Its not a language, the same way you can say Torlakian dialect is a language, but is not.
@BeerRepublic
@BeerRepublic 2 жыл бұрын
@@topazbutterfly1853... and how would be right to call that so called language as per your opinion. It can't be Macedonian, because Macedonian is extinct dialect of Greek language or Bulgarian language. Must be either Northmacedonian, Novomacedonian or TITOMACEDONIAN. Give me a break. If two of your neighbouring countries don't recognise your fake ethnicity and fake language then you have no ethnicity or language. Skopja or Shkupi dialect may be called. Lol
@williammcghee863
@williammcghee863 2 жыл бұрын
My friend, what is the best way to learn the Cyrillic alphabet?
@golyplot
@golyplot 2 жыл бұрын
Checkout my channel for a video on how to learn cyrillic.
@lionheart5078
@lionheart5078 2 жыл бұрын
The spokesman for the Bulgarian language :). Nice video
@wolfgang4043
@wolfgang4043 2 жыл бұрын
Great video, thank you🙂! Among Slavic languages, Slovenian has definite article "ta" at the beginning of the word. Just, the official Slovenian language was so distorted and deliberately stripped of all its enormous diversity it is criminal. What you read in the books or see on TV is an artificial mess of a language which nobody speaks, because they changed grammar drastically and forced it into unrealistic, crude, dry conformity. Of course they right exorcised out the definite article, too. With delight.
@golyplot
@golyplot 2 жыл бұрын
This is fascinating, any resources I can check out on Slovenian grammar?
@wolfgang4043
@wolfgang4043 2 жыл бұрын
@@golyplot Hm. There is "Slovene grammar" on Google. There also are exercises in Slovene grammar. But the definite article is not in there, it was expelled (my guess is, it was too close to German thing, everything German was expelled). A crime happened to this language. You can get an insight into Slovene via that, with warning. The grammar is artificial, an Esperanto like experiment to try to unify an enormous number of dialects, which was the wrong solution and now not even the natives can speak it well. Foreigners learn Slovene, pass the exams and end up understanding nothing in the street. The true Slovene language is only in its 73 dialects and 600 sth subdialects. The official grammar can only be a temporary guide.
@golyplot
@golyplot 2 жыл бұрын
@@wolfgang4043 Language standardization has its impacts...it's the same effect everywhere. Slovenian is an interesting case thou, I will definitely look for some resources on how Slovenian was standardized.
@DrakesdenChannel
@DrakesdenChannel 2 жыл бұрын
@@golyplot Slovenian is like Croatian, it's a name for a variety of dialects and languages that are ultimately in fact regional dialect continuum elements. For example you'll find that Prlekija and Prekmurje Slovenes have a Pannonian negation and are perfectly intelligible with kajkavian Croatian because they descent from Braslav regnum Slavs (today's northern Croats and eastern Slovenes) whereas many southern and Risian Slovenes share in-tandem elements in Croatian chakavian as per the dialect continuum.
@wolfgang4043
@wolfgang4043 2 жыл бұрын
@@DrakesdenChannel Yes, I spoke with people in Croatia about the grammar problems. They are especially concerned and disappointed with the use of stokavski elements in the official grammar. They use ca (meki c or even tj), co and kaj. They're concerned about these old elements being lost. Among the things I greet indeed is the use of i by the people of Dalmatia. They use it most of the time, proudly. It is is a pity when a few college people make a very rich grammar stiff and suffocate what was once a bubbling language, full of life.
@leonstevens1382
@leonstevens1382 2 жыл бұрын
Bulgarian needs to simplify its past tenses as have other Slavic languages. The definite suffix article “to” is just the Slavic “to” (“this/that”) put at the ends of nouns. But I would agree that generally Bulgarian/Macedonian is the easiest to learn. No doubt about it, especially for Serbo-Croatian speakers.
@ricktownend9144
@ricktownend9144 2 жыл бұрын
Article - same as in French/Spanish/Italian: Latin ille/illa (that) became le/la etc.. What the hell happened in Romania?
@jeljel-vb7ur
@jeljel-vb7ur Жыл бұрын
Correction: They appear "easier" to learn. The language bites you hard later.
@ronseymour4976
@ronseymour4976 7 ай бұрын
I found this interesting and informative; it is difficult to encapsulate the nature of Bulgarian relative to other Slavic languages in a presentation lasting little over fourteen minutes and still cover the salient features of the language.
@genossenpedro
@genossenpedro 2 ай бұрын
I hope u post more vids
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