really? i think sticking to simple language is very easy, obviously if its difficult words or listening to people not speaking directly to you that might be hard. i also lived along the border with poland for a while... so might be easier since i knew a lot of silesians and poles growing up so we all sort of learned the easiest words to converse with there
for me i was never properly taught how to write in czech so written language can be difficult for me actually. i should probably go on duolingo at some point and learn how but speaking czech doesnt come up for me a lot in my day to day outside of talking to grandma :sadness: i do think if all the slavic countries came together and found all the words most similar and tried to make a sort of pidgin language that everyone knew thatd be cool
The main issue was people talking too damn fast lol. For some reason I find slovak easier to understand, even though the sample size isn't that high for me to reliably say so.
Also have a look at Lusatian languages. They're a fun oddity, as they're the other west slavic language barely anyone knows (the other being Kashubian)
ive met sorbians before! they were fun to listen to. a lot actually moved to czechia, they sound a lot like czech but with our german influences even more pronounced. i loved living on the border so many lanaguage shenanigans
Oh yeah, I think I saw that one already. Like I posted before, I got family near the border and to me Belarusian is hard to distinguish from Russian. But I never spoke to one in person.
yeah you eventually are just in tune and understand what words are similar and can communicate that way with lived experience... a lot of these words are similar regardless of the language though some languages are trickier
really? i think sticking to simple language is very easy, obviously if its difficult words or listening to people not speaking directly to you that might be hard. i also lived along the border with poland for a while... so might be easier since i knew a lot of silesians and poles growing up so we all sort of learned the easiest words to converse with there
for me i was never properly taught how to write in czech so written language can be difficult for me actually. i should probably go on duolingo at some point and learn how but speaking czech doesnt come up for me a lot in my day to day outside of talking to grandma :sadness: i do think if all the slavic countries came together and found all the words most similar and tried to make a sort of pidgin language that everyone knew thatd be cool
The main issue was people talking too damn fast lol. For some reason I find slovak easier to understand, even though the sample size isn't that high for me to reliably say so.
Also have a look at Lusatian languages. They're a fun oddity, as they're the other west slavic language barely anyone knows (the other being Kashubian)
ive met sorbians before! they were fun to listen to. a lot actually moved to czechia, they sound a lot like czech but with our german influences even more pronounced. i loved living on the border so many lanaguage shenanigans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsBDoJfU_iE you might find this language video fun btw i love this guy
Oh yeah, I think I saw that one already. Like I posted before, I got family near the border and to me Belarusian is hard to distinguish from Russian. But I never spoke to one in person.
yeah you eventually are just in tune and understand what words are similar and can communicate that way with lived experience... a lot of these words are similar regardless of the language though some languages are trickier