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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5401 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes  Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 57 of 63 19 November 2011 at 2:46am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Actually I am an exception. Well my people are. I'm a Lowlander Slovak (I live in Vojvodina) and we here have very little exposure to Czech, almost none in fact. Plus, we retained an archaic pronunciation of Slovak as our dialect hasn't gone though the same process as did Slovak in Slovakia during the Czechoslovak period. To us, honestly, the language of Slovaks from Slovakia, regardless of whether from the east or west, has a distinct flavour of Czech, both in sound and in vocabulary. Older people from Slovakia however, still speak a bit the way we do, especially from backward rural areas where there was little exposure to modern technology and culture, and thus modern language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6582 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, Hungarian*, Mandarin, EnglishC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese | Message 58 of 63 24 November 2011 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Delodephius,
that was exactly what I was pointing to. I said, that to me it seems, that the fact that Slovaks in Slovakia understand Czech so well is only due to the exposure to this language that other native speaking Slovaks like you didn't have. What I said was, that that you might be an exception among your friends, but that you probably are not. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cherepaha Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6587 days ago 126 posts - 175 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Polish, Latin, French | Message 59 of 63 12 August 2016 at 10:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Mm-m, урод means "freak" only in colloquial, slang Russian, the neutral meaning is "ugly", as was suggested earlier. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cherepaha Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6587 days ago 126 posts - 175 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Polish, Latin, French | Message 60 of 63 19 August 2016 at 8:56am | IP Logged | ||||||||
"Prdel" could be of the same origin as Russian "пред'ел", which means "the edge, the end". In that case it would make sense that the end or edge of a body, the buttocks, would be called "prdel" in Czech. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6270 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 61 of 63 21 July 2017 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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In Max Hastings' Catastrophe, about 1914, the first year of World War 1, he cites
a Russian book mentioning a conversation between a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army who had been captured and a Russian (possibly Ukrainian) soldier. The Russian asks if he is Hungarian. The latter says he is Slovak (over 40% of the Austro-Hungarian Army belonged to one Slavic nationality or another). They commiserate with each other about being at war because their respective emperors wanted to go to war. What I find interesting about this episode is there seemed to be little or no language barrier between a Slovak and a Russian, at least as long as they kept the conversation simple. I have read that some Eastern Slovak dialects are transitional to western Ukrainian ones. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Dannylearns Newbie Netherlands learnlanguage.me Joined 2719 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Studies: English* | Message 62 of 63 25 July 2017 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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What about Slavik languages with different alphabets. I'm thinking of learning russian
and I have some experience in slovak.. this should help but it will still be tricky as the alphabet is so different. did anyone do such a transition before, any tips? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Dannylearns Newbie Netherlands learnlanguage.me Joined 2719 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Studies: English* | Message 63 of 63 01 August 2017 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Russian has started and there are indeed many similarities!
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