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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 73 of 114 03 January 2012 at 1:53am | IP Logged |
For Croatian it's also Bosnian and Montenegrin (sp?). And this situation has both advantages and disadvantages, I think - you'll be understood but it might be more of a challenge to understand other "zones" of the dialect continuum.
Liking the sound of a language is very important, yes. But as for resources, I think from these ones only Russian has more than Polish.
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5396 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 74 of 114 03 January 2012 at 2:06am | IP Logged |
From what I understand, standard Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are virtually the same language (from a linguistic perspective). There's not much of a dialectal continuum there. Serbian is very close to it - the main difference being a different pronunciation of the yat - e/i/ije. The alphabet is different for Serbian (Cyrillic), but otherwise, there's not much more difference between them than there is between - say - standard American and Canadian English.
That being said, there are political and ethnic issues involved, which is why they are called different things.
Edited by Kerrie on 03 January 2012 at 2:08am
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5259 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian
| Message 75 of 114 04 January 2012 at 5:42am | IP Logged |
Here is my log for this team. http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?
TID=30655&PN=1&TPN=1
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| GRagazzo Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4962 days ago 115 posts - 168 votes Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French
| Message 76 of 114 05 January 2012 at 5:18am | IP Logged |
Serpent I am ready for you to change my Slavic language. And I choose *drum role*
-Russian!-
I love how it sounds and I also realize there are more resources and it is a more used
language. I will henceforth commence my studying for 2012!
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 77 of 114 05 January 2012 at 6:14am | IP Logged |
Done!
aw, great<3 there's a lot of stuff you can find for free:))))
as Barry Farber put it, don't tell the Poles, but they would have a far less confusing writing system if they used cyrillics XDDD
Good luck:)
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| kyknos Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5497 days ago 103 posts - 140 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 78 of 114 05 January 2012 at 12:34pm | IP Logged |
Does anybody have any experience with Lusatian/Sorbian/Wendish? This is the slavic language I want to learn. I understand most of the written text, but it is hard to understand when it is spoken (but I have found only few samples).
Wotrow (němsce Ostro) je hornjołužiska wjes w Budyskim wokrjesu. Sydlišćo je stare, na čož pokazuje tež němske mjeno Ostro. Wone njeje poprawom němske, ale zdźeržane staroserbske pomjenowanje ostrow („kupa“, přir. rusce „остров“, čěsce „ostrov“). Hižo w lěće 1319 naspomni so mjeno Oztrow. Wjeska wupřestrěwa so wot lěweho brjoha Klóšterskeje wody hač horje ke Kopcam, po blišej wokolinje derje widźomnym wjeršku.
It is so cute! It reminds me of older forms of the Czech language.
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| Cutter Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5356 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian
| Message 79 of 114 05 January 2012 at 9:29pm | IP Logged |
Hi Serpent et al.,
Sorry for being so very late to the party, please add me in!
My goals are...
Slavic: Russian, thanks to reading Dostoevsky when I was 15. I have been studying seriously for three months before Christmas and would like to achieve a strong communicative level (let's say, A2) this year, you know, where I can name things around the house, be of use when there is a need for a Russian speaker, and so on. I would push it further but...
Romance: ... I am once again starting serious study of French. I plan to make this language second nature and will hopefully make a semi-permanent move to France this year. Great literature here, as well.
Special mentions go out to:
Spanish - my first foreign language - where is the love?
Irish - wanderlustre extraordinaire - I will be back.
Croatian - ?
Edited by Cutter on 05 January 2012 at 9:30pm
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 80 of 114 05 January 2012 at 10:43pm | IP Logged |
Hi and welcome!
Post the link when you start a log:)
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