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| Fortuna Diglot Newbie BulgariaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6211 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English Studies: Czech | Message 1 of 36 23 November 2007 at 4:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello, everyone!
I have found this forum by chance and I found it intersting. I have read some of the topics here, sure I missed some of them, but now I would let myself open one new topic in this Philological room - about Slavic philology in common /in common, because it is an endless topic/ with the hope that some of you will share opinions about slavic languages and maybe literature. I'm curious if there is someone who studies in the field of this kind of philology, or maybe someone who knows one of the languages of that group. I myself am Bulgarian, so my native language is Bulgarian and I'm a student of Slavic philology and study Czech language as well...So, I won't like to sound boring now but make a good discussion and as a beginning this is a kind of a brainstorming for you. I'm waiting for your associations with slavic philology :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 36 23 November 2007 at 8:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Did you want to have a discussion about comparing Slavonic languages? It's a little boring unless you're into them like a few of us on this forum. ;-)
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| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6775 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 36 28 December 2007 at 1:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Fortuna,
quite a few people on this forum know a Slavic language or two. Do you have something specific in mind that you want to discuss? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6242 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes 14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish | Message 4 of 36 16 March 2008 at 7:19am | IP Logged | ||
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I, for one, would rate Slavic languages among the most interesting European languages. I'm currently learning Bulgarian and I'd like to brush up on my Russian in the near future. I'd also be glad if someone could point out a few good ressources for learning Bulgarian, since there don't seem to be many.
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 5 of 36 14 April 2008 at 9:21am | IP Logged | ||
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I have to admit my knowledge of Slavic languages is sparse, but dabbling in a few, I wonder if the Slavic languages are more closely related than the Romance languages. I say this because I've found it a lot easier to recognise numbers in different Slavic languages compared to the numbers in the Romance languages. Perhaps it's my untrained ear, but Polish, Croatian and Czech seem very close in their number systems, with Russian and Bulgarian not too distant.
By comparison, Portugese, French and Spanish sound very different, even if they do share the same root language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| poziomka Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 6115 days ago 21 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Spanish, Hungarian | Message 6 of 36 14 April 2008 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
I've read somewhere that it takes a Pole ten to twelve months of active studying (by active I mean like an hour a day) of Czech to speak it fluently. I'm learning Spanish and a little bit of French and although I do not have any experience of learning Czech or Slovak I would say that the West Slavic languages are more closely related than the Romance languages are (well, Spanish and French at least). Edited by poziomka on 14 April 2008 at 2:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 7 of 36 06 June 2008 at 9:32am | IP Logged | ||
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I would say they're about the same in terms of similarity and difference as the Romance languages are. To know one Slavic language is to partly know the others, and the West Slavic ones are pretty close, especially Czech and Slovak.
In the 17th century, the Hapsburgs imported large numbers of Polish priests into Bohemia to bring the "heretics" back to the Catholic Church. The Polish of the priests was largely comprehensible to their Czech parishioners, but not totally so. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 8 of 36 09 June 2008 at 7:17am | IP Logged | ||
Russian and Bulgarian do share some vocabulary. Many words are not exactly the same but still easily recognizable. However the grammar is quite different - the lack of cases in Bulgarian probably being the most noticeable difference; The definitive article in Bulgarian is a suffix, etc. When I'm watching Russian TV, I usually understand big chunks of what they are saying, probably around 50%. But I did study Russian for a year in high school and was exposed to a lot of Russian media in the past. I can hazard a guess that without any prior training the level of mutual understanding would be 20-30% max. Edited by Sennin on 09 June 2008 at 7:41am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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