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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 25 of 38 06 August 2009 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I find the Slavic languages generally rather pleasant sounding and rich, especially in consonants. I like Russian's palatalisation in particular.
Slovak sounds to me like Polish, minus nasal vowels. Czech the same, but a little more staccato. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5832 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 26 of 38 09 August 2009 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I also found Czech rather strange sounding and not very attractive when I first heard it. I have come to like it after studying it for so long but I think Slovak, Polish and especially Russian sound much nicer. Polish sounded strange after coming to it from Czech, as if someone was speaking Czech with a speech defect.
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| Musuko Diglot Newbie Czech Republic Joined 5583 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Czech*, Slovak Studies: English, Russian, Japanese | Message 27 of 38 13 August 2009 at 12:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Well ... As native Czech is for me interesting read this thread. Please continue :)
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 28 of 38 13 August 2009 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was listening to Roma talking in what I recognised as Slovak. I found I could understand something of what they said, from its resemblance to Polish, although it was hard for me to follow it consecutively. I have not actually studied Slovak but may become interested in the language.
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| kyknos Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5496 days ago 103 posts - 140 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English Studies: German, Spanish | Message 29 of 38 08 November 2009 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Well. Czech has many dialects, the sound is very variable. For example, I will compare the language spoken in three major cities: Prague, Olomouc and Ostrava. I live in Prague for two dozens years and it is my native dialect. I have no problems with it, it sounds neutral to me. But I know that many people really hate it. When I listen to Ostrava speaker with heavy local accent, it really tears my ears. It sounds horrible to me. On the other hand I could listen to spoken Czech language from Olomouc region (hanáčtina) as to music. It is really beautiful and I would vote for it as for the most beautiful language I know. The Czech language is really variable, especially its sound. Sometimes you can even tell different parts of Prague (our capital) speakers are from... Edited by kyknos on 09 November 2009 at 12:00am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6678 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 30 of 38 09 November 2009 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | ||
I had the same impression. Plus it sounded much less "flowing" than Russian or Polish. More staccato, hop-hop-hop, harsh and a bit odd to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 31 of 38 10 November 2009 at 1:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Haha, all Slavic languages are "mystery" languages to me... I can't tell them apart, except for: Russian, Ukrainian and Polish...
Of course, I can recognise the Eastern languages that are NOT strictly Slavic, like Hungarian, Romanian etc.... But Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian...etc. I wouldn' know :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| georgiqg Triglot Newbie Spain Joined 4904 days ago 36 posts - 50 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, Spanish, English Studies: German, Russian | Message 32 of 38 13 October 2011 at 1:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm a native speaker of Bulgarian and I also know a little bit of Russian, but I have never studied other Slavic languages. I can't distinguish all of them, but when I hear one, I think I could always say if it is:
- Bulgarian - Russian - Ukrainian or Belorussian (I can't always tell them apart) - Polish - Czech or Slovak (I can't distinguish them, or at least, not yet) - Macedonian - BCS or Slovenian -- Georgi -- 1 person has voted this message useful |
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