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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6526 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 1 of 3 30 June 2009 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am thinking to spend some time in Slovenia. I've got plenty of matertials for learning "Serbo-croatian". I also have an intermediate level of Russian. Would it be acceptable to use this as a basis for communicating in Slovenia? Are the two languages generally mutually comprehensible? Are there any political hang ups/issues with using S-c in slovenia?
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 3 30 June 2009 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I really don't think you'll have a problem -- the languages in the former Yugoslavian states are really a continuum and there's no hard border between what sounds Serbian, Croatian or Bosnian. At a beginner level, you should be fine. No book will teach you the exact dialect of any location anyway.
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| 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 3 of 3 30 June 2009 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | ||
If you use SC in Slovenia, you shouldn't have too much of a problem making yourself understood. There is a border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia nowadays which is interfering with Croatia's desire to join the EU but using SC shouldn't become a huge obstacle for you in getting by in Slovenia. I sometimes used SC when I was in Slovenia if I couldn't express myself adequately with my less-than-strong grasp of Slovenian (out of courtesy, I would recommend that you learn at least some Slovenian while you're there). The mutual intelligibility between Slovenian and SC is somewhat asymmetrical. Slovenes generally have an easier time understanding speakers of SC than the other way around. This asymmetry is reinforced by the fact that most Slovenes older than 30 learned SC during the days of Yugoslavia and not all of them have forgotten their lessons (some Slovenes are still fluent in SC). Knowing some Russian may help with recognizing some words or constructions in Slovenian and fill in the gaps if you can't deduce a Slovenian sentence using just your knowledge of SC. Yet unless you're conversant in a Kajkavian dialect, you may have a tougher time than expected when trying to understand Slovenian. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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