Reply With QuoteI could probably pick it up muy rapido!Originally Posted by Musashi
Think of italian, spaniard and french trying to understand each other using their respective languages only. There are similar words, some are synonyms, but in the end, different languages.
And Mujo, nice idea !Ex-Yugoslavianese has a special sonority to it, I'll use it.
I could probably pick it up muy rapido!
Swedish, Finnish, English. Understand Norwegian and Danish to some extent, but far from fluent.
I see. When I learned Serbo-Croatian 101, our teacher told us about the people around Nis, where it was common not to use all the grammatical declinations of the words. I had immense sympathy for the inhabitants of Nis back then.
Serbian
Magyar (Hungarian)
English
Spanish
In that order.
Not Croatian or Bosnian or any of the other ones?
The language is called Serbo-Croatian, I don't really consider them seperate languages.
Serbs say "kuca" Croatians say "dom" but we know what the other person is talking about.
Love the burek avatar, makes me hungry evertime I see it.
Never had any real problems in Macedonia (FYROM) - Slovenes laughed at me but I got there in the end. I can make sense of written Czech but it sounds like gobbledegook to me...
ikavian and ekavian, Hljeb, Kruh, Aerodrom, Zracna Luka - I could go on... just need to remember where you are
Yes different but not so different that we can't understand each other.Never had any real problems in Macedonia (FYROM) - Slovenes laughed at me but I got there in the end. I can make sense of written Czech but it sounds like gobbledegook to me...
ikavian and ekavian, Hljeb, Kruh, Aerodrom, Zracna Luka - I could go on... just need to remember where you are
English
Spanish
Italian
and some German
I've never talked to a Macedonian. I've watched Macedonian partizan movies growing up. They had subtitles. I could never understand without them.Never had any real problems in Macedonia (FYROM) - Slovenes laughed at me but I got there in the end. I can make sense of written Czech but it sounds like gobbledegook to me...
ikavian and ekavian, Hljeb, Kruh, Aerodrom, Zracna Luka - I could go on... just need to remember where you are
I've met plenty Slovenians who spoke and understood Serbo-Croatian. But...IMO, again, I emphasize only IMO, they try to excercise some level of superiority to Bosnians. They are usually kinda assholish. While they can speak and understand, they only spoke Slovenian. So, English it was.
maybe its like Portuguese and spanish, I can understand Portuguese by reading it or if its slowly spoken, but not if its spoken like they usually speak.
Fluent in Afrikaans and English. By default I understand Dutch and Flemish. Did German at school , Latin at Varsity and BS at home. Know some Portuguese , Chitswa , Fanagalo , Tswana and Zulu.
Still to this day can not understand them that has teats!
Last edited by Dinges; 07-18-2012 at 05:32 PM.
French, English and a little bit of Spanish.
Fluent in English and Spanish. I dabbed a lil French before, been trying to get back at it.
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