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greetings from taiwan! I enjoy watching your video including your presentation and any other kind. I would like to ask a question irrelated to the topic hoping you dont mind.I accidently notice that you have been on a russian tv show,but I couldnt find the link,which i realy wanna watch it,would you mind giving me the link?

Why slavs pretend they dont understand eachother ?

I will be 70 years old soon. In my village in Toyama Prefecture, children used to speak to their seniors (grownups at home and outside) with 敬語. Nowadays, kids speak to their parents and older people as if friends.

Why is it that while I am writing this in Germanic, no one calls this "Germanic", but English!---, but everyone seems to be calling all of these other languages "Slavic"? In Paris I speak Romance, and in Spain I speak Latin! Why this discrepancy?--It seems a bit demeaning to talk about "Slavic" languages INSTEAD of using the name of the particular language as in the case of ALL of the OTHER languages in the OTHER groups!

There is shortcuts of Russia + Poland so we can’t speak about some “ukranian” language. We speak about a dialect of shortcuts of Russia + Poland. *people who don’t know history will understand my words a bit later 😄🫧

Unless you want to travel in Putler's RuZZia---I suggest you learn one of the many other Slavic languages in the Western world. If you speak RuZZian in RuZZia with an accent---you might be looked at as a western agent--if you speak RuZZian in the West you also might be considered as a possible Putler supporter and spy.

Your knowledge of Ukrainian is FLAWED there are SEVEN cases in Ukrainian which INCLUDES the Vocative case--It is RuZZian which does NOT have the vocative case! You also undercount the number of Ukrainian speakers in the world by a significant amount! I am studying Ukrainian and with Ukrainian it is easier to understand ALL of the other Slavic languages (RuZZian is the MOST dissimilar to Ukrainian as RuZZian was an invented language based on Old Church Slavonic--a "dead" canonical language related to ancient Bulgarian). The only reason that Ukrainians understand RuZZian is because they were FORCED to learn RuZZian during the RuZZian Empire and the Soviet Union.--This is changing because of the war! If you learn RuZZian all you will accomplish is to be treated as a foreign agent because of your accent.---Most of the RuZZian speakers have never left their isolated empire--You will most likely encounter people in Europe who speak one of the other Slavic languages instead of RuZZian--and will be more appreciated for knowing one of their languages!

Learn both haha

Latinic and script cirilic we have a choice I using Latinic because influence of West country's through the culture and art, any art including. Music

Who TODAY wants to learn the language of the RuZZian fascists? Ukrainian is a a more CENTRAL language to all of the other languages--RuZZian is an artificially created language which has been imposed on non-RuZZian speaking colonials of the Empire!

RuZZians are NOT all Slavs although they speak an artificially created Slavic type language created from Old Church Slavonic!

Hello Tim, thank you for your wonderful video. Just to clarify, Serbian has only Cyrillic. :) The Serbian Constitution exclusively mandates the Cyrillic as the official alphabet (Art. 10), while the "law based on the Constitution shall regulate official use of other languages and scripts" (the Bill on the Use of the Serbian Language provides a special protection to Cyrillic prescribing penalties whereas the Law on official use of languages and alphabets still favors Cyrillic over other scripts). In the northern province of Vojvodina, there are 6 official languages (and their scripts) with legally equal status while ethnic minorities are language-wise additionally protected at the local level accordingly. The informal use of the Latin script is the reminiscence of "The Serbo-Croatian language" - a political construction formally established by the Novi Sad Agreement of 1954) as the official language of socialist Yugoslavia, as well as a means for facilitating the position of national minorities who could only use Latin until they learn the official script and become literate. The Serbian language, therefore, both from a literary and a legal point of view, has only the Cyrillic alphabet, and the informal use of the Latin alphabet is, due to the aforementioned, somewhat more pronounced in informal communication compared to other countries where the Cyrillic alphabet is exclusively used (e.g., Macedonians often use Latin in informal texting and online although their language has only Cyrillic - a similar phenomenon of informal use of Latin in Arabic). All the best! :)

Serbs, Croats, Bosnians and Montenegrins speak THE SAME language - the Serbian language. But for political reasons Croats and Muslims from Bosnia call it by the name of their nations: _"Croatian language, Bosnian language"_ . A part of Montenegrins still accept that the language is Serbian, and a part of Montenegrins only call it "mother tongue", because the process of identity conversion (under the influence of foreign powers) is still a relatively new phenomenon among Montenegrins. In Montenegro, there is ongoing indoctrination that they are _"different from Serbs"_ and that their language is called _"Montenegrin"_ . All this is like if Australians decided to call the English they speak _"Australian"_ .

Good video.

Im Russian and Ive dealed with almost all Slavic languages. If you are interested in a Slav country, learn exactly the language spoken there. The Slavic languages are not like Romance languages. We barely know anything about them. Cuisine, music, films and other media stuff are NOT even regionally known. Neither Russia's stuff, its mainly destinated to its local market. Before meeting my boyfriend from Czechia, I mostly knew Prague and Kafka. I had no idea of how Czech sounded. My b/f and me we never managed to speak any Russian/Czech mixture, just ununderstanfable. And I started Czech from the very A1. Same happened in Slovenia, maybe just not so bad in Poland, but anyway, it's kind of random separate words tou can understand audibly. Thev written language is somewhat better, but dont expect much either.

As the famous Croatian writer Predrag Matvejević once said, "The Serbo-Croatian language is the language that Croats call 'Croatian' and Serbs call 'Serbian'." Fantastic overview, sir!

Your ukraine stars are not accurate. 80% percent of people in Ukraine speak also Russian.

Isso não é minha praia.

1+1=3 This is smart, 1+1=11, but i am jenius lol

Im a native Russian speaker and understand 💯 Belorussian but I don’t understand ukranian anymore. The same is with my sisters husband who is ukranian. He doesn’t understand some parts of ukranian language of the latest 10 years. He says that it’s really crazy how is everything going.

slovenia harder than polish💪🏻💪🏻

1. Serbian cyrilic uses simple rule: one letter = one voice. Because of that, I think that it is the easiest alphabet to learn, but Koreans says that their alphabet is easiest. I would like to hear your oppinion about that - which script is easiest? 2. It's usefull to know both scripts but in handwriting it's hard to convert from one script to another. A letter from opposite script would easily "sneak" into the sentence that is written.

Well, I used to have a friend from the West Carpathia area (which once was a part of Czechoslovakia) and he was truly able to understand any Slavic language and spoke many of them without problems. He mentioned that he was also watching all kinds of nearby countries TV shows since he was small, too. BTW, your translation of "Kolik řečí umíš, tolikrát jsi člověkem" is an interesting one, did not see it like that, but valid still, I guess (I personally would not leave out the word human in it, as for me it describes learning languages like a mission for humanity, every time you learn a new one, you become a new human being....). And we Czechs respect Slovak as language, though they are also very similar and mutually intelligible.

But reality is if you know even one Slavic language you can hardly understand every of them, I am czech and if someone speak to me choratians I understand.

Or you can learn interslavic language and this language is understandable for every slavs. (I can approved as a slav :D)

Always worth mentioning and to clear the ambiguity of the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets being used interchangeably, you CAN use both of them freely but not in one text, document, paragraph, etc. i.e. the alphabets are NOT allowed be mixed, if one starts writing in Cyrillic, they must write in Cyrillic until the end of their text. Doing otherwise is seen as a sign of illiteracy. I've seen many times (many natives as well) e.g. writing in Latin and writing the letter H as Х (Cyrillic counterpart of H)...

Serbian is only the eastern version of the Serbo-Croatian language. The western version of it is Croatian, and there is the Bosnian version as well. Not mentioning these facts makes your video much LESS valuable!

Saints Cyril and Methodius created Glagolitic as an alphabet for the Slavs during their mission to Greater Moravia. After their deaths there was a change in leadership, and their 5 Bulgarian Holy Students that were still there were expelled. Upon return to Bulgaria, the Holy Students were welcomed by Knyaz Boris with open arms, who founded two schools (Ohrid and Preslav) for the Students, to whom and where he commissioned the creation of Cyrillic. Cyrillic was created by the Holy Students at Preslav (St Clement of Ohrid is perhaps the most famous of the five students, along with St Naom who is also credited as the student in charge of the project), and the name is dedicated the their teacher, St Cyril, the older of the brothers. Cyrillic was simpler than Glagolitic and being similar to Greek, it was founded where the academics were aware of Greek (Bulgaria would accept Christianity from Byzantium and was founded on the former territories of Eastern Rome), which meant Cyrillic spread faster and overtook Glagolitic (meanwhile, Croatia accepted Christianity from Rome and never had the same connection with Byzantium, meaning it stuck with Glagolitic, until it eventually switched to Latin for convenience with Rome). As Bulgaria grew, and later sent missionaries (eg: to the Kievan Rus' during it's conversion), Cyrillic also spread. Cyrillic, like its predecessor alphabet Glagolitic, are meant as alphabets from the Slavs for the Slavs, in contrast to Latin. That is why I prefer Cyrillic. Latin was never meant for us.

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In 1850 an agreement was signed that united Serbian and Croatian languages into one. Serbo-Croatian used both scripts. After the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croatian was politically (not linguistically) divided into several languages. Croats kept only the Latin alphabet and Serbs kept both.

Cyrillic is traditional and official alphabet in Serbia, Latin alphabet is more practical in the modern age especially on internet.

Montenegrin too (even though Latin is more preferrable nowadays) and sometimes Bosnian use both. Montenegrin can be also mentioned because unlike other alphabet there are 2 letters (although not used) they were proposed to be in Montenegrin like the letters are written as Sj/Zj; Сj/Зj in others as Ś, Ź (which are taken from Polish to represent the soft S and Z sounds), З́/С́. The only BCMS variant that uses entirely Latin alphabet is Croatian which they add Q, W, X, Y into foreign words, while others (except Bosnian) don't add them.

I notice that the young Serbs use the Latin script more often. I think the only explanation would be the frequent use of the computer, where the software is mostly in English, obviously with Latin script.

Ukrainian language has 7 grammatic cases for nouns, telling you as Ukrainian native speaker. russians were trying to cut the 7th case out to make Ukrainian more similar to russian, but now we use it again as it is natural for Ukrainian language

Originally, these two languages ​​were related, but of course, modern Japanese and modern Chinese are not similar because they were in different places for about 1600 years. There are various ways to read them, and they are completely different. Still, we can get the general meaning by looking at the kanji.

It's great how they care so deeply about their heritage that they continue to educate their children in both scripts. Had only the same practice prevailed in the rest of Europe, how many more writing systems could still be in use today?

Cyril and Methodius invented glagolitic script, but cyrillic script was invented by Kliment Ohridski, who was Cyril's student and he dediceted the new script to Cyril

I noticed that "George Washington" was transliterated into both alphabets; it wasn't written "ulica Georgea Washingtona". Is this usual? What about names originating in other languages written in Cyrillic?

For me I wanna study Thai, Korean, Japanese and Chinese

Very good job, my words of praise for you. I respect you and the knowledge you're sharing in your videos, you are clearly the person who should be talking about this. Vietnamese is very difficult from my viewpoint - my native is polish, so thats a pretty different language. I have some experience in studying japanese, i used to be communicative at it, but i forgot a lot because of not having time for studying and exposing myself to it. My words of respect are because of this - I always felt impressed by sinosphere languages, since I was like a 10 year old kid watchin japanese karate movies. Almost always wanted to be really good at them, or any of them. I also have two vietnamese colleagues who told me a lot about the country. And I may end up studying vietnamese eventually. Wish me luck. And I wish you good luck too, keep on livin man

It's religion. Catholics used Latin script, Orthodox used Cyrillic because their respective religious books were written in those scripts. The Latin in Serbia has also gained in popularity after the 90s when most of computers couldn't yet process Cyrillic scripts.

Thanks for making this video that mentions about Vietnamese. I am proud of Vietnamese.

Serbian written with the Latin alphabet is called Croatian. (runs for cover...😁just kidding folks, relax)...

There is a small mistake in your video. The term "latinica" reffers to all latin scripts, not just the ones Croats and Serbs use (for example, the French are using "latinica" aswell). The specific latin script (with the letters š,đ,dž,ž,ć,č,lj,nj) that Croats and Serbs use is actually called "gajica/Hrvatska latinica". Just wanted to point that out, your video is great tho!

Vietnamese is probably the easiest to learn when it comes to learning the tones. In Thai you have to learn the tone rules. In Chinese you have to guess the tones or memorize it if you are reading Chinese characters only. In Vietnamese the tone is given to you.

I have been to Serbia and seen that both alphabets are used on all street signs etc. But I always assumed that the use of the two among people was more geographically dependent? What determines which one you would use in daily life?

It was good to see you again at the gathering.

Fun fact: In the region of Nghe-Tinh, there’s a different dialect in each every square mile. It’s the true Asian mode of Vietnamese.

"Can you speak Chinese?" *no reaction* "Can you speak Spanish?" OMG

マンダリンと日本語、多少なり喋ってもらわないと説得力がないわな　マンダリンのほうが難しい！發音種類が多くて、文法があるようでないからね