Try to guess slavic language! / Language challenge
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2022
- In this video you have a chanse to try yourself in languages knowlage and guess what slavic language people speak. Good luck!
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Our brothers Sorbs (Lusatian Serbs) are always overlooked in these conversations.
Definitely missing are Sorbian and Rusyn. It would be also interesting to listen to Church Slavonic spoken in casual (non-church) manner.
As a Russian speaker I can guess Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish. Can't distinguish between Czech and Slovak, Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian, Bulgarian and Macedonian
As Bulgarian here were my guesses:
1. *Macedonian* (At first I understood nothing but then I was like: "Wait a minute? Why suddenly I understand all of it? This has to be Macedonian!" Because of the way how they speak and it sounds pretty much like every Bulgarian describe it - Bulgarian with Serbian way of talking.)
2. *Ukrainian* (It sounded to be first like Polish than with a bit Russian way of saying. And I heard a lot of "щ" sounds and I was like: "This has to be Ukrainian" because it has a lot of these sounds and it was really pleasant to listen. One of my favourite Slavic languages besides mine.)
3. *Polish* (This was really easy without even questioning. Everyone knows how Polish it sounds like. If you hear a lot of consonant clusters this has to be only 1 language and that is Polish.)
4. *Slovak* (This is the first mistake I did because of knowing how Czech and Slovak are so similar languages and in fact they used to be 1 country but I knew it was either Czech or Slovak.)
5. *Slovenian or Serbo-Croatian* (I was very sure that was another Ex-Yugoslavian language but I was wondering if it was really Slovenian or Croatian but knowing that Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian & Montenegrin are almost the same languages this was bit challenging but at least I got it.)
6. *Serbo-Croatian* (Another Ex-Yugoslavian language that was more familiar with it but I wasn't sure if it was Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian or Montenegrin so I just said Serbo-Croatian and I got it kinda right.)
7. *Russian* (This was another super easy one. Almost everyone must have heard Russian at least once in their life so just like Polish it was an easy guess. I guess that is the benefit of being the more well-known language.)
8. *Slovak* (Again this one without questions I said Slovak because I was sure like if Czech is already mentioned then it has to be only 1 language that sounds almost the same as Czech - Slovak.)
9. *Croatian or Bosnian* (Same deal with the Ex-Yugoslavian languages it is hard to me to say which is Serbian, which is Croatian, which is Bosnian. But I guess Croats sound bit more calm when they talk compared to the Serbs so this is another way to distinguish them. And I said if we divide Serbo-Croatian so if we divide the languages like that so Serbian is already mentioned then it has be Croatian or Bosnian but I felt like it is more Croatian than Bosnian so I got it right at least.)
10. *Belarusian* (Most people might find this part really challenging because of how rare is to spot someone speaking Belarusian. Basically to me sounded like Polish, Russian, Ukrainian into 1 language and I was like: "There is only 1 language that sounds like between these 3 languages and that has to be Belarusian." I had some thoughts of being Rusyn but I was like: "Nah, this sounds too *Russian* to be Rusyn." And in fact Belarusian is my favourite Slavic language, while Ukrainian is on 2nd place besides mine.)
I will say maybe 9/10 (I could get 10/10 if I think about the Czech part bit more instead of rushing saying it is Slovak). Overall if I listen more carefully I can distinguish the languages bit better than usual.
@@jamesconn I'm not Belarusian and never been there in first place. Isn't the answer bit too obvious from where I'm from?
I heard bulgarian in first 😂
Bellarusian also have some lithuanian words. They are semi-slavic tribe kinda
As a Russian speaker:
1. Correctly determined to be South Slavic, thought either Bulgarian or Serbian but it sounded different from both. Forgot there is Macedonian language
2. Ukrainian, easy to guess (they even said the word "kraina" "country")
3. Had no clue that it was Polish
4. Also thought it was Slovak
9. When speaking about Pristina, they gave a clue.
10. The man replied in Russian, lol.
Well, it's funny that you said Ukrainian sounded pleasant, because i personally hate our "TV speech". They all sound harsh and aggressive. An ordinary Ukrainian speech sounds way more better in my opinion. But anyway, i'm glad that you liked my language ☺️
In fact, i really like your folk band, Oratnitsa. One of the best folk bands
as ukrainian who also speaks polish and russian i guessed them all exept for the first one bcs i thought it was bulgarian
im amazed at how close the serbian accent is to polish as a pole
As a representative of the Eastern European branch of Slavic languages, I easily recognize Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian. There is also no difficulty in identifying Polish as their closest relative. Everything is difficult with other languages. Of course, I understand that these are Slavic languages, but it is difficult to distinguish them without prior preparation.
My guesses from a Galician speaker:
1. Macedonian/Bulgarian (I knew from the bottom of my heart that it was Macedonian because Bulgarian sometimes reminds me of Russian, but this sounded more open like Serbian does)
2. Ukranian (I guessed it because of all the H sounds)
3. Polish (super obvious, I spent my Erasmus in Lodz)
4. Czech/Slovak (I can't really tell the difference between spoken Czech and Slovak 😭)
5. Serbo-Croatian (sorry to my Slovene pals)
6. Serbo-Croatian
7. Russian
8. Slovak (only because number 4 was Czech, if I hadn't been told so I would have guessed Czech again)
9. Serbo-Croatian
10. Belarusian (I first though it was Bulgarian because it hadn't been mentioned yet, but then it started to sound super Eastern Slavic so I ended up guessing it was Belarusian)
Haha, well done anyway!
Polish was the least obvious to me, had no guess at all.
To me as Czech, that women in Czech part had kind of Slovak accent. A lot of these reporters are originally Slovaks who speak Czech now.
Czech has the ř sound and Slovak doesn't
As an Italian with zero knowledge of the Slavic languages here are my guess:
1) Serbo-Croatian (right answer: Macedonian)
2) Russian (right answer: Ukrainian)
3) Polish (right)
4) Czech (right)
5) Bulgarian (right answer: Slovene)
6) No clue 😳 (right answer: Serbian)
7) Russian (right)
8) Slovak (right)
9) Bulgarian (right answer: Croatian)
10) Belarusian (right)
Total: 5/10 not bad for a non-Slavic speaker 🥲
Just one thing its not Serbo-Croatian its Serbian and Croatian
@@rokomarkov3077 brt nemoj da seres. Ti mozes rec da pricas srpski, ja mogu rec da pricam bosanski i neki ante moze rec da prica hrvatski, al se razumijemo u potpunosti. Jezik u svojoj jezgri je kompletno isti, tj jedan je jezik, sa 3 glavna dijalekta, ikavica, ijekavica i ekavica i raznim naglascima. Molim te malo odrasti i razumi da nista ne vrijedi biti nacionalista i separatista. Da racunamo jezike kao sto ti racunas, krajisnici i dalmatinci bi imali svoj jezik, kao i leskovci i juzni srbi koji govore blize makedoncima.
@@alienalloy604 A dobro ali san mislia posto smo svi sad razdvojene drzave
@@rokomarkov3077 jedino sto nas razdvaja je granica i politicari. Istu kulturu dijelimo i isti smo narod, samo politicari nas dijele zbog vjere iako to nema veze ni sa cim. Mi smo jedni, Jugoslaveni. Al ti ocigledno nisi dovoljno odrasla da razumijes to pa vjerujes svemu sto te vijesti hrane. Sretno.
@@alienalloy604 Aj ne seri ja sam samo htio reci posto smo sad svi odvojene drzave da isto imamo svoje razlike to se slazem da svi pricamo vise manje isti jezik i da su nam politicari govna ali ima bar malo razlike nije bas potpuno isto kad ti ides uciti srpski i hrvatski
Nice! I guessed 6 languages :)
thanks :)
Yass! I recognized Ukrainian! I'm so proud of myself. I thought I couldn't tell Russian and Ukrainian apart.
I guessed it too!!!
Maybe, it's because I'm Ukrainian)
Because they don't say the G.
They sound quite different. It is more difficult to tell Ukrainian from Slovak or Belarusian. Since the war in Ukraine started I became a bit familiar with ukrainian but I still would not be able to tell Slovak from Belarusian.
Me too, but only because she said the word Ukraine 😂
I'm Polish and it is easy for me to distinguish German, Italian, Spanish, French or English but when speaking about slavic languages they all sound for me the same. Maybe a bit apart of Czech. Ukrainina sounded a bit familiar because many words are shared with Polish but still wasn't sure about that at all.
I’m Czech and… wtf I can’t recognise any South-Slavic language, except Croatian, but only bcz every other language already was. 🤣
Greek, Romanian and Hungarians: *visible confusion*
I didn't get nearly all of them correct but I would say that my main two (Czech and Slovak) were thankfully 100% on the button!
As a Bulgarian I'm wondering where the Bulgarian language is?? But nice video though. It was fun.
The Bulgarian language is represented here through one of its other codified norms - Macedonian.
As Russian is my first language. I could under most words of other Slavic languages. XD
As a Slovak my guesses:
1. Bulgarian (i understood something and it sounded like Bulgarian / Macedonian)
2. Ukrainan (i thought its East slavic language but then she said ukraine so)
3. Polish (Bro u cannot mistake this one XD)
4. Czech (Czechs and Slovaks understand each other so ez knew this one)
5. Slovenian (I firstly thought its bulgarian but then it started to sound different so i guessed slovenian)
6. Bosnian (I knew its a language from Serbo-croat languages so i guessed this one)
7. Russian (The hard russian accent tells you the right answer)
8. Slovak (My language)
9. Serbian (Also the same thing its a serbo croat language)
10. Belarussian (The only east slavic language left)
I almost got offended by you insulting Polish, but then I realised more than 5 people speak it, unlike your language.
@@sharavy6851 what? Shut Up, who asked
@@sharavy6851 what? Shut Up, who asked
She never said Ukraine though, she said країна which is the word for country
@@haine_spb yes, im Slovak, i know krajina is a country but i heard ukrajina
As a Chinese who studies Czech: I got the first two wrong (Macedonian as Bulgarian, and Ukrainian as Russian), and all the rest right =)
I cannot imagine how Ukrainian and Russian can be confused. Especially if you can tell all others.
@@Anuclano I guessed something south slavic when it was actually Ukrainian. Problem with Ukrainian is that it sounds totaly different from different speaker.
As a Czech, I guessed correctly - Czech, Polish and Slovak, everything else was just totaly random for me and I was really surprised by Ukrainian, I thought it's more like something south slavic, but I understood that 14 people died somewhere. Sometimes I was at least close like when I guessed Croatian and it was Slovenian.
1. Macedonian - unfortunately I was wrong (I knew it was a South Slavic, Balkan language, but I didn't know which one.... Bulgarian or Macedonian? The journalist told about transport to Bulgaria, I thought it could be Bulgarian).
2. Ukrainian - I was right (About landslide in the west of... Pereira (?) They are looking for people who can still be saved. Locals help to dismantle the obstacles with their bare hands. 14 people missing/died(?) Some people didn't know what happend when it's starts... something like that)
3. Polish - my language
4. Czech - it's obvious! (It is to offer places to students, and stop them in Pilzno, but it coast hundreds of millions kč. The city has increased budget for the second time. Science and Technology Park Tech Tower is a project being developed on the site of a former brewery)
5. Slovenian - I was not sure, I'm sorry (South Slavic language, similar to Croatian, but which one?)
6. Serbian - I was right (I undersand a context, but not everything. That was about pandemia. Statistics about... how many vaccinated people died(?) I'm not sure is it correct. The informations were supposed to be published, but still haven't been. The media asked the Minister of Health. Politican said: "as regards..." for sure)
7. Russian - of course, it's Russian! (she was talking about looking at life from the perspective of age if I understood correctly).
8. Slovak - obviously! (The children learned a lot of interesting facts about the animals that live around the lake... ble ble ble etc.)
9. Croatian - I was right (The accident of the bus from Frankfurt to Pristina owned by Deva Tours (?) which left from the highway)
10. Belarusian - I was right, but a little bit similar to Ukrainian in sound for me.
A lot of people say they heard hiw the Ukrainian woman said the word "Ukraine"
What if i say yiu that... she didn't say Ukraine at all. I'm native Ukrainian speaker and i can surely say that. I have listened several times but couldn't hear it. Maybe y'all messed up krajina (country) and Ukrajina (Ukraine), idk
Пробаблі
To you fluent Slavic speakers, mind you I had grandparents & mother & father that spoke fluent Serbo-Croatian , & A Grand Father that spoke Russian with his Russian friends, so this was decades ago. Since mom died a few years ago, I lost touch with the old world tongue. My question? Is it me, or does Belarusian have a slight South Slavic flare to it?
As a Bulgarian, I guessed Macedonian, Serbian Russian, Croatian, Slovene & Ukrainian immediately. With the Polish one I first thought that and then mistakenly that it was Czech. The rest I didn’t get.
as a brit, i got 6
If you ever wondered if Serbo-Croatian is one language, or are they more separate languages, I'll tell you this: I guessed correctly most of these languages, but haven't recognized MY OWN. I feel stupid now.
I think, it is one language.
@@AnuclanoAs they say,Languager are the dialects with their own army.
9/10 - I thought Slovenian was Croatian. I am a Polish speaker.
Regarding Slovak, one can easily guess by the alphabet (since Czech was already shown).
that's what I thougt for the second langauge, I was like "oh, they use latin" and boom, it was Ukrainian, I just saw latin letters on those microphones 😀
I did a mistake only with the first one, Macedonian because I thought it was Bulgarian,
The rest was correct, no more mistakes.
So the result is 9/10.
Well I’m Serbian and I guessed only 4 😳 The rest of it I just mixed between themselves. You’d assume as a Slavic speaker you would have a better score, but it’s actually more difficult. P.S part with Croatian is really unlucky pick as you chose speaker who sound more Bosnian/Montenegrins and I failed here, but you could find much more Croatian sounding speech, cause this one was barely Croatian. At least south Slavic I can guess with no mistake ( maybe a little bit mixing Bulgarian/Macedonian) and I’m 100% sure that wasn’t typical Croatian.
The samples are far from perfect. In Belarusian sample the man replies in Russian, in Russian sample people just laugh and in Slovak sample the alphabet is visible. In Croatian they name a Yugoslavian city, etc.
Gluposti pričaš!! Lijepo se čuje da je hrvatski jezik!!
I'm making a slav-lang, it turned out to have some polish-ish things like nazals , but to -en and -öng , and former l's turned to w 's 'vowc' ~ wolf
Dover pre-nos! 👋(good evening!) [Do:v3r pre:ncs)
My gueses:
1 a former yugoslavian language (I did not know egactley, so I said yugoslavic, region wise I was correct)
2 it made me think... I came out on ukrainian cause it's melodic.
3 polish cause I heard a nazal?
4 belarussian?
RUclips is drunk, something went wrong in my comment, I could not edit and things dissapeared 😵
Ukrainian speaker, i got all but macedonian and croatian. it was hard to guess between croatian and serbian. belarusian though ❤ gives me a kind of parliament from 1000 years ago energy. love it.
I'm proud to say I was able to guess, Serbian, Russian and Croatian. (I speak none of these languages)
Я только македонский не распознал, так как не слышал его ни разу
As a non-slavic student of a slavic language I was able to guess Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian and Serbian. :)
Wow, impressive! Whats your native language?
@@saarinen_east5618 Thank you! My native language is Portuguese(European) and I am learning Polish. Your name(Saarinen) sounds Finnish, is it? :)
You Liar!!
@@dadodidi8043 Me? I wasn't lying, I just like exploring linguistics. If you want I can tell you what made me guess each of those languages. :)
Думал боснийский, а на деле хорватский. Сербский узнал лишь по надписи РТС (Радио и Телевидение Сербии) на микрофоне.
As a non-slaw I only got 4 right. However I noticed that West Slavic and Russian have a much more pleasant sound to them than the South Slavic(sound like European Portuguese somehow) and ukrainian(sounds like a slavic and a turkic language had a child) language.
As a Russian, I've guessed Ukrainian, Belarussian, Russian (obviously) and Slovak languages. But I could perfectly guess the group of language (Western, Eastern or Southern), and i had no mistake there, that was a surprise for me. More you live, more you learn!
Oh guessed Belarusian for most of them. I only got Ukrainian and Russian correct. I thought for sure Serbian was 🇧🇾
I only got Czech wrong.
Interslavic💙🤍❤️💛
Damn..how could i Mix czech with polish.....
And yeah...i said first one is bulgarian and i gave myself a point for this😂
Bulgarian and Macedonian: no cases
Ukrainian: infinitives ending in "ty"
Polish: A lot of sz's, cz's and soft s and z pronounced differently
Czech: ř
Slovak: Czech but no ř
Serbian and Croatian: "i" instead of "y"
Slovenian: "l" pronounced like "w" and isn't Polish
Russian and Belarusian: the accent
9/10. I'm a Croatian speaker. Instead of Polish I thought it was Czech. Also, in Croatian clip, lady speaking in first part of the clip sounds like she is from Bosnia (so it's maybe little misleading) while on second part of that clip guy is speaking in Croatian. Nice challenge. 😀
Bru...same
Did the same mistake with czech, maybe not the best example they choosed.
But hearing the next one , I guessed immediately its polish😂
I gueesed Ukrainian Russian Serbian and Belorussian
Узнал, Чешский, Украинский, Белорусский, Русский, Хорватский
eay 100% guess
In Balarisian example the man replies in Russian. Many examples are far from perfect.
Balarisian?
Anyone got tips on telling Ukrainian and Russian apart? I often mix them up.
Ukrnians don't have the g sounds like in god ,game. They s pronounce it more like hod,game. Ukranian has more of the y sound in russians it s more of I sound
@@AntonKrivosheev-ue4he Thank you so much
*hame
@@jonathanarendse4575 no worries and Belarusian is sth in between closer to urkanian . Also in ukr they say sho a lot in rus,belrus it s shto
@@AntonKrivosheev-ue4he thank you :)
Guessed 7 , minus one , cuz I'm Ukrainian :)
I got 6
And i speak Russian Ukrainian czech Polish and Surzhik
A po slovensky?
Суржик не є офіційною мовою або діалектом, це лише мікс двох мов, який відрізняється від людини до людини
Солов'їну не впізнати - то життя не знати)
all but macedonian
1) belarussian- macedonian 2) ukrainian 3) serbian- polish 4) belarussian- czech 4) belarussian- slovenian 5) forgot to record 6) russian 7) slovakian 8) bulgarian- croatian 9)belarussian 10)
узнал украинский, польский и белорусский
1. Serbian
2. Ukrainian
3. Polish
4. Czech
5. Bulgarian
6. Serbian
7. Russian
8. Slovak
9. Bulgarian
10. Belorussian
My guesses:
1) Russian (IT was Macedonia)
2) Ukrainian (before the Word Ukraine haha)
3) my native (Polish)
4) Bułgarian (similar to Romanian which i know according to me but oops it's Czech sorry friends)
2) that's article about Pereira - to jest miasto na zachodzie Kolumbii. And the word was kraina - państwo
She doesn't say "Ukraine". She says "на заході країни" which means "in the west of the country". "Країна" means "country" in Ukrainian
I got 3 wrong
As a German, I guessed:
1. Serbo-Croatian
2. Ukrainian (I noticed how she said Ukraine)
3. Polish
4. Czech (very similar to Slovak but I heard the r with hacek sound, i dont have it on my keyboard)
5. Bulgarian
6. Serbo-Croatian
7. Bulgarian (could've known that one)
8. Slovak
9. Serbo-Croatian
10. Belarusian
At least I got the language family right for most!
In the Ukrainian language, it wasn't Ukrajina that she said, it was krajina which means a country. Kinda sad is that the whole point of this video been ruined in this example considering the author saying the word krajina (country)
@@MykytaStasevych haha ok thanks for the information
Me beeing from Serbia this is how I guessed it:
1. Bulgarian (Well, he mentioned Bulgaria so I guessed Bulgarian, but otherwise I would say Macedonian)
2. Ukrainan (It is one of my favorite Slavic languages. It was pretty hard to guess but I was 100% shure when she said Ukraina. I guessed Belorussian before that)
3. Polish (I mean, its just obvious. Its really special in Slavic world. So it was easy to guess.)
4. Czech (I thaught between Slovak and Czech, but I guessed Czech after I heard the special Czech r)
5. Slovenian (Its just familiar to me beeing a Serb, they arenlike Croats with weird words and funny accent)
6. Serbian (I mean its obvious, I speak it and she spoke clear Ekavian dialect from Belgrade, so yeah)
7. Russian (Its just obvious, Russian is easy to guess)
8. Slovak (Czech was already presented, so it had to be Slovak)
9. Bosnian (This was tricky. The woman spoke more like Bosnian dialect, but it was Croatian actualy. Weird.)
10. Belorussian (Its just speacial. Like polish, its not really like Russian and it has these weird accents that made me guess its Belorussian)
I did pretty well I guess. It could easly be 10/10.
Поздрав из Србије! 👋🏻🇷🇸
She says "на заході країни" which means "in the west of the country". "Країна" means "country" in Ukrainian
Broj 9 nije hrvatski nego crnogorski
So there is Macedinian, but not Bulgarian??? (Dislike!)
I speak Russian and some Polish, here’s what and how I guessed
1. Bulgarian ❌ (Sounded South and Eastern Slavic at the same time, knew it had to be either Bulgarian or Macedonian)
2. Ukrainian (Russian sounding accent with Polish sounding words)
3. Polish (I speak some Polish)
4. Serbian ❌ (Was honestly a random guess)
5. Slovenian (accent vaguely had Italian influence)
6. Serbian (speaker was clearly using a tonal language)
7. Russian (I speak Russian)
9. Slovak (Sounded like the Czech clip so just guessed logically)
10. Croatian (Sounded like the Serbian clip)
11. Belarusian (Clearly an eastern Slavic language and I knew it wasn’t Russian or Ukrainian)
Ukrainian sounds nothing like Russian 😂
Brainwashed by propaganda
*speaker literally says "Ukraina"*
what language could it be. guess we'll never know
NO, she doesn't say "Україна". She says "на заході країни" which means "in the west of the country". "Країна" means "country" in Ukrainian
My guesses as a russian speaker:
1.Croatian
2.Ukrainian (Voiced h gave everything away)
3.Polish (Wow)
4.Czech (Pointed my finger at the sky)
5.Macedonian (Pointed my finger at the sky)
6.Serbian (Lucky)
7.Russian (Obvious one)
8.No idea
9.No idea
10.Belorussian (Belorussian and russian have high level of mutual intelligibility)
Macedonian is not a language it is a dialect of Bulgarian
da mi se fatis
@@strangeloop2480i za mojo moži
Yes. This is the truth!
Така е!