It is worth saying that learning a language written in the alphabet that you are most familiar with is always easier. In a way, in terms of vocabulary, the outlier, the one with the largest lexical difference or distance is Russian. Hanzi were adapted to fit Japanese, and you still have two writing systems (minimum) to learn unique to Japanese. P.S. I am a Croat from Bosnia, I grew up in a town of Banjaluka. 2. Slavic and Romance languages. has great resources for many languages, including a number of Slavic ones. I studied Russian first and I would recommend that. Over time, as more of Ukraine came under Russian control, it became the turn of the Russians to impose their language on the Ukrainians. It should lure learners away from other languages that are more “greedy”. Chinese is not a good basis for Japanese. The Part of Asia. Just one comment to: Bru you fine? They are quite similar in terms of grammar. We all talk the same language.. Based on the current politically correct interpretation, I spoke Croatian. Any language definition that claims that the language I spoke as a kid is the same as the language a kid from Zagorje or Dalmatia spoke (regions of Croatia), but DIFFERENT from the language Serb kid from Banjaluka spoke is either idiotic or deceiving. It is similar as with use of Irish and English in Ireland. You’ve NEVER heard about the existence of Serbo-Croatian language? As a matter of fact, if you can convince me that I didn’t understand them, and that we spoke different languages, you should be equally able to convince me that the sky is greenish brown, and that the clouds are orange. With Czech I’ve found this history series Toulky českou minulostí and the political podcast Jak to vidí. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. History of Russian State. For me, in languages, exploration is the name of the game. I don’t know why you mentioned them at all other than to brag about attempting (but clearly not learning) them? Look at this article: In addition, few Korean students correctly tell vowel i from consonant j. My Germanic languages include Swedish, English, and German. If I were to start to learn Slavic languages I would begin by learning Russian. a phenomenal resource because every day there are new interviews on a wide variety of subjects, mostly with transcripts. I am subscribed to it on my iPhone. I started learning Russian 10 years ago partly because that was the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, but also because I had been exposed to Russian literature as a teenager and wanted to read those books in the original language. I didn’t even know that LitRes has audiobooks. From the little bit of Dutch that I’ve looked at on LingQ, I don’t think it would be difficult to learn. Here is an example: I am a Croat from Bosnia, I grew up in a town of Banjaluka. Start with one and just see where that leads you. The two sounded so similar I felt as if I should understand Ukrainian. 3. On the other hand, taxi drivers in Bosnia were not as fluent in English, so I took great pleasure in struggling to speak with them in Serbo-Croatian. In conclusion, I show effective teaching methods, which I am using on these difficulties to Korean students learning Hungarian. Thanks a lot for your article! However, the best is to search the web yourself. However, the best is to search the web yourself. Just as it is the case in Northern Slavic languages there is no clear distinction b/w languages as one moves East to West, but rather smooth transition. LitRes is a great resource for things Russian. Great resources. So lifeless. Russia produces lots of excellent audio books, which can be found online. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. or its licensors or contributors. What’s wrong with it? People with whom I went to school and with whom I grew up spoke Bosnian and Serbian. Surely it’s more less true – just to note that Bulgarian has surprising differences in grammar as well: e.g. As a Croat speaking Croatian I understood them 100%. I grew up in Serbia, and I’ve been to Croatia quite a few times. There were words there that were similar, but I just didn’t quite get the gist of what they were saying. , Belarusian and Ukrainian in the east, Polish, Czech and Slovakian in the west and then the languages of the former Yugoslavia in the south: Serbo-Croat, Slovenian, Macedonian, and also Bulgarian. Ideally, Serbo-Croatian should have been called Yugoslavian, as it is the language of Southern Slavs (Jugo-slavs), exactly as shown on the map. However, this decision is truly personal.
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