Question to non-Slavs: which Slavic language(s) would you like to learn?

[Bezprym]

I think learning Russian before Polish is a good idea, since Polish is said to be one of the most difficult. Knowing any other Slavic language may make the learning easier. Also, Russian is sometimes spoken in other Slavic countries. Just might not be the best idea to start a conversation with anyone in this language expecting someone to know it

It also depends where someone wants to go with a visit.

[Sarmatian]

A cigarette package warnings from Bosnia-Herzegovina.


On all cases they are identical.

Same language written in Cyrillic and Latin letters. Even I can understand what it says.

[Dick]

bulgarian, they have pretty women

This.

Serbo-croatian doesn't exist.

Neither does the "baaazzznian" language.

[davai]

Still, it doesn't exist.

After 1990 a "Bosnian" language was also invented.

[Melki]

It's funny to see how Bosnians (especially Bosniaks) easily get startled when someone denies the existence of their language.

Russian/Polish/Serbo-Croatian: the perfect balance between an Eastern, a Western and a Southern Slavic language.

[Insuperable]

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It is called Serbo-Croatian for a reason, but there are some differences which can be seen on things other than a cigarette pack. Like on a cigarette pack I can come with sentences that have the same meaning, but look totally different, but both Serbs and Croats would intuitively understand 100% what is written nevertheless, as if it is their own language. Hard to explain.

[Gold-Shekel]

After 1990 a "Bosnian" language was also invented.

I see you're still looking for foreign approval and ignoring facts. No wonder since serbs don't have their own History.



Keep swimming in your jealousy, hopefully one day you will drown in it.

[davai]

I see you're still looking for foreign approval and ignoring facts. No wonder since serbs don't have their own History.

GUZO
BULJO



remember dear bošnjak, Serbia exists prior to Bosnia, moreover, first mentioning of Bosnia is as a Serb province. LOOOOL.

meanwhile, domaće..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snje%C...tia_.282010.29

Snježana Kordić's third monograph[22] deals with sociolinguistic topics, such as language policy in Croatia,[23] theory of pluricentric languages,[24] and how identity,[25] culture,[26] nation,[27] and history[28][29] can be misused by politically motivated linguists.[4][30][31][32] Kordić ascertains that since 1990, purism and prescriptivism have been the main features of language policy in Croatia.[33][34][35][36][37] A ban on certain words[38][39] perceived as "Serbian" (which were for the most part merely international) and the idea that a word is more "Croatian" if fewer Croats understood it,[40] resulted in the widespread impression that no one but a handful of linguists in Croatia knew the standard language.[41][42][43][44]

With a plethora of quotations[28][31][45] from German, French, Polish and English linguistic literature, Kordić demonstrates that the language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is a polycentric language, with four standard variants spoken in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.[24][46][47][48][49]

These variants do differ slightly, as is the case with other polycentric languages (English, German, French, Portuguese, and Spanish,[31][50] among others),[51] but not to a degree which would justify considering them as different languages.

izserem ti se po faci nakazice.

[Szegedist]

It is called Serbo-Croatian for a reason, but there are some differences which can be seen on things other than a cigarette pack. Like on a cigarette pack I can come with sentences that have the same meaning, but look totally different, but both Serbs and Croats would intuitively understand 100% what is written nevertheless, as if it is their own language. Hard to explain.

Was it always the case? It would be interesting to compare 16-17th century Croatian with Serbian, before the languages were standardised.

It's funny to see how Bosnians (especially Bosniaks) easily get startled when someone denies the existence of their language.

Russian/Polish/Serbo-Croatian: the perfect balance between an Eastern, a Western and a Southern Slavic language.

Perfectly balance ? Polish is very different from other west Slavic languages.

[Melki]

Perfectly balance ? Polish is very different from other west Slavic languages.

You didn't understand.

I just meant that learning these 3 languages would be ideal: because each one belongs to one of the 3 branches of the Slavic family.