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    Quote Originally Posted by Caeruleus View Post
    like moldovan

    by the way I always had this strange idea that of all modern slavic languages serbo-croatian is the closest to the old vernacular slavic ... any truth to this little theory of mine
    I could be wrong, but I heard somewhere that Polish and Belorussian languages are closest to the old vernacular slavic. I have no source for that though.

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    I can't tell the difference between Bosnian, Serbian, Polish or Bulgarian for example... All sound the same

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    But now that I compare with Polish, I do hear the difference. But I'm afraid in real life I couldn't say what is what. Maybe Bosnian has some Greek influence, because it has something different - and i can't hear as much of the szzz schhh dzzzz -kind of sounds like in Polish (or Russian)

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    First time I hear it in these videos. I thought general slavic like serbian, then I compared it with a video of bulgarian and greek language. I noticed that the rhythm was latin influenced and sounded like italian so much.
    Thats the analysis I do when comes to:
    How does (insert language here) sound to you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerry View Post
    I can't tell the difference between Bosnian, Serbian, Polish or Bulgarian for example... All sound the same

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    But now that I compare with Polish, I do hear the difference. But I'm afraid in real life I couldn't say what is what. Maybe Bosnian has some Greek influence, because it has something different - and i can't hear as much of the szzz schhh dzzzz -kind of sounds like in Polish (or Russian)
    you cant tell the difference between "bosnian" and serbian because there isnt one bulgarian and polish are quite different though, especially polish

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    bulgarian i can kinda understand a lot,but polish is very different

    there are many latin words used ,and i guess it is latin influenced

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    For a Greek, it doesn't sound like Greek at all.

    It sound Slavic. I can't tell the difference between Bosnian, or Serbian , or Fyromian, but it sound softer than Russian.

    Slavic languages are not my cup of tea, but they are not ''irritating'' to the ear, like other languages...

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    Slavic languages are not my cup of tea, but they are not ''irritating'' to the ear, like other languages...
    i actually don't like Russian at all,how it sounds

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    Quote Originally Posted by bosnian View Post
    i actually don't like Russian at all,how it sounds
    Russian has lots of consonants, and lots or ''r'' sounds , which I dislike. Same goes for German, which sounds too harsh in my ears.

    The Balkan Slavic languages are softer to the ear, but nothing special for me.

    I don't really know the difference between them. Can you tell some points of how Bosnian is different from other Balkan languages?

    I mean, any special letter-sound? different grammar ?

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    I hardly get any word. As far as sound is concerned, it sounds like a weird mixture of russian and italian.

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