How does Serbian sound to you?

**Guapo** · 02-26-2012, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by feuerfrei

same goes for your ugly mug

**пустиняк** · 02-26-2012, 02:18 PM

Now is the time for Guapo and Mordid to show their potential

**Guapo** · 02-26-2012, 02:21 PM

It sounds like Croatian.

**~~mymy~~** · 02-26-2012, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by Padre Organtino

Czech - it is a very interesting Slavic language that combines features of South, West and East Slavic ones. Intonation and accent wise Serbian is quite far from Eastern Slavic languages and a Serbian friend of mine had similar opinion on the subject.

I agree. For example accents in words are usually always on the first syllable in Serbian, and that's more common for West Slavic languages than for East one. Also, i found East Slavic languages to be softer.

About Czech, literal Czech has longer vocals than Serbian, and it gives more melodic tone. Some Czechs told me that Serbian sound to them like Polish, or like Polish inspired dialect from Ostrava. They say when Serbs learn to speak Czech, they talk like from Ostrava. And thats because of fast speaking and not much concentration on vocals.

**Twitch** · 02-26-2012, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by mymy

I agree. For example accents in words are usually always on the first syllable in Serbian, and that's more common for West Slavic languages than for East one. Also, i found East Slavic languages to be softer.

I find Serbian softer than East Slavic languages and Bulgarian. Serbian sounds very soft to me, comparable to French, Italian, Spanish and Greek. A bit like language of love...(or hatred?)

**Duke** · 02-26-2012, 02:27 PM

like a vulgar version of Croatian, full of turcisms that are slowly replaced by Croatian words, whith strong use of non meaningfull word "Bre", and gramaically "Dačenjem", using adjective "da" infront of every verb, similar to Bulgarians.

Fact is they speak Serbian version of Croatian, which was borroved by Vuk Karadžić in 19 century, and because of it, he was exiled from Serbia by the nobles who didnt wont to speak Croatian.
But since it was only thing they had after the "Turkish dark", period of total illiteracy in a span of 400 years, they decided to put it into schools, and designated Karadžić as most pronounced Serbian literate in History.

Language was called Serbo-Croatian, and was mostly altered dialect from Dubrovnik.

Anther fact is that Karadžić didnt just rewrite Croatian, but also made some linguistics developments of his own, which today Croatians also use

**пустиняк** · 02-26-2012, 02:28 PM

The language of FYROM is full of serbisms but you can't expect nothing else from artificial language.
I think that Serbian sounds like Slovenian at first and then language of FYROM Slavs

**Onychodus** · 02-26-2012, 02:47 PM

напоминает церковно-славянский
it sounds like church slavonic language

**~~mymy~~** · 02-26-2012, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by feuerfrei

I find Serbian softer than East Slavic languages and Bulgarian. Serbian sounds very soft to me, comparable to French, Italian, Spanish and Greek. A bit like language of love...(or hatred?)

Maybe... Voice system in Serbian is closer to Italian or Spanish than to Russian for example... It means that even Russian is easier to learn because of same roots of words, similar grammar, etc. we have less noticeable accent when we speak Spanish for example.

**Phil75231** · 02-26-2012, 02:52 PM

To me, and I presume to most English-speakers who don't know any Slavic language to any extent worth speaking of, it sounds Russian. I'm pretty sure native speakers of all other Western European languages would have the same view, too. Still, I'm sure Slavs who don't speak Serbo-Croatian have more nuanced opinions.