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I hope I don't get banned for this, but those Balkan Slav languages are essentially mutually intelligible. Everyone seems to understand me when I'm in the Balkans speaking my gibberish-mix of Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian. Although they typically respond in English.
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Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs and Monteniggers speak the same language.
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I only visited Slovenia and Bosnia and spoke Croatian in both. Slovenians know our language much better than we know theirs. But it's changing with younger generations.
I heard some young Croats and Slovenians spoke English between themself.
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But to add, Croats who live near Slovenia usually understand their language well enough and know basic phases/words. Same applies to Slovenes living by the border or having summer houses in Croatia, and those are plenty.
Interestingly I have some friends who visited north Macedonia and they spoke Croatian there and locals could understand them mostly.
I never heard Croats and Macedonians speaking english between themself like some croats and slovenes, but this are just my experiences.
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As a Polish I would address to them:
1) in Serbian, because I know Serbian at A2-B1,
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2) in Interslavic language, because all Slavs undestand it easily,
or
3) in Polish, if they don't understand my Serbian or my Interslavic,
or
3) in Russinan, because some South Slavs are familiar in basic Russian and I am fluent in it,
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4) in English because English language is the last resort to communicate with them,
so I have many possibiliteis to reach them
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