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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    Here I refer to Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Montenegrins, North Macedonians and Bulgarians.

    (1) English as a 'neutral' language.
    (2) The language of the country in question.
    (3) Your own language, but spoken more slowly than usual.
    My own language.
    They understand it very well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    Well at least you can be happy Hungarian isn't related to anything else. (Except to some extent Finnish and Estonian).
    Hungarian is 0% mutually intelligible with estonian/finnish or any other language, but I don't care. I can speak english to foreigners.
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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Universe View Post
    Croat and serb was also artificially brought closer to each other for political reasons before 20th century.
    Despite the fact that Bosniensis is troll (you are correct), Serbs and Croats can understand each other without any problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    Well I know that it used to be called Serbo-Croat, only it was split for political reasons (kind of like Hindi and Urdu). All the same how similar are Slovene, Macedonian and Bulgarian to it?
    Macedonian and Bulgarian more so than Slovenian

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by pulstar View Post
    Macedonian and Bulgarian more so than Slovenian
    I always wondered are Bulgarians and Macedonians understand each other better than Czechs and Slovaks?

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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,
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    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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