Balkan Slavs: which language do you use when visiting each others' nations?

[Alenka]

I'm Just one person, So don't take my experience as absolute proof, but i found i understand spoken Serbian when in Serbia, more then spoken Bulgarian when in Bulgaria.

For example also. The word for exit, as in above the doorways, in Macedonian: 'izlez' Serbian: 'izlaz' Bulgarian: 'izhod'.

Some words where very odd to me in Bulgarian. Maybe it's the Russian influence they received.

Interesting. In Slovenian, the word for exit is 'izhod', same as Bulgarian in this case.

[Ülev]

again?

when Serb is proud that means he has diarrhea in Russian

ponos - pride - diarrhea
https://translate.google.com/#view=h...BD%D0%BE%D1%81
https://translate.google.com/#view=h...BD%D0%BE%D1%81
https://translate.google.com/#view=h...BD%D0%BE%D1%81

when Polish beauty goes to salon urody (beauty saloon) Russian Laag hears that she goes to freak saloon

https://translate.google.com/#view=h...80%D0%BE%D0%B4
https://translate.google.com/#view=h...=en&text=uroda

[Varda]

Very hard to understand.
Čabar speech may be even more alien

Podravina kaykavian is more understandable than Bednja and Čabar kaykavian.

[Karol Klačansky]

To me as a Western Slav Bulgarian is the most difficult one (they do no have grammar cases as other Slavs have ).

And Slovenian to me is similiar to Slovak language (Slovakia is Poland's South neighbour, ofc)

if you understand slovenian as well as you do slovak, then I doubt youve ever had any real exposure to either of the languages. A pole understanding Slovenian to a descent extent is pretty much nonsense. Slovak and polish are highly related.

[Incal]

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.

lol the language is the same everywhere, they just call it different due to past rivalries and emerging nationalism. The only exception would be bulgarian and slovenian.

[Universe]

lol the language is the same everywhere, they just call it different due to past rivalries and emerging nationalism. The only exception would be bulgarian and slovenian.

I'm not sure about that.Macedonian is different language too.
+ both Croatian and Serbian have their own regional dialects that is sometimes difficult to understand for their countrymen, let alone for someone from another country.
This is what wikipedia states about Kajkavian (dialect spoken in NW Croatia)

There are differing opinions over whether Kajkavian is best considered a dialect of Croatian (standardized or vernacular) or a fully-fledged language of its own, as it is only partially mutually intelligible with other dialects and bears more similarities to Slovene (especially the Prekmurje dialect) than to the prestige Shtokavian dialect (which forms the basis of the national normative standards of Serbo-Croatian) in terms of phonology and vocabulary.
Notable Croatian linguists consider Kajkavian to be a language in its own right, with its own established dialects and documented literature. Croatian linguist Stjepan Ivšić has used Kajkavian vocabulary and accentuation, which significantly differs from that of Shtokavian, as evidence.[8] Furthermore, there is no clear demarcation between Slovene dialects and Kajkavian: this continuum is particularly strong along the border with Slovenian Styria, and on the upper stream of the Kolpa river, where dialects spoken on both sides of the border are sometimes indistinguishable. Thus, Kajkavian has low mutual intelligibility with Shtokavian, on which Croatia's standard language is based.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajkavian

[Tooting Carmen]

if you understand slovenian as well as you do slovak, then I doubt youve ever had any real exposure to either of the languages. A pole understanding Slovenian to a descent extent is pretty much nonsense. Slovak and polish are highly related.

I have a separate thread about that: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...others-nations

[pulstar]

English, except for N. Macedonia where I use Macedonian

[Varda]

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Čakavians from Zlarin say "dojde" and "pojde"?

These forms instead of "dođe" and "pođe" exist among torlakians, čakavians, kaykavians and ikavians of šćakavian isogloss. I ask you for Zlarin because Dalmatian čakavian is heavy štokavized in the last centuries.
"Dojde" and "pojde" are archaic forms.
Except torlakians I heard that "pojde" and "dojde" use Serbs from Šipovo area, Prnjavor area, and Ključ area. Their speech is central Bosnian subdialect of East Herzegovian dialect, elements in their speech which are different from East Herzegovinian match with šćakavians ikavians.
Serbian grandma from Pribelci near Šipovo - "kad mi noć dojde, smrt mi dojde" 10:45 - 11:45 https://youtu.be/99L279I-U?t=645

[Varda]

Interesting. In Slovenian, the word for exit is 'izhod', same as Bulgarian in this case.

This Bulgarian raper gives me Slovenian linguistic vibe https://youtu.be/2hWNjkGnalM?t=113