How does Bulgarian sound to you?

[Lena]

I understand ~95% of it and it sounds alright for the most part, just dislike it when they speak really fast 'cause it sounds a bit harsh to my ears.

[Ushtari]

sounds russian

[memobekes]

Despite being classified as a Southern Slavonic language along with Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian, Bulgarian sounds totally distinct from both and closer to Russian when listening.

Unlike Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian sounds harsh and I don't believe there's any "mutual intelligibility" between these languages, specially if spoken in standard variants.

[Mordid]

all slavic languages sound fucking cool

[Archduke]

Despite being classified as a Southern Slavonic language along with Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian, Bulgarian sounds totally distinct from both and closer to Russian when listening.

Unlike Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian sounds harsh and I don't believe there's any "mutual intelligibility" between these languages, specially if spoken in standard variants.

I think that only the accent is kinda russian, we have much more common words with serbo-croatian and slovenian and i can understand both languages better than russian.

[kvarc]

Unlike Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian sounds harsh and I don't believe there's any "mutual intelligibility" between these languages, specially if spoken in standard variants.

there is a certain degree of mutual intelligibility, but they are still quite different

[kvarc]

I think that only the accent is kinda russian, we have much more common words with serbo-croatian and slovenian and i can understand both languages better than russian.

There is a story over here that Bulgarians understand us better then we do them, don`t know if it`s true

[Pecheneg]

i found this
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2...slavic-family/
is it true?

Intelligibility of Languages in the Slavic Family

Languages = Intelligibility

Serbo - Croatian - Bosnian = very much mutually intelligible.
Bulgarian - Macedonian = 85% intelligibility
Slovenian - Serbo/Croatian = 30% intelligibility
Serbo/Croatian - Bulgarian = 10% intelligibility
Serbo/Croatian - Macedonian = 25% intelligibility
Serbo/Croatian - Slovak = 30% intelligibility
Czech - Serbo/Croatian = incomprehensible
Polish - Serbo/Croatian = incomprehensible
Serbo/Croatian - Russian = 5% intelligibility
Czech - Polish = 40% intelligibility
Ukrainian - Russian = less than 40% intelligibility
Czech - Slovak = 80-90% intelligibility
Russian - Bulgarian = 5% intelligibility

[Linet]

I disagree with you bunny ....
The singers from fyrom make career to Serbia because the language is the same...its like different dialects... the same goes with the Bulgarian as well....
...Its teh same like Cypriots tha make career to Greece....
Or England and USA and Australia...they all speak english.... ...the only difference is that they dont try to deny it by inventing the Australian and American language...

[Midori]

i found this
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2...slavic-family/
is it true?

Intelligibility of Languages in the Slavic Family

Languages = Intelligibility

Serbo - Croatian - Bosnian = very much mutually intelligible.
Bulgarian - Macedonian = 85% intelligibility
Slovenian - Serbo/Croatian = 30% intelligibility
Serbo/Croatian - Bulgarian = 10% intelligibility
Serbo/Croatian - Macedonian = 25% intelligibility
Serbo/Croatian - Slovak = 30% intelligibility
Czech - Serbo/Croatian = incomprehensible
Polish - Serbo/Croatian = incomprehensible
Serbo/Croatian - Russian = 5% intelligibility
Czech - Polish = 40% intelligibility
Ukrainian - Russian = less than 40% intelligibility
Czech - Slovak = 80-90% intelligibility
Russian - Bulgarian = 5% intelligibility

Bollocks