Bosnian language | Will Polish understand? | Country Guessing Game 

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Greetings from Bosnia, bro Poland is my fav Country, and i wanna visit it :)

Thanks for having me! Pozdrav iz Bosne 😀

Holy shit, knowing Interslavic I was actually able to understand a huge deal of Bosnian! I'm from Poland too. I highly encourage everyone to study Interslavic :D

I'm from Spain and I study Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, whatever you call it and I understood 100% of Bosnian and around 40% of Polish

Joj Bosanac, uspori, čoveče. Zalaufao se kao da ne priča sa strancem. 😅🙈

Greetings from Bosnia. Very entertaining episode. Thank you for including Bosnian as a part of the series.

As a non Slavic person, but someone who speaks a bit of Russian, I find this series really fascinating. Please keep doing them

Going to Bosnia soon. Watched this to see how far my polish would go. Conclusion: I hope they are good at english...

Poland and Bosnia brothers! Visiting Poland every year..

Mirsad knows a lot about geography...impressive!

I’m from Slovakia but if I wouldn’t live with Polish guys previously I would say that I understood a bit more words in Bosnian which are coming from my backround. By the way I am really impressed by your project and in my opinion slav countries people should have some kind of “meetings” from time to time so they’ll be able to understand each other in more proper ways as we are brothers. 🙏🏻

Haha the parts of Bosnian that are most confusing for you are the ones that are easiest to understand for me, being a Bulgarian speaker. 😉 I love how the Bosnian guy speaks, the tone of his voice is super engaging and pleasant to listen to. I think Bosnian is my new favorite Slavic language haha. (Well Ukrainian is pretty cool too still... 😇 )

Polish = easy. (95%) Bosnian = pretty hard. (30%) Hello from Slavic homeland, a.k.a. Ukraine.

Haha, great video! And Mirsad did well :) As a Bosnian native speaker, I can understand Polish easier when I read it, rather when spoken. I think out of the Central European Slavic languages, for Bosnians Slovak is the easiest to understand. Would be cool to make a Bosnian-Slovak combination :)

South Slavic languages are generally harder for West Slavs but East Slavic is somewhat easier for us. But in written form and having some rudimentary knowledge of Old Polish, South Slavic languages become easier ☺ Pozdro z Polski

I'm Russian with some knowledge of Ukrainian. I got Polish much more than Bosnian. The idea is great. Thanks.

I am from Belarus and speaking Belarusian there is no problem to understan polish language at all and Bosnian was still easy to catch

Honestly, I love this channel ! This is crazily entertaining and I feel like I am already learning how to understand other slavic languages better watching your videos ♡.♡

As a Bosnian understanding spoken Polish with these Polish subtitles is actually possible, but without subtitles Polish sounds like Czech with A LOT more š,ž and ř sounds and it's very hard to understand anything besides a few words.I am very interested how Bosnian sounds to Poles and other Slavs.

I'm from Moldova, I speak Russian as a second language. I found it interesting you missed that Norway was a kingdom and the fact that Bolivia is landlocked. I feel like I understood Bosnian better than Polish, even though it is my first contact with Bosnian. Really nice video.

For me as Ukrainian Bosnian language hard to understand, but this language very beautiful! I enjoyed this conversation very much, ty guys!

Listening and looking at the dialogue, I understood everything. Having a good knowledge of geography also helped because of context of the conversation. Trzymaj się, svaka čast! 👍👏

Many of the words in Bosnian were very similar (if not identical) to their equivalents in Bulgarian. I'd really love to see Polish vs Bosnian/Croatian vs Bulgarian happen somehow in the future. Really loved the video, thanks!

Greetings from Bulgaria! I understand Bosnian 80 %, Polish 50 %. More expressions in Bosnian are similar in Bulgarian. Congratulations for this nice videos!

I was in Poland for 3 weeks and I felt welcomed pozdrav iz crna gora moj braća 🇲🇪

Long live slavic world from your friend Azerbaijan! Our first contact was not very friendly but now we have positive relations with many slavic countries. Btw, slavic languages are very beautiful

This is fabulous and I loved being able to understand both sides of the conversation. My parents were Polish and I only spoke Polish for the first 5 years of my life in London, my birthplace. I lived in Zagreb in what was then still Yugoslavia for five years in the late 1970s to early 1980s. When learning the language family that at that time was simply known as Serbo-Croat, I found many similarities with Polish when I looked at written sources, but the distance increased when the languages were spoken. Now, both languages are my working source languages in my work as a pharma/medical freelance translator, although when it comes to active use they get totally mixed up in my head so I speak pidgin versions of both :D

In the Slavic family realm the Polish language is like that cousin that disappeared for so many years and came back a new person. You all know him...but do you really know him? He remained the same at his core but he changed so much that he is his own unique and quircky person lol! Still the great guy you knew but just more unique now because of his hard experiences. This is how I view it hence why West Slavic in general is usually difficult to understand for East Slavs and South Slavs

Hej, Bosno, Bosno, rodni kraju! 🗣️🎶

Bosnian here, I left Bosnia some time after my 11th birthday. Lived in Serbia for about 5 years. So, I do speak mish-mash language of former Yugo almost as well as a native. Minus the accent. I always had hard time understanding other Slavic languages. Even when it comes to Bulgarian and Slovenian. Polish might be the hardest. I personally didn't understand much. I understood maybe 5% at most. Maybe less. Listening to this was hell. I wouldn't survive in Poland.

I thing Bosnian is the most difficult to understand for polish. Even more than Bulgarian. But sounds bit like Czech, at least some part :D

Dude your videos are awesome! Can’t even imagine how hard it is to do all the subtitles, but it really helps Thanks for the content, greetings from russia!

"the freest country in the world".... I laughed very very hard lol

As Russian I might understand the Bosnian speaker much clearer than Polish speaker! I can’t understand those Russians who say that polish is more understandable, it’s just can’t be like that🤓

Thanks Norbert.. Great fun.. Bosnian guy seemed super nice, but didn't seem like he understand when Norbert is asking him to slow down. Norbert does a great job picking up on common slavic words, but this was tough. I understood the Bosnian because I lived in Montenegro for 3 years. He was speaking quite fast, I would say you'd need a strong intermediate level to follow that speed. Great video.. Thanks

Love bosnia from arab republic of egypt ❤❤

At the beginning of the video I had a poor understanding of the words but already in the middle and until the end so I could understand almost everything. Pozdrav iz Sarajeva 👍👍

The grass is green. On Bosnian: Trava jest zelena. On Polish: Trawa jest zielona. On Russian: Trava zelenaya.

when I read Bosnian and Polish in the thumbnail I knew it was always going to be hard....the mix-up between "kraljevina" and "kraj" was a natural consequence...Mirsad was quite rushing through it.

Many Bosniaks score 20% + Poland on DNA tests like 23andme, mostly South Poland, from where some of our ancestors moved to Bosnia 1400 years ago. I have 29% Poland on 23andme.

My best experience as a Bosnian guy on 5 month erasmus in Poland was drunk talk with polish friends :D

Great video! Thank you for posting.

Kolejny ciekawy filmik - oglądam z przyjemnością. Nigdy nie miałam styczności z językiem bośniackim, słuchając współrozmówcy z Bośni i jednocześnie czytając opisy w tym jezyku mogłam pewne informacje zrozumieć. Na pewno wolne mówienie przez obcokrajowca ułatwia nam możliwość jego zrozumienia. A jak jeszcze mamy możliwość przeczytać informacje (nawet jeśli nie znamy danego języka) to szansa na zrozumienie wzrasta. Pozdrawiam serdecznie Słowian, tych co mają słowiańską duszę i są miłośnikami słowiańskich języków :-)

As Bosnian, I understand 100% of the Bosnian and 60% of the polish, I just have to think about some of the words

Great video! :)

Great idea. Love the video. Thank you.

To jest niesamowite !! jestem zachwycona tym kanalem i tym super odcinkiem !!!

We need more videos like this 🥰

As a Bulgarian, fluently speaking Croatian, which is extremely close to Bosnian, without any experience with Polish, but with very good linguistic skills, I had a looot of fun! 🤣 🤣 Great video and amazing idea to make this series! 👏🏼 Greetings to all slavic brothers! ❤️

Bosnian seems a little easier for me than Bulgaria (from the other vid) as a Ukrainian though knowinng Russian helps with both. Polish is of course much easier but its difficult at first. Once I get used to Polish sounds it becomes easy. You guys pronounce things weird ;)

I speak Russian, and I understood some in both speakers. Both languages Polish and Bosnian similar to Russian and Ukrainian.

There is no Bosnian language. But there is Serbo-Croatian language. Official versions/standards of Serbo-Croatian spoken in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro are based on Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian. There are plenty dialects (Kajkavian, Chakavian, Torlakian dialects) of Serbo-Croatian much different from Shtokavian dialect (and standards in 4 countries) than the minor differences between standards in 4 countries.

Hope Norbert you'll also get some germanic series in future, for example "German vs Luxembourgisch, Nederlandisch, Isländisch - Can they understand it?" härzliche Grüße))

Hello! Love this new series. I'll be looking forward to later iterations. Would you say it's easier for Bosnians to understand Polish than the other way around? Because I'm under the impression that the Bosnian man had an easier time deciphering what you were saying... (I'm unsure whether he'd already learned Polish). Regardless, the video was really entertaining. Keep it up! Pozdrowienia!

Bosanski (Bosnian), Crnogorski (Montenegro), Hrvatski (Croatian) i (and) Srpski (Serbian) su jedan jezik sa razlicitim dijalektima (are one language with different dialects). Samo nacionalisti zele da naprave preveliku razliku tamo gdje je realno nema (only nationalists want to make the big difference between them where really there is no one). Staro, zavadi pa vladaj. (Old, divide and conqueur). Svi Slaveni su prosli li prolaze i dalje kroz to umjesto da se ujedine. (All Slavs have been through that or are still going through instead to find a way to unite).

🇺🇸:the safest , 🇵🇱: najbezpieczniejszyhgeukbszy. 😂😂😂

Cześć, jestem Rosjaninem, bardzo mi się podobają twoje filmiki! Obserwuję twój kanał przez dość długi czas, dziękuję za kontent! A teraz o tym filmie. Ja uczyłem się polskiego (jestem na poziomie B2), tak że rozumieć to co mówisz dla mnie nie było jakoś specjalnie trudno. Rozmawiałeś wolno, nie używałeś skomplikowanych konstrukcji albo niecodziennych słów. Szacunek ci za to. A teraz, chciałbym niedużo napisać o serbskim (bośniackim), też się uczyłem tego języka, ale niestety nie jestem na jakimś zaawansowanym poziomie i ledwie co mogę na nim złożyć. Jednak, jak to często bywa z naszymi językami, pojąć da się więcej, niż powiedzieć. Na co chciałbym zwrócić twoją uwagę, tak właśnie na brak znania słów z innych języków słowiańskich. Rozmawiasz z różnymi Słowianami, z różnych krajów, ale akurat w tej grze (mam na myśli grę z krajami) nie rozumiałeś bardzo (naprawdę, bardzo) prostych i podstawowych słów (n.p. Siewier i Jug, czyli północ i południe). Przypuszczam, że nie uczysz się innych języków słowiańskich, żeby próbować je rozumieć, powiedzmy, w pierwotny sposób (wiem, taka sobie nazwa), czyli bez żadnej nauki, równo tyle, na ile ci pozwala twój język ojczysty (No, czyli polski). Ale z drugiej strony, ciekawił cię język czeski, poza tym zazwyczaj dużo się pytasz swoich gości o tym, jak brzmią słowa w ich językach. Dlatego miałoby sens poznać jakieś podstawowy słowa, które są wspólne dla pozostałych Słowian (np we wszystkich językach słowiańskich, oprócz polskiego słowo „jutro” i jego analogi oznaczają „rano” i tylko w polskim jutro to jutro), albo dla grup wschodnich (np u wschodnich Słowian jest oddzielnie słowo dla liczby „czterdzieści” i jest to „sorok” сорок) czy południowych (np zamiast normalnych dla nas słów późno i już Serbowi używają słów kasno i weć odpowiednio). Mówiąc krócej, proszę cię zagłąb się w słownictwo Słowian, ponieważ niektóre słowa są wspólne dla wszystkich Słowian (jak powiedzmy oko, niebo, brat itd) i to jest wspaniałe! Serio, nasze języki są bardzo do siebie podobny, to jakiś sztos, cud ;) Ale wracając do mojej myśli, jednak niektóry języki mają różnice, np nazwijmy zachodniosłowiańskie i wschodniosłowiańskie języki „północnosłowiańskie” stawiając je przeciw południowym. Mamy dużo wspólnych słów, np kot (oni nie maja kotów, szok xD), ważny, rynek, mówić itd. I tak samo, języki wschodniosłowiańskie wraz z południowosłowiańskimi można przeciwstawić zachodniosłowiańskim. Po polsku nie macie zwykłym dla nas nazw, np owe strony świata u was się jakoś inaczej nazywają (serio, kto powiedział że używać słów północ 0:00 i południe 12:00 jako określenie strony świata to dobry pomysł?) słowo dziwny u was znaczy dziwny (u nas dziwny = cudowny”, a zamiast naszej konstrukcji jestem dłużny macie swoje powinienem. Cóż, na końcu chce podziękować ci jeszcze raz, tak że znowu Dzięki! A tak, jeśli będziesz chciał, odpowiedz mi, napisz o swoim własnym doświadczeniu, może wyjdzie nam ciekawa rozmowa, co nie? ;₽ Pozdrowienia z Rosji, a, i tentego. Szanujcie swoją mowę!

thank you for the subtitles. reading unfamiliar Slavic languages is much more intelligible for me than listening and helps learning

Great video! I was able to guess those countries right, but Bosnian is for me as a native Czech speaker pretty much the most difficult slavic language to understand. Interesting language :D !

This is really excellent work Ecolinguist. You really should write about this work and share with more linguists. This is literally science. This work needs to be carried out by many more and you have given a clear path here. I hope you write to many linguistic publishers and write about this because this work is incredibly valuable to not only us RU-vidrs but the academics theorizing this and that who so rarely test theories. Excellent work. I am watching every video in the series and I hope you do more with more. Very impressed. I hope more language families do this like Spanish to Portuguese, Norwegian to Swedish etc.

I understand Bosnian 100% Polish about 65 / 70%. Russian speaker here. Peace.

Интересно. Было бы не плохо продолжить такие видео с другими славянскими языками.

Why did you use the American flag for English?

It could even be easier to understand because in some places he didn't use phrases that are probably more familiar to you. For example: he said najsigurnija but he could have said najbezbjednija - the safest, also gore, planine - mountains but he addressed that himself.

Learning several slavic languages at the same time,

this is brilliant ^^ love it

Чтобы нам, славянам, понять друг друга, нужно 20 минут личного общения и включить мозги.Правда, каникулы у закарпатской бабушки тоже помогают. Спасибо вашему каналу, он сближает народы!

Thank you Norbert for making this video and being respectable towards Bosnian language. I didn't understand much of Polish but by reading it it's more clear. It's funny that "trudno" means "difficult" on Polish and on BCSM languages it means "pregnant". :) BTW First Bosnian dictionary way published 1631. which is 200 years before first Serbian dictionary. First Serbian dictionary borrowed a lot of words from Herzegovina region. Those are the facts. I consider all BCSM as one language (just different dialects), but any nation can name the language as they wish.

По боснийски почти ничего не понял, опять польский был понятнее для меня

this was so cool to watch lmaoo! love it

jsem rád že ti alespoň děláš rozhovory z ostatníma slovanskéma jazykama

Nice video, I from Bosnia :D. Lijep pozdrav iz Bosne!

Hello from Australia, Croatian second language able to understand Bosnian 95% and Polish 10%, now I know why there are always several words for one item when I speak to other Slavic people.

Ecolinguist I was wondering if some of the month names in one language is connected to the old 7ber, 8ber, 9ber and 10ber of early calendering. These are not the 7th-10th months of the currently used Gregorian calendar, but rather are from previously used Julian calendar and refer to September - December.

Jaki fajny kanał! :) Trafiłam tu ze strony Bośniaka relacjunującego polski odcinek Geography Now :D

It is interesting that in Russian we have some words which have the same meaning as in Polish like "гора" (góra) for mountain and some words which have the same meaning as in Bosnian like "южный" (južni), "северный" (sjeverni) but also some words which have the same meaning as in both like тяжело (teža) = трудно (trudno).

Great video

Отличное видео! 🙏

I like this and we have many similarities. Thanks for this nice video. Pozdrav iz BIH 🇧🇦

I am czech, can understand more of the bosnian, polish is kinda meh but it's still understandable :)

Planiny - Pieniny to chyba nie przypadek Dziękuję za film

Świetny pomysł na kanał YT. Niedawno odkryłem ;)

As a Russian speaker who knows only a little Bosnian and no Polish, I find this really interesting. I find the Bosnian much easier to understand than the Polish (though maybe that's because I've had much more exposure to it without actually learning it). It's so interesting how some Russian words have more Bosnian cognates (like северный and южный) and some have Polish ones instead (горы instead of planine).

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian (BCS) is the same language.

Ahhh! a collab with Generic Wolf! :)

One thing I might add about Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian - They were talking about the most safest country, now, we can say ''najsigurnija'' or ''najbezbjednija'' and both words mean exactly the same and every Yugo know both words. There are lots example like that and tend to differ based on region. Sometimes, there is even a third word for the same thing. In this case, to a Polish it would have been more appropriate to use ''najbezbjednije'' instead of najsugurnije.

Norbert when Mirsad said the 5th country had no coastline I looked at a map and saw only 2 possibles : Bolivia or Paraguay. If you had a map with you, you would have got it quicker.

During this video's watching I was getting almost everything, what was sayd on Polish, and about 30%, what was said on Bosnian) From Belarus) Dziekuje bardzo)

funny thing with us Slavs i could understand most of what you were saying and with Bosnian i could understand it all since i am from Slovenia

Last summer I traveled around Balkan countries and I noticed that Polish people usually spoke in English with local people. So I wondered.

A jeste lud ovaj Bosanac😂

I like those languages 😜😍

Wspaniale jest mieć takich zagranicznych znajomych. Sam chciałbym prowadzić takie rozmowy.

Aruba is independent, Bonaire is still part of the Netherlands and it's a very nice place to windsurf and there are lots of professional freestyle windsurfers

Slavics are The dominant in Europe!

super materiał każdy w którym rozmawiasz z Bałkańcami tłumaczyć nie potrzeba pozdro

Боснийский сложно понимать, особенно если свернуть вкладку и не читать субтитры для чистоты эксперимента :> Но основной смысл ясен, я только про Норвегию подсказки почти никакие не поняла. А вообще, замечательный у вас канал, спасибо большое! Я очень люблю разгадывать незнакомые языки, так что ваши видео - просто подарок :>

O kolejny odcinek mojej ulubionej serii na Twoim kanale :D Zmiana formuły wypadła bardzo ciekawie, dzięki napisom praktycznie nie ma problemu ze zrozumieniem Mirsada. Bośniacki nie różni się zbytnio od chorwackiego i serbskiego więc wiele ze słów już się pojawiło w Twoich poprzednich międzyjęzykowych konwersacjach :D.

Bosnian resembles some kind of “old Russian” in my opinion, - I recognized many mutual roots) “yuzhniy”, “severniy” for example ) quite similar to Russian)) but Polish is obviously still much more understandable for me 😀