Greetings from Czechia! Slovenian is a beautiful language and it's actually quite similar to Czech! We can understand a lot. And Slovenia is a tremendously gorgeous country ❤️
I'm Serbian and I can understand Slovenian. I just wanna say that Slovenian is the most beautiful south Slavic language. I've been studying slovenian for 4 months and I really like it
@@nixymax Well yeah after all both of you come from the slavic branch, I want to learn Slovenian too, I know a very very little amount of russian and that probably will sort of help me, I am Armenian, by the way
@@Vaniego. Hmm, russian would help you for sure. For example, declension of nouns are similar, etc... Start with an alphabet, learn how to write and read, listen to music, videos. If you have a lot of free time, take some time and improve that and later you can start with grammar😁 Btw greetings for Armenia, we love you!
@@nixymax hvala! 🇷🇸🇦🇲 I am very aware about how similar russian is to other slavic languages i only know a few examples in slovene moj = Мои Это = Το kak si = kak dila I think If I want to learn any slavic languages I think Russian is a must do to make it easier for other slavic languages
Thanks a lot, really! I'm Hungarian but I live in Italy right now, so I cross your beautiful country by car, every months or so. I wanted to pick up just the basics to at least be able to say "hello" and "thank you" at the gas station. So great, thanks again and good luck with your channel!
I love this comment sections. I am an English speaker but it fills my heart with warmth to see so many people of different nations learning about each other and discovering how our differences are special. We are more alike than we are different, and the ways that are different are what make us special.
Very interesting video,I am from a neighboring country,Italy,here in Italy there is a Slovenian minority,so it’s nice to learn some of your language,I also know some Russian and Polish so I’m already familiar with Slavic languages.Keep making videos like this I really appreciate them!!!
Thank you so much for this video! It's really helpful :) I just moved to Ljubljana, from the Netherlands. I really want to learn Slovenian. Also, your other videos are cool as well!
we borrowed some words from italian witch is simillar to spanish the correct slovene word for goodybe would be "nasvidenje" its like how english have some french words
Clint Eastwood Olá, você entende inglês? Pois infelizmente não há muito conteúdo de ensino do idioma, por ser uma língua pouco falada. O maioria do conteúdo disponível é ensinado em inglês. Eu encontrei esse site, parece bom: mylanguages.org/learn_slovenian.php Também há o curso do 50languages no youtube, também ensinado Inglês, o ùnico português que cobre o básico é o do Canal autodidata. Muito bom que você tem a oportunidade de ir pra lá, é um país muito bonito e seguro :) Boa sorte!
Hi hello brain Griffin I make a new movie if you are interested I'm from Israel and I'm not Slovenian I'm Jewish So I put Hebrew+ Slovenian In all of my movies ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3tseslrBvsE.html
thank you for making this video! my mom and grandma and great grandma and so on are all from slovenia but my mom doesnt know slovenian anymore. we are trying to learn because we are trying to get citizenship for me & her (my mom was born in slovenia when it was part of yugoslavia). we love slovenia & my mom misses it so this video helps me learn!
Thank you so much! My dad is slovenian and i’m trying to learn it too, but he doesn’t know how to teach me. Can u make another video on lesrning slovenian please?
I'm glad you like the video! And as for more videos regarding this topic, I do plan to post more videos about the Slovene language in the series Slovene 101. I just recently posted a video about the history and the development of the language, so if you are interested in that you can check that out. Also in the following weeks I will be posting more videos on the topic of the Slovenian language. Thanks again for watching :D
I love this because I want to learn Slovenian like the rest of my extended family knows. I am Slovenian and my part of the family moved away from everyone else. So when they went to Slovenian catholic school to learn Slovenian language, my mom didn’t. I would like to show my family that I can learn it like them
Happy to find someone teaching this language... but please slow down and repeat the words. I felt that most of the words were just slurred through once.
@@speedingpodli4520 too* Also Slovenia is one of the most beautiful countries,we have fresh air,we recycle and honestly the food,and people are really nice here,so stfu
My native language is Spanish and I found interesting that we have a word we use in the same way as "na zdravje". We say "salud" for cheers and to say "bless you!". Great video, it's really helpful although there was so many information and so fast! If you could pronounce the words slowly it would be perfect. The different dialects part is something I've read in many sites and it's honesty scary... Thank you very much, Tjaša! By the way, I may start studying Slovene this year and the native spearker proffessor I'd have has the same name as you :D
Thank you soo much 😄 I will try in the following videos to pronounce things more slowly. 😊 The dialects might sound scary. But also while I was in Spain, the people in the village that I stayed in, supposedly didn’t have the same accent as the ones living in Madrid. But I personally never noticed that. So maybe it’s the same with Slovene. 🤷🏼♀️ And Tjaša is actually a pretty common name here so you might encounter many more. 😂
As for the interesting fact about "na zdravje" and "salud," I speak a little spanish and slovenian as well and I think that both this words are even based on the same meaning - something that means "health" or "with health".. Na zdravje would be translated exactly like "for health" and "salud" like "health", am I right? :)
I don't think I will ever learn Italian, just because I think it's too similar to Spanish, which I'm already learning. Right now I'm putting my efforts in Korean and then next on my “wish list“ are French and Chinese. :D
You usually use it in writing, but in conversations you usually use casual words with friends, family co-workers etc. Also da is less grammatically correct so ye
Don't slow down. I need to hear it at full speed and you're the only person who recites basic phrases at full/casual speed. Every other one makes things sound totally different.
is it ok to start speaking english to people in shops etc, or should i ask 'do you speak english' every time? i guess they will know i'm foreign if i just say 'hello' each time i meet someone haha
I think it is polite to somehow start the conversation, not just straight up ask a question. So either be it "Hello, can I ask you something?" / "Hi, do you speak English?" ... something of the sorts. It is not necessary but I think it is more polite. Also depends on the situation.
Slight accent? I was in Slovenia and as I was going through Ljubljana - as Slovakian I understood if not everything, than big amount of what was said... But when I reached Portorož I was lost. I thought, that everyone around me speaks Italian. 😃 So I believe, that even for you it is hard to understand. Btw., I like your country, you are really nice people... I hope this corona-thing will soon disappear and I will can visit Slovenia again. ☺
Hi! Isn't Vse najboljse "all the best?" logically? I am an Albanian and I'm trying to learn Slovenian however I am confused regarding happy birthday greetings. Isn't there any other word as Sreçni rodjendan or else?
Vse najboljše does literally mean “All the best”, but in Slovenia we only use this expression. And it is usually not used in other situations, it is only used for wishing someone a happy birthday. 😄
Thank you 😊 I always try to use the right terms and I write them down but then when I’m filming I just sometimes forget to use them. Thanks for pointing it out and sorry for that. It may happen again in the future but I’ll try keeping it to a minimum. 😂
That's not how language learning works. When someone speaks at speed they slur words and sounds. When you're starting out teaching someone a language, you need to slow down and enunciate. Gradually, as the basics are established, you can pick up the speed and begin to speak more naturally. Slowing the playback will cause sloppy pronunciation
Hello from Dallas! We have Luka Dončić and I wanted to learn a little of this beautiful language for when I go to the Mavericks games. So many similarities to Bosnian, which I learned a little from my colleague. I'm a native English/Spanish speaker (Mexican American), so I feel it's a slight advantage!
hola desde eslovenia !(i started learning spanish this month love spanish just sounds so good and im also a huge music lover and i think spanish is a great langauge for music)
my grandmother is slovenian so i’ve been trying to learn more about the language and culture. i already know both english and french. and i know a bit of spanish as well. any tips?
Hola, que tal?, como van?, Los mejores y más cordiales Saludos desde puente piedra, lima, Perú, ojalá que puedas venir en algún momento a mi país y que disfrutes mucho de todo por aquí, con la familia y los amigos, felicidades por tus vídeos...
Wow. Ok.. This is going to be harder than I thought. Met a girl named katja from Slovenia. Thought id impress her by speaking to her in her original language. Not going to be as easy as I thought. Lol
I mean all are pretty similar but I think it’s more similar to the Serbian or Croatian language than any other. Even though I have never learned either of those languages I can understand basics. 😄
It is not even slightly logical what you thought, you know it is called SouthSlavic for a reason. I read somewhere that Serbian and Slovenian are 85% the same language, Serbian and Macedonian 80% .. what makes Slovenian hard to understand if they speak fast is accent and stress of the vowels which can be different
Živjo! Thank you for this video! Hvala 😊. As others said, I would like to hear the pronounced slowlier (as you just did in the tongue twister video, it was great). I would be interested in learning phrases for an unformal conversation (for example saying I'm good, I'm tired, I'm hungry, that sort of things). Also, is there a difference if the speaker is male or female? Or when the speaker addresses to one, two or more people (I read about the dual mode). Čau !
Thanks for all the suggestions. The problem with me doing the phrases for informal conversation is that I speak the Ljubljana dialect which means all of them would be in that dialect and it may vary from other parts of Slovenia. So I wasn’t sure how to go about that. And also for the second part of your questions I think I briefly explained dual and the differences if your talking to a male or female in my What makes Slovenian One Of The Most Difficult Languages To Learn video. So go check that out and I hope it helps, if you still have further questions just ask 😄😄 Thanks for the comment 😄
Tjasa Grabnar Thank you for your answer. ☺️ If we learn phrases of the Ljubljana dialect, do you think we might not be understood elsewhere? I'll check your other video. Hvala!
Kori2706 I think the problem is not that you will not be understood, it’s more of that you can get confused by their way of speaking. Because their dialect has a different accent and slang expressions. 🙂
I must say, i am from Czech Republic, and i find it kinda funny, that throug i've never got in contact with Slovenian language before i was able to undestand everything in the video except one word. Its almost strange, how similar slavic languages actually are. Like yours "Na zdravje" is exactly the same and used in the same situations as ours "Na zdraví"
