Similarities Between Russian and Croatian 

Croats and Russians have a lot of words that are similar but when you hear full sentence it can get complicated.

I'm from Poland and I understand everything, Ja sam iz Poljske i razumijem sve. Я из Польши, и я все понимаю.

A funny example: the word "ponos" in Croatian means "honor, pride", but in Russian it means "diarrhea"☺️ So, sometimes similar languages may be confusing😂

Slavic languages are very similar. Croats are treated well in Russia. We are always glad to see you as a guest.

Thanks for the video! I was smiling during watching this☺️ Greetings to all Slavic brothers and sisters!!! From Russia

I’m Danish why am I watching this.

Mi Hrvati kad se napijemo pričamo ruski bez problema!

I'm Russian and it was easy to understand Croat

Actually all Slavic speakers are able to comprehend each other is they speak slowly and repeat it 2-3 times. I do not pretend for 100% understanding, but at least 2/3 of conversation could be understood well enough.

I'm Croat and I can understand Russians really well, it is crazy how many same or similar words we have. Among Slavic languages Croatian and Russian are quite close, they are much closer to one another than they are to Polish or Czech or even Slovenian and Slovak. Biggest difference is pronunciation, so in some cases word can be very similar or almost the same but it is sometimes hard to get it because of the way it is pronounced

I'm from Croatia, my gf is Russian, I can understand 80% of Russian words. Chakavian dialect (especially from Kvarner region) of Croatian is even closer to Russian because it has lot of Proto-Slavic words (for example, flour=brasno in Croatian, muka in Russian and Chakavian, or verb to smoke=pusiti in Croatian, kurit in Russian and Chakavian).

I`m Russian. I use to work in UK and there was a lot of slavic people. Had zero problems understanding them. The easiest was Croatian and Slovakian. The hardest was Czech and Polish

Do more Slavic languages please

i`m croat and my wife is russian

My grandfather is croatian and my grandmother is serbian. I love all slavic countries Veronica is beautiful. Slavic power.

I am bulgarian and I understand eaverything !! I love Slav languages

So the croatian word for time can also apply to the weather... curious fact because in spanish we say "Tiempo" for both time and weather aswell

The main difference seems to lie in the syntax. All the words presented here have cognates in the opposite language. For example "kako se zoveš" would be literally translated in Russian as "kak (ty) sebja zovjóš" but we just don't say so since it would be gramatically correct by syntactically incorrect. The same is for Croatian, since "kak tebja zovut" would be literally translated as "kako te zovu" but it would be syntactically wrong. But nevertheless they sense would be clear.

I'm impressed how close Croatian sounds to Russian.

Im from Bosnia and i understanded 90% of these russian words.

Bulgarian words are so similar with these. Поздрави от България🔝

Do Croatian vs. Serbian lmao

I am from Poland, croatian and russian words are really similar to polish words 😊

When I was a kid we were watching Premier Kruschev giving a speech at the United Nations in Russian. My mom's first language was Croatian, though she born in the US. She could mostly understand what he was saying before the translation was given.

I am a Croat, I understand the Russians 90%

As polish i understand like 90% of the words. ^^

Croatian is a beautiful language. I am studying Croatian language ❤️🇭🇷

As in Croatian, "tempo" in Portuguese means both "weather" and "time".

"Vremea" and "Ulitza" have the same meaninng in romanian language. cheers

sweet Rusian girl, greetings from Croatia :)

zeleniy and plavat are almost identical words to Croatian and it's strange that he didn't recognize them. Plavat i zeleniy oceny pohozie slova so horvatskim i strano shto on ne ponyal eto.

I was with my family last summer in Croatia and we will come this summer again at Magarska Riviera. Very friendly people and beautiful see=)

I'm Croatian and I loved this video! Very educational!

Russia vs. Croatia today! Good luck to both teams, brothers!

As a Bulgarian I understood everithing unless the second Croatian sentence. By the way this Russian girl is so pretty❤. Also greetings for all slavic brothers and sisters!

Я помню давным-давно был в Хорватии, сняли там домик на пару недель. Каждый день ходлили завтракать, обедать и ужинать в один и тот же ресторан. В этом ресторане была замечательная женщина, владелец заведения. Постоянно с ней общались на различные темы, причем мы с ей на русском, а она на хорватском.. и мы друг-друга понимали без переводчика. Лишь иногда добавляя английский язык.

was in moscow 5 days...russians are very similar to croats on streets. many familiar faces, i talk about slaven origin people. also i saw they know much croat words, or better say old slavic words. im glad for that cause you can follow history like that. long live slavs !

For the next Russian/Croatian challenge use words that are not basic.😅

You know, weather in Croatian and Serbian is 'vrijeme' and 'vreme', same word used for 'time'. In Russian it's 'погода' (pogoda), but we also say 'nepogoda' for storms and bad weather, as Russians do.

I was smiling through whole video, thank you for that :D

Кто понимает меня?

This is so satisfying. I love the history of Slavic languages AND Germanic languages, such fascinating language trees.

That girl is unbelievably beautiful!

well i have to say that most slavic nations understands croatian better than we understand their language...

In my dialect of Croatian, "plavat" would be like the russian version, Its the archaic version like "Bak" instead of "Bik"(modern Croatian for "Bull"), the point being if you take an archaic dialect of croatian and russian it would be even more similar.

My French\German language teacher in high school is from Croatia. In slow times, she would sometimes write words on the board in various languages (Croatian, Russian, German, French, Spanish, etc) and kinda explain stuff too those willing to listen. Loved that teacher, she was super awesome

Thank you for this video. I love and apreciate all slavic languages and do feel, that many centuries ago we had common history. Love this

I need to learn Croatian so I can brag about the number of languages I speak. Should take 'bout a week LOL

This was great! Individual words and some phrases said slowly I think many Slav speakers would be able to get by in each other's countries. Especially when reading, if you know the alphabets in each language and their pronunciation rules. But normal conversations would get lost because of again, pronunciation, intonations and stresses. Interesting, would like to see challenges between the Latin languages like French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Im Ukrainian. Very interesting how some of Croatian words were more similar to Russian words than Ukrainian ones are.

Omfg i just realized i can speak half of the Russian language when my whole life i thought i could only speak croatia

Sloveniski VS hrvatski? Bilo bi cool :')

she's beautiful

If russians didnt speak so fast maybe i could understand them xD

As a brazilian-portuguese speaker, I dont know why but I always thought croatian language was less dificult than russian language. I´m glad to watch this video, because now I can start learning russian too. =)

There are a few tricks to deciphering the differences, which are still based on the same roots: "gladan" in Croatian vs "golodny" (hungry) in Russian is a common vowel shift, cf. "mlada" vs "molodoy" (young)

This is so cool, I'm hoping to learn Russian in a night now, I'm Croatian btw :D

Спасибо за проект, Бахадор! Ты помогаешь нам.

I am learning Russian right now. The differences between Russian and Croatian are actually huge despite similarities and common origin. The grammar is completely different. The pronunciation is way different: "zijevati" and "зевать" are pronounced completely differently, you might hear the word but not understand it immediately because of different pronunciation. A lot of the words that sound familiar (and probably have the same origin) Just one example: она трудная женщина (she is a difficult woman) and ona je trudna žena- she is a pregnant woman. Sometimes you might hear an entire conversation and think that you understood, but then you find out that you understood it wrongly. And how about concepts that do not exist in Croatian? Separate words for "now" i.e. сейчас and теперь. And this is one of the easiest examples. You have no idea how much I used to struggle with having to use different words for action. movement and transport, depending on many factors: ways of movements, means of transport, repeated action or a single action. This is mindblowing those who are introduced with this for the first time in their adult life.

Greetings from Bosnia🇧🇦 slavic brothers 💗

As a simple Russian person i want to say: Dobrodošli na našu zemlju braćo Hrvati. Prijezžajtie k nam v gosti Slavianskije brat'ja, budiem rady vidjet' Vas na našej ziemije... Slavianam nado žit' družno, a nje idti vojnoj (ratom) drug na druga... My vsje iz odnogo Roda... Greetings from Moscow to all Slavic brothers.

Somehow I knew that the word for green in Croatian would be Zelena. This was a very interesting series.

Amazing! More of this please.

I am a Croat, I understood 100% Russian girl. Russian zelono-Croatian zeleno, Russian plavat (swim) , the same is said by Czechs, Poles, Slovaks-Croatian plivat.. These basic words are the same or very similar in Croatian and Russian, even in most Slavic languages😁

Facinating, Croats use "time" to describe weather like the Latin peoples.

I'm Filipino. Way way way across the world but this is fun and interesting! I love languages.

I am Serbian and really surprised how Croatian and Serbian are similar

Veronika gave Marko face in the end by “not having an idea” That was kind of her. 😊

I'm Marko too, only I am of Serbian background. I found this funny because when ever he'd say the Russian word in Croatian I'd mentally translate it further to Serbian lol!

I enjoy the video awesome greetings from Albania 🇦🇱 🤟

I am an American and am about 35-40% to fluency in Romanian (although reading is better) and am learning Croatian now as I have just planned a 7 week trip starting next month. It was exciting to me to get most of the words as well as the phrases. I didn’t know drvo because I learned ‘stabla’. I’m looking forward to going back to Croatia and knowing more than “I want a slice of pizza with mushrooms.”

Do Belarusian vs Russian

Can't believe no one is mentioning how beautiful the Russian girl is. And yeah all Slavs can understand each other 90% of the time.

I am Croatian and I'm here to see Veronika once again! :)

It's like romance languages. You can understand the words and most of them are the same but once you're speaking fast you don't get it at all

I speak russian and I didn't even know, putting that in my CV Slavic smart -_-

im so glad we and the russians cal almoust understand eachother

Greeting to Croatia from Serbia 💛

3:35 for the word Vrijeme / время in Romanian we say "vremea" which can mean time but also weather like in Croatian. 😁

In the middle of that you can put Polish person and Im sure every three of us would understand each other :) Beautiful! Slavic Power

Nouns and adjectives are very similar among Slavic languages... It's when you have apply grammar and syntax things start to diverge.

Hvala za video :)

Я недавно узнал, что древний Русский язык звучал как современный Хорватский. Так говорят лингвисты. I recently learned that the ancient Russian language sounded like modern Croatian. So speak the linguists.

I am from Croatia and my mom is from Russia so that means I can understand

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I speak neither of both languages ... I recently attended a Holy Mass in Croatian language accidently, I didn't leave because I was already there and had no other opportunity for a Holy Mass on that Sunday anyway ... I thought it was a Russian Mass all the time because it sounded so Russian for me :-D only later I saw in the parishes announcements that is was Croatian :-)

=O never knew it was so similar In portuguese time is also weather - "tempo".

this is like Swedish and danish and norway imo ofc, they all understand each other if they really listen to the words ofc body lingo helps a hell of a lot , but most of time we dont bother

I am Bulgarian and I understood almost everything 🇧🇬

This is great content!!!!

In portuguese we also use "time" to refer to the weather. Interesting!

I am Slovak and i can understand 100%Slovak,Czech,Polish 90%Russian,Ukrainian,Serbian,Croatian,Bosnian,Belarusian 80%Slovenian

I speak 4 langueage ,, Arabic , German , Englisch , Franch, But i love the russia langueage and i will study it

From Bulgaria we understand you very well also :)

Australian/American studying Russian for 4 years and I understood everything pretty clearly.

You should Give a Gift for the winner..a chocolate or another type of candy for example☺

4:15 in portuguese "tempo" (time) can also mean weather

The languages ​​are really very similar, at least many of the expressions ;-)

Good job! I understand everything

I love Croatians!