I wish I could speak Slovak even though basic. I work on American cruise line for 7 months and spend a month in my country, it's Indonesian and one month in Slovakia, my husband's country. But still it is very hard for me to learn, memorize vocabulary or using in a sentence. From your channel more less I get help. Thank you.
Your english is amazing (including almost non-existing accent)... I was told I sound like drunk Scot, I would expect Russian or something like that but Scot? :D :-/
Afaik the "Slovak accent" in English sounding a bit like the Scottish dialect may be caused by the way Slovak people approximate the English vowels, but I'm no expert on this by any means.
I think Slovak is only slavic language to have the letter "ä" Like Najmä, pät. Hovorim slovenský, ale maly. Krasný jazik i slovensky narod silný! Ne rozumiem, prečo mad'arsko nenavidia slovensko. žiarlivosť? :D
Hi, I am Thai girl and interesting in your language and Thank you for your teaching , this is so great and good choice for me to start to learning. So so clearly to listen.
You are a great teacher. Very informative. You are very clear in your thought and actually in your speech. Best I have found so far. Unfortunately, we need more. and perhaps visual to see your lips. Thank you so much.
Sam thanks for this I am also trying to learn Slovak to surprise my BF who comes from Bratislava (which by the way is a lovely place and I really was made to feel so welcome by all the people there). Ty
Good video, but one think was bad "slovak is very hard language bcs that i and y in words is hell to learn btw i am from slovak. Majte sa všeci dobre a prajrm vam pekný zvyšok vášho života
I like the way you're explaining things so much! Very pleasant manner, very pleasant voice. Would definitely like to see more of it on this channel! P.S. You said you live in Bratislava, in three weeks you'll have a very big linguistic event there (polyglot conference), expect many people to search where and how to pick up on some Slovak before it for traveling or after because they'll fall in love with the language)) and in case - see you there)))
Learn SLOVAK - is the most simple and logical grammar structured of all the Slavic languages conlang ever. Which Latin language has the most letters of the alphabet? Slovak alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Slovak language. It has 46 letters which makes it the longest Slavic and European alphabet. The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an uppercase and a lowercase form: A a. B b.
I don't get it. This is a great introductory lesson. I'm trying to learn Slovak so I can communicate with my wife's family (she's Slovak obviously), and I'm really interested in future lessons. It's been almost a year. Have you decided not to continue?
With the diphthongs, does not the combinations of "au" as in auto and "ou, ov" as in domov count? And with it being referred to as the hardest language in the world, I believe that is just because of the scarce learning materials, most of the globe does not even know it exists sadly. I am thankful for people like you because Slovak is a wonderful language and I hope you carry this series on!
The Language Hub "au" and "ou" are not diphthongs, they are pronounced "letter by letter". Words ending in "ov" follow another rule called "spodobovanie" (approximation). Letter "v" gets approximated to "u" for the convenience of pronunciation, therefore "ou" and "ov" end up to be pronounced the same way
The dipthongs I mention are the dipthongs that are officially dipthongs. One could argue that all double vowel sounds are dipthongs, but that's not how it is. The dipthongs mentioned in the video are those that were set as dipthongs when the Slovak language was standardized and codified. Sadly, I don't have a better reason to say why they aren't ^^" My studies in linguistics didn't really cover what sounds qualify as dipthongs and which don't but the textbook rule is that if the sounds "connect" together they count as dipthongs. The difference between au/ou and ia/ie is that the ia/ie sounds sound much faster, sort of like the Russian ja/je letters, while the au/ou sounds sound much longer and less together -> each letter is pronounced.The ia/ie are pronounced much faster -> dipthong -> individual letters are less distinct. I hope this helps explain it, thank you for your comment and sorry for the absence ^^"
The Language Hub Thats not how it works. Diphthongs are two different consecutive vowels in one syllable. If they are consecutive but in two syllables it's called a hiatus: prIA-teľ (friend) - diphthong ak-cI-A (sale) - not a diphthong Therefore some vowel combinations in words like AU-to, EU-ro etc. should definitely be considered diphthongs. I guess they are never mentioned because they only appear in foreign words.
There are more problems with this video. Y and I are not sounding absolutely same. Same goes with Ä and E. If they do it's probably because of spoken dialect but with *correct* pronounciation they should not be sounding same. Example, young pigeon is correctly Holubä, and it should not be pronounced as simply Holube. It's not that hard to notice the differences in pronouncing when there is ä in the word. But of course it *CAN* sometimes sound just like E. Depends on how much enphasis speaker puts into Ä. When it's too much it sounds like ridiculous level of silly and when it's far too little it just sounds like E. You need to do it just right.
@@FishikK While ä and e may be argued to have a difference (there is no clear reference to them being the same sound) y and i are officially used to denote the same phoneme and thus are pronounced the same, see www.juls.savba.sk/ediela/psp2000/psp.pdf page 13, the third paragraph.
i really need to learn slovak, because my bf and future partner was from slovakia 😊 so i started to follow your channel and waiting for the next lessons ❤ thanks
07:24 Perhaps you should put the term "Trolley" and/or "Subway" next to "Tram" as these two words are more familiar to speakers of the U.S. variants of English. I do know the term Tram, but to most U.S. locals that know this term, it's considered very "British."
@@Aqonomic But isn't it more correctly "Tesim se NA viac videi" ???For me seems an incomplete sentence without "NA". PS. Zeptal jsem se protoze mam cesky puvod a cestina i slovenstina maji temer stejna pravidla. Zdravim z Rumunska!
Hey Christopher, I got side-tracked with some other projects of mine and didn't continue this as it didn't gain a lot of initial traction. Seeing the positive response now, I'll resume this project in the following weeks ;)
Interesting. I'm not a native speaker and to me "ti" and "ty" clearly sound different (being pronounced by slovaks). While in some words, yes, those letters sound equally.
So there are no sounds like /ɪ/ and /ɨ/ in Slovak at all? Was "y" pronounced differently in Old Slovak (e.g. as /ɪ/ or /ɨ/) or was it always pronounced as /i/?
The letters i and y correspond to the same phoneme in modern Slovak. I don't know about Old Slovak, it is likely there was once a phonetic distinction, given other Slavic languages. However, in modern Slovak, the two graphemes of the phoneme /i/ pertain to the written language entirely.
Hi Kate, my husband and I are interested in learning Slovakian language , so if you like teach us online would be appreciated. if yes kindly send me your e-mail or what's app number to contact you fro arrangements
why isn't r' a vowel? we can keep on saying that with our mouth open. even in sanskrit, or sanskrit based languages like nepali and hindi, ऋ (like slovak r') is a vowel
Actually, you have big mistake right at the start: slovak has more letters than 26, you forgot all the "Ä, DZ, DŽ, Ď, CH" (yes, those actually are separate letters in Abeceda!) + you also read those first samohlasky wrongly right away cos you read those short ones as long one and only when you read those long ones zou read those short once correctly (what a mess, bro!), cize cele zle, kamo...palec dole = dislike (dalej som to uz radsej ani nepozerala...)
you should have taught them how to pronounce "ch" "dz" and "dž" ... well dž is easy for english speakers, but they will have trouble learning dz & ch...
