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by toni_pest » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:28 pm
Well, I don't know, I was born after Yugoslavia fell apart, I should ask someone.jio wrote:They do exist now but were they existing also in the days of Yugoslavia? I mean in Czechoslovakia people were always learning Czech in what is today Czech Rep. and Slovak in what is today Slovakia, despite those two languages being extremely similar as well. I don't think that was the case in ex-YU, was it?
by Serby » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:31 pm
toni_pest wrote:Nope. There's Croatian and there's Serbian. they're alike but not the same.
That was the 'trouble' I was talking about 
by summer » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:32 pm
The whole forum already noticed thatserbia95riri wrote:toni_pest wrote:Nope. There's Croatian and there's Serbian. they're alike but not the same.
Well, you agree that we can understand each others with exception of few words.
It doesn't matter anyway.
by jio » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:34 pm
by RaFanatic » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:40 pm
That's really sad, i mean REALLY sadjio wrote:Talking about those languages (and this is completely irrelevant), I was out and about with a Serb friend of mine (I think that was in 1998 or 1999) and she heard two other girls talking in Serbian (she thought) so she goes to them, talks to them, the girls answered (in their language) and then they asked where is she from and when she said Serbia, the girls responded (in English) "Oh sorry we don't speak Serbian, we are from Croatia"... my friend was so pissed u can't imagine lol
by jio » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:42 pm
by jio » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:44 pm
We said the same with 1 minute difference loltoni_pest wrote:Well, you know, that was back in the 90s and I guess there was still some haterid between them cause of the war and all.RaFanatic wrote:That's really sad, i mean REALLY sad
by RaFanatic » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:46 pm
But it's the same nowtoni_pest wrote:Well, you know, that was back in the 90s and I guess there was still some haterid between them cause of the war and all.RaFanatic wrote:That's really sad, i mean REALLY sad
Maybe even worse... Have you been here in past 3/4 years(for example)? I know that a lot of Serbs, when they go to Croatia, have to speak other language because people may attack them there. The same thing is about here in Serbia, i know a lot of people from Croatia, which i met on concerts, are afraid that they dont get attacked too... by jio » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:49 pm
But still that's progress. When I was there (in Serbia), I couldn't visit Croatia because there was no public transport link among the two.RaFanatic wrote:But it's the same nowtoni_pest wrote:Well, you know, that was back in the 90s and I guess there was still some haterid between them cause of the war and all.RaFanatic wrote:That's really sad, i mean REALLY sad
by toni_pest » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:52 pm
Yeah, I know, the things are a bit better now, but there's still alot of hate. I wouldn't be comftortable if I went there cause I know alot of people here who still are acting like the war happened a year ago. I mean, it's understandable, as war affected everyone's lives on both sides. It's gonna take alot more time for people to forget about it.RaFanatic wrote:But it's the same nowtoni_pest wrote:Well, you know, that was back in the 90s and I guess there was still some haterid between them cause of the war and all.RaFanatic wrote:That's really sad, i mean REALLY sad
by Serby » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:55 pm
It was funny, cuz they were joking and everybody was laughing.
by hugo » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:04 pm
by toni_pest » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:06 pm
Well we only use latin alphabet here in Croatia and I think that in Serbia they use both latin and cyrillic.hugom2c wrote:How hard is it for you guys to learn English? Cyrillic is the alphabet you use right? I noticed that you can communicate using the latin alphabet too, I just find that very impressive. There are several languages that I would love to know (like Japanese), but I just can't see myself learning a whole new alphabet
by jio » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:10 pm
by Serby » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:18 pm
Yes, we use both cyrilic and latin, and we learn them both in school.toni_pest wrote:Well we only use latin alphabet here in Croatia and I think that Serbians use both latin and cyrillic.
It's not that hard. As I already said, we use both latin and cyrillic, mainly chyrillic.hugom2c wrote:How hard is it for you guys to learn English? Cyrillic is the alphabet you use right? I noticed that you can communicate in your native language using the latin alphabet too, I just find that very impressive. There are several languages that I would love to know (like Japanese or Greek), but I just can't see myself learning a whole new writing system
by Serby » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:22 pm
I went to modern Greek classes but I gave up cuz our teacher bearly knew serbian and he was sleeping during our classesjio wrote:I have lots of foreign friends who learn Greek and nobody has a problem with the alphabet or with talking but everybody has a problem with the grammar. Greek alphabet is different to latin but it is not that different to create problems by itself (like the alphabets of Asian languages). I guess the same is true with cyrillic alphabet
And also cuz I was lazy 
so, as you said, different writing system is not that big problem, it's mainly about grammar.by jio » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:27 pm
by summer » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:39 pm
As a Russian speaker I can say we use the cyrillic alphabet [latin only for social networks]. I remember a favourite joke during English classes at school was "English is a pain in the ass but imagine them doing a slavic language". English isn't taught very well at schools and people have trouble with pronunciation and speaking. I can understand about 30% of what Zdenek is saying [as well as Serby and Ukranians] but Polish and Croatian are already a mistery.hugom2c wrote:How hard is it for you guys to learn English? Cyrillic is the alphabet you use right? I noticed that you can communicate in your native language using the latin alphabet too, I just find that very impressive. There are several languages that I would love to know (like Japanese or Greek), but I just can't see myself learning a whole new writing system
by jpguy » Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:37 am
!!! That'd make me feel unique in a certain way 
by swiftie13 » Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:25 am
by Crazy4Brit » Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:54 am
It's because Europe has a longer historyjpguy wrote:It's just so interesting that all these countries are so passionate to have their own language no matter what... You see MOST countries in Europe are into that....
Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrian, Albanese, Ukranian, Russian, Bulgarian, Polish and Czhec... etc, etc...
Here in Latin America, Spanish here, Spanish there, Spanish for ever and ever... slightly differences in accents but it's the same...
That's a good point. There are no problems in bigger Countries as there are many ineternet users but definitely finding some techinical information in Finnish/Albanian/Slovakian is definitely harder than finding in it French/German/Italian eccI wonder if the internet information is enough for you guys or do you have to still learn English for certain information on the internet? I mean... technological stuff and world news and extremely technical topics... I don't think all of that is available for Finnish or Albanese... just wondering
by Muzikritik » Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:59 am
I wish I could speak whale.pcdm3 wrote:Whale
