Is Serbo-Croatian the easiest Slavonic languagage for non slavic speaking people? Compared to other Slavonic languages, such as Polish, Russian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian has fewer phonemes and its pronunciation is much clearer. It's only got five vowels, even the pitch accent is disappearing in most varieties. In this regard, there was a discussion on this forum too. As for the grammar, it's been simplifing a great deal, plenty of verb tenses are just literary nowadays.
Serbo-Croatian
the pitch accent wasn't what it was a century ago, but it's still used and people don't notice it, just like most of French people don't know they actually distinguish e fermé/ouvert.
Strangers sound really funny when they learn a bit because the most difficult phonetic feature is the intonation and the pitch accent what is almost impossoble to reproduce, so you're wrong. As for the pronunciation, I agree, it's much simplier than the Russian or Polish one.
The tenses are still used and nowadays more and more because it has shorter forms, especially when texting or writing e-mails.
ja sam rekao vs. rekoh
ja sam bio napisao vs. napisah etc.
ja ću napisati/ ja budem napisao vs. napišem
etc...
-lots of assimilations, irregularities in conjugations and declensions, when to write -ije-; -je-; -e- (mlijeko, djeca, greška-->that exists only in Croatian, the rest of slavic languages use only -e-(Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Polish etc.) or -i-(Ukrainian))
how to distinguish č from ć and dž from đ etc.... Really easy :-)
If it's so simple, learn it and we'll chat here. I'd be the happiest person to see you writing in Croatian. And no, I won't accept Serbian because it's easier because they dont have 3 jat reflexes (ije, je, e), they use only -e-.
Strangers sound really funny when they learn a bit because the most difficult phonetic feature is the intonation and the pitch accent what is almost impossoble to reproduce, so you're wrong. As for the pronunciation, I agree, it's much simplier than the Russian or Polish one.
The tenses are still used and nowadays more and more because it has shorter forms, especially when texting or writing e-mails.
ja sam rekao vs. rekoh
ja sam bio napisao vs. napisah etc.
ja ću napisati/ ja budem napisao vs. napišem
etc...
-lots of assimilations, irregularities in conjugations and declensions, when to write -ije-; -je-; -e- (mlijeko, djeca, greška-->that exists only in Croatian, the rest of slavic languages use only -e-(Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Polish etc.) or -i-(Ukrainian))
how to distinguish č from ć and dž from đ etc.... Really easy :-)
If it's so simple, learn it and we'll chat here. I'd be the happiest person to see you writing in Croatian. And no, I won't accept Serbian because it's easier because they dont have 3 jat reflexes (ije, je, e), they use only -e-.
I'm Slovenian and i think Croatian is one of the most difficult Slavic languages. They don't have the dual form like we do, but that's really easy to learn, no big deal.
I always have lots of problem when trying to express myself in Croatia because I've learned it at school, but always had the worst note.
What this guy above me wrote are the toughest things to learn in Croatian, like ije/je/e and č/ć and the assimilations.
I always have lots of problem when trying to express myself in Croatia because I've learned it at school, but always had the worst note.
What this guy above me wrote are the toughest things to learn in Croatian, like ije/je/e and č/ć and the assimilations.
č/ć
No slovene guy learn this difference at school It's no longer used in Croatia
No slovene guy learn this difference at school It's no longer used in Croatia
No slovenians don't learn Croatian at school, they learn Serbian. Serbian womans are prettier then croatian womans.
Hi, I'm a Slovenian guy learning Croatian at school. I reckon Croatian is really easy! It hasn't got the dual form, my mother tongue, Slovene does have it and it's quite complicated. I have never learnt the difference between c/C because my Croatian teacher told us that it is useless in Croatia nowadays, most Croats ignore it. We don't even study some old fashioned tenses like imperferct and Aorist because they are rarely used in modern Croatian, so all in all Croatian is easier than my loved Slovene!
I think I'm a bit older than you guys here, trust me :)
In my time, we used to learn everything, and of course we had to learn the Č/Ć because once we had to write, you know, whey you learna foreign language you have to write it, and you cannot write with only Č like we do.
The only thing Slovenian has and Croatian doesn't is the dual form. The rest is another story...The schools have changed...
By the way, how come you learn Croatian at school, my children don't have that option in their schools. hm....that's weird
In my time, we used to learn everything, and of course we had to learn the Č/Ć because once we had to write, you know, whey you learna foreign language you have to write it, and you cannot write with only Č like we do.
The only thing Slovenian has and Croatian doesn't is the dual form. The rest is another story...The schools have changed...
By the way, how come you learn Croatian at school, my children don't have that option in their schools. hm....that's weird
Who learns Croatian in Slovenia now? Everybody learns Serbian in city, you must come from little village Gornja Radgona. Only peasant learn Croatian. Fuj!
well, all of my friends do speak Croatian, so i don't see where is the problem. I'm from Maribor and I don't think it's a village.
Anyways...who cares.
Anyways...who cares.