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Are there a few words you only know in one language or the other because you only discussed that topic with your mother or father?

@AK 565 I’m sure there are words in Czech that I don’t know but know in Polish because it was the main language spoken at home.

✔️ То брате!

I can relate.. jsem v česka

I am Slav and I could use my poor Swedish to communicate with a guy who spoke Norwegian :) Scandinavian languages seem to be also very close to each other. My Italian skills also helped me to survive in Spain.

Ну это неправда, совсем неправда.

Majster Prosty русские очень слабо понимают поляков, еще хуже чехов, чуть лучше болгар. Даже украинцев многие русские в принципе не понимают. Отупели люди за 30 лет. И многие похожие общие слова стали анахронизмами, молодые их не знают.

Ciekawe 😀

ja wszystko zrozumiałem a jestem z Polski :D

Też wszystko zrozumiałem :)

ok i understood you have a dog that raised a cat and thats all xD

@yakumanification And the dog was raised by cat, too 😺🐶😸

They don't. The Czech guy knows some Polish and the Polish guy knows some Czech. Both are linguists with an interest in Slavic languages.

@Lukas well im not a liguistic and while being a native Pole who never learned Czech I understand most of it

@Jakub Cesarz Dakos I am a native Czech and I understand very little.

I think it's one of the cases where one group can understand the other but not vice versa.

I am from Czech and I can understand polish very well, but cant talk in polish.

As a native Czech speaker, it's, of course, hard for me to sometimes understand polish and eastern Slavic languages too. But it's really fascinating because geographically our countries are not too far away from each other. So I wonder what historical development must have had Czech undergone to develop into nowaday's form. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we've been part of the Holy Roman Empire and thus highly exposed to the Germanic languages?

@Maki Vlach Yup, and because Czechs made an attempt to clear their language from germanisms and re-invented several words. That might be the root for some misunderstanding.

@Maki Vlach Well, history played a huge role in this, as well as with linguistic divergence of any and all related languages. By defeating Czech Protestant nobility at the Battle of White Mountain, the Holy Roman Emperor not only wiped out the Bohemian Reformation Movement, but also severely crippled the Czech national (or protonational) spirit, reinforcing Roman Catholicism and supressing the Czech language, which had been reduced to status of a folk vernacular. And it wasn't until the early XIX century that the Czech language was virtually resurrected, at the time when modern concept of nationhood swept across Europe. So you have close to two centuries of absence of sorts of the Czech language, especially in its written form. By comparison, Polish language and culture flourished in that same period, with the Commonwealth relatively unaffected by Religious Wars in Europe, with the decline of the Polish-Lithuanian statehood to take place in late XVIII century. And despite being partitioned by three European superpowers and their best efforts to 'naturalise' Polish speaking population, the Polish spirit proved too tough a cookie to break. Also, the 19th century nationalism in Europe made it more difficult for its ruling dynasties to carve out new territories at whim and turn them into integral parts of an empire just like that, disregarding the local populaces ethnicity. Kulturkampf was a harder task than defeating an army on battlefield, or demoting the former elites. Thus, Polish language never really ceased to exist and our literati were churning out their finest pieces of work even if they had to write them as expats, or under noms de plume. While during that period, polszczyzna was heavily influenced by Russian and German (you could notice until quite recently the dialectical differences in casual Polish based on which Emperor ruled over a given part of Poland in the 19th century), it still managed to sustain its distinct features and everyday user base that transcended all social strata.

Arthur Morgan lol you really are not wrong!

I'm polish but I speak czech a little, so I understand everything they say. Now I see how many words sound similar but have diferrent or even oposite meaning

Dokładnie, myślę, że fajna społeczność się wytworzyła - miło też poczytać komentarze.

Jest w planach. :)

to by bylo super

I would also like to see this. I live in South Moravia and hear Slovak all the time. Lovely language, very sing songy. I really don't get how many Czechs from the north don't understand it.

@pes nevim It's myth. I don't know who spreading that. I am borned in Prague and I have no problem with Slovak language, but I have sometimes problem with moravian dialects. Formal Slovak is more understandable than your hantec. :-D

ať bude 😎fakt dobrá koncepce

Poláci se umějí chovat a mají od nás hodně navrch. Stydím se za Čechy, pořád jenom závidí, bezdůvodně zírají na cizince a podrážejí ostatní pro svůj vlastní prospěch. A když je řeč o Polsku, tak samozřejmě ti kriplové přitahují na téma salmonelu, posypovou sůl a výrobky šmejdy, aby mohli pohoršit naše severní sousedy. Když ale řeknu, že dělají kvalitnější uzeniny za lepší cenu a kvalitnější mléčné výrobky, tak náhle všichni drží hubu a nemají žádný protiargument.

Gdzie byłeś w Polsce?

Czesi to też fajni, mili i sympatyczni ludzie. Ja bardzo Czechów lubię :) Pozdrawiam Smellsak!

@Marcin Lodzermensch rozumím a děkuji 😉

yeah, but you can also see we have a lot of false friends in the meaning of language. EG Czech "chytrý" means "smart" and Polish "chytry" means "cunning". And so on. Polish "czerstwy" means "old (eg bread), and Chech czerstvý means "fresh!". A lot of mistakes to come!

Podobnie jak dla Czechów polski jest czasem trochę śmieszny, niektóre zwroty czeskie u Polaka wywołują śmiech. Nie a w tym nic złośliwego. to nawet sympatyczne.

Dík, čau čau)

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@Malina ne nejsem Čech.

Odkud jsi?/ Where are you from?

Slovak

В письменном виде чешский тоже лучше понимаю, но на слух без подготовки практически ничего. Такое ощущение, что в плане лексики русскому ближе чешский, а в плане звучания - польский.

Мне больше польский понятен, понимаю почти не читая, а вот чешский очень сложно понять на слух.

For average pole czech is understandable in less than 20%. I had to read english subtitles most of the time in this video.

@Atak Snajpera No, it's about 60%, I don't know Czech at all and only sometimes I didn't understand one or two words. Maybe it's just not for your ear... Slovak is easier. Or maybe it's just an attitude -- I knew Spanish 'language genius' guy who didn't know what 'banan' means, because he didn't even tried to compare words he just heard to ones he knew.

Taky.

Bylo je moc zajímavé. Moje čeština je velmi špatná, ale velmi rád se učím. 🌄

Další budou) dík

Pokračování příště.

By the way, in Ukrainian we also say: " Dali bude " До речі, українською ми теж кажімо: " Далі буде ".

well those are the essential words of most of people troughout the history, so i dont think that it is distinctly slavic feature, thats gonna be similiar in germanic leanguages etc..

Pozdrów)

😊😊😊

Poles and Czechs are Western Slavs, their languages are similar. Divide the Russian into Bialurus, Ukrainian and Russian. Poland is between Russia and the Czech Republic, the Czechs have never bordered on Ruthenians (Belarus and Ukraine), and they did not have a border with Moscow Russia, which was the farthest east, so Polish is more understandable to Russians and similar to Russian than Czech. For a Pole, Czech is more understandable than Russian BUT ... the older generation studied Russian for 8 years in schools and many of them "remember something".

Polish spelling's totally phonetic! No worries!

@AK 565 old czech had same spelling system

Irina Ivanukina It depends which region of the Czech Republic a person is from. The phonetics of standard Czech is often confusing for people speaking other Slavic languages. For example some of the dialects from Czech Silesia or Moravia sound more like other Slavic languages.

ne, rusština je podobna do polštiny a češtiny, máš to naopak :p i hate when russians think theyr "the original" slavs

😂I do the same to my Gatita. 😻

yeaah I`d been calling my cat кiшка long before I discovered this is an actual Ukrainian word for cat:)

Съгласен!

great idea!

Ja jestem Lech a my gadame po nasemu. Cesky sem se naucil v Skole na Lassku. 20 na pulnoc od Czesina.

English languch have 240 000 words, but slavics languiches has only 300 000 words. You can easy make 9 000 000 new words of it. Czech languich is us esperanto. Everething you saying you writing.

Potrzebujesz więcej osłuchania i będzie dobrze. Ja też miałem problemy z czeskim na początku. 👍

Jak większość polaków. Słowacki jest trochę łatwiejszy dla statystycznego polaka.

@Atak Snajpera Słowak ma najlepiej bo Czecha i Polaka zrozumie bez problemu

@Atak Snajpera Tylko gdzieś bliżej naszej granicy, broń Boże ten bełkot z Bratysławy :p od tego to ja już wolę Czeski

@Roch Zalewski Jesli chodzi o Slowakow to zalezy z ktorej czesci Slowacji bo ci z zachodu mniej nas rozumieja a ci ze wshodu rozumieja wiecej.

Mam tak samo alr jednak najpierw postaram opanować się w lepszym stopniu angielski bowiem nwm czy jeat dobrze uczyć się kilku języków na raz a angielskim znam w dużym stopniu jednak to co umiem w pełni mnie nie zadowala

To zalezy od Ciebie i twoich możliwości. Ja aktualnie uczę się dwóch języków naraz i daje radę. (Francuskiego i Angielskiego)

Myślę, że jeżeli angielski umiesz w jakimś stopniu to możesz śmiało zaczac kolejny jezyk, oczywiscie nie poprzestajac na nauce języka angielskiego:)

Cieszę się, że oglądanie moich filmów przynosi efekty! Gratuluję! 🤓

Pinwin (Pinguin) in Czech xD

Pooew 6 I really like Punguin in the czech language, they have own slavic word for it

Pooew 6 Zrozumiałeś co napisał, bo on to napisał po Polsku! Ino to w kierunku czeskiego sprytnie skrzywił. Dałeś się nabrać hahha.

Ale ogólnie/všeobecně v polštině a češtině zvířata, které už dávno żiji v polsko-české přírodě mají trochu častěji nazvy stejné nebo podobné než zvířata exotické, které mají trochu častěji nazvy rozdilné (podobně jako rastliny ;)

Jane Maria I am so much pleased to hear this from you! ❤❤❤

your welcome :) greeting from Czech!

Świetny pomysł. Mało memów z Polski do nas dochodzi, znam chyba tylko o Jestem hardkorem, ale byłoby to bardzo ciekawe. Swoją drogą, Vit już zaczął podobną serią po porównaniu przysłów czeskich do rosyjskich.

Жыве Беларусь !

Fajnie się czyta białoruski 👌

😂Ze szczekaniem to byłoby trudno!

@Ecolinguist Kot "szczeka" coś pomiędzy miał miał , a mrau mrau. Miauczenie dla kota nie jet odpowiednikiem szczekania, w razie zagrożenia kot nie miauczy, lecz prycha albo syczy "chhhhh". Kot chowany ze starszym psem w razie małego zagrożenia lub zaniepokojenia może próbować naśladować szczekanie psa i "miałkać" krótkimi "miau miau", lecz w razie większego zagrożenia instynkt bierze górę.

Dzięki! :D

yes ofc, we are all russians -.- ;) ................. No.

Super! Właśnie o to chodzi! 🤓💬🇨🇿👏

I miałem rację bo to było zajebiście jak zawsze💪Słowianie jesteście kozaki!

Ačkoli neni to železné pravidlo, protože polský "szczur" je to česká "krysa" a ruská "крыса (krysa)". Český "jezevec" je to ruský "барсук (barsuk)" a polský "borsuk" nebo méně používaný "jaźwiec", a český "pes" a polský "pies" je to ruská "собака (sobaka)" nebo méně používaný пёс (pjos)" ;)

For me (Im Polish) czech is easier to understand than the russian laguage, but I'm from the south so maybe our dialect is more similar

@Roch Zalewski Have you tried written Russian? I guess our spelling with variative accent plays against your understanding.

@Andrey P I just don't know how to read letters in the cryrlic alphabet, but i understand russian quite a bit

@Roch Zalewski Let's find out. Just a random text from the internets :) Жизнь - прежде всего творчество, но это не значит, что каждый человек, чтобы жить, должен родиться художником, балериной или ученым. Можно творить просто добрую атмосферу вокруг себя. Человек может принести с собой атмосферу подозрительности, какого-то тягостного молчания, а может внести сразу радость, свет. Вот это и есть творчество. The same written using Polish alphabet: Żyzń eto prieżdie wsiego tworczestwo, no eto nie znaczyt, czto każdyj czełowiek, cztoby żyt', dołżen rodit'sia chudożnikom, balerinoj ili uczenym. Możno tworit' prosto dobruju atmosferu wokrug siebia. Czełowiek możet priniesti s soboj atmosferu podozritielnosti, kakogo-to tiagostonogo mołczania, a możet wniesti srazu radost', swiet. Wot eto i jest' tworczestwo.

​@Andrey P I am guessing what following "prieżdie"(beginig?), chudożnik (musician?), podozritielnosti (helpful?) tiagostonogo mołczanina (hardstanding ...somtehing...) I understand the rest pretty easily ;)

Šelesteti is the most essential Slavic word, especially as szeleścić in Polish version, because we Poles are masters of szeleszczenie in the whole world, not only in the Slavic world :) Pozdrav iz Poljske!

We saying for example listí šelestí so polish szeleścić is understandable. We have more alternatives - listí šustí, listí šumí and listí šelestí

liście szuszczą, liście szumią and liście szeleszczą. "szuścić" is probably not used much in modern standard Polish.

In Polish: Szeleszczą (or "szumią") liście w lesie, so etymology of Serbo-Croatian word "šuma" (as Polish: "las"', Czech "les" and English "forest") also has Slavic sence :)

In Slovenian is also listje šumi, verb šumeti is much more often used as šelesteti and exist also verb šušljati.

There has to be! Thanks for the info.

There is a similar word in Polish - miziać.

@Szalony Kucharz there is a word for "cuddle" in Czech too, and it is (surprise surprise) - "mazlit" or "mazlit se". The connections are amazing indeee.

@Szalony Kucharz Ciekawe czy to słówko "miziać" nie pochodzi od słowa "mazać" ( chorwackie "maziti" by na to wskazywało...ale też wykonywane ruchy przy jednej i drugiej czynności są zbliżone, co uprawdopodabnia tą teoryjkę

Ano, Češi říkají "mazlit se" a Slováci "maznať sa"))