What is the most difficult thing, in your opinion, in Slovak language? (Any word, tongue twister, grammar rule, sound, etc.)! 🤯 Čo je podľa vas na slovenskom jazyku najťažšie? (Akékoľvek slovo, jazykolamy, gramatické pravidlo, zvuk atď.)! 🤯
Tongue twisters = jazykolamy, not "kazikólamy". Jazykolam literally means "tongue breaker". Kudos to you, beautiful Caterina, for taking up Slovak! The most difficult thing for common people seems to be the correct writing, especially i and y. "Y" is never pronounced and it actually was NOT a part of the first version of the modern Standard Slovak (mid 19th century), but it was later included to make Slovak writing more similar to Russian and Czech. Russians, as you know, distinguish these two sounds (ы and и), but Czechs, just like Slovaks stopped doing so centuries ago. However, Czech literary tradition is much older, stemming from times when "y" was pronounced and so they still keep it. Slovenian or Croatian live happily without "y" and so could we, Slovaks. I personally would abolish it and actually, there are occasional linguists´ voices calling for it. The only good thing about "y" is that it almost perfectly matches the Russian ы sound, so it´s a help if you study that language, or vice verse.
@@jansoltes971 thanks 🙈 Totally makes sense, I do know ы and indeed, even if it’s not easy to pronounce, there is a clear difference in Rus between ы and the “normal i”. In Slovak it’s much difficult to even realise there is a difference in sound! Glad I’m not the only one 😅
@@palmacate My pleasure! Actually there's no difference at all in sound when it comes to "y" and "i" themselves. "My-" and "mi-" are pronounced absolutely the same, as in words like "myš"/mouse and "milá"/nice, dear. However, "i" softens the previous consonant and "y" does not, like in "div"/wonder vs "dýchať"/to breathe. But we could use "ď " instead. Anyway, that's too much I philosophy for this late hour! 😀 Take care! I corrected/replaced "two" with "too much" in my edit - indeed a late hour. 😉
@@palmacate ked sa naucis slovensky tak vlastne uz vies aj cesky, cize 2 jazyky :). Cestina len znie trochu inak, ale budes rozumiet vsetkemu az na par ceskych slov
@@bigstrawberry4552 Tiež som si to myslel, ale pre cudzinca, ktorý zvládol slovenčinu, bude asi zrozumiteľnejšia poľština ako čeština. My sme zaujatí, lebo češtinu sme mali v spoločnom štáte a teraz v médiách.
As a native speaker, we really apprieciate that you try and are not afraid, it actually means a lot for us when someones tries to learn a bit of Slovak😇 talking from my own experience..
As a Polish i find slovak quite comprehensible, more even than Czech. When i AM n slovakia i speak polish and slovaks speak slovak. And we understand each other.
I've learned Slovak in 9 months up to B2 in an intensive course (4-5 hours during business days). My home language is Russian, so I had it simpler. Moreover, I've learned Ukrainian before, so that was another boost, since Ukrainian covers some other areas with its lexicon, which differ between Slovak and Russian. However, it's still completely another way of formulating yourself, the grammar differs noticeably (well, mainly in reflexive verbs) and one must go though the complications and spaghettification of the tongue, before it starts to obey the language rules and customs. Anyway, one of the best decisions in my life, a great stepping stone towards other west-Slavic languages (Czech, of course, but also Polish, Slovene, Serbian), since they all have much in common in the grammar (e.g. the very same reflexive verbs). It has very beautiful pronunciation, very clear, very sharp, and personally I prefer it to Czech (my apologies, but that's totally subjective opinion). I have a tip for you to improve the pronunciation and get closer to the fluent level. Just read aloud at least 30-40 minutes, with no hurry, with proper intonation, as if you recording an audiobook for the sake of humanity, and do it regularly and sufficiently often (every day would be perfect). The heavens should be praised, since Slovak has relatively very simple pronunciation rules: the stress is always on the first syllable, and you pronounce what is written, so you can start reading at pro level very quickly. Yes, you'll have to work intensively with dictionaries to comprehend the text, but even that could be left for a while, the simple rules allow you to read at pro level without understanding. In that sense you don't need to refer to dictionaries to merely check out the correct stresses, as it is with Russian, Ukrainian, English and so on. That's how I read for the first time Dune (although my teacher was a bit surprised with the translation, but anyway). That particular action will help you to stop confusing the words with ones from Russian. Secondly, don't deny yourself the pleasure of chit-chatting in a speaking club. If I hadn't offered my class to have a call every week, I'd have had it much harder to keep the (l)earned results in the head (but still manageable, especially if you read). And I still need them, since I will not be in Slovakia at least for a year (and no guarantee, that I will be there, all those visas and all). Just tell about your day, what you ate, whom you met, where you've been, what do you think of EPR paradox and the perspectives of merging quantum mechanics with the gravitation etc. Take the advice of General Brannigan from Futurama, "Say as much as you can, as fast as you can" (fastness will come with time).
Thank you for the video, it's very interesting and somehow beautiful to know that a foreigner is learning our language ❤ It's damn hard to learn and honestly yes, a lot of Slovak people have problems with grammar even though they are natives 😃 Do not hesitate to speak Slovak in public, you don't have to be 100% correct with grammar but I'm sure your effort will always be appreciated 😊
Thanks a lot 😊 when I was studying it 'more actively' and I spoke more in public, I saw that people really appreciated it. I need to start speaking more again!
Ty si prvá Talianka ktorú som.mal možnosť vidieť tu na UA-cam, ktorá hovorí aj po Slovensky . Klobúk dole len tak ďalej. Sei la prima donna italiana che ho avuto l'opportunità di vedere qui su UA-cam che parla anche slovacco.
I think Slovaks are quite appreciative of anyone who even tries to speak Slovak, it doesnt really matter if your sentence structure is off, accent is on wrong words etc. English and especially French are very unforgiving if you butcher the language unlike Slovaks.
True, when I speak it I notice that people are super kind, and if they don't speak English they are glad that they can communicate with a foreigner anyway :)
Depends, Slovaks are quite scared of different people, many hate anyone that is further than 5km far from their willage, when they get suspicion that somebody might be immigrant they hold they pockets and run away. 😂
@@rastislavzimai don’t agree , Slovaks are not scared , some people might be cautious when they meet someone they have never met before , but they are very friendly once they get to know the person ( and they like him / her / them ) . Slovak people are genuine and straightforward , they simply don’t smile at strangers
Hi, good job with learning slovak language. First of all, the fact its so unique that foreigner learn to speak just slovakian and second of all, you speak really well. Hats down. You have got my admiration. 👍❤️🤝💪😉
@@Zeru. slovakian kludne pouzivaju aj native odvodzuju adj z nazvu statu . russia- rusian , australia - australian , slovakia - slovakian, serbia -serbian.. nie je to spravne ale tak to robia a kazdy na to prdi.. koho si kedy pocul povedat " There is rus, serb, croat and slovak" ?
Si super :-) Len tak dalej, ide ti to skvele, s gramatikou sa netrap, s tou maju problem aj rodaci, pri tebe sa dokonca naucim aj po anglicky lebo ti v pohode rozumiem :-)
Wow nice, you sound awesome! Funny, all Italians I talked to who tried to pronounce Slovak always got it right. And even English with Italian accent sometimes sounds like when a Slovak speaks English. Sounds are similar, the “hard” Rs and Ts I guess.
@@palmacate well me neither, but when I’m traveling and hear some English spoken let’s say by a Czech is VERY recognizable, Russian too, German or French so distinguishable. Southern “singing” italian accent sounds very typical too, but if I listen just pronouncing the words without the melody, sounds really similar (of course Slovaks don’t “sing” like that :)) and got confused few times already.
It is always amazing to hear someone from foreign country speak our language. When I'm listening to you right now, I realize how difficult our Slovak language is. As we are relatively small country and our language is also specific, we are aware that foreign people have trouble to speak and maybe also to understand us, so we have no problem to speak slowly and understand any amount of imperfection in your speach. We Slovak people are forced to learn other languages, from obvious reasons, or at least english only, which makes the most sense and I wish all people around the world to learn English on the first place, so we finally can communicate all together globally. ...so of course I wish you the quickest progress in Slovak language skills, but don't overdo it too much, time is rare and can be spent to other activities 😊
I love your accent… it’s so interesting that you sometimes sound like Hungarian 🇭🇺 I mean the accent , especially your E-s. Fantastic. Otherwise your slovak is pefect 🌺Congratulations- BlahožElam ti a pozdravujem ťa z Londýna ❤🎉
Ďakujem ☺️ so interesting, most of the time people asked me if I’m Ukrainian, but never Hungarian or never guessed I’m Italian. I thought Italian accent was super strong
@@palmacate your E-s make you sound Hungarian 🇭🇺 but if I’m being dead honest you kinda sound like a mixture of Czech -polish and Hungarian all put in one basket 🧺 very interesting and cute 🥰
Som rodený Slovák a som rád, že toto je môj materinský jazyk. 6 pádov, skloňovanie, vzory, vybrané slová, 46 písmen, diamritiku, ... Máme nádhernú literatúru, dokonca aj najdlhšiu ľúbostnú báseň na svete s názvom Marína od autora Amdreja Sládkoviča. K tomu máme ešte veľa nárečí, v Bratislave hovoríme tvrdo, v Banskej Bystrici majú takmer všetko mäkké, na východe to je ako úplne iný jazyk oproti západu, ... Každý zo zahraničia, kto sa učí náš jazyk je špeciálny pre nás, pretože ho máme komplikovaný a sú vzácny, pretože takmer všade sa dá dohovoriť po anglicky.
Cate, som unesená. Krásne vyslovuješ slovenské slová. To je taká česť pre nás keď sa niekto chce učiť náš jazyk, lebo náš národ naozaj musel v minulosti bojovať o svoje miesto na mape aj o svoj jazyk. Je to krásne a keď budeš vyslovovať H aj Ch písmeno máš už dvere dokorán otvorené ku všetkým slovanským jazykom. Ide ti to skvele! 💗
Ako hrdý Slovák a hrdý vlastnenec milujem našu nádhernú Slovenčinu a samozrejme ju považujem za najkrajší a najľúbozvučnejší jazyk na svete a musím povedať, že ti to ide veľmi dobre. Zároveň ti musím povedať, keďže si Talianka, že môj druhý najobľúbenejší a podľa mňa druhý najkrajší jazyk na svete, je práve Taliančina. 🇸🇰❤️🇮🇹
Thank you for a nice video about my language. At 5:05 you're mentioning formal/informal language. Fun fact, some time ago we even had a third level of formality in the language, following three steps of distancing. Odkiaľ si (informal, where are you-singular from, or very literally where "is you" from), odkiaľ ste (formal, where are you-plural from), odkiaľ sú (very formal, where are they from). The third form is still understood today, just feels awkward unless in a movie about royalty. You usually use it for mock respect like when your friend achieves something huge.
Pronoununciation is very nice. What helps me the most when I am trying to speak in language which I am not fluent, is to put away the shame and do not care if it is correct or not. most of the people will get the meaning from context.
..me like slovak born person moving around central and south and east europe, i can confirm, that is really easy for me to understand almost every slavic language. And Your slovenčina is pretty goood :P
As someone born and living in Slovakia, yet not mainly speaking Slovak, I also would agree that out of the Slavic languages, Slovak is the only one that seems to have the least complicated "character", making it the easiest to understand if you already speak another slavic language. Others make more use out of the specialized letters and harder-to-pronounce words (such as Polish or some Czech words), while Slovak generally keeps it minimal and familiar.
I am a slovak girl learning Croatian and they talk to me in English even if I tell them I know some Croatian and I want to practice. Which is weird because my mom talk to them in Slovak and they understand almost everything.
Much depends on the teacher you have for learning the language. A good logical teacher can make you will love the language, a bad teacher can make the language discouraging for you. With a Slovak language, there is a high chance that you will love it, because it has one big advantage over many other languages - in Slovak, you are always reading/speaking exactly as you write. That is not the case with many world languages like English, French, sometimes also German and sometimes even with quite distinct languages like Spanish and Italian, when you speak sometimes differently from what is written..
In fact very few Slovaks will speak and write correctly nowadays. One of the reasons is social media of course where we completely omit those special characters (ž, č, ú….) and ignore correct usage of commas and so on. People usually say that middle region (around Martin city) speaks the cleanest Slovak, that might be right. I come from the western part where the language somewhat resembles czech. 😀 And btw, you did a great job with all those phrases you used and your pronounciation is also impressive. (Very minor thing : “v hotovosti “ instead of “hotovosti” but nobody would notice when spoken) keep going ! ❤
Máš veľmi peknú výslovnosť Slovenského jazyka. Chcelo by to obsah videá v Slovenskom jazyku pre Slovákov. Pohľad osoby. Zo zahraničia ktorá žije na Slovensku o živote na Slovensku.👍
Italové a Španělé maj dost výhodu při výslovnosti Slovenštiny a Češtiny, protože už uměj vyslovit většinu zvuků, zatimco anglicky mluvící se musej učit i základní samohlásky AEIOU.
Dakujem veľmi pekne! I'd love to be able to speak so fluently to make videos in Slovak, but I'll stick to English at the moment :) I love talking about this topic, in different formats (differences between Slovakia and Italy, vlogs, etc.)
@@palmacate Ofcourse you have AEIOU, but I meant that English speakers pronounce basic vowels completely differently, they say "EJ" instead of A and "OU" instead of O and it's hard to force them to forget about English pronunciation, while Italians and Spanish people can read it understandable even without learning proper pronunciation. There is one person from Dominikan Republic (Spanish speaker) who is learning Czech and his pronunciation is almost perfect, his pronunciation is much better than how Russians or Ukrainians speak, you would expect that it's gonna be easier for other slavic speakers, but not really, eastern slavic languages are like English - moving random accent, up and down intonation and it's full of not clear schwa sounds.
As a person born in Slovakia i think you have really nice pronunciacion, well done! And yes even we do grammar mistakes while speaking or writing so dont worry about it. Very much appreciated that you put a lot of effort to learn the language.
As someone who lives in Slovakia, I have to say you did great when speaking slovak. And slavik languages are really simmiliar and when you are native speaker you really understand the other slavik languages. Not everything, but you know some words.
Ste veľmi milá!❤️ A ja zas milujem Taliansko, hoci po taliansky neviem. Vaše staroveké dejiny sú úžasné a máte krásnu hudbu. Hlavne NEK je skvelý spevák. 🍀
As Slovak i can understand our Polish friends, I can understand Ukrainian too but sometimes i'm struggling and i can understand some of other slavic languages but i struggle a lot but i can comprehent what are they saying. (Also i must mention czechs, our brothers! I can uderstand 100% of what they are saying! (No suprise :DDD) I mean it's like the same language with different accent.) Yeah, we sometimes do a lot of grammar mistakes, specially when it comes to Y and I... ( that is just nightmare fuel D: )
lets divide the problematics of the language. 1. Alphabet- Slovak alphabet includes 46 letters, which makes it the most complex one in the Europe. but once you know pronunciation of each letter in the alphabet you basically know how to read whole words and sentences, because Slovak language has very few pronunciation exceptions. (unlike english )-> 2. reading- easy 3. grammar- this might be a problem, because as other slavic languages, this one is complex and has many rules that changes the basis of the words and sentences to something else (časovanie, skloňovanie,...)........bonus: negation- unlike in english where you use only one negation per sentence to negate the meaning of the sentence, in Slovak it is allowed to use multiple words per sentence to negate it so it is sometimes hard to explain even for us :D "Nikdy som neurobil nič nesprávne" (4 negations in 5 word sentence) - "i never did anything wrong"
As Slovak I say our language have very difficult grammar, and yes, lot of people doing mistakes (most of mistakes are y vs. i, but also with spelling because we have "spodobovanie" - it´s something like two letters sound are simillar or some letter's sound in some cases is different..
Spodobujú aj Nemci a Česi. S češtinou je taká vec že zrejme vďaka dlhodobému spolužitiu s nemčinou majú aj prídychy na spoluhláskach T a D, aj keď nie také silné ako sú v nemčine. To slovenčina nemá a preto vieme okamžite roroznať keď Čech hovorí po slovensky (sú tam naviac, Česi si ich neuvedomujú) alebo Slovák po česky (niečo im tam chýba, aj keď často nevedia povedať čo to je).
We do a lot of mistakes in our writing, simply because there are too many rules and exclusions that a general native speaker does not even know of. So if you are studying Slovak language on a crazy level and then have time to look for the mistakes, you will find them everywhere. Môžem aj v slovenčine, na precvičenie :D My ako Slováci robíme naozaj veľa chýb o ktorých prakticky ani nevieme, pretože má slovenčina veľmi veľa rôznych gramatických pravidiel a ešte viac výnimiek z tých daných pravidiel. Čo znamená že ak niekto študuje slovenčinu a jej pravidlá na vysokej úrovni, tak ak má čas a chuť do toho, tak vždy nejaké chyby nájde prakticky u všetkých
Dobre vecer zo Slovinska. Pači ma že si urobyla tenti video. Ale musim ti povest že sa mi veľa pači Slovenčina. Hovorim ju viac rokov; mam priateľku s katorou sme si pisali. Dufam že se ti pači že som ti niečo napisaľ v komentarijach. Všetko dobreho ti prajem. Roland
1:49 You can communicate in Slovak without any problems in Czechia. It's basically the same language, only a few words are different. But you probably already know that. It would be a bit more difficult in Poland, but a native speaker should have no problem with basic phrases even in Poland.
@@palmacate It's probably closer than Italian/Spanish, but if you are not native Slovak speaker, it won't be that easy for you to understand Czech. Understanding other (even very close language) needs some experiences that we have because we were one country for decades. For Slovaks, it's easier, because a lot of their stuff is in Czech, many movies have Czech dubbing, some books are translated only to Czech, so they are more used to Czech than we are used to Slovak.
You're right, for me Czech is really hard, especially the sounds! and I love how basically everyone in Slovakia speaks, or at least understand, also Czech!
@@Pidalin Of course not when he's in the learning phase. In a few (probably) years, when he speaks Slovak well, it will be easy. Like Spanish vs Portuguese.
As a slovak I partially understand everz slavik language but not russian,because thez such a hard pronunciation. Edit: yes we do a lot of grammar mistakes,most common being the fact we mistake I with Y
Hello! Good job on learning! I am an native speaker and I agree with lot of comments here, that you sound very good! Also, I totally agree with the difficulty of this language, trust me, actually a lot of native speakers have a problem with our language, especially while writing, you can easily find mistakes in using y/i correctlly :D and also I am pretty sure that even if you learn an official Slovak language you can just get lost in dialects of different parts of Slovakia, bcs they have their own names for a lot of stuff :D And also in speaking we use a lot of different sounds depending on vowels, like somethings we pronounciate "softly" sometimes "hardly" but the writting is same... and ofc it also depends in which part of the country u are, bcs somewhere people just pronounce everything "hard" (west part mostly) etc.... so, yes, it's very difficult language even for native speakers and I really admire anyone who decides to learn our language! But also, it's very true that we are encouraging people to speak even if they make some mistakes - we don't mind, we can understand :)
I never know why would someone choose Slovak language ? Like If you choose czech everyone in Slovakia will understand you but not so much other way around so basically czech is 2 in 1 combo :D BTW your slovak in awesome, if I wasn't born there i doubt i would be able to speak it that good :)
@@palmacate Nie je za co. Dialektov je privela na taku malu krajinu. 😁 Medzi zakladne patria zapadoslovenske narecie (dialect from west part), vychodoslovenske narecie (dialect from east part) a stredoslovenske (from central part). Oficialny jazyk je zalozeny na stredoslovenskom nareci. 🙂
ani mne nie su ani len ciastocne zrozumitelne ziadne dialekty a to som slovak 😀
Місяць тому
@@TeslaBobo bez sance, ja som z vychodu z Michaloviec, ale ked spusti niekto po sarissky tak nerozumiem, manzelka je zo Ziliny a u nas nam tiez nerozumie
For me personally it is always very joyful to see a foreigner learning our little Slavic language. We ourselves find it very difficult, as it has many rules that just need to be learned, as they are not based on the common colloquial language but were artificially created by linguists. For me, as a dyslexic, placement of "Y" is definitely the most difficult in Slovak, as Slovak is one of the few Slavic languages that doesn't pronounce it, but has it in its grammar. Sadly, especially the older generation often made (and still makes) fun of foreigners who make mistakes in inflection or have "strange" accents. I most admire people speaking languages from non-Indo-European language groups who have learned Slovak very well (especially groups of Vietnamese living in Slovakia).
Na zdar Catca a a všetkým ostatnom. Ja som Rodný španiel. Som ženatý so Slovenkou, dva roky sme žili na Slovensku a rád sa učím slovensky. Podľa mňa najťažšia výslovnosť slova v slovenčine je slnečnica. Ako osobná kuriozita: prvé slovo, ktoré som sa naučil v slovenčine, je otužilec.
about grammar mistakes when we're writing, yes we totally do mistakes, since there are a lot of rules with the usage of i/y some people can interchange them, for example they wouldn't write bryndza abut they would write brindza, which is a mistake, also since we have genitiv dativ etc, there are a lot of rules with that, for example if you wanna write with someone you would write S niekým, if you would write z niekým if would be a mistake, a lot of people do that cause it sounds similiar and they change the s to the z
you can ask your friends to try to have a basic conversation in Slovak, it could be fun. And you Slovak is on good level and thumbs up for trying. BDW my grammar in Slovak is much worse than my english,
Ciao Caterina. Il tuo canale mi piace molto. Sono slovacco, ma studio italiano da tre anni. La grammatica slovacca è veramente difficile, però anche in italiano esistono forme che non sono nelle lingue slave. Per esempio la differenza tra imperfetto e passato prossimo. O in slovacco non esiste il congiuntivo. Ma penso che le regole della grammatica italiana abbiano più senso delle nostre regole. Per esempio, dopo aver studiato il congiuntivo lo capisco perché è importante, ma immagino che alcune regole in slovacco siano più difficile ma abbiano meno valore. Secondo me è vero anche gli slovacchi commettono errori perché la grammatica e molto complessa. Italiano è la mia prima esperienza con le lingue romane dopo le lingue germaniche (inglese e tedesco) e devo dire che l'italiano è sinceramente una lingua molto bella. Grazie molto Caterina per i tuoi video e forza :).
A pritom je slovencina uplne lahka: druhych 5 slovnych druhov (predlozky az citoslovcia) ma vzdy konstantny tvar. Prvych 5 slovnych druhov (podstatne mena az slovesa) ma tri rody krat tri casy x 2 pricastia x 2 vidy, To je len 36 tvarov. Plus mnohe veci maju plnovyznamove sloveso a nepouzivame vyjadrenie cez anglicke have. Napriklad Have a nice day je ovela viac slovenskejsie v tvare Prajem pekny den, Zelam pekny den, Vinsujem pekny den
e interesante che per lri era imaprare la nostra lingua difficile, io o imparato italiano in un mese ma secondo me e facile imparare vostra lingua, ma lei parla molto bene:-))
I'm going to make a separate video on the resources I used to study Slovak (and some more I found recently), I will post it in a few weeks - don't give up! 😀
@@palmacate Those are the moments that you hesitate for a "bit" 😉if you are writing it properly. I can only wonder how a non-native speaker must be confused reading Slovak without diacritics in sms and e-mails. 😀
As a Slovak person If you learn Slovak u can or could idk how its for foreigners but u couod understand Czech almost completely Polish too just some words not and Russian like if they speak slowly and some other Slavic languages. And yeah sometimes in the grammar Slovaks make mistakes too 😅 its difficult not to so don't be scared of that. Some people mainly older dont understand English cause before it wasnt Slovakia but Czechoslovakia and they didn't learn English but Russian. +A tip: If u live near Hungary but still in Slovakia atleast on Podunajská nížina idk how to say it in English sorry then u vould learn atleast the basic words in Hungarian cause some ppl here are native Hungarians and almost everyone can speak hungarian. And if u are from lets say England the r u pronounce in slovak is more harsh like rrrrrrr😊 Edit: Fakt dobre rozprávaš po Slovensky a ďakujem za video strašne sa teším že niekto spomenul Slovenčinu !!😊
I agree that Slovak is like Slavic Esperanto 😄 I'm Slovak myself and i understand pretty much any Slavic language, except Russian and Ukrainian, those are harder, but only cause i'm younger and didn't study it in school anymore. Polish is a bit more difficult too, but with my Eastern dialect, i can manage 😂 (it is said, as a joke, that Eastern Slovak - vichodňarčina, is predecessor of Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, German, and even Italian - cause of the accent)
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What is the most difficult thing, in your opinion, in Slovak language? (Any word, tongue twister, grammar rule, sound, etc.)! 🤯
Čo je podľa vas na slovenskom jazyku najťažšie? (Akékoľvek slovo, jazykolamy, gramatické pravidlo, zvuk atď.)! 🤯
čučoriedky, guľôčky, jamôčky, = gúľala v očných jamôčkach očami keď pozerala na čučoriedky :D from gramar Y I letters :P
Tongue twisters = jazykolamy, not "kazikólamy". Jazykolam literally means "tongue breaker".
Kudos to you, beautiful Caterina, for taking up Slovak!
The most difficult thing for common people seems to be the correct writing, especially i and y. "Y" is never pronounced and it actually was NOT a part of the first version of the modern Standard Slovak (mid 19th century), but it was later included to make Slovak writing more similar to Russian and Czech. Russians, as you know, distinguish these two sounds (ы and и), but Czechs, just like Slovaks stopped doing so centuries ago. However, Czech literary tradition is much older, stemming from times when "y" was pronounced and so they still keep it. Slovenian or Croatian live happily without "y" and so could we, Slovaks. I personally would abolish it and actually, there are occasional linguists´ voices calling for it. The only good thing about "y" is that it almost perfectly matches the Russian ы sound, so it´s a help if you study that language, or vice verse.
@@jansoltes971 thanks 🙈
Totally makes sense, I do know ы and indeed, even if it’s not easy to pronounce, there is a clear difference in Rus between ы and the “normal i”. In Slovak it’s much difficult to even realise there is a difference in sound! Glad I’m not the only one 😅
@@jansoltes971 Also the periods are a nightmare and often even capital letters for some.
@@palmacate My pleasure!
Actually there's no difference at all in sound when it comes to "y" and "i" themselves. "My-" and "mi-" are pronounced absolutely the same, as in words like "myš"/mouse and "milá"/nice, dear. However, "i" softens the previous consonant and "y" does not, like in "div"/wonder vs "dýchať"/to breathe. But we could use "ď " instead. Anyway, that's too much I philosophy for this late hour! 😀
Take care!
I corrected/replaced "two" with "too much" in my edit - indeed a late hour. 😉
For me is a hero every nonslavic person learning or speaking Slovakian.
As someone who loves Slavic languages and wish I could speak at least 2 of them fluently, I can say that I agree 😂
Ja to mám rovnako 👍
@@palmacate ked sa naucis slovensky tak vlastne uz vies aj cesky, cize 2 jazyky :). Cestina len znie trochu inak, ale budes rozumiet vsetkemu az na par ceskych slov
Presne
@@bigstrawberry4552 Tiež som si to myslel, ale pre cudzinca, ktorý zvládol slovenčinu, bude asi zrozumiteľnejšia poľština ako čeština. My sme zaujatí, lebo češtinu sme mali v spoločnom štáte a teraz v médiách.
As a native speaker, we really apprieciate that you try and are not afraid, it actually means a lot for us when someones tries to learn a bit of Slovak😇 talking from my own experience..
Thank you 😊
As a Polish i find slovak quite comprehensible, more even than Czech. When i AM n slovakia i speak polish and slovaks speak slovak. And we understand each other.
As Slovak I understand almost nothing from Polish lol and none of my friends too.
@@lukassmida4885 tell me you're from west without telling me you're from west
I've learned Slovak in 9 months up to B2 in an intensive course (4-5 hours during business days). My home language is Russian, so I had it simpler. Moreover, I've learned Ukrainian before, so that was another boost, since Ukrainian covers some other areas with its lexicon, which differ between Slovak and Russian. However, it's still completely another way of formulating yourself, the grammar differs noticeably (well, mainly in reflexive verbs) and one must go though the complications and spaghettification of the tongue, before it starts to obey the language rules and customs.
Anyway, one of the best decisions in my life, a great stepping stone towards other west-Slavic languages (Czech, of course, but also Polish, Slovene, Serbian), since they all have much in common in the grammar (e.g. the very same reflexive verbs). It has very beautiful pronunciation, very clear, very sharp, and personally I prefer it to Czech (my apologies, but that's totally subjective opinion).
I have a tip for you to improve the pronunciation and get closer to the fluent level. Just read aloud at least 30-40 minutes, with no hurry, with proper intonation, as if you recording an audiobook for the sake of humanity, and do it regularly and sufficiently often (every day would be perfect). The heavens should be praised, since Slovak has relatively very simple pronunciation rules: the stress is always on the first syllable, and you pronounce what is written, so you can start reading at pro level very quickly. Yes, you'll have to work intensively with dictionaries to comprehend the text, but even that could be left for a while, the simple rules allow you to read at pro level without understanding. In that sense you don't need to refer to dictionaries to merely check out the correct stresses, as it is with Russian, Ukrainian, English and so on.
That's how I read for the first time Dune (although my teacher was a bit surprised with the translation, but anyway). That particular action will help you to stop confusing the words with ones from Russian.
Secondly, don't deny yourself the pleasure of chit-chatting in a speaking club. If I hadn't offered my class to have a call every week, I'd have had it much harder to keep the (l)earned results in the head (but still manageable, especially if you read). And I still need them, since I will not be in Slovakia at least for a year (and no guarantee, that I will be there, all those visas and all). Just tell about your day, what you ate, whom you met, where you've been, what do you think of EPR paradox and the perspectives of merging quantum mechanics with the gravitation etc. Take the advice of General Brannigan from Futurama, "Say as much as you can, as fast as you can" (fastness will come with time).
Thank you so much for the detailed comment and for your tips! 🙂
Viete to lepšie vysvetliť, ako hociktorý rodený Slovák 🎉
Thank you for the video, it's very interesting and somehow beautiful to know that a foreigner is learning our language ❤
It's damn hard to learn and honestly yes, a lot of Slovak people have problems with grammar even though they are natives 😃
Do not hesitate to speak Slovak in public, you don't have to be 100% correct with grammar but I'm sure your effort will always be appreciated 😊
Thanks a lot 😊 when I was studying it 'more actively' and I spoke more in public, I saw that people really appreciated it. I need to start speaking more again!
Ty si prvá Talianka ktorú som.mal možnosť vidieť tu na UA-cam, ktorá hovorí aj po Slovensky . Klobúk dole len tak ďalej. Sei la prima donna italiana che ho avuto l'opportunità di vedere qui su UA-cam che parla anche slovacco.
Ďakujem! 😊
Úžasné, ďakujeme - :) Slovenčina je veľmi ťažká a veľmi oceňujeme, že tak krásne rozprávaš a nevzdávaš !
Ja som zo slovenska
I think Slovaks are quite appreciative of anyone who even tries to speak Slovak, it doesnt really matter if your sentence structure is off, accent is on wrong words etc. English and especially French are very unforgiving if you butcher the language unlike Slovaks.
True, when I speak it I notice that people are super kind, and if they don't speak English they are glad that they can communicate with a foreigner anyway :)
Depends, Slovaks are quite scared of different people, many hate anyone that is further than 5km far from their willage, when they get suspicion that somebody might be immigrant they hold they pockets and run away. 😂
You're absolutely right. We have beautiful language. We even try to teach tourists some of our words when they come.
@@rastislavzimai don’t agree , Slovaks are not scared , some people might be cautious when they meet someone they have never met before , but they are very friendly once they get to know the person ( and they like him / her / them ) . Slovak people are genuine and straightforward , they simply don’t smile at strangers
Yes we do im slovakian and im proud ano ja som slovak ak toto vies prelozit tak davam like
Hi, good job with learning slovak language. First of all, the fact its so unique that foreigner learn to speak just slovakian and second of all, you speak really well. Hats down. You have got my admiration. 👍❤️🤝💪😉
Thanks a lot 😊
Veľmi čisté. Skvelá práca👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Ďakujem 😀
Thank you for using the correct adjective - Slovak.
I hate when people say "Slovakian".
PS: Your Slovak is awesome!
Oba tvary sú správne :)
I also prefer Slovak to Slovakian, however, sometimes I also heard Slovak people saying “Slovakian” 🧐🙂
@@fyrhunter_svk nie su
@@Zeru. slovakian kludne pouzivaju aj native odvodzuju adj z nazvu statu . russia- rusian , australia - australian , slovakia - slovakian, serbia -serbian.. nie je to spravne ale tak to robia a kazdy na to prdi.. koho si kedy pocul povedat " There is rus, serb, croat and slovak" ?
@@Zeru. slovníky tvrdia opak :)
Si super :-) Len tak dalej, ide ti to skvele, s gramatikou sa netrap, s tou maju problem aj rodaci, pri tebe sa dokonca naucim aj po anglicky lebo ti v pohode rozumiem :-)
Ďakujem pekne, thanks a lot! Glad you also find my videos useful for learning English 😊
❤@@palmacate
Wow nice, you sound awesome! Funny, all Italians I talked to who tried to pronounce Slovak always got it right. And even English with Italian accent sometimes sounds like when a Slovak speaks English. Sounds are similar, the “hard” Rs and Ts I guess.
Thank you so much, ďakujem pekne! That’s interesting, I wasn’t expecting it could sound similar 😊
@@palmacate well me neither, but when I’m traveling and hear some English spoken let’s say by a Czech is VERY recognizable, Russian too, German or French so distinguishable. Southern “singing” italian accent sounds very typical too, but if I listen just pronouncing the words without the melody, sounds really similar (of course Slovaks don’t “sing” like that :)) and got confused few times already.
Takmer čistá výslovnosť, pokračujte ❤ a niečo na tom esperante bude, že dosť rozumieme slovanským jazykom 😊
Ďakujem 😃
Krásne rozprávaš po slovensky 👍
Ďakujem 😃
It is always amazing to hear someone from foreign country speak our language. When I'm listening to you right now, I realize how difficult our Slovak language is. As we are relatively small country and our language is also specific, we are aware that foreign people have trouble to speak and maybe also to understand us, so we have no problem to speak slowly and understand any amount of imperfection in your speach.
We Slovak people are forced to learn other languages, from obvious reasons, or at least english only, which makes the most sense and I wish all people around the world to learn English on the first place, so we finally can communicate all together globally.
...so of course I wish you the quickest progress in Slovak language skills, but don't overdo it too much, time is rare and can be spent to other activities 😊
Thank you 🙏☺️ I agree regarding English!
Si úžasná 👍🏻 Ja sa zas chcem naučiť dobre po taliansky, pretože Taliansko milujem. A taliančina je premna úplne nádherný jazyk.
Ďakujem 😊🙏
Šikovná :)
I love your accent… it’s so interesting that you sometimes sound like Hungarian 🇭🇺 I mean the accent , especially your E-s. Fantastic. Otherwise your slovak is pefect 🌺Congratulations- BlahožElam ti a pozdravujem ťa z Londýna ❤🎉
Ďakujem ☺️ so interesting, most of the time people asked me if I’m Ukrainian, but never Hungarian or never guessed I’m Italian. I thought Italian accent was super strong
@@palmacate your E-s make you sound Hungarian 🇭🇺 but if I’m being dead honest you kinda sound like a mixture of Czech -polish and Hungarian all put in one basket 🧺 very interesting and cute 🥰
Som slovenka a velmi dobre si sa naučila náš jazyk. Pokračuj v dobrej práci 🙂
Ďakujem pekne, ale dúfam že budem hovoriť plynulejšie ako teraz 😅
@@palmacate To je samozrejmosť, chce to čas 🙂
Som rodený Slovák a som rád, že toto je môj materinský jazyk. 6 pádov, skloňovanie, vzory, vybrané slová, 46 písmen, diamritiku, ... Máme nádhernú literatúru, dokonca aj najdlhšiu ľúbostnú báseň na svete s názvom Marína od autora Amdreja Sládkoviča. K tomu máme ešte veľa nárečí, v Bratislave hovoríme tvrdo, v Banskej Bystrici majú takmer všetko mäkké, na východe to je ako úplne iný jazyk oproti západu, ... Každý zo zahraničia, kto sa učí náš jazyk je špeciálny pre nás, pretože ho máme komplikovaný a sú vzácny, pretože takmer všade sa dá dohovoriť po anglicky.
Ďakujem 🙂
Súhlasím. Slovenčina naozaj stojí uprostred slovanských jazykov. Nielen geograficky. Držím palce v ďalšej tvorbe.
ďakujem pekne! 😊
@@palmacate Penso che la lingua francese, sia ancora più difficile
@@9vmarcusactually no!
Ty si legenda!
Slovencina je velmi tazky jazyk ale Vam to uz ide velmi dobre.
ďakujem!!! 😊
Cate, som unesená. Krásne vyslovuješ slovenské slová. To je taká česť pre nás keď sa niekto chce učiť náš jazyk, lebo náš národ naozaj musel v minulosti bojovať o svoje miesto na mape aj o svoj jazyk. Je to krásne a keď budeš vyslovovať H aj Ch písmeno máš už dvere dokorán otvorené ku všetkým slovanským jazykom. Ide ti to skvele! 💗
Ďakujem 🤗
Ako hrdý Slovák a hrdý vlastnenec milujem našu nádhernú Slovenčinu a samozrejme ju považujem za najkrajší a najľúbozvučnejší jazyk na svete a musím povedať, že ti to ide veľmi dobre. Zároveň ti musím povedať, keďže si Talianka, že môj druhý najobľúbenejší a podľa mňa druhý najkrajší jazyk na svete, je práve Taliančina. 🇸🇰❤️🇮🇹
😍 ďakujem
@@palmacate Prego. 😉
Thank you for a nice video about my language. At 5:05 you're mentioning formal/informal language. Fun fact, some time ago we even had a third level of formality in the language, following three steps of distancing. Odkiaľ si (informal, where are you-singular from, or very literally where "is you" from), odkiaľ ste (formal, where are you-plural from), odkiaľ sú (very formal, where are they from). The third form is still understood today, just feels awkward unless in a movie about royalty. You usually use it for mock respect like when your friend achieves something huge.
Thanks for mentioning it! :)
Pozdravujem zo Slovenska a ďakujem ❤❤❤
„tašku si prosíte/prajete“ je správne :) good job!
Ďakujem :)
Che brava! Hai proprio una bella pronuncia in slovacco! Suppongo adesso tu capisca qualcosina anche in ceco 😅
Grazie mille! Capisco il ceco molto poco, ma se lo leggo allora capisco un po’ di più! 😊
Pronoununciation is very nice. What helps me the most when I am trying to speak in language which I am not fluent, is to put away the shame and do not care if it is correct or not. most of the people will get the meaning from context.
Thank you 🙏🙂
..me like slovak born person moving around central and south and east europe, i can confirm, that is really easy for me to understand almost every slavic language. And Your slovenčina is pretty goood :P
As someone born and living in Slovakia, yet not mainly speaking Slovak, I also would agree that out of the Slavic languages, Slovak is the only one that seems to have the least complicated "character", making it the easiest to understand if you already speak another slavic language.
Others make more use out of the specialized letters and harder-to-pronounce words (such as Polish or some Czech words), while Slovak generally keeps it minimal and familiar.
awesome job! keep up the good work and content
Thanks a lot! :)
I am a slovak girl learning Croatian and they talk to me in English even if I tell them I know some Croatian and I want to practice. Which is weird because my mom talk to them in Slovak and they understand almost everything.
I know the feeling, it happens to me sometimes here 😅
Must be frustrating
Happens to me with german in germany all the time
@@martinakristofova4237 💪
Much depends on the teacher you have for learning the language.
A good logical teacher can make you will love the language, a bad teacher can make the language discouraging for you.
With a Slovak language, there is a high chance that you will love it, because it has one big advantage over many other languages - in Slovak, you are always reading/speaking exactly as you write. That is not the case with many world languages like English, French, sometimes also German and sometimes even with quite distinct languages like Spanish and Italian, when you speak sometimes differently from what is written..
Agree :)
Your pronunciation is very good, you'll have no trouble getting people understand your slovak, good job!
Thanks a lot :)
In fact very few Slovaks will speak and write correctly nowadays. One of the reasons is social media of course where we completely omit those special characters (ž, č, ú….) and ignore correct usage of commas and so on. People usually say that middle region (around Martin city) speaks the cleanest Slovak, that might be right. I come from the western part where the language somewhat resembles czech. 😀
And btw, you did a great job with all those phrases you used and your pronounciation is also impressive. (Very minor thing : “v hotovosti “ instead of “hotovosti” but nobody would notice when spoken) keep going ! ❤
Thanks for your comment! 😊
Máš veľmi peknú výslovnosť Slovenského jazyka. Chcelo by to obsah videá v Slovenskom jazyku pre Slovákov. Pohľad osoby. Zo zahraničia ktorá žije na Slovensku o živote na Slovensku.👍
Italové a Španělé maj dost výhodu při výslovnosti Slovenštiny a Češtiny, protože už uměj vyslovit většinu zvuků, zatimco anglicky mluvící se musej učit i základní samohlásky AEIOU.
Dakujem veľmi pekne! I'd love to be able to speak so fluently to make videos in Slovak, but I'll stick to English at the moment :) I love talking about this topic, in different formats (differences between Slovakia and Italy, vlogs, etc.)
True, we (Italians) also have AEIOU :) but Czech sounds is so difficult for me - especially the 'special' letters that you have!
@@palmacate Ofcourse you have AEIOU, but I meant that English speakers pronounce basic vowels completely differently, they say "EJ" instead of A and "OU" instead of O and it's hard to force them to forget about English pronunciation, while Italians and Spanish people can read it understandable even without learning proper pronunciation. There is one person from Dominikan Republic (Spanish speaker) who is learning Czech and his pronunciation is almost perfect, his pronunciation is much better than how Russians or Ukrainians speak, you would expect that it's gonna be easier for other slavic speakers, but not really, eastern slavic languages are like English - moving random accent, up and down intonation and it's full of not clear schwa sounds.
@@palmacate čo tak urobiť video o talianskej kultúre? Na Slovensku boli populárne talianske filmy hlavne komédie.
Introduction was really good! (Veľmi pekne si sa predstavila v úvode! )
Ďakujem 😀
„Čašníčka“ wow, tá výslovnosť 😍👏🏻
I'm from Slovakia, I live here and I speak Slovak every day, and I also sometimes make a mistake in writing, it's difficult
Ste velmi sikovna! Gratulujem👏🤩💥
As a person born in Slovakia i think you have really nice pronunciacion, well done! And yes even we do grammar mistakes while speaking or writing so dont worry about it. Very much appreciated that you put a lot of effort to learn the language.
As someone who lives in Slovakia, I have to say you did great when speaking slovak. And slavik languages are really simmiliar and when you are native speaker you really understand the other slavik languages. Not everything, but you know some words.
Thanks a lot ☺️
Ste veľmi milá!❤️ A ja zas milujem Taliansko, hoci po taliansky neviem. Vaše staroveké dejiny sú úžasné a máte krásnu hudbu. Hlavne NEK je skvelý spevák. 🍀
Ďakujem pekne 💙
Ahoj Katka, tvoja Slovenčina je veľmi dobrá. :)
Ďakujem 🙏
As Slovak i can understand our Polish friends, I can understand Ukrainian too but sometimes i'm struggling and i can understand some of other slavic languages but i struggle a lot but i can comprehent what are they saying. (Also i must mention czechs, our brothers! I can uderstand 100% of what they are saying! (No suprise :DDD) I mean it's like the same language with different accent.)
Yeah, we sometimes do a lot of grammar mistakes, specially when it comes to Y and I... ( that is just nightmare fuel D: )
Ahoj. Good job and good luck with further learning of our language :)
Thank you 🙂
Rozprávaš po slovensky s oravským prízvukom 🙂 Nech sa ti darí 🌹👌
Ďakujem ☺️
lets divide the problematics of the language. 1. Alphabet- Slovak alphabet includes 46 letters, which makes it the most complex one in the Europe. but once you know pronunciation of each letter in the alphabet you basically know how to read whole words and sentences, because Slovak language has very few pronunciation exceptions. (unlike english )-> 2. reading- easy 3. grammar- this might be a problem, because as other slavic languages, this one is complex and has many rules that changes the basis of the words and sentences to something else (časovanie, skloňovanie,...)........bonus: negation- unlike in english where you use only one negation per sentence to negate the meaning of the sentence, in Slovak it is allowed to use multiple words per sentence to negate it so it is sometimes hard to explain even for us :D "Nikdy som neurobil nič nesprávne" (4 negations in 5 word sentence) - "i never did anything wrong"
True, grammar for me is the most difficult one, as for the other slavic languages :)
Čo sa týka negácie presne s vami súhlasím. Až sa čudujem tomu aké to máme v Slovenskom jazyku ťažké.
Pekné Katka😊😊
Mesiac....moon or month
Amazing woman!
Wow, uzasny channel. Vitaj na Slovensku a cit sa tu ako doma :) Benvenuta!
Máš úžasnú slovenčinu☺❤ Výborne pokračuj dalej❤
Ďakujem 🙏
As Slovak I say our language have very difficult grammar, and yes, lot of people doing mistakes (most of mistakes are y vs. i, but also with spelling because we have "spodobovanie" - it´s something like two letters sound are simillar or some letter's sound in some cases is different..
Spodobujú aj Nemci a Česi. S češtinou je taká vec že zrejme vďaka dlhodobému spolužitiu s nemčinou majú aj prídychy na spoluhláskach T a D, aj keď nie také silné ako sú v nemčine. To slovenčina nemá a preto vieme okamžite roroznať keď Čech hovorí po slovensky (sú tam naviac, Česi si ich neuvedomujú) alebo Slovák po česky (niečo im tam chýba, aj keď často nevedia povedať čo to je).
Great content, keep it up!
Thanks a lot 😀
Skoro všetko čo si hovorila, si povedala veľmi dobre!
velmi dobreeeeeeee gratulujem Katka👍👍👍
Ďakujem 😀
Impressive, it's very rear hearing (non-slavic) foreigner getting to such a good level in Slovak language. Well done!
Thank you ☺️
Im from slovakia
We do a lot of mistakes in our writing, simply because there are too many rules and exclusions that a general native speaker does not even know of. So if you are studying Slovak language on a crazy level and then have time to look for the mistakes, you will find them everywhere. Môžem aj v slovenčine, na precvičenie :D My ako Slováci robíme naozaj veľa chýb o ktorých prakticky ani nevieme, pretože má slovenčina veľmi veľa rôznych gramatických pravidiel a ešte viac výnimiek z tých daných pravidiel. Čo znamená že ak niekto študuje slovenčinu a jej pravidlá na vysokej úrovni, tak ak má čas a chuť do toho, tak vždy nejaké chyby nájde prakticky u všetkých
As an slovakian my self i cant agree more. Slovak language is hard even for some slovakian wich bealive it or not its the truth
As a Slovak patriot, I really appreciate that you are learning our language. And yes, many Slovaks doing mistakes in grammar
Thank you 😊
Especially "patriots" 😉
🤭🤭🤭the relevant part of story:comedy 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
wow ur really good i am slovakia to and u know so good
Fajný kanál
Ďakujem pekne ☺️🙏
I'm Slovak and I am an anderstent polish from speaking Russian from speaking Ukrainian is the same and a little bit Serbian, and of course the Chech
Dobre vecer zo Slovinska. Pači ma že si urobyla tenti video. Ale musim ti povest že sa mi veľa pači Slovenčina. Hovorim ju viac rokov; mam priateľku s katorou sme si pisali. Dufam že se ti pači že som ti niečo napisaľ v komentarijach. Všetko dobreho ti prajem. Roland
Sei una bella ragazza🇸🇰🇮🇹♥️
Sono slovacco e imparo l’italiano 😊
Slovak is easy I am from slovakia❤
1:49 You can communicate in Slovak without any problems in Czechia. It's basically the same language, only a few words are different. But you probably already know that. It would be a bit more difficult in Poland, but a native speaker should have no problem with basic phrases even in Poland.
Sounds good 😊 probably similar to Italian/Spanish, even if I don’t speak Spanish at all, I would still be able to understand something!
If she is not native in Slovak, she will probably have a serious problem with understanding Czech.
@@palmacate It's probably closer than Italian/Spanish, but if you are not native Slovak speaker, it won't be that easy for you to understand Czech. Understanding other (even very close language) needs some experiences that we have because we were one country for decades. For Slovaks, it's easier, because a lot of their stuff is in Czech, many movies have Czech dubbing, some books are translated only to Czech, so they are more used to Czech than we are used to Slovak.
You're right, for me Czech is really hard, especially the sounds! and I love how basically everyone in Slovakia speaks, or at least understand, also Czech!
@@Pidalin Of course not when he's in the learning phase. In a few (probably) years, when he speaks Slovak well, it will be easy. Like Spanish vs Portuguese.
Viem Angličtinu a Slovenčinu viem najviac. Príď do Trenčína, tam sa naučíš sama
Ďakujem, thank you! I have been to Trenčín, I loved it 😍 I also have a video about Trenčín on my channel
Here we go!!! Strasne mam rad taliansky akcent 😄
As a slovak I partially understand everz slavik language but not russian,because thez such a hard pronunciation. Edit: yes we do a lot of grammar mistakes,most common being the fact we mistake I with Y
Hello! Good job on learning! I am an native speaker and I agree with lot of comments here, that you sound very good! Also, I totally agree with the difficulty of this language, trust me, actually a lot of native speakers have a problem with our language, especially while writing, you can easily find mistakes in using y/i correctlly :D and also I am pretty sure that even if you learn an official Slovak language you can just get lost in dialects of different parts of Slovakia, bcs they have their own names for a lot of stuff :D And also in speaking we use a lot of different sounds depending on vowels, like somethings we pronounciate "softly" sometimes "hardly" but the writting is same... and ofc it also depends in which part of the country u are, bcs somewhere people just pronounce everything "hard" (west part mostly) etc.... so, yes, it's very difficult language even for native speakers and I really admire anyone who decides to learn our language! But also, it's very true that we are encouraging people to speak even if they make some mistakes - we don't mind, we can understand :)
Thank you 😊
I never know why would someone choose Slovak language ? Like If you choose czech everyone in Slovakia will understand you but not so much other way around so basically czech is 2 in 1 combo :D BTW your slovak in awesome, if I wasn't born there i doubt i would be able to speak it that good :)
It wouldn’t make sense for me to learn Czech while living in Slovakia 🥹☺️ thanks a lot!
Si prva Talianka ktorú počujem hovoriť slovensky❤
Ahoj, myslim, ze ti to ide super. Zaujimalo by ma ale, ci su ti zrozumitelne aspon ciastocne niektore nase narecia/dialekty. Klobuk dolu. 👍👍👍
Dakujem! Are there many dialects in Slovakia? 🙂
@@palmacate Nie je za co. Dialektov je privela na taku malu krajinu. 😁 Medzi zakladne patria zapadoslovenske narecie (dialect from west part), vychodoslovenske narecie (dialect from east part) a stredoslovenske (from central part). Oficialny jazyk je zalozeny na stredoslovenskom nareci. 🙂
ani mne nie su ani len ciastocne zrozumitelne ziadne dialekty a to som slovak 😀
@@TeslaBobo bez sance, ja som z vychodu z Michaloviec, ale ked spusti niekto po sarissky tak nerozumiem, manzelka je zo Ziliny a u nas nam tiez nerozumie
For me personally it is always very joyful to see a foreigner learning our little Slavic language. We ourselves find it very difficult, as it has many rules that just need to be learned, as they are not based on the common colloquial language but were artificially created by linguists.
For me, as a dyslexic, placement of "Y" is definitely the most difficult in Slovak, as Slovak is one of the few Slavic languages that doesn't pronounce it, but has it in its grammar.
Sadly, especially the older generation often made (and still makes) fun of foreigners who make mistakes in inflection or have "strange" accents. I most admire people speaking languages from non-Indo-European language groups who have learned Slovak very well (especially groups of Vietnamese living in Slovakia).
Na zdar Catca a a všetkým ostatnom.
Ja som Rodný španiel. Som ženatý so Slovenkou, dva roky sme žili na Slovensku a rád sa učím slovensky. Podľa mňa najťažšia výslovnosť slova v slovenčine je slnečnica. Ako osobná kuriozita: prvé slovo, ktoré som sa naučil v slovenčine, je otužilec.
Skvělé video! Natočíme podcast?
realne hovoríš veľmi dobre. Som štasný že ludia sa začínajú učit slovenčinu
☺️ ďakujem
Slovak language has the longest alphabet in Europe
Vieme rozlíšiť osobu... napríklad ( bol som , bola som) ... po anglicky I was.....atd...
about grammar mistakes when we're writing, yes we totally do mistakes, since there are a lot of rules with the usage of i/y some people can interchange them, for example they wouldn't write bryndza abut they would write brindza, which is a mistake, also since we have genitiv dativ etc, there are a lot of rules with that, for example if you wanna write with someone you would write S niekým, if you would write z niekým if would be a mistake, a lot of people do that cause it sounds similiar and they change the s to the z
you can ask your friends to try to have a basic conversation in Slovak, it could be fun. And you Slovak is on good level and thumbs up for trying. BDW my grammar in Slovak is much worse than my english,
Your Slovak is pretty good 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 and yes I agree - It is one of the most difficult languages to learn - grammar is not easy at all 🙂↕️
Ciao Caterina.
Il tuo canale mi piace molto. Sono slovacco, ma studio italiano da tre anni. La grammatica slovacca è veramente difficile, però anche in italiano esistono forme che non sono nelle lingue slave. Per esempio la differenza tra imperfetto e passato prossimo. O in slovacco non esiste il congiuntivo.
Ma penso che le regole della grammatica italiana abbiano più senso delle nostre regole. Per esempio, dopo aver studiato il congiuntivo lo capisco perché è importante, ma immagino che alcune regole in slovacco siano più difficile ma abbiano meno valore.
Secondo me è vero anche gli slovacchi commettono errori perché la grammatica e molto complessa. Italiano è la mia prima esperienza con le lingue romane dopo le lingue germaniche (inglese e tedesco) e devo dire che l'italiano è sinceramente una lingua molto bella.
Grazie molto Caterina per i tuoi video e forza :).
Grazie 😀
A pritom je slovencina uplne lahka: druhych 5 slovnych druhov (predlozky az citoslovcia) ma vzdy konstantny tvar. Prvych 5 slovnych druhov (podstatne mena az slovesa) ma tri rody krat tri casy x 2 pricastia x 2 vidy, To je len 36 tvarov. Plus mnohe veci maju plnovyznamove sloveso a nepouzivame vyjadrenie cez anglicke have. Napriklad Have a nice day je ovela viac slovenskejsie v tvare Prajem pekny den, Zelam pekny den, Vinsujem pekny den
e interesante che per lri era imaprare la nostra lingua difficile, io o imparato italiano in un mese ma secondo me e facile imparare vostra lingua, ma lei parla molto bene:-))
Grazie! Si, ho notato che per gli slovacchi è abbastanza facile imparare l’Italiano 😊
Kto sa chce naucit rozpravat po Slovensky tak sa to nauci
I would be interested to know what materials you recommend to learn Slovak. I bought križom kražom but l regret it already 😅
I'm going to make a separate video on the resources I used to study Slovak (and some more I found recently), I will post it in a few weeks - don't give up! 😀
you can always practice with me if u want I speak both English and Slovak
"I" and "Y" letters are killing us sometimes when we write. 😅
I imagine 😅 biť, byť, byt - my favourites ahah
@@palmacate Those are the moments that you hesitate for a "bit" 😉if you are writing it properly. I can only wonder how a non-native speaker must be confused reading Slovak without diacritics in sms and e-mails. 😀
@@palmacate my favourites are riť, ryť
pij, pyj ;)
In Polish we differ both vowels in speech, but in slovak both are pronounced the same somewhere in the middle 🤔
dakujem za video o mojom jazyku 😄
fine! and now you can try to learn some Czech as well..! 😀
As a Slovak person
If you learn Slovak u can or could idk how its for foreigners but u couod understand Czech almost completely Polish too just some words not and Russian like if they speak slowly and some other Slavic languages. And yeah sometimes in the grammar Slovaks make mistakes too 😅 its difficult not to so don't be scared of that. Some people mainly older dont understand English cause before it wasnt Slovakia but Czechoslovakia and they didn't learn English but Russian.
+A tip:
If u live near Hungary but still in Slovakia atleast on Podunajská nížina idk how to say it in English sorry then u vould learn atleast the basic words in Hungarian cause some ppl here are native Hungarians and almost everyone can speak hungarian. And if u are from lets say England the r u pronounce in slovak is more harsh like rrrrrrr😊
Edit: Fakt dobre rozprávaš po Slovensky a ďakujem za video strašne sa teším že niekto spomenul Slovenčinu !!😊
Ďakujem pekne! Thanks for your nice comment!
I agree that Slovak is like Slavic Esperanto 😄 I'm Slovak myself and i understand pretty much any Slavic language, except Russian and Ukrainian, those are harder, but only cause i'm younger and didn't study it in school anymore. Polish is a bit more difficult too, but with my Eastern dialect, i can manage 😂
(it is said, as a joke, that Eastern Slovak - vichodňarčina, is predecessor of Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, German, and even Italian - cause of the accent)
😂😂
nice one, drzim palce Katarina !
Ďakujem 🙏
I'm Slovakian, you can speak my language quite well.