English has 12 tenses, Slovenian has 4 tenses. Sure, it’s not the easiest language to learn, *but* the good side is that language is written the same as they speak it. There are a few exceptions, but unlike in English if you spell the letters of some word and put them together you already pronounced the word correctly.
Long story short: če znaš govoriti slovensko in znaš črke, znaš brati slovensko. V angleščini imaš pa polno besed ki se jih isto napiše pa drugače izgovori, ali pa besed, ki se jih drugače napiše pa isto izgovori. Edino kar je, da imamo samo ca. 2 miljona govorcev, ampak drugače je pa čisto dober jezik za naučit 👍
Foreigner here. I thought Slovenian was hard until I took a weekend trip to Hungary.
It’s not safe
Even Slovenians do not speak it.
My husband tried learning when we first got married.. Gave up soon after
O ne, moraš se naučiti jezika države kamor se želiš preseliti, ja če je očitno tako težko mogoče Slovenija ni zate.
Can confirm. Gave up after A1, I can fill in forms and buy groceries. That was a herculean effort for me and I already can speak a number of languages.
Maybe in a few years.
I’m trying to get a grip of the language before moving over there – I like it even if it does seem quite mysterious. I just hope the Slovenian sense of humour will accommodate me! I’m not ready to give it go on reddit just yet though!
It’s not so difficult if you know another Slavic language
It’s not the easiet of the slavic languages, but it’s not that bad. It’s at least *fairly* consistent. And, if you fuck up, there’s probably a dialect that talks that way anyways.
For example gender *usually* follows the rules. Unlike German, where the rules are not as clear and often don’t apply.
The cases can be tough, but nobody has ever misunderstood me because I said “ne pijem kavo” instead of “ne pijem kave”.
Alphabet is super easy to learn, so you can read and write quickly. There are some instances where things are pronounced differently (I see you letter V) but even that can follow a pattern. Unlike Japanese for instance that uses three writing systems. Or arabic that has multiple ways of writing a letter.
Hungarian is far worse. More cases, sentence structure is extremely fluid, and they have this weird way of speaking to people in third person to show respect. So if I was to tell my aunt “I like your necklace” I would have to say “I like [privy-elephant aunt’s] necklace.” But to that persons face. It’s weird.
So umm, I moved between slovenia and other countries when I was in primary school (up till 9th grade) so despite being slovenian and having an easier transition back (thanks to my parents) I still felt most of your problems on a smaller scale. Getting good points for high school was a proper pain in the ass.
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Fake news. Noone knows how to use this shit irl.
It gets worse.
English has 12 tenses, Slovenian has 4 tenses. Sure, it’s not the easiest language to learn, *but* the good side is that language is written the same as they speak it. There are a few exceptions, but unlike in English if you spell the letters of some word and put them together you already pronounced the word correctly.
Long story short: če znaš govoriti slovensko in znaš črke, znaš brati slovensko. V angleščini imaš pa polno besed ki se jih isto napiše pa drugače izgovori, ali pa besed, ki se jih drugače napiše pa isto izgovori. Edino kar je, da imamo samo ca. 2 miljona govorcev, ampak drugače je pa čisto dober jezik za naučit 👍
Foreigner here. I thought Slovenian was hard until I took a weekend trip to Hungary.
It’s not safe
Even Slovenians do not speak it.
My husband tried learning when we first got married.. Gave up soon after
O ne, moraš se naučiti jezika države kamor se želiš preseliti, ja če je očitno tako težko mogoče Slovenija ni zate.
Can confirm. Gave up after A1, I can fill in forms and buy groceries. That was a herculean effort for me and I already can speak a number of languages.
Maybe in a few years.
I’m trying to get a grip of the language before moving over there – I like it even if it does seem quite mysterious. I just hope the Slovenian sense of humour will accommodate me! I’m not ready to give it go on reddit just yet though!
It’s not so difficult if you know another Slavic language
It’s not the easiet of the slavic languages, but it’s not that bad. It’s at least *fairly* consistent. And, if you fuck up, there’s probably a dialect that talks that way anyways.
For example gender *usually* follows the rules. Unlike German, where the rules are not as clear and often don’t apply.
The cases can be tough, but nobody has ever misunderstood me because I said “ne pijem kavo” instead of “ne pijem kave”.
Alphabet is super easy to learn, so you can read and write quickly. There are some instances where things are pronounced differently (I see you letter V) but even that can follow a pattern. Unlike Japanese for instance that uses three writing systems. Or arabic that has multiple ways of writing a letter.
Hungarian is far worse. More cases, sentence structure is extremely fluid, and they have this weird way of speaking to people in third person to show respect. So if I was to tell my aunt “I like your necklace” I would have to say “I like [privy-elephant aunt’s] necklace.” But to that persons face. It’s weird.
So umm, I moved between slovenia and other countries when I was in primary school (up till 9th grade) so despite being slovenian and having an easier transition back (thanks to my parents) I still felt most of your problems on a smaller scale. Getting good points for high school was a proper pain in the ass.