What language do you learn?

What language do you learn?

Croatian / Hrvatski
9
39%
Bosnian / Bosanski
3
13%
Serbian / Српски - Srpski
11
48%
 
Total votes: 23

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What language do you learn?

Postby PoPoWiWi » 2007-10-19, 18:48

Which one do you learn: Croatian, Serbian or Bosnian? :idea:

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Postby Chrystel » 2007-10-21, 12:02

It's a pity that we can only make one answer. :(

I answered bosnian, but I would have liked to answer that :
- first I would rather learn bosnian
- but if I learn croatian, I know I will be able to speak most of the time with bosnian people
- the common grammar of those three languages helps me for bosnian

Could you explain what is the objective of this poll?

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Postby PoPoWiWi » 2007-10-21, 12:16

Hello!
My objective is to know which language is the most popular and how many people learn Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian.

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Postby SamoSamNina » 2007-10-21, 22:06

Yeah, but it's not really like they're incredibly *different* ... at my university, my class for it is called 'Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian'... if they were really different languages, there's no way it would all be under one classification. Sure, there's dialectic differences, but looking at the three of them is similar to looking at English spoken in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and Australia -- it's all English, but there's some differences in vocabulary, some slight syntactical stuff, colloquialisms, spelling... similar phenomena concerning Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.

And then you have to bring in the argument as to whether or not Bosnian is a specific language or it was merely granted that name of 'Bosnian language' because of political effects... but that's another conversation / argument in and of itself, perhaps more political than linguistic ;)
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Postby Chrystel » 2007-10-22, 7:09

As we have to be registered to answer this poll, you will just have an idea of the "popularity" among the registered persons.

But I think (I hope?) that there is much more people reading this forum than those registered...

Polls are sometimes delicate to interpret, but why not? :hmm:

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Postby Fenek » 2007-10-22, 16:41

I learned Serbo-Croatian.
I'd appreciate any corrections to my messages!
Vi sarò molto grato per ogni correzione!
Zelo vam bom hvaležen za popravke!
Aş fi recunoscător pentru orice corectare!
Bio bih vam veoma zahvalan na ispravkama!

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Re: What language do you learn?

Postby kuneli » 2007-11-21, 12:37

PoPoWiWi wrote:Which one do you learn: Croatian, Serbian or Bosnian? :idea:


It's the same language.15 years ago I learned serbocroatian...Aquella epoca nadie no se perguntaba cual idioma estaba aprendiendo.Solo sabiamos que existaban 2 o 3 variaciones, como el castellano de Europa y eso de America.

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Postby evilbu » 2008-04-12, 16:53

:shock: None of them. But interested in all of them.
Croatian seems the easiest for me, because of the alphabet ( I am somewhat familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet, but I can't read it fluently)
(And even then I'm trouble, I can't do all those -ic, sh, zh,... thingies on my AZERTY keyboard :? )

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Postby Knabo » 2008-04-12, 20:37

evilbu wrote::shock: None of them. But interested in all of them.
Croatian seems the easiest for me, because of the alphabet ( I am somewhat familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet, but I can't read it fluently)
(And even then I'm trouble, I can't do all those -ic, sh, zh,... thingies on my AZERTY keyboard :? )


You can write every of these languages in latin letters.

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Postby lothy » 2008-04-15, 13:19

is bosnian and croatian same language?

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Postby JamesS » 2008-04-15, 14:07

lothy wrote:is bosnian and croatian same language?


That depends on who you ask, but yes, they are more or less the same language. There are a few vocubulary differences, but if you speak one variety, you will be understood by speakers of the others.

I voted Bosnian, purely because I want to go to Mostar and Sarajevo, but I am learning the little differences between the forms too.

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Postby lothy » 2008-04-16, 10:57

thanks for ur answer James in my country icant find a book for learning bosnian but ive got one who is assimil: serbo-croat btu ihavent practised it

id rather to learn first of all bosnian anyway ive found this link:
http://home.freeuk.net/iandart/

btw: so both r writen on cyrillic script isnt it?

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Postby JamesS » 2008-04-16, 11:57

lothy wrote:thanks for ur answer James in my country icant find a book for learning bosnian but ive got one who is assimil: serbo-croat btu ihavent practised it

id rather to learn first of all bosnian anyway ive found this link:
http://home.freeuk.net/iandart/

btw: so both r writen on cyrillic script isnt it?


That's okay lothy. Croatian uses the Latin alphabet, Serbian uses Cyrillic, Bosnian can use either, though tends to be written with the Latin alpahbet. It's a shame there aren't many Bosnian language materials available. I've found one course book that teaches Bosnian - Bosnian Croatian Serbian, by Ronelle Alexander & Ellen Elias Bursac. That's a good book, since it teaches you the differences between the three forms.

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Postby kibo » 2008-04-16, 12:39

The Serbian variant uses both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. It's a popular misconception that only Cyrillic is used, but if you come here, you would be surprised how much the Latin script is used.

In practice it really doesn't matter which variant you learn, if you're serious about it, you will come in contact with all variants eventually. (I feel like saying this for the 1000th time)
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Postby JamesS » 2008-04-16, 13:13

Bolek wrote:The Serbian variant uses both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. It's a popular misconception that only Cyrillic is used, but if you come here, you would be surprised how much the Latin script is used.


Sorry, I wasn't aware Serbian also used both Cyrillic and Latin.

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Postby Partisan » 2008-04-18, 20:47

I'm studying the serbian variation of serbo-croatian (a.k.a. srpski jezik).

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Postby Učitelj » 2008-05-02, 23:55

Well, I have to say that the main problem with Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian is just the national component in the name of the language. We all speak Shtokavian (in standard varieties), Croatian Standard is based on Western Shtokavian dialects with Kajkavian and Chakavian influences and Serbian Standard is based on Eastern Shtokavian dialects with small Torlak influences. Bosnian and Montenegrin are also Shtokavian based languages with somewhat different vocabulary. Anyhow, 18 million people will understand you whichever standard variety you choose . :)

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Re: What language do you learn?

Postby polishboy » 2008-12-20, 15:05

I bought a book for Croatian, so I write that Croatian.
But I know Cyryic also (maybenot all special Serbian letter, I know in Russian version)
So Ithink I will unerstand Serbian too.

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Re: What language do you learn?

Postby ILuvEire » 2009-01-02, 5:50

I want to learn Serbian so BAD! And I think that Cyrillic Serbian only has the special palatalized symbols in Cyrillic.
Voglio davvere imparare il serbo! E penso che il serbo cirilico ha solamente il simbolo di palatalo speciale nel cirilico.
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Re: What language do you learn?

Postby kibo » 2009-01-02, 8:42

What do you mean? :hmm: Well, welcome in any case. :wave:
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