Interslavic Language | Will Bulgarian, Polish and Croatian understand a CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGE? | #1
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as a striking demonstration that Interslavic works for speakers of different Slavic languages.
What it is
A Polish linguist tests whether speakers of Bulgarian, Polish and Croatian can understand Interslavic, a constructed language built from Slavic languages. It shows how well they follow it without prior study.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2019 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Cites olah_1 · 2019-08 · on “Interslavic Language”
There was recently a video posted of Interslavic being used with a Bulgarian, a Polish and a Croatian. [this video]
Cites waffleiron · 2022-03 · on “Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language”
They did some experimentation with a Czech/Slovak colleagues, but those two languages are quite close already. I'm not sure if they ever got the chance to practice with a slavic language that is further removed from Polish. I recall watching this video at the time (which might have been their inspiration to start learning it). [this video]
Cites alexey-salmin · 2024-06 · on “How babies and young children learn to understand language”
I did give some thought whether your native language makes it easier or harder to learn others, but all I have is anecdotal cases from my life. I wonder if there are any scientific studies on the topic. E.g. a curious thing I noticed is the frequent complaint about Latin being very hard to learn because of the seven grammatical cases, three genders and morphology -- words just don't stay the same. As native Russian speaker I find these things absolutely normal and easy to understand, but I can image this must be a nightmare after English. Slavic languages you mention are very curious in how different yet how similar they all are. One of the most impressive thing I saw with respect to learnin