Your first impression when reading/hearing interslavic

[u/Motowilczek]

I really want to get into learning interslavic but as a pole i don’t really understand it as good as I was “supposed” to as a slav and it can throw me off, so what was your first impression?
Asking for some motivation

[u/magnuseriksson91]

Idk, it was just strange to hear such a mix, but I fully understood it even in the very first time, I believe

[u/Savvyzz]

My first reaction was maybe more slavs should learn it. Imo it should be used more often.

[u/novi_prospekt]

As a Croatian I kind of understand it a bit too well, so much that I strangely ask myself if it's being biased towards the South Slavic languages. That said I have a hard time speaking and understanding any other Slavic language except the Croatian/Serbian variant.

[u/JRJenss → u/novi_prospekt]

Same. It's bizarre how well I understand it. The only other slavic language I understand better than this artificial one, is Slovenian (Serbian, Bosnian...etc. I don't even count as different languages), but I was exposed to Slovenian over tv, plus I'm a kajkavian speaker as well. Slovakian is weird too...in terms of how well I understand it without being exposed to it. This thing tho, I understand even better than Slovakian without ever being exposed to it. The first time I heard it...which was relatively recently, I understood almost all of it...and through context - basically all of it.

[u/davidtwk → u/novi_prospekt]

Omg yes I had the same experience. I thought some of the creators had to be ex-yugoslav and exerted an outsized influence on the language due to how intelligeble it was for me as a bosnian

[u/Hellerick_V]

Interslavic has a wide (too wide) variety of vocabulary. It can look very Polish if one wants to.

[u/Andrey_Gusev]

I just understood it nearly perfectly. Maybe because I love reading and have read many similar words from other slavic languages in context. Authors of early 20th century portrayed other slavs and their vocab very often. Maybe because it was an idea of the time, the slav brotherhood.

[u/Papierzak1]

On one hand, it certainly felt weird, because it sounded like a mashup of the languages I was familiar with. On the other hand, it was surprisingly easy to understand with hardly any additional effort.

[u/davidtwk]

As a bosnian it sounded just like some other slavic language, maybe even more intelligeble than slovenian to me (which is the closest relative to Štokavian - serbocroatian), but with clear "northern" influences.

Now I understand it quite well and better than any other slavic language besides my native, even than the fellow south slavic langs.

[u/Feisty_Watercress_29]

Understood everything and was amazed

[u/scribbledpaper_]

My husband (Russian) sent me a video, and the lady in it spoke a language that sounded so much like Russian, but I understood it completely, unlike Russian (my native language is Serbian). I asked what language she was speaking, and he said Interslavic. I wish more people spoke it, especially if they didn't speak English. This way we could understand each other so much better, especially with the influx of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants to other Slavic countries. ♥️

[u/grandmapilot]

"Is that Ukrainian or Polish?"

[u/Yatchanek]

Polish has distinct vocabulary for many words that sound almost the same in other slavic languages. It helps greatly if you know one more.

[u/shibe5]

Ale odkųd imaš htěńje učiti sę języku jestli v tvojem vlastnom pŕvom vražeńju tȯj język ne imponuje?

[u/Motowilczek → u/shibe5]

it does impress me because I like the idea of communicating with my southern brothers but it throws me off a bit cuz everyone says they can understand it perfectly

[u/shibe5 → u/Motowilczek]

Nu to jest prěuveličeńje. V idealu, język međuslovjańsky jest približno råzumlivy vsim Slovjanam bez učeńja. A reaĺnost́ tȯž ne jest ideal, zatom prinajmėnje malo učeńje rekomenduje sę. Na ščęst́je, učiti sę jest lėgko kȯgdy mnoge slova sųt podobny rodnym i pravila sųt logične, abo vęće logične než v językah naturaĺnyh.

[u/No-Arachnid-1419 → u/shibe5]

Wow, as a Pole, first contact with interslavic, i dully understood it and I'm amazed

[u/Primary-Freedom-1458]

It sounds like Russian to me but I understand it a lot more. It sounded Russian to me because the speaker had a heavy Russian accent

[u/gopher9]

I understood it well, and it looked kinda like a south slavic language to me (I'm Russian).

[u/lambentLadybird]

I understand it surprisingly well, it sounds a bit archaic.

[u/DNAPiggy]

I am Polish and it sounds very South Slavic to me.