What is the Easiest Slavic language for an English speaker or a Romance language speaker?
Easiest Slavic language for an English/Romance speaker?
I wouldn't be too sure about that:
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Bulgarian verbs are the most complicated part of Bulgarian grammar, especially when compared to other Slavic languages. They are inflected for person, number and sometimes gender. They also have lexical aspect (perfective and imperfective), voice, nine tenses, five moods and six non-finite verbal forms. Because the subject of the verb can be inferred from the verb ending, it is often omitted. As there is no infinitive in the contemporary Bulgarian language the basic form of a verb is its present simple tense first person singular form.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_verbs
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Bulgarian verbs are the most complicated part of Bulgarian grammar, especially when compared to other Slavic languages. They are inflected for person, number and sometimes gender. They also have lexical aspect (perfective and imperfective), voice, nine tenses, five moods and six non-finite verbal forms. Because the subject of the verb can be inferred from the verb ending, it is often omitted. As there is no infinitive in the contemporary Bulgarian language the basic form of a verb is its present simple tense first person singular form.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_verbs
in my experience Romance+English speakers have an easier time with understanding verb rules. When you make them decline Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives; that's when you get a class full of frightened stares.
>>Bulgarian verbs are the most complicated part of Bulgarian grammar, especially when compared to other Slavic languages. They are inflected for person, number and sometimes gender. They also have lexical aspect (perfective and imperfective), voice, nine tenses, five moods and six non-finite verbal forms.<<
Only aspect will be hard but this exists in all the slavic. Verbs in Romance languages are also "inflected for person, number and sometimes gender"; they also have voice tenses, moods, non finite verbal forms.
Only aspect will be hard but this exists in all the slavic. Verbs in Romance languages are also "inflected for person, number and sometimes gender"; they also have voice tenses, moods, non finite verbal forms.
As far as I know, Macedonian doesn't have any cases, either, but there are many more resources to learn Bulgarian than Macedonian.
Bulgarians say that Macedonian is Bulgarian. In fact these languages are more like dialects.
I guess Bulgarian & Macedonian is like Indonesian & Malaysian, which in a narrow sense are dialects of the same language.
I would say Russian simply from the perspective that there are many more quality resources to learn it. Learning another Slavic language after Russian is a breeze.
What branch is more difficult in general, the West branch (eg Czech, Slovak), East branch (Russian, Ukranian etc) or South branch (Serbian, Bulgarian)?
Probably Macedonian is the easiest one, unfortunately there's a lack of resources.
<<Macedonian.
(much easier to pronounce, compared to Bulgarian)>>
The man asked which was the easiest Slavic language, not dialect...
(much easier to pronounce, compared to Bulgarian)>>
The man asked which was the easiest Slavic language, not dialect...
Macedonian has a different writing system, which makes it easier then Bulgarian.
Bulgarian doesn't have cases, but that in and of itself doesn't make the language easier...
Anyway, could someone rank them from easiest to most difficult? Would Russian be harder than Czech? Polish harder than Serbian? etc.
Anyway, could someone rank them from easiest to most difficult? Would Russian be harder than Czech? Polish harder than Serbian? etc.