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As a Slovak / Czech speaker I find Slovio a bit easier to understand than Interslavic, despite the mentioned non-slavic choices. Interslavic seems to be south-
by rdeselby 5y ago
As a Slovak / Czech speaker I find Slovio a bit easier to understand than Interslavic, despite the mentioned non-slavic choices.
Interslavic seems to be south-slavic biased.
Purely subjectively, Slovio text reads more aesthetically pleasing. I think this might be because the south-slavic roots are more prominent in our east dialects spoken in the country side, while Slovio seems closer to me to the standard codified language.
- int_19h 5y agoInterslavic is based on Old Church Slavonic, which was originally a codification of the spoken language of the Slavs of Thessalonica (where Cyril and Methodius lived). Which would be the ancestors of modern Bulgarians and Macedonians, so yeah, I'd expect it to be a bit closer to Southern Slavic.
- lproven 5y agoSeconded. I'm a native English speaker in the Czech Republic. I've been struggling to learn Czech for 8 years now. It is my 6th language, not that I'm very fluent in any of the others, but by far the hardest. I find Slovio much easier to read and understand than Interslavic, which with my A2-to-B1 level Czech remains quite impenetrable. I've travelled around 5 or 6 Slavic-speaking countries now and often show people Slovio, and though they've never heard of it, they all find that they can read and understand it without problem. I find that an interesting data point.
- Toutouxc 5y agoCzech here. I agree that there's a lot of that southern-slavic vibe in Interslavic, which I don't really mind, it's kinda nice and exotic, but I totally don't find Slovio more aesthetically pleasing, mainly because of the weird "x" thing. My mind keeps pronouncing the Czech "ks" sound.