Fun Quiz on Serbian Dialects

excited about today's episode this is an episode where we are going to dive

into the dialects in serbia not the dialect but you know zrenyonin

or or Khrushchevac or Vranje kind of dialects.

Let's see how it goes.

We have some authentic sources to listen to and then we will analyze how

they speak and we will try to understand what regions have which dialects.

So, Nikola, it's going to be like you are on the spotlight.

I want to spotlight that.

Okay, let's see.

Hopefully, my servant won't fail me now.

I believe in you 100%.

So the first one, actually, I shared some of these answers on a post

on Instagram.

The question is, what is the ugliest city in Serbia?

And I picked the nicest answers.

I mean, most of them are nice.

They say, what is an ugly city?

Every city has their own.

This is the mentality of many Serbians here.

and i really enjoyed this video since then i've been watching it okay here

we go

so this is the first lady okay that's short that's fine so you said

all of them are in belgrade yes the this is the interview street interview

happening in belgrade but i thought they are from different maybe they are all

from belgrade so you tell me just if you hear any specific uh kind

of accent or dialect here um i mean it it was a short recording

so based on that maybe there was like a little bit less uh length

actual accentual like accent length so just based on on that they might be

from south serbia um let's say kragovac or like central serbia south

of belgrade but still it's still a little bit too short to analyze it

just from there let's say if if it's not from belgrade then let's say

kragovac okay that's a good guess i think that we don't know we only

know some of them so here is another person I don't have a red

city in Serbia because I've traveled a lot in the world.

I think that every Zaseok is our best.

It would be much shorter if she is from the South Serbia.

So either Belgrade or Western Serbia.

Western? Yeah, not extremely Western, but let's say Central,

West or Belgrade, somewhere around there.

Yeah, I would guess Vojvodina and Novi Sad for her, but the way she

looks, I don't know if it's true.

Okay. I can say that a city is a red city.

Everything has their own.

The big cities have something new, but the small cities have a soul that

has lost their own cities.

So I wouldn't even say that a city is a red city.

While in South Serbia, people say Ruzhan, right?

So it's either it's north parts of Serbia.

It can be Belgrade.

I first wanted to say Novi Sad, but maybe it can be Novi Sad.

I don't think so.

So still Belgrade.

Because I also like the way he spoke because like the accents were proper.

It was easier to follow what he was saying.

Yes, so long accents, north.

Short accents or no accents, south.

Okay, I've got a couple more.

She has

shorter accents, but I think at the end, she said we live in Sweden,

if I heard correctly.

Yeah, which makes sense that she has shorter accents.

If she grew up there or lived for 10, 15 years, you can easily

not forget, but misuse the accent or lose

the connection to the stress.

She also misused a grammatical case.

Instead of saying, živim u Švedskoj, she says, živim u Švedsku.

So either she's from South where they don't use cases.

They only have two grammatical cases from dialect.

or she lived long enough in Sweden that she or she was born there,

you know, that she doesn't know how to use it properly.

I see. Yeah, I think the former, the first option sounds like true.

Okay, this guy looks very interesting.

So I hope you will catch his accent.

Short answer. Oh, that's so short.

Yeah. It is not you.

Is this grammatically correct?

It is not.

So that sounds Belgrade, even though it's short, because it is not.

Yes, that's the proper form and Lepota as well.

In Belgrade, they tend to pronounce letters O with an open

mouth. Oh, so Lepota, Ruznotcha instead of Lepota and Ruznotcha.

So just based on that, I can tell, even though it's a short, that

he's from Belgrade.

Oh, that was so interesting.

Yeah, that's very typical Belgrade accent, making O sound slightly like A even.

I see. Okay.

So I've got three more, not from this video.

They are recordings that I found from IDEA.

It's called International Dialects of English Archive.

And I know where they are from.

So, this was just like coins that without any answer key.

Now we have.

I hope the quality will be better as well.

So here's a male voice.

okay this is someone who's not from serbia uh he has um

he's from either england or u.s um he pronounces the r so

uh the length could be longer like the accentual or post-accentual

however you say it lengths so the lengths after the accent can be longer

the the accents themselves stress

so I think he's from England or US or English speaking country who was

born there or second generation, first generation but lived there long enough to

not speak it perfectly very good guess because these three actually are all from,

they live one of them in Canada the other two in the united states

good catch so they mostly speak english in their daily lives and uh this

guy is 22 so he moved when he was very young so all correct

but originally uh do you think he moved from um serbia or croatia

or bosnia-herzegovina um if i remember correctly all words that he used

he was reading uh ivo andrid if i'm not wrong yes that's true yeah

yeah so those are

serbian words so he's from serbia i guess if just depending based on the

text he was reading those that serbian text yeah um but to localize where

he's from from serbia since he's he speaks in English accent that's a little

bit harder let's say it can be anywhere really let's say somewhere in central

Serbia central okay he's actually from Subodica ah okay that's north okay

but as we said he moved out quite early at an early age and

I think and he's reading not speaking in a natural tone i guess that's

also affecting i think yes yes to understand it um there is there

i haven't heard anything um um that voivodina accents dialects have there so i

see you probably learn it uh not from the start but later on yeah

okay 9.5 out of 10 let's go Okay.

So here we have another woman.

A man is a woman, a woman is a man, needs something.

He doesn't know it, but he raises his hands.

But a woman is a little cold, but he doesn't.

He takes a tree and finds a tree, and if he wants it, he

will even find a tree.

It's cases

so let's say vranja region wow vranja

was it yeah okay even though you said it's proper i thought when you

said it's proper serbian i thought you would say i wouldn't guess you would

say belgrade and i was like well let's see but you said proper serbian

as in no influence of other accents.

So it is a dialect.

It's not standard Serbian, but there is no influence of other foreign languages.

I see. Yeah.

She's 36. She also lives in the United States, but she uses more Serbian,

maybe. Okay, my last person.

Coming.

she's from belgrade but um those lengths can it can also sway a little

bit to the west or even maybe a little bit up north but it's

not novice accent um so i don't know it sounds like a proper belgrade

accent maybe even i don't know a little bit to the west it can

be but i'll stay with belgrade yes she definitely uh is from baguette lived

most of her life in baguette but she was born and not born but

she spent a lot of time in uh bosnia bosnia herzegovina when she was

a child so that's where those lengths come from from bosnia dialect there's a

lot of lengths they they we say that they sing when they talk i

really enjoyed doing this to me there is a difference but i cannot locate

it and to me of Of course, it's so hard to catch the all

like long accents, short accent.

But still, I feel there's something that does really help me.

And I think I will listen to these and listen to your explanations again

and again to see the real difference.

Hvala monoga. Hvala te, but this is really interesting.

Maybe we can do it more in the future.

Yeah. That's interesting.

It's very interesting to hear those.

then we will continue with such interesting themes again i hope everyone likes us

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