{"id":16949,"date":"2018-10-23T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=16949"},"modified":"2018-10-23T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T17:09:09","slug":"slovenian-slovenscina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16949","title":{"rendered":"Slovenian (sloven\u0161\u010dina)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been learning Slovenian for nearly three months now, and will have chances to use it when I go to Slovenia in a few days. I&#8217;ll be there for the <a href=\"http:\/\/polyglotconference.com\/\">Polyglot Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I can&#8217;t say a lot in Slovenian yet, I have at least learnt the basics. I&#8217;ve been using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memrise.com\/course\/869974\/complete-course-audio-swear-words\/\">Memrise<\/a> course based on <em>Slovenian for Travelers<\/em>, another version of which is <a href=\"http:\/\/slovlit.ff.uni-lj.si\/sft\/\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve studied other Slavic languages to varying degrees &#8211; Russian, Czech, Slovak and Serbian &#8211; I can recognise quite a few words in Slovenian, and the grammar seems similar. I like the sound of Slovenian, and may continue learning it after the conference.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite Slovenian words are currently: <strong>predv\u010deraj\u0161njim<\/strong> (the day before yesterday) and <strong>pojutri\u0161njem<\/strong> (the day after tomorrow).<\/p>\n<p>I plan to record an episode of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/\">Radio Omniglot Podcast<\/a> at the conference. It will be about the conference, and the people there, and will hopefully include recordings of participants speaking as many different languages as possible. Looking forward to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been learning Slovenian for nearly three months now, and will have chances to use it when I go to Slovenia in a few days. I&#8217;ll be there for the Polyglot Conference. While I can&#8217;t say a lot in Slovenian yet, I have at least learnt the basics. I&#8217;ve been using a Memrise course based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,10,13,52,57,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-language","category-language-learning","category-russian","category-serbian","category-slovak","category-slovenian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}