Rupel addressed the crowd. Behind them a poster displayed maps of both countries, but in different scales and with no neighboring nations shown. Bush once confused the two countries. Next, the head of the Slovenian Tourist Board played a YouTube video of scenes from his country: castles; the Alps; town squares; cobblestone streets; blue-eyed, blond children. We have mountains. Slovakia and Slovenia are not the only countries to create confusion for foreigners. In , the Swiss and Swedish consulates in Shanghai ran a campaign to help locals tell the two apart.
The Danes and the Dutch have a similar problem, despite sharing neither longitudinal nor nominal similarities. Both are fond of bicycles. There are a lot of similar words in Slavic languages, with the same meaning, but also a lot of very similar words with the same lexical roots that have different meanings. Russian has the same number of cases like Slovenian.
The difference is just that in Slovenian we use the locative and instrumental with prepositions, but in Russian the prepositions are usually used only in instrumental, which is the 5th case in Russian, and the locative the 6th in Slovenian is the opposite. With word pronunciation, the emphasised syllable is different in Slovenian and Russian. Here are some Slovenian and Russian words with the same meaning and writing, but different stress:.
A language is very similar to Czech, both also have a similar alphabet. Slovak has also some common features with South Slavic languages, especially with Slovenian and some Croatian dialects. No wonder, some people still confuse Slovakia and Slovenia, not just because of a similar name, but also because of the similar languages. Polish has some special letters, also unknown in Czech and Slovak. Most often the second last syllable is stressed in Polish. It is quite different from Russian.
For this reason it has some language features uncommon to other Slavic languages. Bulgarian Cyrillic is very similar to Russian.
Macedonian is spoken in Macedonia, northern Greece, south-west Bulgaria, and in south-east Albania. Like Bulgarian it has some special features, untypical to other Slavic languages. Serbian is a South Slavic language. They are separated from one another by Austria and Hungary, and have distinct features. Slovenia is a coastal country bordering Italy and Croatia in the south of Europe.
But Slovakia has Poland and the Czech Republic as its neighbours, and boasts castles and mountains as its tourist spots. Both countries are former socialist republics, and both emerged in their modern form in the early s.
Slovenia achieved independence from Yugoslavia in , in a relatively bloodless manner after the EU helped to broker a deal. Slovakia is the larger country and has twice as many people - at 5. It was once part of the state of Czechoslovakia.
This history helps to explain the similarity of the flags - both countries use the same colours as Russia and many other Slavic nations, due to their shared history. But now that you've learned a tiny little bit about these two countries, you can read their country profiles for more information. And after that, if you're brave enough, you might try tackling this fiendishly difficult quiz on the two put together by Politico.
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