Hello! My name is Sasha.
I am one of JayWay Travel's local hosts and destination experts and today I would
like to introduce you to a couple of phrases and words in Slovak language.
Are you guys ready? Okay. let's start with the greetings.
There are two forms of greetings in Slovak language - one of them
is formal and one of them informal. The formal one is used for your
seniors your colleagues at work or people you don't know that well.
So the formal greeting in Slovak language is: "Dobrý deň".
That's "dobrý" for "good" and "deň" for "day".
So - "dobrý deň". "Dobrý deň".
Let's repeat: "Dobrý deň" (x4).
The informal greeting is of course used for your friends, family, people who are close to you.
And for this we use the word "Ahoj". "Ahoj"! Just like a sailor or pirate
would say. "Ahoj"
The world "ahoj" can be also used for saying goodbye.
But only if you are saying goodbye to your friends or family members again.
The formal word for goodbye is the word "Dovidenia" - that's "dovidenia".
"Dovidenia"
The next word I would like to introduce to you is the word
"please" - because it's very nice to be polite when we are traveling and
to be polite in somebody's native tongue will always earn you those extra points.
So the word "please" in Slovak language is "Prosím".
"Prosím"
And once we know how to say please it's also very useful to know how to say "thank you"
The word "thank you" in Slovak language is "ďakujem".
"Ďakujem"
If the pronunciation of the word the "ďakujem" is a bit difficult for you,
you can always use the shorter version of the word which is "dík".
"Dík".
This is less formal version of saying "thank you" so we can compare it to English word "thanks".
Let's move on and - yeah I always thought it's quite important to be able to either
agree or disagree with somebody and what better way of doing so than by saying "yes" or "no"...
So let's learn "yes" and "no" in Slovak:
The word "yes" is "áno" - so long "a" at the beginning of the word.
And the word "no" is "nie".
So that's "áno" & "nie".
Now, one of the most important words I believe you will use anywhere in the
world and it's useful to know in more than one language is the word "cheers"!
When you go out and you want to impress your local friends or just be nice and earn those
extra points with the local people "cheers" is one of the words that will definitely do that for you.
So the word "cheers" in Slovak "na zdravie".
"Na zdravie".
It's a bit similar to Russian - За здоровье! - there's a tiny little change in it:
"Na zdravie!"
And we'll finish our today's short lesson with the word "excuse me" which is important
if you're trying to leave a place where there are a lot of people or maybe you just want to
say sorry when you bump into somebody in the crowd in the public transportation and so on.
So the word "excuse me" in Slovak "Prepáčte".
"Prepáčte."
Right - so let's see what we learned today! We have learned how to say "hello": "dobrý deň"
and "hi": "ahoy" we have also learned
how to say "goodbye": "dovidenia", we know how to say "please": "prosím"
and "thank you": "ďakujem", we also can say "yes": "áno"
and "no": "nie" Cheers in Slovak language is "na zdravie"
and last but not least the word "excuse me" which is "prepáčte".
Okay, so that's it for today guys thank you so much for watching,
I am very much looking forward to seeing you in Europe soon!
Ďakujem a dovidenia!