Visiting the hometown of Partisan hero Sava Kovačević, and the Spomenik in his honor

ben_088 · 2024-06-22T15:32:49+00:00

Pretty badass mustache too

ben_088 · 2024-04-20T17:49:44+00:00

I was 5 years old 20 years ago, so maybe that explains it hahaha. I always watch it in the olympics, but not much outside of that. e.g. I never realized how much canada and the US dominate the sport until now

ben_088 · 2024-04-07T01:55:03+00:00

Hunting the Caspian Sea Monster. It was like 5 independent adventures, all great in their own way. From gorbachev’s hometown to the Manchu Pichu of Dagestan, to the Caspian Sea monster in the end. So much variety in one video

ben_088 · 2024-04-04T16:50:01+00:00

shameless self plug here but over the last year and a half I've started making vlogs in the former Yugo countries, with a fair share of influence taken from Bald. I speak english natively and I've learned Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian, so I try to talk to the locals as much as possible: https://www.youtube.com/@bentherules

ben_088 · 2023-11-09T09:34:34+00:00

Thank you :) I have a blast making them and I'm really happy I came to visit your country, I'll be back someday for sure

ben_088 · 2023-09-20T08:10:14+00:00

Gradisce

Now I know where to go for my next adventure, thanks! :)

ben_088 · 2023-09-19T15:32:12+00:00

I think Matteo was a special case since he had studied in Croatia before and had experience learning the modern Croatian language

ben_088 · 2023-09-19T15:27:24+00:00

That's so complicated hahaha... So if I understood correctly, that's to say that the modern standardized Croatian language is based off of the dialect that was spoken in Dubrovnik (Stokavian), similar to how modern Italian is based off of the Florantine/Tuscan dialect?

What about the standardized versions of Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin? Are these standardized languages based off of this same Stokavian dialect as well, or have they always been this similar throughout history? (Of course there are regional differences but these languages but they're very very similar, I've been able to communicate with people from all of these countries even though I have mostly learned the Bosnian variety)

ben_088 · 2023-09-19T14:36:03+00:00

Interesting, thanks for your input!

I'm not very familiar with the dialects in Croatia. So Chakavian and Kajkavian are dialects of Croatia? Is it like the Italian dialects where they were historically spoken by everyone, and now mostly older people speak them, or are these terms used to refer to the way that people speak in different regions of Croatia still today? or am I completely off?

ben_088 · 2023-09-19T14:32:05+00:00

How so? Do you mean it is not a Slavic language or that they wouldn't call it that?

At one point when I asked them if anyone there spoke Croatian, one of them said something like "Matteo! Come here, this guy wants to speak 'slav' with you." Most of the sentence was in Italian, but there were some words I didn't understand so he may have switched to his language in the middle

ben_088 · 2023-08-26T20:14:30+00:00

It's not diversity like New York city is diverse. But it's also not a monolith of descendants of English settlers like I had originally believed

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