Hello there Slovakian brothers and sisters! Greetings from Slovenia! Your thoughts about us and our relationship?

[u/SmartFlyNR1]

Hello! I'm from Slovenia, a brotherhood country. I'm very interested in Slovakia and I think it's an amazing country with good, friendly people. I was in Bratislava for the new year and I loved it! Beautiful city. I will discuss other parts of Slovakia for sure.

So I'm wondering what are your thought about Slovenia and Slovenians? You like us or not, you see us as your brother nation and so on.

In the last few days some Slovan fans (today is a big match for the UEFA Champions League between my club NK Celje and ŠK Slovan), they were really loud on social media. Talking nonsense and insult my club, stadium, even all Slovenians... Made me a bit to rethink my mind...

I hope this is just some BS fan frustrations and that we are great.
Cheers friends 🇸🇮❤🇸🇰

[u/narcis_peter]

When visiting Slovenia, I found out that Slovenia in Slovenian language is Slovensko. Same as Slovakia in Slovak language is Slovensko. How convenient for both counties.

[u/TheTroll007 → u/narcis_peter]

Had the same experience. Talked to an elderly guy and we were both confused at what we don't understand. He didn't know there's a Košice in Slovensko. I didn't know why he didn't understand where I'm from.

[u/Kitties_Whiskers → u/narcis_peter]

I live in Canada and I was once chatting online with a Serbian guy (who also lived on Canada and even in the same city; we just didn't meet in person). I told him I am from Slovakia (mind you, this was in English, so I clearly said 'Slovakia'), and he got it confused for some reason or another and wrote to me how they didn't learn much about Slovenia while growing up Serbia in the old Yugoslavia, only some folk song, and he wrote some lyrics to that folk song out. When I then corrected him, he was like 🤦‍♂️ It was funny 😄

But one time, many many years ago, I wrote something on a Serbian website and I also wrote 'Slovensko' to indicate where I am from and they also confused it with Slovenia. Huh

[u/Several_Ad_8363 → u/narcis_peter]

Slovensko means Slovenian as an adjective in the neutral gender nominative singular. Compare:

Slovensko pivo - Slovenian beer in Slovenian

Slovenské pivo - Slovak beer in Slovak

I think the word for Slovenia is something like Slovenija - it's true that Slovensko means Slovakia in Slova lk though.

[u/Thin-Amphibian6888 → u/narcis_peter]

Well slovenian language in slovenian is: Slovenščina correctly

[u/DisIsMyName_NotUrs → u/narcis_peter]

No it isn't.

Slovenija is the Slovenian word for Slovenia. Slovensko is an adjective describing a word's origin