The paper describes local speeches of the Slavonian dialect, the Podravina sub-dialect. The chosen speeches are found in the following places: Črnkovci, Gat, Marijanci, Brođanci, Podravski Podgajci. Research has shown that local speeches in these places have not been described since the middle of the previous century, since the research of Josip Hamm in 1949 and Stjepan Sekereš in 1974. Descriptions of local speeches of some places do exist in recent years, but there is no complete synthetic scientific paper to describe local speeches of the Slavonian dialect of the Podravina sub-dialect. The purpose of this paper is to describe today’s local speeches of Črnkovci, Gat, Marijanci, Brođanci and Podravski Podgajci and their comparison with the findings of Josip Hamm and Stjepan Sekereš. The research shows that, on the phonological level, Podravina speeches have preserved their previous state very well – one can hear the Croatian acute and Šćakavism, the sound h is mostly reduced, the pronunciation of the sounds ć and đ is closer to the pronunciation of the sounds č and dž. On the morphological level, one can occasionally hear old forms of the genitive, the locative and the instrumental case of plural nouns, but there is also a notable tendency for assimilation of the three plural cases, especially when it comes to nouns which are not toponyms. The 3rd person plural of the present case still preserves the case endings -eju and -iju and the case ending -u. The media and the modern way of life have influenced the local speeches in all researched places – the standard language is accepted as the common form of communication. The old language is mostly spoken by older speakers, whereas younger speakers abandon the local speeches because they are losing their social prestige. Also, sometimes the same speaker uses a certain linguistic unit in local speech and then again in standard form, which shows obvious influence of the media and the standard language. Thus, it is not simple to answer the question which of the places keeps the most of the old language, for it depends on the speaker himself. The influence of the city, school, all kinds of media and the modern way of life has strongly affected the studied speeches, especially with the younger speakers. The older citizens have preserved the old-Štokavian traits to a much greater extent, and they will continue to preserve them as long as they live. Therefore, now is the last opportunity to study these speeches, to put the research results to paper and to make records in order to preserve the reflections of speech of the people in this area in one cross-section in time.