It seems like a difficult language to learn
from hydration9806@lemmy.ml to nonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml on 24 Oct 15:49
https://lemmy.ml/post/21740037

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/21211139

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davel@lemmy.ml on 24 Oct 16:30 next collapse

Polish is the Perl of the Indo-European language family. Or is it English, if we’re considering orthography?

dabu@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 21:40 next collapse

Well, “screams” is “krzyczy” in Polish so I guess this is accurate. Imo it would be funnier with the actual word.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 24 Oct 22:13 next collapse

That’s what happens when you abandon the alphabet that has letters designed to express the way your language sounds.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic

linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml on 25 Oct 01:34 next collapse

dude forgor fr**ch exists, i understand tho we all want to forget the Fr**ce.

Collatz_problem@hexbear.net on 25 Oct 02:46 next collapse

Not really (if you are a native speaker of another Slavic language).

1984@beehaw.org on 25 Oct 06:17 next collapse

Polish has a lot in common with the surrounding languages. Hungarian on the other hand, not at all.

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml on 25 Oct 07:08 next collapse

*krzyczy

TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee on 25 Oct 11:47 next collapse

“European Languages” isn’t a thing… you’re probably just more familiar with Germanic and Romance languages than you are with Slavic languages.

however, if the text was “Slavic languages” then this would still apply because WTF is polish doing

Alchalide@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 12:02 next collapse

I have lots of polish colleagues and they teach me some words and sentences. I thought about learning to read it, start duo lingo. At lesson 1-1 I noped the fuck out. I will learn Japanese before polish.

wieson@feddit.org on 25 Oct 12:20 collapse

It’s actually not hard.

Many languages have clusters that make a different sound than their ingredients.

“short” isn’t s-hort, but “sh” is a cluster that makes a different sound.

  • sz ~= sh
  • cz ~= ch
  • rz ~= softer “rsh” like in Persia