Finnish or Polish? Which would be the better language for me to learn?
Saturday, July 10th, 2010 at
6:47 am
Those two languages really stick out at me...Swedish is also quite interesting.
I'll probably end up learning all of them, but which one could be the easiest or best to learn first?
I heard Finnish and to me it is just beautiful. And Polish sounds similar to it, but I don't know if in reality it really is.
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Polish has more speakers than Finnish. I don’t know how hard is Finnish, but Polish is one of the hardest languages in the world. We conjugate everything. Nouns, verbs, adjectives even names. Women have different conjugations than men. You even have to address each sex in a different way. Whenever someone tells me they want to learn Polish I say WHY?!
Start with Polish it has more speakers (42 million while Finnish has 7 million) so you will probably find more information on learning the language. Finnish and Swedish are similiar so learning one will help you learn the other(Polish is not in the same language family though).
Good luck!
As to the general number of native speakers capable of speaking each of these three languages, Polish speakers count 42,7 million, Swedish 9 million and Finnish 6 million.
As to which language to choose, I must say that your interests overlap a lot with mine. Namely, now I’m at an university learning English to become a professional interpreter, but I’m also interested in learning either Finnish, Swedish or even both of these languages in the future.
When talking about the similarity of the three mentioned languages, it is indeed true that Finnish and Swedish sound similar, although they origin from two different families of languages (Finnish origins from the Uralic family and Swedish from the Germanic family).
Polish isn’t similar to these languages at all because Polish is one of the Slavic languages.
Regarding which language is better to choose, the statistics show that it should be Polish. Namely, in the EU, the number of native speakers capable to conduct a conversation in Polish count 9%, while for the global number of the EU citizens this number rises to 10%
For the top 15 of the number of citizens capable of speaking in a certain language, only Sweden is mentioned at the 11th position from the end with 2% for the native speakers and 3% for all the citizens of EU being capable of speaking Swedish
One point about Finnish and Swedish. Swedish may be similar and similar sounding with with other scandinavian languages but not Finnish. It is in totally different language group and sound and are really different.