Comments on: Is the Polish and Russian language alike? http://www.talkpolish.info/is-the-polish-and-russian-language-alike.htm Learn how to speak Polish Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:04:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: poLIteman http://www.talkpolish.info/is-the-polish-and-russian-language-alike.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1469 poLIteman Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:16:06 +0000 http://www.talkpolish.info/is-the-polish-and-russian-language-alike.htm#comment-1469 Russian and Polish are too completely different languages. Come from two different families of languages. For years Russia (USSR) had very strong influence in Poland that why some word are similar but it happen with English too. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages ad with a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet(cyrillica) but polish is typical Slavic and has Latin alphabet with a few additions. Russian and Polish are too completely different languages. Come from two different families of languages.
For years Russia (USSR) had very strong influence in Poland that why some word are similar but it happen with English too.
Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages ad with a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet(cyrillica) but polish is typical Slavic and has Latin alphabet with a few additions.

]]> By: TexHabsfan http://www.talkpolish.info/is-the-polish-and-russian-language-alike.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1470 TexHabsfan Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:16:06 +0000 http://www.talkpolish.info/is-the-polish-and-russian-language-alike.htm#comment-1470 They're both Slavic so it's natural that some words sound familiar. For what it's worth, I have spoken in czech with a polish-canadian friend and he understood me perfectly. They’re both Slavic so it’s natural that some words sound familiar. For what it’s worth,
I have spoken in czech with a polish-canadian friend and he understood me perfectly.

]]> By: kapusta17 http://www.talkpolish.info/is-the-polish-and-russian-language-alike.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1471 kapusta17 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:16:06 +0000 http://www.talkpolish.info/is-the-polish-and-russian-language-alike.htm#comment-1471 Cześć Karolina, odpowiem na to pytanie po angielsku aby inni też zrozumieli. :) Polish and Russian are both languages from the Slavic family. However, Polish is a Western Slavic language (along with Czech) but Russian is an Eastern Slavic language (along with Ukrainian, Belorussian). Russian and Polish are actually not very similar, you would have a much easier time understanding Czech. This has nothing to do with communism, but with hundreds of years of different cultures living far apart from each other. It's true that some words are similar солнце (sołnce) = słońce But some are absolutely different! налоги (nalogi) To brzmi trochę jak "nałogi" ale naprawdę znaczy "podatki" XD Cześć Karolina, odpowiem na to pytanie po angielsku aby inni też zrozumieli. :)

Polish and Russian are both languages from the Slavic family. However, Polish is a Western Slavic language (along with Czech) but Russian is an Eastern Slavic language (along with Ukrainian, Belorussian).
Russian and Polish are actually not very similar, you would have a much easier time understanding Czech. This has nothing to do with communism, but with hundreds of years of different cultures living far apart from each other.

It’s true that some words are similar
солнце (sołnce) = słońce

But some are absolutely different!
налоги (nalogi)
To brzmi trochę jak "nałogi" ale naprawdę znaczy "podatki" XD

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