Should I learn Polish, Slovenian, or Icelandic?
I would like to attack all of them one day, but as for now I am learning Russian and Mandarin, so I can only add one more language to my current list.
Polish
- Most speakers
- I found Russian easy so far, so its grammar should also be pretty easy
- Economically a top upcoming nation of the EU?
Slovenian
- Less speakers, so I may have some unique opportunities it one day
- I find its grammar to be the most intellectually interesting
- Seems like a pretty nice place to live in, the nation seems decently wealthy
Icelandic
- Very few speakers (less than a million), but still exerts importance on economy
- Iceland is apparently a big place for green energy, which I would like to work on one day
- Should be easiest for an English speaker, as it may share many of the core vocabulary which is Germanic, unlike Polish and Slovenian which are Slavic
What say you? Help me choose!
I find Slovenian grammar especially interesting because it's one of the very few languages that retains a dual grammatical number. Of course I could learn Inuktitut which also has that feature, but I'd rather learn a national language of a country.
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slovenian grammar is very similar to russian and polish, so nothing all that exciting there for u to learn. icelandic is rather an interesting language, preserving many features of grammar that have been lost from other germanic languages, which also means that it will not be as easy as you imagine. intellectually, of the three icelandic seems the most interesting and the biggest challenge. but i must say this is a strange list of choices. also, the practical considerations are not significant. poland is indeed a big country and will one day have a leading role in the eu, but people there are learning english like it’s going out of style, so unless u plan to live there, there is no real reason to learn the language. (also, once u know one slavic language well, i.e., russian, if u do have this talent for languages, u can easily in a few weeks pick up the basics of any other slavic language)
Polish seems like a fine choice; if you have a good idea of slavic languages then you should probably go with it. Icelandic is a good second choice, and honestly if you manage to find time if it is easy enough, then try that later.
I Speak Serbian/Croatian,which is a sister language of Slovene,and has some mutual intelligability.
Though Slovene is beautifull,Serb/Croat seems to be more widley used,but hey,learn both!
Learning Slovene can help in learning Polish,as both are Slavic languages.