I don't speak Slovakian, but I do speak fluent Polish, and I know the languages are very simliar, so will I be able to communicate by speaking Polish? If not, will people speak English?

I'm fascinated with languages, and Polish is one I've really liked. What makes learning it hard? How long does it take to learn? Thanks.

Over the next two years, I'd like to start to learn Italian and Polish. What do you think is the best way to learn these languages?
Also, possibly French and Spanish.

I am a telemarketer, and "pull" about a thousand calls a day. I also know that per capita, there are no differences so far between Korean, Chinese, Russian, Polish and Spanish speaking immigrants as far as willingness to learn English. Actually, some Eastern European potential customers and some Asian customers have actually told me to call back when I learn "Mandarin," "Russian," etc. The Spanish speakers are not as rude.
Why this misconception?
I heavily disagree, Tricia. I am of the mind that English should be learned, but other tongues should be heavily encouraged. I am glad I speak five languages fluently. When I visit Europe, I get much more out od the experience, because I know the country's language, or in many cases, languagES.
fireball, you haven't a clue when it comes to my personal life, so do not make assumptions. Your sort are the worst of all.
Thank you LSUballs, for giving an opinion that does not respond to my question...........!!!!

what to learn some different countries languages (words)

My parents got me 4 at-home teachers for them!! I hate Russian and Polish they're so damn retarted and make absoluteley no sense at all! Russian looks like fricken scribble letters and i have trouble remembering what they sound like! And it sounds like you're choking when you speak russian!! it makes no damn sense at all!!!! I dont even wanna live in russia or speak russian. no1 even speaks russian so its pointless. And i hate polish even more cuz it has too many damn accent marks and some weird L thing with a slash in it which idk how to say. i've been doing them for a damn year im tired of them why can't they just be happy with my speaking damn english and italian. I hate Russian and Polish. is this even worth it?!!? Are they going to regret this?? am i even going to benefit from this torture??? I already know english and italian why the hell do i have to learn some pointless languages!!! that make absolutely no sense they're like freaking backwards!! omfg

I have to learn to speak Japanese for my job and I can't seem to mangae to remember anything I read and I have a workbook that I put in the answers in correctly but I don't know what I'm reading, I already speak Polish and Spanish as my second and third languages. I don't get why this is so hard for me I just turned 21 and I have a 3 year old so I'm studying while he's playing but still can't get what I'm reading.

Okies... I visited the Factory Store and bought some Champo, Body Wash ect. but !! I forgot what they are now.

They are sold in forigen languages, this way they can be sold with-out tax. but I pick up many diffrent products but I have forgotten which is which

Ekspresowa maseczka odnawiajaca (the a has a tidle-ç)
potrójna ilosc (the sc both have ´)
aminokwasów

Is this Shampoo or Condinoner ??

thanks'

I think it is conditonder but I'm not sure... like a LONG 5 minuite one ?? I think I've bought the wrong thing xD
edit: I think it's Polish xD I don't need a full translation word for word.... just what it is, if this doesn't say there is also more below ^^,
I've taken a photo

http://s423.photobucket.com/albums/pp320/wapo_xabito/?action=view&current=IMG00079-20090112-2050.jpg

can someone please tell me =] Thanks so much for the answers so far !!
It has an image of hair on the back ^^, So it can't be for my face mdr !! xD
Thanks ^^, I have Brown hair xD jajajajajaja thank you for the help xD I think the factory store needs to have better at saying what they are, the others are German... I can't speak but easy to guess Pflege-Shampoo xD

I don't mean the popular ones like Spanish, Italian, or Japanese but why is it when my friends and I learn new languages like Turkish, Polish, or Korean we're doing it for a significant other. Can't someone learn a language because it's appealing or intriguing?

Have you studied a language for sheer pleasure not for a bf/gf or job. Just for yourself?

Hello!

A couple of months ago all my languages packs suddenly disappeared, and I want to install Polish language pack, from Microsoft web I can't do it as Polish cannot be download, because you are supposed to have it in optional updates, but I don't have any idea how to make my PC shows all the optional updates again, so here is my question.

Do you have any link with Polish language pack for ULTIMATE Windows 7?, if not, please tell me how to make all the languages packs appear again.

10 points to whom has a solution.

Thank you very much in Advance!
Indeed, my Windows version is 64 bits.

If you have German ancestry, do you want to learn German? or If you have Polish Ancestry, do you ever want to learn Polish, etc.

I have African ancestry, but for generations my family has lived in the USA, I am an American. I speak English, and that is the Language that most of Africa speaks.
I have also looked a little at Swahili, it is from the east side of Africa, but English and French are the most widely used languages on the continent

After my year out, I'll be going to Uni next year. I'm defininetly going to do German but I was wondering whether I should do Czech or Polish with it? Both cultures and languages interest me greatly, and I have a desire to learn both, however since I can only learn one, which one would be more rewarding / challenging to do?

I already speak very good German, however my Czech and Polish will be from scratch

Im 13 and trying to learn polish. I am learning spanish at school and am really good at french but I'm learning polish at home in my time, and I'm finding it quite difficult. I'm in top sets and have a language learner installed called "teaching you 31 languages" by byki. Can anyone suggest ways to learn and any websites with activities to help please. Thanks xxx

I have been casually learning Polish for a few years. I am able to get by when in Poland, but I am not fluent. I know a lot of words, but when I am in the states, I get very rusty and have trouble understanding people who speak Polish to me. (When I was in Poland, I could understand more easily) Anyway, I want to take a beginning French class while still studying Polish at home. Will this be confusing for me or make me mix up the grammar with the languages? (I still have trouble with Polish grammar)
Thanks
Sara

How did people learn how to speak a language before technology? Because there is a man who learned way too many languages for my capabilities. And way faster too! Currently I know only English and I desperately want to learn Polish, French, German, and maybe some Russian. Also if you have any books, websites, etc. they are all welcome! Thanks!

Okay i speak two languages,Polish and English.My parents dont speak much English cause they dont know much.Everytime i speak Polish in front of my non-Polish friends they dont know what we are talking about.Is it weird like that?

It can be real simple movies like Disney films for all i care. Youtube is useless since they deleted all the full length movies. Im trying to learn two languages and the best way to learn is to hear it. Specifically Polish and German language.

I am in undergraduate, second year program. To find internships I need to still take more classes to get enough skills. I am in Computer Science program. There are of course jobs for students that only require basic skills and high school diploma.
Currently I am looking for position in area of data entry, sales/cashier, bank teller. Where else should I look? PC technician might be good for me too? But here I might need to get A+ to have chance. I have sent more than 20 applications (resume) via CareerBuilder, Monster, ERecruiting and Craiglist. So far its been about month and I did not get any call But once my friend called and told me they asked him many questions about me (from reference). I made couple times follow-up calls but did not get call for interview. I speak two languages. In addition to English that I speak on conversational level, I speak Polish very fluently. Can you suggest me some methods to have better luck in job hunting?
Regarding on-campus jobs, it is hard to find and there is no much positions in my school. And now is summer so there is nothing much there.

nd wants to learn some Polish so he can speak it with his staff.

He called the Polish culture centre in Dublin a to find out where he could get lessons and the woman on the phone laughed at him and told him that unless he has a really high aptitude for languages he wouldn’t be able to do it.

Is that true?

He doesnt expect to be fluent or anything he just wanted to learn some conversational stuff.

I know Polish isn’t at all related to English so that might be strange when you try to learn it but since he already speaks Gaeilge and that s not related to English it wouldn’t be such a shock to him.

Is it really hard would he just be wasting his time or is the woman exaggerating?

How do you say 'lost in translation' in any languages?
I want it for some art work. Think Polish,greek,yiddish, hebrew. anything you can!

thanks in advance! =)

I know English obviously, and I'm learning German. I want to learn 5 other languages after German: Russian, French, Portuguese, Chinese, and Polish. I just met some guy that spoke 13 languges!
Oh and latin, because I need to for medical school.

I heard Latin helps you with other languages (:

Assume that the learner is up to this point monolingual in English and that his parents and family are, too. On a scale from 1 to 10, 1 meaning same level of difficulty, 2 meaning that learning Polish is twice as hard as learning German....up to 10, meaning learning Polish
would be 10 times as hard than learning German.
I love languages. I love the different sounds. When I first heard Polish ten years ago, I was fascinated. it has sounds unlike any I've heard in English.

I want to learn Polish, but am not sure which of these two programs would be suitable. Has anyone used either of these; and were they any good? (not necessarily in the same language, but any feedback on the usefullness of the programs as a whole would be helpful)

http://www.transparent.com/

http://www.therosettastone.co.uk/en/individuals/languages/polish

If anyone can recommend an alternative program, that would also be helpful.

Thanks.

How do you say (properly with the Polish letters alike) the following:

Please do not underestimate my language abilities.
I can be better-off with having friends like you who speak these languages

Thank you!

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 (I find Slovenian grammar especially interesting because it's one of the very few languages that retains a dual grammatical number)
- 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!

What is the meaning of, "partovky lamdreshka"?

I asked about this before, but I had asked if people knew german because I thought that that's what it was. Any way, people told me it wasn't german and said it might be one of the languages I listed up there. If you can make any sense out of it, Thank you.

I am a student from the United States about to enter college. Im thinking about picking up a slavic language like Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish, Russian, etc. I am fluent in English and decent in Spanish, but I am wondering if these languages are hard to learn? Also, If you know one slavic language, can you easily pick up on others? Thank you for your time. Please let me know any information you may have on this topic. Thank you.

We want her to learn the 3 languages perfectly and know she can, but we haven't started teaching her English yet. My wife speaks Polish, I speak Spanish, and we communicate in English. If you have a similar situation, could you comment on it? I don't care what you think but what you know. I am interested in keeping in touch with whoever would like to share ideas, progress of his or her own child in similar situation, etc.

We want her to learn the 3 languages perfectly and know she can, but we haven't started teaching her English yet. My wife speaks Polish, I speak Spanish, and we communicate in English. If you have a similar situation, could you comment on it? I don't care what you think but what you know. I am interested in keeping in touch with whoever would like to share ideas, progress of his or her own child in similar situation, etc.

The quote is from the writings of Saint Augustine (Tolle lege in Latin). I am doing an art display for school and want to write the quote in several languages.

Hey, I go to the University of Memphis, and they have a great selection of languages to choose from. However, I really would like to take Polish, and, unfortunatly, they do not offer that. So, does anyone know of a college that offers online Polish courses that will x-fer the credits over to Memphis? Also, if you guys do know of one do you know about how much it would cost? Basically, need 1010 and 1020.

When I was watching "Borat", I recognized the Polish words for "hello" and "thank you". I think this is kind of strange, since the languages that are spoken in Kazakhstan are Kazakh and Russian. Also, I know that the Russian words for "hello" and "thank you" are different from the Polish ones.

For example, in many languages for example in Polish, a Polish man is called POLAK, but Polish Female is called POLKA.
Is it the same in Norway? If yes, then what would we say for a Norwegian female in the Norwegian language?

THANKS