Learn how to speak Polish
Both are very interesting languages and I have friends that speak both, I was just wondering which one is harder, and maybe which one is more worth learning?
Home | Contact | About | Privacy Policy | Sitemap
Tagged with: languages
Filed under: Polish Language
|
|
New 4 CD Pimsleur Learn to Speak Polish Language US $19.95 |
|
|
QuickStart POLISH Use Your Native Language NEW Vista 7 US $5.90 |
|
|
SUBLIMINAL HYPNOSIS LANGUAGE LEARNING LEARN POLISH READING WRITING SPEAKING AID US $12.99 |
|
|
New 8 CD Pimsleur Learn to Speak Polish Language US $39.99 |
|
|
▪► Learn How to Speak POLISH Language Audio Books Training Course CD Flag US $9.98 |
|
|
LEARN TO SPEAK POLISH LANGUAGE TRAINING COURSE PC DVD NEW US $13.95 |
Hardest languages
1. Basque
2. Hungarian
3. Chinese
4. Polish
5. Japanese
6. Russian
7. German
8. Korean
9. English
10. Swahili
I have come across this article a while ago and I agree with it
As so often is the case, the answer to this question lies partly in the eye of the beholder. For somebody from Spain learning Portuguese doesn’t present too many difficulties and lots of learners from the Netherlands find it quite easy to master the English language. As a matter of fact, different language families as well as cultural issues lead to a different approach of learners towards different languages. Due to the similar or identical characters of Japanese and Chinese, the Japanese can easily understand written Chinese. Interestingly, grasping the Chinese pronunciation has turned out to be more of a challenge for Japanese learners. All this shows, that there are many different aspects that need to be taken into account in order to pass a reasonable judgment on the matter. As English is the nearest thing to a world language there are lots of tools and textbooks that facilitate acquisition of the language, by contrast, this is not true for minor languages spoken by a smaller group of people.
While the common consensus tends to describe Chinese and Russian to be among the most challenging languages, a survey conducted by the British government has shown that this is not necessarily true. According to their results, which are based on interviews with diplomatic staff around the world, they found that on the list of the most difficult languages Basque is the top dog, followed by Hungarian with dozens of word cases. Surprisingly, among the interviewees Chinese was not considered to be hard to learn.
Russian is the easier language to learn and it is also more useful to know since Russia is a much bigger country, has more people and is more powerful. I would definitely recommend for you to learn Russian. It is the 8th most spoken language with 160,000,000 native speakers while Polish is not on the top 10 list
Polish!
It’s harder to unerstand Polish, but it is hard to learn Russian.
Depends on what your first language is.
Maia
Both languages are very similar. Many words change with pronunciation. I think that polish would be easier to learn. Polish is more common in the west.
Russian
Russian is more complex
One thing that my linguistics teacher in college impressed upon us that there are no "hard" or "easy" languages; there are simply brains that are wired to acquire languages easily and brains that are not. He is not saying anything about intelligence, mind you. He is simply saying that people’s brains are wired differently.
The only exception, he said, was when you are learning a language that is structurally similar to your own as opposed to one that is structurally different from you own. For instance, German is set up like English is, while French is not. Because of this, people who speak English often find German easier to pick up than French. They do not have to "rewire" their brains to a new grammatical system.
I would say, though, that Russian is probably more worthwhile to know. This is simply because there are more native Russian speakers than native Polish speakers! (They are both beautiful languages, though! And, from what I understand, once you pick up one it is easier to pick up the other as they are similar in structure.)
I think Polish but Russian is similar
Definetly Russian.. they have the cyrillic alphabet which makes it harder to learn.