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| jalcalde Bilingual Heptaglot Newbie Spain Joined 6874 days ago 28 posts - 28 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, Portuguese, Esperanto, FrenchC2, English, ItalianC2 | Message 9 of 12 08 February 2006 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Very good link, I always forgot to check wiki before asking. What about Polish and Czech? Can you read them?
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| solidsnake Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7039 days ago 469 posts - 488 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 10 of 12 08 February 2006 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Winters, this may be an odd question since (I'm assuming) you are a
native speaker- but if you had to recommend to a friend which to learn first before the other (Croatian --> Russian or Russian --> Croatian) which course of study would be easier in the sense that one language would more readily transfer to the other? thanks again 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| winters Trilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7042 days ago 199 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, Russian*, English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek, French, Hungarian | Message 11 of 12 09 February 2006 at 4:32am | IP Logged | ||
There is a quite common "hypothesis" (maybe it's only a prejudice, though, but it works for me; i don't know where it comes from but I've heard it a lot of times in my life) that by knowing any two slavic languages from different groups (e.g.South Slavic + West Slavic) well and both latinic and cyrillic alphabet, it allows you to read with decent level of understanding any other slavic language. In order to answer your question I tried to read some Czech and Polish forums and I found I can with relative ease connect things in my head and get the basic idea of what the person is saying. Somehow I understood Czech better (hm...perhaps not "better" but "more quickly"?) than Polish, which I suppose is partly due to the fact that Polish spelling is quite weird for me, so I can only approximately "pronounce" words in my head. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| winters Trilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7042 days ago 199 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, Russian*, English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek, French, Hungarian | Message 12 of 12 09 February 2006 at 4:40am | IP Logged | ||
(You can see in my profile the explanation about "Russian situation": it's both mother and foreign language to me.) I think - and I have seen from my personal experience - that for some reason Croats pick Russian sooner than vice-versa. However, I think this is partly due to the fact that we can understand Serbian nearly 100%, so when studying Russian we'd automatically recognise "tri chasa" as "tri sata", "strana" as "zemlja" (from Serbian "inostranstvo", Croatian "inozemstvo") etc; also, as I said, the grammar is easier than Croatian. Edited by winters on 09 February 2006 at 4:41am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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