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jalcalde
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 Message 9 of 12
08 February 2006 at 2:40pm | IP Logged 
Very good link, I always forgot to check wiki before asking. What about Polish and Czech? Can you read them?
Thanks for your answer.
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solidsnake
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 Message 10 of 12
08 February 2006 at 9:57pm | IP Logged 
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
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winters
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 Message 11 of 12
09 February 2006 at 4:32am | IP Logged 
jalcalde wrote:
Very good link, I always forget to check wiki before asking. What about Polish and Czech? Can you read them?
Thanks for your answer.


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.
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winters
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 Message 12 of 12
09 February 2006 at 4:40am | IP Logged 
solidsnake wrote:
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


(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



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