Derian Triglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5318 days ago 227 posts - 464 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Czech, French, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 49 of 69 29 June 2010 at 2:57pm | IP Logged |
Stelingo wrote:
Euphorion wrote:
In my opinion Polish is harder than Czech. Pronunciation is more difficult, the verbal system is slightly more complex, |
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Well in my opinion, its exactly the other way round - Czech is much more difficult than Polish. It has exactly all the stuff you just mentioned |
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Guys, this shouldn't be a matter of opinion. Go consult grammar books on both languages and figure out which grammar is more complex. There's only one valid answer.
Edited by Derian on 29 June 2010 at 9:20pm
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Euphorion Hexaglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5350 days ago 106 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Czech, EnglishC2, GermanC1, SpanishC2, French
| Message 50 of 69 29 June 2010 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
Derian wrote:
Euphorion wrote:
In my opinion Polish is harder than Czech. Pronunciation is more difficult, the verbal system is slightly more complex, |
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Well in my opinion, its exactly the other way round - Czech is much more difficult than Polish. It has exactly all the stuff you just mentioned |
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Guys, this shouldn't be a matter of opinion. Go consult grammar books on both languages and figure out which grammar is more complex. There's only one valid answer.[/QUOTE]
Thats exactly what I did, Derian, I consulted grammar books on both languages and the one valid answer is: Czech is much more difficult. And not only a little. It is MUCH more difficult than Polish.
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Derian Triglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5318 days ago 227 posts - 464 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Czech, French, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 51 of 69 29 June 2010 at 9:31pm | IP Logged |
Euphorion wrote:
And not only a little. It is MUCH more difficult than Polish. |
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Woah! This really takes your credibility away.
And in my modest experience with Czech, I've always encountered numerous simplifications as regards grammar and pretty much nothing else.
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trance0 Pentaglot Groupie Slovenia Joined 5760 days ago 52 posts - 78 votes Speaks: Slovenian*, English, German, Croatian, Serbian
| Message 52 of 69 30 June 2010 at 6:29am | IP Logged |
I have to say this whole debate is becoming a bit ridiculous. What makes some people think that languages with complex grammar are closer to perfection or that grammatically 'simpler' languages are more primitive? This is all so subjective that I fail to see the point of this discussion.
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Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5679 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin
| Message 53 of 69 30 June 2010 at 8:45am | IP Logged |
Derian wrote:
Euphorion wrote:
And not only a little. It is MUCH more difficult than Polish. |
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Woah! This really takes your credibility away.
And in my modest experience with Czech, I've always encountered numerous simplifications as regards grammar and pretty much nothing else. |
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I have studied Czech for many years, and Polish for about a year. They are of similar complexity.
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Euphorion Hexaglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5350 days ago 106 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Czech, EnglishC2, GermanC1, SpanishC2, French
| Message 54 of 69 30 June 2010 at 9:20am | IP Logged |
trance0 wrote:
I have to say this whole debate is becoming a bit ridiculous. What makes some people think that languages with complex grammar are closer to perfection or that grammatically 'simpler' languages are more primitive? This is all so subjective that I fail to see the point of this discussion. |
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Who said that that languages with complex grammar are closer to perfection or that grammatically 'simpler' languages are more primitive?
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ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6326 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French
| Message 55 of 69 30 June 2010 at 9:59am | IP Logged |
Euphorion wrote:
Who said that that languages with complex grammar are closer to perfection or that grammatically 'simpler' languages are more primitive? |
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I think that comment was in reference to the comment on the previous page:
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As I stated elsewhere, "Czech is the Rolls Royce of the Slavonic languages, and a star player in the Indo-European linguistic league. Czech is so rich, precise and, unfortunately, also complicated that a foreigner trying to learn the language may be driven to suicide. Either because he or she never manages to learn it, or because of the utter depression that follows when the foreigner realizes how primitive his or her own mother tongue is." (Terje B. Englund) |
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That aside...
What about the Baltic languages as Iversen mentioned. I don't much mention of them in this thread. Supposedly Lithuanian has preserved certain older, Proto-Indo-European features such as an extensive set of declensions that may or may not be worse than the alleged monstrosity that is Czech grammar. I understand Latvian has simplified slightly more. Either way, it seems Lithuanian would certainly be a candidate, along with Slavic and Celtic languages as already mentioned. Too bad so few of us have much knowledge of all three families!
Edited by ChristopherB on 30 June 2010 at 9:59am
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Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6778 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek
| Message 56 of 69 30 June 2010 at 2:20pm | IP Logged |
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Either because he or she never manages to learn it, or because of the utter depression that follows when the
foreigner realizes how primitive his or her own mother tongue is. |
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Ancient Greek seems to have this effect as well.
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