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What is the Easiest Slavic Language? | ||
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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4975 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 17 of 40 27 September 2010 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Well, Polish has soft consonants too. s - ś c - ć z - ź 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6026 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 40 27 September 2010 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Actually, not so. I have many Russian, Ukrainian and Polish speaking friends who say they can understand each other without problems. I speak intermediate level Russian and while I can't understand other Slavic languages perfectly, word for word, I can generally get the gist of the conversation and make myself understood.
Actually the noun declensions aren't THAT hard. Once you start using them it kind of becomes second nature as to which case is used. The REALLY hard parts about the Slavic languages are the darn perfective and imperfective verb aspects - 2 different verbs for the same word depending on how it is used in a sentence and all the different verbs of motion!! идти ехать ходить переходить уходить ездить проходить отправляться съездить уезжать etc etc... I still get those all mixed up!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5831 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 19 of 40 27 September 2010 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
You can make yourself understood in Polish after having studied Russian to intermediate level? I find that odd. Also, I'm not so sure about the mutual intelligibility Polish<->Russian, perhaps your Polish friends know some Russian. Edited by Sennin on 27 September 2010 at 6:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6953 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 20 of 40 27 September 2010 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
As to the title of the thread, I'd cut to the chase and start with Slovak :-P As for the rest of your post, may I direct you to the following links: how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1954 6&PN=1&TPN=1#217536 (thread for mutual intelligibility about Slavonic languages) how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=592& PN=59 (thread for sequences in learning Slavonic languages) 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5070 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 21 of 40 28 September 2010 at 5:00am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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In short, I think the question is wrong. The question should be...given the fact that I do not have an
attraction to any particular Slavic language above the others at the moment, but want to learn (at least) one of them, which should I learn? The answer is simple: Russian. This is not like picking a Romance language where you're struggling between the number of speakers of Portuguese, the cool literature of Spanish, the opera sung in Italian, and the gastronomy of France. Russian is just such a dominant language in the Slavic family - in terms of numbers of speakers, cultural impact and literary importance, territorial distribution, not to mention resources available - that it would be silly to take up Czech or Polish or Serbian first. Which is not to say that learning these (or Bulgarian, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, etc.) is worthless, only that you need to have a special reason/fascination to justify learning them. Easy they are not and making a major exertion to learn one just because they are *slightly* easier in one or another trivial grammatical point from Russian is not worth the time and effort. Edited by Merv on 28 September 2010 at 5:03am 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5831 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 22 of 40 28 September 2010 at 9:52am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I think this pretty much sums it up. The smaller languages are also cool but from an utilitarian perspective Russian is "the king". Everybody should decide on the basis of his/her personal interests and affection for these languages, not the perceived difficulty. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mjhowie1992 Diglot Newbie AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 24 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 23 of 40 25 June 2011 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Polish has only these three, which are very easy to pronounce. Things become more difficult when one enters into Russian, where many rules come into play. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5396 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 24 of 40 26 June 2011 at 12:03am | IP Logged | ||||||||
What about mi, bi, pi wi, fi etc? Isn't the m in miasto pronounced soft? I don't see, where the phonology of Russian should be more complicated than the Polish system (apart from maybe the unstressed vowels). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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