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Roublard	Edited by: Administrator Jan 21, 07, 11:51 / #
I have two questions for people, who learn polish: What in the polish language is the most difficult and hard for you? What is interesting and better than in english?

RanjThreads: 27 Posts: 1,286 Joined: Sep 29, 06	Jan 21, 07, 12:54 / #
Actual grammar and sentence structure are the hardest for me. Also, I guess learning difference between masculine and feminine forms of words. Any foreign language is interesting to me, just because they are all novel to me.

telefonitika	Jan 21, 07, 14:22 / #
I am finding the pronounication somewhat difficult at the minute of some words but i have been learning for 9 weeks now at college so it will i guess come in time the pronounication part. The grammar when you get your head round is falls into place a little but it can throw you out the masculine/feminine and neutral forms sometimes Sentence structure i am getting there but i keep writing alot of polish the same way you would word it in english at the minute and it is wrong as polish sentence structure have words jumbled

cubeThreads: 5 Posts: 43 Joined: Oct 13, 06	Jan 21, 07, 17:13 / #
I think hardest part is all the different word endings... i mean one word in english can have so many different forms in Polish its so hard not to make mistakes with pronouns like these. For example the word "Like" Ja Lubie – I Like Ty Lubisz – You (Singular) Like On/ona/ono Lubi – He/she/it Likes My Lubimy – We Like Wy Lubicie – You (Plural) Like Oni/one Lubia – They Like Head torture stuff...lol Quoting: telefonitika, Post #3 i keep writing alot of polish the same way you would word it in english at the minute and it is wrong as polish sentence structure have words jumbled Haha... glad to know I'm not the only one doing this!

eyckenstein	Jan 22, 07, 06:16 / #
I guess for me the most difficult one is that the more you know the rules by heart, the more you find that there are even more exceptions!

Hazel	Feb 2, 07, 22:53 / #
The hardest thing for me is that there are no resources to study from. I'm having to piece together a lot of things myself. I like ALL of it better than English. It is a beautiful language.

sledzThreads: 29 Posts: 3,202 Joined: Sep 19, 06	Feb 2, 07, 22:55 / #
The hardest for me is to ask questions... because I get nervous

telefonitika	Feb 3, 07, 14:31 / #
Quoting: sledz, Post #7 The hardest for me is to ask questions... because I get nervous i get nervous whenever i try to pronounce anything in polish as my mind tells me i am saying it wrong you will look and idiot lmao

krysiaThreads: 26 Posts: 3,604 Joined: Aug 10, 06	Feb 3, 07, 15:33 / #
Quoting: sledz, Post #7 The hardest for me is to ask questions... because I get nervous Just wait till we meet in August by the Polish booth....hahahaha

sledzThreads: 29 Posts: 3,202 Joined: Sep 19, 06	Feb 3, 07, 15:34 / #
I`m will be studing hard!! Because I want to impress you

krysiaThreads: 26 Posts: 3,604 Joined: Aug 10, 06	Feb 3, 07, 15:36 / #
You have six months!!! That's gonna be cool!!!

sledzThreads: 29 Posts: 3,202 Joined: Sep 19, 06	Feb 3, 07, 15:40 / #
It will be going on a year by then.. I`m going study really hard now.. That will be my goal

krysiaThreads: 26 Posts: 3,604 Joined: Aug 10, 06	Feb 3, 07, 15:44 / #
You better, because I will only speak Polish to you. We have to set up a password so when we meet, I know it's you.

sledzThreads: 29 Posts: 3,202 Joined: Sep 19, 06	Feb 3, 07, 15:46 / #
Quoting: krysia, Post #13 We have to set up a password Yes pick a sexy one

krysiaThreads: 26 Posts: 3,604 Joined: Aug 10, 06	Feb 3, 07, 15:53 / #
But it has to be in Polish and you have to answer it .

sledzThreads: 29 Posts: 3,202 Joined: Sep 19, 06	Feb 3, 07, 15:56 / #
Quoting: krysia, Post #15 But it has to be in Polish and you have to answer it I will be ready.... I want to talk beautiful Polish words

telefonitika	Feb 3, 07, 16:18 / #
Quoting: krysia, Post #9 we meet in August will have probably missed you ... i am there sometime between 23rd july and the 11th august yes a whole three weeks woohoo and i can tell you i cant wait

krysiaThreads: 26 Posts: 3,604 Joined: Aug 10, 06	Feb 3, 07, 16:21 / #
Quoting: telefonitika, Post #17 will have probably missed you ... Huh? You can't!! Not allowed!!

sledzThreads: 29 Posts: 3,202 Joined: Sep 19, 06	Feb 3, 07, 16:23 / #
Quoting: telefonitika, Post #17 will have probably missed you ... i am there sometime between 23rd july and the 11th august yes a whole three weeks woohoo and i can tell you i cant wait Chicago???? Stay for the Taste Have you been here before?

ola123	Edited by: ola123 Feb 6, 07, 15:38 / #
Quoting: cube, Post #4 Ja Lubie – I Like Ty Lubisz – You (Singular) Like On/ona/ono Lubi – He/she/it Likes My Lubimy – We Like Wy Lubicie – You (Plural) Like Oni/one Lubia – They Like It must me a torture indeed. On the other hand when I was learning english I learned "like" and it was: I like, you like, he likes etc, love this language .

Dannyboy	Feb 13, 07, 20:46 / #
One of the things I find hard to accept about the language is the lack of standardisation. Because English is the lingua franca (or global language), it is very standardised and consequently is not difficult to learn. Polish on the other hand is only spoken by about 50million people worldwide and is NOT standardised even to a small degree in comparison to English. Luckily, I find lots of similarities between Polish and Irish. That said though, given enough practise, the only thing which still eludes me are correct use of the cases - its like the Polish language has been designed to keep foreigners out, its a pity because its ultimately the reason why the language is going to die.

HAL9009Threads: 2 Posts: 329 Joined: Mar 13, 07	Mar 14, 07, 14:30 / #
The combination of cases and gender is very difficult for me. I know also Finnish which has 16 cases (you can get by on about 8-10), but no gender, so noun endings are the same as adjectives, so once you know the ending that's it. In Polish the endings are all different, and some ending are used on more than one case and for nouns and adjectives. Very tough, and difficult to just learn them all off! Polish is still easier than Finnish though Interesting and better than in English: Interesting is the spelling like "przyczyniać się" - all those consonants together, and still pronouncable! Better: Polish is more elegant than English, perfective verbs for example - love em. And cutifying of words (like: ciastka - cookies; ciasteczka - small cookies) - English doesn't do this, though Irish does (éan - bird, éanín - small bird) Polish... I have been learning it for a little while now.

hyypiaThreads: 3 Posts: 46 Joined: Feb 17, 07	Mar 16, 07, 13:24 / #
hard....?? everything is hard..... interesting.....? well, it's the magic of language!

Guest	Feb 13, 09, 22:33 / #
well i tell you what the pronouncation of the words are hard.

MarekThreads: 4 Posts: 1,120 Joined: Feb 15, 07	Feb 14, 09, 14:36 / #
For me, growing up with two languages, German and English (both developmentally related), Polish declension/conjugation wasn't really a shocker. The "challenge" came, indeed continues to dog me, when I got to the numerals. I think I'm already straight on mixed-gender as well as animate masculine vs. inanimate masculine nouns with regard to Genitive and Accusative case endings in particular. Still, on occasion I have doubts. What I treasure about Polish, compared with English, is the textured, layered subtleties of all those verbal aspects plus prefixes. Somehow, they almost seem more expressive than our mere tense variations. To be continued (....I'm sure)--:):) LOL

rudzionThreads: - Posts: 9 Joined: Feb 11, 09	Feb 14, 09, 17:40 / #
Mnie najczęściej się mylą angielskie "someone", somebody", "anyone", "anybody". That's for me a really bad thing.

MarekThreads: 4 Posts: 1,120 Joined: Feb 15, 07	Feb 14, 09, 18:02 / #
Rudzionu! Someone = ktokolwiek Somebody = tak samo, tylko jest mowa potoczna a 'someone' jest pisany język.

rejdThreads: 5 Posts: 17 Joined: Nov 18, 08	Feb 16, 09, 22:37 / #
What's hard? Grammar/sentence structure, different word endings, the szcz sound I love the whole language. It's very mysterious and beautiful.

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07	Feb 16, 09, 22:44 / #
The endings are pretty hard (konsówki). I really have to think about it. Better than English. The fact that I'm forever guessing ;)

mafketisThreads: 17 Posts: 1,880 Joined: Mar 31, 08	Feb 17, 09, 01:48 / #
Seanus: (konsówki). Actually, końcówki, from koniec (ni- becomes ń when it's not followed by a vowel).

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