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Are the languages of Russian and Polish similar at all?


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brandy919r [Guest]
  Dec 3, 06, 09:48  #1

Since there are no Polish classes close to me right now, would taking basic Russian help at all when I do learn Polish?

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dziadek
  Dec 3, 06, 10:01  #2

it would help quite much, but it will be still difficult to understand polish

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miranda
Edited by: miranda  Dec 3, 06, 10:02  #3

I don't think it would be a good idea, since those languages have different alphabets.
Eneven though they come from the same language group Slavic, they are different enough.
Goole Russina alphabet and see for yourself.
Russin is a Cyrillic and Polish is Latin, as the one used in English language.

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dziadek
  Dec 3, 06, 10:04  #4

i'm also learning russian and as i mastered its alphabet it is now to me quite easy to understand at least the russien text.

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dziadek
  Dec 3, 06, 10:08  #5

many russian letters have its equivalent in polish and words that are build of them are similar in both languages.

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dziadek
  Dec 3, 06, 10:09  #6

but, yes. I don't think mastering russian is enough

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brandy919r [Guest]
  Dec 3, 06, 10:12  #7

Thanks, I'm desperately trying to find Polish lessons for adults in the Elgin, Il area, but am having no luck

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miranda
  Dec 3, 06, 10:16  #8

there must be some programms you can purchase on the internet

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Kostya [Guest]
  Dec 16, 06, 16:08  #9

Russian and Czech would help very much I think. If not czech by itself.

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Eurola GOLD MEMBER
  Dec 16, 06, 16:54  #10

Quoting: brandy919r, Post #7
Thanks, I'm desperately trying to find Polish lessons for adults in the Elgin, Il area, but am having no luck


I know it's far, but the only ones that offered polish language lessons are city colleges in Chicago, Wright College for one. Give them a call, they might know more.

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gosica
  Dec 16, 06, 17:10  #11

Quoting: Kostya, Post #9
Russian and Czech would help very much I think. If not czech by itself.


I don't think it would help - i am myself a native speaker of polish and i don't understand much russian, not to mention czech - to me it seems even more dissimilar than russian.

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Kochana_Babcia
  Dec 16, 06, 17:11  #12

Northern University in DeKalb offers Polish language classes.

http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/student/NIU.html


Elgin is not that far from DeKalb

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bartosz [Guest]
  Dec 16, 06, 18:50  #13

I work with polish, czech, slovakian, russian and ..... What I noticed, is that the closest language to polish is balrus. Slovakian which is realy close to czech is allmost like polish 2.

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Kostya [Guest]
  Dec 17, 06, 20:55  #14

I speak Russian and when I hear polish, many things are very similar.Reading polish, I can translate 70% probably.

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