Are the languages of Russian and Polish similar at all?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

there must be some programms you can purchase on the internet

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

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.

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.

Northern University in DeKalb offers Polish language classes.

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


Elgin is not that far from DeKalb

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.

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