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Speaks Polish?: little

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southern   
4 Apr 2009
Language / Ukrainian language similar to Polish? [236]

Have you been contusioned during a fight with a squirrel?

I told how it sounds.You don't need to know what it means,just judge by ear how it sounds.For me czech sounds very similar to serbian.I don't know serbian but I suppose they have certain similarities.

The Czechs and Poles tend to cut the vowels while Russians say them.For example nazdravi in czech nazdarovie in russian.Divka in czech,debushka in russian.Krasna in czech krassivaya in russian.The Poles tend to keep several of the vowels but they add some sounds like cz,sz which add consonants thus making the language sound again syncopated but more rounded than czech.Because if you don't have vowels where will the ton be?So while russian is melodic and flows,czech has twistes and pauses and polish ups and downs in intonations with several endings to cause again more smooth sounding sentences.

Anyway I am not an expert in slavic languages,this is my opinion after listening to them.
southern   
4 Apr 2009
Language / Ukrainian language similar to Polish? [236]

Southern, how does Bulgarian or Croatian/Serbian sound to you?

Bulgarian sounds like provincial russian.Serbian sounds like czech with many syncopated sounds.Polish sounds syncopated but with different intonation than czech so that sentences become a little rounded.Ukrainian sounds like soft polish,belarus like russian dialekt with polish words.
southern   
3 Apr 2009
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

What was bad about Napoleon anyway? If he had unified Europe, there wouldn't have been any world wars

And we would have to wear stockings.
southern   
2 Apr 2009
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

till Great Britain decided to take the cane out of the closet and give him a damn good thrashing my dear boy :D

Really?Did Great Britain send any soldiers to Europe when Napoleon was the conqueror and not yet defeated?
southern   
2 Apr 2009
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

Russia just isn't conquerable (?) with foot armies.

Hitler thought he could conquer Russia because he had railways that Napoleon lacked.Napoleon forces did not have one railway line available for supply.
southern   
2 Apr 2009
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

if it wasnt for Russia

Very few armies could escape from Russia after invading it.
southern   
2 Mar 2009
Language / Ukrainian language similar to Polish? [236]

Ukrainian sounds like soft polish or funny russian.
In fact it seems to me more like a dialekt of polish language in the eastern borders than an autonomous language.But I maybe wrong.