jol
5 Sep 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]
You are so right - native Polish, went to Prague for a couple of months and thought the language would be straight damn easy. Got laughed at so many times it stopped bothering me. Even if you get the general idea of the conversation because some of the words and the melody are the same, you get trapped by "false friends" and there are so many of them!
It makes sense according to the theory that language represents mentality. I'm not saying that Poles and Czechs couldn't be farther apart, but for neighburing nations we are very different.
You are so right - native Polish, went to Prague for a couple of months and thought the language would be straight damn easy. Got laughed at so many times it stopped bothering me. Even if you get the general idea of the conversation because some of the words and the melody are the same, you get trapped by "false friends" and there are so many of them!
It makes sense according to the theory that language represents mentality. I'm not saying that Poles and Czechs couldn't be farther apart, but for neighburing nations we are very different.