Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


How do you find sound of Slavic languages,for example Russian or Polish in comparison to other European languages?
Do they sound melodical to you?

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

So,avstrijaka.Go to you Austrians and live there.

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


So are you ethnical Czech?Did you ever hear Ukrainian language?If yes,how do you find it?
On this forum some people believe that Ukrainian and Czech are somewhat similar in pronounciation.
Do you think so?

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


So what is difference between Ukrainian and Polish accents?And which of them sounds more unpleasent to you?

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


Coincidence,of course,but what?Poles borrowed German accent?Even in those areas which belonged to Russian Empire?

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

It was not my qoute originally I just citated someone


Interesting.Could you explain what in her personality or political program could attract people?She was prime-minister in Ukraine couple of times.Was her primership any successful?

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


Once they asked me if I`m German too.This is out of complete ignorance or sometimes accent of people from the same nation could sound differently.If some person speak harsh and rude he will be more likely mistaken for German.So do you think Polish accent sounds similar to German purely coincidently or those languages are somehow originally related?


According to mind of my Ukrainian friend some Poles indeed look somewhat similar to Austrians or Germans,
but still not all of them.Genetical researches show that Poles have no more then few percent more Germanic blood than their Eastern neighbours and defenetly could qualify as Slavic nation.

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


You would be wondered but in many parts of the Western world Poles became
more numerous than Russians or Ukrainians and therefore first of all local people will
ask you if you have Polish accent...

History / Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]


There is some well known Polish artists who lived and performed in Russia. For example Edita Piekha and Barbara Brylska.

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


What is that?


And that?

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


Why do you like it?

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


Do you peronally like when somebody speak your native language with heavy accent?Personally I feal unpleased to communicate with such people.

Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]


Where did you take it from?Could you give any link to plausible genetic research?


Yes,seems so.But it is interesting that Mansi language is more related to Hungarian
than to Mongol or Tatar.

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

If you are English speaker and ever heard Russian accent,
what is most remarkeable about it to you?
Also,could you easily make difference between accents
from different Slavic countries such as Poland,Ukraine,Russia etc?

Language / Ukrainian language similar to Polish? [236]


Or some odd and self-made transportaton device...


I didn`t know that Ivanyshyn is natively Ukrainian family name.
There is Slovenian actress by name Nina Ivanishin.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Ivani%C5%A1in

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

No, Vlad. It "needn't" be, only that "Vlad" is a Romanian given name, since the nick name for "Vladimir" would be "Volodya", NOT "Vlad"

Vlad is originally Slavic name in any form,Romanians borrowed it,I guess.
Currently Vlad is popular short form of some names in Eastern Slavic countries,especially short of Vladislav.
Commonly short form of Vladislav used to be ``Slavic`` or ``Slava`` and short form of Vladimir - Vova.
But now such short forms became less popular now and even serve metter of jokes.For example is somebody
say his first name is ``Slava`` somebody will joke ``Slava KPSS`` (glory to communist party of USSR).
And some other names also could use Vlad as short form.

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


Why?


No,why should it be?

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

Personally,I find English one of the easiest foreign languages to practice,it is much easier than
say French or German both in pronounciation and especially grammar, the problem for me
is not to unerstand and be understood but speak without accent which would be remarkeable
to people.Some people believe - Russian accent is hard accent.But how people could train to
pronounce it correct?Especially I`m interesting in vowels.They seem to be most difficult to
pronounce completelly correct.Russian has fewer number of vowels than English.So we are
trying to simplify English set of vowels.Did you ever hear Russian accent?What exatly features
of it is most remarkeable to you?What`s wrong with vowels?

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

Native English speakers are usually convinced that Czech,Polish,Russian
and Ukrainian accent sound the same for them.This is what I undestood
from forums and personal communication with them.For example my
accent was sometimes mistooken for Polish and some guy told me that
he knows very well how Polish people speak.Though my native language
is Russian, but Russians say I`ve got some Ukrainian accent which they
also mistake for Belarussian.But I do not care which axactly type of accent.
How does it matter? Any non-native speaker has this problem even if he
speaks in Bengali.Is there different methods of accent correction for different
type of accents?I guess methods should be the same.I wonder if there is one
person on forum who trained himself to speak English without an accent?!
Is it possible to do when you are adult?

History / Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]


Potentially Poland and Ukraine could find alternative sources to Russian gas completely.
There is huge reserves of coalbed methane and shale gas in both Poland and Ukraine,biogas could be produced in large quantities.Gas power plants could be replaces with some Thorium power plants.

Recently some major oil company started production of shale gas in Ukraine.So this is mostly queston of time.


I`m interesting where this love for a freedom in Poles came from.Some ancient Western European hitorian wrote that there is no country in the world (during his time) where feudals would be so cruel to pesants as in Poland.

Polish serfs received freedom later then Russians did.Probably it partially explains it...

Polonia / What are qualites of Germans? [60]


Recently, I promoted myself to the rank of a COMSOMOL leader.

Polonia / What are qualites of Germans? [60]


Very well.So could you detail it?What exactly they have lot in common?Usually, if person is eager to prove something he will provide lot of details and arguments.Why to avoid this interesting part?


Why should I assume as a highest truth that this is reality?I do not know to much details which could prove it.

Polonia / What are qualites of Germans? [60]

If judge about Germans from German movies I cannot tell that they make some especially positive impression
on me.Well,at least they look quite far from those ``pure Arian`` types invisioned by Nazies.
In many German movies there is present some suicidal themes.
In one of the airports I saw some German couple about 40 years old and their behaivour differed a lot from
behaivour of North Americans for example.The husbend spoke to his wife with loud and orderly tone and behaived
like a boss and too protectively.Their behaivour seemed to me unusually patriarchal in comparison to many other people.And they somehow differed from other people.

But principally I do not judge about entire nation from a few accidental people.

Polonia / What are qualites of Germans? [60]


I would be glad to hear mind of person who knows plenty of Germans personally and/or observed
their everyday culture and behaivour.


For example this is quates of people who pretend to be native Poles:


ww2f.com/eastern-europe-october-1939-february-1943/13291-why-did-germans-hate-poles.html


https://polishforums.com/news/poland-support-idea-slavic-unity-57128/2/


I did not hear that Russians would pretend to have many common with Poles.Usually they claim it in regard Ukrainians and Belorussians what usually energetically denied by Ukrainian nationalists.But the question was about Germans,not Slavic people.But you opened another interesting question:

Could you detail such an interesting statement that nothing unites Poles and Russians?What do you think could unite them?And what disunited?

History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]


I didn`t say that to be concerned means to attack somebody.And you have your right to dislike Russian and Ukrainian culture, but it is desirable that this dislike would be seriously argumented.I just gave to you my ansewr about vodka...

History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]


Those movies made in Poland?Well in many Polish moves Poles drink a lot too.But I do not make conclusions from movies.
This is very induvidually.Personally I tried some vine and bear in my life but I do not have proneness to alcohool whatsoever.Therefore I do not drink at all.I guess you understand on your own example that averages cannot serve as a rule.But what is your concern in any case how much vodka drink Russians and Ukrainians?Do you affraid that they will enforce Poles to drink even more?

History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]

Please,do not troll the tread.My original question was about possibility of different evolution
of people in different european countries and their mental qualities.

History / Origins of Poland national differences? [41]


Well that`s a widely known stereotype.When Westerners
hear that I`m Ukrainian they asume I`m Russian and ask me if I
like to drink vodka.Only thing I could respond that I never drink
vodka.They probably do not believe.But personally me, is ``intelligent``
in a third generation and my ancestors almost never drunk alcohool.
Neither I saw that intelligent Ukrainians such as engineers or programmers
would misuse alcogool.

Well according to statistics,consumption of pure alcohool by Poles per year -
13.25 L is comparable to that of Ukraine 15.60 L and Russia 15.76 L.
I saw before similar statistics according to which Ukrainian consumption of
alcohool is lower than Polish.