yaizindiya
28 May 2015
Life / Are Poles mentally more Eastern European or Western European? [170]
Definitely Eastern European.
Definitely Eastern European.
yaizindiya
28 May 2015
Life / Are Poles typically nasty people? [42]
Ironical that a person asked a question formed from her own experiences (whether she be trolling or not), and the people in this forum not only justified it, but went over and beyond the call of duty to ensure that her assumptions were spot on. Heh. Very interesting.
Ironical that a person asked a question formed from her own experiences (whether she be trolling or not), and the people in this forum not only justified it, but went over and beyond the call of duty to ensure that her assumptions were spot on. Heh. Very interesting.
yaizindiya
28 May 2015
Life / Are Poles typically nasty people? [42]
True, oldengishbird, but the amount of nastiness and immature responses in this thread is beyond astounding!
True, oldengishbird, but the amount of nastiness and immature responses in this thread is beyond astounding!
yaizindiya
28 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]
Amusing how many pseudo-linguists we have in here. Whether anybody likes it or not, the Slavic languages are indeed far closer to one another than Germanic languages are, and in many cases, arguably even closer than the Romance languages. So yes, Polish is far closer to Russian than even Dutch to German.
Just to give a bit of context, I am just a beginner in Russian myself (from a language learner's perspective). However, it is amazing that even with my very rudimentary Russian, I could understand or at least make sense of some very basic Polish sentences. I have no doubt that a native Russian speaker would do exponentially better. I just don't understand the rabid xenophobia and illogical harangues of people like that Wulkan person in this thread, who are dead against the idea that Polish should even be included in the same bracket as Russian. Hilarious!
And on a side note, no offence but I find the Slavic languages (whichever I've had occasion to listen to more than in passing) aurally appealing in the following order (from most beautiful to least beautiful) - Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbian/Croatian, Macedonian/Bulgarian, Slovak, Polish, and then Czech. The soft sounds in Russian/Belarusian/Ukrainian especially appeal to me in terms of melodiousness.
Amusing how many pseudo-linguists we have in here. Whether anybody likes it or not, the Slavic languages are indeed far closer to one another than Germanic languages are, and in many cases, arguably even closer than the Romance languages. So yes, Polish is far closer to Russian than even Dutch to German.
Just to give a bit of context, I am just a beginner in Russian myself (from a language learner's perspective). However, it is amazing that even with my very rudimentary Russian, I could understand or at least make sense of some very basic Polish sentences. I have no doubt that a native Russian speaker would do exponentially better. I just don't understand the rabid xenophobia and illogical harangues of people like that Wulkan person in this thread, who are dead against the idea that Polish should even be included in the same bracket as Russian. Hilarious!
And on a side note, no offence but I find the Slavic languages (whichever I've had occasion to listen to more than in passing) aurally appealing in the following order (from most beautiful to least beautiful) - Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbian/Croatian, Macedonian/Bulgarian, Slovak, Polish, and then Czech. The soft sounds in Russian/Belarusian/Ukrainian especially appeal to me in terms of melodiousness.