Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

For one thing, I'm proud that Poland was one of the first countries to successfully fight against communism. I'm proud of what Wałęsa did then even though he wasn't the best president later on. I'm proud that we had a Polish Pope, who was a great man in my opinion, even though I'm not very religious. I'm proud of the Poles fighting in WWII. But I'm not a fanatic. I don't believe that Poles are the greatest nation in the world, beacause I don't believe there is such thing. I'm not extremely proud of being Polish, but I'm not ashamed. I try to make my own reputation.

Language / Polish people: did you struggle learning English - differences between both languages [75]

Alright, lets all take a chill pill here. To all those who haven't realized yet, 'eng' is either making fun of everyone here or he's just completely uneducated.

First of all Polish and English use the same alphabet. This is pretty obvious. We do have some letters that are absent in English, but that has already been stated.

When it comes to native languages there is no difference in acquiring them. All children develop their language systems effortlessly and they never fail (apart form rare examples of mental disorders). It doesn't matter if it's Polish, English, Chinese or Swahili. All children learn them. The writing systems migh cause some problems here, since learning all the sings from the Chinese alphabet takes a lot more time, but thats a different case.

When ti comes to learning a foreign language English is undoubtedly easier. It's grammar is much simpler. Polish has much more rules, an enormous number of exeptions and things that English does not have, like declension. Of course Polish migh be easier than english for people speaking other slavic languages, but I don't have the necessary data here:)

Of course I'm not saying that Polish is the most dofficult language there is. It is a difficult one, though.

Isn't all this a bit off topic?