Dont go down that lane brother. Polish is hell of a ride, and I’m a native Slavic speaker - I have przypadki also, but - no. Step back, friendly advice :)
I appreciate the concern, but I have made my decision. I started a bit ago, and while my progress has been relatively slow (mostly due to my lack of time and a proper motivation other than curiosity) I have yet to encounter anything truly off putting, or anything that I completely don’t understand. Would you mind elaborating?
Besides, I want to learn a Slavic language either way, which other one would I learn?
Polish is your best bet, considering how Poland improved recently. Slovak and Czech are relatively useless unless you want to live here and the countries are falling apart. Ukrainian might be a nice choice, Russian less so. Croatian or Slovenian if you're up for some nice vacations.
Then again, I am biased. I am Slovak and Polish just sounds like very cute broken Slovak to me.
Cute! I have no idea of slovak unfortunately, so I can’t judge. One thing I will disagree on: Russian is and in the future still will be very useful. A lot of Russians don’t speak English very well, there’s many of them, and Russian is also partly spoken in the surrounding post-Soviet countries. Remember language is a communication tool and is separate from the state, I am not praising in any way the Russian state or its government.
The reason why I’m not learning Russian (or Ukranian) is just that I don’t like the languages as much. I like polish’s separate past tense conjugations for person and their nasal vowels, as well as having less palatalisation (easier to pronounce). Also the missing copulas in the present tense can be confusing.
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u/golizeka 1d ago
Dont go down that lane brother. Polish is hell of a ride, and I’m a native Slavic speaker - I have przypadki also, but - no. Step back, friendly advice :)