Post #1346315
2026-03-27 18:23 UTC
@Starry1086 @moonrabbit it's the szsz isn't it? 😂
(I only learned from being raised by a Polish granma)
I think Icelandic and Hungarian? were ranked most difficult languages to learn*, but Polish has *got* to be top 10.
French has the rolling r-r-r-rs, English the "th" sound.
Slavic langs have dozens, which unless you learned them really young, are an *absolute bastard* to master as an Eng speaking adult.
Plus the insane number of tenses 😭 (I think Polish has the most of any language??)
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@herissonrose@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 18:28
@Starry1086 @moonrabbit * Hardest learning curve for native English speakers. Eng to Slavic is pretty steep. Same w Japanese to English. Totally different sentence structures, mouth sounds. Oddly French and Polish have lots of similarities, which is why my Polish mother finds speaking in French much easier than I do! Sentence structure almost the same. No inverting the word order!
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@Starry1086@wandering.shop 2026-03-27 18:33
@herissonrose @moonrabbit Wow, the learning curve steepening with age is helpful info to know. My grandma was also Polish, first gen born in the States, and that's why I've tried learning it. I'm pretty sure I've seen wszcz as a consonant combo...