▲ 990 ▼ It seems like a difficult language to learn (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world 130 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 years ago* (2 children) Kinda weird to isolate Polish when Hungarian, Finnish and Basque are actually all their own distinct language families. Polish actually isn't in a distinct language family and shares a lot with other western Slavic languages like Czech, and Slavic languages in general. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Redfox8@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago Yeah, my first thought was, isn't Hungarian far more complex/different. Also, Icelandic is meant to be very difficult to learn too! permalink fedilink source parent [–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Maybe it's because it was in the same language group as those others that polish got singled out. People who speak an Indo European language will expect to be lost when first trying to learn a language outside of the group, but might not expect to be so confuddled from a related language. Expectations basically. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Redfox8@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago Yeah, my first thought was, isn't Hungarian far more complex/different. Also, Icelandic is meant to be very difficult to learn too! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Maybe it's because it was in the same language group as those others that polish got singled out. People who speak an Indo European language will expect to be lost when first trying to learn a language outside of the group, but might not expect to be so confuddled from a related language. Expectations basically. permalink fedilink source parent
