Is the Polish language as difficult to learn as the Chinese language?

15 Comments

1. gandalf_for_president_3rd_age says:

   September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

   Speaking(wise), yes. The language is difficult to pronounce and has many nuances when it comes to accents and diacritical marks.

   However, writing Chinese is much more difficult, as it is a character based system and not at all similar to any Western alphabet.
2. yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeboy says:

   September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

   nope
3. pistons3 says:

   September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

   yes
4. jagna says:

   September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

   thats what i hear as well….
   i speak polish… and it is hard… i cant imagine someone learning it without being born with it….. thatd be crazy.
   but ppl do for sure.

   I wish i knew someone who spoke chinese and polish so they would know….

   but if its true then that pretty cool, knowing a language thats supposedly just as hard as chinese sounds.
5. Sam says:

   September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

   All you have to do it make a lot of crackling noises, to learn to spell polish just blindly hit your keys on your keyboard or hold a pen on paper and have a seizure.
6. flow says:

   September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

   any language I don’t speak seems to be difficult to even hear it. Both tonal languages in Asia and non tonal laguages in other coutries tend to speak so fast to my ears. It’s like I can never learn it.
7. witeczek2002 says:

   September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

   No, it is not. Most of the Polish grammar is similar to other European languages, the alphabet is mostly the same, and neither of these things can be said about Chinese.
8. Marilyn T says:

   September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

   Chinese is much harder although any new language takes allot of time and effort. It can take years of practice before you can have a "normal" conversation with a native speaker.
   Chinese, Arabic and many other languages are much harder then Polish, Polish is a Slavic language so many other Slavic nations are able to understand Polish.
   As far as learning a new European language, Hungarian and Finnish would be the hardest.Their grammer and alaphbet are very different then any other language.
9. Killers says:

   September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

   its very easy one ya know it i been in a polish class for 6 -7 years! i go to a polsih school its very easy!
10. aaneetaa.xo says:

    September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    definitely not, i learn chinese and i am Polish and i learned polish very quick. It took me about 5 years to learn how to speak and read chinese.
11. Hillary says:

    September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    Polish is the hardest language to learn. Every word in Polish has about 24 forms for every English word

    example:
    English
    It is my computer
    About my computer
    with my computer

    Polish
    To jest mój komputer
    o moim komputerze
    z moim komputerem
12. Kurwa says:

    September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    It would be if it was in cyrillic (i.e. like д е ё ж з и й к л м н о п р с т у ф х ц ч)
    lol.. It would probably take me an extra 5 years to figure that out.
    lawl
13. hi says:

    September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    I go to polish school and I think polish is definatly easier than english

    the only hard part is changing the ending
    i would think chinese is hard
14. Mariss says:

    September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    Polish is difficult to learn, but it’s worth the effort.
15. Jie Li says:

    September 17, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    I know Korean -Hangul , Chinese Mandarin ( very well ) , Polish not to bad ,and English I guess fluently .
    I my modest opinion Polish is difficult to learn . Has many words to memorize and very difficult grammar but language as is , to hard to learn .
    Actually Chinese in easy to learn , no past tens , no plural etc.