Russian or Polish?

[SharpSolaris]

I forgot to say!
1. Russian has a lot of words from English.
2. English has many words from Russian.
3. English and Russian have very many words from other languages.
You already know the words. 50 or 60 thousand!
Airport, taxis, computer, strutura ... etc.

 

[Furious Anger]

I had Russian in school. What can I say? If you talk already a slavic language, it wont be that hard for you, because you understand many words. Thats the reason, I did not want to learn French, so I picked Russian. You have to learn the Cyrillic alphabet too, but it is not that hard, it will only take you long to read perfectly. I learned the Cyrillic alphabet within one day. If you are really interested and if you are ready to work hard you will have a great time learning the language.

 

[Albania1]

to be completely honest, polish is kind of useless. i'd rather learn russian. that way you can pretty much speak belarussian, ukrainian, and most of the caucasus region speaks russian. not to mention if you know russian, you might be able to make a few words out of the yugoslav languages.

 

[Katushka]

If I was to choose between these two languages (which I may have to) which should I learn? Opinions, please!

I think polish is the way to go is you're looking for an easier language (not saying it's easy). Russian is a very complex language, but on the other hand, it's more common and it's used in most eastern European countries. Either way, knowing another language is rewarding!

 

[Mariya116]

Both Russian and Polish are hard languages. Russian is my native, and Polish is my second language. Polish sounds pretty, has some nasal sounds like French. Russian is more widely used.

Both are worth the effort.

 

[leszed]

Polish have some words from German, Latin, English and almost slavisch. It is many similarity Polish-Russian. Polish had many evolutions with language in direct (West) Europe.

But sometimes Polish people have German easyer, when Region where live is West-Poland (Silesia). Now every people in polish school learn english, but in the past we (I'm Pole) must to learn ~ only Russian (and Polish).

For all people of West Polish is difficult, but possible. Russian is easier. I agree. Only one problem- alphabet, but I think, small problem. And Polish grammar come from ~Latin and current alphabet. Russian from Greek.

Yes, Poland was catholic country, Russia was Eastern Orthodox. Now Poland is more liberal but also very catholic, Russia was about 70 years atheistic in XX century. Russia was Imperium, Poland only Kingdom. Polish people generally like Europenian Union, Russian no. Russia was Soviet Union, it is now still just as valid today.