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To: Cronos

How do you pronounce those Polish words?

Is it a difficult language?


80 posted on 04/11/2012 11:30:19 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (I love you,Pumpkin. You are the best cat in the world. You're my Sweet Pea.)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN
yup, it is difficult! I've lived here nearly 2 years now and have been going for classes for 1.5 years and I'm about able to carry out a moderate difficult conversation.

if you only know English, Polish is insanely difficult (I had the advantage of having learnt a few other languages before) as there are numerous things different in the language: cases, genders, declinations etc.

However, in pronunciation, once you learn how to pronounce, it is simpler than English as the letter or combination of letters is always pronounced the same

C is always pronounced as "ts"
rz is always pronounced as "sh" as in pleasure
ż is always pronounced as "sh" -- kind of similar to the "rz"
y is always pronounced as "ih"
w is always prounced as "v" in English
i is always pronounced as "ee"

So transliterating it is TsementAsh ShedoVskee

The emphasis is always on the penultimate syllable.

It's quite worth learning Polish, even as at a basic level from www.supermemo.pl etc. as I think it's good to know something of a few languages...

85 posted on 04/12/2012 1:02:02 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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