Thanks for all the info. I laughed at #5 because I have a Polish friend from Warsaw who doesn't like Krakow. Another that I would add to the list based on my few anecdotal experiences: potatoes are God's greatest gift to mankind. I'll check the pricing on the e-polish site, and either start that first or do some Duo and then switch later.
Yeah we're quite serious about learning Polish, if not for the purpose of moving then to just know it. I learned Classical/Koine Greek during undergrad and experienced plenty of weird morphology rules during it, so I'm not as intimidated learning Polish as like, a Spanish/English speaker would. Between tense, mood, voice, person, and number, each Greek verb has between 600-800 different forms, and some participles over 2500. It's impossible to memorize them all, just have to memorize the six principal parts and know how to construct/deconstruct them at will. For example the simple word φέρω (I carry) has six drastically different principal parts: ἔφερον, οἴσω, ἤνεγκα, ἐνήνοχα, ἐνήνεκμαι, ἠνέχθην. Several of those words have zero letters in common with each other but are the same word.
You will be very well equipped to learn Polish, then, since classical greek has a much more complex system of conjugation than Polish. Polish has mood (2) and aspect (2) as well as 4 tenses (past perfect, simple past, present and future) which makes it simultaneously much simpler than english and more frustrating. They used to have a pluperfect, but it is only used by academics and egg-heads now. The future tense is generally split between the use of the future tense of "to be" and an infinitive or a simple past tense to communicate perfective and imperfective future tense. Otherwise, verbs are very regular with only a few exceptions for spice.
The nouns, on the other hand....oh god, the nouns.
Eitherway, it's a very rewarding language and can be great fun to speak and mess around with. The poles do not appreciate puns very much and will look at you funny if you mess around with their language for fun, which is a shame since it's a lovely language for fucking around with. But occasionally you will meet a pole who thinks the same and the following conversation will be golden.
Look up the poem "Lokomotywa" by Julian Tuwim on youtube for an example of the amazing things you can do with Polish.
Thanks for all the info. I laughed at #5 because I have a Polish friend from Warsaw who doesn't like Krakow. Another that I would add to the list based on my few anecdotal experiences: potatoes are God's greatest gift to mankind. I'll check the pricing on the e-polish site, and either start that first or do some Duo and then switch later.
Yeah we're quite serious about learning Polish, if not for the purpose of moving then to just know it. I learned Classical/Koine Greek during undergrad and experienced plenty of weird morphology rules during it, so I'm not as intimidated learning Polish as like, a Spanish/English speaker would. Between tense, mood, voice, person, and number, each Greek verb has between 600-800 different forms, and some participles over 2500. It's impossible to memorize them all, just have to memorize the six principal parts and know how to construct/deconstruct them at will. For example the simple word φέρω (I carry) has six drastically different principal parts: ἔφερον, οἴσω, ἤνεγκα, ἐνήνοχα, ἐνήνεκμαι, ἠνέχθην. Several of those words have zero letters in common with each other but are the same word.
You will be very well equipped to learn Polish, then, since classical greek has a much more complex system of conjugation than Polish. Polish has mood (2) and aspect (2) as well as 4 tenses (past perfect, simple past, present and future) which makes it simultaneously much simpler than english and more frustrating. They used to have a pluperfect, but it is only used by academics and egg-heads now. The future tense is generally split between the use of the future tense of "to be" and an infinitive or a simple past tense to communicate perfective and imperfective future tense. Otherwise, verbs are very regular with only a few exceptions for spice.
The nouns, on the other hand....oh god, the nouns.
Eitherway, it's a very rewarding language and can be great fun to speak and mess around with. The poles do not appreciate puns very much and will look at you funny if you mess around with their language for fun, which is a shame since it's a lovely language for fucking around with. But occasionally you will meet a pole who thinks the same and the following conversation will be golden.
Look up the poem "Lokomotywa" by Julian Tuwim on youtube for an example of the amazing things you can do with Polish.