Comments on: Why Czech isn’t as hard to learn as you think

By: Dark Rats

Dark Rats — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:07:47 +0000

Možná je to proto, že jsme tak malá země a ustavičně se snažímě v něčem vyniknout. Ne, vážně, neni to super bejt ze země, která má nejtěžší jazyk na světě? Jo, já vim, že čeština neni, ale nemusel bys zrovna řikat, že lidi, co ten mýt šíří jsou nevzdělaný. P.S. Čínština neni tak těžká, jak si myslíš. Vlastně jak všichni řikaj. Zkuste se naučit pár vět a uvidíte

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By: Elisianna

Elisianna — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:27:12 +0000

I love how optimistic you sound through the entire thing! This is the kind of thing that people need to read, rather than always about how difficult it is.

By: milcza

milcza — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:03:11 +0000

Ahojky, thanks a lot for a very interesting article. I'm Czech and I always get extremely annoyed by other Czechs boasting how difficult Czech is. I would say that those people are usually not very well-educated and don't realise what it takes to learn languages such as Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Finnish or French. However, I believe that there are no easy languages and you always need to think about the best strategies that work for you and then apply them consistently. Of course, living in a country where your language of choice is spoken is incredibly helpful. Keep up the good work a hodně štěstí.

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Croatian: Doviđenja! (Wait, isn’t that Serbian?) « 37 Languages — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:25:32 +0000

[...] (There’s more to this and I will explain in later posts, but you can thank my blogger friend Benny from his post on Czech — this will definitely make me reconsider my earlier thoughts on Slavic languages.) While [...]

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:55:49 +0000

Hi Benny,
A couple of suggestions:
- You already know Czech, so Slovak or Polish should be easy to learn
- If you want a language that is widely used, try Russian (it’s my least favorite Slavic language, though)
- Or you may want to try Bulgarian: it’s “Russian lite” No cases to memorize and the irregular verbs are not as tough as the Russian ones.

Good luck.
Rene – polyglot in Florida

By: benny

benny — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:07:48 +0000

Thanks for all of your comments
I’ll decide some time next year what my next Slavic language will be!

By: Dminor

Dminor — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:32:06 +0000

I think e.g. Russian would be better to start with if you want to learn the other Slavic languages as well, considering its mobile stress. The Russian stress is unpredictable if you learn Czech or Polish first, while the other way around it’s easy: always ‘move’ the stress on the first or penultimate syllable.

By: lingvoj

lingvoj — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:33:49 +0000

Thanks! Yeah! all we need is attitude, it doesn’t matter whether youy study Spanish, Czeck or Japanese. There’s nothing we can’t overcome.

I was frequently told how hard Hebrew was to learn but when I actually started studying It didnt’ seem that hard.
.-= lingvoj´s last blog ..Why Learn Phonetics =-.

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:31:33 +0000

I agree that knowing one Slavic language will make it easier for you to learn other Slavic languages. I started out with Russian, but did not especially like it.
Then I had the opportunity to travel twice to Bulgarian and I learned it. My knowledge of Russian helped a lot!
Then I became interested in Czech, so I have learned 3 Slavic languages already. Czech happens to be my favorite

By: Γλαύκος

Γλαύκος — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:04:07 +0000

Hello Benny , if someone wants to mess with slavic languages i would definitely suggest the Russian. Still , it will be easier to start from Czech or Serbian (due to the latin alphabet) and just get impressed how many commons words are there with any other slavic language. So , if you learn on a good level one of them , i think that it would be very easy to go to another. One slavic language is enough for start.
Personally i prefer russian as the most spread, but any slavic language will work and why not Czech as you put it.
Maybe i try it myself …but as i said i want to improve my russian first…

My best wishes , Nikolai

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:48:57 +0000

Hey irishpolyglot:
Thanks for the summary report!
And thanks for the links to Wordreference’s Czech dictionary and Czechmateydiary. I will add these 2 websites to my Czech-learning-toolkit