Talk:Cast/@comment-5288784-20150723121901/@comment-5288784-20150724105057

Some people (mostly Polish :v) like to claim Polish is the most difficult language in the world, but I totally disagree. But there are many foreigners that have learned to use Polish very well within only a few years. Spanish people, Greek people, Nigerian people, Vietnamese people, Japanese people, Hungarian too.

I don't want to focus too much on what is hard, as most of it should come naturally as you learn. I'll mention on what might be easier.

As a Hungarian, you will have some head start into Polish with vocabulary. Well, nowhere near as much as what Slavic speakears would have, but we did exchanged a few words. You should recognize the meaning of "rak", "baran", and a few more. You should be also equipped to pronounce most of the Polish consonants and learn the missing one quickly. Unlike German, in Polish you can almost always tell the grammatical gender of a noun just by looking at how it ends (English doesn't have grammatical gender, Hungarian I think doesn't either, but it's common in most European languages). Also the order in which we read digits of a number is normal (not some weird German stuff like "fourandtwenty").

Polish doesn't define definite/indefinite nouns (or article); in other words, no the/a distinction. Unlike some Slavic languages, Polish has no syllabic "r" or "l". All vovels are middle-lenght ("ó" used to be long o, but now it's pronounced identical to "u"). Accent is almost always on penultimate syllable and accenting wrong shouldn't change the meaning of a word. Pretty simple vovels (learn the difference between i-y, and how to pronounce "ą" and "ę", and that's all; all others exist in majority of languages).

There are certainly many simplier languages, but it's not impossible. Just don't try to grasp too much grammar at once or your head will explode.