Yes, kinda all Slavic languages have difficult grammar, Bulgarian and Macedonian are a bit easier cause of lack of grammatical cases, although you can learn to write and read Serbian in one day For me, I think Lusatian Sorbian and Polish are hardest to pronounce of Slavic laguages. Great!
Funny enough, I found Polish pronunciation fairly easy and I got the Russian (Cyrilic) alphabet down no problem. It's all those cases that don't exist in English or the Romance languages and the other oddities (like negatives always being in the genative and differences based on animate/inanimate and other such peculiarities that made me nuts.) Just for fun, I also picked up a wee bit of Church Slavonic (in modern cyrillic script). Again, the pronunciation /reading was the easy part.
It's much easier for Bulgarians to learn Russian than for Russians to learn Bulgarian. I don't know why........ I can read Bulgarian perfectly and I can understand about 75% of what I read. The Romance languages like Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian strangely enough are difficult for me. Romanian is very Romance although there are also some influences from Slavic languages in it. On the other hand, Hungarian has NOTHING in common with any other languages on Planet Earth except Finnish, Estonian, Korean, and a language spoken in Siberia called Khanty.
I thought these two are hardest from all Slavic to pronounce, at least for me cause of few additional voices like nasal vowels, soft consonants, etc. but all Slavic languages are pretty easy to pronounce. Maybe Croatian and Serbian are bit different cause of 4-part tonal accent (in standard language). Strangely, I thought Spanish and Italian are pretty easy.
My wife speaks perfect Castillian Spanish and is quite competent in Italian. Because I speak French fluently, I can understand Spanish and Italian well, but it's very difficult for me to speak them. On the other hand, I'm not bad in Romanian. It's more natural for me, I suppose.
Very impressive, Jeff. Not only do you have a natural linguistic talent, you have also obviously worked very hard at this. Hat's off to you sir!
Dusan, if that's a mild shaver even on 9, do you have to use a really sharp blade in it? With my Gillette Slim on 6, I can use some blades that don't work that well in my milder razors.
well it was kinda good with all blades. haven't used it in a while, should renew my experience eith it our milleage vary with slim, I use it exclusively on 9 for all passes, and have found that polsilver si and feathers work best followed by astra. some duller blades like wilkinson,mem, supermax platinum and ss literally tore my face.
Welcome, Dusan! Doesn't anyone speak Basque (Euskara) outside the Pyrénées? The language of my people...Oso antzinako hizkuntza bat da!
