Learning languages is great fun and hard work at the same time. Students tend to ask if the foreign language they learn is difficult, so they can estimate the workload they have to be prepared for. Sometimes I can hear that one language is too difficult to learn. The truth is that language in general is a complicated and unruly phenomenon. Even as a native speaker you will find some elements of your own language that you are just unable to comprehend fully. It can be a word or some jargon expression, a specific term or just a strange accent. Why don’t you worry about these obscurities? Because as a native speaker you are self-confident enough not to bother worrying about them. Don’t expect that if you learn a foreign language you will understand everything perfectly some day. Language always has surprises, even your native one!
Polish as a foreign language to learn can seem difficult at the beginning. The grammar processes of declension and conjugation are responsible for that. They mean that each noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, etc., almost each word can take a different form depending on grammar context. At the beginning you don’t know the words, which is completely natural in the process of learning a foreign language. You don’t get too motivated when you discover the newly learnt words are even harder to recognize because they change their grammatical forms in various sentences. The effort is made double: to understand the sentence and to recognize the words. This difficulty doesn’t make Polish more difficult than other foreign languages. Other languages have their own challenges for learners. When you become an intermediate level student of Polish, the presented problem disappears. You can discover that learning Polish is the same great fun and hard work as learning any other foreign language.
Have fun!
