Both of them were second generation Polish and moved back

It makes me sad to think of good Americans leaving.

@Virgil Same as archimedes for most of Europe.

do you speak polish @Jacob

@Selma I get that. It makes me sad to think of people who Eastern Europe needs leaving. I don't consider my family's history something to brag about, I think it's sad.

@Natasha - PA Yes. And Russian kind of

dope

Slavic languages are really hard

@Virgil The works of leif erikson gives us valuable insight into both the character of our people and how early norse colonies functioned.

Oh, it is completely understandable what motive you'd have to move there; no judgement there. It's just a bit poignant to me.

from the perspective of a first language germanic speaker

@ophiuchus Russian is easier than Polish

Polish pronunciation is cursed

Czech even worse

South slavic language seem the simplest in that regard

@Jacob I wish I spoke more Polish, my grandmother taught me a little and I've been trying to teach myself.

Bulgarian is allegedly the easiest slavic language for a native English speaker to learn

eh I think Russian pronunciation might be harder than Polish pronunciation, it's just that Americans think they have a license to mispronounce Russian since it doesn't have all the diacritics and stuff that Polish has

@Virgil See, that's something I think is sad. That people end up uprooted from their families.

Americans routinely butcher the pronunciation of Spanish, which has one of the simplest phonologies of any commonly learned language

@Jacob that I can agree with. I barley know any of my cousins

Yes, it's strange that people don't first learn how to properly pronounce languages.

@ophiuchus Once you get it down, I think Polish pronounciation is easier than English

For some reason, they never teach people that the vowels in english =/= the vowels in other languages

I butcher Spanish on principle, not because I can't pronounce it

Yeah there's someone in my chapter whos family seems to move back and forth by generation

Based @missliterallywho

@missliterallywho I always pretend I can't understand spanish when mexicans try to talk to me even though I can

@Virgil What of Aeschylus? Were his works insignificant although most did not remember him?

If you're gonna speak a language, speak it how it's meant to be spoken. Jared Taylor is based.

Only Mexicans pronounce Spanish properly in California

@Natasha - PA Same, I really only know my parents

Spanish has 5 vowels, English has like 13.

spanish is european pls respect

I think German and Chinese are pretty easy

Literally anyone can learn it

Chinese has the easiest grammar of any language I've studied

The grammar of German on the other hand

I be, he be, we be, they be, that's what it be.

New World Spanish is about as European as ebonics @Natasha - PA

Sometimes it do be like that @ophiuchus