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The Polish language is mostly spoken in Poland (98.6% of inhabitants of Poland use Polish as their first language). However, Polish language is also spoken in other countries such as Belarus, Lithuania, USA, UK.
Polish is also spoken abroad, for example in UK, about a decade ago (The Guardian, Spring 2013) Polish language was a second largest spoken language in the UK as a result of recent migrating influx. The Poles in Sweden has been estimated to be around 103,191 people, 88,704 of who were born in Poland and 14,487 with both of their parents being born in Poland. Poles are thus Sweden's fifth-largest immigrant group, after Finns, Iraqis, former Yugoslavs (Bosnians, Croats, Serbs) and Syrians. Learning language is always a challenge but a very rewarding challenge, so even though you probably heard that Polish is a difficult language, do not preocupy yourself too much about it. Nevertheless, it is useful to know few facts about Why Polish seems to be difficult? |
POLISH LANGUAGE:
- Has 3 genders (masculine, feminine and neuter). In plural these categories changes into two categories: masculine personal and non-masculine personal
- Has 7 cases for nouns and adjectives, pronouns, numerals etc.
- Has a pretty complicated system of conjugation (taking into account gender, person, mood, time – there is about 25 forms for every verb)
- Has aspects (it means that almost every verb has its version of continuous, present or constant activity - imperfective aspect or the version of completed in the past or to be completed in the future activity - perfective aspect