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Sorry that sentence wasn't clear: Finnish is easy if you know Estonian, and Polish is easy if you know Czech.
by danjac 5y ago
Sorry that sentence wasn't clear: Finnish is easy if you know Estonian, and Polish is easy if you know Czech.
- euroderf 5y agoThe grammatical differences between Finnish and Estonian are largely systematic, except in the declining of nouns (where Estonian is kind of chaotic). Fully 35% of Estonian word stock is Germanic, so knowing some German would help.
- danjac 5y agoYes: I noticed in Tallinn the police cars were called "Politsei" (from German Polizei) in contrast to Finnish "Poliisi" (from Swedish Polis).