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I couldn't find something on google, so I decided to give it a try. Can't hurt. I wanted to find out if anyone has done a study on language confusion(the effe
by timthelion 14y ago
I couldn't find something on google, so I decided to give it a try. Can't hurt. I wanted to find out if anyone has done a study on language confusion(the effect where Russians have a hard time getting good at Polish because they confuse Polish words with Russian ones). Still can't find it ;)
- mcherm 14y agoTry asking on http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/ http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/ -- those guys are pretty sharp about this kind of thing. (Assuming that reddit isn't down due to DOS attack.)
- tszyn 14y agoTry googling / binging "L1 interference".
- timthelion 14y agoThanks!
- zalew 14y agoI know about funny word differences, but we have no problems learning russian, why russians would have problems learning polish? this is my favorite http://translate.google.com/#ru/pl/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%20%D0%B2%20%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D1%83 http://translate.google.com/#ru/pl/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%... (in polish it sounds like 'caviar in a can')
- timthelion 14y agoWell, I know neither Polish nor Russian, but here in Prague I know a lot of Russians that never learn to say the word dobrý. They say dobry(short y) instead, which exists in Russian. They never learn to say it long, even when you point it out to them.
- zalew 14y agooh, I get it. we also share a lot of funny misunderstandings with czech. čerstvý chléb is zatuchlý chléb in polish, imagine being there for the first time and seeing grocery stores advertising old bread :D