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Re:Tongue Twisters: In search of the world’s hardest languag... by danjac on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @04:38AM (#26886864)
Sorry that sentence wasn't clear: Finnish is easy if you know Estonian, and Polish is easy if you know Czech.
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Re:Tongue Twisters: In search of the world’s hardest languag... by euroderf on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:03AM (#26887468)
The 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.
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Re:Tongue Twisters: In search of the world’s hardest languag... by danjac on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:22PM (#26893499)
Yes: I noticed in Tallinn the police cars were called "Politsei" (from German Polizei) in contrast to Finnish "Poliisi" (from Swedish Polis).
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