Is it hard for a Polish speaker to learn Ukrainian? How long would it take?

Answer 1

Both Polish and Ukrainian are closely related. Therefore in general it does not take a long time for Polish speakers to learn Ukrainian, as well as for Ukrainian speakers to learn Polish. I know quite a few Ukrainians who have learned to speak Polish in a matter of a few months. Visiting Poland was a great contributor to their success.

It really depends how keen you are to languages. But it should not take more than a year. But you would have to keep speaking in order to keep and perfect your ability to speak it.

It would probably take you a little time to learn Cyrillic alphabet. In most cases it’s a little unusual for Polish speakers to hear words that sound familiar and write them by using different letters. Once you get the alphabet down you should be able to read and understand big part of it right away .

Answer 2

The funny fact is that similarity makes it really difficult. Most west ukrainians understand Polish and polish usially try to understand Ukrainian. But all the grammar and prononsiation is totaly different.I tryed to learn Polish but got very little progress in it and it happened when I was living in poland for 6 month. i would say it is so difficult as to learn any other language and will take you from 1 year to 3 years.

Answer 3

I don't speak any of those languages but I think it is not hard at all. Because they both are slavic languages, very similar. The polish just would have to learn the alphabet and one or two things more...

Answer 4

no and 6 months...

of course there's a million factors affecting that, but i dont think u are interested in those... u just want some cold facts and numbers.