u/bestrafemich523

Hi all, I’m M19, native Polish speaker. I’m really passionate about my language, so I think it would be fun to teach it to someone. Also, linguistics is one of my greatest interests, which means I can teach you the actual mechanics of the language and offer explanations (as opposed to just saying „Ehh, this doesn’t sound right, you have to say it this other way”). I’m not looking to learn any more languages right now, so the only thing I’m seeking is people who are serious about learning Polish.

As far as my hobbies go, I play electric guitar, I’m into metal and folk music, do gym, play videogames from time to time, and I’m passionate about linguistics, history, theology and philosophy.

I also have level C2 in English and B2 in German, so we can correspond in any of these languages besides Polish🤠

Здарова, I’m Nicholas, 19, native Polish speaker. I also have level C2 in English and B2 in German. I know a little bit of Russian and I’d say I can understand a good deal of it through Polish, but I’d like to learn it properly.

I play electric guitar, I’m into metal and folk music, do gym, play videogames from time to time, and I’m passionate about linguistics, history, theology and philosophy.

It would be awesome if I were to find someone to text in Russian. I could also teach or help you practice any of the languages I speak🤠

Hi! I’m 19M. I’m passionate about Slavic languages and history, with my family being from all over the Slavic world. I already speak a West Slavic language as my mother tongue (Polish), but I’d like to expand my horizons by learning an East or South Slavic language. Russian would be the number 1 „priority”, but I’m interested in others too.

I play electric guitar, do gym, read, enjoy nature and I’m passionate about linguistics, history, religion and philosophy.

Hi all!🤠 I’m a 19yo guy, moving to Luxembourg for university starting September. I heard it’s quite difficult to live in a francophone country without knowing French, so I’d like to learn it.

I completed a B2 course on German a few years ago and I’d like to polish my German skills.

As for Luxembourgish, it’s an interesting little language which I’d enjoy learning. Speaking it is also necessary to obtain a citizenship.

I play electric guitar, do gym, and I’m passionate about linguistics, history, religion and philosophy.

I know I’m offering some pretty niche languages but hopefully I can find someone to exchange with🤠

In Polish, the name „Kupała” for the Summer Solstice was adopted from modern East and South Slavic languages.

However, it clearly derives from the Proto-Slavic „kąpit’ sę”, meaning „to bathe”, source of the Polish verb „kąpić się”. Thus, the Proto-Slavic version of „Kupala” is reconstructed as Kąpala. The same form was kept in Eastern Polish dialects to this day. Polish is the only major Slavic language which kept the Proto-Slavic sound „ą”, meanwhile the others shifted it into „u” in most words. My question is, why do we use the borrowed word „Kupala” when „Kąpala”, the original Proto-Slavic form not only feels more natural, but is also almost identical to the natural evolution of the word from Proto-Slavic to Polish, which would be „Kąpała”, as we see in certain Polish countryside dialects?