Thread:Kiadony/@comment-5916303-20150313162115/@comment-1746153-20150321072409

From what I remember, Shakespeare wrote scripts for stage plays, so it's not like his actual poetic language was stellar. For famous English-language poets, the first that comes to mind is Edgar Allan Poe, and I couldn't really "get into" his writing, either. But then again, even among Russian poets I only like a few.

Russian is a phonetic language as well (that is, words are pronounced the way they are written). I've been to Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia and Montenegro, and sometimes it is possible to understand the languages, but not always. It was easier in Tunisia since they had French as one of their official language and I still can sort of understand it.