if / fi — start/end of a conditional block (Bash) case / esac — start/end of a pattern match (Bash) od / do — start/end point of an action (Polish)
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there's some apocryphal story about an american and a polish mathematician who try to learn each other's languages first and the polish mathematician learns english almost immediately while the american is slow going on polish and it has any number of possible interpretations
Polish has huge amounts of seemingly-arbitrary grammar complexity that we're not accustomed to... it's ridiculous sometimes. In English, most of the complexity seems to be in converting between letters and sounds.
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I think it would be possible to speak intelligible (but egregiously bad) Polish about as easily as, say, German, but it's just never taught that way because any native Polish teacher's ears would hurt so much they would be forced to correct the inconsequential errors.
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