MJwench is be sick from swimmins when it be too cold
My polish is on pause, because there are free Arabic classes running in my neighbourhood center! Yay!
*adds new goal: Learn Arabic
How I did it: All you need to do is find a person from Poland and buy him/her a drink :) They will teach you with pleasure. It takes few hours to learn the top 80% of vulgar gords used as commas in Polish gramar. Than some useful alkohol names, drinking places names ets. And the basic survival quote when you meet Police in the Capital City of Warsaw: "No Kolska".
And you're done :)
Congrats! :)
Lessons & tips: Get yourself a drink as well
Resources: Alkohol, cigaretes might be helpful too
MJwench is be sick from swimmins when it be too cold
My polish is on pause, because there are free Arabic classes running in my neighbourhood center! Yay!
*adds new goal: Learn Arabic
My sister in law is Polish, and I think it’d be really nice if I could speak to her in her native language. Her English is amazing, and she makes a big effort to learn new words and pronunciation all the time so I think I should make the effort as well. I know quite a few words and phrases now, I’m teaching myself, and I think it’s going pretty well.
svstk is procrastinating like there's no tomorrow
This is pretty much all I know in Polish, and it basically means “My hovercraft is full of eels”, which is not a very useful phrase unless you’re attending some comic or Sci-fi convention in Poland (which is not improbable, but this is not the point).
Anyway. I’m going to study in Warsaw for a semester next year as an exchange student, so I view this as an opportunity to learn a new language. I’m really looking forward to this and I’m optimistic since I’m a fast learner when it comes to languages :)
stationarylily is in happiness.
Poland is a beautiful country and I can’t wait to go back and see more of it. My boyfriend’s family is Polish and I would love to be able to talk to them. I’ve been working on Rosetta Stone and a few websites, but I’m getting easily discouraged. I’m having trouble with the pronunciation and even hearing it doesn’t help sometimes. Hopefully I will have enough will to accomplish this!
im polish, but like most people i was born and raised in the u.s. and polish was a lost language. i wish to relearn this amazing language to impress my family back home.
I came to Germany when I was 3 years old. So I have good basics but not in use. I want to extend this competence.
micepop Thinking
Both my parents are Polish, but since I live in Australia (have my whole life) I never really picked it up, I started practicing it about 6 months ago and am quite fluent when it comes to speaking, though not nearly fluent enough. I also want to learn to read and write in Polish. Basically, I want to be as good at Polish as I am at English. Peace.
Pan Tadeusz is THE classic of Polish literature. I’ve started to post a bitext on my blog (http://joregan.blogspot.com/) – first a section in English, then the same section in Polish—I find that if I already understand what something says, it sinks in quicker.
The English translation is roughly of the same vintage as the Polish, so both parts of the text have the same sort of ‘old’ feel to them. If anyone wants more, like vocabulary notes, old vs. new Polish, or even smaller chunks of text, just leave a comment.