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As I study Polish and work with my teachers, I have all sorts of little victories. Usually followed quickly be several seeming defeats. But such is the nature of battle, n’est-ce pas? I am at a precarious point in my learning process. It’s been three months now and I’ve learned enough that I can express many [...] It turns out I’m a pretty evasive character when I speak Polish. Most thoughts I share are qualified with perhaps or I think, or sometimes both. And I’m all about living in the moment in Polish, since I don’t know enough verb tenses to successfully discuss things that have happened in the past or will happen [...] My newest verbal tic is courtesy of my language learning. I have not yet learned how to say “Wait, wait, don’t tell me” in Polish. And I am always speaking Polish with the nicest people around. Add that to the basic human tendency to fill in empty conversational spaces. And what you get is people trying [...] Why is it when you try something new, it feels like everyone is looking at you? Especially in a foreign country? When you are in another country, trying to speak the few words you know of the language, it feels like time has stopped and everyone in the room is focused with laser-like precision on what [...] Why bother learning a new language? After all, people all over the world are clamoring to learn English, which I already speak. Polish is the native language in only one place in the whole world. And my first experience speaking with native Polish speakers in an everyday environment was indeed frustrating. Coming home from the experience [...] My quest to learn Polish is based on the approach of Benny the Irish Polyglot of Fluent in 3 Months. One of the keys to his approach is that you speak the language from day one. For the last few weeks, in addition to learning vocabulary words, listening to a Polish radio station, and watching Polish [...] My current quest is intriguing to me. (Or I suppose I wouldn’t bother with it.) It is designed to open me up to a new culture and new people. To get me traveling and exploring in a new way. But the first several steps of the adventure are right here at home–at my desk, listening to [...] |
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