Learn Chinese
Chinese is an easy language. How do I know. I started to learn Chinese. It has no grammar, no verb changes, no tenses, no articles, no real prepositions, no cases, noun cases nothing. The words are short and easy to say. It does have intonations but this is not hard with practive. If you [...]
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Where I teach and what do I do? I teach at a few busineses in Kraków and if you want to learn English here is my l page to Nauka angielskiego Kraków - I focus mostly on business English as I was in business for countless years. I also teach at this language school in [...]
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How to learn vocabulary
One technique I use with students to learn vocabulary is a vocabulary activation trick . You draw vocabulary words from a hat and make students guess it. You must not say the word but must act it out or describe it. It is a multi sensory activation approach to learn vocabulary. Then [...]
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I am an American that lives in Poland. I see the Polish president Lech Kaczyński from different eyes than many Poles in their 20s and 30s.
The president of Poland
The Polish president has got more EU money and money in general, than any other president. For example, he just negotiated for 60 billion Euro for new [...]
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My neighbor’s baby |Learn a language early.
My neighbor is a rich guy and has one child. He asked me when he thinks his daughter should start English. I said today. Why?
Infants have a unique ability to discriminate speech-sound (phonetic) differences, but over time they lose this skill for differentiating sounds in languages other than their [...]
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Polish Potatoes
These are staples in Russian, Polish and Ukrainian cooking. I live in a big city, Krakow and on Saturday a man with a truck comes to people’s doors and asks if they want Potatoes. I think this is rather interesting. You get some guy to deliver Potatoes to your door. Most likely from [...]
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translate tool firefox
The translate tool I use in firefox is ‘gtranslate’. It uses google’s translate page to translate text. It works fine with an auto detect button for the language. However, I have always been luke warm about translate tools. The translations are always very funny and if you know even an intermediate level of [...]
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iphones do not like.
I do not like the iphone. In fact I gave up my cell phone. I do not like the idea of being on call at all times. During my lessons, most of my students take 2 duing the hour. Most people do not even realize how disjointed their lives have become. Further [...]
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Chat with Russians | vkontаkte
Do you want to know the fastest way and easiest way to make contact or chat with Russians if you want to learn Russian. Use vkontakte.ru its the Russian version of facebook and its the largest site in Russia. It even has an English version. If you want to chat with [...]
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Russian, Ukrainian and Polish recipes
I am an American who has live in Krakow for five years. I grew up in America as did my parents. But my grandparents were from Lublin, Poland and Ternopil, Ukraine. I love Polish cooking. I love Ukrainian cooking. Living in America I often had Polish and Ukrainian cooking but never [...]
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