Google translate for Polish
I just noticed that Google now has translate for Polish. This is something I have been waiting for. Now you can easily translate Polish web pages into English. In the past it was only Spanish, then French, then Russian, but now Polish. You can try to read anything in […]
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Chief or Chef in Polish and Russian
In Polish like in Russian, ‘Chef’ means ‘boss’. Many times Russian and Polish people will refer to their boss as their chief. Further it will be hard for them to distinguish the sound of ‘chef’ -someone who works as a cook and ‘chief’ - someone who is […]
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Silesian language and the Polish language
The Silesian language is considered a dialect of the Polish language by some but by others it is a separate language. This language is spoken by about 60,000 people in the south western part of Poland. Polish people have trouble understanding Silesian speakers however, it is possible. That is […]
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Kashubian a cousin of the Polish language
You of course know the Polish language, but did you know there was a language called Kashubian. Kashubian is a Western Slavic language spoken by about 300,000 people. These Western Slavic people are descendants of an early Slavic tribe of Pomeranians. A tribe of Western Slavs that were […]
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Poland the Hollywood of Europe
Many Poles are puzzled why I am living in Poland. Poles love Poland. Poland is a great country. But why would a foofy American from Boston live in Poland? Some Poles, but certainly not all, dream of the converse, to live in NYC, Boston or Hollywood.
Besides having a Polish family connection, […]
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Mnemonics
July 11, 1975 Stanford university did a study on teaching Russian vocabulary with memory mnemonics. The mnemonics study was called “Teaching a Large Russian Language Vocabulary by the Mnemonic Keyword Method”. The result was those who used memory mnemonics to learn Russian, learned Russian vocabulary faster and performed better on tests than people who do […]
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Knowing Polish and understanding a Russian film
I am an American that learned Polish, to some level. I was watching the Russian film last night titled “Seventh Cradle”. It is like a Russian ”Indiana Jones”. There were no subtitles nor lektor. I did not realises this when I started the film. Now the good news is, even though […]
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Phonetic Slavic languages
Phonetic comes from ancient Greek meaning ’sound - voice’. The Slavic languages are phonetic. This is one great advantage when trying to learn. Despite the strange streams of consonants or the Cyrillic alphabet, once you learn the 50 or so sound combinations and letters you can read as you would speak. Spelling is […]
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Polish hip hop bible and language learning
A while back I bought a Polish bible to help me learn Polish. It made sense as the stories I knew, the vocabulary was basic, and it was something I enjoyed and could read over and over again. But the problem was the most modern Polish translation was in […]
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Verb conjugation practice
One way I practice verb conjugations is I use English words in Polish and conjugate them with regular Polish endings. For example, I make the word “shoporowac” in Polish from the English verb “to shop”. Or “driwowac” meaning to drive. People understand me when I say these words in Polish even though there […]
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