January 31, 2008at 5:42 am
· Filed under Learn Polish, Learn Russian, Technology and language learning
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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November 25, 2007at 3:45 am
· Filed under General language learning, Learn Polish, Learn Russian, Learn Ukrainian
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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October 4, 2007at 7:11 am
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The word dobry in Russian, Polish and Ukrainian languages
Dobry is the universal Slavic word meaning “good”. You could be in Ukraine, Poland, Russia or anywhere in Eastern Europe, and if you only knew this word, you could be OK in many situations.The Russian, Ukrainian or Polish word dobry can mean “good, fine, OK, sure, lets do it, […]
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October 1, 2007at 12:00 pm
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Preposition ‘on’ in the Slavic languages - Russian, Ukrainian, Polish.
When native Slavic language speakers, such as speakers of Russian, Ukrainian or Polish speak English they often have trouble with prepositions. In Russian, Ukrainian and Polish the preposition ‘on’ is represented by the word ‘na’. Na means on, but it has a much wider meaning in […]
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September 16, 2007at 7:19 am
· Filed under Learn Polish, Origin of languages
Berlin
Berlin was a Polish city or at least western Slavic in origin.
Berlin was actually founded by Western Slavic fishing tribes. They built a reasonable size city until Eastward expanding Germans launched a series of offensives against them. Slavic tribes were able to retake the city, but were more peaceful fishermen and tradesmen and were no […]
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