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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 1 of 4 08 April 2012 at 9:02pm | IP Logged |
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So, we're hopefully going to Poland in a month, and mum wants to have a few excursions (3) with a private guide. It'll be a Russian native speaker who lives there and speaks Polish, as far as I know. I think for the money it costs, I totally have the right to take advantage of this and ask at least some basic language-related questions? :P (like "what does it say?" etc)
Now any ideas on how to actually use the situation for improving my Polish? I can only think of questions like: "how to ask for X at the hotel? I said Y but they didn't understand." I suppose I can also ask how he learned Polish, whether it was difficult (and I need to warn my mum not to tell him how many languages I'm learning :D) etc. I could even deliberately mispronounce things and let him correct me, I guess O_o Also, I assume we'll have two different guides, in Warsaw and Kraków. So some tricks can be tried twice :DDD Has anyone done this before? :) Any tips? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5463 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 2 of 4 09 April 2012 at 1:37am | IP Logged |
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For sure!!! I took a tour around the Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia, and used the entire tour to practice
speaking Georgian with my guide, about everything except Stalin. She seemed really happy, although perhaps a little nonplussed, that I was learning Georgian, and to be honest the hour I spent chatting with her has remained with me as a much happier memory than the museum itself. I would advise you to ask him every question you can think of, and a few more besides! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 4 09 April 2012 at 8:17am | IP Logged |
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I agree. Unless he is the grumpy sort he will probably be very pleased that you are learning Polish. My
most commonly used phrase over the last week has been: What is that in Russian? And then I either make an attempt, or I just wait for an answer. I would use him shamelessly to ask anything I wanted to know, and if it is a Russian speaker who speaks Polish, he could probably even explain grammar points you wonder about, since he has been through the same process. Good luck on your trip to Poland - I assume it is in a relation to this football thing? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 4 of 4 09 April 2012 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the replies:) Any specific tips? :)
It's not really related to the European Championship though I'm hoping to visit three of the four host cities (all but Gdansk, it's too far) and even the town where the Croatian NT will stay:) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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