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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5917 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 49 of 108 01 May 2012 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6590 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 50 of 108 01 May 2012 at 9:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, they're not correct Latin. JK Rowling studied it at some point and she used to live in Portugal.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5917 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 51 of 108 01 May 2012 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, some of them are.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5917 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 52 of 108 01 May 2012 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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¡Que fantastico! Vuelvo leer el idioma español hoy y aprendo ya más palabras nuevas. Leo la santa biblia.
Una lista de las palabras nuevas y las definiciónes inglés: júntar - to put together desordenada - messy, untidy señorear - to dominate la lumbrera - genius la hierba - grass alumbrar - to light, to illuminate volar - to fly la ballena - whale mover - to move bendecir - to bless Escribiré acerca del idioma polaco a mi mensaje próximo. Hasta luego Mick Edited by mick33 on 03 May 2012 at 8:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5917 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 53 of 108 02 May 2012 at 9:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today has been a Polish day so far; I just don't feel like doing anything with Spanish right now, but maybe later this afternoon. I figure I'll just start learning Polish as though I am an absolute beginner I want to learn, as is usual for me, a little bit of basic grammar along with some vocabulary so I've been looking the notes from my last attempt to learn Polish so that I can refresh my knowledge of noun genders. I am also listening to Polskie Radio and am pleased that I actually recognize a few words such such as proszę, moźe(maybe, perhaps), słuchać(to listen), bardzo(very or very much), dziękuję(thank you) and tak. According to TY Polish, "tak" means "yes" but this online dictionary gives many more possible meanings. Proszę can also mean different things depending on context, so it can be used like the word "please" is someitmes used in English when making a polite request, or to mean you're welcome, or here you are and there are probably a few more uses but I forget what they are.
I have listened to spoken Polish for 20 minutes. I wanted to listen for a longer period of time but my mind started to wander so that's enogh for now. Tomorrow I will practice pronunciation and maybe learn a few verb conjugations. I forgot the conjugations for "być", which is a problem since "być" means "to be". Do widzenia Mick Edited by mick33 on 03 May 2012 at 8:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5917 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 54 of 108 04 May 2012 at 12:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've complained about Polish pronunciation before, but not anymore! My pronunciation has actually improved enough that I can be excited when I see or hear words like "mężczyzna" (man), "dziewczyna" (girl), "chłopczyk" (little boy) or the one that gave me fits last year "przypuszczam" (I suppose) because I have a vague idea of how to pronounce these words now. My pronunciation will still need a lot of work but pronouncing Polish words seems doable.
I also learned some of the personal pronouns and the present tence conjugation of być (to be): ja - jestem ty - jesteś on/ona/ono - jest my - jesteśmy wy - jesteście oni/one/oni - są dobranoc Mick Edited by mick33 on 09 May 2012 at 10:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5917 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 55 of 108 08 May 2012 at 9:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been having fun figuring out Polish verb conjugations, along with listening to more spoken Polish and Polish is actually starting to sound very soothing. Polish is very pleasant to listen to; but this could be a problem because a soothing language is likely to make me fall asleep when I don't want to.
I am also not sure about doing a grammar overview. I usually like to do grammar overviews first, but with it could take too much time. I have found good explanations of Polish grammar online online but nothing very concise. I have decided to learn a few verb conjugations and though być is an important verb, it is irregular (to be and the corresponding verbs in other languages often are) and may not be the best example if I want to get an idea of how Polish verb cvonjugation patterns work so I looked up the present tense conjugations for słuchać (to listen to or to obey): słucham słuchasz słucha słuchamy słuchacie słuchaja I have also just noticed that in Polish, just like Spanish or Italian, personal pronouns are not necessary, but Polish goes a step further and seems to omit them altogether and in fact I had to spend a bit of time looking up the personal pronouns for my previous post and I'm still not sure I found them all. As for Spanish I'm still reading the Bible but I've been reading at a pace that is too slow if I intend to read 50 books by the end of 2013. So I will read faster, I also think it's time I got over my aversion to Spanish soap operas and telenovelas and just started watching them but I don't know. cześć Mick 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5119 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 56 of 108 08 May 2012 at 5:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi :)
I'll add something to your list
It's correct but if you list pronouns it would be better to write "on/ona/ono - jest" (he/she/it) Edit: Oh, 'państwo/panowie' does not represent two distinctive groups of people państwo - men & women panowie - men panie - women panie/panowie is correct but, once again, pronouns would be different, namely: oni/one - they (masculine)/they (feminine) 'oni' is also used for mixed groups Powodzenia! Edited by Gosiak on 08 May 2012 at 5:28pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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