meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5965 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 65 of 83 29 February 2012 at 11:29pm | IP Logged |
Thanks guys, I didn't really go anywhere, just wasn't writing much. Time is not so much of a problem right now since I'm working freelance from home, and can more or less make my own hours. And when my energy level is very low I just graze a little in my language fields and do mostly review without writing about it.
I'm still going to learn some Polish this year, though!
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Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6103 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish
| Message 66 of 83 01 March 2012 at 12:34am | IP Logged |
*blush*
Yes 'reassuring grunts' does sound a little dubious!
In the joy of hearing from my team-mates, I confess I got a little carried away.
*tactfully exits*
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Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5169 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian
| Message 67 of 83 04 March 2012 at 1:11am | IP Logged |
Hi everybody! It's good to see that you are all still going strong - good luck!
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 68 of 83 26 March 2012 at 7:07am | IP Logged |
Update for Finnish, Latvian and Polish
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pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5726 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian
| Message 69 of 83 26 March 2012 at 2:13pm | IP Logged |
Hey,
I recently found a great Polish show uploaded on YT. If anyone is interested in travel shows, I highly recommend it. The host is a great talker. It might be a great listening exercise because he uses very informal language often. It's called "Boso przez świat". Here's one episode. For more, check out the guy's channel who uploaded it.
Boso przez świat
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 70 of 83 08 April 2012 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 71 of 83 12 April 2012 at 9:48pm | IP Logged |
A kindergarten has put up a few of the stories from Wakacje Mikołajka (Polish translation of Les Vacances du petit Nicolas). If any of you have enjoyed the original stories in French (or their translations to other languages), these should be just as fun to read in Polish.
Enjoy!
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 72 of 83 25 April 2012 at 6:48am | IP Logged |
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Uwaga! (Attention!)
Chung wrote:
I also made a pleasant discovery for anyone who wants to use the 2nd edition (1983) of Oscar Swan's "First Year Polish" in his/her studies which can be had for fairly cheap (below $20 US including shipping within the USA) per Bookfinder. Someone on the forum at FSI-Language-Courses found out from Prof. Swan that the domain holding his online course in Polish also has the archive of the older textbook's audio (and apparently that too of his equally excellent textbook "Beginning Slovak"). The audio is in .aiff (basically Apple's counterpart to the .wav file) but can be played as is or converted to .mp3 using Audacity. Since the files are not in a "lossy" format like .mp3s or .wma, they're quite large and could take some time to download.
For anyone who has any lingering doubt about Prof. Swan's courses I recommend them highly drawing on having worked through the online version of "First-Year Polish" (which alas still has only half of the dialogues recorded), "Intermediate Polish" (never got the audio for this one) and "Beginning Slovak" (I paid a pretty penny for the book and cassettes but it was worth it when my choices for Slovak were limited). |
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