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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5965 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 34 08 January 2012 at 3:46am | IP Logged |
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Oh, I know, I know . . . I promised you a Polish log.
Here it is, and my title for it is Polski Dots ! Why? Besides being a play on words for “polka dots.” there are two reasons: 1. My knowledge of Polish is so miniscule that it is about the size of the dot at the end of this sentence. I expect my learning to exist as little bits and pieces like this for a while, until I "connect the dots," and begin to comprehend the language. 2. "Dotty" is an appropriately descriptive adjective for my writing. It's not a word that’s often used, but the meaning(s) as given by Houghton Mifflin are: Mentally unbalanced; crazy. That's not nice! I resent that! Amusingly eccentric or unconventional. Not always amusing, but I try. Ridiculous or absurd: a dotty scheme. Yeah, I’ve had a few, admittedly. Having a feeble or unsteady gait; shaky. Irrelevant, but sometimes true. Obsessively infatuated or enamored. With languages, of course! Italics mine. And, by the way, I dislike polka dot patterns. The goal for this beastly endeavor is to begin it in the good company of my fellow bison friends, and, starting from near-zero comprehension, reach some kind of elementary understanding by the end of the year. That's very vague, I know, but I'll be working on other languages, too, and I don't yet know much about other obligations I'll have this year that may limit my time. I'm going to try to keep this particular log mostly practical and save the more fanciful or, you might say, the strange, tedious extended-metaphor stuff for the the other log. The other one that will describe my non-Polish language studies and probably a lot of other matters that you really don't want to know. So, in Polish, I'm aiming mostly for reading comprehension, at least initially. I'd like to use the language to find out more about my Polish heritage, most of which is an inexplicably mysterious and long-hidden family secret. Or perhaps it just got lost as my relatives lived their lives. Best of luck to the rest of the team: It's great to have company in this new linguistic adventure! Edited by meramarina on 08 January 2012 at 3:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 2 of 34 08 January 2012 at 10:31am | IP Logged |
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A great dotty start to your new mission! I hope you'll soon be migrating from the frozen wastelands of unknowing to the lush and fertile plains of Polish fluency. }:@
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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6103 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 3 of 34 08 January 2012 at 10:33am | IP Logged |
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Wagons roll!
I think that's all the bisons on the move now - devastation beckons. Good luck with joining the kropki, I look forward to seeing what emerges :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4886 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 4 of 34 08 January 2012 at 11:04am | IP Logged |
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Looking forward to following your log, especially being a beginner myself too :o)
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| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5124 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 5 of 34 08 January 2012 at 2:07pm | IP Logged |
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Bizony wystartowały!
I'll be following your log (and all the fellow Bisons logs too) trying to be helpful. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 34 08 January 2012 at 3:20pm | IP Logged |
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I am sure you'll love Polish, and find that it is not too difficult. I think of it in much the same way as I think of Spanish: It is not difficult to get to an elementary level, but it is really hard if you want all the grammar right. Since you only aim for the elementary level right now, yous should be ok!
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| meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5965 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 34 09 January 2012 at 4:41am | IP Logged |
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Thank you my studious friends!
I've begun by importing two short audio courses I found at the library: Pimsleur Short Course and another one called Start Speaking Today from Transparent Languages. The library has a good language section, but there's not much Polish. I started working with the alphabet and basic phonetics. And after having a little look and listen here and there, I can only sit here and cry to myself: WHAT HAVE I DONE? Well, the answer is, not much! I'm sure everything will be less frightening before long. I know I will like it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 34 09 January 2012 at 7:21am | IP Logged |
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Find out what study materials you want the most and ask the library to get it for you. If they are any good,
they will. My library is just a small, local one, but they cooperate with every library in Norway, and I would imagine there is a similar situation in the US. If they can't borrow it from anywhere you can always suggest they buy it. They can't say more than no :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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