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Thoughts on polish cases
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Lusan
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Message 17 of 19

18 March 2014 at 11:38am | IP Logged

Henkkles wrote:

When I started learning Russian, what I first did was to learn all case
endings and cases and their basic usage. Didn't take me one week and I can guarantee you
it paid off. It was much easier accumulating vocabulary when I knew how the words had
been manipulated and which cases they are likely to come in. There are only seven cases
in Polish as well so you could like take a week to do one each day and get the basic
understanding under your belt.

Also the sooner you learn them, ALL text you read helps you drill the cases in your head.

Thanks. I came to the same realization. So I began working on those cases.
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Iversen
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Message 18 of 19

19 March 2014 at 10:22am | IP Logged

May I propose that you make a 'green sheet' with the most important regular endings and keep it within reach while you read or write in Polish? I call such sheets 'green' because I write them on thick green paper so that they don't get lost under piles of rubbish, but you can of course choose another colour. And I also try to think through how I want my reference sheet to be organized (which rarely coincides with anything found in an existing grammar) - but others might be content with a copy of the tables you find in for instance a language guide. We are not all equally cranky. The main point is that you avoid looking things up in a book in all the uncomplicated cases, you get through all the cases and forms at least once and then you can deal with the exceptions and the complicated stuff later.

Edited by Iversen on 20 March 2014 at 12:46pm
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Lusan
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Message 19 of 19

20 March 2014 at 12:43am | IP Logged

Iversen wrote:

May I propose that you make a 'green sheet' with the most important
regular endings and keep it within reach while you read or write in Polish? I call such
sheets 'green' because I write them on thick green paper so that they don't get lost
under piles of rubbish, but you can of course choose another colour. And I also try to
think through how I want my reference sheet to be organized (which rarely
coincides with anything found in an existing grammar) - but others might be content with
a copy of the tables you find in for instance a language guide. The main point is that
you avoid looking things up in a book in all the uncomplicated cases, you get through all
the cases and forms at least once and then you can deal with the exceptions and the
complicated stuff later.

I began setting up my cards. I prefer to make them from scratch.Thanks.

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