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| DarrenDaka Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4775 days ago 28 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 9 of 12 18 July 2012 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Do you have Skype I would like to speak with you if possible
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 10 of 12 18 July 2012 at 12:18am | IP Logged | ||
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I pretty much got introduced to every case while taking a Polish class at my university using "Cześć, jak się masz" (free online material to learn Polish was scanty compared to what we see now). I then solidified my grasp of the cases through exposure. I worked through Swan's "First-Year Polish" and "Intermediate Polish", e-mailed regularly with friends in Poland, hung out with Poles and travelled to Poland.
To learn Polish history, I read both volumes of Norman Davies' "God's Playground" while riding the rails in Poland (it can get boring to sit in a train, you know). As for the people and culture, there's no substitute for experiencing things on your terms. You can't get to know these things by reading books. If you have more questions, fire over a PM. I'm not active on Skype. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5729 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 11 of 12 20 July 2012 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe THIS VIDEO will
help you a bit. It's about Czech, but the technique the author of the video uses might be of some use. Edited by pesahson on 20 July 2012 at 12:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 12 of 12 20 July 2012 at 1:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Anything is better than nothing. Unfortunately, case use can be illogical so you're just going to have to pick it up from input. Since you're English, though, try identifying the parts of a phrase: subject, object, indirect object, verb, etc. Usually this helps a whole lot because that gives you three cases: subject = nominative object = accusative indirect object = dative. The rest of the phrases are used as descriptive clauses for location, instrument, possession, etc etc and you'll learn to recognise them all in good time. It takes a while to acclimatise to the fact that, yes, Polish is different (not hard!!!!!! different) and that they use a different way of expressing things. It's not hard to express things in Polish - after all the Poles have been doing it for years, and Poland isn't solely comprised of geniuses. Furthermore to use these cases correctly, you first have to get used to the fact that you can't get around using them, and yes, you will make mistakes. We all do - nothing wrong with mistakes. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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