tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67607434158936748092024-03-13T18:00:05.011+01:00Leszek's LanguagesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-41453949547350547402016-11-20T16:13:00.001+01:002018-07-28T11:45:47.405+02:00One language? Multiple languages? Change of perspective on learning multiple languages at the same time.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I remember when I started...<br />
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I decided to learn Norwegian. It was my first language that I seriously wanted to learn, and with it came the beginning of my full-time passion for learning languages. I liked languages even before that, but I have never converted it into my main passion. <br />
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After Norwegian, came Hungarian. I failed. I went to Budapest, and I didn't really know too much. When I came back from Hungary, I decided to dump Hungarian, start learning a language that would be easier and more familiar to me and try not fail this time. I found German, and it worked.<br />
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I spent 7 months with German. Exclusively. I didn't learn any other languages besides German. I was totally indulged in the intricacies of the German grammar and the beauty of its sound. German was THE language, and not learning it was almost impossible to me.<br />
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After German, when I have gotten to the point of being able to communicate with people in it - and with that succeeded with my challenge - I decided to take a stab at yet another language. That was Spanish - a language that I disliked but knew that I would be able to learn fairly quickly. I started and spent the next 6 months studying it. The rest is getting blurry but at some point after learning two language to a fairly good level, I lost it.<br />
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The madness has started and I began dabbling in an incredible amount of languages. Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Italian, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese,
Japanese, Somali, Arabic, Serbian, Cantonese, Slovak, Russian, Danish,
Faroese, Greek and multiple others. I have never managed to learn any of them as I have managed with Spanish and German, and I was getting very frustrated with myself. I wanted to pick up languages as quickly as others seemed to do it. I wanted to make friends and read great literature. Listen to the radio and watch movies without subtitles. Still, no progress was seen ahead and I frantically started looking for a middle ground. By the end of 2015, I migh have found it.<br />
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At the beginning of November, I decided to try to learn three languages at once, but no more. After trying to learn fifteen languages at once, three was a great middle ground of not learning only one language but not learning too many at once either. Portuguese, Faroese and Italian. Let's do it!<br />
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What has happened was that I spent three months learning only Portuguese and the feeling was amazing. I did only Portuguese and didn't let my mind get clouded with other languages. I managed to have a pretty decent conversation in Portuguese by the end of those three months. Unfourtunately, since then my Portuguese has detoriated a lot.<br />
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After the success I did Welsh for two months but a bit later I, once again, started changing languages like socks, until recently, when something very interesting happened. Tired of everything I decided not to learn new languages anymore but improve my current ones and spend at least a month with each reading books, improving my pronunciation and grammar. It was then that I felt something.<br />
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At the end of the month, I didn't want to stop with that the language. I didn't feel ready yet. I didn't feel like I have learned enough. I wanted to do another month and that was what I did. It was Spanish that I worked on.<br />
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Today, I am learning Turkish and I need to say that after three months I am still at it. My motivation is still very strong and every day is just another opportunity to tune in to the language and learn more. I have said that I will learn Hungarian, Esperanto and Romanian, but in reality I can't. I just can't stop learning Turkish and that is a success. The feeling that I had studying German is coming back. From a person that used to study many languages at once I have become a person that can't learn more than one language at once. Even if I sometimes wander off to do a Romanian lesson on Duolingo it still doesn't change the fact that Turkish is totally occupying my heart and sharing my time with another language is just not possible for me now. I would have to quit Turkish to be able to learn another language - a success indeed, but there are some cons of it that I have noticed a couple of days ago.<br />
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Every time that I try to watch a movie or do anything in another language, I feel self-conscious. I feel like the time spent on watching that movie in English should be spent learning Turkish. That time that I have spent doing Spanish grammar exercises because I don't want to forget it, should be spent doing Turkish grammar exercises. I am a stupid person.<br />
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Unfortunately the journey of a aspiring polyglot is not as easy as it seems. If I don't actively use the languages that I have already learned, I will forget them. But what am I supposed to do when every time that I pick up a book that has nothing to do with Turkish, I feel like shit because I feel like I should be doing Turkish instead? I have a couple ideas (like learning Turkish through my other languages etc.) but I am just writing about this because I feel that this is one of those things that I don't see happening to other people. I am sure that there are others going through the same thing so maybe you can share your experiences of learning multiple vs learning only one language at once.<br />
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Todays lesson is that every method has its negatives <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-34876952238532434982016-02-17T17:46:00.000+01:002016-02-17T17:46:38.481+01:00Helo, dych chi'n siarad Cymraeg? My quest to learn Welsh.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Okay, I know...<br /><br />I should write more. I keep telling myself to write at least once a week. I have a head full of ideas, but I feel limited by my weak writing skills and laziness. What to do? What to do?<br /><br />Well, I might try to update you once a week about my new language project. It is not really a project, but I have started learning Welsh at the beginning of February, so I will start writing a journal where I tell you about my struggles with the language and even give you tips if I come up with something revolutionary.<br /><br />I started learning Welsh recently after the Duolingo course came out. I was already interested in Celtic languages for some time so when the course got released I decided to take a look at it. After doing the first lesson and playing around with the language I still wasn't sure if I want to study it seriously, but then I watched a great documentary called "Make Me Welsh" on YouTube that follows a group of school kids on their journey to learn Welsh, and decided to learn this language. <br /><br />So far, I have learned quite a lot. I am familiar with the general structure of the language, I am able to create sentences in three tenses, I am not bothered by mutations at all because they come quite naturally and learning vocabulary isn't problematic to me even though Welsh doesn't share a lot of cognates with other languages that I speak. <br /><br />My main goal for now is to acquire a basic vocabulary of 500 words or more and get used to the verb "to be" which is complicated in all tenses. I would like to learn more grammar too, especially how to make longer sentences using subordinate clauses, and also start writing a little bit of Welsh in the form of a diary or even a blog.<br /><br />I am mostly using Duolingo and Memrise. I have also found other resources to learn Welsh which I will share right here:<br /><br />Websites:<br /><a href="https://www.duolingo.com/">https://www.duolingo.com/</a> (The most amazing invention ever, if you don't know it yet then don't wait and check it out!)<br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/bigwelshchallenge/">http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/bigwelshchallenge/</a> (Interactive course, very nice, possibility of choosing a desired dialect)<br /><a href="https://www.saysomethingin.com/welsh/course1">https://www.saysomethingin.com/welsh/course1</a> (Really recommended!)<br /><a href="https://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/TOC.html">https://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/TOC.html</a> (I like the grammar explanations)<br /><a href="http://www.learn-welsh.net/">http://www.learn-welsh.net/</a> (Seems cool!)<br /><a href="https://speakwelsh.wordpress.com/">https://speakwelsh.wordpress.com/</a> (A lot of useful stuff for different levels)<br /><br />Memrise courses:<br /><a href="http://www.memrise.com/course/700159/no-typing-welsh-conjugation/">http://www.memrise.com/course/700159/no-typing-welsh-conjugation/</a><br /><a href="http://www.memrise.com/course/425639/cymraeg-2/">http://www.memrise.com/course/425639/cymraeg-2/</a><br /><br />Make Me Welsh<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke10rMOX-u8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke10rMOX-u8</a><br /><br />Are you learning Welsh? Do you speak it? Tell me in the comments!<br /><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-65049005323453751102015-11-22T17:25:00.004+01:002015-11-22T17:26:15.818+01:00Choosing languages and learning more than one language at the same time.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sadly, I have to say that I am a person
that puts quantity above quality. I am a jack of all trades, and I
always search for something new to learn even thought I am not quite
finished with the thing that I am currently working on. When it comes
to languages, I managed to learn two languages to a pretty decent
level and when I was working with them I didn't really try to learn
any other languages. At that time everything was easier. I was new to
language learning, and I could stay pretty absorbed in a new language
for a longer period of time, but as I started to get more knowledge
about our world's linguistic diversity I went nuts and started to
change languages like socks. Today, there even exists a meme of me
that humorizes this problem :)</div>
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Just to exemplify this, once I studied
15 languages at the same time. Basically, I just studied the language
that I wanted on that particular day. I had a list of 15 languages
and then I just went crazy. One day I could go through five to six
languages and then next day either I did the same languages or I
changed. I had no plan whatsoever, so everything was random and
crazy. Of course, I didn't learn a lot because of the constant
switching and then I decided to change it and try something new.
Right now, I am learning 3 languages at the same time (This is not a
lot to me). Or rather two since one already fell out. During last two
months I have been pretty concentrated only on those languages and
surprisingly I feel that for once I am improving. Also during this
time I have realized a couple of things about learning more languages
at the same time and I want to share what I have learned.</div>
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One very interesting thing that I have
noticed is that you won't be able to spend the same amount of time on
each language and you won't be willing to either. And this is maybe
not revolutionary but it could help those who have a problem choosing
a language. Do this:</div>
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Start learning both languages at
the same time of those that you choose between.</div>
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Study until you start feeling that
you are paying more attention to one of those languages and then
gradually push the second language out.</div>
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It might seem cruel as to say, but I
find this method particularly fun, because you get to learn something
about both languages and then you can choose a direction in which
you want tol continue.</div>
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Two months ago I said that I will
study only three languages for a certain period of time that will be
chosen according to what I find suitable. Since this was the end of
the year I decided that the rest of the year I can spend on
Portuguese, Italian and Faroese. I knew that since Portuguese and
Italian are Romance languages and I already speak Spanish and some
French, I could probably reach a conversational level until January.
Faorese was a new languages to me, more difficult than any of the
other Germanic languages that I have studied so I decided to just go
with the flow and see what happens. And what is happening? Exactly
what I have written before: I am unconsciously choosing a direction
which suits me best.</div>
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I have realised that I have been
spending most of my time (80 percent) on Portuguese, 20 percent on
Italian and none on Faroese (At least in the later stages, at the
beginning I did study some). Right now I know that the language I am
mostly going to continue with is Portuguese, and it fits me great.
The language is amazing, Portugal is really interesting and exotic
since it is not as popular as Brazil and I know that I have an
advantage because of my knowledge of Spanish. I am not sad that I
haven't learned Faroese, the time will come. Italian? I guess I am
going to do some here and there and I will possibly acquire some low
conversation level, and I might to improve it later.
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So, if you have to choose between
languages I will tell you to take both (or even three) and see what
happens. You see, language learning is a matter of experimentation.
People tend not to experiment and instead they only do what they are
used to. I tell you, never studied more than one language at the same
time? Do that! Never studied only one language at the same time? Do
that! Experiment and see what works best for you, it will be an
exciting journey and you will learn a lot! That way you will be the
best language learner that you can be yourself!</div>
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Good luck!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-67311665199835033732015-08-10T21:15:00.000+02:002015-08-10T21:15:26.832+02:00Reasons to learn a language<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello!<br />
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After a very long break from writing I decided to update this blog with some fresh posts about language learning. This time I won't be blabbering about my challenges but I will try to write my thoughts about different areas of learning a language. Today, inspired by my own experience (And I still keep talking about myself), I decided to write a post about all the reasons for which we tend to learn languages and how my own priorities changed recently.<br />
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Some people tend to learn languages because they would benefit them in one or another area of their lives, meanwhile others do it because they have to and some do it just for fun. There are plenty reasons to learn a language - some more shallow and some more thoughful - but I still believe that no matter what reason, learning another language is a great thing to do.<br />
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I hear people say that learning a language for future career benefits, to be able to pick up girls (or boys) or to be able to impress others are not good reasons and that we should find some other ones. Personally, I don't believe it. I think that reasons can be good or bad depending on a person, and if it will actually make you fluent in the language then it really doesn't matter. I personally studied languages for all the "bad" and "good" reasons and I don't think that I ever cared why I am studying them as long as I had a book or a resource handy, and was figuring out grammatical features of it all night long. <br />
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I kept hearing people say that if you do not have a valid reason for learning a particular language, you won't succed. Very often they state exactly what reasons are good or bad and this is what makes me a little mad. I believe that reasons for learning a language are bad when they do not work particularly for you. People stating "Reason X or reason Y is the best" are wrong and you should follow your heart. For example, besides English and Swedish (languages that I had to learn) I speak Spanish and German on a good enough levels to be able to carry a conversation and guess what? - I had no particular reason for learning them. I just picked up the nearest resource and started studying.<br />
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I have been learning languages with no reason for a very long time, I basically picked up languages randomly. I didn't succed in all of them because I guess that there is some truth in the fact that there are reasons that will make you more likely to succed, but I don't think that you should give up learning a language just because you have no "special reason" for it, besides liking how it sounds. I believe that there are reasons that are "bad" - these are the ones that do not work particularly for you.<br />
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For example one thing though that made me change my approach to choosing my languages was one: The ability to retain and use them. <br />
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I have noticed that even though I speak German on a good enough level to have a conversation I don't use it at all. There are no speakers around me and the language feels almost useless to me at this moment. The biggest problem here is that I want to become really fluent but I can't because of not being able to practice on daily basis. When I am in the city or working on a flea market with my mom, the languages I use most of the time are not the languages that I am currently studying nor the ones I already know. I basically had to write down sentences in all the other languages to be able to use them with people and I realized that my knowledge of Spanish or German is basically useless!<br />
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That is when I decided to change my way of selecting languages and from now on, I decided to start learning only those languages that are commonly spoken in Sweden. One reason for that is that I will have the possibility to practice those languages on a daily basis and incorporate them into my life. The other is that all of those languages are completely different from what I have studied before and it is a good opportunity to learn something completely new.<br />
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So yeah, I am studying Turkish, Kurdish and Arabic (I have another very special reason for learning that one though) and other languages that I will be able to use. I feel that my previous reasons for learning languages was bad, only because it didn't work particularly for me, especially at the more advanced stages.<br />
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Now, I can everyday go to a shop and practice my Turkish with a guy who works there, m,any of my friends are Arabic speakers and finding a Kurd here is easier than finding a Swede (In my neighbourhood I mean :). Now, I can use my languages and I can make them a permanent part of my life, now I feel like I have a reason that works for me, and no matter what somebody other says about it, I will keep going untill *I* feel that it does not work.<br />
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To sum it up because I feel like my post is a little messy (Long time, no writing) I want to say that the reason that works for YOU is the best. Nobody should tell you that your reason is bad. It is good, as long as it keeps you going forward. So, find your reason, pick your resources and start studying!<br />
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Peace out!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-74213049021256435632015-01-21T16:33:00.000+01:002015-01-21T16:33:02.953+01:00Do you want me to write about something specific?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello!<br />
I just came up with an idea...<br />
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Since I don't write too often and I really would like to, I decided that I could ask YOU guys about some ideas for posts.<br />
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If you want me to write about something specific (that has to do with learning languages), just write your idea in the comment section or hit me up through my mail: <a href="mailto:leszektrybala@gmail.com">leszektrybala@gmail.com</a><br />
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I'll try to do the best I can and write post according to your proposition (I can't promise that I will be knowledgeable about certain topics).<br />
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I think that this way this blog would be more enjoyed by people, since I would write about topics that are relevant to you all. I hope that you'll give me something to write about :)<br />
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Thanks!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-89410393120531213852015-01-19T20:33:00.001+01:002015-01-19T20:33:58.424+01:00Dutch: My impression after 19 days of studying + USEFUL LINKS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hoi!<br />
As I promised, here is a post about my impression about Dutch after some time that I spend studying it. At the end of the post I will also share links to some sites that I found useful :)<br />
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Generally, Dutch is average when it comes to difficulty. The <b>grammar</b> is relatively <b>easy</b> (For someone who speaks English, Swedish, Norwegian* and German) but I have already encountered some harder concepts while skimming through a grammar book. Namely:<b> demonstrative pronouns</b> (Two for "this" and two for "that" depending on the gender of the word and if I am not mistaken two for plural), <b>word order</b> (My knowledge of German does not make it easier, but I like it, since I treat it like a puzzle) and there probably are other weird things to be learned.<br />
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The worst part of Dutch is <b>pronunciation</b>. I am able to pronounce all the sounds of Dutch quite correctly, but because Dutch has many dialects, I still don't know what are the phonological "properties" of a standard dialect (If such exists) and because of that I don't know how to pronounce my R's (No idea, I keep switching between "rolled-only" and "French guttural plus American before a consonant*").<br />
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<b>Spelling</b> isn't so difficult nor is the basic comprehension (French seemed harder) and my overall progress in the language is quick. I can already form sentences and I would be able to record a short video, if I only knew the correct pronunciation and the flow of the language (Some words are like painful throat-twisters...they are fun to pronounce though).<br />
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Dutch is fun! Finally, I feel like I'm progressing and getting more fluent with every hour, so that's amazing. I will keep it up until 7th of February (Officially) and then we'll see. Maybe I'll just drop grammar books and continue learning only by practicing the language).<br />
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Now, here are the resources I'm using:<br />
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<a href="https://www.duolingo.com/" target="_blank">Duolingo</a><br />
<a href="http://www.memrise.com/" target="_blank">Memrise:</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.memrise.com/course/70005/basic-dutch-i/" target="_blank">Basic Dutch I</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.memrise.com/course/408/dutch-the-1001-most-common-words/" target="_blank">Dutch - The 1,001 Most Common Words</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.memrise.com/course/316042/100-essential-dutch-words/" target="_blank">100 Essential Dutch Words</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.memrise.com/course/462944/hacking-dutch/" target="_blank">Hacking Dutch</a><br />
<a href="http://www.dutchgrammar.com/" target="_blank">DutchGrammar</a><br />
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Thanks for reading and good luck with your language studies. I'll try to update it once more before the whole challenge ends.<br />
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<b>Doei! </b><br />
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*I can read Norwegian well, and I speak it a little but I have a heavy Swedish accent and I sometimes use Swedish words when I speak it<br />
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*I prefer that one more, because I like American R's in Dutch...sounds cool! <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-63455385857458815192015-01-11T16:55:00.001+01:002015-01-11T16:55:31.096+01:00My first 30 Day Challenge - Dutch in 30 Days?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of my new year's resolutions was to watch at least 1 <a href="http://www.ted.com/" target="_blank">TED</a> talk/day. I personally find these talks inspiring and they make me want to kick some butt (not literally). One talk that I watched and that made me most inspired was a talk by <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days?language=en" target="_blank">Matt Cuttis "Try something new for 30 days"</a>. Matt had me since the first few seconds of the talk and after watching it, very energized and motivated, I decided to come back to challenges (which I stopped doing few months ago) and get to work. Since that day (7th of January), I decided that I will do some challenge every month (not necessarily language related) to learn more things and maybe introduce some new habits in my life. <br />
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First one challenge had to be language related though...and I started to learn Dutch straight after watching the ?? (Any synonyms for "talk"?)<br />
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My goal is to get conversational in Dutch in 30 days! I already know German, so I am confident that I will succed (I'm 3 days in and I already made some nice progress :P). I will be using <a href="https://www.duolingo.com/" target="_blank">Duolingo</a> (already 14 skills in), <a href="http://www.memrise.com/" target="_blank">Memrise</a> (mostly first few thousand words) and some other internet courses (I'll write a post with useful resources soon). My plan is to study at least 30 minutes daily (of course I can do more, and I probably will most of the time) and we'll see where I'll get by the end of the month.<br />
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To make it more interesting, I will be posting some updates to make this whole thing more official :)<br />
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Wish me luck and wait for a next post where I will write about my initial thoughts about the language and some more specific resources that I will use :)<br />
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Doei!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-74608397619799996712014-12-28T14:53:00.001+01:002014-12-28T15:58:28.981+01:00Polish slang and colloquial speech: Lesson 1: Jebać<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">POLISH LANGUAGE: Slang and colloquial speech.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CZĘŚĆ 1: JEBAĆ/</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PART 1: JEBAĆ</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pierwsz<span style="font-family: inherit;">ym</span> słow<span style="font-family: inherit;">em</span>, o którym będziemy mówić, jest wulgaryzm “jebać” Słowo to, znaczy wiele rzeczy i może zmieniać swoje znaczenie zależnie od tego, czy zostaje do niego dodany jakiś prefiks. Słowo to może też należeć do różnych części mowy, tzn. może być czasownikiem, przymiotnikiem jak i rzeczownikiem. Podam kilka form tego słowa jak również parę zdań, żeby pokazać jego użycie w kontekście.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first word that we’re gonna talk about is a vulgarism “jebać”. This word can mean many things and it can change its meaning depending on if there is any prefix attached to it. It can also belong to different parts of speech, that means that it can be a verb, a noun as well as an adjective. I will list a few variations of this word together with few sentences to show the usage of the word in context.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">JEBAĆ COŚ/KOGOŚ:, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to not care about something/somebody, to fuck/screw something/somebody (not literally).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Krzysiek nie pojawił się na moich urodzinach. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jebać go!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mam też innych przyjaciół”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris didn’t show up on my birthday. Fuck/Screw him! I have other friends too!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jebać to</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">! Nie będę czytał tej książki”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Fuck/Screw this! I won’t be reading this book!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PRZYJEBAĆ KOMUŚ: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to hit somebody, punch somebody</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Mam ci </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">przyjebać</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Do you want get punched?!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Jeżeli on nie przestanie mnie obrażać, to mu po prostu </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">przyjebię</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“If he doesn’t stop offending me, I’m gonna punch him!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ZAJEBAĆ COŚ/KOGOŚ: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to steal something, to kill somebody/fuck somebody up</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ktoś </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">zajebał</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> mi telefon, jak go znajdę to go </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">zajebię</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Somebody stole my phone, when I find him I’m gonna fuck him up!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PODJEBAĆ: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">steal (secretly)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Podjebałem</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> mu trochę fajek, ponieważ zapomniałem wziąć swoich z domu”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WYJEBAĆ KOGOŚ/KOMUŚ: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to kick somebody out of somewhere, to punch somebody</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Jeżeli nie przestaniesz krzyczeć to cię stąd </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">wyjebię</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“If you won’t stop screaming, I will kick you out of here!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Zaraz ci </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">wyjebię,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ty głupi chuju!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m gonna punch you soon, you stupid dickhead!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UJEBAĆ SIĘ: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">make yourself dirty</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Mama mnie </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">zajebie</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> jeżeli </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ujebię</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> te spodnie”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“My mom will murder me, if I make those those pants dirty!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NAJEBAĆ SIĘ:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to get drunk </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Mój brat nigdy by się nie </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">najebał</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“My brother would never get really drunk”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">JEBANY: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fucking, dumb, stupid</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Gdzie jest ta </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">jebana</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> książka?! Szukam jej już cały dzień!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Where is this fucking book?! I’m looking for it whole day!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">POJEBANY: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fucked up, dumb, stupid (more about living things)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Jaki ten pies jest </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pojebany.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Szczeka bez powodu”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This dog is so stupid. He barks without a reason”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PRZYJEBANY: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a little less fucked up, dumb, stupid (very difficult to translate and differentiate from the prior expression)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ten nowy koleś jest trochę </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">przyjebany</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, jakby by był na haju cały czas”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“This new guy is a little bit fucked up/weird, as if he was high all the time”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Coś ty taki </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ujebany</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Why are you so dirty?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Byłem tak </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">najebany</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, że nie wiedziałem jak się nazywam”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I was so drunk, that I didn’t know what my name was”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Na pewno istnieje więcej form i możliwości użycia tego słowa, z którymi mogę nie być zapoznany. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".f.1:3:1:$comment592460314219700_592489957550069:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".f.1:3:1:$comment592460314219700_592489957550069:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".f.1:3:1:$comment592460314219700_592489957550069:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".f.1:3:1:$comment592460314219700_592489957550069:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".f.1:3:1:$comment592460314219700_592489957550069:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$44:0">Powyższe formy, to te których sam używam najczęściej.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> M</span>yślę że są one najbardziej powszechne w mowie potocznej.</span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-10663134793797426452014-05-09T11:24:00.004+02:002014-12-28T14:58:13.025+01:00Feeling fullfilled in language learning...what?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I am writing from a school library, because my life took unexpectable turn, and I completely forgot about the fact that my first lesson will star earlier plus that it will take place somewhere else.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's cool though because I can reflect upon my life, finish some papers (if I have any) and in addition to that I can write a post that I have been planing on writing a very long time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes I feel like a cheater when it comes to language learning. All of my languages are very similar to the languages I already know, so when I say to some people "I am learning Norwegian" they just look at me weirdly like "Learning Norwegian is easy when you know Swedish you loser" and then I am starting to think that I don't feel like I accomplished anything "nice". I am not thinking about suprising other people, but I would like to surpise myself. Prove to myself that I can learn Xhosa, Arabic or Monolian and I think that I will have to learn some very "foreign" language to really satisfy my "linguistic needs"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But wait...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this post I will try to prove to myself (and you too, if you need that encouragement) that no matter what language you are studying - it still takes time and hard work</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Norwegian isn't easy. It isn't easy for me because my Swedish completely interferes with it. I still have to learn new words, listen and struggle to get to the point when I can really say that I speak Norwegian. Right now, I speak Swedish with many Norwegian words (Not other way around) and it will take time untill I will acquire a good pronunciation so people won't think that I speak Swedish (It has taken place when I spoke with one person on Skype. She thought that I was speaking Swedish, when it actually was my broken Norwegian drowned in overly melodic Swedish accent). Maybe I shouldn't be so self-conscious and just notice that I am definitely working hard and I don't need to study Latin to prove it. Easy language, hard language - bullshit! EVERY LANGUAGE takes time to learn and I finally understood it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you ever feel like a cheater or somebody who doesn't work as hard as others because you learn the "easy" languages, think about those who never learn a language...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope that this post will give you something to think about. I don't care that my languages are all similar. Even better...I will learn all of the Germanic languages and then Slavic too, so take that you dumb and incompetent brain of mines!</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-66747210418194771792014-05-03T13:14:00.001+02:002014-05-03T14:37:24.479+02:001 Week and 3 Days Into My Challenge – Results...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The sun is shining brightly, birds are singing and welcoming summer into the cold and windy Sweden. You could guess that I am enjoying myself outside with my friends and a cold Coca-Cola that is burning my stomach, but in reality I also studied languages, and I am pretty happy with the results.<br />
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Since Add1Challenge has ended, I realized that I am currently not studying any language in particular, so I decided to start a new challenge, that I wrote about in the previous post. After 1 week and 3 days of some work I am ready to give you some insight into the process.<br />
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What I have done so far with my target languages – German and Swedish – is quite satisfying, and even though I didn't do my best, I am pretty content with the development of my language skills.<br />
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Since my challenge has started, I have read two BIG books in Swedish, namely „Korpens Sang” by Per Nilsson and „Kattoga” by Margaret Atwood (English title is „Cat's Eye”) and I have done some pretty intensive listening by sitting through a two hour long audition broadcasted on Swedish radio and then doing it again, but only for ¼ of the time. When it comes to German, I have done significantly less, because I only watched some videos in the language and wrote a short text.<br />
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Results? <br />
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I noticed small changes in my vocabulary and maybe even pronunciation when I speak Swedish – success. Now it's time for German, in which I haven't noticed any significant change...<br />
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That's all there is to it. I am currently preparing myself for the inevitable, namely, recording of a video completely in Swedish and I am really not happy with the idea, but I know that I have to do it already, so I will have to plan it out or something. It will appear on my YT channel soon.<br />
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Thanks for reading and keep following my journey. I will maybe post something less babbly and more informative soon. Stay tuned!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-25941497821948203862014-04-16T13:36:00.001+02:002014-04-16T13:36:36.726+02:00My 2014 language challenge - German and Swedish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Exams approaching quickly, Polyglot Gathering is only 2 months away, meanwhile my languages are on a very low levels. After wondering, thinking and cursing under my breath I decided NOT to learn any new language before the Polyglot Gathering, but to work on my current languages, so I can use them correctly and confidently when this big event arrives...<br /><br />Yesterday I planned a new challenge that will start today and end in three months...yeah, after the Gathering, but it doesn't matter.<br /><br />
Languages I am going to study are my worst languages: Swedish and German.<br /><b><br />SWEDISH</b><br />I live in Sweden, I go to a school here and I use this language a lot...but I still think that there is something missing in my Swedish...and that's why I set these particular goals for this language:<br /><br />- Improve on my pronunciation and learn Gothenburg dialect (I live in Gothenburg).<br />- Increase my vocabulary, so I won't have many problems with reading more complicated texts about biology, history and other subjects that I am probably going to need to understand for school.<br />- Reach C1 or C2 level (Not very important, but it would be nice).<br /><b><br />GERMAN</b><br />I am studying German on a quite high level for somebody who's been learning this language for only 8 months. My teacher told me that I can write our final exam on a lower level and repeat the level I am at right now next year, but I want to finish this god damned level and get a good grade. That's why I would like to improve on my German. Also in June I am heading to Berlin for Gathering and I really want to be able to function in German as best as I can, so this is a good motivating factor...<br /><b><br />My goals are:</b><br />- Improve on my listening comprehension so I can understand more than a half of what's said on the radio.<br />- Get more confident. Practice speaking so even if I lack vocab, I can still speak confidently.<br />- Increase my vocabulary so I can read newspapers with a good level of understanding. If I could read books by Anne Rice and understand them, then I would be even happier.<br />- Maybe reach B2 level...it would be nice...and it seems possible..<br /><br />I am going to do a journal in which I will be writing everyday about what I did, what I learned and waht I would like to learn next. I am going to write in the respective languages.<br /><br />Main tasks are going to be based on using languages rather than „learning” grammar rules. With Swedish I will listen, read novels, speak with my friends and do some writing, while with German I will do the same stuff but I will also study a little bit of grammar because I lack some skills there...<br /><br />That's it! I will try to update you on YT, but I don't know how often. It would be nice to do a public challeng so people can watch and follow my journey. I'll figure something out soon.<br /><br />Bye!<br /><!--DOCTY--><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-18770186295589405112014-04-12T22:41:00.005+02:002014-04-12T22:41:43.520+02:00Am I losing my mother tongue?!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello people!<br />
The first REAL post on this blog is going to be about a problem that I encountered quite recently. Simply, I realized that when I am speaking Polish (my mother tongue), I am making horrible mistakes when it comes to syntax and even declensions. Before I came to Sweden in 2011, I knew fluently only one language. Now, I am quite fluent in 3 and I can communicate in another 2. Also since then English became my first-second language and I am using it more than Swedish, even though I live in Sweden.<br />
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I can't say that my Polish is bad. I am quite educated with big enough vocabulary to not sound dumb, but since few months, I started to make mistakes that I would never make before. This is creepy and I need to consider improving on my Polish.<br />
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It was long ago I watched something in Polish or even listened to radio. My day is simply full of any other languages and my daily "language schedule" looks like this:<br />
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-<b> School</b>: Swedish, English, German, occasionally Serbian or Russian.<br />
- <b>Home</b>: Some Polish with my mom, English, Swedish, German, Norwegian, Serbian and many others while using internet (listening, chatting, watching stuff and writing blogs)<br />
- <b>Outside</b>: Some Polish with one of my friends, English and Swedish with everybody else (more English actually)<br />
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This little "schedule" shows that Polish is the language I am using least. Does that mean that I am slowly "losing" it and that in a few years I'll be speaking like Yoda? Maybe...<br />
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I think it is time to improve on my poor and abandoned Polish. <b>How could I ever let it happen?!</b><br />
My mission for this week, since I have holidays, is to read at least one challenging book in Polish. A book that will teach me something new and that is written in some harder language. I have few of those on my shelf, so only reading is left.<br />
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I hope you enjoyed reading this horrible, literal failure. I would like to get better at writing but I keep standing in one place and I don't see any improvements. This blog is slowly going to hell and I don't know if I can do anything about it.<br />
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Peace...<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028440037324529565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760743415893674809.post-1728138491039154422014-03-16T18:35:00.002+01:002014-03-16T18:35:13.527+01:00Hello...again!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I don't know why I keep changing my blog the whole time, but I am bad at these things and I became quite frustrated with Wordpress, so I decided to put my blog here on Blogger once again.<br />
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If you are not familiar with this blog then I will explain everything to you:<br />
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My name is Leszek and I am 17 years old. My main hobby is learning languages and on this blog I would like to write about languages in general. If you have some time, come by and feel free to comment!<br />
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My Wordpress version of this blog: <a href="http://leszekslanguages.wordpress.com/">http://leszekslanguages.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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Enjoy! <br />
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