There is an internet meme regarding language learning, and is states ‘all languages are equally easy to learn’ with the inference that they all take a similar amount of time. My experience of learning Polish for the last 18 months … Continue reading
I’m now on Day 58 (or thereabouts) of the Assimil Polish course. The Assimil courses consist of 100 lessons which are tackled in two waves: active and passive. The passive wave involves listening to the dialogs, reading the notes and … Continue reading
Polish is choc full of prepositions. Prepositions are words such as ‘at’, ‘to’, ‘in’ and so on. Do and na, are Polish prepositions and both used in the sense of to, as we do in English: I am going to … Continue reading
I’ve now being using Assmil Polish for 35 days, so I’m just over a third of the way through the 100 lessons. The idea is that around half an hour is sufficient for each lesson, and after 100 days you … Continue reading
It is rapidly becoming clear that completing an Assimil lesson a day in only half an hour is going to be testing. The difficulty is that Polish words don’t by and large have any relation to English words, which makes … Continue reading
I’ve been learning Polish since the start of this year, and frankly my progress has not been stellar. The book I was vaguely using was called ‘krok po kroko’ , and I was using it for reasons which are now … Continue reading
I’m creating a list of Polish vocab for beginners for the crossword and word search generators. As I’m learning Polish (and am still a beginner (boo, hiss) ), I am including all the words that I have learnt (or sort of … Continue reading
I’m sitting here listening to Melech Mechaya, and I feel pretty chuffed becuase … … I’ve fixed all known bugs in the randomly generated Polish crosswords. Happy days! The key phrase here is ‘all known‘ as it is very rare for … Continue reading
It has been some time since I’ve mentioned either Polish or Italian in my ramblings, what with the dictionary issues and all. On that note, I’ve added the first one, and even finished the first of four dictionary based games. … Continue reading
I’ve added and now fixed a new word game on SL, and here is an example in Afrikaans chosen at random. This leads neatly into – because of the awesome programming of SL 😉 … As a programmer I’m good enough … Continue reading