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From: Kraków, Poland
Speaks Polish?: Rozumiem ale nie mówic dobrze.
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Cardno85   
11 Jul 2008
Language / tips for a westerner learning polish? [5]

I am in a similar boat bernj. I feel terribly guilty working with a lot of polish people who are having to speak english and, being scottish, I naturally speak very fast (even when speaking what i think is slow) so I am hard to understand. Because of this I have decided to try and learn some polish. So far I am learning a word a day from each of the 5 staff and getting grammar tips from the girlfriend (who, worryingly, speaks better english than i do). That's all really helpful but then I have become fascinated by it all and want to learn more. So cheers for the link :)
Cardno85   
11 Jul 2008
Language / Cases, Genders, Nominative, Instrumental...WHY? [40]

Gaelic will test u. Please write me the phonetic version of slainte mhaithe, or ceud mille failte

The second phonetically would be caad meel falthay.

The first word of the first phrase is pronounced Slanj.

I used to do it a bit in primary school but was never into languages when i was younger.

But yeah, it's a dead hard language, just so ancient and untampered with, they have no new words so say the english for things like internet and stuff. Quite fascinating all the same. It's the cases and genders and sheer complexity that attracted me to polish.