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Correct form of BYĆ. Please help! [96]
All I can say it good luck with your teaching career. You'll need it.
I don't care about my teaching career.
I wan't just discuss some ideas.
IMO form 'jesteśmy' is redundant/too specialized at beginner stage.
If someone has very strong ability to learn all specialized forms than he hasn't any problems at learning.
If someone is unable to correct use all of them, than should reduce them to absolute minimum IMHO.
So some old forms and rules are very useful for that goal.
How beginner will know 'my jesteście' or "wy jesteśmy" are prohibited combinations ?
If he knows entities "myśmy" and "wyście" and knows there no more valid plural entities, than in natural way he will know than ending "ście" implicating pronoun "wy" and vice-versa.
That way will able to create right forms sooner or later, without excessive stress.
If some entities exist than student need some additional rules to rule out prohibited combinations.
If you don't need to combine two kind of entities because they can be substituted by one kind entities than you cannot combine and don't need additional rules.
The entity existence is the main and only rule.
What exist is allowed and what don't exist is disallowed.
When studen become familiar with these simple rules than become ready to learn more new entities and more rules needed for fluent communication skills.
That is the reason why entities as 'tyś', 'myśmy' etc are more important than other IMHO.
They are very usefull for describing some very basic rules.
Stop put in my mouth that i want to teach many extra useless forms and ruless at once.
I suggest quite opposite action - reduce entities (forms) and rules to absolute minimum even if some rules and forms must be obsoleted.
Along the learning process they could be succesfully replaced by modern forms and rules.
The entities or rules total quantity is not the main obstacle. The main obstacle is how many new entities and rules student must deal with at once IMHO.
if you ask me, using these archaic forms to make Polish beginners remember the endings of verbs is totally confusing.
No i don't ask you.
And i'm not going to do that in the future.
You know why.
