Posts by Arika

Arika

10 Jan 2012

Language / Give me some reasons to learn Polish [126]

I just started to learn Polish 2 months ago. It's quite an interesting language and I've handled some basic stuff...

But yesterday my mum suddenly asked me why I learnt Polish. She said it's not common in our state and also the U.S (I live in Los Angeles). Then she asked me to tell her some good reasons for me to learn this language, such as what benefits I get when I become fluent? There ain't many Polish people here, so who would I communicate/use this language with? how would the language help me in my career (I'm gonna be a nurse)? bla bla bla....I couldn't give her any good idea. so please help me think of some reasons to study Polish. My mum seems like gonna force me to stop getting into Polish, what a pity !_!.

Thanks a lot...

Arika

11 Jan 2012

Language / Give me some reasons to learn Polish [126]

Thanks for your comments, they're quite helpful.
So far, I decided to keep learning Polish even though it'd take me a long time to become fluent.
About my mum ...:( I'll try my best on my exams to get her trust.
I hope to be able to speak Polish well someday. It'd be fantastic!

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It won't help you at all considering you live in Los Angeles. You're much better off learning Spanish.

yep...Spanish is very common in LA, that's why I'm learning it.

So you can read Poland's superb literature and poetry in the original.

thankyou

Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic to name a few.

Mandarin: my mom's mom is Vietnamese-Chinese, I can speak some (but can't handle all of Chinese characters)
Arabic: I'm nearsighted!

Any foreign language will help with the first two but the last is subjective and needs no outside justification.

exactly! thanks for this

btw you can always get back to Polish when you are self-reliant

K :)

dont waste your time! learn turkish :))))

I did! I have some Turkish friends. I also enjoy Turkish cuisine...but I haven't touched it for a long time.

Its a total waste of time, unless you want to try to hook up with a Polish cleaning lady, or if you want to communicate with the Polish construction worker fixing your house, but you're better off just talking to the boss, which most likely will be an American.

in this case...my family doctor ^___^

Fairly silly thread, I think.

yeep...somehow I feel like I shounda shut up and just play with some new Polish vocabulary.

This is what interpreters are paid for (and damned well, I might add. I ought to know, I am one)::-))

lol ...

How old are you, are you going to let your mother run your life?

I'm seventeen . of course I can do my own stuffs but I cant work for now, I really don't have time. I have to deal with SAT 2 stuffs plus Spanish and Japanese lessons

Tell her that you are learning Polish so that when you come to Poland to spend a year working to help Poland, you will understand the people where you are. That is the best reason to learn it.

Good idea! I started thinking about being a travel nurse.

The only one I can think of is maybe it will help you in meeting a Polish guy.

I met some...they almost speak English :(

if you like it keep at it. i have been learning for about 2 years. no way am i fluent, and i dont need to learn it, but i am too stubborn to give up now. so what if you might never need to use the language, its still a string to your bow. try and mx with polish people if you can(this is how i learned) good luck!!

thanks!!!

You learn it because you want to, that's what matters.

yes, you're bloody right...I also found the same thing with Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese. they're quite relative.

I used to think Polish was a pretty useless language when I was in my early teens, and I even stopped speaking it for a while.

woew...that's great! I can speak a little Cantonese cuz some of my distant relatives speak it.

You should not learn Polish you need to learn Mandarin so you know the language of your enemy in case you need to interrogate them someday, the same reason I know Russian and English.

haha...one of my friends learnt German just with the same reason

Arika

12 Jun 2013

Language / Give me some reasons to learn Polish [126]

wow that's a year already! I almost forgot this thread

So after this very controversial thread, I attended to a language center near my neighbourhood. I started with beginner A, then move to B, and it was fun at first. The language was indeed fascinating and I and my classmates (there're about 15 of us) enjoyed it a lot...until...the CASES. It was crazy to learn all of them. I though German cases were bad but Polish cases are just amazingly worse. So after the fun time with "hello" and "my name is...", we were knocked off the ground by the unbelievably complicated grammar. I couldn't tell the difference between some similar sounds like ć and ci and cz ... my mind was just blowing when I listened to my teacher and the video tape.

So after spending 4 months in classes and 500 usd and countless advils, I finally decided that the language wasn't invented for me, so I gave up. Now I can merely recall the basic stuff like greetings, numbers, days, months...but I still remember the Polish dance we learned and the sausage and the "pyzy" my teacher bought us. That was just so nice to get to know the culture, but unfortunately I just couldn't handle the language.