I did this video with our Juniors, younger students who meet in our forum in the "Junior Board" :) A few weeks ago we organized a seminar where we met and worked together.
I know an American women who is a kind of a newborn Jesus freak. (but apart of this you would never believe how nice she is) I read the Gospel for her. I am going to show this project also in this forum. It’s a little bit creepy but I remember my first “book” I read in English was the Gospel. Those New Testament stories are very strongly present in our Christian based world so it may be quite a good idea.
On the other hand I don’t feel much acclaim for this project so maybe I stop it after a while.
The best thing is: I go to Poland on 8th June (will watch the German - Polish play with my Polish friends) and there I will produce some street language experience videos. We will take a mike and hit Cracow to see how Polish is spoken in the streets.
I will work there with one school. The idea is to bring them to produce language experience material for people who want to learn Polish. I hope I can reach every Polish school someday (in 100 years). The politic idea is: producing media is obvious nowadays - we should teach our children how to handle it - the best way to teach is to produce language scenes.
This is a video students of my partner media workshop did entirely on their own. Please give them some nice words of encouragement. They certainly deserved it and some nice words of appreciation triggers a lot of energy. I know that.
Then I started to work on a project where I would deal with verbs. The aim is to get to know them systematic and thoroughly. I am still developing the idea.
Then I started to work on a project to demonstrate examples of how accusative govern the nouns. I am still developing this idea.
I also think of many vids to help to learn words (which was what my pronunciation guide was appreciated for). This time based on themes. Like: kitchen - and all items and actions referring to it.
I would greatly appreciate any ideas from you on it as well.
With last four units for: z, ź, zi and ż, I completed the pronunciation guide to Polish Language. There are 45 units, 748 nouns illustrated. It took me a year of work. It was your nice comments which kept me going. Thank you so much.
You can say “japko”. When I speak it on normal speed you would probably hear “japko” as well. But when I speak it slowly then I automatically pronounce it right, I guess.
When I am ready with the Polish Alphabet (which is in fact a pronunciation guide) I will continue with the basic, everyday phrases (probably in comic form), then I will deal with the most common Polish verbs, then I’m going to make as many language - situation videos as possible (I hope I will find people to cooperate), then I will produce something like an “easy Polish” videos, which will be basically samples of Polish movies or other TV material with subtitles (both Polish and English).
At the moment I am very much busy with another project but I’ll be back soon and I am going to concentrate on this project.
Thank you so much for your nice comments. I really enjoy them and get a lot of energy out of them to continue working on my pronunciation guide (this is such a good description what the lessons are about, thank you for that)
Thank to all you people in this forum. My dream is to create a serial of videos to learn Polish. It should be that good and comprehensive that anyone who would like to learn Polish would just need to watch those videos to learn it quick, efficient and properly.
After I will work out a general concept schedule (the alphabet serial it the very beginning, afterwords I am going to do it like: “one video - one verb”) (then) I’m going to approach as many Polish schools or/and other cultural entities asking them to produce language situations videos (under my guidance, so that they would complement the general concept, meet certain quality minimum and use the corporate graphics)
Just imagine, all those Polish young people in a united afford to make the learning of Polish language a comfortable and pleasant adventure to the rest of the world.
Littlebeezz, you can do it very easy: go to vixy.net - this is an: “ Online FLV Converter : Download online videos direct to PC / iPod / PSP. It's free!” :)
My plan is to produce one short video for every letter and every sound of the Polish Language.
At the end there will be approximately 45 videos, every one of them containing 17 words.
So theoretically somebody, who would spend 45 minutes watching all of them, would have at least a swift contact with 765 Polish words (mainly substantives)
There is a myth that the Polish Language is one of the most difficult to learn. I don't believe it anymore after meeting and speaking to a lot of students who after learning Polish for six months or so - mastered this language to a remarkable degree.
My theory is that the Polish Language appears very difficult at the beginning but after somebody manages to reach a certain point of knowledge - this language becomes unexpectedly easy to speak - because obviously it is a very intuitive and "judge by the ear" language.
After reaching a certain point you just know how to say it (how to decline and so) because it seems to sound either good or not.
So this is why I think, that anybody who would like to learn Polish should invest quite an ample time to "get used" to it.
Those 45 minutes of the Polish alphabet are supposed to be the first introduction to this foreign language. It should help to understand how Polish should be pronounced as well as to learn some first Polish words.
It should give you the general idea of how the Polish language sounds like.
In the next level we will deal with most common verbs. We will look at how they sound and function.
I dedicate this course to Carina and Manuel who are trying to learn Polish. I hope I can help you. You can imagine how happy I would be to speak Polish with you.
