Language / Declension of młody and stary [9]

Thanks strzyga.

Thats what I wrote down first, then got I confused and changed my mind!

Life / You are Polish if... [433]



Nope, not just a Polish thing. Me and my mum have gone out and she's sent me back to check that the door is locked...even after she has tried it 2 or 3 times before we left!!!!!

Language / Problems remembering Polish vocabulary [20]

Thanks convex. I'll check them out later when I'm not at work ;)

Language / Problems remembering Polish vocabulary [20]


Thanks for the link convex - any suggestions of what to watch?

Language / Polish locative and case declensions [16]

All I can say Derevon is...WOW!!

When I can actually get to the stage where I understand which case to use when, that will be extremely helpful ;)

Language / I need some encouragement from Polish language speakers! [30]

Hi Andy

I am a native English speaker and have been learning Polish since June last year. Like you, I read some information on grammar near the start which made absolutely no sense and made me wonder was I a little bit mad to be learning such a hard language!

I left the grammar and just concentrated on learning phrases, words etc. I have a couple of good books - Colloquial Polish is really good and I use the BYKI software. Over the last couple of months I have started to understand a little bit of the grammar and am starting to look at the phrases that I have learnt to find out why the words are used the way they are.

Hang in there, and like everyone else has said don't worry about the grammar too much now.

Emma

Language / DECLENSIONS (the difference between suffixes) [11]


It is...but having some very good books, and of course this forum helps!!


:):):):)

Life / WHY ARE POLISH CALENDARS SKEWED? [42]

I have always been told that Sunday is the first day of the week, but don't really know where that has come from as we're not a particularly religious family. But have just checked my desk calendar, and the week starts on Monday!

As for the date, it has to be day, month, year. I get really confused when they are the other way round! But that could just be me lol ;)

Life / How Polish are you? [74]

0% on the first test so I like the second test better - scored 80% on that!

Me thinks that my obsession with learning Polish has started to take over my life!!!!

Language / Collection of learning resources for learning the Polish language [129]

WOW!!

Thanks cjjc and everyone else! Some of these I had already come across, and have used but there are alot that I haven't. I can see some serious web surfing coming on!

A couple of other good ones that I use are byki.com and quizlet.com

With byki.com you can get free language learning software with a limited amount of lists which you can learn, but there are alot more lists available to download. This is what I actually started with, and have actually bought the full blown version now.

With quizlet.com you can use other peoples flashcards or you can make your own and they are basically learning drills. You go through all the cards and give your answers. When you have done them all, you go through any that you got wrong, and keep on doing it until you get them all right. It can become quite addictive!

Emmajo