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What I learned so far about the Polish language. [30]
Hello all,
I am learning Polish at the moment. (Yes, I have introduced myself here before if you were wondering. But oh, well, I will do it again - I am Naomi. I am from India. And I am 21.) This thread is just to share my excitement about the whole process with you.
I made a few great Polish friends on here. I am already in love with Polski. But my friends made me fall for the people too.
The language is no doubt complex, especially if you are doing it without a tutor. But I have some good resources to help me out. And of course my friends help me with the finer word usage details that books/softwares don't carry.
I will share here what I learnt in the 10 hours that I devoted to learning the language. Maybe you could correct, add to this or encourage me.
I learnt the sounds of the 32 alphabets and affricates.
I learnt the basic idea behind the 7 cases,5 genders and numbers; and how words forms change according to these parameters.
I learnt about the pronouns - On, Ona, Oni, One
Also how to identify the genders of some words.(most nouns ending with consonants are masculine, those ending with an 'a' are feminine and with 'o' are neuter.)
I also learnt a few basic words and phrases like dziewczynka, stol, powodzenia. (The spelling is so difficult! I downloaded a virtual Polish keyboard by the way)
And oh! A few cuss words as well. :P
I am learning Polish, Medicine, basic keyboard, advanced guitar all at one time! I am probably gonna go nuts at the end of this! Totally loving it!
Anyway, thanks for reading and ermm... I have a suggestion for the mods. It would be great if you remove the racists comments/threads posted here by some,well, racists. I think they should have no place on this website where people from all around the world come to learn about Poland. It simply reflects bad on the country. If someone talked shit about me or my country here, I will probably not fight back, but I will just know what kind of a place they come from...
\m/
Naomi