Three magical words in Polish

Witam,

They say that words change reality and that learning a language is more than learning words and structures - it is (forgive pathos) experiencing a totally new world.

Have you thought about the way we think? European people think from left to right (that's how the text is written). What is on the left in a book (even comic book) was for us before the things on the right. Which page is a previous page? Does it work the same way for a Japanese person? 

Is it important for a Polish person to put words in order when creating a sentence or it doesn't really matter "are what in words the order"? Why is that? Why do Polish people keep pronouncing every single "-ing" in "going", "doing" and "asking"? What is so special about endings of words?

Finally, is that a coincidence that there is no word meaning "flexible" in Polish when describing a personality and the nearest equivalent would mean "two faced"?

Oh, I nearly forgot about the magical words. Here they go:

-  hokus pokus,
- abrakadabra,
- czary mary :-).


See you in class,
Ola



 



 

normal day they say?

Czesc Wszystkim,

Normal day started at 2.00 pm. I came to class, opened a window and turned a heater on (this is when I heard a quiet yawn). "Those are the books waking up for classes" - I thought (even though they haven't slept for so long before). Usual tea and preparations in progress. When..., suddenly (we all knew that suddenly was going to come) I heard a roar. What..., who and why? Of course - a ghost of the killed polar bear... "No problem, I will turn the heating down" - I said and started thinking how to get rid of polar bear in time for classes. "Know your enemy"- I thought. I found some articles on how polar bears appeared in Poland and (just in case you had the same problem) I pasted them below.


"(...) Niedzwiedz polarny (polar bear) migrated to Poland in 1923 during the great migration of polar bears.(...) Most of the polar bear families settled down in Russia and started their communities (at first very primitive - vodka and poker kept them together) which have grown with time and became very influential. (...)Nowadays FNP (Federacja Niedzwiedzi Polarnych) is unofficially the main shareholder of "Russian vodka" and "Russian poker cards" companies. (...) However some of the polar bears (much more resistant to Polish hot summers + 30 oC ) decided to choose Poland for their new home."

 ["Studies on Polar Bears", The White, 2007] 

Dzien dobry

Hi,

This is Aleksandra. Your Polish language teacher. Today in our school we managed to single-handedly kill a bear (a polar one as everyone knows we have brought them over from Poland :-).

We also continued with our courses of Polish and learned some new words not mentioning our struggle with Polish Instrumental. This vile creature can take different shapes and crawl to the end of any noun (innocent object or even more innocent names like Karol or Rebecca - I would say that Rebecca is even more innocent) and stick to it just to slightly change the role that word plays in the sentence.

Do not miss the pictures from our last meeting in The Knaypa restaurant in London.





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See you in class,
Ola