Archive for October, 2009
Not Going Back to School After All Posted by Anna on Oct 9, 2009
Remember my excitement about my return to school? Well, after all, it’s not going to happen. And so right were those of you who said that I should have picked a school in the UK, or elsewhere. Ah… But I guess I needed to learn it the hard way all by myself. So what happened?…
On Bielsko-Biała and Białystok Posted by Anna on Oct 6, 2009
Polish declensions. We all love them, right? All the funky case endings, exceptions, and then exceptions to exceptions. Life in Polish is never boring. But just when you think you’ve finally managed to master the genitives, datives and accusatives, and you’re no longer kept awake at night by the adjective+noun combinations, you meet Bielsko-Biała. Or…
How to Write Dates (po polsku, naturally) Posted by Anna on Oct 3, 2009
I was writing a semi-official letter the other day, and even before I managed to get to “Szanowna Pani“, I was already stumped. Not that it’s anything usual, me getting stumped, but it’s been happening with amazing regularity lately. Anyway, my MS Word automatically fills in the current date according to the American system: the…