Archive for 'Vocabulary'
Amazing Upside Down House Posted by Kasia on Nov 17, 2010
Today I wanted to suggest visiting one very interesting place in Poland. The Upside Down House is a project created by a Polish businessman and philanthropist named Daniel Czapiewski, and is located in Poland in the tiny village of Szymbark. Rather than simply being a bizarre tourist attraction this house, managed to attract thousands of tourists…
Data i godzina Posted by Kasia on Sep 28, 2010
Different style conventions and habits exist around the world for dates (daty) and times (czas) in writing and speaking. Examples: The order that a year, month, and day are written. How weeks are identified. Whether the 24-hour clock or the 12-hour clock is used. The punctuation used to separate elements in all-numeric times. The first…
Camping Posted by Kasia on Sep 24, 2010
Camping is very popular in Poland and there are a lot of camping sites (kempingi) there. It really can be a lot of fun and it is pretty much the same as camping in the States. Camping sites in Poland are situated on lakes (nad jeziorami), rivers (nad rzekami), in the mountains (w górach), at…
Kalendarz – From Days to a Year Posted by Katarzyna on Sep 20, 2010
Poniedziałki. Mondays. It doesn’t matter where you live or what language you speak, the days can just be awful. You enjoy a weekend, rest and relax and then the dreaded day comes to start the work week over again. Well, I thought I might ease us into the week, this week, with a post on…
Poles in Space – Polacy w kosmosie Posted by Katarzyna on Sep 14, 2010
Space: It’s been called the final frontier. I am not going to tell you stories of the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise. No, I am going to tell you of a seven day mission, one that was set aboard the Soyuz 30 ship commanded by Russian cosmonaut, Colonel Pyotr Klimuk, and carried out experiments at…
My Family – Moja Rodzina Posted by Kasia on Sep 13, 2010
My name is Kasia and I was born in Poland (urodziłam się w Polsce). I grew up (dorastałam) in a little village near Lublin in the South East of Poland (w Polsce południowo – wschodniej). Currently (obecnie) I live in New Hampshire and that is why I do not see my family too often.My parents…
Pan McDonald farmę miał… Posted by Kasia on Sep 10, 2010
Today I wanted to teach you some words from the “farm language”. We should probably start with a very popular song: When I was little I grew up on a farm in Poland and we had cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, turkeys and even a horse. We also had orchards where we grew apples, pears, plums…