Fall is here;) Before we know it winter will arrive…and here in New Hampshire we are definitely hoping for a lot of snow. But what happens before winter comes…birds fly away to warm places! Artur Oppman’s poem “Ptaki odlatują” is a perfect way to describe this time of the year!
“Odlatują ptaki”
Artur Oppman
Liść pożółkły spada z drzewa chłodny wietrzyk wieje chór ptaszęcy już nie śpiewa ścichły lasy, knieje.
Yellowed leaf falls from the tree
cool breeze blows
bird’s choir no longer sings
died away forests and woods.
My name is Kasia Scontsas. I grew near Lublin, Poland and moved to Warsaw to study International Business. I have passion for languages: any languages! Currently I live in New Hampshire. I enjoy skiing, kayaking, biking and paddle boarding. My husband speaks a little Polish, but our daughters are fluent in it! I wanted to make sure that they can communicate with their Polish relatives in our native language. Teaching them Polish since they were born was the best thing I could have given them!
I have been writing about learning Polish language and culture for Transparent Language’s Polish Blog since 2010.
Comments:
Sandi:
I would so like you to make me fluent again…….60 now……I used to be fluent in Polish, German and Russian………as my elders died, no one spoke anymore……..and I remember only bits and pieces………
Kris Lange:
Sandi, I’m in the same boat. I[‘m 68 and as I learned English as a child, my grandmother made sure I knew Polish. She died in 1991 and I am so happy to have discovered this site! I still remember a song she taught me when I was in grade school called “Moja Babulenka” which I still sing to myself! Dzien dobry!
Comments:
Sandi:
I would so like you to make me fluent again…….60 now……I used to be fluent in Polish, German and Russian………as my elders died, no one spoke anymore……..and I remember only bits and pieces………
Kris Lange:
Sandi, I’m in the same boat. I[‘m 68 and as I learned English as a child, my grandmother made sure I knew Polish. She died in 1991 and I am so happy to have discovered this site! I still remember a song she taught me when I was in grade school called “Moja Babulenka” which I still sing to myself! Dzien dobry!