Do Poles Like It when Foreigners Learn Polish? Posted by Anna on Aug 20, 2009
I was totally misty-eyed reading your comments. Thank you so much for being so supportive! And thank you for your constructive criticism. The blog and my grammar explanations will stay as they are. There was a single, lone email in favor of more sophisticated Swan-like approach, but unfortunately, my dear reader, you’ve been outvoted and…
Polish Grammar – what’s the best way to explain it? Posted by Anna on Aug 16, 2009
Every so often I am being accused that my grammar explanations are too simplistic, too crude and too “for dummies.” That I don’t use proper linguistic, or grammatical, (or whatever those long and useless terms in “serious” grammar books are called) terminology in my blog posts and that basically, it looks like I mock the…
Future Tense of Perfective and Imperfective Verbs Posted by Anna on Aug 14, 2009
One of you (once again, I can always count on you, my fab readers!) wanted to know more about this whole verb aspect issue. More specifically, how to tell whether a verb is perfective or imperfective by looking at its future tense form. And finally, this is one thing that is actually very simple, easy…
Required Reading – Joanna Chmielewska Posted by Anna on Aug 10, 2009
Since I’ve boring you to tears with all sorts of useless stuff recently (yeah, yeah, don’t deny it, I know I have) I think we should talk about something light and fun and maybe even interesting today. Namely – reading. Reading in Polish, of course. “What?” I hear you say, “reading in Polish is supposed…
Polski on the internet – guest post by Barb Posted by Anna on Aug 7, 2009
A couple of posts ago I asked you about your Polish language adventures on the internet, remember? And our fabulous guest blogger – Barbara from Canada prepared this piece about her experiences w polskiej sieci. Polski on the internet – by Barbara from Canada As most of you know, there are very few good sites…
Jaka to melodia? – Name That Tune po polsku Posted by Anna on Aug 4, 2009
Do you ever have those days when you wake up with a song already stuck in your head? And you have no idea how it got there? And then you just hum that song all day long and can’t get rid of it? Regardless of whether you like it or not? I’m having this kind…
“W internecie” or “na internecie”? Posted by Anna on Jul 31, 2009
So…. The Lexiophiles Best Language Blog contest is over, and this year it was an immense failure for us. Or rather, for me. Last year, Polish Blog came in 6th. This year, 71st. Oh well, I guess the novelty of Polish Blog has worn off, and it’s my fault too, because I haven’t told you…