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Master Shake
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| Poles have difficulty in learning foreign languages. Compare their miserable record with neighbours to the North and West. When a snake old salesman shows up and promises a miracle cure for Monoglossia, they fall for it ! |
But compare them with the East and South and they look a lot better.
And if you compare Poland with SE Asia, they win by a landslide.
I don't think Poles have a particularly hard time learning English. They do, however, chronically lack the confidence to speak it.
Years of over-correction have led to people terrified to speak unless they know their sentence is 100% correct. |
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Sashadroogie
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:27 am Post subject: |
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| Neighbours to the east? Can't say I noticed too much difference between Poles, Balts, Belorussians. They all displayed good learning ability. But maybe that was just the school where I worked... |
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dragonpiwo
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 6:38 am Post subject: erm |
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| I think Polish students and teachers are pretty good these days. The changes I've seen over 20 years have been huge. |
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Janek
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mitsui
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Poles have advantages due to geography. They are in the EU and can travel.
Language learning means something since they can live in other countries.
They work hard too.
I heard from a teacher at Lodz University that after Greece the Poles were second in the Cambridge Proficiency Exam. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| Hmmm. I just never got over the decision to replace Comrade Gomulka with Gierek ! But there is something strange about the Ecology of Learning Foreign Languages in Eastern and Central Europe. |
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