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Pollux
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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Location: PL
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 Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject: Polish specific |
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What do you find Polish learners hard to master?
I 've found they have a hard time learning Possessive Nouns.
Have you found anything else? |
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Grrrmachine
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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Location: Warsaw, Poland
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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Third and mixed conditionals can be a nightmare sometimes (demanding a whole tense review beforehand) plus the obligatory articles nonsense, and the bloody plurality of furnitures and informations...
Aside from that... |
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Szeliczka
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: |
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Simple tenses vs Continuous tenses
Mixing up pronunciation of I and Y (because it is pretty much opposite in Polish)
Remembering to add "s" to regular plural nouns.
Ofcourse omitting or overusing articles
Basically any kind of grammar that doesn't translate from Polish to English |
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gregoryfromcali
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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Location: People's Republic of Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| Articles. |
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bennyr81
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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Location: Poland
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| Present perfect/present perfect continuous |
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Grrrmachine
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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Location: Warsaw, Poland
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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A rather amusing student this morning, who was unaware of the passive, trying to translate "urodzilem sie"(sp?) = I birthed myself...
Formed a lovely in my mind as to how one does that. |
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Pollux
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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Location: PL
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Well, he has a point there. He did squeeze through a narrow canal on his own, unless the people outside pulled him out with forceps.
Did his story go something like: " I birthed myself and they immediately slapped me on the ass?"  |
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Khrystene
Joined: 17 Apr 2004
Posts: 271
Location: WAW, PL/SYD, AU
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Pollux wrote: |
Well, he has a point there. He did squeeze through a narrow canal on his own, unless the people outside pulled him out with forceps.
Did his story go something like: " I birthed myself and they immediately slapped me on the ass?" |
Um, I dunno about YOUR birth but normally the WOMAN squeezes with all those muscles in her vag so that the babeeey can come out...  |
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paulmanser
Joined: 28 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Very nice..... |
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gregoryfromcali
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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Location: People's Republic of Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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This board...
First stag parties linked to the war in Iraq and now people birthing themselves...
What next? |
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Khrystene
Joined: 17 Apr 2004
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Location: WAW, PL/SYD, AU
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:50 am Post subject: |
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to Polska! Spoko!  |
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paulmanser
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| haha. |
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Will.
Joined: 02 May 2003
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Location: London Uk
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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Similes, 'cos we just love inventing new ones...just like phrasal verbs but the similes we invent are often the ones that carry meaning for native speakers.....as snug as a nest of tables...they need to be explained...
unless it is...
You have got about as much chance of teaching them similes as a one-legged cat has of burying a turd on a frozen lake after having its nails clipped |
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