Probably the best way to learn the Polish language

Crisp wind, leaves slowly changing its colours...despite that, it was still a wonderful day today. 

Second week of language school started. Today, there are quite few new faces in my classes. I could see some of them quite surprised, albeit amused.Maybe at the back of their mind,  How on earth I came here in this part of the world. It's not surprising anymore. 

:-P

It's been awhile not blogging. Way too busy...(not an excuse again) . To be honest, I'm losing some kind of motivation to write, what to write and how to start writing the topics lining up in my mind. I'd like to say, some creative juices needs to be squeezed out a little bit more or I need to push myself (if that's the appropriate word) some more to regularly blog about something that strikes my fancy here. As promised, I don't want to write some more personal issues again except reflective thoughts about life in general. 

Alright, I started a series about my last trip in the Dolni Sląsk region of Poland. I haven't finished sharing my views in that trip. Although, I kind of  thinking that it's rather too old/spoiled...rotten piece of topic to share it now. Perhaps or maybe it's still worth sharing, I have to save a one whole post for that to end that serial. 

Meanwhile, to update you with my Polish...ahem! ahem! It's still horribly not good. But, I'm giving myself a target, that by next year I could speak at least plainly in Polish when conversing with my friends. To be honest, I'm trying my very best to really speak the language as much as I can when I am out of home. As you all know, we're practicing bilingualism at home. What motivates me to really, really improve my Polish it's because of my children. They are both now in primary school and not all the time my husband's can attend to their needs in school. Mostly, I'm very hands on to them and most times they are with me. Also, so I could really go around all by myself without anybody's help or interpreter. 

Today, I've found... probably a better solution to learn Polish the easiest way.... by talking to old people. 

Looking at this video, it just inspires me to try this trick. Speaking exchange.. it's a win-to-win game. We're both learning not only the language but as well as connecting...learning wisdom from old people.

Here's the link though...

I would surely recommend this method and share this project to my English language students. In that way, they would try to find some kind of buddy to practice their manner of speaking in English other than learning in the language school. Or probably, make this as sort of a project.

Starting tomorrow, I am on a quest.... to find a babcia (grandma) or a dziadek (grandpa) that I can talk with in purely Polish language from time to time. This is probably the best way and solution for me to learn the Polish language.

*wink

What do u think? And, if you could recommend anybody to be my language exchange buddy, that would be brilliant. 

Powodzenia !

If there are two Polish words that I mastered uttering, it would be okropny which mean terrible, horrible & awful and the word masakra, which means massacre.  These two words really describe the past weeks of intense emotional feeling and horrifying events that I don't want to discuss in here for it is purely personal and horrific. 

 Despite of all that, I am doing so well.  Precisely, I am immune now to such emotional events.  Losing loved ones I look up to in life is horrifying now for me. Indeed, life  must go on. 

Here I am by the way...still alive and ready to mingle once more.

Oh, I went on a hiatus, I'm keeping myself busy with a lot of things at home. Trying to get back into my projects that I haven't been doing for the past months.  Just that I am trying to find motivation to get back into the groove again especially in the field of sewing.  So many designs left in mind..so many plans what to do next..just that I have little time for school eats a lot of me, lately. However, that isn't an excuse...I should keep going, right?  

And i realized that 2014 ending so soon.... Oh, no!  I need to do something. Lurking with super down emotions won't help and keeping myself busy isn't the answer to forget emotional pains as well.  So lately, I get back to baking ( one of my favourite thing to do). When I'm sad and super down, I bake my hearts out. It is therapeutic. I swear!  hope to post a pic of what I bake next time...

And...Trying to meet friends once again..

I took a short trip to Warsaw for the very first time after living here for 8 years.  

*WINK  

Did I hear you laughing?  Oh well, that's just life. There's one special person who convinced me to go and do a short trip..to see , listen with my heart and see things in a bigger perspective. Watched the legendary John Legend's concert and  I had fun and makes me happy. Though big city life isn't fascinating to me now since I grew up in a big city as well, but that is great to see what the Polish capital has to offer for an expat like me. Nothing much actually..for It was only a short tip and on top of that, it was a very frosty gloomy day. Nothing much fascinating to see and i shy away from mall hopping. Does it something to do with age? :-D

Alright, alright...wherever you are in the world and whatever you are doing, I hope your day is great. And when your day is horrible and you feel awful, just smile, and the world will smile back at you. Try it! it works for me.

Now, you are smiling.  :-)

Powodzenia !  - Goodluck!

 

xxAi

Oh, so this language!

Sometimes dealing with real time world is quite easy than writing a blog  that wants proper attention and care. Sometimes ideas just don't get in tune with feelings and much more, we needed that much inspiration to keep the juicy side of the brain going.  I would choose the latter - inspiration. 

That doesn't mean I'm not inspired. I always get inspirations on things, people I came in contact with, with what's happening to the present world and most of all with what's within me. 

The past days were a bit of a struggle, fighting with cough and colds. Bugs caught up with us at home and makes me not to realized a lot thing planned.  Good, all is well now.  

Dzięki Bogu!

And then I realized, October is here.  

Will I ever get a nice experience this month? I don't know. All is up to me.  I know, there's a lot of things I have to deal with starting this month. I have to keep myself amused with time and so not to get bored and in autumn depressing mood. I love Autumn because of its mosaic colours of leaves, but I don't like it's eerie glow. Skies are often grey, foggy, rainy and crisp cold air begins to unravel.  

My plan..........

Time to scrub things of my feet once again. Open my notes and  books on Polish language and begin to master this complicated language...and dreaming that I get to speak like a pro in no time. That won't happen if I seek perfection at once. So, I'm taking my slow yet focus. For sure I get to speak like real Polish in time.  

I'm holding a Polish citizenship since 3 years ago but I don't speak the language and that's disguting, isn't it? Don't blame me. Blame the Polish, why they like to complications. (smile, if your Polish) Inside of me, I'm still very Filipino. for I never renounced  my citizenship. That makes me a Fil-Pol. Or FOO-LISH!

If you ask me, what I gained with having two citizenship. Well, to be honest. Nothing that special. Just that I never have to renew my papers every now. Then, at the Polish offices with also complicated rulings (for actually they have different rulings). They're giving us a headache before and glad I'm over it now. I should have blog about it then..the complications of processing and my battles of how they changed my names here. That reminds me, to investigate it once again soon for I would have to deal with it again later on in a more complicated way. I hate dealing with paper works but for the sake of legal matters, we have to. 

One time caught my attention to really really speak Polish is when we were having our afternoon walk with my son...

Son: Mom, you really have to speak Polish.

Me: Why?

Son: because sometimes there are words in Polish I don't know in English. 

Me: Like what?

Son: Piaskownica

Me: What is it?

Son: Sandpit

Me: So, you know what it is in English. 

Son: No! not all the time. 

Me: hahahah !  silly boy.

Then, that got me thinking that my son is right. Not all words is familiar for him in English,  for some things are more expose or that seen in Polish culture only. Familiarization  in English is limited to the extent when it comes to dealing with only with Polish friends most of the time. Some not the same in English. Not only that innocent conversation with my son awakens me, dealing with the daily routine of my daughter in school especially that she's now in first grade. That entails me to help her with assignments which is all in Polish and that really frustrates me. I can't help her in that area. And I get so emotionally dealing in that category, for I'm always want to be involve and hands - on in everything for my children. So, that's the big mess on my side. However, there's nothing I can do. I'm not Polish and I never speak the language. I have to wait and do something.

That's my struggle here - the language. Honestly, there are really moments that I wanted to just disappear and you know live somewhere else more familiar to me.  Then, I always know how to reconcile with my disappointments. I know how to console & understand myself without anybody telling me, that giving up isn't part of my system. Saying NO at once to something means being coward and failure. Naaah! that isn't me. I'm a superwoman in the making.........

Makes me think of buying this book to enlighten me more....or to give me some familiar hint of gusto.

source here

What do you think? Dump? sometimes I feel like one, seriously.

And, realized I should STOP relying on Google translator, because I always end up uttering these words............

source here

From now on, I have to rely solely on my guts to learn and speak Polish with my heart.  A friend always reminds me that to fully embrace the language, you need to put your heart into it. Just like how I put a lot of feelings into my baking, cooking and pieces of arts. Alright, I'll take that advice and hopefully I get to see my real heart into this language very soon.  

Oh, so this language! 

and so help me God!

*pulls hair and rolling eyes. 

If you ever have any suggestions for me to learn the language easily...comment below. I want to know your side and if you have struggle with any other languages.