tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13933987.post115234060155871999..comments2023-10-30T12:16:47.441+01:00Comments on U Krakovianki: My new Polish bookKaren G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00680320370181357559noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13933987.post-1153550382063398432006-07-22T08:39:00.000+02:002006-07-22T08:39:00.000+02:00Oh! I understand exactly what you're saying! I h...Oh! I understand exactly what you're saying! I hit the same point in Russian recently. I feel like a child who has had a whole new world opened to me. I can read freely in Russian, and I don't ever want to stop these days.<BR/><BR/>By the way, I could understand the first part of your Polish sentence, no problem. The second part was a little harder, and my eyes rushed on to the translation.<BR/><BR/>I'm trying to catch up with your blog, in spite of our computer problems here. :-)Phyllishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09529794989164847124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13933987.post-1152718416781565002006-07-12T17:33:00.000+02:002006-07-12T17:33:00.000+02:00English is taught in the Polish schools from the b...English is taught in the Polish schools from the beginning, although for many years it's pretty much basic vocabulary such as colors, body parts, and "What time is it?" (I know this because children who try to speak English usually choose one of these topics.)<BR/><BR/>It's not uncommon for high-schoolers to be able to carry on a (weak) conversation in English. Many of them understand English rather well (thanks to TV and movies), but are reluctant to speak it.<BR/><BR/>English is the common language of the EU, though, and so it is widely taught. Most people my age studied Russian all throughout their years in school...Karen G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00680320370181357559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13933987.post-1152546378887841382006-07-10T17:46:00.000+02:002006-07-10T17:46:00.000+02:00I know exactly what you mean about the sudden open...I know exactly what you mean about the sudden opening up of things that reading allows--I saw it this spring when Crayons suddenly jumped into almost-fluent reading. All of a sudden the cans in the grocery store, the signs on the stores, the books on her own shelf, the things we wrote on the calendar had meaning that they'd never had for her before.Mama Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06941211100125966917noreply@blogger.com