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PolskaDollThreads: 44
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Joined: Jun 15, 07 ♀ 		Edited by: PolskaDoll  Dec 18, 08, 10:40    #1
I'm just asking out of general interest. :)
Filios1Threads: 15
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Joined: Nov 13, 07 ♂ 		 Dec 18, 08, 10:42    #2
Yes. It's my first language, although I don't speak it as fluently as I would like to : )
PolsonThreads: 15
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Joined: May 9, 07 ♂ 		 Dec 18, 08, 11:35    #3
Not really learning at the moment, but can speak a little, and understand quite 'much' :)
Lodz_The_BoatThreads: 57
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The first option.
szarlotkaThreads: 14
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Joined: Feb 20, 07 ♂ 		 Dec 18, 08, 11:45    #5
I am finding it hard to place my vote. Can there be a category of "Yes, just enough to get me into lots of trouble" please
McCoyThreads: 46
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Joined: Jul 3, 08 ♂ 		 Dec 18, 08, 11:49    #6
First language. Still learning.
espanaThreads: 39
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No and I have no interest in learning
SoftsongThreads: 6
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Bits and pieces of what I remember as a small child from my grandmother, and bits and pieces from friends, as well as a few attempts at studying a verb book, phrase book, etc.

Sum total. Well, I did get around Poland on my own. But a lot of people laughed at me. :-)
BartolomeThreads: 2
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Second language. The first one was baby talk.
PolskaDollThreads: 44
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Joined: Jun 15, 07 ♀ 		 Dec 18, 08, 13:06    #10
Bartolome:

The first one was baby talk.


I know some people who still have that as their first language...
osiolThreads: 59
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Joined: Jul 25, 07 ♂ 		 Dec 18, 08, 13:10    #11
I'd say I learn Polish in equal thirds from:

an old book
some old people
some old forum

Bartolome:

Second language. The first one was baby talk.

Having a large drink doesn't usually make people feel like they're young, but some can revert back to the language of their toddlerhood, only usually with a little more swearing than most toddlers can manage.
BartolomeThreads: 2
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After a large drink I start to speak at all (never mind the language).
Lotnik767Threads: 6
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Joined: Nov 12, 08 ♂ 		 Dec 18, 08, 14:33    #13
Tak na pirewsze pytanie
SeanusThreads: 22
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		Edited by: Seanus  Dec 18, 08, 14:36    #14
Tak, kto nie ma brzucha, ten kiepsko rucha ;)

Howzat?

Seriously tho, how well I speak depends on the company I am in and how fresh I am.

As foreigners go, pretty decent.
MistyThreads: 6
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Joined: Jul 20, 08 ♀ 		 Dec 18, 08, 15:56    #15
Good poll. I like it. :)
polishgirltx  Dec 18, 08, 16:03    #16
Polish is my first language, but people don't understand what i'm saying... maybe because they don't speak Polish...
noimmigration  Dec 18, 08, 16:18    #17
Horrible guttural language, I would rather speak french.
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noimmigration:

Horrible guttural language, I would rather speak french


It's not the easiest language, I'll give you that. Just ask anyone who's learning it.
SeanusThreads: 22
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Dec 18, 08, 16:23    #19
I fell asleep in the first grammar lesson I had. After hearing exception 23, that was it, curtains! ;)
polishgirltx  Dec 18, 08, 16:28    #20
Seanus:

I fell asleep in the first grammar lesson I had.

when you were teaching? no wonder why L4 is so popular among your students... ;)
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Joined: Mar 31, 08 ♂ 		Edited by: mafketis  Dec 18, 08, 16:28    #21
noimmigration:

Horrible guttural language


I think you're confusing Polish and Dutch.

And surely you're not nearly intelligent enough to learn any foreign language.
polishgirltx Edited by: polishgirltx  Dec 18, 08, 16:30    #22
mafketis:

you're not nearly intelligent enough to learn any foreign language.

you could hurt many people's feelings by saying that, you know....
:)
SeanusThreads: 22
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I was the student on that occasion, LOL
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noimmigration:
Horrible guttural language


Yes, German or Dutch would be considered more gutteral.....Polish is to me more a language of shhh....szzzzz.......and several other varieties of related sounds, all sounding similar to me, but hugely different to the Polish ear!
Lir  Dec 18, 08, 21:22    #25
Polish is usually a softly spoken language . I think Dutch language sounds quite good too. I agree though that German would be more gutteral than Polish. I suppose Dutch language would be between Polish and German in the sounds it makes when it is spoken ?
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You're probaby right. I've heard it said that Dutch was a prettier form of German and English a prettier form of Dutch. *hiding from BB* hehehehhe

Polish is softly spoken.
DaisyThreads: 16
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noimmigration:

I would rather speak french.

you can't even speak English properly
benszymanskiThreads: 9
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Joined: Feb 29, 08 ♂ 		 Dec 19, 08, 02:14    #28
Lir:

I think Dutch language sounds quite good too


You're joking? Have you heard people speak Dutch? I used to work in both Holland and Germany and Dutch is far more coarse and guttural than German IMO. It has my vote for the ugliest sounding language in Europe...

For me Polish sounds like "itchy shishy witchy". Thats how the English side of my family joke about it anyway...!
Lir Edited by: Lir  Dec 19, 08, 02:34    #29
No , I wasn't joking . Although I haven't heard as much Dutch being spoken as I have never been to Holland. I suppose we don't al hear sounds in the same way.

:)
mafketisThreads: 15
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Joined: Mar 31, 08 ♂ 		 Dec 19, 08, 02:35    #30
benszymanski:

Dutch ... has my vote for the ugliest sounding language in Europe...


Allow me to introduce you to Danish

http://delicast.com/radio/Denmark/talk/DR_P1
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