Ziemowit: What srikes me is that he speaks with a perfect rythm and faultless intonation in Polish, even if he makes a grammatical error here and there. This leads me to the conclusion that it is better to master intonation and rythm of the language than its grammar to make a favorable impression in regard to speaking a foreign language.
Indeed - Polish seems to be quite nice in the sense that even if you completely mess up the grammar, pronouncing the words correctly leads to people understanding you just fine.
Equally so - you can have perfect grammar, but if you don't pronounce it correctly - they won't understand you at all.
(at least so far in my experience, people tend to perceive you as an idiot, but understandable if you have decent pronouncation but poor grammar)
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