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If you have read my blog you know I am a dual US and EU citizen. EU citizenship has many benefits believe me. The purpose of this post is to briefly tell you how to have a passport from more than one country, or at least my personal experience on how I achieved this. First  [...]

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Best place to learn a language I am not talking about countries to learn a language, you can learn a language anywhere.  I am talking about where to study a language, literally. Where is are the soles of your feet when you are studying. Living in Poland I am amazed how well Polish people speak [...]

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Living in Poland I have seen a lot of changes. The one thing that strikes me the most is the real estate market in Poland. I am not in the business of real estate, rather I have a Master’s degree in Economics and passively observe market changes. After about four years of watching the pull [...]

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Have you ever dreamed in a foreign language? This is my personal experience with dreams and I am curious about yours. My dream experience I often dream in the Polish language as I have lived here for a while.  My Polish is good but not perfect. When I dream at a subconscious level I am [...]

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I believe in the hard way to learn a language. I believe in doing such things as sitting down and either listening to the radio for a few hours a day in your target language or doing exercise in grammar books. I think there are many methods that will make studying easier to learn, such [...]

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There is a heated debate here regarding, “what is the hardest language“.  As Mr. Spock would say ‘fascinating’.  However, one of my commenter left a particularly good comment and  it supports my argument that Polish is by far the hardest language to learn.  This language is a linguistic nightmare, it is even harder than Chinese [...]

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Why I live in Europe Many people ask me why I live in Europe?  Why do you live where you do? If it is because you were born in your country, wrong answer. When you are 96 years old are you going to look back on your life and say you wish you had more [...]

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In Krakow’, Poland the city government has invited all foreign companies to buy open green spaces for commercial developement. It is beyond me why they vote to sell Krakow out,  why the Krakow government is so short-sighted and greedy. Examples of Polish government in Krakow Clear examples how the Krakow city government betrayed the citizens [...]

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Many people think I am crazy that I have started my 18 month old daughter with Chinese lessons. She is learning to speak English and Polish as a native speaker.  I am adding Chinese lessons to her life. I think this will be a huge advantage to her in life. However, many people including English [...]

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I was born in Philadelphia and have a distant connection to Amish land. Some of my family from Eastern Europe actually had a farm and another a tavern in the area of the Pennsylvania Dutch. I grew up with things like scrapple ( do not ask what it is, if you do not know, but [...]

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