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Polish weather I am in Eastern Europe and its been cloudy now for about 2 months, everyday.  In the spring, summer and fall I do not complain about Polish weather as it is very nice. I am American but live in Eastern Europe and I have no idea why my ancestors (who came from here) [...]

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Andrzej Sapkowski Polish fantasy writer Poland has a some of the greatest fantasy and sci fi writer’s in the world.  I do not know if its the dark skys and grey Polish winters are just imginative minds, but one of the most interesting is Andrzej Sapkowski a Polish fantasy writer. Andrzej Sapkowski takes themes that [...]

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Teaching in Poland Because no teacher I know can teach more than 4 hours because its so exhausting, prep and commute time.   Wages are not a good as they seem. I have taught 12 hour a day but generally the max you can do is 4 at most.  And that is a lot.  4 hours [...]

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Polish Potatoes These are staples in Russian, Polish and Ukrainian cooking. I live in a big city, Krakow and on Saturday a man with a truck comes to people’s doors and asks if they want Potatoes. I think this is rather interesting. You get some guy to deliver Potatoes to your door. Most likely from [...]

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Russian, Ukrainian and Polish recipes I am an American who has live in Krakow for five years.  I grew up in America as did my parents. But my grandparents were from Lublin, Poland and Ternopil, Ukraine.  I love Polish cooking. I love Ukrainian cooking. Living in America I often had Polish and Ukrainian cooking but [...]

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Why the US economy is not over. In one word ‘Poland’, Take perspective from the Polish people.

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Google translate for Polish I just noticed that Google now has translate for Polish. This is something I have been waiting for. Now you can easily translate Polish web pages into English. In the past it was only Spanish, then French, then Russian, but now Polish. You can try to read anything in your target [...]

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Most economically valuable languages to learn Conventional wisdom says if you are are looking for the most economically valuable language to learn, learn Spanish. Why? Spanish is gaining momentum and the line between the English and Spanish world in the Americas is blurred. However, the most economically valuable languages to learn is not Spanish at least [...]

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Mnemonics July 11, 1975 Stanford university did a study on teaching Russian vocabulary with memory mnemonics.  The mnemonics study was called “Teaching a Large Russian Language Vocabulary by the Mnemonic Keyword Method”. The result was those who used memory mnemonics to learn Russian, learned Russian vocabulary faster and performed better on tests than people who [...]

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Knowing Polish and understanding a Russian film I am an American that learned Polish, to some level. I was watching the Russian film last night titled “Seventh Cradle”. It is like a Russian ”Indiana Jones”.  There were no subtitles nor lektor. I did not realises this when I started the film. Now the good news is, even [...]

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