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Old 19-01-12, 09:50 AM   #11
 
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you can do it while reading articles, listening to music, watch movies and here of course ^-^,
I think music is excellent for learning any language.
It helped me improving my vocabulary (not just in English, but in German, and even Russian)

There are a lot of English bands out there




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Old 19-01-12, 09:51 AM   #12
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^si señor!!! I love english music so always checked the lyrics of my favourite songs
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Old 19-01-12, 10:09 AM   #13
 
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Thank you for your interest. I noticed that people from countries other than Poland are much more friendly and nice attitude I can speking English with enough level to normal talking with peoples. In summer I worked in Netherland, and I and my bosses and friends, we can normal talked and understand us. But I think very often my English is sounds funny, because some word completly dont form meaningful sentences. Thanks you again, more thinks i want to tell you, but i can't write this as if I wanted it to sound. Thank you all for help
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Old 19-01-12, 10:16 AM   #14
 
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But I think very often my English is sounds funny, because some word completly dont form meaningful sentences. Thanks you again, more thinks i want to tell you, but i can't write this as if I wanted it to sound. Thank you all for help
Yes, there are some mistakes, but now the most important thing is to be understood, and you are.
By reading and listening to others, those little mistakes will soon start to disappear

(I think I still make a lot of mistakes; I can understand everything I read in English, but I still have some trouble writing my own sentences)




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Old 19-01-12, 11:04 AM   #15
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There are some mistakes, but if you want to help with your grammar then i can also help you








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Old 19-01-12, 11:38 AM   #16
 
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As everyone has said, your English is pretty good. I find it hard to learn a different language, so I give you a lot of credit. Especially when I hear English is one of the hardest to learn. I can barely speak spanish after 5 years of classes.
But you're doing great. I'm sure reading and writing here will help out your skills.




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Old 20-01-12, 03:29 AM   #17
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Uhm... I don't think English is very difficult to learn.

Well, its orthography is (very) difficult, but not its grammar.

English does not conjugate verbs (except for the third person singular, but you just add an -[e]s), does not decline articles/nouns/adjectives, there's no grammatical gender, and has just a few verb tenses (at least compared to Spanish).
It depends who you were to ask. A native speaker of a Latin or Germanic language will have an easier time studying English than that of a Slavic or Asian language.

Polish has no articles before words ("the" and "a") and due to noun and adjective conjugation (declension, also known as noun cases), there is no strict word order. English has articles before words and we do not conjugate our nouns or adjectives, and as a result, English has a much more strict word order. I think it's admirable for him to have taken on English considering that and I think he's done impressively well.

Let's not forget English's shocking pronunciation rules (or lack thereof).








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Old 20-01-12, 07:48 AM   #18
 
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It depends who you were to ask. A native speaker of a Latin or Germanic language will have an easier time studying English than that of a Slavic or Asian language.

Polish has no articles before words ("the" and "a") and due to noun and adjective conjugation (declension, also known as noun cases), there is no strict word order. English has articles before words and we do not conjugate our nouns or adjectives, and as a result, English has a much more strict word order. I think it's admirable for him to have taken on English considering that and I think he's done impressively well.
I forgot about word order, you're right O_o

In Spanish there's no declension, but still has less strict word order.

I have never had any problem with word order when learning any language, it's like I automatically learn it after reading some sentences (once I get to understand them). Not in English, not in German.

But I didn't consider other people may find that more difficult

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Let's not forget English's shocking pronunciation rules (or lack thereof).
Yes, I've always agreed with that.
I started learning English when I was little, so I've never rationalized pronunciation rules... I just... automatically know how to pronounce words

But yes, for anyone who's studying English, pronunciation rules are really shocking.




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Old 23-01-12, 01:26 AM   #19
 
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I have a question for people who learning a few languages. I'm really don't know what first. Learning English for perfect, and only later learning Netherlands ( Kathorin I hope to help ), or learning two Languages at once? It worry me is that they may be mix on my brain, these two languages at once. What's you preffer?
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Witamy kolejnego Polaka na pokładzie! Nie martw się o swój angielski, mój też nie jest najlepszy, ale najważniejsze to zrozumieć się nawzajem Jestem chętna do pomocy, ale coś czuję, że jesteś ode mnie lepszy

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