Showing posts with label languages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label languages. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Poland (and Baba Jaga).... HERE I COME (I hope)

Next summer, my family is planning to go to Poland, like we do every so often. What is even cooler is that Mimi and her family are planning to go to Poland next summer too! And, we both live in villages by Tarnów- me, in Świebodzin and Gręboszów, her, in Jaworsko (is that right, Mimi?). Anyway, my family is saving up, and hopefully we'll be able to go. If need be, I'll pitch in my 400 and something dollars that I've been collecting for one thing or another (a dog or a D-SLR camera, or maybe something else). Just so I don't forget, here is my list of things (so far) that I want to do in Poland:

-Visit the Auschwitz museum (for inspiration for my newest novel idea)
-Go to Baba Jaga's house and take a few pictures (there's this cottage by the forest in Świebodzin, and everyone says its the house of Baba Jaga or a witch)
-Photograph the countryside, Tarnów, whatever I can! I want to get some pictures of bociany (I think those are storks in English, I'm not sure, here's a picture I found of one: http://uczenzklasa.gazeta.pl/gfx/userfiles/1499/Image/bocian.jpg)
-and lots of other things!

While I'm on that note, I'd like to ask what languages you dear readers speak. Partially, fluently, just a few words- whatever. I myself fluently speak English and Polish. I'm learning French in school, know a few words in German, and because I know Polish, understand totally and completely Czech when spoken(it's like Polish with an accent in a way for me), Slovenian when spoken, and Russian a little when spoken. The last three languages are very similar to Polish.
Once, I was watching a documentary about Stalin (the people in the movie spoke the language from the country they were from, with subtitles translating it into english), and I asked my dad why they were talking in Polish if the guy was Russian. My dad told me it was Russian they were speaking, but I understood pretty much all of it!
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