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Posted on November 4, 2010 by Travis

In realty it’s all about location, location, location. In missions it’s all about language, language, language. Language is an incredible thing, it’s the substance of cultures and the wall between them. One of the key items and first hurdle for us is to learn and hopefully master Polish. Of course we know this will take[…]

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When Polish creeps up on you

Posted on August 10, 2009August 10, 2009 by Travis

Today I was doing some work for a company called “Nova Wealth” – which isn’t odd or strange… it’s just that when you’ve been studying a language that uses “w” instead of “v” for the same sound, it kinda confuses the head.  So I was kept typing “Nowa” instead of “Nova” – and “Nowa” in[…]

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Language woes…

Posted on December 1, 2008December 3, 2008 by The Mielonens

Back in October when we took our 2 week trip to Kraków we had 5 hours a day, Monday through Friday of intensive Polish language lessons.  As of today, we have practiced all but a mere 5 minutes.  We are creating a new schedule which will make practicing Polish a priority, and one of our[…]

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