… is a very hard thing to do, as not I have experienced and still experience. Just today I wanted to look up some conjugation stuff I forgot for writing a SMS in Polish and found by accident a article in the taz about it.

About two months before Poland will join the EU on May 1 the taz started a series about one of her reporters, Waltraud Schwab(!), starting to learn Polish and sharing her first steps with us – written in this typical taz-style…

It amused me reading about her pronunciation obstacles, such as by saying “I am sorry” – “przepraszam”, and I was proud being able to regonize mistakes. Somehow I must have made progress during the last year with my “intensive” learning efforts. Thus, by reading it I hope also my last two tandem partners will understand, why they sometimes had such a hard time with me ;).

Here is the series for your self-studying (with phonetic spelling :o)):
Die Stunde der Ermunterung (taz, February 21, 2004)
Die Stunde der Ehrlichkeit (taz, February 28, 2004)
Die Stunde der Ernüchterung (taz, March 6, 2004)
Die Stunde der Erkenntnis (taz, March 13, 2004)
Kolasinskis Stunde (taz, March 20, 2004) (to be continued…)

So there is only for me the question left: Mowisz juz po polsku?