7/28/2023 0 Comments Day #19 - UnlearnMy wife and I are learning Polish and are beginners – maybe even slightly advanced beginners because we can now read and basically pronounce the words. We sing in the Polish choir. We can even make simple sentences but get completely lost when someone asks us a simple question like “how are you?”
The unlearning is that Polish is NOT structured like English. Words can move anywhere in a sentence depending on emphasis. Ends of words fit into “cases” where there is no equivalent in English. It is so cool to realize that the way my thinking (brain) has been structured from childhood is only one possible way of making sense of the world. It is a perfectly good way but limited perhaps like all other languages. This realization comes often and each time I find myself happy and energized to experience this. However, in my next lifetime, I am going to be born in Switzerland or some other place where all the children can speak 4 languages by the time they are ten years old!
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