Maciej St. Ziêba - Polish Language - Languages - Arts/Humanities

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Expert Profile: Maciej St. Ziêba

Expertise: I am native Polish and I used to teach Polish to foreigners. I know (passively of actively) more than 15 other languages - so I can answer many questions concerning Polish grammar, pronounciation, spelling, ethymology and usage - as compared to English, French, German, Russian, Dutch, Esperanto or Norwegian. Also questions concerning other Slavic languages, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, or general linguistics, especially scripts (writing systems and transcriptions) - are welcome.

Experience in the area
Teaching English and French to Poles, Polish to foreigners, teaching Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan to philosophy students.

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What do you like about this subject? While learning languages you get completely new ideas of the same old world, which has hitherto seemed so well known to you.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field? Learn or at least study many, many, many new languages.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know: To read a newspaper in a given language you need to know about 1200-1500 words of that language. If you learn only 3 new words every day you reach this level within 1 year only. Now you only need to exercise your grammar.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject Just a few golden thoughts heard or read somewhere: 1) Each language gives you a new perspective to understand a world. To know two languages is to be human twice. 2) With only a single new word from a different language you are a richer person. Why not enhance your richness? 3) If you pray in another language - you pray twice.

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Prestige Points: 1502
Knowledge	10.0 Best of the best
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Timeliness	9.89 Best of the best
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Number Of Questions (in Past 24 Hours)		0
Max Questions to be Asked (in 24 Hour period)		4
Total Questions (since joining AllExperts)		161

Recent Reviews from Users

Knowl	Clarity	Time	Politeness	Date
10	10	10	10	03/25/08
10	10	10	10	03/17/08
10	10	9	10	03/17/08
10	10	10	10	03/12/08
10	10	10	10	03/08/08

User Comments

WOW! awesome! thank you so so much! you answered all my questions plus some! this was even better than asking family members because much of our la
(alex on 03/25/08)

Thanks so much for the response.
(Audra on 03/17/08)

The response was just what i needed and has been really helpful to me. I can now write a message to my friend in her own language.
(Elaine on 03/17/08)

Thank you so much for this information. I've been mispronouncing my own name for 50 years! You have been most helpful. Gregory
(Gregory on 03/12/08)

Thanks for the prompt response. My friends will appreciate it!
(Bruce on 03/08/08)

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Recent Answers from Maciej St. Ziêba

2008-03-28 Pronounciation of Kwiatkowski: Dear Susanne, I am unable to answer your question as it is stated: "How is Kwiatkowski pronounced in American English?" You have to ask some Americans how they pronounce this name as they see it...

2008-03-24 names of family members: Dear Alex: Not all the terms in common use have connotation with either the maternal or paternal side. In fact the most of those have by now gone into oblivion the aither tend to disappear (marked with...

2008-03-19 Kacprzak and Maciej: Hi, Anarres Thanks for the nice words. My first name (which corresponds to Mathias or Matthias in English) is pronounced [MAH-chay] - ("ah" as "a" in father, "ay" as in May, the syllable CAPITALISED...

2008-03-15 Polish Nickname for Michael: Hi, Questions about nicknames are really tricky ones. The usual forms are: (in the brackets I give these forms without the special Polish letters): - Micha³ (Micha³), pronounced [MEE-how] - the "full"...

2008-03-13 pronunciation and definition: Hi Rachel The name should be pronounced "gzhih-BOSS-key". Pronounce "zh" as in "Brezhnev" or as "s" in "leisure", "ih" as "i" in "pit". The phrase you write me it's most probably: idŸ do domu spaæ...