Al Polonski


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Extensive Reading: Tips to Successful Language Learning

The time when a person has mastered his native language is both significant and sad. It's sad just because the person has stuck to this language's rules and logic. Hence, it becomes too difficult to learn any other language, even common one. That's the permanent problem traditional methods of language learning can't solve. Why? Just because they are not oriented to poke a new logic into recipient's... (posted by Al Polonski 6 years 237 days ago.)
Understanding Russian Idioms: Let's Use Imagination
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Definitely, the most complicated and terrible thing for students of foreign languages is foreign idioms. Those odd and often senseless sequences of words that mean something for native speakers can stun any foreigner that just knows usual meaning of words. However, when you study language, always comes a time when you begin to understand its logic, and later, the... (posted by Al Polonski 6 years 242 days ago.)