Fuck, this is hard to believe… What a loss for the world…

Wish PSL was on the ballot in my state. The probability of libs going REEEEE GREEN PARTY VOTERS GAVE US TRUMP is 100%.

Yea, I think overall I was really surprised the depiction of the USSR wasn’t outright negative. It did play the trope “soviets are cold and calculating, while americans are creative and smart”, but idk maybe that’s true when it comes to chess? Idk

let’s not put someone’s personal struggles into a meme

Thanks for this post cumrade. I came across MIA previously, but never implemented it into my learning process. Gonna try out refold.la and see how it goes. I’ve tried reading books that I find interesting to immerse myself, but I think I need to find some shows because there’s just too many words I don’t know at my current intermediate level.

Yea, I started speaking early (out of necessity because I moved to the country where the language is spoken), and now I have to unlearn some of my bad pronunciation habits. Wish I hadn’t pressured myself to start speaking so early.

This book was just translated into Polish this year, so unfortunately no ebook is up yet. But I just bought a physical copy. I haven’t finished a book in Polish yet, because I seem to lose interest after the first couple chapters due to my trash Polish. Please bully me into keeping up with this reading series.

I’ve also really struggled on finding reading material with simple language that is still somewhat interesting. You can use chomikuj.pl to find tons of graphic novels and ebooks in Polish (it’s a weird file-sharing website where you have to pay to download files. sounds sketchy and weird paying money for pirated content but it’s popular in Poland and has the most content I’ve found. Although if you know any good Polish torrent sites lmk.) Edit: Oh and the anarchist library also has a decent collection, so you can find short articles that have been translated into Polish and then read them in English.

I’m still behind on Polish cinema, but I’d recommend Boże Ciało which you can probably find online. You can also watch Tylko Nie Mów Nikomu on YT although it’s about catholic priests and pedophilia in Poland so it’s a hard watch.

Powodzenia comrade. Polski jest naprawdę dużo pracy, więc uczmy się razem!

Oh and if you’re looking for a podcast to listen to, I would recommend Polski Daily. I tried listening to Real Polish, and the dude is such a chud that even though he has tons of content and speaks slowly and clearly with transcripts, I can’t bare listening to him.

Edit: Also here’s a script you can use to scrape all the PolishPod101 lessons (which I’ve found to be pretty useful): https://github.com/nedlir/languagepod101-scraper. If you have trouble using it, I can OnionShare the courses I’ve downloaded over to you.

Haven’t considered this before. Aren’t automatic book scanners expensive though?