Learning
Polish:
Been
there,
done
that,
waiting
on
the
t-shirt
We
arrived
in
Poland
not
speaking
any
Polish
whatsoever.
We
had
to
enroll
our
kids
in
school,
find
an
apartment,
shop
for
furniture
and
adjust
to
a
new
life.
We
were
fortunate
to
have
new
friends
help
us
with
the
transition,
but
we
still
had
to
step
out
on
our
own.
We
quickly
learned
the
G.A.P.
method
of
language
acquisition
(Grunt
And
Point).
We
soon
moved
onto
the
"Twenty
Questions"
method
of
shopping
--
a
methodology
which
provided
our
local
storeowners
hours
of
fun.
We
heard
the
spectrum
of
assessments
as
to
the
difficulty
of
the
Polish
language
--
everything
from
"even
my
three
year
old
speaks
Polish"
to
Polish
as
the
language
of
heaven
(because
it
will
take
eternity
to
learn
it).
But,
we
stuck
with
it,
studied
hard,
made
fools
of
ourselves
in
the
neighborhood
and
eventually
got
to
the
place
where
we
could
manage.
At
the
end
of
our
first
four
years
in
Poland,
our
children
could
speak
fluently,
our
oldest
was
winning
contests
in
Polish
grammar
and
literature
and
we
had
developed
deep
friendships
in
Polish.
Our
moments
of
encouragement
come
when
a
bi-lingual
Polish
friend
switches
from
English
to
Polish
because
