Well, it's high time to say something about my other passion. Since I remember I've always been into foreign languages. People used to say it was just a talent of mine. Some kids drew interesting pictures, the others sang beautifully, I was always interested in books. Especially those ones I couldn't have understood:) While kids from the neighborhood were playing outside, I was sitting in my aunt's library, trying to figure out what the book was about.
In the age of 7, I decided to learn English by myself. Tough Task. Since there was nobody who could have taught to me how to pronounce the words, I quit. That was my first experience with foreign language.
Later, when I was in fifth grade, Poland was still under great influence of USSR and everybody had to learn how to speak Russian. That was something else! But don't get me wrong. I just loved all those different signs and letters, and I loved it for 3 years. Then Russian was not obligatory any more..I do remember couple words, some poems, and I understand a lot but I've never had a chance to speak that language..
My real linguistic adventure began in high school. I enrolled in French and English classes. But it wasn't as easy as it seemed:) A week after the school had started, I came home crying and screaming. The same day I told my parents that if they thought that I was going to school again, they were wrong! Everybody kept asking what had happened to me. And I told them.. That day, my French teacher wanted us to memorize and learn how to pronounce "days of the week." I just couldn't pronounce "Mercredi" with a proper accent :D Pretty ironic. That was actually French I've completely devoted myself to. That's why, after graduating from high school, I've chosen to continue my education at Romance Philology Department of Jagiellonian University in Cracow...
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