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My passive knowledge of Polish had vastly exceeded my practiced competence, and this just wasn't finding an avenue of expression anywhere. Now, I feel like I may be pretty much fluent within a couple of months, at the current rate of learning.

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Keeping my fingers crossed! It's always hard for me to believe that someone might actually choose to learn Polish. This language is a tangled mess of billion grammar rules and even more exceptions. If I were an expat in Poland I probably wouldn't bother 😅

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I always feel like that's a sort of prideful framing common to Slavic cultures (and many others)! Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, Slovenians etc. have all told me their language is *the* hardest to learn ('BESIDES CHINESE!') and anyway has so few users, and... :P

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Hahahah it all depends who's trying to learn 😄 I gave up on Korean while living in Korea, but my Chinese friends found it super easy. There's a lot of folks living comfortably in Warsaw without speaking any Polish, so I really admire anyone who tries to learn it anyway.

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Sure, but try living in Kielce for 3 years without any Polish! ~A2 level proficiency was a bare necessity for survival, but insufficient for making real friends.

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Yeah, living in Korea made me realize that speaking freely in the local language is required for me to feel at home. But I met many people living there for years who only knew some basic survival phrases and seemed pretty happy with that.

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It worked for me in Prague, but that city had a different feel to it. Might work for me in Warsaw, but now I have other reasons for not wanting to go that way. Either way, I find it aesthetically untenable to just waltz around, all expat-y, expecting people to accommodate me.