A friend of mine said that in his understanding of world, every man should cheer somebody on and enjoy if supported team defeat another.

I totally disagree with this sentence. Why man should support whoever? As for me it’s a waste of time, energy that’s going nowhere, artificial stimulation of emotions connected with something without real meaning. I asked him if people could become more manful because of being fascinated other’s play?

I enquired him why man should be an observer? More profitable, from passive spotting, would be making an activity. I explained him if he wanted to achieve any goal he should reach it by work. Sitting and beeing excitated about someone’s fun, that’s to say watching XYZ match, would give him nothing.

Finally I asked him how man could relish when somebody is defeating another? If watching another’s failure could help in any way a healthy pearson? I wondered if looking at others’ victory, in game that’s only entertainment for spectator, could help him in any way in personal success.

In other words: when he said, that every man should cheer somebody on and enjoy others’ defeat to be manful, I thought that the same kind of mannish would be to get blotto.

Then he asked if I suggested that somebody was trying to satisfy his urge of being manful by watching sport games. I denied that. I informed him that most of people probably observe plays for entertainment. I added that a lot of fans could also support theirs need of safety, need to belong to something and need of rivality.

After this chat my friend got angry and started to avoid me for a couple of weeks.

I’ve been learning English for years. My biggest problem was forgetting what I’d learnt. My mind has been throwing away everything what was unused at daily life. At high school I’d founded eTeacher 4.0 who helped me a lot with memorizing new words. There was only one problem – I had to remember making repetitions for every exercise I’d made. These times I thought that things I’d learnt will stay in my mind… and you know what? It’s bullshit. If your brain doesn’t use them, it’ll lose them… or rather the path for getting these things outside.

Results of this mechanism can be frustrating, for example when you’re speaking with someone and try to recall some words but you can’t. They might be very important at this moment but you haven’t used them for a long time. What to do? You should learn them by heart and repeat from time to time. Then they will stay longer and longer in your memory. But it’s hard to ménage with a big amount of words by yourself, notepad or even a flashcards. About 1,5 month ago I’ve founded a good solution – Anki.

Anki is a free program that helps to memorize and review you knowledge. It’s based on virtual flashcards and special algorithm which brings them to repetition exactly when it’s necessary. Repetition intervals get bigger every time you give right answer. First term will be after 8 hours, but nowadays some of my flashcards will be repeated after 2 months :) This gives surety that you’ll keep them in mind but also… this gives you time for learning new things! You don’t lose it for reviewing what you remember perfectly. Another great thing about this mechanism is that it was discovered by polish scientists 25 years ago. They used it in SuperMemo – commercial program for learning languages ect. Read for more at http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermemo

As you see Anki is a tool that can make your study much more effective. The only condition is regularity. You should use Anki every 1-3 days. Without it you’ll be flooded with outstanding repetitions. Learning witch Anki takes me 15-60 minutes per day so it’s not so long. If you want learn foreign language remember one thing: it’s better to do it 15 minutes but every day than 4 hours once a week.

Another great thing abut Anki is that you can add to your flashcards images or mp3/videos with spelling :) There is also on-line version of Anki for internet browsers. You can synchronize flashcards from your PC with your website account and learn wherever you want :) There is also Anki for cell phones so no more losing time in public transport :D

You can get Anki from http://ichi2.net/anki/

Or see how it works:

A week ago I bought a guitar. It’s my third instrument but I was obsessed with the idea of it for a couple of years. As a youngster I tried to play on old Defil but as somebody said: it’s rather furniture than a guitar. After some months of trying to play on something that didn’t want to tune, with terrible ergonomics and string action I’ve given up... until now. For time to time I had a strong feeling that guitar is that I’m missing for. It has an expression and tasty meaty tone. It’s really hard to archive something similar on other instruments. I also notice that from the very beginning I’m trying to play like a guitarist. So maybe it’s better to buy a proper guitar and learn to play on it? Yes it is!

I feel a new fresh wave of ideas for my music. It’s a long hard way to reach the goals I want, but it’s also thing I wanted to do since… ever :) The hardest thing will be to keep a good balance between guitar and my previous instruments. I like them also and I don’t want to miss what I’ve learnt. More of that, I want to keep learning on all of them. So I have a lot of work to do but I’m happy with it :)

They are playing on guitars as mine :D
And You? Do You have any persistent thoughts?



Keep’ on playing my favorite song…

Last Friday I was with my friends on Wawa2010.pl gig. It was made by Karolina Cicha and her guests like Jurij Andruchowycz, Tomasz Budzyński, Olaf Deriglasoff, Czesław Mozil, Tymon Tymański. It was terrible. Main idea for this live act was singing well known songs about Warsaw to music arranged by Cicha. You must know that this girl shouldn’t arrange music.

Some of the songs were quite fine but most of them were done with poor quality. I’ve heard that she ended music school, probably it was primary music school. On Friday she was playing with two instruments. She had bad position of hands on the accordion and her both hands played the same things on the piano. I can only say that she has a nice voice but not for all songs. She spend too much time on moaing. Cicha had great guests but most of them were shout down by her.

Next thing is organisation of this gig. As I think, it was made by public money because it was free for the audience. Four days before Cicha’s album had premiere and you’ll find on it the same material, so the gig gave it a free promotion. You could buy CD’s on it and you could count on big amount of listeners. This free gig was made in Warsaw Uprising Museum two days before Uprising anniversary.

What I think about it? Cicha isn’t known be she want to. She invited great guests that were singing with her well know songs. Some of them were made by popular artist like T.Love or Agnieszka Osiecka, some were from Second World War period. People know them and like them. These elements with public money, free gig in well know place and few days before important anniversary had to help Cicha to stand out. Also I saw on public TV fragments of this live set. I don’t think this gig could be done only with Warsaw Uprising Musem initiative. Program was done unprofessionally. Songs were mixed from different decades and only some of them were connected with historic events. And Cicha… she was everywhere.

It’s not that I’m against Cicha. I simply don’t like her music and this model of promotion is annoying for me. But on the other hand… maybe she isn’t so bad?

This song sound much better one Youtube than gig:

Friday's morning I had a few funny situations. First was at the greengrocer’s shop. This shop have been moved from the old place near train station to the new. Three months ago there was The Shaman Kebab. I was waiting in a queue. An elderly women before me wanted to help the salesmen with fruits boxes. Grandma was grabbing them without salesmen permission and putting to other places. She wanted to move boxes in a right direction but salesman didn’t want that. She could injury herself because she was 66-73 years old.

Second situation was with a cat on my yard. He was laying under the car and I wanted to give him some pieces of sausage. When I was watching him it was OK, but when I threw meat to him, he become scared. He was looking at me and sausage pieces with big attention… and he ran away.

What about You?

I'd like to make an opportunity to discussion in english. It's good for all of us - people working on our language skills. Feel free to write Your opinion :)

Why we eat pigs and cows but not horses and dogs?

Everything is about culture. In Poland dogs are treat in a special way. Most of us believe that they are in better group of animals. Most of us can call them friends. What people think about them in Asia? They are tasty! Dogs in some regions are regional delicacy. How they can eat such an intelligent and nice creatures? Listen carefully: in tests pigs are much more intelligent. How we can eat them? Because they are tasty! You can say dogs were more outgoing... but some people have miniature pigs in their houses and they're very happy with them!

From centuries horses in Poland have a great reputation. They were friends in battles and helpers in cities and villages. Horse meat never was popular in our country... but we are a big deliver of it to Italy! They love horse meat! Strange? Poles like to eat beef but in India You'll be killed for it. Every nation has its own holy cows.


Eating meat and animals suffering

Some people refuse to eat meat because they don't want to spread suffering. You should know that animals are produced on farms like plants. It's a industry with factories. In most of them chickens, pigs, cows ect. cannot even go outside the building. They have a small boxes, large amount of food and drugs. Many of them can't walk because they are so fat. It's wrong but it's not the problem of eating meat. Do You like to eat children, no? So why You buy bread made of plats seeds? They could grow happy in soil. The point is the level of consumption in west countries and wrong diets. People in past never ate so much meat. It was more expensive and not so available. Our forefathers ate more plants and they hadn't such problems with overweight as we today. It's also problem of companies that want earn really big money without interest of quality of meat and animals live, without interest of ecology. Meat production in big scale poisons the environment.


Eat or not to eat?

Animals are tasty and they gives ourbody a huge amout of life-giving substancies. Without them good development of our organism is almost imposible. Some people even say that don’t giving meat to kids it’s unrthical. We are carnivores. But eating too much meat it's unhealthy. We should remember of good balance in diet. We shoud also remeber of our national economy. We have crisis in polish meat industry because of problems with Russia and also a lot of people refuse to eat meat. I think they aren't vegetarians, it's rather connected with swine flu and memory of cows BSE. So it's fear about meat, not empathy for animals. It's good to know that polish food has a great quality in scale of whole Europe. Our farmers don't use so much pesticides and antibiotics...

What do You think? Are You animal rights fighter or maybe gourmet? Can You eat Your dog? :D

Please write also if this post/article is too long ;) I've added it twice because no one has repeated and my post hasn't been listed at main page ;]

I'd like to make an opportunity to discussion in english. It's good for all of us - people working on our language skills. Feel free to write Your opinion :)

Why we eat pigs and cows but not horses and dogs?

Everything is about culture. In Poland dogs are treat in a special way. Most of us believe that they are in better group of animals. Most of us can call them friends. What people think about them in Asia? They are tasty! Dogs in some regions are regional delicacy. How they can eat such an intelligent and nice creatures? Listen carefully: in tests pigs are much more intelligent. How we can eat them? Because they are tasty! You can say dogs were more outgoing... but some people have miniature pigs in their houses and they're very happy with them!

From centuries horses in Poland have a great reputation. They were friends in battles and helpers in cities and villages. Horse meat never was popular in our country... but we are a big deliver of it to Italy! They love horse meat! Strange? Poles like to eat beef but in India You'll be killed for it. Every nation has its own holy cows.


Eating meat and animals suffering

Some people refuse to eat meat because they don't want to spread suffering. You should know that animals are produced on farms like plants. It's a industry with factories. In most of them chickens, pigs, cows ect. cannot even go outside the building. They have a small boxes, large amount of food and drugs. Many of them can't walk because they are so fat. It's wrong but it's not the problem of eating meat. Do You like to eat children, no? So why You buy bread made of plats seeds? They could grow happy in soil. The point is the level of consumption in west countries and wrong diets. People in past never ate so much meat. It was more expensive and not so available. Our forefathers ate more plants and they hadn't such problems with overweight as we today. It's also problem of companies that want earn really big money without interest of quality of meat and animals live, without interest of ecology. Meat production in big scale poisons the environment.


Eat or not to eat?

Animals are tasty and they gives ourbody a huge amout of life-giving substancies. Without them good development of our organism is almost imposible. Some people even say that don’t giving meat to kids it’s unethical. We are carnivores. But eating too much meat it's unhealthy. We should remember of good balance in diet. We shoud also remeber of our national economy. We have crisis in polish meat industry because of problems with Russia and also a lot of people refuse to eat meat. I think they aren't vegetarians, it's rather connected with swine flu and memory of cows BSE. So it's fear about meat, not empathy for animals. It's good to know that polish food has a great quality in scale of whole Europe. Our farmers don't use so much pesticides and antibiotics...

What do You think? Are You animal rights fighter or maybe gourmet? Can You eat Your dog? :D

Please write also if this post/article isn't too long ;)

Hello everyone! I've set up this blog because - as all of You - I want to improve my english and be in tought with this foregn language. It's also nice opportunity to meet new people with the same needs.

What I'm going to do? I'm going to write my notes here quite often and enjoy discussion with You. I love to discuss!

Of course I'm going to visit Your blogs regularly. It will be nice to make a small community of english-practice blogers. What do You think?

My next note will be controversial for some people: "Animals are testy!" I have specific sense of humour and I love british comedies;) See'ya soon!

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