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2026-03-27 18:33 UTC
@herissonrose @moonrabbit Wow, the learning curve steepening with age is helpful info to know. My grandma was also Polish, first gen born in the States, and that's why I've tried learning it.
I'm pretty sure I've seen wszcz as a consonant combo...
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@herissonrose@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 18:45
@Starry1086 @moonrabbit Young kids are v neuro-plastic and absorb languages rapidly like sponges. You lose that by teenhood, so it's 10x harder. One year of my granny who only spoke Polish, and 4yr old me was fluent. (Of course, I forgot just as quickly after she went back to help raise my cousin) But pronouncing the sounds stuck. I may not speak it any more, but was the only person who could say my classmate's full name. The other teens just couldn't form the sounds. (ah yes, wszsz!)