Mini mission: Reawakening a dead language! (Hungarian)
From the mission archive, Benny gives himself ten focused hours to revive his Hungarian before returning to Budapest for a conference.
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How far can you get in 5 hours? The Norwegian mission!
with a pretty successful Polish mini-mission behind me, tomorrow I am flying to Oslo!
Of course I plan to be a respectful tourist and be fully capable of ordering food, asking for directions, being polite and giving basic information about myself, all in Norwegian.
However, since I am not under any pressure to do something else (my trip to Warsaw was specifically to speak at TEDx, and preparing for that talk took time out of the 5 hours I had planned for Polish, knocking it down to only 2! The talk went well, and you can see a cool visual representation of what I was saying in the image above that was drawn while I was saying it!), I think I will actually manage to do five full hours of preparation this time! 🙂
My First Polish Conversation After One Hour of Study
Benny tried a first Polish video call after one hour of study. See what helped, what he misunderstood and what happened after two hours.
Mission Impossible? Polish in 5 Hours
From the 2013 archive, Benny prepares for a three-day trip to Poland with five focused hours of Polish for basic tourist conversations.
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