To finish this teacher's voice on teaching and learning, I would like to be sure I've made peace with all the readers who might have felt insecure when reading the previous entry.
Foreign language is a particular kind of tool.
Take for example some of the instruments you might need at work: typically, the better the instrument, the better the outcome. A graphic designer needs professional software to produce a high-quality website layout. A neurosurgeon will call for a sharp and sterile scalpel, or better a high-tech microsurgical laser scalpel, to be more precise. Even your kids will soon claim that in order to communicate with friends they must have at their disposal a state-of-the-art cell phone. Striving for perfection of tools is omnipresent.
Unlike other instruments, your second language does not have to be perfect to be used.
Or, in other words, you don’t have to know all the structures and vocab to start speaking, reading and writing. And it’s a bad news for all the perfectionists: you can only improve your command of foreign language when you use it, imperfect as it is. There’s definitely no other way.
You can start practicing with writing comments here. I've changed the settings so that this option is now available for everybody.
make peace - pogodzić się
insecure - niepewny/ie
entry - tu: notatka
particular=special
outcome=result
layout - szablon, makieta
state of the art - najnowoczęsniejszy
striving for perfection - dążenie do doskonałości
omniprsent - wszechobecne
in other words - innymi słowy
definitely - zdecydowanie, z pewnością
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