This newly unveiled monument in front of the Town Museum in Żory (Silesia) is probably the very first monument to Language Documentation in Poland! It shows the Polish ethnographer Bronisław Piłsudski with an Ainu informant and a wax cylinder recorder. The monument was designed by Ainu designer/sculptor Maki Sekine.
photo from: https://www.radio90.pl/pomnik-bronislawa-pilsudskiego-stanal-przed-muzeum-w-zorach.html
During the two years of the MA program, ELLDo students take classes in a foreign language other than English with a total amount of 240 hours (for example, two classes a week during four semesters).
All students from countries other than Poland are requested to study Polish for 120 teaching hours. These classes can be credited as your “foreign language”. For the remaining 120 hours, you may continue Polish or choose another language.
For students starting in 2021/2022 the offer at the Institute of Applied Linguistics will include:
– French for beginners
– German for beginners
– Latvian for beginners
– Estonian for beginners
– Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Hindi, and Indonesian on an advanced level
Attention: some classes require knowledge of Polish (we will consult all students individually).
You may also choose a language class from another institute of the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures (if the respective teacher accepts you), but this may give rise to problems with your time table.
We have this nice tradition at our university that each year in May students who will finish their MA studies take part in a celebration called “absolutorium”. The term should not be taken too serious – there are still some exams ahead and MA theses to complete, but as students actually finish at various dates from mid June till the end of September we take this opportunity to celebrate together. So, this year the first generation of ELLDo students threw their hats into the air, and their teachers proudly cheered them on 19 May 2018.
(PS There are also 2 ELLDo teachers on the above picture – can you identify them?)
The conference
Engaged Humanities: preserving and revitalizing endangered
languages and cultural heritage
will be held in Warsaw in November. See more information here:
I first thought it was a joke, but it seems that some people in the USA are celebrating a National Grammar Day today. Well, for me each day is grammar day – and that’s not about what is “correct” and what isn’t, but about the fun exploring the structures of languages.
Nicole Nau
Sorry, the timetable posted last week was wrong. This here is the corrected version:
… still register for the program!
Check here for more information about the procedure.
Which language do you want to learn?
As part of this MA programme you will learn a new language with classes two times a week over two years. In 2016/17 we offer a class in Lithuanian specially designed for ELLDo students (no knowledge of Polish needed) and the possibility to study Khmer or Chinese together with students from other programmes.
See and get our poster here:
