#561 Beat Exam Stress: How to Pass Polish B1 Without Panic

0:00 Welcome to LearnPolishPodcast. You can find all our episodes on LearnPolishPodcast.com. You can get a list from Anja in Polish or in Spanish. You'll find the links to the show notes and you'll find everything about me. Scan the QR code or go to RoyCon.com if I miss you. So that's all my businesses, including virtual assistants and two school groups. Cześć, Tania. Cześć. Zapytam się ciebie, jak się masz na początku. Jak zawsze. Wszystko z porządku. A u ciebie? What did you do in the weekend? I was a ping pong with my son. What did you do in the weekend? Because it's obvious. It was to remember what you did in your routine. That you played ping pong.

0:43 No, so great. I'm sure if you're good on the weekend, then what? Today we'll talk again. You're probably going to talk to me again. No, you're not sure. No, I'm sure. Like all of us here, who are listening to me. But I'm already here, I have a new topic, I thought I would like to talk about it, but in sum... Which is something, which we talked a little bit about stress, but now, concretely in one case, the case of Polish language. No, Roy, tell me, because you are a country, you are a country.

1:26 Tell us, people who listen to us here, they also learn Polish, they also learn Polish, to tell me Roy, what was your experience with Polish language? Because you speak a little bit in Polish. The first time I was, I went to university for a month. It was from 9 to 13, probably 5-6 hours a day, but it was no sense, because there was a group. And I understand a little bit in Polish, but I don't. So it was very difficult for me, I don't understand it. It was money for cash and my cash.

2:11 So it wasn't good. And then I have a person who will teach me in my bureau. And then I work, because I have a few businesses, I was a little bit of a mess. And I slept with a teacher, when I was a teacher next to me. Yes, yes, I was a teacher. And then she gave me a tennis ball. I can juggle, I don't know, juggle in Polish. Juggle. Yes, and it helps a lot. I remember the word.

2:54 Okay, so I'm sure you didn't have a good student. No, no, no. But I always... You know, I listened to Rosetta Stone, Pimbsner, I was a novel all the time. And then I was in school. One time first, then a few times a week. But I've never done a test on B1. Did you want to do it? I think that's only when I work with a firm. But for me it's only when I can talk to people. Mm-hmm, tak, no, żeby się komunikować.

3:41 Każdy ma właśnie jakiś inny cel. O, i tu będzie dobry moment, żeby zadać pytanie wszystkim słuchającym. Dlaczego oni uczą się polskiego, tak? No, każdy ma swój cel. Nie każdy musi zdawać egzamin B1. Nie każdy musi przygotowywać się tak profesjonalnie. Można po prostu tutaj jak ROJ, tak, komunikacyjnie, żeby sobie pogadać, niekoniecznie profesjonalnie, bo no, tak. czy tam jakieś tam błędy, no właśnie. Jest to egzamin z języka obcego, no bo właśnie myślę, że, no nie wiem właśnie, czy osoby nas słuchające mają już ten egzamin, czy nie, ale właśnie chciałam się Ciebie Rui zapytać, jak myślisz, na przykład Ty, czy gdybyś Ty zdawał taki egzamin, to czy byłbyś zestresowany?

4:33 No, it's a hypothetical situation. No, because you won't be able to be stressed. But if you were stressed, you would be stressed? I know, when I did another test in school, in university, there was stress. Yes, there was stress. So, Poles could also be stressed? Yes, exactly. Yes, and now, tell me, if the stress before an exam from foreign language, or from Polish, or from other words, can help, or even if it is wrong, can hurt? Yes, I would say... It is not helpful. It is better, because I think that I will do it before an exam.

5:19 Of course, I understand the topic, because I must study this topic, but I think that meditation is a breathwork. I think it's before... It's a relaxer, because when you're relaxer, I think better. When you're stressed... I remember when I was younger, I always in the night before exam, I read about 6 hours. It's not a sense, it's better to know the subject. I relax. So now, when I have an exam, I think I'll meditate.

6:01 I relax. You listen to good music, you can go to the spacer, but you don't stress, you read the whole time, you don't watch notes, because it won't help. It won't help. Well, now we're talking about this exam. Why this exam is especially stressful for the obcokreisers, which is for you here, and how it is that sometimes, even with my students. They have in mind that so-called red. So, nothing. They can do it, but there is a moment that they remember everything.

6:43 And how it is? How to do you deal with this? Did you have to do some kind of exam? To jest, bo ja myślę, że wszystko chcesz robić bardzo dobrze, tak? I ten stres niedobry na mózg i dlatego masz tak czasami blank, tak? No i czarna dziura. Czyli masz czarną dziurę, nic, umiesz wszystko, ale ostatecznie nie umiesz nic. No dobra, a teraz zadam Ci takie pytanie z Twojej perspektywy. To, co jest najbardziej stresujące albo może najtrudniejsze, to pytanie też kieruję do słuchających.

7:25 Mówienie, czytanie, pisanie czy słuchanie? Co jest najbardziej stresujące? Dla mnie pisanie, bo czasami znam słowo, ale kiedy czytam, bo na przykład wiem, and when you read it, I don't know what to do, or something like that, always change. And my mind doesn't explain this word. Aha. You understand? When I read it, it's hard for me. Aha. So, reading is difficult for you. I see that here with me, I don't have any problem, because you speak. Yes, of course, we are laughing.

8:08 I really want to know from the people who are listening to us, What is the most difficult for them? Or, here, obviously, in relation to the language. And what kind of a problem is that it is the most difficult for them? Is it the language in Polish? Is it the language in Polish? Is it the language in Polish? Or maybe the language in Polish? No, right. A Roy, tell me, if you had a stress situation with Polish language? You had to say something, but suddenly... You were stressed out so that you could not say anything in Polish. So you didn't have any situation in any way. Czasami, na przykład, kiedy jest osoba od innych kraj i mówi po polsku, dużo rozumiem.

8:54 Ale czasami, kiedy osoba mówi, nic nie rozumiem. And czasami, ja pytam, czy ja rozumiem po polsku, bo czasami jest nic, and it's bardzo trudny, bo ludzie mówią bardzo szybko or niedobro. And to jest bardzo trudne dla mnie. I think sometimes I think that... The normal people, when they talk, they don't fit their own country to their own country. They just talk naturally. And so it is. When they talk naturally, they talk quickly. Everything is very quickly. And the poor country person doesn't understand anything.

9:38 And so. And they stress it. No, they stress it. Stress is absolutely bad. to zły. No tak. Dobra, Aroj, a powiedz mi, czy ty uważasz, że faktycznie na egzaminie mogłaby być taka sytuacja, że ktoś stresuje się na tyle, że dosłownie przestaje mówić po polsku, mimo, że mówi dobrze. Czy można się zestresować aż do tego poziomu, że przestajesz mówić? Tak, tak. I wszystko zależy jak uczy, bo na przykład czasami może być na lekcje i nauczycielko mówić as, ab 10 minutes, 15 minutes potem, 6-tee będzie pamiętisch, Everything, right? And to maybe for a few people is possible, but for me it's not.

10:25 I have to repeat this, repeat this, understand, right? Everything depends on the situation. Everything depends on the situation. Yes, right. Now, we often feel like we are afraid before solving mistakes and my students also don't want to speak, because they are not going to say, because they are not going to say, but they are not going to say, but they are not going to say, they are going to say, they are going to say, because they are going to say, they are going to say, because they are going to say, they are going to say, because they are going to say, they are going to say, because they are going to say, they are going to say, because they are going to say, they are going to say, because they are going to say, they are going to say, because they are going to say, they are going to say, because they are going to say, with a stress, with a stress, with a problem of mistakes, because if you don't have to do it, you need to do it, and you need to do it, because if you don't have to do it, you don't have to do it, but a lot of people are stressed when they feel, that they are in a wrong way, they are in a wrong way, they can't go away from it, because they know that they are going to do it.

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12:33 Do you know? People say, when I say I say I can't when I'm stupid or. Say I say I say I say I don't understand because people think when I say I will understand but when I don't understand I don't understand and I know because I have a few people who don't speak English And when I don't understand the word, I don't say it wrong, I can change the structure, and then understand it. But sometimes, wise people.

13:16 If you are wise or not, they can't do it. I can change the word, because I understand it. In English, I can do it, when I speak Polish, with people who speak Polish, who speak English. I understand contacts and everything is in the same way, but not everything can be done. And I also remember, When I was at a company with people, and I was a little bit, people say, Roy, you speak very well in Polish, why don't I speak? Because when you are a little... I don't have a problem. I don't have a problem. Because when you are a young person, you have a lot of your mind in the middle of your mind.

14:02 Very often there are different publications that drinking alcohol helps speak in languages. But we just don't stop it. The previous podcast was about the independence of alcohol. Now we say that alcohol helps. But I don't recommend to drink a little water before the next episode. No, I don't recommend it. I absolutely don't do it. But, anyway, we just don't stress. But, no, better not. Lepiej oczywiście, nie? Lepiej wypracować to naturalnie, bez żadnych środków, które nam, i substancji, które mogłyby nam w tym polegnie.

14:45 Tak? No właśnie. Roy, i teraz tak. W związku z tymi błędami i tą gramatyką perfekcyjną, którą każdy chce mieć, to powiedz mi, co jest ważniejsze? No, tutaj rozmawiamy o języku polskim, ale to w sumie można zaaplikować do jakiegokolwiek języka, tak szczerze mówiąc. Co jest ważniejsze? perfect grammar or communication? 100% communication. No, right. So, communication. Well, that exam, that's the grammar too, but for communication, it's not important. It's important to communicate. No, okay. Roy, you said you were a teacher and you were a teacher. You were a teacher.

15:27 Tell me, what kind of methods have you or how you practice or how do you remember new words in Polish? Maybe you repeat, you repeat, you listen to my podcast, so? And also my son, because sometimes we go to the park and a few times, maybe three times, and one time we speak in Polish, so? And my son says everything, and I understand everything. and when I don't understand my son can repeat and repeat, because he knows, and then I will remember.

16:16 Like, like, I don't know. But sometimes, when you learn a language, or like my son, sometimes you write things, and it's not a sense. Like, penguin, like penguin, skakasz to the window, or something. Because it's better when you say something, it's very important to repeat on your life, right? But a lot of time for books is information, which is no sense. It won't help, because it won't be remembered. Mm-hmm. So, yes, everyone has their own methods. I also want to read in the comments about what other people have here.

17:01 What is your method? I think, because you speak English and Spanish, that language is very easy for you, but it has to be a method. What is your method? Secret. I don't have a secret. No, I don't know. I just like that. I don't know. I don't know. I think so. I just forgot to do that. I think so. I think so. I think so. I think so. that they may not interest me, but have some of those who have a lot of people who have a lot of resources to put in the area.

17:51 I just think that, No, I don't know, I've always been a linguistic person, and I've always been, I've always been, I've always been, I've always been, I've always been, I've never changed. Some people learn languages because they have to, but they want to. And I think that's a great lesson, especially the learning of Polish language. Of course, I'm joking. Of course, I'm joking. But it is also important, because we always have a joke, but it is easier to talk with you. And you have to be a teacher who is happy when you talk. And you are not going to talk about it, because sometimes people go to school and there is a person who never will talk with this person, right?

18:41 And they don't have contact, they don't have to talk about it, but they love to talk with this person. And I think that you have to change. I remember there were a few teachers from the school here in Łodzi, and I was in the first class, and it wasn't for me. It must be that I feel energy, I feel good. I remember when I was in school, I taught French French, and that teacher was very, very sad. And it's a little bit and and scoda bo chowbem movie troher po francisco sir latin ni pamidams kilka bonjour je m'appelle roy j'habite irlandia au revoir and merd and just the you stress three lats.

19:38 So, it must be a good teacher, like a teacher. No, so. Because this is an important component of the teacher, who is ready for exam B1. Because here, the teacher is one, the examiner is the second. Because in the examiner, we have examinator. So, the person who talks about it. The person who first observe when we write. And then the examiners, who are with us, will be a conversation, so that's a sense of mind, so the moment we have to answer the questions in the sense. No, right. But I have a very important question for you, Ania.

20:21 Oh, oh, yeah. Because I always say A1, B1, C1. I don't know what it is. I know what it is. You have to do a test. But for people who don't know, but can do what is B1 exactly, what is C, A1 on test? To is the topic, what is it? A1, A2, B1, B2, etc. C1 to are just levels of language standards, which are known in European Union. Now every level has its requirements. The most important level is A1, so generally this is the level of the beginning, the level of the beginning, the level of the beginning, which is the level of the basic level of the language.

21:20 Umiejętność poradzenia sobie w najbardziej podstawowych sytuacjach. Czyli, nie wiem, poproszenie o pomoc, przywitanie się, tak? Potrafienie wypowiedzieć się na jakiś naprawdę prosty temat, tak? Potem, no wiadomo, skalujemy, stopniujemy, idziemy wyżej, tak? A dwa jest już troszeczkę bardziej zaawansowane niż a jeden, czyli nadal potrafimy rozmawiać na te najbardziej podstawowe tematy, czy powiedzieć, że czegoś chcemy, że czegoś potrzebujemy, tak? In a little bit more advanced. No B1 is a little more advanced, because it scales up to every level.

22:01 And in B1, we can already read it. These are quite complicated, such as a first round of applause. You can read it in a little bit more difficult. To say, no, I don't know, problem, like, in sum, like, like we have here in podcast, so some kind of issues, some kind of issues that are in a way of saying that it's a way of doing a way of doing this, that's how I'm saying, problem, some kind of education. Some kind of issues, some kind of issues, I'm saying, that's why I'm talking about then it's easier to do, if I'm saying, if I'm doing a lot of things, if I'm doing a lot of things, I'm doing a lot of things, at least at the bottom of the level.

22:51 You know, there are some some random mistakes, because there are no people who are not mistaken, so there are no people who are not mistaken, so there are no mistakes. There are some random mistakes, but you know, that's the grammatical mistake, so these common mistakes are not mistaken. Then, on the next B2. You know, the grammar is already a whole. The B2 is already a grammar, so the fact. The grammar is a little more advanced words, words, maybe some constructions, some idioms, something like that. No, a C1 is already a level of native language. So, here, in the grammar, in the grammar, in the idiom, and that kind of thing, that kind of trouble.

23:40 There's also a lot of kolokwialism, a lot of phrases, which is the day in the way in this way. Not in the kind of scripture, which is the A1, where you are just starting, you are just talking, please forgive me, thank you, do you have it. And then on the C1, there are already advanced words, which are already native speakers that's what's happening in the day. And I think that's what it is. I think that's what it is. It's all possible. Of course. I'm learning to learn. Grammaty, I'm going to say, A1, A2, B1 is to say, then you can just celebrate it.

24:28 So, grammaty is the best way to say. Why? Why? Why? B is better than B, and A is the best, and now it is back, right? It's like A is minimum, B is better, C is the best, right? Why do you do that? Because you know everything when you're in school. I know that this country is like 20, 45, 26, the best. And my country is always like D is like 40 to 54, C, B, and then E, and then A+. Why do you do that?

25:12 It's backwards. It's funny, right? Yeah, it's true. I think that if you, you know, you're talking about the price, so the worst is the one, the worst is the one, the worst is the one, the two, the three, the four, the five, the six, the six is the best. Tell me, Rui, is that you got the one in school? It's alive, but when I was... No, no, in the history of Ireland, I was 13, I was the biggest class in the school, I was probably 18%.

25:55 And the teacher said, my dad will do better, and she doesn't live 10 years. Yes, yes. But then, when I was 15, I had another teacher who was very nice. I always had 100. And on the last exam, I had the best mark. So, I was the worst and the best teacher. or other teachers. Well, you know, it depends on the teacher, it depends on the teacher. It turns out that there are no good students, but there are no good teachers, even Roy, who never said anything, then it turned out that it was a teacher.

26:40 So, it is a teacher. So, like, I'm going to say, for all the people who, do some of the exams, No matter whether it's a test from Polish or from other languages or another test, it's all about to try not to stress. And really, the world doesn't like it. Roy, how would you like to throw this for all the people who could potentially stress? How can I do not stress? Yes, how can I do not stress? It's better when you like to learn.

27:25 Because sometimes people speak in the mouth. I know people. I hate Polish, tak? That's what I said. Tak, mówi to, bo kiedy mówi to... Na pewno, kiedy mówi to, nie będzie pomóc, tak? Bo dla mnie jest, jak ja chcesz więcej, lepiej, lepiej, tak? So nigdy mówi źle o język or twoje mózg, bo kiedy mówi my mózg nie działa, twoje mózg nie działa. Nie mówi źle do twoje mózg. Mówi piękne słowo, tak, pozytywne, tak? I will be better than this year, than the last year.

28:30 If they are stressed or not, what is the most difficult for them, what is not. How is Poland's progress? And that's all I wanted to say. Thank you very much, Roy, and see you in the next video. So if you want to get lessons from Anja, as you can see, she's a good teacher. You can get lessons A, A, Y, D, N, E, D, A, B, C, just go and, and you'll find her in information in the show notes, both on the audio and the video. Find everything about me, scan the QR code, you'll see my six podcasts. I've got one on meditation, so that might help you during your exams, and you'll find that on rycallen.com.

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