English must be fairly prevalent in Poland if you can get by without speaking the language, did you not learn Polish because everyone around you always spoke English instead? I’m a bit ashamed to only speak one language, even though both of my parents speak several languages and I learned French in school for years. I’m still stuck just knowing English and understanding broken bits of Spanish and French.

It kind of sucks to be mono-lingual. Well, i can speak a bit of Spanish, especially in a pinch (i.e. that time when I was totally lost in somewhere in Spain where no one spoke English). But what a great illustration! It’s beautiful.

What a lovely illustration! I try really hard to speak my moth tongue but I’m not too great at it. My sister has sort of rebuked it alltogether. I hope planes don’t help up to lose our diversity

I feel the same way with Korean. Though I haven’t been there since I was three, I still feel like I’m missing this large chunk of my heritage by not being fluent in it. I can understand it well enough, but my writing skills are rudimentary at best. Though I can comprehend the enthusiastic sayings of my mom pretty well. :)

This drawing is am.aaaaazing. It’s so simple yet expressive– this is what I love best about the drawing. Just the bare minimum that shows everything.

umm.. okkay.. WOW!!!

ur usage of very ”standard” english is delightful.. are you making up for the fact that you stand behind the borderline along with miss boyle when it comes to sexualness?? hmm??

:D it did amuse me very much tho’. oh and please kindly back off.. sucking upto shini and lavishing her with flattery is MY job and i take it very seriously.. do not make me #&*()($@%#$#@Q%$% you while you sleep..

I know how you feel! I can understand 90% of Cantonese but can’t read/write and words I don’t know, I substitute for English- Chinglish some would call it! I went to a Sunday school up until I was 12 but was never motivated to actively learn it. I wish I stayed on.

That illustration is stunning! It’s been drawn with such amazing detail!

I thought you’re fluent in Polish since you grew up in Poland?!

I’m multi-lingual myself, Hakka (chinese dialect) is my first language which I know 90% of it, can’t speak it well though. Cantonese is my second language which I’m crap at it but I’m good at reading chinese characters. English is my third and currently learning mandarin and korean :D

Sweet illustration.

Oh same here, both of my grandparents are based in Fanling and Tai Po. The Lee clan’s village is based somewhere in Tai Po. And yours?

Sweetie – that’s so kind that you feel this way. It show that your really emotional and good person.
Love your blog and if you ever will feel like talking polish – let me know. Pozdrawiam z Krakowa i zapraszam. Teraz jest bardzo pięknie, wiosna przyszła !

Hey Park and Cube
I feel a bit weird saying this, I have a friend name Lilja and you guys are very alike in a certain way. Some moment in your photos I feel like Im looking at Lilja.

Im actually multi-lingual .
It’s darn complicated sometimes but sometimes positively helpful especially when I travel.

I know what you mean, my fiance and his family all speak Afrikanns. I am trying to learn, but it’s hard when your brain no longer retains everything.

~F

oh wow I didn’t know you didn’t speak Polish! I’ve been educated in Chinese from the age of five all the way until high school but I can’t speak it or write it and I can BARELY read it and understand it. Thank goodness I can type Chinese (granted that I kind of know what I want to type…). I BET you’re almost fluent in Korean!

What a lovely illustration!

And a great blog Shini, so cleanly designed and interesting posts.

xx

That’s a beautiful portrait, she captured you so well! Does Julia have a website too?
I completely get what you mean about the frustration with languages, I’ve studied French since I was 11 but still wouldn’t dare open my mouth in Paris! Oh the shame…

It’s so sweet that you try speak polish. It’s difficult languag, Polish also have problems with it :)
I wouldn’t be surprised, if you didn’t know it at all. Roman Polanski, who lives in America for ages, has awful polsich-english accent, and his polish is also not good. I’m Julias friend, from Krakow. You are lovely girl Shini, can’t wait to meet you.

Gorgeous illustration. Don’t be ashamed, you can always learn.

that illustration is so beautiful… i love it!

Beautiful illustration. She’s really captured you!

I didn’t realise that’s where you grew up. I really have so much to catch up on about you, Shini! As the Photodiarist, said, it really does suck to be mono-linguistic. My whole family, it turns out, are pretty crap at learning other languages (maybe because we all use English more than the average family! We’re a pretty chatty bunch).

Actually it was the Photodiarist who helped me realise I could translate comments on people’s blogs – in French, say – using an online program. Thank god for the internet!!

That really is a beautiful illustration, I agree, she captured you perfectly.

Oh! Forgot why I came here. Linking your post in the one I’m about to put up, on Hedvig, who you must meet soon. Hope you’re having a good weekend & see you Tuesday for breakfast ; )

yeah dude i lived in hong kong for 18 years and barely speak the language well. I sound like a foreigner trying to blabber some words out and half the time I stare at waiters as if they’re speaking crazy to me. nooo idea whats going on. Anyway pretty illustration, your little mouth looks like a doll haha so cute!

The penmanship is brilliant! Really captures you exactly.

Lovely drawing!

Beautiful illustration .

the google translator si a nice free tool that you can get online~”