International Day of Mother Tongue

On 21^st February we celebrated the International Day Of Mother Tongue. On this occasion we had the pleasure to host Dr. Ewa Ficek, a fellow in the Zakład Lingwistyki i Dyskursu Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, and the president of Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciół Instytutu Języka Polskiego UŚ “Via Lingue”. The 1^st grade students had an opportunity to attend two lectures : ‘Do Tych (Tychów) ze szczebrzeszynianką po nowe lewisy? O nazwach własnych I pospolitych uwag kilka’ and ‘Z polszczyzną za pan brat, czyli o normie, błędach i zwyczaju językowym raz jeszcze’.

Thanks to those lectures, our students could not only enlarge their knowledge on the origins and the original meaning of some Silesian words, but were also able to solve some problems connected with linguistic correctness. Besides, students dealt with the rules of complicated Polish orthography writing a dictation prepared especially for this occasion. We hope that the rules of Polish spelling didn’t cause too much trouble.