Polish Golden Owl Hall of Fame
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As I will be taking over the Hall of Fame post, a new topic had to be created as I cannot edit another contributor's post. The old topic, with many interesting and valuable stories of the learners, can be found here. This post has been updated to account for the users who commented since the last update of the old post.
Disclaimer: You do not have to have every skill at crown level 5 to be listed here, the topic after all was first created when the crown system didn't exist yet. You just need to have all skills til the very end of the tree finished, at any level :)
Finishing a skill tree takes a lot of work... especially when you're learning Polish.
Few have managed to achieve the extraordinary feat of getting the Polish Golden Owl. Are you one of them? This is the place to brag about it!
Just leave a comment in this thread to let us know that we should add you.
Polish Golden Owl holders (173):
Last Update: 11 February 2019
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I finished Polish tree.
My native is Serbo-Croatian and I'm fluent in Russian so that probably helped. Grammar and pronunciation were quite easy for me,but spelling is so hard. Polish also has a lot of "false friends" for other Slavic languages.
Added, welcome to the list :) And congratulations!
Yes, that's the thing about being Slavic... many things are very easy and suddenly you encounter something that works completely differently and that's really hard to get to remember.
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Thank you Jellei for your continued support! Great contribution to the Polish-Learning Duolingo society :)!
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Isn't this reinventing the wheel? Or rather, laboriously handcrafting the wheel when someone else has already invented the super-luminal, anti-gravity jet-bike?
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Fair enough; efficiency generally precludes commenting, and comments can be very worthwhile (they can also not be, of course). More people seen to know about Duome than about this thread going by the number of Polish-owl-holders, unless we are to consider owl-holders to have statistical bias towards knowing about Duome. I have a Polish owl, and know about it, so perhaps I am biased myself, but I think I should be on your list, either way.
Sure thing, adding you now :)
I believe that Duome somehow collects the data automatically, I'm on the list for Russian and I don't recall 'signing up' in any way so potentially I could not know about it despite my nickname being there.
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Thanks!
I think you 'sign up' simply when anyone enters your username into the duome URL; duome then collates whatever public information is available from your DL user file and, if it meets certain requirements of streak, XP, etc, saves it—only then does it update automatically.
My inference above about people knowing about duome going by numbers is obviously utter nonsense—what I probably meant was that duome is a bit more representative of learners than a list in a forum post. The moral of this story is not to try to construct a cogent argument after consuming an excessive quantity of brandy; I am frankly amazed that what I wrote makes any sense at all. Apologies!
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It's great to see my name here again :D I'm improving my record so as to be at level 5 at every lesson - and consequently catch all crowns available.
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I've worked my way to the end of the tree :D I only have 200 something crowns, so still some work left until all lessons are level 5. (Hope I didn't misunderstand and that by golden owl you mean everything is level 5)
Actually when the topic was created, there were no crowns yet, so the Golden Owl was awarded after what would now be considered Crown 1 (well, the exercises were more mixed in difficulty). So many people listed above don't have everything at level 5, I guess.
I will mention it at the beginning that you only have to finish the whole course to be on the list, nevermind the crown level.
Congratulations on finishing and good luck making it level 5 :)
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I haven't gotten far into Polish, so maybe this is a stupid question, but what makes getting the golden tree so hard? Is the difficulty due to tedium (i.e. lots of lessons in higher crown levels), or just difficulty?
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For me it was limitations of Duolingo. I am a native Polish speaker and I had problems with many sentences due to the fact that the contributors had not foreseen many correct answers. It took sometimes a long time to find an answer that would fit. Also, I had problems with American English used on Duolingo. I live in the UK and my British English answers were often not accepted.
Please report them - while American English tends to be used in the main answers, all answers correct in (standard) British English should be accepted.
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The same problem exists in Turkish Duolingo too. Although I am a native Turkish speaker, my answers weren't correct.
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I've managed to get the Golden Owl - wow that was hard work! I will keep on going though.
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I finished the Polish tree. You guys helped me learn much more in Polish than "Polak-Węgier dwa bratanki..." verse, so thank you very much! Also got acquainted with two Polish girls via Erasmus who after leaving Hungary, showed me Kraków and since then I also visit Poland regularly.
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And my nickname is SupremeAcorn2359 instead of Achipa19 it's possible that Duolingo hasn't updated it yet...
So you just changed your nickname and I'm not seeing it yet? OK, I can include you under SupremeAcorn2359 if you want.
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Thank you very much! And about the nickname, I had changed it a couple of days before commenting here, but it still shows the previous one.
Yeah, something clearly didn't work, you still have the old one. If you want I can change it to achipa19 on the list.
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I have the golden Polish tree. I started taking lessons from a Polish friend when we were both living in St. Petersburg.
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I was unable to find my name on the list of Polish Golden Owl holders, would you please check and add me to the list, thank you very much.
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wow! I'm working on the polish tree, It's HARD! well done to all those who completed.
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I got the owl! My family is from Poland and I've known how to speak it for a while, but I had very little understanding of the grammar. The course certainly helped!
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Hello everyone! Congratulations on having finished the Polish tree! I conquered my Golden Polish Owl quite a long time ago, so I'd appreciate being added to the list. And thank you Jellei for keeping it alive, it's really good job!
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I got the Polish Golden Owl. I am very thankful to all the contributers and moderators for their work. This Polish course has a great influence on my entire life, because I am planning to move to Kraków and to study in the Jagellonian University. This course greatly improved my ability to understand and speak Polish when I was on A1 and A2 levels. Thank you all again! May God bless you!
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Hi ! I have the golden owl too! i finished the Polish tree some time ago and now i'm going for the German one
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I finished the polish tree as well :) - still trying to keep everything golden.
I've got the owl too and continue studying the language. My native language is Russian. I am originally from Ukraine, so I know Ukrainian too. I think knowing Ukrainian helps to learn Polish better than knowing Russian. Thanks to all contributors to this course for your hard work!
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You can count me in ! Happiness was just one tree away c:
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Jellei, please check my name "PinkHill552" - I did not find myself in your list. (do not look at this actual nickname "WiseFox31"). Thanks.
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I finished the Polish tree about two years ago, but didn't know this "hall of fame" existed until now! Since the implementation of the crowns, I'm going through to upgrade all my skills to level 3 - over halfway through that. This is a lifelong pursuit!
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I finished Polish tree 01.10.2018 (at Level 12). Now I am on L24. Polish is my "heart-language", I live near the Polish border, in my youth everybody near me spoke some Polish words, I watched Polish TV (Bonanza, 4 Pancerni i pies, kpt. Klos ...). It was a great school for me to easier learn Polish now. Thanks for your comments as our tutor Jellei !.
As mentioned under the other comment - welcome! :) And thank you for your kind words :)
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I'm very happy to say that I have today been awarded the golden owl. This has been a most enjoyable journey. I had some Polish before I started the course, and I now feel that I have improved a lot. My next goal is to reach level 25 - I'm about three thousand XPs off it at the moment. And thanks for your exemplary contribution to this course, Jellei!
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I've heard this language is rather difficult. About how many hours would it probably take for a native English speaker to finish the skill tree on Polish? I've got a goal to be a Hyperpolyglot and Polish is on my list.
I don't know about the time in Duolingo. But if you spent some time on other European languages, this map may give you the idea: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/language-difficulty-map/
If you finished the whole course and want to be added, I guess it counts... did you?
