u/AkiraYuske

Going to try LingQ for a while and interested in the feature where you provide a link to a YouTube video and it creates the text etc for it you can then read, translate, add words to learn etc.

Any suggestions on content that might be good for this at ~A2/B1 level? Gaming, comedy, documentary, podcast - anything remotely interesting I guess that's in Polish and relatively short

Also any tips for using LingQ appreciated - just starting and I'm a bit all over the place

At a stage where I learn a new verb and I'll then often try and conjugate it and get lost. What's the best way of looking up the various conjugations when you learn a new word?

I know some general rules (e.g "owac" verbs usually needing "uje" and the basic conjugations), but I can't reliably apply them yet, and get especially lost with "cic" endings or ones that use "się".

Any advice?

I made a lot of mistakes when I started learning.

I basically ignored listening. I memorised words without knowing how much they change with context and how fundamental this is.

Now I'm doing a little better, listening to a lot of content, having lessons, doing some (not a huge amount) of grammar (as I find this just impenetrable to study on its own - I'm hoping more exposure and building this gradually will help things click more).One thing I still neglect is reading.

I'm just not sure how to really go about it. I try and understand news, social media posts etc and might Google the odd word, but that's about it.

Should I be reading books? If so, what's the best method? Translate the whole thing line by line?

Just curious on opinions - how many practiced and how many new ones a day?

I've heard recommendations of 5-10 new words, sentences or phrases a day, which is close to what I do. If I'm learning sentences though (which I found along with verbs, far more helpful), this is obviously more difficult than just a single word in one context.

I often have days though when I don't add anything, as I feel like I'm not keeping on top of what I know enough.

I let spaced repetition deal with general memorisation.

Any rule of thumb or tips anyone has picked up?

One issue I'm having with sentences is that you'll only have one version of the verb, so you have to guess on other forms more often

We are trying to figure out an architecture for our business

The preferred option would be Dev/Test/Prd workspaces, each with Bronze/Silver/Gold (LH, LH, WH). Subject areas would be separated by schemas.

This would work for us if we could manage permissions, but it seems like Fabric really wants Workspaces to be the security boundary, and this would mean a lot of overhead in our case.

The only sticking point seems to be "what if some of our developers shouldn't see some tables'?

OneLake Security seems to work well at enforcing read security, but it seems like if a developer needs to write to a workspace containing any data tables they shouldn't see then you're stuck.

Seems like Contributor (workspace) access is needed to create notebooks, which overrides OneLake Security. If they have no workspace role and you share the lakehouse directly with OneLake Security roles in place, they can only see what you want them to but they can't create a notebook to do anything else.

Feels then like unless all developers are ok seeing everything in a given workspace it doesn't work? Am I missing something or do we need to make a much more fragmented architecture split by domain?

Thanks

I'm English (obviously never attempted to learn another language before) and am learning Polish, probably about A1 now.

As I start to make my own sentences more often, I find i can generally communicate what I want to say. I can do it without having to build it all first in my head.

However I'm learning how the gender of a noun can change a lot of the other words in a sentence. I knew this, but as I'm improving it's becoming clearer just how much this can change things.

My question is - how do you get to a point where this becomes more natural? Whereas I can fumble together a sentence grammatically now without having to "think" to much, I can't see a path to that kind of natural speech once I try and account for rules.

For example, if I'm really trying to get it right as opposed to "winging it", Id mentally do something like:

1. identify the subject of the sentence

2. identify the gender

3. change the verbs/adjectives etc to account for that

4. conguate the verbs

5. finally, think about all that in the context of cases

That feels very programmatic, more like a puzzle to solve than communication, and I can't imagine trying to do it that way is a reasonable approach.

Equally though, I can't imagine I'm likely to just pick it up naturally either, as it seems like so much variation you'd have to be familiar enough with to be able to imitate.

Any advice?

Is there anyone who only spoke English before and have picked up Polish to a decent level that can relate? What made things click for you?

I've found that listening to chapters over and over again really helps me pick out more words, recognise patterns and figure out words I don't know from context. I'm wondering though if there's a limit to this and being more targeted might help.

For example does a simple old fashioned Spotify playlist or something exist with just lots of sentences and their translations?

Can anyone recommend an audiobook that's pretty basic and written in first person? I've found my listening has helped internalise some conjugation, but if I heard more first person it would internalise more patterns I'd use for speech.

I'm trying to learn grammar patterns more naturally (generally because I'm struggling with the rules based approach where I tend to freeze to 'figure it out' first). I found I also fall down with simple stuff like identifying the object of the sentence, what case it should be etc. Are there any resources that concentrate on that kind of learning, just that initial identification of what subjects/cases should be (before you even get to using the correct grammar?)

Thanks 👍

Is there any more guidance or documentation about this?

I know it's preview, but we've got some interest in it and documentation / YouTube etc seems a bit scarce.

In particular I'm trying to get a better understanding of planning, intelligence and power tables, how to use them as intended leveraging the flexibility they offer.