Time transcripts of PiotrDaniel

[00:00:00:00]	So, my name is Piotr, Piotr Daniel

[00:00:04:01]	I come from Poland... I'm 36... and I'm...

[00:00:08:01]	a medical doctor, but here I just work in the lab

[00:00:12:02]	as a post doc, and...

[00:00:16:02]	I need to tell you about my... my

[00:00:20:02]	English education, yes, in Poland... so

[00:00:24:02]	it was many many years ago... when I was probably 

[00:00:28:03]	secondary school or maybe even earlier... 

[00:00:32:03]	we had a kind of...

[00:00:36:04]	before secondary school I had a kind of voluntary private lessons

[00:00:40:04]	which I could attend or not, could have attended or not

[00:00:44:04]	and... later in the secondary school I 

[00:00:48:05]	needed to choose before, except for Russian,

[00:00:52:05]	of course Russian language, what kind of language

[00:00:56:06]	I want to learn. So it's...

[00:01:00:06]	I could have chose English

[00:01:04:07]	French or German and I decided to...

[00:01:08:07]	have English lessons. And it was 

[00:01:12:07]	secondary school in Poland lasts something like eight years

[00:01:16:08]	so I started from four... four

[00:01:20:08]	year, fourth year to the end, so...

[00:01:24:08]	four years of English... classes. I don't 

[00:01:28:08]	remember how often I had this kind of... classes

[00:01:32:09]	probably three or four hours per

[00:01:36:09]	per... week. 

[00:01:40:10]	And... yeah so this is everything about secondary 

[00:01:44:10]	school. [ Interviewer ]: What were your English classes like?

[00:01:48:10]	[ Piotr ]: It was a kind of group of 30 person, all the class

[00:01:52:10]	participated in this... in this lessons...

[00:01:56:11]	and teacher, who just... as far as I remember

[00:02:00:11]	wanted us to

[00:02:04:12]	read some... a kind of articles but not

[00:02:08:12]	not a kind of professional articles, just for the secondary

[00:02:12:12]	school boys

[00:02:16:13]	yeah... it was not very

[00:02:20:13]	not very interesting I remember because I wasn't very good in English

[00:02:24:14]	in secondary school... and so, yeah

[00:02:28:14]	some homework, some grammar, and...

[00:02:32:14]	and a kind of 

[00:02:36:15]	literature... something like this.

[00:02:40:15]	Yeah...

[00:02:44:15]	[ Interviewer ]: Was there any... English spoken in your home life

[00:02:48:16]	like with your parents or... [ Piotr ]: No no no... my mother

[00:02:52:16]	can't speak English at all, my father can speak French

[00:02:56:17]	and... German

[00:03:00:17]	my mother really big German... so

[00:03:04:17]	nobody home spoke English

[00:03:08:18]	fluently. [ Interviewer ]: Did you

[00:03:12:18]	what... how did you use English in Poland?

[00:03:16:19]	[ Piotr ]: In secondary school... I almost 

[00:03:20:19]	didn't use it at all, only in the English 

[00:03:24:19]	during English lessons, we need to... we need 

[00:03:28:20]	need have to spoke... we need have to speak English

[00:03:32:20]	but during the private life... the normal life outside

[00:03:36:21]	school... nobody used English

[00:03:40:22]	just only Polish, probably as... 

[00:03:44:22]	as here, because, you don't need to speak Spanish

[00:03:48:22]	or German outside... outside

[00:03:52:22]	the school, only during your lessons.

[00:03:56:23]	[ Interviewer ]: What other types of 

[00:04:00:23]	languages did you speak besides English and Polish

[00:04:04:24]	and how often did you use those? [ Piotr ]: But... during the secondary school

[00:04:08:24]	or just all the time? [ Interviewer ]: All the time. [ Piotr ]: Yeah... I know

[00:04:12:24]	I know German, and... 

[00:04:16:25]	I need have to learn... to learn also

[00:04:20:25]	Russian language, it was really really, long time

[00:04:24:25]	ago, but it last quite a long time, because

[00:04:28:26]	during all the secondary school, so eight years of secondary school,

[00:04:32:26]	or sorry, primary... primary school and during secondary school

[00:04:36:26]	four years, it was a kind of necessary 

[00:04:40:26]	not voluntary, so... obligatory lessons.

[00:04:44:26]	From Russian... other languages

[00:04:48:27]	were just voluntary, you could pick.

[00:04:52:27]	you could pick which one you want.

[00:04:56:28]	[ Interviewer ]: So after secondary school, you went to a kind of med school

[00:05:00:28]	[ Piotr ]: Yes... after secondary school I went to 

[00:05:04:28]	med school where I had only...

[00:05:08:28]	English lessons, but medical English, mostly...

[00:05:12:29]	and on the secondary school, it was a kind of quite interesting

[00:05:16:29]	history because my teacher was a kind of very catholic

[00:05:20:29]	one, very catholic teacher, so she...

[00:05:25:00]	instead of teaching us grammar

[00:05:29:00]	she... I remember 

[00:05:33:01]	she wanted us to know how to...

[00:05:37:02]	pray in English so right now I can use it because

[00:05:41:02]	I'm Catholic, so yeah... Holy Mary and

[00:05:45:02]	Our Father was just piece of cake... we also

[00:05:49:02]	I remember that she wanted for us

[00:05:53:03]	to learn a kind of Shakespeare

[00:05:57:04]	so, also a kind of balcon...

[00:06:01:04]	balcony scene from the.. Romeo and Juliet, I know

[00:06:05:04]	by heart right now, yeah... and in the med school

[00:06:09:05]	I had only professional language... mostly professional language, but

[00:06:13:05]	also a little bit of grammar...

[00:06:17:06]	So... yeah. [ Interviewer ]: So...

[00:06:21:06]	next, when did you come to the United States

[00:06:25:07]	and how did your use of English change

[00:06:29:07]	when you moved here? [ Piotr ]: Before I came here I spent

[00:06:33:08]	something like half a year in England

[00:06:37:08]	in Sheffield... and it was

[00:06:41:08]	it was a kind of 

[00:06:45:09]	really bad experience

[00:06:49:09]	because in the beginning I couldn't... I could have...

[00:06:53:09]	I couldn't understand anybody there

[00:06:57:10]	and... and here was a little bit easier because

[00:07:01:10]	nobody here in the lab 

[00:07:05:11]	speaks English original, yes... so

[00:07:09:11]	nobody come from United States, everybody 

[00:07:13:11]	this is for everybody second language, so...

[00:07:17:12]	it's much much easier to understand them.

[00:07:21:12]	And... yeah but

[00:07:25:12]	it wasn't so hard for me as

[00:07:29:13]	as it was in England, definitely

[00:07:33:13]	I don't know, maybe American English is a little bit 

[00:07:37:14]	easier than English English

[00:07:41:14]	

[00:07:45:14]	[ Interviewer ]: How often do you speak English

[00:07:49:15]	here... compared to how often you speak Polish here?

[00:07:53:15]	[ Piotr ]: I use

[00:07:57:16]	English everyday, I need to use this

[00:08:01:16]	language everyday to communicate with people in the lab

[00:08:05:16]	and in Pol... I use Polish 

[00:08:09:17]	language... yeah... not very often

[00:08:13:17]	only two, two Polish people here

[00:08:17:17]	in our lab, so... well in next lab...

[00:08:21:18]	so... sometimes I talk to them in Polish, but mostly in English

[00:08:25:18]	mostly I use English. [ Interviewer ]: How do you...

[00:08:29:18]	how is your English literacy

[00:08:33:19]	changed since you've moved here?

[00:08:37:19]	[ Piotr ]: Maybe you can just...

[00:08:41:19]	see my improvement, or lack of improvement

[00:08:45:20]	but... I know that I make a lot of mistakes

[00:08:49:20]	really, it's horrible because I... but maybe right now I can

[00:08:53:20]	realize that I make this... these mistakes

[00:08:57:20]	so maybe it's easier... me just to

[00:09:01:21]	yeah... this knowledge that I 

[00:09:05:21]	make mistake is... it's a kind of 

[00:09:09:21]	it's... beneficial

[00:09:13:22]	so... it's definitely 

[00:09:17:22]	something what is... okay for me

[00:09:21:22]	that I know that I make mistakes

[00:09:25:23]	and I realize that I make mistakes. [ Interviewer ]: That's great... okay.