It is, isn't it? Americans trip over it a bit, but I kinda like it.
[Compliments are really the fastest way to warm him up and bring out his natural perkiness, as long as they're not over the top enough to creep him out.]
I actually just finished college? Like a few days ago. And I'm from... Well, my family's from Kraków, I went to school in Warszawa when I was little, then Washington DC when my dad started working there, annnnnd I've been here for like... Oh my God, like 7 years, in the Fall?
[He can forgive the mistake, though, since people still mistake him for a high school student regularly. And the best thing about talking to people from other Slavic countries is not having to mangle the Hell out of Polish city names to have them understood.]
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[Compliments are really the fastest way to warm him up and bring out his natural perkiness, as long as they're not over the top enough to creep him out.]
I actually just finished college? Like a few days ago. And I'm from... Well, my family's from Kraków, I went to school in Warszawa when I was little, then Washington DC when my dad started working there, annnnnd I've been here for like... Oh my God, like 7 years, in the Fall?
[He can forgive the mistake, though, since people still mistake him for a high school student regularly. And the best thing about talking to people from other Slavic countries is not having to mangle the Hell out of Polish city names to have them understood.]