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Dear readers, reover, you can read about the latest Polish week which is
traditionally the first encounter with Polish culture for PUT
T he current issue of Education in English focuses Erazmus students. You can also find out foreign students
mainly on international students. It is well known opinions about studying at PUT as some of them share the-
that international students are important at PUT ir experiences of studying here.
and every academic year our university is a place of
education for young people coming from European, Asian Undoubtedly, our foreign students are often in contact
and African countries. They have the opportunity to gain with employees of PUT and you can read about the per-
solid, academic education here and enjoy a life changing sonal experiences of a Dean’s Office employee with them.
experience as they are exposed to a completely new and Furthermore, a text is provided about the soft-skills, which
different world, mindsets, values, attitudes and perception. is often defined as people skills, we use to interact with
others at work and the need to master them in order to be
International students are given the possibility to experien- successful in a professional English speaking environment.
ce a wide range of cultural issues during their Polish classes Finally, as we are now enjoying the beauty of spring all aro-
and Polish Weeks, which are organised twice a year, plus und us, we have a relaxing spring element for you as well
the Polish Culture Week. The final event was organised for in the form of a quiz about spring idioms.
the first time last December and in this issue you will find a
detailed description of this extremely interesting event. Mo- Enjoy!
Dorota Kudła,M.A.

The editor

Polish Culture Week

AT POZNAŃ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

During the first week of December 2014, a special always ask a lot of interesting and intriguing questions.
event, Polish Culture Week, took place at Poznań
University of Technology. It was organised by the They were very happy to participate in the event and said
Centre of Languages and Communication for all it was a great opportunity to gain a lot of knowledge and
the international students studying at our University. spend time in a pleasant international atmosphere during
the cold winter evenings.
About 80 students participated in the everyday meetings,
from Monday to Friday between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. The The programme of the whole event is presented below.
event included multimedia presentations, lectures, film
shows, discussions, various language tasks and tasting tra- Organizers of the Polish Culture Week:
ditional Polish dishes.
Małgorzata Konopko, M.A.
All the activities referred to Polish culture, history, traditions Justyna Połomka, M.A.
and customs. The students showed great interest and en- Barbara Tarko, M.A.
thusiasm in learning about our country and people. They
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