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Many persons from various countries come with great pleasure to Schola Polonica to take summer language courses in order to improve their language capacities.

Last year, a person from Luxembourg wrote to us and said that he wished to improve his Polish at a summer course. In order to have an idea on the level of his skills, we asked him to write a short letter in Polish, without any help from the teacher. He wrote that he has been learning Polish for 3 years and has Polish friends. He told us in his letter:
"One day I invited them to speak Polish...What a beautiful, exotic and musical language! I think that on this very day I decided to learn a language of this small country which - another advantage - has a beautiful culture."

After reading this letter, we were first a little bit astonished and then amused. We wondered why he decided that our country was small.
A teacher who had to teach him at the language course also read this letter. Later during the course, on the occasion of a lesson about the respective countries, their territories, their climate and population, she took the liberty of asking him why, in the letter, he thought our country was small. The student was struck with astonishment. It's impossible, he said, that I might write such a thing. Unfortunately, it proved to be correct.

After some days, the student came to us before the lesson and handed over another letter, also written by him alone.
"It seems that I provoked a big laughter because I called Poland a small country. Unfortunately, it was not a joke but an error of absent-mindedness. I decided to justify myself officially in order to prevent a war between the large Poland and my minute country. Mea culpa!
And very... very... very... sorry... until the end of my (small) life."

No need to say that course we decided to excuse our super nice student and we did not even think of a war between us. Even of a war fought just with words.