The books and the grammar method have never been sponsored or corroborated by any government, organization, or individual; they have not solicited and will never require any experiments. The method and the books reflect on the author’s own language acquisition and learning to include graduated university studies in linguistics and American English. The grammar began as Teresa Pelka’s spontaneous invention when she was a child, in early 1970s. Part 4 of the series has the bibliography to have come with her further learning.
Regarding disputes and controversies over Aristotle’s works, Teresa Pelka does not endorse most translations or renditions. Aristotle lived circa 384 BC ― 322 BC. There are no autographs, that is, original manuscripts of his work preserved. Existent versions are used in this book series selectively and for thought exercise strictly.
The author and rights
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The claim includes book illustrations, intended to be simple and friendly, as to encourage the reader to imagine and create grammar imagery on his or her own. Teresa Pelka has also used the Midjourney and Luma engines.
The author’s name was TERESA EWA PEŁKA, yet she has legally changed it to TERESA EVA PELKA with relevant Polish authorities. This is the name registered with the Library of Congress.
Accessibility
The grammar method builds on ■spatialization, a human natural cognitive process. By standard, ■visuals are the best way to use this natural human ability of mind for language. Linguistically, spatialization occurs in eyesight-impeded people too; it would only prioritize other sensory modalities.
Most grammar books today do not visualize language. It might be worth the while to remind the learner to use visuals because there is no such habit. For eyesight-impeded persons all such reminders should obviously be skipped.
Cognitively, the method is not more difficult than classic guidance. Most people are able to regard ideas or objects of thought ON a cognitive ground, or IN an area of such a ground; to consider matters with reference TO a landmark or goal, or to talk about progress AT a time — because it is natural to humans generally.
It is a theory not impossible to defend that within the course of evolution the human being first walked and then did not give up on walking to talk. Things somehow developed together.
Spatialization is a mind process. Biophysically, the grammar is likely to use the brain structures people use for thinking about scenery, movies, or painting. The grammar works with the human means as they are, without altering them whatever way.
For another reason, the author had an EEG test of her brain done and the results were standard, no famed thetas in temporal areas either (those for clairvoyants or physical locomotion).
In the author’s teaching experience, spatialization was the free choice as easier, in two standard schools she was teaching at the time in Września, Poland.
Gestural support may work for all kinds of persons, here an example indicates the cognitive variable IN.
Further information
Teresa Pelka cannot provide for sustained validity of all website or email addresses enclosed with the work.
Fonts: Outfit; Rametto, Henny Penny, OFL ■Google Fonts.
Punctuation standard for the content in Polish is as the author knows it from resources for spoken and written Polish, in the shape she has always used for herself. She describes the new canon by the Polish Council in a post, ■The commatoform disorder.
Part 2 language form relativity has nothing to do with ■Whorfianism. It is an observation that language forms as “if I were” refer to the PRESENT though their shape is PAST. The phenomenon occurs in English as well as Polish, Russian, French, and other languages,
if I was, si j’étais, gdybym był/a, был/a я, wäre ich, etc.
Parts 3 and 4
The grammar for American English has altogether 20 chapters.
11. The grammatical article: US civics;
12. The noun;
13. The adjective;
14. The adverb;
15. Participles and other pieces;
16. Clauses and sentences;
17. The passive;
18. Reported speech;
19.The semantic field: Dickinson and Sandburg;
20. Sounds of speech: how to make them own.
The civics are linguistically updated, feel welcome to see the ■US civics update, the how and why.
Teresa Pelka’s edition and translation of Emily Dickinson’s first print is available from her Internet Archive account as well. Her work on translation of Carl Sandburg’s Cornhuskers is in progress, for the Public Domain too, as the grammar course is not intended to incur any extra expenditure. ■archive.org/details/@teresapelka
Part 5
Part 5 compares potential spatial strategies for Polish, Russian, Italian, French, and German, starting up with ancient Greek and classic Latin. All the languages have been part in Teresa Pelka’s learning experience.
The language of the original for all parts remains English.
The beginnings of the method
The language endeavor began in the early 1970s, with Teresa Pelka and her father in the same space, the kitchen, where she had her toy zone and he listened to a radio. Most probably it was the Voice of America. The town she lived, Gliwice, had a radio station.
Alfred took little Teresa for walks with him around town, and she learned reading from shop signs, and many of those were colorful neons for commodity, clothing, pharmacy, food — all kinds of stores. She soon knew where all the bookstores were around, along with that secondhand at the old market place.
This is how Teresa’s spatialization for language began.
Alfred noticed that Teresa wanted to speak English and told her it showed she was joining thought in Polish with that, whereas she needed to learn to think in the language she wanted to speak. Teresa Pelka devised an idea to focus and think nothing at first, feel welcome to the ■Mind practice.
Alfred Pełka was a historian by education. Teresa found his student book from the Cracow ■Jagiellonian in a drawer. Not a bad student he was, many 4s and 5s when 5 was topmost, yet he was not a linguist. There was no grammar book to tell things with spatialization in any of the bookstores, and Alfred advised Teresa that she should develop her idea on her own or follow the classic ways.
He would buy crayons and books if she wanted, but he could not explain that “language with space”. Later he helped Teresa financially when she studied and helped her buy her beloved Webster Unabridged 1989.
■English philology curriculum when Teresa Pelka studied
Her earliest reading experience came with Alfred’s library of books, ■Koncewicz for Latin and PWN Aristotle for Greek. Of course she mostly just doodled at first from that glossary with Greek characters, brown linen hard cover, her early Latin yet held in high school too.
■A New People, the USA Great Seal
Teresa has liked the Polish language too of course, and has always minded for her Polish skill not be impeded with her study of other tongues. Feel welcome to samples of her translation.
■Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
■Emily Dickinson, Favorite
The method and experimentation
Teresa Pelka does not allow any use of the method for experimental purposes. The grammar has no experimental content and is all built on Teresa Pelka’s own learning experience, which has been reasoning on text and visualizing.
Teresa Pelka’s only use of experimental data belongs with her defended Master’s thesis, ■The Role of Feedback in Language Processing, where all sources are public and legal. The experiments quoted were concerned with volitional response, to financial arguments as well, and thus hardly might be forced experiences.
Education
Teresa Pelka’s specialization is ■philology and psycholinguistics. In these fields, conclusive and valid linguistic material may only come with free language use.
Teresa Pelka kept her method secret until her graduation from philology, as she felt only that would be confirmation enough of its validity. Her thesis in American English met the requirements second highest, 4. It is good enough, she says.
All her text and speech is “language with space”, also here, and thus it proves that the method does not encourage departure from the language standard. Welcome.