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Tuesday, 11 September 2018

The most famous Briton I had never heard of

While watching TVP2 early on in my Polish adventure, I happened upon a colourful program about Europe with what seemed like foreign people speaking fluent Polish including an English guy. Being only subjected to Polish culture and people for a couple of months, I became extremely excited that there was an Englishman on TV and I wanted to tell everyone. Little did I know at the time that this was Kevin Aiston and this guy is a huge star here but unheard of outside of the country. I was more intrigued because he was speaking fluent Polish and I immediately wanted to know how as I was struggling with my own language development.


Kevin Aiston - the ambassador


Kevin was a chemical engineer in England from Chelsea (Just down the road from me) but became disillusioned with the country after the introduction of the Poll Tax in late 80's and spent times in various parts of Europe before falling in love with Poland and arrived in Warsaw at 22. And now he is a major media star representing all things English as well as being in the fire brigade.

The advice to learning the language is to only listen to Polish and forget about using and being exposed to English (A common mistake). Good advice.