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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

And they feel there is no reason for the inferiority complex any more because of easy contact with the outside world. Fast means of travelling on the one hand, and ground and satellite TV, telecommunications or the latest hit the Internet on the other, have shortened distance and enabled easier access to education and culture. The civilization and cultural gap between a small town and a large city has narrowed substantially in this century.