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

/^t/Foreign language studies for some people may seem rather tedious and monotonous, but it depends on personal preferences. Such studies certainly have some less attractive aspects ( e.g. courses in descriptive grammar ), which might be said also with regards to any kind of studies. Those willing to deal with a foreign language phenomenon have to be prepared for an intensive, time-consuming work so as to obtain fully satisfactory effects. They have to be patient, persistent and open to everything that is connnected with foreign language studies. Moreover, they should be able to treat their work seriously, and, at the same time, to perceive it as a source of sophisticated intellectual pleasure.