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44 The Polish language belongs to the West-Slavic group of the Indo-European languages together with Czech and Slovak. Polish, like other Indo-European languages, shares some Latin grammar and vocabulary. There are 3 tenses (past, present, future), 2 numbers (singular and plural), and 3 genders (mas- culine, feminine, neuter). There are no articles but Polish, like Latin, is an inflectional language that distinguishes 7 cases, defining the noun usage in a sentence. This feature makes our mother tongue difficult to master but practice makes perfect. Polish language or tongue twister Bank holidays 1 November All Saints’ Day 11 November Independence Day 24 December Christmas Eve 25–26 December Christmas Days 31 December New Year’s Eve 1 January New Year movable feast Easter Sunday movable feast Easter Monday 1 May Labor Day 3 May Constitution Day movable feast Corpus Christi 15 August Assumption Day FOREIGNERS IN POLAND