The only reason why the Americans celebrate Halloween is 8 Billion $ spent for it every year. That's all.

BTW Halloween by itself is stupid ugly and horrible thing. As Kerry pointed out, it has bad influence on children education.

I couldn't agree more with  her point of view.

Maybe not an actual situation but have you ever heard your native language words in a foreign song?
I'm sure you have.
For instance, here is a Rolling Stones song titled Harlem Shuffle:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAkMTu6q2pY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAkMTu6q2pY</a>
where Mick Jagger sings: "Yeah yeah yeah to the Harlem shuffle".
With a bit of blur, it sounds like "Yeah yeah yeah nie zapalam światła"
which literally means "yeah yeah yeah I don't turn light on" in my language.
It always makes me laugh :DDD.

Are you really mastering English? 

I don't know English but your first sentence sounds incorrect to me.

You should use 'become Proficient' instead of 'become Proficiency'.

I'm curious how people can think they are able to learn a foreign language,

but they cannot differentiate between terms "a discussion" and "a language partner"?

Do your homework and check 'Language partners' option  from Community menu above. 

Yes, we definitely need a dedicated board for all those, let's call it politely - advertisements.

Ahhh... Wikipedia :).

OK, so please refer to this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashubian_language

Many scholars and linguists debate whether Kashubian should be recognized as a Polish dialect or separate language. From the diachronic view it is a Lechitic West Slavic language but from the synchronic point of view it is a Polish dialect.[12] Kashubian is closely related to Slovincian, while both of them are dialects of Pomeranian. Many linguists, in Poland and elsewhere, consider it a divergent dialect of Polish. Dialectal diversity is so great within Kashubian that a speaker of southern dialects has considerable difficulty in understanding a speaker of northern dialects. The spelling and the grammar of Polish words written in Kashubian, which is most of its vocabulary, is highly unusual, making it difficult to comprehend also written text by native Polish speakers.[13]

Like Polish, Kashubian includes about 5% loanwords from German (such as kùńszt "art"). Unlike Polish, these are mostly from Low German and only occasionally from High German.[14] Other sources of loanwords include the Baltic languages.

As you may see, this subject isn't trivial. If we considered Kashubian as a separate language I would say it is similarly difficult (or easy...) to understand to me as Slovak. But for other ears it could be more difficult.

@Alan - man, you have over-simplified complicated topic. 

Kashubian is treated by language specialists as a regional dialect of Polish, it's been that way for ages. Some of them started arguing that it is a separated language but this thing is still under discussion. The same applies to Silesian, it's more like a regional dialect than anything else.

The differences are mainly related to the culture and moreover, a term 'minorities' can also be a subject to discussion.

So, please don't mistake people saying such things.

@Irena - this is simply wrong.

The closest language to Polish is Slovak. About 75% of words are similar, they have the same core. Due to this fact, we can easily communicate with Slovak people using "Slavic language".

The next one is Ukrainian, and then Russian and Czech, probably equally.