You just got to figure out patterns And then learn the exceptions (which usually are other secondary patterns) And then learn the exceptions in general And you're Golden I'm Polish, native speaker, and I fail to explain or even remember the order of these cases or their names "in book form" (despite speaking fluently everyday) Meaning, it just sort of comes. Find patterns make mistakes and find more patterns It's easier as you go

Jego wybitna wręcz soczystość na przestrzeni innych języków czy grup ich w Europie Dowolność szyku wypowiedzi a za czym idzie oszczędność w czasie i energii, które oferuje - nie tracąc nic na swojej kwiecistości Język ojczysty, wyjątkowy czy do wyjątkowej grupy języków należący Nie bez powodu jesteśmy Słowianie- ludzie Słowa Pozdrawiam!

Dej Pan pokój! :) Or, in more literary Polish, Daj spokój. Also: Szkoda słów/słów szkoda. Dobra, nie ma co. Etc.

"Poodpoczywać" to me means you're doing *some* resting (not necessarily full time, possibly implying that, while resting, in general - say, from your day to day chores - it may include some either more active form of resting - like going out to parties for example - or the resting will be mixed with some other activities) While "odpoczywać" to me implies you're intending to mostly rest in a passive form, ie lay down and rest, less actively, and your main goal is indeed calm resting, with little activity. Ofcourse, people may twist these for their personal amusement - someone could jokingly say they're going odpoczywać to a shooting range or a skydiving camp, if that is what soothes them.

"This is..." - Oto droga do... "It is..." - To droga do...

To serve something on a plate - well, it's self explanatory. He easily/effortlessly fooled the defense of the other team by running fake runs [=disguised (as smth else)] and serving kicks/goals for his teammates playing in the forward position "like on a plate" (=ready to consume, almost ready- so they had only little to do to score).

2 cents you might find worth considering... There is no true British English. That's a fallacy, given the multitude of local dialects and ways to talk in the UK alone. Add on top of that how English of today came to be (a mixture of Germanic old Norse, ancient Roman, French and Celtic + whatever came through and roamed the Isles over the past 500 years and left it's mark; only to later be "attoned" by moving letters about in words and dropping certain expressions/descriptions altogether) - and it suddenly becomes clear that it's a mongrel lingua franca, where pronunciation is less important than communication. I used to think that English is pure only on the UK, then I visited Scotland. The truth is you will never sound as local as the locals, and why should you, anyway? You're local to somewhere else, nothing to be ashamed of and mask! :)

(in response to "the problem is...") Never a problem, always a challenge.