osiol
2 Sep 2007
Language / Polish Hangman and other games to learn Polish [13]
ihts sohmthihngh youh geht uhsed tooh
ihts sohmthihngh youh geht uhsed tooh
osiol
2 Sep 2007
osiol
2 Sep 2007
Language / Polish Hangman and other games to learn Polish [13]
I s'pose they expect you to pronounce your 'O' like an American.
I wasn't expecting that!!
I s'pose they expect you to pronounce your 'O' like an American.
osiol
2 Sep 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
All the Germans I have known (there have been a few, and still are a couple of them)
speak with rather pleasant accents. The harshness myth comes from the way Adolf did actually speak - we've heard him in clips, not just from the parodies. The Nazis shifted the language in their own direction. I think they felt they could make it sound more masculine, etc. Language always has been and always will be a powerful political tool. German has since shifted back to a much nicer sound.
Tell me that Nena singing "99 Luftballons" sounds harsh!
All the Germans I have known (there have been a few, and still are a couple of them)
speak with rather pleasant accents. The harshness myth comes from the way Adolf did actually speak - we've heard him in clips, not just from the parodies. The Nazis shifted the language in their own direction. I think they felt they could make it sound more masculine, etc. Language always has been and always will be a powerful political tool. German has since shifted back to a much nicer sound.
Tell me that Nena singing "99 Luftballons" sounds harsh!
osiol
2 Sep 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
The Austrians, the Swiss, the people of Liechtenstein, even in a small part of Belgium.
I had a few German lessons at school (in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, no less).
Who outside of Germany learns German?
The Austrians, the Swiss, the people of Liechtenstein, even in a small part of Belgium.
I had a few German lessons at school (in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, no less).
osiol
2 Sep 2007
Language / Polish Hangman and other games to learn Polish [13]
I don't mean to be a spoil-sport,
but having to guess the phonetic spelling makes it really annoying.
NIE - A nice easy Polish word
NY-YEH - This is their rendering of its pronunciation
Is it a silent H at the end.
What is Y and what is I in their scheme.
It would be good if it wasn't for that.
Grrrr!
I don't mean to be a spoil-sport,
but having to guess the phonetic spelling makes it really annoying.
NIE - A nice easy Polish word
NY-YEH - This is their rendering of its pronunciation
Is it a silent H at the end.
What is Y and what is I in their scheme.
It would be good if it wasn't for that.
Grrrr!
osiol
2 Sep 2007
News / Eurovision Dance Contest; the Polish band was quite good [21]
Eurovision woodwork contest.
Eurovision flambe contest.
Eurovision flower arranging contest.
Eurovision silly ideas for Eurovision contests contest.
Eurovision woodwork contest.
Eurovision flambe contest.
Eurovision flower arranging contest.
Eurovision silly ideas for Eurovision contests contest.
osiol
2 Sep 2007
News / Eurovision Dance Contest; the Polish band was quite good [21]
To follow in the footsteps of the Eurovision Song Contest,
all the drinks would have to be alcopops.
The UK entrants would have to be all Aussies and Kiwis, but still somehow lose.
Isnt one of them in operation called "Octoberfest" in Germany LOL
To follow in the footsteps of the Eurovision Song Contest,
all the drinks would have to be alcopops.
The UK entrants would have to be all Aussies and Kiwis, but still somehow lose.
osiol
2 Sep 2007
Love / Polish girls..... Do they want cute aussie guys?? [5]
Strange - I almost never go for blondes.
Not that I think that the colour on top of the head has any effect on the inside of the head.
I'm forever grateful to my parents that, after meeting eachother for the first time in Australia,
they moved back to England. They made the right choice! I wouldn't have been so cute if they had stayed there!
Strange - I almost never go for blondes.
Not that I think that the colour on top of the head has any effect on the inside of the head.
I'm forever grateful to my parents that, after meeting eachother for the first time in Australia,
they moved back to England. They made the right choice! I wouldn't have been so cute if they had stayed there!
osiol
1 Sep 2007
Food / Near the Heat of the Polish Mushroom Season [3]
After the heat of the summer has cooled down a bit, until the frost stops them fruiting.
No matter where you are in the world, mushroom pickers keep their locations very quiet.
After the heat of the summer has cooled down a bit, until the frost stops them fruiting.
No matter where you are in the world, mushroom pickers keep their locations very quiet.
osiol
1 Sep 2007
News / Eurovision Dance Contest; the Polish band was quite good [21]
Should there be a Eurovision Drinking Contest?
Should there be a Eurovision Drinking Contest?
osiol
1 Sep 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
That does not mean that Spanish, for example, is more widely understood across the whole variety of other communities. It may cross ethnic boundaries more than other languages, but how do an English speaker, a Korean speaker and a Polish American have a conversation in the US?
Poor spelling in English is not to be unexpected.
It has less logic to it than any other language in the entire world.
That does not mean that Spanish, for example, is more widely understood across the whole variety of other communities. It may cross ethnic boundaries more than other languages, but how do an English speaker, a Korean speaker and a Polish American have a conversation in the US?
Poor spelling in English is not to be unexpected.
It has less logic to it than any other language in the entire world.
osiol
1 Sep 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
Surely Lingua Franca means a language understood by different communities.
These languages may be important and be becoming more important, but
In one geographical area, there will only be one Lingua Franca (widely understood, crossing cultural boundaries).
Across the US, I believe that this is still English.
Korean, Spanish, Russian and Chinese have long since trumped English as the reigning lingua franca
Surely Lingua Franca means a language understood by different communities.
These languages may be important and be becoming more important, but
In one geographical area, there will only be one Lingua Franca (widely understood, crossing cultural boundaries).
Across the US, I believe that this is still English.
osiol
1 Sep 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
Where is the boundary between northern and southern?
Germans don't smoke in parks?
Don't some Germans decend from Slavic speakers?
Of course! They're the ones who smoke in parks.
Everyone in the world is of one family.
Except the Slavs of course, eh Michal?
Where is the boundary between northern and southern?
You only have to look at them in the park sitting together smoking
Germans don't smoke in parks?
Don't some Germans decend from Slavic speakers?
Of course! They're the ones who smoke in parks.
Everyone in the world is of one family.
Except the Slavs of course, eh Michal?
osiol
1 Sep 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
Is English primitive because all the complex words derive from other languages such as Latin, French, etc.
Is English primitive because all the complex words derive from other languages such as Latin, French, etc.
osiol
1 Sep 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
Can you explain what you mean by primitive?
Russian is very primitive
Can you explain what you mean by primitive?
osiol
31 Aug 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
For a learner, I'd imagine tha reading Polish would give a better idea of pronunciation than reading all those bizarre English spellings.
written speech is different from oral speech
For a learner, I'd imagine tha reading Polish would give a better idea of pronunciation than reading all those bizarre English spellings.
osiol
31 Aug 2007
osiol
31 Aug 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
I'll probably never go to Brazil - too hot for me.
I do, however, meet quite a few Polish people.
I also go on holiday to Poland (occasionally) - not too hot.
Learning Portuguese will help me understand how unhappy bossa nova artists are!
I think that it would be more worth while
I'll probably never go to Brazil - too hot for me.
I do, however, meet quite a few Polish people.
I also go on holiday to Poland (occasionally) - not too hot.
Learning Portuguese will help me understand how unhappy bossa nova artists are!
osiol
31 Aug 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
Me.
No language lasts for ever.
Not everyone buys the record that's no. 1 in the charts (or even in the top 100).
Should I learn Brazilian Portuguese at the same time?
Who learns Polish?
Me.
No language lasts for ever.
Not everyone buys the record that's no. 1 in the charts (or even in the top 100).
Should I learn Brazilian Portuguese at the same time?
osiol
31 Aug 2007
Life / Price of beer in Poland [90]
24-hour petrol stations are a little pricier, I vaguely remember.
24-hour petrol stations are a little pricier, I vaguely remember.
osiol
31 Aug 2007
Love / What do men want with Polish Girls huh??? [72]
Some men who want Polish women might be after the total opposite of the assumptions you have made:
Intelligent
Difficult
Dominating
etc.
But most of the people who post once on this site are probably looking for all of the eastern European nationalities that they have heard of. Poland ranks relatively highly in this respect. Moldovans are not well known, and I'm not sure how many Prussian girls there are these days!
Some men who want Polish women might be after the total opposite of the assumptions you have made:
Intelligent
Difficult
Dominating
etc.
But most of the people who post once on this site are probably looking for all of the eastern European nationalities that they have heard of. Poland ranks relatively highly in this respect. Moldovans are not well known, and I'm not sure how many Prussian girls there are these days!
osiol
31 Aug 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]
Do any Scots want Cumbria back?
Does Norway want the Shetlands back?
Does the average UK citizen want any of the old British Empire back?
I thought not.
How about this idea: everyone, forget about the past. Learn from the past, live for the present, look to the future.
Do any Scots want Cumbria back?
Does Norway want the Shetlands back?
Does the average UK citizen want any of the old British Empire back?
I thought not.
How about this idea: everyone, forget about the past. Learn from the past, live for the present, look to the future.
osiol
31 Aug 2007
Travel / Top 5 reasons to visit Poland ! [43]
I enjoy visiting Poland.
Architecture - every house looks different, every house has a balcony.
I am used to British houses. If they're not proper old buildings that Americans call quaint, they are street after street of Georgian terraces (although they can be nice, they are all the same) or they are modern Barratt homes (soulless and every third house is identical and equally badly designed).
Food and drink - I challenge any Pole to stop before Poland for dinner. No. You cross the border, then dine on kielbasa. No matter how hungry you are, Germany is not for dinner! The beer and vodka are good.
People - less obesity. Not that I don't mind some slightly larger people, like the French, the Poles are less likely to be overweight.
I have had many friends over the years from Germany, Finland, Czech... Polish people are amongst the friendliest I've met. Some are quite rude (rude people are worldwide), but like I used to meet many art students and be attracted in various ways to art students, these days I find Polishness has replaced my former fetish. (Don't mention shoes).
You should be able to find 5 reasons in my answer there. I could probably find 5 reasons NOT to visit Poland, but that's not the name of the thread!
I enjoy visiting Poland.
Architecture - every house looks different, every house has a balcony.
I am used to British houses. If they're not proper old buildings that Americans call quaint, they are street after street of Georgian terraces (although they can be nice, they are all the same) or they are modern Barratt homes (soulless and every third house is identical and equally badly designed).
Food and drink - I challenge any Pole to stop before Poland for dinner. No. You cross the border, then dine on kielbasa. No matter how hungry you are, Germany is not for dinner! The beer and vodka are good.
People - less obesity. Not that I don't mind some slightly larger people, like the French, the Poles are less likely to be overweight.
I have had many friends over the years from Germany, Finland, Czech... Polish people are amongst the friendliest I've met. Some are quite rude (rude people are worldwide), but like I used to meet many art students and be attracted in various ways to art students, these days I find Polishness has replaced my former fetish. (Don't mention shoes).
You should be able to find 5 reasons in my answer there. I could probably find 5 reasons NOT to visit Poland, but that's not the name of the thread!
osiol
30 Aug 2007
News / Polish Elections - your opinions [27]
All the Polish people I have met in the UK (okay, so they're here, not there) say they never voted for them or their party.
I remember when I was very small. Nobody admitted to voting for Thatcher. Most people hated her (despite her democratic election). These days, more and more people talk about how good she was.
I must admit to knowing very little about Polish politics.
Politics generally seem to be a much ignored area of life in conversation.
What exactly do you mean?
All the Polish people I have met in the UK (okay, so they're here, not there) say they never voted for them or their party.
I remember when I was very small. Nobody admitted to voting for Thatcher. Most people hated her (despite her democratic election). These days, more and more people talk about how good she was.
I must admit to knowing very little about Polish politics.
Politics generally seem to be a much ignored area of life in conversation.
osiol
30 Aug 2007
News / Polish Elections - your opinions [27]
No-one I've spoken to will accept any responsibility for the twins.
That's probably quite normal. People vote, then pretend they never voted for who they did vote for.
But then again, many people don't bother to vote, then complain about the results.
shenanigans
No-one I've spoken to will accept any responsibility for the twins.
That's probably quite normal. People vote, then pretend they never voted for who they did vote for.
But then again, many people don't bother to vote, then complain about the results.
osiol
29 Aug 2007
UK, Ireland / English people attitude towards Poles? [761]
I look for native English people in my area smiling. Some do. Most don't.
Nobody in London smiles except the tourists.
I look for native English people in my area smiling. Some do. Most don't.
Nobody in London smiles except the tourists.
osiol
29 Aug 2007
Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]
I have often wondered if learning a foreign language from a child's perspective might work better than many of the teach yourself books and so on that are available. Children have to wait a few years before ordering meals at restaurants or looking for lost luggage, but to learn how the language works and practice making all the right sounds, the first-language speaker beginners' level might work better.
Any good childrens books in Polish?
Have any adults learnt English from Dr. Suess' The Cat in the Hat?
I have often wondered if learning a foreign language from a child's perspective might work better than many of the teach yourself books and so on that are available. Children have to wait a few years before ordering meals at restaurants or looking for lost luggage, but to learn how the language works and practice making all the right sounds, the first-language speaker beginners' level might work better.
Any good childrens books in Polish?
Have any adults learnt English from Dr. Suess' The Cat in the Hat?
osiol
28 Aug 2007
Life / Homosexuals in Poland / Hands off (PETITION) [797]
Is this a way of getting out of giving an answer?
Try to Enlight yourself
Is this a way of getting out of giving an answer?
osiol
28 Aug 2007
Life / Homosexuals in Poland / Hands off (PETITION) [797]
Will there be cures for shoe fetishism, self abuse and a preference for girls with hairy armpits?
I hope one day medicine will find remedy and problem will disappear itself
Will there be cures for shoe fetishism, self abuse and a preference for girls with hairy armpits?