Language / Genitive case ("nie ma nic" vs "nie ma niczego") [71]

You were also wrong if I remember in writing do swidania as one word when it was two.

Language / Genitive case ("nie ma nic" vs "nie ma niczego") [71]

That is your decision. I tried to help but some people simply can not be helped I suppose. I certainly will not lose any sleep over it. Anyway, is this not a polish forum?

UK, Ireland / Poles working in the UK should be getting more money from your employer! [62]


These figures are also misleading. Not only is the minimal wage a joke as it is still below the 'bread line', employers can still take money out of this for other services rendered such as accommodation. This is why Poles and other Eastern European workers are left on farm living in caravans and earn almost nothing at all because the employer can take money for these additional items out of their wages. In essence, the workers are just that, workers, little more than slaves. As far as I am concerned, this so called minimal wage is little more than an election stunt. New Labour wants to be seen as a party for the people not what it really is, an extension of the establishment and so similar to old Conservative that you could be looking in to a mirror.

Language / Genitive case ("nie ma nic" vs "nie ma niczego") [71]


Yes, this is right. I can not write in Russian. Well, I probably could if I knew how to change the fonts to Russian. The dictionary word is nichtO (the stress falls on the big final O) from which we derive the genitive nicheevO. There is no other possible variety of either spelling or pronunciation. As I say, Russian phonetics is very interesting and is much more complicated than Polish, which is much more uniform in this regard. There is no je sound in it at all. Sadly, you will simply have to accept my word for it.

Language / Genitive case ("nie ma nic" vs "nie ma niczego") [71]


No, it is pronounced nichivO with the stress falling on the big final O! It is not nich'yevo there is certainly no 'y' at all in the word. Stress and pronunciation of Russian is difficult, especially for the Poles who are used to the stress falling on the same spot in each word.

Language / Genitive case ("nie ma nic" vs "nie ma niczego") [71]

Niczego comes from the Russian word pronounced nichivo, it has a strong slavonic rout. There is a very useful expression in Polish 'nie mam nic przeciwko temu', I have nothing against it (or that), which is used quite a lot.

UK, Ireland / Polish people in UK travelling on holiday. [20]


Actually, Ty jesteś tylko głupią krową and that is that. My relatives have been from Częstochowa and flew back to Warsaw. One had a passport, the other, her daughter, or the other way round, I can not remember, had only an I.D. and she got back O.K. You Poles have got your freedom and five minutes later you think t you are ready to rule Europe. It is impossable to tell you anything.

UK, Ireland / Polish people in UK travelling on holiday. [20]


Yes, she can. Our relatives without passports come and go through Gatwick Airport with only an ID card.

Work / legal work for Ukrainians Russians and Belorussians in Poland [15]

The Russians and Ukrainians will come to Poland and find work. Whilst there, they will buy forged polish passports and then move on in to the rest of Europe, passing themselves off as real Poles. One way or another, the whole of Europe is becoming nothing short of a dumping ground.

UK, Ireland / Surrey - 2 bedrooms for Polish youngsters [12]

It was almost next door to a pub with a lovely name, The Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower! We used to do our shopping in the shop many years ago. The shop no longer exists. In fact, I was in the shop not so very long ago. If i am not mistaken it is now an antic shop selling stuff taken from houses. There was also a vegetable shop in Barnnett Wood Lane called Garry's, a small nasty little man who all women thought the World of. I even heard that women drove past his shop just to get a look of him!! When I was an undergraduate in Portsmouth many years ago, I met a man who even knew the little veg shop in the High Street. We used to buy our veg there on a Monday morning and the owner of the shop employed a string of young pretty girls. It was the only reason, I am sure why I used to queue up in the shop to buy some of our things! Just up the road was a coffee, called the Kettle Sings run by a very nice man from Sicilia who had to sell the shop after bad publicity. He employed various people and was eventually prosecuted for Health and Hygiene contravention. Health and Safety officers found ant killer next to where he was baking bread. A great shame as he sold wonderful free range eggs. Funny enough, there was a fish and chip shop in Barnnet Wood Lane called Wilcox, it sold the best fish and chips anywhere and there used to be a queue before the old man retired.

UK, Ireland / Surrey - 2 bedrooms for Polish youngsters [12]


Was it the veg shop in Barnnet Wood lane or the one that was in the High Street many years ago?

Genealogy / Surname May-zubel [9]

Probably Żubel came to England, he married and his or her name got hyphenated after marriage as is often the case. May is obviously of English extraction somewhere and if he came to Salisbury in Wiltshire that would explain everything.

UK, Ireland / Surrey - 2 bedrooms for Polish youngsters [12]

Do you know Ashtead?

Life / POSITIVES ABOUT POLAND AND POLISH PEOPLE.... [119]


Now thats a compliment!

UK, Ireland / Polish doctors fly over just to work in the UK [15]

Polish people will do almost anything for money and will promise you the earth. Beware!

UK, Ireland / Polish doctors fly over just to work in the UK [15]

It should not be allowed simply for the reason that Polish doctors are dreadful. I had a private operation once in Poland and my God, it was awful! He had no regard for pain killers and even now, after all these years, the memory haunts me to this day! I am not a science or medical man myself but even before the operation things he was saying simply did not add up. Make sure you have a good qualified doctor. A lot of these Communist trained doctors from the East are not up to scratch.

Polonia / International Drivers License for a Polish citizen while being abroad [3]

Years ago, I remember that the A.A. used to sell them. I bought one with a photograph when I was driving in South Africa. So many of these A.A. shops have closed now but try on line.

UK, Ireland / Surrey - 2 bedrooms for Polish youngsters [12]

I used to live in Ashtead, KT21, which is the same sort of area of the World. Not a 'stone's throw away' but trains sometimes leaving Guildford go through Addlestone on their way to to London's Waterloo Station.

News / Has global warming affected Poland? And in what ways? [73]

I meant in the sense of the old Communist Czech Republic really. I know that they too were very guilty of bellowing out factory smoke that destroyed all the trees.

Life / POSITIVES ABOUT POLAND AND POLISH PEOPLE.... [119]

I visited a town called Karzimierz Dolny once, a very nice little town on a hill with art galleries and a small 'rynek'. Poland is nice in the countryside and in the summer. funny enough, I could have stayed in Poland as a girl wanted me to stay in Dęeblin where she lived. Things would have been so different had I done that. Anyway, know knows what would have become of it? Now, it is all now just supposition.

News / Has global warming affected Poland? And in what ways? [73]


It used to be called Czecholovakia before Slovakia parted the ways under the old Communist rule the pollution was dreadful. It is now known as the Czech Republic after the split. Does this answer your question?

Work / The qualifications for teachers in Poland? [101]


As far as I am aware, Trinity College does a little bit about teaching children whereas CELTA is all about teaching adults as the title explains. However, from what I remember, it was really very little and certainly there were no special classes with children. Otherwise, English grammar is the same whatever course you choose.

Work / The qualifications for teachers in Poland? [101]

No, they are very much the same thing. Both are courses to teacher people to teach English in private schools. As far as I know, each requires six hours of observed teaching practice in the classroom with observation of teachers too. Grammar is the same and even the lesson planning is the same PPP-presentation, practice performance? Same old thing however you look at it.

UK, Ireland / Surrey - 2 bedrooms for Polish youngsters [12]


I am not sure. I have never walked around there but as a post town in is Addlestone KT15. Trains do go through Addlestone to London Waterloo.

News / Has global warming affected Poland? And in what ways? [73]

Poland in general is very guilty of increasing global warming around the World. For years and years the Nowa Huta in Kraków belted out smoke and fumes. This is not to say that the former Czech Republic too is not guilty of doing its bit. What is always very strange is that Poland was offered so much help in the 1980's and they rejected all assistance. Added to this mess, the Syrenka motor car and the whole country is swamped in poor health and cancer. I know a lot of people in Poland who have died from the effects of industrial pollution. Life expectancy is very short in Poland and is falling even further now.

UK, Ireland / Surrey - 2 bedrooms for Polish youngsters [12]

I assume the area is Woking or Addlestone if it is equal distance between Heathrow and Gatwick.

Language / Polish Soaps? & They Really do use Rosetta Stone [13]


Its great and I never miss it.

Work / The qualifications for teachers in Poland? [101]


Surely both are one of the same thing. Both courses are a one month intensive course. I have never heard of someone doing both courses as it is just repetition. Rather like doing G.C.S.E. English through Manchester Board just then to do the whole thing again through London University. To me, it is idiotic to do the same course twice. My friend did CELTA and worked freelance in Warsaw as a teacher of English. His dream was to find his 'pani' and settle down in Poland and even buy a house. He found his 'pani' and they even came to England on holiday before it was decided that she was going back to Poland on her own and that was to be the end of their relationship. A big shame. Now he travels around england fixing cash desks. Quite a nice girl, who could even understand my polish!

Law / 40- Temp. Resident Cards for the Foreigners Lost inside WAW Depart. [13]

It is quite possible that the cards will be sold oversea for a profit. Maybe they can have the photographs ect changed on the Black Market? Another disadvantage in having Poland in the E.U. We simply inherit more of Eastern Europe's 'problems'.

Love / Polish Girlfriend obsessive and not trusting [59]


No, it would not.