Love / Polish Girlfriend obsessive and not trusting [59]


I am married for 17 years, yes, BUT there is no such expression in English as I am married since, it is rubbish. You can say, of course, I have been married for seventeen years or I have been married since 1971. That much is grammatically correct.

Life / Opinions/experience about the Polish Police [40]

In Surrey we have the Surrey Constabulary and it is rubbish. I have not had much to do with the Polish police but I have heard that it is quite corrupt and they take bribes for speeding offenses. I have a pair of Polish handcuffs as a souvenir given to me in Bydgość many years ago. Maybe I could use them to tie up the hands of some of the female Forum members?!!

Language / Declination - biegać skręcać wysiąść chrapać [15]

No, it is oni biegali, one biegały and ono biegało if it is the verb biegać that we are talking about. Otherwise I do not understand what the question is all about at all.

Language / Declination - biegać skręcać wysiąść chrapać [15]


I think it is ja biegam from the verb biegać, meaning to run but ja biegnę from the verb biegnąć meaning I will run-a perfective case suggesting future action.

Wysiadam comes from the verb wysiadać but wysiądę comes from the verb wysiąść. I can not remember all the rules and spelling now.

Love / Polish Girlfriend obsessive and not trusting [59]


I know why? Because they hold all the money in bank accounts. I though all you Poles were supposed to be good Christians and Christians do not believe in such things as divorce and the accumulation of wealth. Also, it is not married since seventeen years but seventeen years ago!.

Love / Polish Girlfriend obsessive and not trusting [59]


Rubbish! Yes, woman's body is different and they may indeed have different hormone changes, that much I understand I agree but it has nothing to do with being abroad. They are exactly the same at home, if anything, even worse because there is simply no pretense because they do not have to 'act to the gallery' so to speak in their own back yard.

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


You do not require any certificate to teach English in Poland. There is not 'official' certificate that is recognized anywhere. It is not obligatory.

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


Is it not really a very boring job being a teacher of English in Poland? Every day the same old thing and the same old boring grammar over and over again. I know someone who went to Poland and worked for target in Warsaw. He was promised a flat and it turned out to be a settee in someone's living room! It is an unskilled job, which receives zero points on the Australian immigration lists. Not for me at all. I hope that my boy will get a skill and a new life 'down under', I think if he ever thought of working in Poland as an EFL teacher, I would lock him up in a small room for his own sanity!

Love / Polish Girlfriend obsessive and not trusting [59]


This is very typical of Eastern Europe in general. I think it is partly a Polish 'thing', partly because of the Roman Catholic Church and partly genetic. As women grow older they become even worse! There is something in the genes makes women become increasingly more 'difficult' as they grow older-they think that everything is theirs and that they are responsible for everything, even the spinning motion of the planet earth in the middle of the night! Some women can be really very nasty. The Roman Catholic church is evil and it is understandable why the Russians hate not only Poland but Catholisism in general. The great Russian writer, Dostoyewsky HATED them! Do not have a baby with this woman, I think she is using you to show off or get even with a previous partner in her home village. I do know Polish women very well, you only have to read some of their posts on this Forum to see what they can be like. Be very careful indeed. Love is blind and you are in love but go away for a while and then come back. You will see her for what she really is. More to the point, look at her mother and realize that in twenty years from now, she will look just like her! Pretty scary, yeah?!

UK, Ireland / Why so many British can't spell ? [83]


It is true to say that the English Education system is not very good on the whole, unless you can afford to pay for it and go private. English spelling is difficult and is not always logical. I had a letter once from a lady in Poland who wrote the word słów as słuf!! So many Poles too have problems with their knowledge of grammar and language look on this forum-oczów for example so it is not only the English with a problem.

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


No, teaching grammar is not playing second fiddle but I think that being a native speaker and being used to just teach conversation is. I have never been a teacher of English overseas so hence otherwise I have no experience of term and conditions.

UK, Ireland / I'm designing a Polish restaurant for British people - need information [44]

Actually, I went off the idea because I later found out that the son of the Polish lady I was with had been stealing all my money. As I say, the Poles are their own worst enemies in the end.

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


It is what would put me off too. Some years ago, I spent a week in Poland, in Warsaw and went to a few language schools for a chat and a coffee. I went to a school called Angloschool, as far as I know, it is still these. On Popieluszi 9? The owners of the school lived in Australia but decided to return to Poland, a worrying though in itself! It was a strange place all together. They had at the time what they termed an unique system, a dual system where they employ a Polish teacher to teach vocabulary and grammar and a native teacher who specializes in conversation. For me, teaching grammar is the cornerstone of language education and to be playing 'second fiddle' to a Pole would not be my idea of fun at all. Another point is that initiating conversation is hard work and is not a soft touch. Think about motivating Poles to speak in class for thirty hours a day and you will see that you well and truly earn your money.

UK, Ireland / I'm designing a Polish restaurant for British people - need information [44]


I stayed once in Świnoujście, quite nice with a free ferry service from the mainland. I wonder if the service is still free though? There was a nice little town by the sea called Wolin where I nearly thought of buying a small house all those years ago.

UK, Ireland / Babies of Polish couples born in England [25]

The island is here but has sadly changed since the 1960's.

Life / Local Poles taking advantage of foreigners living in Poland [235]


Pushing and shoving is a slaav thing. In Russia it is even worse. I think it is the sadness of people's lives in Eastern Europe and the lack of a future. Shoving gives a meaning to someone's life. I think it is prevelant in women more than men-it is something to do with the lesbian gene.

UK, Ireland / Babies of Polish couples born in England [25]


Sadly, there is no Britain today. And incidentely, in Poland they maintain their social cohesion through a strange mixture of the Roman Catholic Church and legislation which means that all foreigners in Poland are always reminded that they are simply 'guests'.

UK, Ireland / Babies of Polish couples born in England [25]

I would imagine that if the baby was born here it would be registered and receive a British birth certificate. I would therefore imagine that the child could later apply for a British passport. Now that Poland is in the E.U there is little difference anyway. One big reason why I was always against British membership of the Common Market all those years ago.

UK, Ireland / Many British have inferiority complex [131]

Why on a Polish forum should a British sense of inferiority be the thing in question? Surely, these Poles have chosen to come and live here and it is down to them to try and integrate with the rest of society.

Life / Compulsory National Service in Poland [26]


You are just rude and vulgar and I am not attempting to answer this at all.

Life / Compulsory National Service in Poland [26]

Yes, National service was compulsory for two years in Poland unless you joined the navy and for some reason-it was three years! This is why we have so many young unemployed and unemployable Polish people who have not got into university. They come to England to escape National Service. A lot of the Polish 'softies' got out of doing their national Service all together as they went to their doctors and gave a bribe. They got letters stating that they were medically unfit for National Service. How they are fit to work double shifts on building sites in the U.K. is beyond me.

I also do not totally agree with the comment above. The poles have tried to do their bit in military history but I can never understand why the Poles did not sit tight and wait for the Russian Red Army to free Warsaw. After all, they had sat on their laurels for the last five years! I think the Poles thought that by showing their strength, Stalin would grant them independence after the war. Obviously Joseph was not such a silly man and did not give in to them!

UK, Ireland / Many British have inferiority complex [131]


At least now your grammar is better.

UK, Ireland / Many British have inferiority complex [131]

I think to answer the point, as British society has been come so mixed and diluted, there must be problems for the British in term of an identity crisis. They are being made to intergrate and compete with more and more people. This effects not only the working class who now have to compete with the new Polish arrivals but now, even school teachers are having to compete with new South African arrivals who can earn in a month more here in England than in a whole year back home. It does seem that England has become a complete waste disposal unit for the World's unemployed!

Life / Whats driving like in Poland? [70]

The main trouble is that after a few drinks, the Poles get some of that all important Dutch courage and they quite simply forget themselves.

Life / Whats driving like in Poland? [70]

I think part of their problem is that the Poles want to show off. They have lived under communism for so long having to travel by public transport. Now, they can buy new fast and expensive high performance cars on credit and it seems to be going to their heads a bit. You need to be very careful in Poland. The Police will stop you for speeding and will then take a bribe and the roads in winter are dreadful. I even knew of one man who lost his head in a car, quite literally!! If you can, avoid the country all together.

UK, Ireland / Many British have inferiority complex [131]


Come on, it is true. Yes, Polish girls can look very nice indeed but have you ever seen an F.S.O. Polish motor car that has done 100,000km plus and still has kept all its body intact? Likewise, polish women fall apart too.

UK, Ireland / Many British have inferiority complex [131]


Only while they are young. At the turn of thirty five to forty they look grotesque!

UK, Ireland / Many British have inferiority complex [131]

A lot of the British humour is based on the establishment and the middle class. Such comedians as roan Atkinson and Michael Paline come from the Oxbridge middle class and are not representative of the lower paid working class where there is stress and unhappiness.

As a P.S. there is still no such word as cartoonish either.

UK, Ireland / Many British have inferiority complex [131]


Thats because you are not very clever not unsmart-there is no such word as unsmart.

UK, Ireland / POLISH ADMIRATION FOR THE IRISH GENIUS JAMES JOYCE [63]


He was just a Pole. If you look, many of the translations on this forum are also very far off the mark.