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Joined: 19 Apr 2008 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 2 Oct 2015
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Posts: Total: 1083 / In This Archive: 553 		From: Moscow/Kyiv
Speaks Polish?: Russian, English, Swedish, Ukrainian
Interests: Slavic countries, politics, languages, culture, people

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Sasha   
27 Oct 2009
Life / How do Polish people view themselves? [92]

Notgonnahappen.com :)

Hopefully it's not. Since a country can't become to be a superpower, unless doing that at the expense of smaller countries. I don't want my country to conduct the policy of violence.

Thanks for the list, whether it's trustworthy or not (it's somewhere obviously not) that should do us Russians good. Good job! keep it up!

there you go... please, don't blame Poland anymore...

Does anyone blame you?
Sasha   
24 Oct 2009
Language / Polish and Russian - learning by a beginner [30]

I'm fluent in a number, among them German, Polish (more or less LOL), Danish, Swedish, (reading knowledge pf Bokmaal!) Dutch and have a passing acquaintanceship with Russian, Hungarian, Spanish and Turkish (though with the latter, a nodding acquaintanceship at best).

Sounds impressing! :)

I'm a translator and foreign language instructor.

That explains a lot :))

Jak twój zawód?

Moj zawod?.. :) Jag jobbar på en ingenjörsfirma. Vi skisserar flyplanen.
Förresten, gör jag min hemläxan nu. Right?

cudodziemców

One of those "false-friends". :) The word чужеземец in Russian is usually used with a negative implication. Some like a "foe".

to my eyes (perhaps not so ears) Swedish is just a strange way of writing Danish ;)

One Russian lady who is fluent in Danish attends Swedish course with me. She has really hard times in listening comprehension/speaking it, although pretty good in undestanding of writing Swedish.
Sasha   
24 Oct 2009
Language / Polish and Russian - learning by a beginner [30]

Hejsan, Sasha! Talar du ocksaa svenska?

Tjänare, Lyzko! Jag talar lite svenska. Jag studerar det på kvällskurs i Moskva. Och du? Var läste du svenska? Vad är du till yrket? Det verkar som om du talar många språken...

Those might be wrong-built sentences, yet I cherish a hope you got what I'd wanted to say.

I promised I'd post in either English or Polish, sorry, my curiosity overtook my judgement for a moment

I think we'll need to start a separate thread on practising Swedish. :)) I would learn and share knowledge with pleasure... We only need at least one Pole who is interested in studying Swedish, so that we can justify its (thread) existence. :))
Sasha   
23 Oct 2009
Life / How do Polish people view themselves? [92]

but russians don't?

Some do (usually those who've got nothing to boast of in their pathetic life) but the vast majority either don't care or friendly.

From what I've seen that kind of attitude inheres in Poles (towards Russians) a lot more often than vice versa. Not that I'm frustrated with that... I even see that in rather optimistic colors. The more arrogant people in Poland the better look sane Poles against the background of them.
Sasha   
23 Oct 2009
Language / Polish and Russian - learning by a beginner [30]

Pani Maju"

hej på dig! ;)
lol... :) I got what you meant. However you should have probably transliterated "понимаю" since not every one could read Cyrrilic "hieroglyphs".
Sasha   
23 Oct 2009
Language / Polish and Russian - learning by a beginner [30]

escapee3

It depends on both your purposes and how fluent you're expected to be in those languages. If you stay in Ukraine then I would mostly concentrate on studying Russian. If you're switching then study both, there's no other way around.

And you're right putting off the Ukrainian for the first time. Ukrainian is tricky... you would be able to understand 60-70% of their speech having solely Russian under the belt and up to 100% having both Russian and Polish, although to speak and write it properly it may take some another five years.

Oh... and good luck! ;)
Sasha   
21 Oct 2009
Language / 'Gateway' slavic language? [54]

I did, from Czech dnes = today.

Aha. :) I should have guessed that. So it finally took one Eastern and one Western Slav to understand the whole text in Slovio. :) Not that bad.

I still have copybook of Czech language at home ("htete mluvit cesky" or some like that... "wanna speak Czech?"). I read it occasionally some time ago, remember it was fun but now I don't really have a time for that.
Sasha   
21 Oct 2009
Language / 'Gateway' slavic language? [54]

but I can understand over 90% of this

Seems like it's based on Russian mostly. I didn't only get what

dnesju

meant. Did you, OR?

So it occurred to me to wonder if there might be another Slavic language which could be easier for a native English speaker to pick up?

You might wanna give a try in Serbian. I've studied it for some period of my life and may tell that I find their grammar closer to English than at least Russian one. Serbian alike to English uses auxiliary verbs to form different tenses which we Russians do not have at all (or being accurate we've still got them as throwbacks that do not play role of verbs in a sentence). Russian also uses Cyrillic alphabet which might be hard on the first stages of studying whereas Serbian uses both Latin and Cyrillic.

Knowing Serbian would let you understand Bulgarian, Croatian (which is actually the same).
If you want to learn Russian then the list of similarity from my perspective to other Slavic languages would be as follows (descending):
1. Belorussian
2. Ukrainian
3. Polish or Bulgarian
4. I think Czech
....

As for Slovio... I'd heard of it had known their website. It's interesting however it's hardly has a future. Slavic World is too disintegrated.
Sasha   
10 Sep 2009
News / KRAUTS RESUME POLE-BASHING [60]

A better world starts with yourself and if you want to comment on other ppl's kitchen, make sure your own kitchen is spotless.

Says who?! ROFL :)))

On topic:

I don't honestly know what's happening between Poles and Germans on personal level. But if consider political and geographic aspects then you Poles have more reasons to better deal with Germans than with us Russians. Yet this just from my perspective.
Sasha   
10 Sep 2009
News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

while Dutch have fought collecting tulips.

you give too much credit to them... :) Collecting tulips is considered very manly in Holland this is why their women do the job.

How about Russia giving Poland all the gas and oil she wants? For free!

We've got a very good word for that. "Haliava" (something that's given for free). Hm... how similar we are after all... Dai obniat tebja, sestra. Let me hug you, sister. :)
Sasha   
7 Sep 2009
Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]

Are you sure? It's gonna be a rant about how in the West they are more advanced in the fields of equality, liberal thinking, modernisation, how much better it is in the West, how you guys in the East are backward compared to us and so on. You are really sure you want to hear all that?

Absolutely mate. Feel free and pls do not worry. :)
That would be quite amusing either way (if you're kidding or being just... *sigh* ).
Sasha   
7 Sep 2009
Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]

You really want an answer to that?

You may as well answer it.
*"why" instead of "what" in my text above.
Sasha   
7 Sep 2009
Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]

but i would never get married to an ex eastern bloc race which lost all its morals while it was communist (poles were victims i agree but i dont want that commie mindset affecting my kids)

Morals?! What do you mean dude? I thought the so-called West had lost it long before... although I'm still not sure what you're talking about.

So you want your kids to be affected by western mindset, right? :) What do you consider it any better?
Sasha   
3 Sep 2009
News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]

1. Polish annexation of Zaolzie 1938, the tiny part of the pre-war Czechoslovakia.
Kinda Polish cooperation with Hitler.

Good point.

Or Russians at all.

I took offense... ;(((

3. Polish support for Kosovo irredenta (separatism).
Excuse us, Serbian friends - be forgiving.

After all Boria you're inly a kind man. :) Only pretend to be Russophobic :P
Sasha   
2 Sep 2009
News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

They were too ignorant in accepting Poland's differences ever since WWII

They didn't accept it for other reasons.

Dowiedz się tego w planecie hujów-mujów.

Still have no clue as I've never been there. You're in better position to judge.

People live in cities, towns, villages, states and countries, not on planets.

The Earth is a planet.
Sasha   
1 Sep 2009
History / RUSSIAN TV ACCUSES POLAND OF BEING HITLER ALLY [30]

So you think Russia liberated Poland?

Do you know how many Soviets actually died defending Warsaw? The other question though what was on their mind at the time... you can't count now how many of them died for communist ideology and how many had the version of fraternal people liberation from the fascist occupation.

I would call it anti Soviet or communist but not anti Russian.
There seems to be a huge difference that people see between the Russian people/culture (thumbs up) and the communist C.C.C.P. (thumbs down).
Of course I am only an observer and I do not speak for the Polish people.

Soviet times is another story. Those times are over. I meant that every single Russian (not Soviet) move often being painted black only with no alternative view.

But why are the Russians doing this?

The government? It's a politics. Tit for tat, zub za zub.
Sasha   
1 Sep 2009
News / PUTIN'S LETTER HAILED BY TUSK POLISH GOVT [17]

..Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has condemned the Nazi-Soviet pact signed a week before Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland as "immoral".

In a piece for the Polish paper Gazeta Wyborcza, he also expressed sorrow for a Soviet massacre of Poles in 1940.

To be honest I was pleasantly surprised when heard that on radio. I thought he wouldn't dare put it this way.

jwojcie

The aforesaid was said inside of Russia and many are happy about that. I think it's a step forth... maybe tiny yet forward.
Sasha   
1 Sep 2009
News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

-Russians don't fancy the Polish culture, and make no effort in learning their language, where as Polaki had learned to speak Russian.

What do you mean? Learning Polish in schools? They do... in some specialized schools though. just being interesting in Polish culture? Again there're loads of groups dedicated to Poland, its people, language, art, literature.

-It's bad enough that other countries give Poland hard time because they are placed next to this Russia

?????

-It would too challenging for the Polish to ally with Russians who don't shower daily but WEEKLY.

What?! o_O Which planet are you now on?

"They are Christians not Catholics!"

Catholics and Orthodox are both Christians.

And majority of Russians about 90% have never been outside Russia.

10% of Russians were only abroad in 2008. If those were the only Russians who had been abroad then your theory is plausible. :)))
Sasha   
31 Aug 2009
History / RUSSIAN TV ACCUSES POLAND OF BEING HITLER ALLY [30]

Have Polish papers been printing government dictated, blatant lies about Russia, Sasha? I think not.

Have you heard of Wiktor Bater story? This Polish journalist being quite antirussian in his articles decided to step away from his usual sentiments in Russia-Georgian conflict. He instantly paid for his self-dependence: was given a sack.

By the way I would love to know how this story is painted in Poland... as I can't take it all on faith from the only Russian source.

I don't know whether it's government or anybody-else-dictated I only know that I don't believe in independent media in 21st century.
Sasha   
31 Aug 2009
History / RUSSIAN TV ACCUSES POLAND OF BEING HITLER ALLY [30]

After the years of lull (I mean quite indifferent attitude towards Poland in Russian media) they (Russian Government) seem to start using your own weapon against you (the Polish media in its turn has never stopped doing antirussian injections into folk's body). That's all merely sad...

Btw, Polonius didn't you already create similar thread, did you?
Sasha   
29 Aug 2009
Language / Polish vs. Romanian [21]

It's intersting that tată is the Romanian word for father

It might have come from Serbian where it's commonly used word for rather (to the best of my memory).
Sasha   
26 Aug 2009
News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

It's absolutely off topic, Sasha.

Is it? I reckon "blind chauvinism" with no further elaboration as an off-topic. Chauvinism more or less inheres in every single human being, so what the purpose for using words lightly?

I can only say the Russian one is more dangerous due to the rusty nukes you still have.

Americans, Chinese... they've got nukes too. You could have them as well I guess. You had a choice and you made your choice... and I'm afraid I can't imagine Russians whining about Polish nukes (if they had any).
Sasha   
26 Aug 2009
News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

Boria I'm glad you learnt "liberal" mantras by heart, too bad it never paints one as a smart one. For the better comprehension pls look up the word "chauvinism" and then name me at least one difference with the Polish society at that point. The comparison may be not in Polish favour really. Yes, Russians are sometimes too arrogant but no more than you. Rub your genuinely chauvinistic eyes and take a look at what you post yourself.

As for the adjective "blind" - I agree.
Sasha   
25 Aug 2009
News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

I am going on 1 month language course in Moscow ...

I am going to see this country as long as I am planing to travel to St. Petersburg and some other cities outside the Moscow..

When are you going here? :) When you are here you may as well drop a line so that we can get together for a beer. ;) (in case you're interested)

Have a nice trip and enjoy Moscow (SP is a way better though), if need help with the language feel free to ask.