Language / Pomagac, pomóc [6]


That is what he said. Ta pomoc is help but czy ty mozesz mi pomoc is the verb in the perfective case.

Love / Do Polish men like aggressive women? [26]


No, I think it is always the woman who does all the pursuing and man, being naive simply obeys. It is how biology plays tricks on you. If a Polish woman pursued me, I would always be very wary indeed as you never know where you will end up. There must be some really happy people out there and I wish them all the best, but women can destroy men too. If it is a marriage made in heaven then that must be great but how often does that ever happen? I think on the whole, women are more devious than you would take them for.

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]


In Russian, if I remember rightly it was something like 'jazyk perewediot w Kiejev', using language or using your tongue to make sounds-the noun is the same, will lead to Kiejev.

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]

I suppose that we all learn thing along the way in different ways and I used to write things down on a piece of paper. I can always remember when at college my lecturer taught me to remember the formula for capacitance as Q=V x C, that is, the Queen awards the Victoria Cross and it has always stuck with me even from 1972! Hence, bit by bit, my head is full of useless information such as the Polish for a concrete mixer-'betoniarka'! As for the expression about 'koniec jezyka...' I do not know if it is used very often. In Russian the expression 'your mouth will lead you to Kijev'.


W pierwsza przecznice na lewo w druga przecznice na prawo.

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]


In Dutch it is proefkonijn

Life / HELP WITH BUYING A COMPUTER IN POLAND [20]


I know very little about computers but I had a good computer which 'died on me'. I was recommended to but a Dell computer which I ordered over the telephone through a call centre in India and which was manufactured in Ireland. It seems to work fine and I am very happy with it, especially as it has a posh flat screen. However, I am finding that almost all of my language courses are not compatible and do not work and even after hours of trying. A nice computer and operating system but you may need to buy new disks, scanners and printers.

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]


As I said, you can also use the expression omina fabryke which comes from the word objazd. Remember that I never use Polish and do not learn it as I have no future use of it really. However, there are a few expressions which I do remember such as 'kto pyta nie bladzi'-he who asks will not loose his way and I think that I am right in saying there is an expression you could use with your friends looking for their way 'koniec jezyka za przewodnika', I learned it from a girl from Bochnia a long time ago and it means, in other words, use your tongue and it will be your guide.


My wife uses it to me in the car all the time!

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]

Actually, I talked to my wife and she is obviously right as she always is in everything in Polish. She was not at all impressed with my 'przez fabryke' so sorry! It should be jedz sobie prosto po ulicy z fabryka po lewej stronie' or at least words to that effect!

Work / Thinking of spending time teaching in Poland! [38]

I was only at one school for a short visit but I did indeed go there and I met the English teacher. She was quite nice as a person and her English seemed to be reasonable. Whilst there though she had written a piece of an English text and she asked me what I thought of it. It went a bit like this.

I went by a train to a London and visited a Queen in the Buckingham Palace which is very near to a number 10 The Downing Street where a Prime Minister, the John Major lives. To see the London is unbelievable with a Kennsingon Gardens and I walked through The Regents Park. I tried to help and explain but she got agitated so I proceeded no further. What's the point?

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]


That is why I did say if the factory was being referred to as a long long wall rather like a tram line not just a short building. In Poland there were old factories with walls that ran for miles!

UK, Ireland / Should Polish immigrants learn English to work in the UK? [77]

In fact they do not always learn English and there is not always a reason to do so. A lot of these Polish workers are still based in Poland and just come over to England 'by invitation' when there is a job to go to. We know of workers who come over and sleep wherever they can to do the job before going home. We know of a Polish family that is converting their garage in to another downstairs room for £6,000 whereas it would cost £30,000 if they were to employ British workmen to do the same thing. The trouble is of course, is how do these prices compare after a couple of years when they know that they can start to earn the same as local tradesmen.

Real Estate / Foreigners: Please don't buy Polish Land! [823]


Of course a lot of what you are saying is somewhat similar to the growth of Hitler before the war in the 1930's. I am against an expanded Europe because it is undemocratic and the British have never been asked. In Poland as a foreigner they treat you as a second class citizen but it always works for them when the 'tables are turned'. Now in Brussels England has two votes and Poland has one but they want the same rights as the U.K. Why? So the Czech Republic, Poland and Estonia can vote for something and win simply by majority and England will end up footing the bill. I have seen it all before. This is probably why Germany does not want the Poles and feels the same as me-they should work at home to build a better future for themselves.


Mind you, there was great resentment in Wales years ago with the Brits buying cheap properties and now there have been cases in Brittany, Northern France where British owned houses have been targeted. It is a problem that comes and goes all over the World. The thing is, everybody is somewhat interested in other people and people like to meet other people and then make a profit. It is when the ugly word 'competition' comes in that problems and jealousy starts. The Poles are all right when they get their own way but try and compete in Poland with them-that would be an entirely different story if you are taking their jobs away from them.

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]


Does this mean that to rondo znajduje sie obok faryki or that someone, ktos jedzie obok fabryki in the sense of 'wzdluz' i.e. the whole length of the factory or something? There is a difference. Maybe ominac fabryke is meant here?

Work / Thinking of spending time teaching in Poland! [38]

When I was in Poland the shortage of English Language teacher was so great that Polish state school were even hiring Ukrainian girls to fill the places-mind you, that was a few years ago now and it was in the fairly small town of Krasnik where being off the beaten track may not attract higher qualified staff but as a rule a TESOL qualification is not required as there is no formal qualification to teach one's mother language in existence.

News / Poland torpedoes EU Day Against Death Penalty [71]

Some time ago, an ex work colleague was working in Saudi Arabia. His next door neighbours were from South Korea. They killed a pakistani and cut him up and put his body parts in the fridge. One of the South Koreans later became ill from the bad 'food' he was eating and they took him in to hospital. When they found out it was human meat he had been eating they (the Saudis) cut both their heads off. In Saudi Arabia they often cut people's heads off on a Friday. If you are from South Korea or Poland they give you an injection and slice the head off but if you are from England or America it is very rare.

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]


Certainly on a colloquial level the verb odchodzic is used to describe trains leaving the station.


Yes


Ja ide teraz do domu pieszo. Ja chodze codziennie do sklepow (tez pieszo)

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]


prowadzic samochod

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]


Obok fabryki is really next to the factory (standing) rather than a sense of movement as passing it would be.

Life / Why don't Polish service workers smile? [36]

It might depend on the time of year too. During Communism everybody had a job and it did not matter if you were happy with the service or not but maybe with the coming of competition they have to work and try harder!

Language / Giving directions in Polish [51]


Over the roundabout is probably po rondie and past the factory is przez fabryke
you have gone too far is probably pan pojechal juz za daleko
left at the roundabout, then there's another left immediately after that may be do ronda i skrec na lewo i potem natychmiast jeszcze raz na lewo?

Take the left may be pierwsza ulica na lewo
second turning on the right druga ulica na prawo

Someone will correct my mistakes!


pan musi tu po prostu skrecic i wrocic jak pan przyjechal it sounds more or less right anyway!


As a P.S. there is a very useful Polish word 'wzdluz' pronounced wzdwoosh meaning along so if it was a very long wall of a factory running like a tram line for a kilometer ect it could be wzdluz fabryki taking the genetive case.

Life / Why don't Polish service workers smile? [36]


I think that sounds unusual even for a shop assistant anywhere. Perhaps she had a bad day? Obviously the young generation today is not the same as previous generations of Poles and they can be quite rude. In Guildford, the poles who have already established them selves do not want contact with the new influx at all. A friend of our is Polish from Szczecin and always had a little PL sticker on the back of her car Renault Clio. She has since torn it off to hide her previous Polish identity. There are a lot of quite arrogant new Poles and we simply avoid all of them.

Life / Try it - move to Poland! [33]


As I understood it, large firms like Tescos moving in to Poland had special rates and incentives and have tax free rights for up to two years and this is why supermarkets change hands so often. A company moves in and they take advantage for two years and then they move on and another company comes then takes its place with a new name for the consecutive two years.

Life / Try it - move to Poland! [33]

If you enjoy life, why not.

News / Poland torpedoes EU Day Against Death Penalty [71]


Yes and they also shoot people with great care through the head so as not to damage the reatiners of the eyes-they sell the body parts on to third parties after death.

In fact, the South Koreans eat anything and anybody!

News / Poland torpedoes EU Day Against Death Penalty [71]


Probably against countries like China where they still have capital punishment. In fact, today in China, they execute more people per year than the rest of the World put together.

News / English vs. Polish hostility [323]


Not yet but as they start to spread out they might start to infect us with their culture. If they are in Chicago in large numbers I have no objection but to think of us having the same problem here...why do Poles want to come to England in large numbers anyway, was it not Churchill who sold Poland to Stalin?

UK, Ireland / Are British people really interested to integrate with Poles? [92]

I do not think that the British have anything against the Poles as such, I certainly do not. I think that England is used to many people from all over the World coming to this country, though I do know of some people who feel that we have enough. I find it strange as in fact it is the Poles who do not want to mix much and keep themselves to themselves except for some of the women who possibly want a ready built house and Birish passport waiting for them!

Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]


Well, I can't!

Love / WHY DO POLISH WIVES WHO ARE AWAY NOT VISIT THEIR HUSBANDS? [75]

Gene Pitney sang a song entitled 'true love never runs smooth.'

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]


Yes this is the right way with the 'k' joining the 'mike'! So it is simply the English short name Mike plus shuck (the shuck as in the Polish word luskac).