UK, Ireland / Polish teenagers in UK colleges [10]

Mind you, I am talking about fifteen years ago so maybe not now? G.C.S.E. Manachest board will be able to confirm dates and venues.

UK, Ireland / Polish teenagers in UK colleges [10]

I am not sure about now but many years ago it was possible to do G.C.S.E. Polish at the Polish POSC Institute in Hammersmith, West London. The examination was held once a year at two centres, one being Ravenscourt and the other was Sheffield. POSC in Hammersmith used to hold Saturday classes too for both G.C.S.E. and G.C.S.E. 'A' level.

News / Polish teachers on Strike. [62]


Who has a five bedroomed house? Nobody young goes to Poland teaching English because they expect to earn lots of money-it is, after all, a young man's job. The best paid TESOL jobs are advertised in South Korea where you can expect to earn around £10,000, which is still peanuts. Nobody goes to Poland to earn lots of money, especially Poland of all the countries in Europe. I can not see what construction debris has to do with anything in this argument at all.

News / Polish teachers on Strike. [62]


No, being a teacher is not an unskilled job but being a teacher of English overseas such as TESOL is an unskilled job.

News / Polish teachers on Strike. [62]


On taking on this post, you would have been aware that teaching English as a foreign language is an unskilled job, which gains 0 points on the Australian Immigration list. Young people do not spend time abroad teaching English in the hope that they are going to make millions, rather they are just paying their way around the World with their rucksacks. I could not teach English in Poland, in fact I could not afford to work in Poland. That is why Polish teachers would rather stack shelves in Tescos in England than write on the black board in Poland. I can not understand the mentality of the British thing that they are owed lots of money teaching something so basic and trivual as English conversation.

News / France to lift job restrictions on Poles [84]


It is not true to say that Poland was 'occupied'-rather Poland was protected from Western Capitalist invasion threats by Russia, which had, after all, given so much that Poland could live in Socialist peace and freedom. Poland voted for socialism after all the horrors of World War 2.

News / France to lift job restrictions on Poles [84]

Poland joined the E.U because they thought that they were going to be bailed out in another more modern Marshall plan like there was for Western European countries at the end of the Second World War. The Poles are always the same-they give very little but when offered an inch they simply 'take a mile'.

Language / Making an apology: Polish grammar construction [6]

You could also say,
Droga Aneto,
Bardzo mi przykro, że nie odpisałem wcześniej ale...

Travel / I miss Kraków... What do You miss...? [95]

I remember when I was last there in in Kraków in 1986 I saw loads of wooden scaffolding holding up buildings and a man who's father lived in Kraków, hence his visits at that time to see him whilst he was still alive told me that this same wooden scaffolding had been there for years. Things change very slowly in Poland. Mind you-I have news-I am visiting Warszawa again after so many years in June. I am really looking forward to vising places I once knew. I am flying British Airways mind you-no old Russian aircraft with LOT for me-I have never forgotten the horors of crashing Russian planes outside Warsaw when I was last in Poland.

News / Polish teachers on Strike. [62]

Teachers in Poland have traditionally been poorly paid. Teaching is at the lower scale of the professions' and is, therefore, correctly lower paid than civil engineers, dentists and accountants.

Travel / I miss Kraków... What do You miss...? [95]

I never miss any of it. It is easy to be romantic but lets be honest-dirty run down streets with wooden scaffolding, which has been there for twenty years or more holding these old smelly buildings up. Not a very pleasant place at all. Many two faced people too!

Travel / I miss Kraków... What do You miss...? [95]

I was in St. Petersburg when it was still Leningrad. Better to see it in the Summer time and not in winter. When I was there it was absolutely freezing.

Language / Does anyone knows about a quick course to learn the basics? [8]

Brett i Christey

Language / Does anyone knows about a quick course to learn the basics? [8]

If you only have a month to learn the language it is very unlikely that one month would teach you to say much at all especially in understanding the replies. However, speaking two languages as you do, you probably appreciate this point already. As you have a computer, try downloading the free byki words and phrases. It would certainly help you and the contents would certainly fill you with work for the month preceding you trip to Poland.

Language / Adjective/Noun Order? [20]

No idea, give an example. Does this again simply mean that the adjective must agree with the noun in gender and quantity?

Language / Accusative Case [44]


Yes, it must. Therefore oni mają czekoladowe jajko.

Travel / I miss Kraków... What do You miss...? [95]


Yes, you are right-its an emotional thing at the end of the day. There is even a saying in Dutch, which goes 'oost west, thuis best'.

Travel / I miss Kraków... What do You miss...? [95]

I have been to Kraków and no, to tell you the truth once or twice was enough. Same old buildings. A very nice square, which you can walk around in about twenty minutes. New York has much more for my liking though.

Language / How to use zakończono, znaleziono, etc in context [5]

Zakończono would mean, as you say, finished. It can be used as an adjective from a verb by changing the ending. Coś jest skonczone-something is finished from the verb skończyć.

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


The grammar is correct but it sounds odd as the sentence in the first place is odd and not very good English. When does someone say 'son of the father of a large company?' Do you mean in the sense 'my father started our present day large firm?

Mój ojciec otworzył firmę, która dzisiaj prosperuje i jest duża'.

Language / czy../trzy.. - Full assimilation in Polish [22]

There is a difference between accent, regional dialect and foreign mistakes.

Language / czy../trzy.. - Full assimilation in Polish [22]

When I visited Częstochowa, many years ago there was a girl living in the same hostel who came from a small village and she said a lot of strange things such as zeby instead of żeby so that the initial rz sound sounded just like a normal 'z'-very strange indeed.

Language / czy../trzy.. - Full assimilation in Polish [22]

Yes, but this is not slang but bad polish spoken by non Poles who find it difficult to sound natural with all the sounds of the language. This is understandable as many foreigners find problems with the English 'th' and there are, after all, two variations to make it more complicated still. To any German, the ending ich at the end of a word would never sound like the English 'ch' as in the word church. This is not slang but just a foreigners mistake.

Language / czy../trzy.. - Full assimilation in Polish [22]


This is indeed wrong and would sound more like a foreigner trying to speak Polish than polish slang. The Polish trz sounds quite different from the English 'sh' in the word sheep.

UK, Ireland / Statistics: How many Polish people in the UK? [23]

I heard that it might be up to a million but half have already returned home to Poland. I think that three million is an exaggeration.

Life / How to deal with rude rich Polish people? [65]


This is very true of all rich Polish people. Most Poles are poor but they will always have the time to stick a knife in your back! The Polish race have never been very industrious and hard working and instead have always relied on the support of others. In our Christian society, the Anglo Saxon races believe that it is our own hard work and endevours that will lead to success whereas, in Poland, the Roman Catholics are made to believe that it does not matter what you do or say in life and nothing is really important as God will provide for you. The Poles are Europe's most scrounging race, jealous of wealth and success, they are always the first to embrace it when it comes their way.

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


You would certainly never pronounce final Polish ę as an 'en' sound but this does indeed ocurre in the middle of words.

Language / I know "się" is the only reflexive personal pronoun..but "jak się masz?" [34]

In fact, the Polish word się is a reflexive pronoun stolen from the Russian Language and then just shortened and simplified. In Russian the word is cjebja. There are many examples of places where the Poles, not having such a word in their own language, simply 'finds' a word in someone else's!

Life / Do Polish people respect other cultures? [96]


No, Poland is far from perfect. The Poles lack education and therefore they can not understand other countries or cultures. The Poles have traditionally been stuck in their own ways surrounded by Communism and they have had a total lack of respect for Western countries, until now of course that they too can travel and it is now a different thing altogether. Education is the key but it is also cultural perspectives, which are important and country girls in Poland can not live up to these high ideals.

Travel / Understanding travel within Gdansk/Gdynia [9]

As far as I remember, there is only one railway station where the little blue trains stop which travel from North to South between Gdańsk Główny and wejchorowo. How can there be three in Sopot? Sopot itself is tiny.