Michal
13 Jun 2007
Michal
13 Jun 2007
Language / hello i work in a pre school and need some advice! [5]
you caould put up a poster in the school and ask the parents to contribute ideas, songs ect. It would ease your work load too.
Polish mothers would be by far the best people to help you out in deciding on something to eat. You could even invite some of them in on the day to help organize the food. You will have to make the work load easy on yourself. See if there is a Polish shop in your area, they too could help with ideas of polish dishes ect.
? We are also having a polish day so any tips on tradtional food,
you caould put up a poster in the school and ask the parents to contribute ideas, songs ect. It would ease your work load too.
Polish mothers would be by far the best people to help you out in deciding on something to eat. You could even invite some of them in on the day to help organize the food. You will have to make the work load easy on yourself. See if there is a Polish shop in your area, they too could help with ideas of polish dishes ect.
Michal
13 Jun 2007
Language / Help!! I've got to teach year 7 Polish numbers. [13]
What is wrong with being a Polish plumber? They could be like and you and just be a bit of a drip!
Tell them that they should learn a lot or else they will become Polish plumbers
What is wrong with being a Polish plumber? They could be like and you and just be a bit of a drip!
Michal
12 Jun 2007
UK, Ireland / 700 are arriving every day from Eastern Europe into Britain [50]
No, not really. They come here with their children and they need educating for free. Then they are ill. They go to the doctor and get medicines for free. It costs us more to employ them than they contribute.
No, not really. They come here with their children and they need educating for free. Then they are ill. They go to the doctor and get medicines for free. It costs us more to employ them than they contribute.
Michal
12 Jun 2007
Life / How do Polish view others [116]
I live up to the present times too. A very nasty country with a lot of very nasty people. I have seen so much over my life time in Russia, Poland and South Africa in the 1970's. Not long ago, my Father-In-Law died of heart failure in the backyard of his little farm house in a little village near Czestochowa. One of his son-in laws inherited the house as he was a farmer and could therefore plough the land. Instead, he decided to burgal the house in the night and then he set fire to the house and burnt it to the ground to claim the insurance money simply to pay for the reception of one of his daughter's weddings! I have seen everything in Poland and only a Pole could stoop so low. I, for my own part, never wish to return there.
I live up to the present times too. A very nasty country with a lot of very nasty people. I have seen so much over my life time in Russia, Poland and South Africa in the 1970's. Not long ago, my Father-In-Law died of heart failure in the backyard of his little farm house in a little village near Czestochowa. One of his son-in laws inherited the house as he was a farmer and could therefore plough the land. Instead, he decided to burgal the house in the night and then he set fire to the house and burnt it to the ground to claim the insurance money simply to pay for the reception of one of his daughter's weddings! I have seen everything in Poland and only a Pole could stoop so low. I, for my own part, never wish to return there.
Michal
20 Mar 2007
UK, Ireland / Getting married to a Polish Citizen in the UK [371]
you want to be very careful about dual nationality. If an Englishman marries a Polish woman and gets a Polish passport whilst living in Poland, then the British Embassy can not help you if you have a problem and get arrested by the Polish police, as just one example. Beware of dual nationality.
you want to be very careful about dual nationality. If an Englishman marries a Polish woman and gets a Polish passport whilst living in Poland, then the British Embassy can not help you if you have a problem and get arrested by the Polish police, as just one example. Beware of dual nationality.
Michal
17 Mar 2007
UK, Ireland / Getting married to a Polish Citizen in the UK [371]
it is not wise to marry a Polish girl. They all change when they know that they have got their claws around you. All women change, especially Polish women. competition starts as a joke but becomes more serious as time goes on.
Why is our car old when he has a new one? Why do we have a flat and not a house? My friend is a doctor and earns £100,000 a year, why can't you? WARNING, beware!
it is not wise to marry a Polish girl. They all change when they know that they have got their claws around you. All women change, especially Polish women. competition starts as a joke but becomes more serious as time goes on.
Why is our car old when he has a new one? Why do we have a flat and not a house? My friend is a doctor and earns £100,000 a year, why can't you? WARNING, beware!
Michal
12 Jun 2007
UK, Ireland / 700 are arriving every day from Eastern Europe into Britain [50]
Actually, you are incorrect. Recent studies show that these workers contribute almost nothing to the British economy for a long and complicated set of reasons.
benefits, but in rural areas they provide necessary labour, live on site; therefore not
Actually, you are incorrect. Recent studies show that these workers contribute almost nothing to the British economy for a long and complicated set of reasons.
Michal
12 Jun 2007
Life / How do Polish view others [116]
Mind you, the English tend to refer to the place as Zaponany when spoken just as we have Warsaw for Warszawa and Krakow for Krakow. I have not said anything bad about Zakopane and I have been there in 1985. The mountains were beautiful and I am looking forward to going back to see the place again.
Mind you, the English tend to refer to the place as Zaponany when spoken just as we have Warsaw for Warszawa and Krakow for Krakow. I have not said anything bad about Zakopane and I have been there in 1985. The mountains were beautiful and I am looking forward to going back to see the place again.
Michal
11 Jun 2007
Life / How do Polish view others [116]
Some are and some are not. Like any race, you will need to be careful. The Poles have a bad reputation in using other people.
Some are and some are not. Like any race, you will need to be careful. The Poles have a bad reputation in using other people.
Michal
11 Jun 2007
UK, Ireland / 700 are arriving every day from Eastern Europe into Britain [50]
What is even worse, in many of these cases the people in question are not even Polish but are travelling on false passports and are simply pretending to be Polish.
e large numbers of Poles who are unemployed and drawing benefit in the UK while working in the black economy and claiming child benefit. That would be perfect for the restaurant trade and construction
What is even worse, in many of these cases the people in question are not even Polish but are travelling on false passports and are simply pretending to be Polish.
Michal
11 Jun 2007
Life / How do Polish view others [116]
I am coming (maybe) to Poland in July some time for a week to Zakopany, to the mountains. I will be able to see the 'new Poland' for myself. Time flies, 1985 is over twenty years ago so I will see for myself the changes.
De Gaulle set up the Free French in London during the war so it shows how little you know.
You seem stuck in the past and that is why it is difficult to take you seriously
I am coming (maybe) to Poland in July some time for a week to Zakopany, to the mountains. I will be able to see the 'new Poland' for myself. Time flies, 1985 is over twenty years ago so I will see for myself the changes.
No Poland France connection indeed!
De Gaulle set up the Free French in London during the war so it shows how little you know.
Michal
10 Jun 2007
Life / How do Polish view others [116]
When I was a student in Krakow in 1985 the Americans, and there were many there with me on the same course had the most low and degrading opinions about the Poles and their country-I should know as I even shared a room with one for six weeks.
Wonder why anybody could have such a low opinion of a nation and in
When I was a student in Krakow in 1985 the Americans, and there were many there with me on the same course had the most low and degrading opinions about the Poles and their country-I should know as I even shared a room with one for six weeks.
Michal
9 Jun 2007
Michal
9 Jun 2007
Life / How do Polish view others [116]
Actually, I have just come back from France and was thinking that France would be a good place for the Poles. Nice weather and good food-the young women there like to look nice and wear nice clothes-very much a Polish thing too. It would be a better place for the Poles than England perhaps. Oh yes, I am sure that with the right amount of money and/or future a Polish woman will latch herself on to almost anybody. Have you ever heard of an Eastern European not knowing a good thing when they see it?!
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I know several Pols who live in France
I know several Pols who live in France
Actually, I have just come back from France and was thinking that France would be a good place for the Poles. Nice weather and good food-the young women there like to look nice and wear nice clothes-very much a Polish thing too. It would be a better place for the Poles than England perhaps. Oh yes, I am sure that with the right amount of money and/or future a Polish woman will latch herself on to almost anybody. Have you ever heard of an Eastern European not knowing a good thing when they see it?!
Michal
9 Jun 2007
UK, Ireland / 700 are arriving every day from Eastern Europe into Britain [50]
The trouble is that the Poles never think long term, employers will take on these people on an hourly basis without the need for pensions and sick pay and we end up with a back-street cheap labour force. The Poles will jump at the chance to 'make a quick buck'. I have just come back from France yet I have not noticed many Polish there working but maybe I was in the wrong area.
The trouble is that the Poles never think long term, employers will take on these people on an hourly basis without the need for pensions and sick pay and we end up with a back-street cheap labour force. The Poles will jump at the chance to 'make a quick buck'. I have just come back from France yet I have not noticed many Polish there working but maybe I was in the wrong area.
Michal
6 Jun 2007
Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]
No rubbish; Polish grammar is easier than French grammar even.
Why, Africaans does it all the time.
Since when has Polish been considered a difficult language?
Polish is much easier than German.
Yes, English grammar is MUCH simplier than the Polish one... I would estimate it take a "normal" man or woman more than a year to learn the Polish grammar
No rubbish; Polish grammar is easier than French grammar even.
The one thing that confuses me in Polish is the way that you can use double negatives in a sentense
Why, Africaans does it all the time.
but comparing to Polish it still remains a fart.... as most western languages anyway. they are very schematic complaring to ours.
Since when has Polish been considered a difficult language?
declination is a hell to learn correctly - even for the Poles themselvesl. well, English doesn't have it at all.
Polish is much easier than German.
Michal
2 Jun 2007
UK, Ireland / 700 are arriving every day from Eastern Europe into Britain [50]
Yes, but the whole point of flodding an economy like ours in the U.K. is that you do not need unions because you can hire and fire people very quickly. If someone is doing an unskilled job then they can be trained up very quickly. I have heard it is even true of the TESOL world in Poland now. If your lessons are boring the students complain and the teacher is changed-end of story, the students are paying money for lessons and they are king.
The key is to have good unions,
Yes, but the whole point of flodding an economy like ours in the U.K. is that you do not need unions because you can hire and fire people very quickly. If someone is doing an unskilled job then they can be trained up very quickly. I have heard it is even true of the TESOL world in Poland now. If your lessons are boring the students complain and the teacher is changed-end of story, the students are paying money for lessons and they are king.
Michal
2 Jun 2007
Life / How come Poles have 2 cars, mobile phones - but make so little money? [23]
The point is that a lot of the things that the Poles have is 'just for show'. They are like little children and never think about tomorrow. They never put anything by for a 'rainy day' and instead just spend for the moment. The never keep money for long and are not used to a capitalist market system.
Czy to nie to samo po calym swiecie? Czy Prezident Bush mowi po polsku na przyklad ?ale wiem co najmniej, ze nasz Tony Bliar mowi dosyc dobrze po francusku. Czyba ktos w barze mowi obce jezyki bardziej bo on albo ona pracowala za granica dlatego, ze nie ma takiej pracy w Polsce.
The point is that a lot of the things that the Poles have is 'just for show'. They are like little children and never think about tomorrow. They never put anything by for a 'rainy day' and instead just spend for the moment. The never keep money for long and are not used to a capitalist market system.
jakimkolwiek urzędnikiem pństwowym tylko za pośrednictwem tłumacza. Polacy..! Jak wy to
Czy to nie to samo po calym swiecie? Czy Prezident Bush mowi po polsku na przyklad ?ale wiem co najmniej, ze nasz Tony Bliar mowi dosyc dobrze po francusku. Czyba ktos w barze mowi obce jezyki bardziej bo on albo ona pracowala za granica dlatego, ze nie ma takiej pracy w Polsce.
Michal
2 Jun 2007
UK, Ireland / 700 are arriving every day from Eastern Europe into Britain [50]
All very strange. I remember in the 1980's the Polish I met had no time for England or the English and now...I suppose it is something in human nature what you can not have you want even more. All the influx of Eastern European people to the U.K. is bad as well as good. Working class jobs are now in short supply as these jobs do not require a good education or a good ability with the English Language and an influx of workers helps to keep wage rates low so expanded EU membership benefits the rich capatalists.
All very strange. I remember in the 1980's the Polish I met had no time for England or the English and now...I suppose it is something in human nature what you can not have you want even more. All the influx of Eastern European people to the U.K. is bad as well as good. Working class jobs are now in short supply as these jobs do not require a good education or a good ability with the English Language and an influx of workers helps to keep wage rates low so expanded EU membership benefits the rich capatalists.
Michal
2 Jun 2007
Life / How do Polish view others [116]
Why, what will happen, will an Englishman fall over a pathing stone? Come off it, you know as well as I do how the Poles like to talk but not do...
much bigger chance of coming home with broken bones after a trip to Poland
Why, what will happen, will an Englishman fall over a pathing stone? Come off it, you know as well as I do how the Poles like to talk but not do...
Michal
2 Jun 2007
Life / How do Polish view others [116]
This I can not understand. It is very rare to find a Polish person who speaks French and I have never known there to be any connection between the French and the Poles.
Poles like Czech and French (don't ask me why),
This I can not understand. It is very rare to find a Polish person who speaks French and I have never known there to be any connection between the French and the Poles.
Michal
1 Jun 2007
Life / New English Language Magazine for expats in Poland? [24]
Generally people say that there is nothing special about Radom but I rather like the place myself. There is a nice large open market there on the outskirts of the town but I am not sure which days of the week it is open.
Generally people say that there is nothing special about Radom but I rather like the place myself. There is a nice large open market there on the outskirts of the town but I am not sure which days of the week it is open.
Michal
1 Jun 2007
Language / What's the best "Learn Polish" book? [33]
I think that it is something that you are very unlikely to find in a college library. The public libraries used to stock Linguaphone courses but not any more. You maybe able to order a new one though-a computer disk I think that they are called Liguaphone 3.0 through Amazon. I have seen the Arabic one in W.H. Smiths but if a Polish one exists...who knows...
I think that it is something that you are very unlikely to find in a college library. The public libraries used to stock Linguaphone courses but not any more. You maybe able to order a new one though-a computer disk I think that they are called Liguaphone 3.0 through Amazon. I have seen the Arabic one in W.H. Smiths but if a Polish one exists...who knows...
Michal
31 May 2007
Language / What's the best "Learn Polish" book? [33]
If you want to buy a very good course in this country for learning Polish, then the Linguaphone Polish Language Course was very good-I even have a photocpied set of course work plus the tapes. You may be able to borrow it from a library or buy one on e-bay, though I am not sure. The Linguaphone Polish Course is not something I have seen very often and may now be out of print.
If you want to buy a very good course in this country for learning Polish, then the Linguaphone Polish Language Course was very good-I even have a photocpied set of course work plus the tapes. You may be able to borrow it from a library or buy one on e-bay, though I am not sure. The Linguaphone Polish Course is not something I have seen very often and may now be out of print.
Michal
30 May 2007
News / Why are foreigners coming to Poland and from which countries? [119]
I am English so where does my I.Q stand? Somewhere between 80 and 120, I suppose.
Mainly, surely, people come and visit Poland as it is still relatively cheap.
I am English so where does my I.Q stand? Somewhere between 80 and 120, I suppose.
Mainly, surely, people come and visit Poland as it is still relatively cheap.
Michal
30 May 2007
Polonia / anyone been to St Petersburg? [51]
From what I remember, the museam is nice, I can not remember even if I went inside but otherwise Stockholm in Sweden would be just as interesting really. There is nothing special about St. Petersburg, it was interesting for us as we were students of the Russian Language in Moscow at the time and we went to St. Petersbug to see where the Revolution in 1917 took place. Neasden in London may be a better choice without the need of a visa! As a student of Russian maybe, otherwise give it a miss.
From what I remember, the museam is nice, I can not remember even if I went inside but otherwise Stockholm in Sweden would be just as interesting really. There is nothing special about St. Petersburg, it was interesting for us as we were students of the Russian Language in Moscow at the time and we went to St. Petersbug to see where the Revolution in 1917 took place. Neasden in London may be a better choice without the need of a visa! As a student of Russian maybe, otherwise give it a miss.
Michal
30 May 2007
Love / Why Polish girl is afraid of a marriage? [16]
In fact, at 21, she is quite young for committment for the rest of her life. She is abroad, I imagine in Ireland and studying so she might simply have 'a lot on her plate' Do you know of any relationship she may have or have had had in Poland previously? It is difficult when you meet someone and you are both away from your respective homes and cultures-you tend to use each other for the moment. There is not really an age difference-there is eight years difference between my Polish wife and I and our marriage is a great success-we argue continually! Polish people are quite 'clicky', if that is the word, and I am just wondering if she may be getting over some relationship previously and fears yet another situation that is getting too serious. My advice is not to push anything too far-wait and see, that is the best option. If you are enjoying each others company that should be enough.
In fact, at 21, she is quite young for committment for the rest of her life. She is abroad, I imagine in Ireland and studying so she might simply have 'a lot on her plate' Do you know of any relationship she may have or have had had in Poland previously? It is difficult when you meet someone and you are both away from your respective homes and cultures-you tend to use each other for the moment. There is not really an age difference-there is eight years difference between my Polish wife and I and our marriage is a great success-we argue continually! Polish people are quite 'clicky', if that is the word, and I am just wondering if she may be getting over some relationship previously and fears yet another situation that is getting too serious. My advice is not to push anything too far-wait and see, that is the best option. If you are enjoying each others company that should be enough.
Michal
29 May 2007
Polonia / anyone been to St Petersburg? [51]
When I was a student in Moscow in 1984 we went for a trip for a few days to St. Petersburg. I imagine that it has changed somewhat since the days when I was there. It was quite nice and the people were certainly more friendly than in Moscow. If you asked for directions they would help you more so than those living in the capital. They seemed to have more time for foreigners than the Moscovites, but that was then and of course, only my opinion. I was there in January so if it is winter time I do warn you, it can be *******cold!
When I was a student in Moscow in 1984 we went for a trip for a few days to St. Petersburg. I imagine that it has changed somewhat since the days when I was there. It was quite nice and the people were certainly more friendly than in Moscow. If you asked for directions they would help you more so than those living in the capital. They seemed to have more time for foreigners than the Moscovites, but that was then and of course, only my opinion. I was there in January so if it is winter time I do warn you, it can be *******cold!
Michal
29 May 2007
Language / Some example sentences using each of the cases in Polish [33]
There are quite a few good grammars on the market and if you are in the U.K. your library should have a selection of books on the Polish language, that is, if the library is a main city one. As I have written before, Colloquial Polish by Mazur is a very good book and you will have everything written down. You should be able to order it to on Amazon or maybe e-bay? Free on line courses are a waste of time-very limited and avoid computer discs by Transparent languages ect as I have terrible trouble in downloading the material on to my computer.
There are quite a few good grammars on the market and if you are in the U.K. your library should have a selection of books on the Polish language, that is, if the library is a main city one. As I have written before, Colloquial Polish by Mazur is a very good book and you will have everything written down. You should be able to order it to on Amazon or maybe e-bay? Free on line courses are a waste of time-very limited and avoid computer discs by Transparent languages ect as I have terrible trouble in downloading the material on to my computer.