Language / What is the most annoying thing about non-native Polish speakers? [90]

It is probably due to the fact that they do not know the language very well so knowing some dirty words will impress you somewhat. I have been in Turkey and they try to show off too by speaking English like a cockney and saying things like 'lovely jubbly' and other stupid similar things that they have heard on Sky tv.

Language / Five Commandments for Polish Language Learners [36]

How can I possibly do that?

Language / "Let's Learn Polish" by Zofia Bastgen: Is it a good book? [3]

Yes it is quite a good book, though a little dated now. It was written during the socialist era If I remember rightly there are also a set of cassettes, which come with the course, I know this as I have a set too though I never use them. It is quite a comprehensive book and you would know a lot by the end of the course. In fact I am holding my copy now. It looks pretty good and even gives the words in phonetic script, which would help you even more. Do not be put off by all things old, some of the old books are much better than the simplified newer ones.

Language / Five Commandments for Polish Language Learners [36]


Yes, I remember that you have had some words of wisdom before! As it is a free forum I too can speak, can I not?

Language / Five Commandments for Polish Language Learners [36]

As you have never met me, you do not know if I am a woman or a man neither if I am Polish or English how can anybody say that my Polish is communicative? Noe of you even knows me. I am not dishing anything out. All I said was that I imagined that as this was a Polish forum and that Telefonitika does sound like a slavonic word and reading her English I assumed that she was Polish or at least from a similar background. That assumption was reasonable. To quote Michael Zander the academic lawyer 'we are all preconditioned with a million preconceptions'. My Polish would be robot talk as I have never lived or worked in Poland and can only quote the contents of one two hundred page grammar book. I can dish it out and accept it too but like most computer chat lines most people lie and it is impossible to even know with whom you are really talking to. End of story.

Language / Five Commandments for Polish Language Learners [36]

Please do not talk about me anymore and you have never even met me so my Polish is not your concern.

Language / Five Commandments for Polish Language Learners [36]

Nobody is perfect, I am certainly not perfect and nobody in Poland is and that is for sure-their manners are simply dreadful.

Language / I want to write/read/speak fluent Polish! [60]

There is nothing posh or arrogant about a Tesol certificate-it is the most basic level of teaching qualification that exists and I have never worked in this field of work and I never started this discussion in the first place though I can not remember who it was. End of this discussion please.

Language / I want to write/read/speak fluent Polish! [60]


I have never been a teacher. I said that in the year 2000 I completed a course in teaching English to speakers of other languages called TESOL with the board Trinity College, London. I have a certificate but have never taught. I tak, jestem bardzo bardzo przystojny i inteligentny.

Language / I want to write/read/speak fluent Polish! [60]

Sorry, but from your 'name' telefonitika and your bad spelling and English grammar that you were Polish!

Language / Five Commandments for Polish Language Learners [36]

To be honest, I always found learning the Polish language a 'sinch'.

Language / Five Commandments for Polish Language Learners [36]


I never make mistakes and got an A grade in G.C.S.E. and ditinction in the institute of Linguists grade 3 examination, distinction in both the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry NVQ 3 and N.V.Q. level 4 examinations in Business Polish-all with distinction. I have never had any problem with learning Polish and speak it all the time with my Polish wife at home.

Language / I want to write/read/speak fluent Polish! [60]


However, that is exactly what you said.


Yes, in fact we have a section in our local Tesco store here in Guildford. Perhaps you also work for the same supermarket? I expect in fact that Telefonitika has a limited understanding of English and did not understand what was being said. Talking about the Polish Language-you do not even need Skype, there are many excellent books on the market, one of them was B. Mazur, Colloquial Polish series though it has been rewritten since my copy came out in the early 1980's. I have a copy and read the book before taking G.C.S.E. Polish in London and got an A so it can be done. I might go to Prague next so will learn Czech too. These languages are not very difficult to learn.

Language / I want to write/read/speak fluent Polish! [60]

I waas not spreading************before that. In fact, it was Telefonitika who wrote...'apparently 80% of the U.K. population is Polish anyway it was on a radio station news bulletin'. How can 80% of the U.K. population be Polish?

Language / I want to write/read/speak fluent Polish! [60]

You do, as I would like to quote what you have written above, 'Anyone says that everyone in the UK should learn Polish'.

My question is why should anyone in the U.K. have to learn Polish?

Language / I want to write/read/speak fluent Polish! [60]

As there are a million Welsh speakers it could be argued that Welsh should be compulsory before Polish. And no, there are more Polish people in Chicago than there are in England. Polish is of a minority interest value in England.

Language / I want to write/read/speak fluent Polish! [60]

In England near to where I live we have a large number of people with origins in Pakistan. Are we all therefore to learn Urdu with the Arabic writing? We have Chiese and Arabs too so before Polish we have a long way to go. In Guildford we used to have a lot of Czechs, that is, up until the time that the Poles could work in England legally, but it is rare to hear the language now. 600,000 is actualy not so many as

some will be temerary as many will earn money and move on back home or even further afield to Australia and France. I agree, that spending a lot of time on a minority language would be time badly spent.

Language / Formal and Informal Greetings in Polish [21]


Kopa lat is in fact an old Polish word for sixty but the expression kopa lat is not used now except in the countryside.


Here they are and not here are they!

Love / I've Loved One Polish Woman Deeply, Now I am ready for More [19]

You might change your mind when you get to know them a little better! You obviously have little experience in Eastern European women. Some of them can be very bad mannered.

Language / Polish Language Pronunciation - Example Words and Phrases [220]

Ja kocham cie, a wiec prosze .......... mnie.

Language / Things Polish people who speak English language say [180]


Yes, I have already mentioned comming by bus in to the centre of Warsaw and seeing all the biil boards with advertisments with loads of English words. The Polish have little pride in their language and it is become dreadful to see how they have allowed their language to become a hybrid! Polish will be like Latin soon and will be almost a dead language.

Love / Polish Womens bodies [126]

You have to remember that Polish women have dreadfull tempers like the Italians! They are never easy to live with and get decidedly worse with age!

Love / Polish Womens bodies [126]

I have seen lovely English, Czech and girls of all nationalities even some Russian girls can be pretty and they are not all like bears!!

Love / Polish Womens bodies [126]

It is a point though, why do all polish women have so many moles?

Language / How to say "this is my..." [7]

Yes, sorry it is just my bad typing but who knows, it might be time for me to rewrite the Polish Language!

Travel / anyone been to Piotrków Trybunalski? [24]

I think that there are quite a lot of murders all over Poland. I have been shown several times where a house especially in the countryside, has been broken into and the occupants have been murdered. It happened once near Bochnia (near Krakow) and another time near Deblin (near Warsaw) but there must be many more.

Language / Things Polish people who speak English language say [180]

Actually it is interesting to read the title of a book 'things not to say to learners' as I was a student of TESOL some years ago and we had to be like guinea pigs learning Finnish. Our teacher was Finnish herself and we found the language difficult to learn especially as we had no written material. She said once in class to a question as to where Finnish was spoken "it is really quite useless for you all" and with that I switched off because if she is saying it is useless why should I bother? However, Polish does fall in to the same category and it is a marginalized area now as the young get out of Poland in droves.

Language / I want to write/read/speak fluent Polish! [60]

I have never used Polish in New York city.

Language / I want to write/read/speak fluent Polish! [60]

In the long term Polish is a waste of time as it is a shrinking world language. As all the talent and young leave Poland to live abroad. They say that we have 600,000 in England-I do not know if that is in the U.K. and Ireland as well but Chinese or Arabic would be better. A lot of hard work with little or no return. I must say from my own experiences too that the Czech's seem to be more 'on the ball' too. I have always found the Polish to be a little rude and aggressive. I have always prefered the Slovaks and Czechs myself, though, of course, that is just me. Maybe a visit to Prague and have a command of the language would be time better spent.

Language / Things Polish people who speak English language say [180]



Polish should not really be a problem for English speakers as Polish is quite phonetic. If someone is bad at learning to speak Polish they are probably not very good at anything else.

Polish is much easier than Russian when it comes to pronunciation so you can read any word in a dictionary. The stress is always in the same position too.