Language / Seeking a basic intro to the Polish Language [17]

Try both of these sites: grzegorj.w.interia.pl/kurs/ and polish.slavic.pitt.edu/ without of course the spaces between h t t p.

Life / Polish amateur movies - Ambasada Pictures [29]

Darkside was the best.

Language / The only polish word a foreigner won't ever say correctly :P [113]

My personal favorite:

Nie pieprz, Pietrze, wieprza pieprzem bo przepieprzysz, Pietrze, wieprza pieprzem.

USA, Canada / Gas prices in America [127]

US Federal tax is $0.18/gal. Canada's federal tax is $0.107 per liter or about C $0.43 per gal. Thus, Canadians are paying $0.25 per gal than U.S. customers. Ontario and Quebec each have approx. $0.15 per liter or $0.60 per gallon provincial tax vs $0.30 in New York. Thus, Canadian have $0.55 more in federal and state/provincial taxes than the US. I would presume that local Canadian taxes are also higher.

We in the US and Canada, however, have it made compared to Europe where the governments really know how to tax car fuel. See the chart at:

truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/Bulletins2000/tim2000-9-4.html

USA, Canada / Gas prices in America [127]

Europeans pay OPEC the same wholesale price Americans do. American gas prices are cheap compared to Europe because of low taxes on gasoline or diesel fuel. Our state goverment tax on gasoline or diesel is used entirely road repair and construction. With the increased delays at airports, it's almost as fast to drive 300 miles than to try to fly.

I live 300 miles (480 km) from Chicago. It's 30 minutes to the airport, get there at least one hour before the flight, one hour flight time, 30 minutes for luggage (if you are lucky), 30 minutes at Rent-a-Wreck, an hour to drive to south Chicago suburbs. In total, 4 to 5 hours, door to door. Driving my own car, five hours.

Life / Why are Polish people cheap? [126]

Jkn005 wrote, "when was the last time an American took something to a repair shop?"

The modern world lives in a throw-away society. Last year, e.g., our eight year old color TV (telly) stopped showing a picture. Sound still worked. To have a new picture tube installed would have cost $400. Just to have the repair people look at it, and give me an estimate would have cost $100. I took it to the recycle yard and bought a new one for $525.

For the record, Poles are not cheap. We're frugal.

Language / Abecadło (The alphabet) [19]

z_darius said, "The purest (literary) form of Polish was, at one time, regarded to be that spoken in Western Poland along the border with Germany."

May I ask your source for that, and why do they say so?

Language / A slow and casual method to get started learning Polish? [8]

Suggest you try the University of Pittsburgh at polish.slavic.pitt.edu/

Has a first year course you can do at your leisure. On line pronuciations, dictionary, etc.

Good place to start w/o cost.