Feedback / Forum suggestion: What about Polonia - Ireland? [65]


Bardzo Dobrze :)
Well done - I never got round to bringing up the previous heading..., now it's too late :D


"The British Isles" is a non-political, accurate geographical term for the islands. - It keeps some of the people happy most of the time!

Feedback / Polish characters for copy - pasting. [17]


Nicely done Admin - this'll speed up my posting :)


Love that smiley Hueg

Travel / Have you ever been in Poland? [111]

Nope, haven't been to PL yet, but I'll definitely go someday....

Language / Occupations in Polish! [8]

Very useful thanks:)

Language / Advice on a good Polish Dictionary [6]

You can download free quite a good Polish-English dictionary here: polish.slavic.pitt.edu/dictionary.pdf

UK, Ireland / Polish as Irelands Third Offical language? [123]


This bit doesn't work.
"is rud tabhachtach é" is what it should be...
Good effort though :)


Not sure what this bit is trying to mean. As it stands it could have several possible meanings.

I speak Irish from time to time when I am in the west and north of the country.
There are a lot of people who speak and use it.

UK, Ireland / Polish as Irelands Third Offical language? [123]


Actually, quite a lot of people in Ireland still speak Irish, certainly enough for it to be regarded as one of Ireland's three main languages!

Language / Learning Polish using audio? [17]


Check out some of the links here: https://polishforums.com/language/learning-links-8328/

Language / Best cd/book course to Polish [11]

RosettaStone is a good starter course. It's Polish through Polish with pictures. It'll give you a reasonably good basic vocabulary and get you started on the cases.

UK, Ireland / Polish as Irelands Third Offical language? [123]


Yup, certainly does.

My only gripe is that it's taking me ages to learn Polish! - I should have started when i was younger, say age 3 or so :D

Language / Best cd/book course to Polish [11]


It must do, Michael Palin's never wrong :)

UK, Ireland / Polish as Irelands Third Offical language? [123]


mmm, I think it already is on the curriculum as an option :D
We were never any good at languages in the Irish schools. French and German were the main languages offered for a long time.

Language / Abecadło (The alphabet) [19]

Ah, more stuff to learn off ;) thanks guys

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]

And i've had it too, i'm off to bed.
I'll be back, as the Cyborg said in the movie....

There's a lot of points in post 121, but it'll have to wait for another day.
Dobranoc

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


I didn't - but I'm not tired - migh be that "Polish Tea" I had earlier....


You have to be clear in what you say then.
Because if you don't say accurately what you mean how can others know what you mean to say. The reader can only read the written words, not unwritten thoughts behind them.

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


This is a very stupid and ignorant comment, and I am sad to say the one I feared I would get. I'm going to leave it at that for now on the topic of Northern Ireland as it is not relevant here, except to say that you should read a little more about the history of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and N. Ireland, say from the reign of Henry the Seventh to the present. You might learn a lot more than you obviously don't know now. We can discuss it then if you like.


same as my definition - we agree on something. Dobrze

If you guys are in the British Isles (a nice safe non-political geographical term that includes the Republic of Ireland and the UK) then it's 3am. Marathon session heh :)

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


Don't be, you should always stand up for your point of view. Know which side you are on and argue for it :)

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


Actually, it isn't that simple.
Firstly, more than 30% of people in Northern Ireland regard themselves as being Irish.


Do you mean citizens of these nationalities, ie persons who have the right to vote (and therefore wouold be voting in the referendum anyway)?


It would be very interesting, and close, but I think that Britain would stay in the EU, by 55 to 45 or something like that. It would probably be down to who runs the best media campaign that would decide the result.

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


I can't agree with you here. i think it's very important that Britain remains in the EU.

Traditionally Europe has always been dominated by Britain France and Germany, with one of the two being allied against the other. Currently France and Germany are in the driving seat because Britain has partially opted out (of the Euro for example). I prefer the British ideal of a looser EU of co-operating Sovereign nation states rather than the French idea of a movement towards ever closer centralised integration (which is how France is run).

Don't forget either why the EU was created, to prevent another big war by being nice to each other and co-operating on trade for the prosperity of all, also to anbchor Germany firmly in the West as an ally rather than in the middle as a potentially hostile foe.

I think that it is vital that Britain plays a leading role in the EU. Just my 2cents (or pence) worth.
Leaving the EU would also be bad for Britain's trade.

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


Define the "BRITISH people" please

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]

Tornado, Would you be in favour of the UK not being in the EU?


Are you afraid of this?

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


...spelling mistake? cut him some slack, lol

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


...you seem to be unable to defend your point of view without resorting to comments that might be interpreted a being gratutiously hostile.

If you are going to make points like those that you have made you have to be prepared for the possibility of having them being challenged. You ought to be able to defend your point of view without becoming annoyed at being challenged. What is there to become annoyed about?

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]

[quote=tornado2007] If your just going to get personal whats the point, you want to start trading qualifications, [quote=tornado2007]

Not getting personal at all. I was just wondering what it was you were studying. That's all. No trading, no worries, no hostility from my end.

I'm just interested in trying understanding where you are comming from.

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]

Um, what is it you are a student of Tornado?

UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]


Are you afraid of this?


True


Would you be in favour of the UK not being in the EU?


I object to this term. It is agressive. I consider it offensive and unecessary.

Language / Polish Language Basic Guide [19]

Nicely done Janusz. :D

Perhaps a movie covering verbs of motion in all tenses, perfective and imperfective versions of each - so that the student could see them in action. Or is this too complex for a Basic guide.

A movie on how to tell the time would be useful,
or one that goes through each of the cases so that the student can compare and contrast the cases in action.

Language / Pimsleur language learning system, is it any good? [33]


I listened once to a Pimsleur lesson.
I thought it odd that "ą" and "ę" are pronounced as "a" and "e" respectively. Perhaps accented characters frighten the Americans...

Let us know how you find the entire Pimsleur course StaryDom when you reach lesson 30.

UK, Ireland / Polish Restaurants in Dublin, Ireland [8]

Most of the businesses in Georges' St Upr in DLE seem to have gone bust. The place has a look of dereliction about it. Maybe the rents are too high...

I always reckoned that Dublin could support at least one good Polish cafe/bar/restaurant, not in DLE though!

Food / What do you eat with Golabki? [37]


LOL there u go!
I'll have to try them now...