Language / Learnign Polish...any tips!? [33]

I hadn't intended to make thigns more confusign - it's difficult enough as it is tryign to learn the Polish lagnuage.

Repeatign it out loud is a good start, but I find that actually usign a word is the best way to learn it.
It's not so much the actual words I find difficult - it's the grammar. Again, finding ways to use these different forms helps.

You need someone around who speaks Polish to be able to make this work though.

Language / Learnign Polish...any tips!? [33]

I've got a tip - for Admin or the Moderators - change the word 'Learnign' into something resembling a word you can find in the dictionary.

Sorry, Summer. I'm sure it was just a slip of the figners - it happens to us all.

Life / Trance music (which i love!) seems pretty big in Poland??... [67]

The records that I always thought were techno, I have been told by a Pole, are not really techno.
He says: 'This is techno...'
Cue Disco Polo Hell!

Sorry Carl Cox. Sorry Underworld. Sorry Slam. Sorry 808 State. Sorry DJ Hell, Dave Angel and Derrick May.
You have now been replaced.

Love / Polish men with Scottish Girlfriends [66]


They probably say he's become boring.
I'd rather be boring than bored though.


Me neither, but it does have to be single malt and above a certain price.

Love / I'm daying a Polish Guy and I wanna know... [55]


Most mistakes are not done on purpose. There is no point to making mistakes.
Just thought I'd help you.

Love / I'm daying a Polish Guy and I wanna know... [55]



You're basing this opinion solely on your own experience.
You're not exactly typical are you.

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]


Blog? Blog? I've never blogged in my life!
I don't even know what a blog is.
I do enjoy writing, although I've never considered myself to be particularly good at it.

When I'm at a computer, I just have an unstoppable urge to type.
When there's no computer - I talk. Quite a lot.


Describe where, when and how you had your first meal in Poland.
Make sure you describe the car park (if there was one), furniture and decor.
Was there a really nice waittress? Were there two really nice waittresses?

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]

Either you still haven't told us enough, or I've been seriously overdoing it with my holiday experience thread.

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


This has a huge variety in pronunciation in English.
The English W is a better description.

UK, Ireland / Polish workers in the UK - how do you save and how much do you send home? [5]


There was a thread about that on here - I unpicked it like an old bootlace and showed it for the waste of print that it was.

So, do you want me to make something else up? I had quite an imagination, but I do prefer truth as it's usually more interesting than fiction, so ignore part 2 of my post. The first thing I posted is almost true - actually in 5 months he's only bought 3 new phones.

edit: I renovated an old mole burrow in my back garden. One of them has to pedal an exercise bike to provide heat and electricity whilst the others mine coal, clean my boots for me...

UK, Ireland / Polish workers in the UK - how do you save and how much do you send home? [5]

My flatmate, who is Polish, gets by by living in low cost squalid conditions (my flat) which helps slightly with more mortgage (or my expensive cheese habit). He only works one job. He sends nothing home, buys a new phone every month, computer stuff, gym equipment, and generally has quite an easy life. Tha b******!

Is that the kind of thing you were after, or...

There are ten of them living in my basement, working every hour of the day and night, sending most of their hard-earnt wages back to Poland where they are all saving up to buy a new part for their old tractor.

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]


Jolly good. Welcome back to blighty.
How was the weather?

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


I don't suppose this word is used all that often.
Must look up some facts about popular pastimes in Georgia.

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

Are there any consonant clusters in English that Polish speakers have difficulty with?
I ask that assuming the answer to be found in words like 'Twelfths'.

There may be other languages that would pose a Pole a problem or two.
In Georgian, allegedly, there can be as many as 6 consonants in a row without a single vowel sound to break it up and make it any easier.

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

I find the 'łu' in 'słucham' a bit tricky. It just comes out as 'sucham'.

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


I avoided that - it somehow just didn't look right.

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

żółąśćęńź?

News / Alchemy Polish vodka commercial - "Polaks innovations" [48]


And this, my friends -----> ,
This is the world's smallest cello.

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

Looks too easy. Not enough consonant clusters, but nice usage of all the symbols.

Genealogy / For all you blue-eyed Poles [64]


But the Kurds are not Turkic, so what should that figure look like?

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

The problem begets itself.

Genealogy / For all you blue-eyed Poles [64]

I once saw a figure suggesting about 11% Turkic origin in the population of Turkey.


The first comment I usually want to make is one about preferring Guinea Fowl or Pheasant.
But I do tend to be flippant like that.

Genealogy / For all you blue-eyed Poles [64]


Europe was a concept invented by the Greeks.
Can you tell the average Greek apart from the average Turk?

Language / Accusative Case [44]

Dziękuję.

I've already forgotten most of the little that I learnt.

Language / x=a kiss sign. What's a kiss sign for the Polish? [48]

* is something else again.

Love / Valentines messages ideas - English guys with Polish girls [55]


No wonder he only made one post.

None of the posts here include any Polish.
I know there are some Polish girls who would understand English,
but there are others for whom you might as well send a poem written in Swahili.


How good's your Swahili?

Love / Valentines messages ideas - English guys with Polish girls [55]


Polish Forums Idle more like.

Love / Valentines messages ideas - English guys with Polish girls [55]

The hooves make a good percussion instrument - a good substitute for coconut shell halves.

But singing in Polish? I'll just have to sort out some words that aren't either offensive, incredibly simple, or simple commands you might hear from a plant-nursery supervisor. All of which would be grammatically wrong!

* sound of hoof on strings *
Dawaj to dzrewo. Nie - to drzewo jest inne.
Dzień dobry. Jak się masz?
Ja pierdole!
* song finishes to stunned silence *

Or I could pinch some disco polo lyrics!

Love / Valentines messages ideas - English guys with Polish girls [55]


There are plenty of lyrics already on this thread to make this a little easier.

Language / x=a kiss sign. What's a kiss sign for the Polish? [48]

British standard kite-mark emoticon?