Travel / New Year Celebration in Warszawa [12]

You must just make sure guys and girls that you book in advance. Last year, I called round and round to find a restaurant that would even be OPEN on New Year's Eve. We could only find two in the vicinity of the old town that were open, and the restaurant where we booked, we filled the last table - two weeks in advance. By the time, we just arrived in Poland from SA, and it was the strangest thing for us that restaurants were closed on New Year's Eve.

Genealogy / I was born in Poland and was adopted. Trying to find my biological family. [9]

Hi Dianne. I have a question for you. If you were not able to have your own children, but you were able to provide a loving home for a child from another country, would you do that?

Life / Where to buy Marmite in Warsaw? [35]

Clearly, you haven't discovered Bovril yet :)

Life / Where to buy Marmite in Warsaw? [35]

Read the rest of the thread - the answer's there.

Food / Is lamb big in Poland? [53]


Nie Osioł, niestety, nigdy nie! :(

No matter what they say.

If you want to have lamb - go have it in SA :)

Life / Where to buy Marmite in Warsaw? [35]

like the avatar too :)

Life / Where to buy Marmite in Warsaw? [35]


Sorry about that. Someone else was on here the other day, coming from SA and moving to Warsaw in a couple of months.

Anyway, now you know where you can find (British) Marmite.

Life / Where to buy Marmite in Warsaw? [35]

You can buy Marmite and Bovril at Kuchnie Świata (Kitchens of the World). There are a number of branches all over Warsaw - the biggest in Arkadia Centrum).

However, except for the fact that it's very expensive (about 17.00 PLN = R46.00 for a small bottle), there is a difference in taste between the English products available in Europe, and the one's we get in SA. Don't ask me why or how it works - it just does. Hubby and I are bovril fans, and we always bring with when we go for a visit - it lasts very long in a coolish cupboard.

Good luck ;)

Life / Where to buy Marmite in Warsaw? [35]


GDJ, you said you come from SA if I remember correctly?

Language / Jestem ze Szczecina or Szczecinia? [15]

Say no more

Genealogy / Looking for Bromik [3]

Very lucky indeed ;)

Travel / Age requirements when going out to clubs in Poland [13]


Bad boy, Wrocław! Bad boy! ;P. Now I can't even go tell your wife, because she's sitting there on your avatar with an ever so slight smile - as if she's saying: That's my boy - I taught him well! LOL LOL LOL

Language / can / be able to vs may / be allowed to [19]


yeah yeah rafik - nice try! ;)

you're such a nice koalah, but unfortunately imprezuję tylko z psem. ;)

(I'm sure gramatyka is again in it's .... in)

Language / How do people mispronounce your Polish names? [60]


probably the closest you're gonna get wsp ;)

I speak Afrikaans though, and it would have been no problem for me to pronounce.

Language / can / be able to vs may / be allowed to [19]


I knew that! damn! :)

Another question: where does można fit into this equation?

Panie Darku? Yoo-hooooo? are you here somewhere???? ;)

Language / can / be able to vs may / be allowed to [19]


At least I got the tongue in cheek feeling through to you - no matter how crooked!

You have helped with almost all my langauge questions so far, therefore you have become an 'old friend' (the informal part)

You are 'the teacher' (formal part) - so yes - it was meant tongue in cheek.

I'll absorb the rest of your teaching slowly so that wolono mi pamiętać następny ras.

Następny ras is without doubt not correct, but anyway ;)

Language / can / be able to vs may / be allowed to [19]


Dziękuję bardzo, Pan Dariuś. I don't mind if I do ;)

Seems that you know me a little by now ;)

Language / can / be able to vs may / be allowed to [19]

In other words:


wolno mi imprezować - I may party
wolno ci imprezować - You may party

itd.?

Language / If The Polish Language Is Too Hard >>> Sing Instead [18]

How about Jacek Stahurski? Like his music very much, but not sure how helpful?

Life / Polish Driving Licence. [314]

Hey Bushman

Sorry, but you'll have no luck, unless you are willing to hand in your SA licence. I was not willing to do that, because when we go to South Africa on holiday, I need my licence there. They were then not willing to give me a Polish licence, so I drive with a South African international licence that I got from the AA. Depending on which countries you travel in, the period of validity for the licences vary.

Good luck.

Language / How do people mispronounce your Polish names? [60]


I'm not sure which 'w' sound would twente have - it may be either one.

Better to ask a dutchman :)

Language / How do people mispronounce your Polish names? [60]

In Afrikaans


Sometimes like English na przykład

twee: two - Crooked polish fonetics: tłiy with i and y flowing into each other, almost like ej in Polish becomes one sound.

Sometimes like Polish na przykład

weet: know - Crooked polish fonetics: wiyt

This is nothing official - just my humble attempt - so please.

I'm sure a dutch person might be able to give a dutch example, but I am not clued up enough to think up one myself. There was a dutchman here a day or so ago. I'll check my threads.


"ej" in dutch

In Afrikaans, it became "ei" or "y" - the "y" being an eventual combination of the "ij" written cursively :)

Language / How do people mispronounce your Polish names? [60]

Doesn't only happen with polish names. I'm not going to give mine away here, but you have no idea how many versions I have heard ;)

Law / Plan to start a Film School in Poland [10]

Good luck, just please remember to do your homework first.

Life / People from Poland are the most upfront and kind. [7]

Yeah G, we know... Just careful when you wlk out the door - your ears might get stuck ;) lol

Law / Plan to start a Film School in Poland [10]

You might be a bit late. Huge film school in £ódź with branch campuses all over Poland, even in smaller towns lik Wodzisław. Maybe do your homework first.

Life / Who's thinking of moving to Poland? [67]

Not a reason, but remember, you can't live in Poland without having a dog! ;)

Life / Polish TV on the internet?? [54]


Oh my goodness! Do you have Barbapapa on Polish TV now? That pink little man with his spooky like body?