Life / Teachers and teaching styles in Poland [6]

Well in Poland, it all depends on who will be teaching you. If you get a teacher for "old school" or a guy right after getting a degree, you can consider yourself lucky. They are full of passion and really want you to learn something. Passion in teaching is almost, if not the most important thing, you have to show students you really like what you are doing.

The one thing that teachers in Poland should avoid is using to many "technical words" often, why? It just getting your "audience" bored very fast. Try to tell them some stories from your own life, it gets students "on your side" very fast. Don't be too soft, that is the most important thing, polish stundent don't have respect for teachers that are too soft. Im not saying that you should punch every one in class if they get annoying... Damn, cant explain it clear... hope you get what im trying to say.

It's always a good idea to do something funny before clasess start. I remember my history teacher, one time before he got into the class, he carefully looked inside the classroom, checked if nothings gonna fall on his head, and then got in. I looked very funny, everyone was laughing. He was a perfect teacher for polish students, made people laugh, but didn't let anybody "get on his head". Many times he was singing when we did tests.

When teaching in poland you must find the balance between being a teacher and a friend for students, cause you must be both, that is the only way for effective teaching.

Sorry for my english, i hope you can get the message from what i wrote here.

Language / So many words for "Kisses" in Polish? [13]

A question for you...

why not? :P

and no, it does not describe anything, those are just "exchanges" for the standard one "kiss"

Language / So many words for "Kisses" in Polish? [13]

True... And it's much more interesting when you can use 10 words to describe something instead of just one.

Travel / How do i stay in poland longer than 90 days if im already in poland [37]

Don't think so that they will block you. Poland is much more open for US then US for poles. And, you know, you can always get a visa to Germany, and just drive through the polish borded, nobody will stop you now, inside EU the borders are lifted.

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]

Jesteś - Je ste ś

Je - Yeah
ste - stay
ś - dont really know that, but if you say "S" like in "snake" every pole will know what you mean

moim - mo im

mo - more
im - immortal

szczęściem - sz cz ę ś ci em

sz - shit
cz - watch
ę - first part of this letter will be sand and the second is boot, it wont sound very accurate, but i can find a better example.

ś - i really dont know
ci - the same, can find a good example
em - I am

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]


Why not? Well of course you know the "ś" does not sound anything like the "s" in insurance, and i know that. But the person that asked how to pronounce it doesn't know it.

Life / Polish Military Tattoos [12]

Well my grandfather had a tattoo of "Polska Walczy" (Poland fights) the famous anchor made from letters "P" "W"

something like this

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But this is a very old sign.

I dont really know what tattoos Polish soldiers have in the present

UK, Ireland / UK theory part of driving test in Polish language? [23]

Well, cant seem to find UK test in polish, but here is a link to the theory test in polish for exam here in poland. Its actual, same questions (data base of around 400), same amount of time (25 minutes) and same number of mistakes you can make (2/18 question in the test)

Theory Test in Poland.

News / Leader Of Poland? [18]

President Lech Kaczyński?
Prime Minister Donald Tusk?

What do you mean saying "leader"?

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]

He can't but when we give examples of words/part of words which sounds exactly or really close to the polish word/part of word he can get the picture.

Life / Is drinking water in Poland good? [96]

Well, in my town, few years ago, they cleaned the pipes with spirytus in the public... i dont remember the word in english... "ujęcie wody oligoceńskiej", what was the outcome? Well... 3 times a week for an hour for a month we had 75% vodka straight out of the tap :P

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]

Smoking...
F..k everyone who says it kills you. Nobody will live forever, so who cares.
I've got so much memories, only good memories with smoking cigarettes. A smoke right after the first time having sex, call me anyhow you want, but this is the felling that no man will ever forget. I've met so many people in clubs, most of them are my good friends till now. Few beers, couple hours talking about everything, many 20's sent to heaven playing pool. Many times, when i was writing my poems, i've just turned on music, light the cigarette and needed nothing more to get it done.

If that will kill me, i will thank with all my heart (even if everything inside me will be black mass of cancer) for every single minute of that.

Food / Polish National Dish [54]

What is interesting polish national dishes (PND) that most of poles think about when asked this question, are not really originally from poland. So for the answer you must look in the north east of our country. I personally don't know the answer, but i know that in the present you can call PND many things: bigos, pierogi are at the top of the list. But there are much, much more, depends on in which region of Poland you will ask.

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]


Yeah, tell that to my uncles friend who has 68 years now, smoking since he was 16, and now has 11 children. Impotency? ********...

Genealogy / Anybody Know what Knewegvizet could be? [7]

"Knewegvizet"... This does not look polish, does not sound polish either. But i'm not sure, in Poland there are many places that even poles would think, after hearing the name, are not in poland. Sounds a little german, so if it's in poland i would look in south west, were the german influence was very high.

Then again if it's just a mistake made by a clerk that didn't know how to write it, it can be anything and anywhere.

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]

And? Being alive causes deaths, always. If you get my point.

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]

Im just saying that, life is killing us anyways, so who really cares about statistics. I known people that died from lung cancer at the age of 30, didn't smoked a single cigarette whole life. And i know many who have now 70-90 years, smoking like hell and still being more healthy then most non-smokers at the age of 30. Statistics are just statistics. Acording to statistics 1 in 3 people on our planet are asians, why? Cause statistics tells that, do you belive in that? Yes you do. Its a fact. But if you see 3 guys walking down the street do you think one of them is asian? Don't think so. One of them could be, but does he have to be, just cause some chart says so? No.

Same to smoking, yeah it's not healthy, but you'll die anyway. If you dont smoke do you have less chance to get a lung cancer? Maybe. But "maybe" is just "maybe".

It's easy to belive in numbers, but life is more complicated then few numbers in a chart.

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]

I didn't said smoking won't kill anyone, didn't said it's not causing impotence or lung cancer. I just said that if you just look at the charts you wont really get the picture. Stats are just stats. If some chart would say you have a 70% chance of getting hit by a car would you stay in home for the rest of your life just because you read some numbers? Honestly, i don't think so.

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]


That is the whole point in what im trying to say. If you smoke maybe you have more chance of getting a lung cancer etc... But does it mean you will get it? By all means, no, it doesn't.

If i assume you believe in god, and god has a 99.99999999 to infinity chance of not existing according to the way you think i should say you have to stop believing in him, cause it's just nonsense.

As i said before, stats are nothing more then stats. It can help you know this or that, but it wont help you get the whole picture.

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

:* - kiss
:*~ - kiss with a "tounge"

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

ńłóżąśćę

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

chrząszcz szczy w pszczynie - a little harder then the original "chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie"

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

Not to mention gżegżółka

And can't forget "Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz"for the movie "How did i started world war 2" (Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową)

Genealogy / BRZOSKA, EISNER, MYATSKA - any of these sunrames in your Polish ancestry: [6]

I think he ment that "myatska" doesn't sound very polish and you probably misspelled it

Food / Polish National Dish [54]

I like to eat fish, but when it comes to the christmas carp... Well, I stick to the sea fishes, hate that smell of carp...

Genealogy / Belarusian or Polish? [4]


You're guessing right. But on the other hand... How deep into your family "roots" you want to dig? Now it is the capitol of Belarus, but in the past it was polish, but also russian and lithuanian (far in the past)

Genealogy / Belarusian or Polish? [4]

Well... If we look on this by genes, you get more from you mother then father even as a male, so if you don't know if you feel more like a pole or belrussian, maybe this will help you clear things up :P

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

yeah, it's not used nowadays much, but it is still a correct word in polish language. And i have heard of few people that acctually have that as a last name

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

My favorite one from when i was 6:
Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami