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Joined: 30 Jul 2009 / Female ♀ 		Last Post: 30 Jul 2009
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Posts: Total: 12 / In This Archive: 3 		From: Norwich, USA
Speaks Polish?: no
Interests: genealogy, traveling, foreign movies, learning, photography

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Miss_Alycia   
30 Jul 2009
Life / How do Polish people see Deaf people in Poland? [14]

I have been wondering how do Polish people see Deaf people in Poland? I have been planning to go to Poland to further my genealogy research but my only fear is that I won't exactly be welcomed and helped because of my deafness.
Miss_Alycia   
30 Jul 2009
Life / How do Polish people see Deaf people in Poland? [14]

With their eyes ;) ;)

HAHA. I probably should have worded that better.

I'm just a little hesitant because Sign Language is my first language. The communication barrier. Unless they use gestures quite a bit.
Miss_Alycia   
30 Jul 2009
Life / How do Polish people see Deaf people in Poland? [14]

I know numerous of people who are short-sighted. I have heard stories about how other nations react to deafness and such. Some worships the disabled/handicapped as if they were gifted. Some just leave them home because they consider them to be an embarrassment. In Egypt, there's a KFC where most of the workers there are deaf.

It's kind of nerve-wrecking going to another country and wonder how they would treat you.

can you lip read?? i knnow that a lot of deaf people learn how to lip read at school, i assume you speak or know Polish, although i'm not sure how easy it would be to lip read Polish!!!!

I really wish I knew how to read or speak Polish. I was never really exposed with Polish culture growing up (which is disappointing.) I am pretty sure it would be hard to lip read Polish. I can lip read English.
Miss_Alycia   
30 Jul 2009
Life / How do Polish people see Deaf people in Poland? [14]

I'm not sure how you would learn another language though, i know you could learn it 'written' but to speak/lip read it would be almost impossible?? or would it??

I am currently learning Japanese. I can learn it written but as for speaking/lip reading I would have to have a lot of one-on-one time with someone so I can learn the tonal pronouncement and such.

I should start learn how to read and write in Polish because that could help my genealogy research further.

Believe it or not, we don't exactly get treated with respect and care here. Sure we have the ADA laws but when it comes to occupation positions and such, we still get discriminated.

Does the school teach the kids sign language or is it a oral school where no sign language is allowed?
Miss_Alycia   
31 Jul 2009
Genealogy / Czamiewski? [4]

I am having a hard time finding this surname anywhere. I have been looking for 2 years. Does this surname even exist or could it be misspelled? At a local town hall, this is the maiden name of my great-great-grandmother but on her headstone it says Ciarniewska. If it could be misspelled, what would be the correct spelling for it?

Thank you in advance.