Life / How do Polish people view themselves? [92]


Hopefully it's not. Since a country can't become to be a superpower, unless doing that at the expense of smaller countries. I don't want my country to conduct the policy of violence.

Thanks for the list, whether it's trustworthy or not (it's somewhere obviously not) that should do us Russians good. Good job! keep it up!


Does anyone blame you?

Language / I know Russian language - will it help me learn Polish? [105]

May I ask what's your native tongue? :) Neither English nor Russian seem to be it.


:( Why so? Russians are soooooo cute!

Language / Polish and Russian - learning by a beginner [30]


Sounds impressing! :)


That explains a lot :))


Moj zawod?.. :) Jag jobbar på en ingenjörsfirma. Vi skisserar flyplanen.
Förresten, gör jag min hemläxan nu. Right?


One of those "false-friends". :) The word чужеземец in Russian is usually used with a negative implication. Some like a "foe".


One Russian lady who is fluent in Danish attends Swedish course with me. She has really hard times in listening comprehension/speaking it, although pretty good in undestanding of writing Swedish.

Language / Polish and Russian - learning by a beginner [30]


Tjänare, Lyzko! Jag talar lite svenska. Jag studerar det på kvällskurs i Moskva. Och du? Var läste du svenska? Vad är du till yrket? Det verkar som om du talar många språken...

Those might be wrong-built sentences, yet I cherish a hope you got what I'd wanted to say.


I think we'll need to start a separate thread on practising Swedish. :)) I would learn and share knowledge with pleasure... We only need at least one Pole who is interested in studying Swedish, so that we can justify its (thread) existence. :))

Life / How do Polish people view themselves? [92]


Some do (usually those who've got nothing to boast of in their pathetic life) but the vast majority either don't care or friendly.

From what I've seen that kind of attitude inheres in Poles (towards Russians) a lot more often than vice versa. Not that I'm frustrated with that... I even see that in rather optimistic colors. The more arrogant people in Poland the better look sane Poles against the background of them.

Language / Polish and Russian - learning by a beginner [30]


hej på dig! ;)
lol... :) I got what you meant. However you should have probably transliterated "понимаю" since not every one could read Cyrrilic "hieroglyphs".

Language / Polish and Russian - learning by a beginner [30]


It depends on both your purposes and how fluent you're expected to be in those languages. If you stay in Ukraine then I would mostly concentrate on studying Russian. If you're switching then study both, there's no other way around.

And you're right putting off the Ukrainian for the first time. Ukrainian is tricky... you would be able to understand 60-70% of their speech having solely Russian under the belt and up to 100% having both Russian and Polish, although to speak and write it properly it may take some another five years.

Oh... and good luck! ;)

Language / 'Gateway' slavic language? [54]


Aha. :) I should have guessed that. So it finally took one Eastern and one Western Slav to understand the whole text in Slovio. :) Not that bad.

I still have copybook of Czech language at home ("htete mluvit cesky" or some like that... "wanna speak Czech?"). I read it occasionally some time ago, remember it was fun but now I don't really have a time for that.

Language / 'Gateway' slavic language? [54]


Seems like it's based on Russian mostly. I didn't only get what


meant. Did you, OR?


You might wanna give a try in Serbian. I've studied it for some period of my life and may tell that I find their grammar closer to English than at least Russian one. Serbian alike to English uses auxiliary verbs to form different tenses which we Russians do not have at all (or being accurate we've still got them as throwbacks that do not play role of verbs in a sentence). Russian also uses Cyrillic alphabet which might be hard on the first stages of studying whereas Serbian uses both Latin and Cyrillic.

Knowing Serbian would let you understand Bulgarian, Croatian (which is actually the same).
If you want to learn Russian then the list of similarity from my perspective to other Slavic languages would be as follows (descending):
1. Belorussian
2. Ukrainian
3. Polish or Bulgarian
4. I think Czech
....

As for Slovio... I'd heard of it had known their website. It's interesting however it's hardly has a future. Slavic World is too disintegrated.

News / KRAUTS RESUME POLE-BASHING [60]


Sad but true. :)

News / KRAUTS RESUME POLE-BASHING [60]


Says who?! ROFL :)))

On topic:

I don't honestly know what's happening between Poles and Germans on personal level. But if consider political and geographic aspects then you Poles have more reasons to better deal with Germans than with us Russians. Yet this just from my perspective.

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]


you give too much credit to them... :) Collecting tulips is considered very manly in Holland this is why their women do the job.


We've got a very good word for that. "Haliava" (something that's given for free). Hm... how similar we are after all... Dai obniat tebja, sestra. Let me hug you, sister. :)

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

Sean, somebody's using your account... or you seem to suffer split personality :)

Language / Does "hej" mean hello? [13]


In Swedish - it does. :)

Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]


Absolutely mate. Feel free and pls do not worry. :)
That would be quite amusing either way (if you're kidding or being just... *sigh* ).

Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]


You may as well answer it.
*"why" instead of "what" in my text above.

Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]


Morals?! What do you mean dude? I thought the so-called West had lost it long before... although I'm still not sure what you're talking about.

So you want your kids to be affected by western mindset, right? :) What do you consider it any better?

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


Good point.


I took offense... ;(((


After all Boria you're inly a kind man. :) Only pretend to be Russophobic :P

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]


They didn't accept it for other reasons.


Still have no clue as I've never been there. You're in better position to judge.


The Earth is a planet.

History / RUSSIAN TV ACCUSES POLAND OF BEING HITLER ALLY [30]


Do you know how many Soviets actually died defending Warsaw? The other question though what was on their mind at the time... you can't count now how many of them died for communist ideology and how many had the version of fraternal people liberation from the fascist occupation.


Soviet times is another story. Those times are over. I meant that every single Russian (not Soviet) move often being painted black only with no alternative view.


The government? It's a politics. Tit for tat, zub za zub.

News / PUTIN'S LETTER HAILED BY TUSK POLISH GOVT [17]


To be honest I was pleasantly surprised when heard that on radio. I thought he wouldn't dare put it this way.

jwojcie

The aforesaid was said inside of Russia and many are happy about that. I think it's a step forth... maybe tiny yet forward.

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]


What do you mean? Learning Polish in schools? They do... in some specialized schools though. just being interesting in Polish culture? Again there're loads of groups dedicated to Poland, its people, language, art, literature.


?????


What?! o_O Which planet are you now on?


Catholics and Orthodox are both Christians.


10% of Russians were only abroad in 2008. If those were the only Russians who had been abroad then your theory is plausible. :)))

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]


If so then don't you think the alliance would be able to fix this


issue?

History / RUSSIAN TV ACCUSES POLAND OF BEING HITLER ALLY [30]


Have you heard of Wiktor Bater story? This Polish journalist being quite antirussian in his articles decided to step away from his usual sentiments in Russia-Georgian conflict. He instantly paid for his self-dependence: was given a sack.

By the way I would love to know how this story is painted in Poland... as I can't take it all on faith from the only Russian source.

I don't know whether it's government or anybody-else-dictated I only know that I don't believe in independent media in 21st century.

History / RUSSIAN TV ACCUSES POLAND OF BEING HITLER ALLY [30]

After the years of lull (I mean quite indifferent attitude towards Poland in Russian media) they (Russian Government) seem to start using your own weapon against you (the Polish media in its turn has never stopped doing antirussian injections into folk's body). That's all merely sad...

Btw, Polonius didn't you already create similar thread, did you?

Language / Polish vs. Romanian [21]


It might have come from Serbian where it's commonly used word for rather (to the best of my memory).

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]


Is it? I reckon "blind chauvinism" with no further elaboration as an off-topic. Chauvinism more or less inheres in every single human being, so what the purpose for using words lightly?


Americans, Chinese... they've got nukes too. You could have them as well I guess. You had a choice and you made your choice... and I'm afraid I can't imagine Russians whining about Polish nukes (if they had any).

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

Boria I'm glad you learnt "liberal" mantras by heart, too bad it never paints one as a smart one. For the better comprehension pls look up the word "chauvinism" and then name me at least one difference with the Polish society at that point. The comparison may be not in Polish favour really. Yes, Russians are sometimes too arrogant but no more than you. Rub your genuinely chauvinistic eyes and take a look at what you post yourself.

As for the adjective "blind" - I agree.

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

JulietEcho

Quite smart!

Ironside

Practically communism was a religion where you had to bow to genseks and party bigshots instead of the Lord.

Marek

Religion is not harmful as long as people don't want to use it as a bone of contention.

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]


When are you going here? :) When you are here you may as well drop a line so that we can get together for a beer. ;) (in case you're interested)

Have a nice trip and enjoy Moscow (SP is a way better though), if need help with the language feel free to ask.