Language / The Dative Case [62]

indeed, the correct form is osłowi.

Language / "Leje jak z cebra" [11]

You could say the same thing about a ceber, a pail.

Language / "Leje jak z cebra" [11]

Its a Polish expression, which is translated as 'its raining cats and dogs' in English.

Language / Jest/To jest - to jest is often abbreviated to just to [24]

Maybe 'a samochod? On jest biały.' sounds right or at least better here.

UK, Ireland / Buying a used car from a private seller in UK. What is the law if... [18]


Especially in Poland!!

Was there a newspaper advertisement from which the car was found? The might be a case under a goods descriptions act. If the car was very expensive it might be worth seeing and paying for a piece of solicitors time though as I say, this can be expensive. A Citizens Advice Center might be able to give advice though they are usually only 'middle men' and will give a list of local solicitors who deal in that sort of professional subject area. It is an offense to sell a car, which is not road worthy and if the car is dangerous, then the police could, would and should be interested and they can bring a prosecution though the penalty may be not much and it will not really help the people now stuck with a shoddy car.

Language / Parę - two or a few? [26]

A para is a pair and the Polish word parę is totally different.

Language / The verb "Piec" to bake [12]


Yes, that is correct.

Language / The verb "Piec" to bake [12]


There is also the Polish verb form upiec.

News / Poles and bogus marriage [6]

This is one of the reasons that I was always so against Britain being in the E.U and Poland joining too. This poor little island will drown in financial debt having to keep a grind stone like Poland for generations.

Love / In your opinion, are most Polish women 'Easy'? [243]


They are and also very sarcastic too. They hid it well but beware of them. I never allow a Polish woman from getting too close to me.

UK, Ireland / POSK, London - what is it like these days? [27]


No, if you get back on to the underground line and go to the end, i.e. Ealing Broadway, you can walk to some really nice parks and there used to be a fair sized Polish Community there too. London is large with eight million people and people are mixed up everywhere. You will not find a Polish Community in London like the Chinese Community in Bangkok where simply everybody and everything is Chinese or Polish in the clear sense of the word. I found the same thing in Florida. I went to Little Havana thinking it would all be Spanish and fun and in fact it was a big let down-just a long boring American road with some cross roads and a few small shops.

News / Poland's Future Includes Fewer Poles, More Foreigners [324]

I think that Poland will always be a political crossroads in Europe but it will never be a very popular place to go to because it lacks raw materials and it can never be a very successful powerful economy. Poland has coal but then who wants coal? Russians will come to Poland and buy false passports in order to move on further in to Europe to live work and settle. The country is cold-who would want to settle in such a damp environment for a long period of time? Third World students study there because it is cheap or at least, it was. However, prices are rising there very fast. Poland has always been a net looser in population terms and will always continue to be so.

News / 44 killed, 650 injured in Poland in road accidents during the weekend [32]


That is very much the Polish attitude. I read a book once by a man called Hill who visited Poland during Communism in his eighties. I imagine he may very well be dead by now. Anyway, he was talking about smoking and the fear of death and the answer in Poland was, 'so what? Life is very short anyway'.

News / Engineers build train tunnel in Warsaw too small for trains... [18]

It all just goes to show the Polish lack of...TRAINING....ha, ha! Get the pun on words?

Love / My Polish boyfriend fancies are Pakistani neighbor. What do I do ? [291]

Some Indian and Pakistani girls can be very attractive. I went to the dentist on Friday and one of the receptionists was a young Pakistani lady and God, she was very attractive indeed. I think in the case of the Poles, they are used to being controlled under communism and the Roman Catholic Church. They are like children, English women's heads were turned in England in the war by American GI's who had everything. I certainly would not beg for him to come back to me, tel him to sod off!! Poland has a squeaky clean image because of the Catholic Church but underneath all of this, they are just as randy as any other European including the priests themselves! Your boyfriend will grow up in time and in any case, the Pakistani girl is more or less bound to be promised to someone already in an arranged marriage..

News / 44 killed, 650 injured in Poland in road accidents during the weekend [32]

The Poles can not be taught to stop drinking and that is what kills them in droves. They either smoke themselves to death or drink and drive. I think it has something to do with the low level of schooling in the country.

Work / I am coming to University of information tech and manegement Rzeszow [13]

I have never been to Rzeszow and I hope never to visit this place-it sounds a dreadful place! We had a lodger from Rzeszow who rented a room for a while in our neighbour's house but he could not come up with the month's deposit money. If you are going to Rzeszow you can fly direct with Ryan Air so why you have been told by Forum members that you can transfer from Warsaw is really beyond me.

Love / Polish women are known for their beauty, but men are so ugly (most of).. [250]

Mind you, I was in Tesco the other day and had a prescription for my son. I went back with my slip of paper only to be met by a charming young Polish pharmacist who asked me in Polish for confirmation of name and address to get the medicine. Some are nice, some not. Probably the middle class are nicer than the council flat tenants of Radom!!

UK, Ireland / POSK, London - what is it like these days? [27]

Yes but all rubbish. Have you seen the stupid medals you can buy in that silly little shop of theirs? I did not like the books at all and was not interested in anything.

UK, Ireland / POSK, London - what is it like these days? [27]

If I remember rightly, I took the examination at the same time that my first son was born so it must have been in the Summer of 1993-fifteen years ago. My son was born, we went and stayed in a caravan on a holiday park near to Great Yarmouth and we visited relatives who used to have a caravan on the same site. What a dump-it was called the Wild Duck Caravan Park, later bought out, very rough, like a nasty council esate on wheels! Certainly no sign of any ducks! Anyway, on our return, my examination result was waiting. My God, how time flies by.

Language / Which case for adjectives? [47]

Watch out for moi rodzice but moje książki in the plural form.

Love / Polish women are known for their beauty, but men are so ugly (most of).. [250]

I think, on the whole, that Polish men are very ugly indeed. The woman can look nice but then again, look at their mothers and see what they too will look like in twenty years time! I think that some Polish women grow under a bush!

UK, Ireland / POSK, London - what is it like these days? [27]

There is nothing worth seeing in POSK at all. Sometimes there is a small art display downstairs, otherwise there is a small cafe on the ground floor where you can buy szalotka (apple pie) if you like that sort of thing. I was in POSK many years ago several times only because it was the G.C.S.E. Polish examination centre and everybody had to attend the examination within the building. I am not even sure if the Polish Language School still exists or the examination for that matter.

Love / Polish women are known for their beauty, but men are so ugly (most of).. [250]

I knew an old Polish woman who still lives in Radom. Once she said to me in conversation, "'Polish women but German men", perhaps she was right.

Language / How to say that you dont speak polish in polish? [23]


Bardzo przykro mi, ale nie mówię po polsku. Czy pan/pani umie powtórzyć po angielsku?

Language / Verb patterns 'BYC' [29]


Yes, the verb odbyć się follows the same pattern.

Language / Using colors to describe an object [14]

Poland only had black and white television until the Poles bought Russian colour television sets.

Language / Using colors to describe an object [14]

I have, in Poland all the time. Nasty cheap televisions made by that wonderful Polish firm called Unitra, have you fogotton those wonderful days of Communist Polish engineering? A nice Polish made television set in its nice gray plastic box would look really nice and smooth and 'classy' on the back seat of my open roof sports car, that wonderful 0 to sixty in just 3.4 hours Polish one liter Serenka sports car, with ABS breaking i e simply by forcing my shoes on to the road surface through the rust holes in the floor panels and hoping that friction will stop the car. Yes, colours are an excellent way to learn the Polish Language and understand polish culture except that the only colour that will stick in your mind is gray-flat nasty uninteresting gray. The gray PEWEX, the gray Serenka, the gray Polonez, the gray Stocznia in Gdańsk, the gray concrete blocks that appear in every Polish town and city-do I need to go on? Learn the Polish word szary or szary and why not another colour, how about even szary? Enough said?

Language / Using colors to describe an object [14]


You would also have to be careful about the use of colours because ten teliwizor jest czarno-biały may only refer to the box in which the electronic components are physically housed. At home, I would probably say something like the 'odbiór tego telewizora jest tylko biało-czarny' to distinguish its actual physical screen colour from that of the wooden box.

UK, Ireland / UK bus company boss jailed for hiring an incompetent Pole [71]


No, there must be more to this than meets the eye. A driver who killed someone would not in itself place blame on the boss. There must be more details that have not been shown here. Mind you, about a year ago, there was a drunk Polish bus driver who drove in to a bus shelter and then just drove off!