Travel / Understanding travel within Gdansk/Gdynia [9]

Yes, from Gdańsk, there is the little blur trains that go all the way to Wejchorowo and stop at a multitude of stations. You must take care if you have young children. I am not sure about now but the last time I was there half the automatic closing doors simply did not close or only closed in half so beware! Whilst you are there, Sopot is well worth a visit and there is a train station in this little town.

Language / Correct form of BYĆ. Please help! [96]


Yes, and if Agnieszka was masculine or neuter then it would still be jest. It is the same in English. He is, she is and it is. In this respect, Polish operates on very similar lines.

History / Is Poland a Southern or Northern European country? [30]

Not necesserily true if you are looking at Greenland!

History / Is Poland a Southern or Northern European country? [30]

A cold Northern European country! How can it be a Southern European country unless you are looking at it from the North Pole!

News / Why does Poland love the US? [144]

If anybody 'allowed' the Soviet Union an escape hole, which undoubtadly they were indeed looking for, then it was Hungry in opening their border with Austria.

News / Why does Poland love the US? [144]


Yes, you are probably right. I am very jealous of Poland and the beautiful towns and the lovely Polonez motor cars and the long queue to even buy petrol. The old bald men in Poland standing outside PEWEX shops hoping to buy American dollars so that they can, in turn, buy better quality tea, coffee and chocolate. Old polish woman standing in queue to buy Russian blue toilet paper made from recycled paper. Many drunk people, a very short life span because of the stress-a wonderful life to be truly jealous of! It was not Solidarność that brought Communism down, it was the collapsing communist state that alllowed solidarność to grow and flurish in the first place.

Study / anyone with CELTA? [73]

I was not aware that Korea was bad in a pollution sense but I was only there for a matter of hours on my way back from Australia so I am not the best judge maybe here.

Study / anyone with CELTA? [73]

I thought that the people seemed very friendly in South Korea and they say that the money is the best in the TESOL World too.

UK, Ireland / The best place to buy a house in the UK [120]


Yes, I have heard of it. Its post code is something like FY3?

Study / anyone with CELTA? [73]


Good thinking. Have you every though about moving on further? In your position I would like to see and work in places far off the beaten track such as South Korea.

News / Why does Poland love the US? [144]

Thing were better for everybody when we still had the Berlin Wall. The Poles traditionally respect a strong hand and that is why they loved Mother Russia. The Poles have nothing in common with the united States of America, which in its very essence represents everything good from the true Anglo Saxon races.

Language / Czas Teraźniejszy ( Present Tense) [5]

Znam and wiem too are the prsesnt tense but where is all this leading to?

Life / My girlfriend wants to go back to Poland as she thinks lifes better there [36]

Polish people will always travel to find green American dollars and they think of little else. However, Poland is probably changing and there is a new middle class emerging, however, much of it is based on credit.

Life / "Children in Exile" - Polish documentary film about children who were taken to Siberia [5]

It must be remembered that many Poles were dissatisfied after the Second World War and wanted reunification with their socialist brothers in the East. Stalin arranged free travel to allow all those who wanted, the chance of a new and better life in the Soviet union. It has to be remembered also that Poland was in the middle of turmoil then and could not support all its people without the kind assistance of the Russian people who had after all, endured years of harsh conditions themselves.

Study / anyone with CELTA? [73]

a lot of undergraduate degrees in Scotland are automatically M.A.s. The undergraduate degree in Russian at St. Andrews is an M.A.

Study / anyone with CELTA? [73]


He has an M.A.!

News / Plac Wilsona Metro Station selected as most beautiful in the world ! [22]


Especially when under Communism the Poles hated the West and never had a single good word to say for them.

Study / anyone with CELTA? [73]

Try Kraków, I think there is at least one college which offers it full time during the summer months.

Study / anyone with CELTA? [73]

What do you get after your name then with a Trinity certificate? Or is it only CELTA that counts?

Language / Imperative, prefix, reflexive verbs, imperfect form in Polish - 6 questions [14]

Ja idę pieszo do sklupu

ja jadę autobusem do sklepu

Ja chodzę co dziennie do szkoły

Jutro pojadę pociągiem do Warszawy.

Surely this is what the question was really all about.

Language / Imperative, prefix, reflexive verbs, imperfect form in Polish - 6 questions [14]


No, iść is to go by foot and jechać is to go by a form of transport.

Study / anyone with CELTA? [73]

There is no snobbery with a CELTA or a Trinity Certificate and there are no 'letters' as such as someone has written. There certificates are only similar in standard to an N.V.Q.

News / Poland wants $55bln of new roads for Euro 2012 [51]


Poland freely elected a pro Soviet government after World War 2. It was Poland's wish to be absorbed into the new Eastern Europe as was shown by the overwhelming election results.

News / Poland wants $55bln of new roads for Euro 2012 [51]

Poland has done nothing to help itself all through the Communist Era and now people can see why Poland wants to join the E.U so that England has to give a recent version of the old American Marshal Plan. Bad news for everyone, especially the British tax payer.

Study / anyone with CELTA? [73]


Guildford College offer the TESOL from Trinity for £550, two evenings per week over one year of part time study.

Language / Some POLISH SENTENCES when visiting the country [30]

A Ty doprowadzasz mnie do rozpaczy!

Language / A good learning book for Polish [44]

Go to the library and look for Colloquial Polish by B.W. Mazur, it is one of the better books and there are two various editions.

Language / Some POLISH SENTENCES when visiting the country [30]

All right, or simply jak masz czas, proszę iść ze mną żeby pokazać gdzie znajduje się dobra i niezbyt droga restauracja.

Language / Some POLISH SENTENCES when visiting the country [30]


This has not been translated correctly as sentence one and two are different.

Czy pan/pani może doprowadzić mnie do dobrej ale nie drogiej restauracji.

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

If you write the word Lila then it would be lee-lu with the stress falling on the double 'ee' there would be no other pronunciation combination possible for this word.