Work / How many polish adults want to learn English? [16]

Half the Polish Language is full of English words. If you watch the Polish serial M jak Milosc all the time you will hear sorry sorry sorry and yet again sorry. I am not in Poland I am in Guildford Surrey but we get the serial via satelite. I was in a train in Gdansk and I hearded a student using the word amongst his friends. Obviously you have never been to Poland!! Even I am aware of some of the mdern linguistic trends. I used to visit Poland quite a lot but have moved on to Australia and other more interesting destinations now.

Work / How many polish adults want to learn English? [16]

I can only add that when I did my Trinity TESOL course in 1999/2000 there was no teaching of English to children element (exept maybe a sheet of paper showing how children sit in a classroom) and no business English though a one month intensive course can not do everything. Maybe Poland 2006 is right when she says 'English sucks!', why should we spread our culture on to everybody else? I used to go to Poland when there was still 'communism', if that is the right word, and the Polish Language was pure, now so many new words of English origin have crept in...they do not say przepraszam but use the English word sorry!

Study / Um studying abroad in Poland? [16]

It is spelled Krakow and that is exactly how it is pronounced too

Study / Um studying abroad in Poland? [16]

You could always try the Polish Embassy in America and ask for the cultural section. There are a few summer Polish Language courses run through the summer and it would be a good idea to try one of these first to see if you like it. I did one many years ago in Krakow connected to jagiellonski and I believe there was also a course run in Lublin. I do not keep in contact now and am unaware of the prsesent circumstances. They arrange accommodation in their student hostel and the food was excellent. as an American citizen, the course carried credits which I think you would be able to use back home in the U.S.A. later. Only thing for you of course is that you would have to pay for the return flight and I do not know how much that would be from the USA. I came to Poland by train from England and that was fine.

Work / How many polish adults want to learn English? [16]

Unless you have studied to be a primary school teacher with Q.T.S. in England and you have experience of children is there a difference between a CELTA and the Trinity TESOL? Teaching adults and children English is the same thing except perhaps for the discipline in the classroom. State pay is not good and even private language schools will not pay you enough money to make a profit to take home with you. I was once in Warsaw and was offered a job teaching English. The man with whom I was staying in Warsaw with laughed after I told him the conditions of employment as his monthly mobile telephone bill was more than my wage as an English Language Teacher would be! I think that I will stay in England and remain a postman!!