Life / How do Polish view others [116]

I live up to the present times too. A very nasty country with a lot of very nasty people. I have seen so much over my life time in Russia, Poland and South Africa in the 1970's. Not long ago, my Father-In-Law died of heart failure in the backyard of his little farm house in a little village near Czestochowa. One of his son-in laws inherited the house as he was a farmer and could therefore plough the land. Instead, he decided to burgal the house in the night and then he set fire to the house and burnt it to the ground to claim the insurance money simply to pay for the reception of one of his daughter's weddings! I have seen everything in Poland and only a Pole could stoop so low. I, for my own part, never wish to return there.

UK, Ireland / 700 are arriving every day from Eastern Europe into Britain [50]

No, not really. They come here with their children and they need educating for free. Then they are ill. They go to the doctor and get medicines for free. It costs us more to employ them than they contribute.

Language / Help!! I've got to teach year 7 Polish numbers. [13]


What is wrong with being a Polish plumber? They could be like and you and just be a bit of a drip!

Language / hello i work in a pre school and need some advice! [5]


you caould put up a poster in the school and ask the parents to contribute ideas, songs ect. It would ease your work load too.

Polish mothers would be by far the best people to help you out in deciding on something to eat. You could even invite some of them in on the day to help organize the food. You will have to make the work load easy on yourself. See if there is a Polish shop in your area, they too could help with ideas of polish dishes ect.

Life / How do Polish view others [116]

Some of the sounds in French are replicated in Polish too.

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]


Mind you, the Americans have a reputation of being crap at learning languages. I remember them in both Moscow and in Krakow and they never really shone.

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]


All I was talking about was the double negative and Africans has the double negative, for example, nie rook nie-no smoking.

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]

No, it is not a mistake, they have a double negative as I have said, for example, nie rook nie. Read what I have said.

Anyway, what would you know about double negatives, you still have to learn Polish!

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]


Well, I am sorry but was it not you who was asking about the meaning of the Polish word 'murzyn'? If you do not even know such a basic simple word, you obviously do not speak Polish. I assume from what you have been saying that you are learning Polish. Why am I a fruitcke? In fact, I bet you do not know what a fruitcke in Polish is either!

News / Poland's Growth Fastest in 10 Years [95]

The trouble is that a lot of all this money is just coming from the EU. I have always said that if a country will make it in the West it will be the Czech Republic-they are miles ahead of Poland and always have been.

UK, Ireland / How expensive is living in UK/London for one person? [23]


Just as you asked me, you are not English are you? You too can not spell.

News / Poland's Growth Fastest in 10 Years [95]


So they should, the Poles nicked loads of German land after World War 2.

News / Poland's Growth Fastest in 10 Years [95]

Szczecin, for instance, is a German city and I see no reason why Poland has laid claim to it.

Language / Good books about polish grammar? (online purchase) [19]

There have been quite a lot of good books written on Polish grammar and being in the United States, you should be able to find a good second hand book shop with a collection to choose something from. I have some very good books but they are old and are probably out of print and maybe were never available in the United States even? If you are a studnet you could try your college library and/or try amazon, which specializes in books of all sorts and you may be able to buy something cheap.

They are quite old now but there was a set of two volumes printed in America called Beginning Polish Volume 1 and 2 by Alexander M. Schenker. I have the volume 1 with tapes and the exercises are very good for a learner. Mine is a revised copy from 1972 but the language itself has not changed much-just a few added words and phrases. He came from New Haven, Connecticut, America.

News / Polish girl burnt alive, please help me. [42]

Unfortunately, these things do happen and the longer you live the more of this sort of thing you will see. Many years ago, in 1984, I was a student in Moscow and there was an IRA bombing which took place at the same time in London. A police sergeant was killed among them and it just happened to be someone with whom I had worked some years previously. It is always a shock.

Language / Some example sentences using each of the cases in Polish [33]

Why is it for example ja pale papierosa and not simply ja pale papieros?papieros? Ja mam psa but ja mam psy and not psow. Sometimes there is no logic. Unless, of course, I have made some mistakes myself here.

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]


I have never found German to be at all logical. I find Polish word order to be more like English. German verbs split bits up and puts in a 'zu' ect. Very very confusing!


Every word is important

News / The Impact of Poland joining the EU [64]

I think that allowing Poland in to the EU was the wost thing we have ever done. Some years ago, they could not work here without visas but now..They say that we have 600,000 of the buggers though I am not sure if this is for the U.K. or if rthis figure includes Ireland too.

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]

I am not racist-simply the word in question is a basic word that anybody who knows Polish would know. Why is this such a problem for you?

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]

If you are in Poland I would suggest that you buy a course and learn some Polish rather than arguing with me! How do you survive not knowing a single word of Polish?

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]

It is not really an insult as far as I know and you started this topic in the first place, not me. Why do you not look the word up in a simple basic dictionary for yourself, after all, if you are going to spend a lot of time in Poland, you will need a fairly good dictionary. If you do not want to learn the language, why are you even there in Poland at all?


I would imagine that as an English speaking person on your own in Poland without a knowledge of the language you are a pretty lonely guy-I know that I would hate it for myself.

News / The Impact of Poland joining the EU [64]

Have you ever thought about what that means to stress out an economy? 600,000 workers. There were only 270,000 whites in Rhodesia during the hights of the Smith regime in the early 1970's. No wonder the

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]

I have been to Poland many times and have never relied on English so I can not comment on the level of English spoken. Probably, it gives the Poles a lot of status to be seen speaking English amongs their friends, it is the same in France too.

As a PS none of my family in Poland speaks English but I do know that one or two have been having a lot of leasons. They have never tried it out on me so am not too sure.


I thought that is was Russian, which was a compulsory subject?

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]

Oh, yes, all the Polish learn or at least learnt Russian at school.

I know for a fact that Russian is still taught in Polish schools as my relatives have lessons even to this day. And why not? They are more likely to use Russian in Czestochowa than English!

Language / Some example sentences using each of the cases in Polish [33]

Yes, but why is it for example, ja mam psa but ja mam psy and not ja mam psow? Psy is a living thing too. You do not answer my point at all.

Language / A Native American or a Native Pole: Who is better into which language? [116]

I know that as soon as Poland gained its freedom, Russian went 'out the window' over night but apparantly, it has been returning again in popularity of late. After all, Russia is still Poland's biggest natural neighbour.

Language / Some example sentences using each of the cases in Polish [33]

Yes, but again, you are saying the same as me but are not giving an answer.

Language / Some example sentences using each of the cases in Polish [33]

No, my question was why is it mam psa but mam psy when it is mam kolege but mam kolegow. The negative nie mam psa and nie mam psow is understood and is a simple piece of basic Polish grammar. Never mind, when my Polish wife returns home I will ask her. It is not important any more, you do not understand the concept I was trying to convey.

And as a PS Krysia is a good one to aske-I have seen some of her translation work!

Language / Kasia and Zosia pronounce [17]

I would have thought that the British are fairly tolerant too as they hear people trying to speak English all the time in so many different accents.

Language / Some example sentences using each of the cases in Polish [33]

What is rule number 14? I think actually that it would be znam madrego mezczyzne, I do not think that there would be a final 'a' even if it the Polish 'a' which would be nasal