UK, Ireland / Sad life of a Polish migrant in UK. Ch. 3 - Food [93]

Hey Ksysia.

Buy Anzac wine as follows:
Red, australia: Wyndam Estate or Wakefield
White, New Zealand: Montana Marlborough.
(IF you have one near you, go to Costco. Marlborough at 4 Pounds a bottle, last special offfer. I brought 100 bottles back to Ireland with me recently from Glasgow. It's 12 Pounds a bottle here, in Tesco).

Both are cheap and very good quality, far superior to any any European wine in the same price bracket, better than any other Austrailan.

Strange that you should mention Jacobs coffee!
I buy that in the Polski Sklep here (Ireland btw). It's cheaper than an equivalent coffee in any supermarket..

Eat Irish or Northern Ireland or Polish pork products, better than their mainland UK equivalents. (Cuisine de FRance is an Irish company btw :D - love their croissants )

English Ales are very good, if brewed in the local breweries. You will find the best ones in Yorkshire, best ales in the world. It's not on the way to Scotland, but worth the diversion to Huddersfield just to try the local ale. M1, M62, continue to M6 then for Scotland...

Loads of Polish in Glasgow :) It's a cool city besides, if a bit on the tough side.

@time means
aaarggh, a Meerkat. Where's my combat shotgun!


I got salmonella from an English pie once.....
Only time I ever got food poisoning


I got off milk a few times, in Dublin. At least it won't poison you ;)
Lesson: buy milk in supermarkets where they look after it better.


Actually, no. The range is quite good. Expensive and getting more so though.
So I bulk buy in Glasgow when I'm over there.

UK, Ireland / Irish view of Poland? [17]

I'm Irish, living in Ireland. I've met lots of Poles here over the past few years.
They're a seriously sound people and very welcome in my country.

I like the Polski Skleps too, as I once lived in continental Europe and got used to types of food that just weren't available here in Ireland until the advent of the Polski (and other Easten European) Skleps.

Language / Pan/Pani necessary? [8]

Heh, I ran across Pan and Pani issues when I was in Portland OR, USA of all places!
I used some of my Polish with a Pole resident there, and was slightly too familiar in my language.
This is an issue I haven't run across in Ireland.
If in doubt, always use the Pan/Pani form.

Language / Anyone use "SERWUS"? [46]

Serwus is an everyday greeting (similar meaning to cześć) in the Transylvania region of Romania. In Cluj I would hear it all the time.

Language / Example sentences for different cases. [42]

This person is a woman:
In this instance "woman" is an instrument of "person", hence the instrumental case. (This is how I think of it!).
"This is a woman" is nominative as no actions are being done in the sentence, so kobieta - nominative.
Correct me if I am mistaken

Language / The preposition past 'I walk past the bank every day on my way to school'? [13]

I'd understand "obok" to mean opposite.

Language / LEARNERS REJOICE: NO MORE DUAL NUMBER IN POLISH! [12]

Vestiges of a form of dual remain in Irish I believe.

Language / Learning Polish online help [21]

Yes.
Download the Polish Reference Grammar from here:
polish.slavic.pitt.edu/
It contains sections on Masc Fem and Neut noun declensions.

Language / Children's TV programs and cartoon names to learn Polish [12]

Bolek i Lolek

Moomins are Finns, so it must be a Polish dubbed versio!

Language / Dual language books..SUGGESTIONS? [10]

@Baltic Paul
You'll find two grammar books here which will tell you a lot about the cases' uses :)

polish.slavic.pitt.edu

Also, "The Little Prince" is a book available in Polish and English, used as a dual text learning aid. It's not too difficult.

Language / Iterative and semelfactive verbs [37]

Hey, lots of tasty verbs here....
I love verbs of motion, especially irregular ones
Present tense-
chodzić, iść
chodzę, idę
Past tense-
chodziłem: I went - determinate, but if you are indeterminate it's szedłem: I was in the process of going but hadn't completed the action.

I love this verb, it's one of my most favourite Polish verbies ;)

Thanks for the verbs guys.

UK, Ireland / What is in Poland that England doesn't have? [142]

Jeżyki biscuits and a host of other yummy dark chocolate products :)

UK, Ireland / Tough times for Poles in Ireland [4]

Tough times for everyone in Ireland these days.
Much of the country's recent prosperity was built on a property bubble which has now burst leaving the economy starved of funds. Ireland is worse off than most countries. Still not as bad as Iceland though :) Membership of the Euro zone made all the difference.

Language / Do Polish Movies Help learn the language? [60]


Just watched it lately. It's really very good.
I remember seeing it years ago on BBC 2.

I googled "what's the best Polish comedy" and found a forum full of them :)
And I still can't find subtitles for Miś!

Language / What do you find difficult about learning Polish? [98]


Finnish in unlikely to be a help I think. It is quite different to Polish, for example Polish mixes prepositions sometimes with its case endings (! for a Finn) and also the adjective and noun endings don't match (!!) in Polish like they do in Finnish.

UK, Ireland / What do Polish people think of Ireland and the Irish? [50]

I find that Poles here in Dublin are surprised and impressed that I have taken the trouble to learn some of their lingo.
That has to be good...

Language / What do you find difficult about learning Polish? [98]


Um, some say that there are a few more possible cases:
Prolative (+tse =by means of (przez+Ac in Polish))
And a couple of wierder ones:
Eksessiivi (Finnish nomenclature, ending -nta. Could maybe be the called the "excessive" case in English (heh)
Lative... but we're geting into theoretical stuff here......

I have read that there are Finnic languages which have 30+ cases!


Er no, but that is about the only aspect of Finnish that is easier than Poish.
Finnish has mindnumbing compound nouns.
My favourite example: tottelemattomuudestansa (meaning "because of his lack of obedience").
As a native English speaker who has had a lot of contact with both Finnish and Polish languages I can definitely assert that Finnish is much tougher!

Finnish cases are much easier than Polish. And I was sooooo relieved to find no gramatical gender in Finnish.

Both languages are a lot of fun to try and learn though.

History / What was Polands greatest historical moment? [24]

I think it was The Warsaw uprising against the Nazis.

History / germany prepares for invasion of Poland [43]


Thankfully the Bohemian Corporal was such a military incompetent. A pity the German Army Officer class didn't spot this and kill him earlier on.

News / Zloty goes down, good news for ex-pats in Poland [18]

Euro is the way to go.
Złoty will stay low for now - this will bring inflation to Poland in a few years' time, so not so good news. Same goes for Sterling and USD. Any country that effectively allows its exchange rate to go artificially low will experience inflation as a result.

Times aren't too good.

Language / What do you find difficult about learning Polish? [98]


This list makes no mention of Finnish or Irish, both of which are tougher than German. I expect that Breton and Welsh are also no cake ride.

Then Sami is a lot of fun too...

Language / Star Wars and Polish language in it :) [30]

I wonder if Gungan might also be a (more obscure) Polish dialect?

Language / Star Wars and Polish language in it :) [30]


So then, Hutese is a dialect of Polish...

UK, Ireland / What do Polish people think of Ireland and the Irish? [50]


You apparently lack even the faintest glow of imagination.
A dour limitation to be saddled with.
You have my sympathy for the condition that afflicts you.

Language / adding się [21]

Verbs which contain "się" have a reflexive nature in general referring the action in some way onto the speaker.

News / I love Poland because... (in 10 words or less) [182]

kobiety, kobiety, kobiety, kobiety, kobiety, and did I mention kobiety!

Language / Do Polish Movies Help learn the language? [60]

Here's two, that I watched during the week:
Tylko mnie kochaj
Nigdy w zyciu

They're witty romantic comedies with predictable plots in which the actors speak quite fast. A bit of fun.
There are also English subtitles available for them.

Language / Non Multiple Choice Online Tests [10]

Another test! Must try it...

Language / POLISH OR RUSSIAN -- MORE MODERN? [20]


LOL


'coz of the women! - oh and er, because I'm learning Polish I suppose.

Language / Affectionate endings to Polish girls' names.... [30]

Gośka