Language / Tak bardo chcialbym/ Tak duzo mowic??? [13]

It certainly is so much an intensifier

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

Gośka

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


LOL


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

Language / Non Multiple Choice Online Tests [10]

Another test! Must try it...

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.

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

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

Language / adding się [21]

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

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


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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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

I think it was The Warsaw uprising against the Nazis.

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.

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]


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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 / 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 / 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 / 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.

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.