UK, Ireland / English food - unhealthy? [52]

well, that came as a surprise to me - i am myself a vegetarian living in poland (=eating polish food) and i have no problems with my weight. maybe you just need someone to show you the right places to dine out? or learn to cook for yourself... (that's what i do very often but only cos of personal preferences and student's budget to some extent :) )

Life / Old song I want to find (Maryna, Maryna gotuj pierogi!) [12]

Found it! :)


facebook/pages/Babcia/10150135960905627?sk=notes

Work / Going rate for translators in Poland? [12]

There is a huge difference between translations done by a Pole who just knows English and a Pole with a degree in English or a professional translator. If it's translation from English to Polish, then a professional Polish translator would do far much better than an English native speaker who just knows Polish.

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]

lol Then i don't qualify! :O

Food / Cafes for narghile in Poland? [6]

Haven't tried yet but i might one day - there is one narghile cafe in Ponzań :)

Life / Polish Radio and TV stations online? [68]

polskieradio.pl/sluchaj
nadaje.com/katalog.php?action=all&lang=pl

News / New Mayor for Warsaw [8]


PiS a socialist party - since when???

Language / the Polish case system - enjoy :) [5]

here it is

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Language / How do you say "give me a kiss" in Polish [53]

give me a kiss = "daj buzi" / "daj całusa" / "pocałuj mnie"

Love / Do Polish men have a problem with Tatto's on women? [47]


I know i know, i haven't been very active lately :) I've been quite busy, plus often away from the internet, plus i rarely get involved in most of the threads (like your convo's) cos i don't really feel comfortable in a crowd :)

Hopefully the internet connection complications'll get settled by october!

Love / Do Polish men have a problem with Tatto's on women? [47]


- he knows nothing! I've got several female friends who have tatoos and everyone else thinks it's cool; maybe he's just that kind of a guy...

Language / how to distinguish between hard and soft consonants properly? [14]

Try to move your tongue - for the soft consonants the tip is flat somewhere in between the small gap between the teeth; for harder ones the back of the tongue slightly curles backward and and the tip retracts quite abruptly. Does it help? :P

Food / What are these two cakes called in Polish? [6]


I'd say dobrze! :)

Life / Does anyone know about the Polish band Queens? [17]

bolo
You meant 'Queen', not 'Queens' :)

History / I want to find images / designs of Polish Wedding Dresses in the Early Centuries [10]

I found a nice website:

miedzia.ch.pwr.wroc.pl/wks/stroje.php

Go for 'stroje' and then you should be able to find what you want.

Food / is" kaszanka" a Polish speciality? [54]


Or 'pyra' - that's in the Poznań region :)

Food / is" kaszanka" a Polish speciality? [54]

Here you go:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding
The thing which makes kaszanka Polish is that it contains 'kasza'.

Travel / want to travel to Racibórz from Amsterdam [7]

You can check the train connections here: rozklad.pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/en?

Genealogy / searching for Maryanska, Ziotkowski, Wronski and Szczepanski [14]

'Dembosz' is pronounced like 'Dembosh' (regular <e> like in 'bet')


- I think that might be Ziółkowski, the letter resembling 't' being our £, our own grapheme for the <w> sound, like in 'winter'

Life / Level of English among the Poles? [64]

The answer to the question about the knowledge of English may tell you a lot about differnet nations. Norwegians' answer to the question 'Do you speak English?' is: 'A bit.', but when you start talking to them, you're amazed how fluent they are (no matter their age!). An average Pole says, often with great pride or slightly hurt, 'I do!', but in fact... they don't. They falter, make mistakes in elemental grammar, and their pronouncation leaves much to be desired. They hold native - in their view incomprehensible - pronouncation responsible for their problems in communication with native speakers of English.

But that's a huge generalisation and excludes a growing numer of Poles that have few problems communicating in English. The conclusion is: it depends. The only solution is to talk to the person in person - live conversation is a real test.

Language / Polish language problems (orthography) [47]

Complicated ortography and grammar is part and parcel of our beautiful Polish language. As annab has shown to you, spelling can make a whole lot of a difference in Polish. Btw, some of the problematic graphemes (e.g. ch, h) used to be different also in pronouncation in the past so it was easier to differentiate between them. When it comes to the practice of skipping the personal pronoun in front of the verb, that's perfectly logical and correct in Polish. Polish is simply that kind of language that allows for that; the verb in personal form is able to convey the information about the person on its own (thanks to the fact that it is marked for number and person, in the past tense also for gender). When you look at it more closely it does make sense. And please, don't judge the logic of one language against some other totally unrelated language - Dutch is a germanic language, as opposed to slavic Polish, which makes a big difference.

Good luck to all those strugling to master Polish :)

Travel / Zakopane in August/September [13]

Are you planning to sleep in a tent? In September, and in August as well depending on the weather, nights in Zakopane are quite chilly. (Once my friends persisited in sleeping in their tent in September, and were the only ones in the whole campsite bc the temperatures dropped below 0 C dergees at nights...) It might be better to rent a room - there's lots of pensions offering relatively cheep rooms, even in the very centre. Unless you're coming with your own caravan. I don't really know much about tourist facilities in Zakopane. Maybe some one else could help?

Good luck:)

Travel / What are you looking for in Poland? [17]

Good luck!