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Joined: 9 Sep 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 9 Feb 2024
Threads: Total: 9 / In This Archive: 7
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Vincent   
9 Aug 2008
Life / Swimming certificate/bribing the bureaucrats in Poland [13]

In my travels across communist Poland 20-30 years ago

Helena just a long shot:) where you that lovely lady who was on here last year, as a quest, and wrote about her memoirs of her trips to Poland as a young lady in communist times?
Vincent   
9 Aug 2008
Travel / Best way to get from Gdansk Airport to Kolobrzeg [19]

Londonchick

I'm thinking about meeting up in Kolobrzeg with some friends from Bristol, so ideally they would fly to Gdansk from Bristol Airport rather than schlep to Stansted[/quote]

seem to remember, that easyjet has stopped flying from Bristol to Gdansk, and not aware that another airline does.
Vincent   
7 Aug 2008
Language / I need a good dictionary! (book) [21]

if money isn't an object...then this one is probably the best one around:)

Pocket Oxford-PWN Polish Dictionary (Paperback)

amazon.co.uk/Pocket-Oxford-PWN-Dictionary-Jadwiga-Linde-Usiekniewicz/d p/0199214913/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218136472&sr=8-3
Vincent   
27 Jul 2008
Language / Verb forms and conjugation [28]

I have found this, hope it might be of some help, to you.

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Polish_language_-_verb_conjugation_-_Class_I
Vincent   
24 Jul 2008
Language / How to learn Polish ASAP? (speaking is my priority) [22]

So I learn either way =]

and for those of us who haven't got a polish boy/girlfriend one of the best ways is to hear some spoken polish by a native speaker accompanied by reading the dialogs in text.....for example could you pronounce "szczecin" straight out of a book first time without hearing it spoken first?

good luck with your learning, and make sure you pass on any good tips:)
Vincent   
24 Jul 2008
Travel / Ryanair cancelling flights to Poland at short notice [55]

cos he's already got his coat on and wants to get out NOW.

yes its funny that....every nationality seems to do it.....the ones who take their time getting of, soon catches up with the speedy guys, waiting on their luggage:)
Vincent   
24 Jul 2008
Language / How to learn Polish ASAP? (speaking is my priority) [22]

I'm not sure if it is possible to learn a language, including a foreign one, by first speaking it. How does the learner know what to say? [/quote}

[quote=telefonitika]my point exactly .. :-)

there are lots of software around, where one can listen to native polish speakers, speaking, so I guess this would be better than trying to read it from a book and mispronouncing the words.
Vincent   
28 Jun 2008
Food / Polish Milk, Just not the same [54]

I had a milk from a "łaciaty" carton when in Poland,

agree, łaciate milk (red carton) is very good and adds a nice flavour to coffee ...Since one of my polish friends introduced me to it, I have always bought a couple of cartons, from a polish shop every week....great for emergencies as well, as it will keep for ages unopened.
Vincent   
23 Jun 2008
Travel / Give me your hand-luggage only tips, please... [13]

This is due to some muppet discovering you can make a bomb with just liquids...so the airlines not suprisingly don,t like you to have them....

and am decanting everything into smaller bottles as per the regulations.

good idea....but could a "would be terrorist" not take bomb making equipment on board in small bottles....I am not suggesting for one minute that you are a terrorist LC :):)
Vincent   
27 Apr 2008
Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]

My point was Michal, that in various learning audio software, some teachers say en at the end of a word, and some don't...I was wondering if it was a region thing?

Krzysztof once said also.....that it could be a bit like...if you talk the queens English or not.
Vincent   
21 Apr 2008
Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]

I asked this question myself https://polishforums.com/archives/2005-2009/language/final-13424/ about 7 mths ago, when I first started , trying to learn Polish. I could hear lots of polish people saying the final "e" as e, and others saying it as "en". I can still hear the two different ending every day, in polish learning courses etc.

A polish person told me that people in the north and south of Poland tend to say it as a ordinary "e", whilst people in central Poland tend to say it as "en".I wonder if anyone else can confirm this?
Vincent   
5 Apr 2008
Genealogy / Female names ending in 'A'.... why? [23]

Thats true....must have something about being feminine...we have male and female names here too...don't we:)
Vincent   
5 Apr 2008
Genealogy / Female names ending in 'A'.... why? [23]

i knew a girl

didn't you ask her:)... was she polish? What if a polish man married a different nationally...would she just take his name?
Vincent   
16 Mar 2008
Life / Smingus-Dyngus - Polish tradition [155]

A bit like a wet t-shirt day

that's what I thought:)....but surely there must be more to it than that?
Vincent   
16 Mar 2008
Life / Smingus-Dyngus - Polish tradition [155]

Thread attached on merging:
Wet Monday

A polish person that I was talking to today, told me about this tradition that happen on Easter Monday...now his English was bad, and my Polish worse...but i gathered that men and women throw water over each other on this day in nearly every city in Poland.

Could some Polish person , please tell us more about this old tradition?