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Joined: 17 Nov 2007 / Female ♀ 		Last Post: 24 Aug 2009
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Posts: Total: 85 / In This Archive: 72 		From: Poland, Lublin
Speaks Polish?: yes

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gosiaczek   
4 Dec 2007
Language / Why do people want to study Polish? [90]

A couple of days ago I talked with my uncle who asked me why people want to (and do) study Polish language. We could name but a few reasons:

1. descendants of Poles who emigrated to other counties want to speak the language of their fathers

2. Europeans (esp. Brits) want to speak Polish to be able to communicate with Poles who settle in their countries (?)

3. Polish is randomly chosen by people who want to study any foreign language (but it would be rather odd because Polish grammar is so difficult that they could choose less complicated language to study:D)

Any other ideas, reasons? What about you? I'd like to have some opinions not only from Europeans:)
gosiaczek   
4 Dec 2007
Food / Questions on Polish food: Oscypek and Zurek. Also zeberka. [18]

inkrakow, unfortunately you're right. I spent a month in Zakopane and often talked to local people, they admitted that they neither use goat's nor sheep's, but cow's milk to produce oscypki. they also talked about colouring, that they simply "paint" oscypki because the process of smoking is quite long and they want to gain profit in a relatively short period. of course tourists are blissfully unaware of such practices...
gosiaczek   
3 Dec 2007
Law / Noise regulations in Poland [3]

from 10pm to 6am there is CISZA NOCNA which means that you can't play loud music, drill, hoover etc
gosiaczek   
3 Dec 2007
Life / Brits moving to live in Poland [88]

Forget all the stories about bribes etc because they just aren't true

unfortunately, bribery is still common in Poland especially in health service and higher institutions. You do not encounter it in everyday life, but when you are in a hospital you realise that to receive good care you have to bribe nurses and doctors.
gosiaczek   
22 Nov 2007
News / Man from Zakopane who cut off his own genitals [53]

I was just wondering if this is normal behaviour in Poland?

of course , how come you didn't know that?! that's the standard contraception in Poland :D
gosiaczek   
21 Nov 2007
Language / conjugation of verb wspiąć się [39]

Wspiąć się:

ja wespnę się
ty wespniesz się
on/ona/ono wespnie się

my wespniemy się
wy wespniecie się
oni/one wespną się

the conjugation of 'wspinać' will be different (different czas).

wespnę, wespniesz etc is a future tense. in present it would be:

wspinam się
wspinasz się
wspina się

wspinamy się
wspinacie się
wspinają się
gosiaczek   
19 Nov 2007
Food / Beer and syrup - tastes better! [48]

beer in Poland used to be drunk rather with raspberry syrup, not cherry (IF adding any syrup).

why used to be drunk? it still is:) I think raspberry syrup is perfect for beer. in polish pubs beer is also served with ginger syrup.

I'm not trying to be girly or anything.

don't care about this:) indeed more girl than boys drink beer with syrup but it's not the rule.

as for żubrówka, try it with apple juice and a pinch of cinnamon. it tastes really good:)
gosiaczek   
18 Nov 2007
Language / Jestem ze Szczecina or Szczecinia? [15]

ze Szczecina, ze Szczytna, ze Wschodu, when you have consonant clusters like these, use ZE

the same goes for w/we eg. w poniedziałek, we wtorek etc

It's simply easier to pronounce when you have a vowel:)
gosiaczek   
18 Nov 2007
Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]

Much is thought of the Auld Alliance with France. URL

Right, a bit long:) but I see what you mean. For Scots not France but England was the opressor. (in fact I should have remembered it from my history lectures;p)
gosiaczek   
18 Nov 2007
Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]

And what about English - French antagonism?(British - French? I'd like to know if Scots, Irish or Welsh hate French as much as Englis do) Generally, historical reasons are really important and it's the past experience that make us at least "reserved" toward other nations.
gosiaczek   
17 Nov 2007
Life / People from Poland are the most upfront and kind. [7]

That's nice you wish us all the best:) dzięki:)

always showing good will despite the past problems they had

But the truth is that it is the generation of our grandparents/parents who remember the "hard times". young people nowadays are not concerned with the past, I mean the times of communism, not to mention wwII. so maybe their mentality is slightly different...

The bad news is that Poland is going with big steps to the "western Europe" and Polish kindness and hospitality may change for worse.

yeah, that's quite sad, I think that the youth want to get rid of that Polishness in favour of sth more European (universal?)