Polish politicians and foreign languages

Do Polish politicians speak English or any other foreign language?

if not, if yes, what's your opinion about it?

He was in Canada recently. Seems like a decent guy.

Would be a nice choice for the next prime minister.

Wałęsa doesn't speak English... i don't think Kaczyński does... Tusk does speak English?
maybe it's the younger generation...

That chao was about to say something about other countries "not pulling their weight in Afghanistan", but he was cut off. He was rather good with the ol' English though, and that's what this thread's all about.

edit:
This time I'm not going to correct my drunkenb spelling mistake. I'm just going to say that this is about the third time I've said chao instead of chap! Should I go to the "What Are You isteneing To" thread and say I'm listening to Manu Chap? Or perhaps I should just call it a night and say "chap" to everyone.

Sikorski lived in the UK and in the US, so this is not a surprise. I have seen Giertych speaking English quite well. Geremek spoke French well. The same about Kwasniewski and Russian, his English was weaker. Siwiec speak English and Russian. Bartoszewski speak German.

Tusk's English is rather weak. Jaroslaw Kaczynski is somewhere on elementary level.

I have seen also Marcinkiewicz, Olejniczak and Fotyga speaking English, it was like good comedy.

Walesa and Borusewicz cannot even speak Polish, while Kurski and Niesiolowski are fluent in barking...

Do we have actually any Polish politician with a decent English?
Roman Giertych for instance was educated in England ( at least you can find that in his wikipedia brief biography)
Here you have a sample of his amazing skills:



PM Tusk and his lingo

And all of the best bunch of Polish politcians in bulk

Wtf is going on in Poland.
Just name me the frickin one with a proper English, just f...king one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please don't spin my comment. I did not write that his English is amazing. As far as Polish politicians are concentrated, he is one of the best. I would not expect more from a politician in this field, they should communicate well, that is all.

every Polish kitchen porter or even a **** shoveler speak better English than ours 'a creme de la mer... a tauch of class' type people

wELL THEY ARE POLISH SO WTF CAN YOU EXPECT. THEY SHOULD BE QUITE PLEASED WITH THEIR LEVEL OF ENGLISH COMPARED TO THE AVERAGE BRIT/YANK WHO CANT BE BOTHERED TO LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE. wHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK DEL BOY, BET I CAN GUESS.........UUUUMMMMMM 1

sORRY JUST LOOKED AT UR PROFILE, WAS THINKING UR ENGLISH WAS QUTIE BAD FOR AN ENGLISH GUY, IT EXPLAINS IT NOW, UR POLISH. MAYBE A FEW LESSONS WOULD HELP YOU IMPROVE

A proper English? LOL. That's a good one. 2 proper Englishes anyone?

MAYBE GIVE ME THREE SEANUS, ITLL HELP ME FIND THE FRICKIN ONE AND MAYBE ALL OF THE BEST POLISH POLITICIANS IN BULK (????? WTF)

Please turn the Caps Lock off. :)

Best Polish politicians, LOL. Just don't cite Giertych, PLEEEEASE (Caps Lock now off)

mines off too

Mines off? I think Admin felt the explosion and got a bit pis*ed

lol mine's

beating around the bush a bit I must say.

George W. ?

no, Sikorski. I have to admit I didn't listen to the whole conversation:)

Oh, you mean Sikorski was beating around the bush. Well, he's a crafty politician, they make saying nothing while sounding intelligent an art.

well that and also the fact that English is not his first language, so it will take a while until he gets to the point ( I have noticed that with the Poles). I guess I am used to more direct way of expression with the North American politicians, although Obama can talk for hours;)

Speed has that kind of effect ;)

As I recall, roundabout ten years ago when Aleksander Kwaśniewski addressed the US-Congress on his first state visit to our country, he spoke in English, albeit quite haltingly and with an accent you could cut with a machete--:)

The brother of my first Polish teacher was interpreter for the Polish gov't. during the height of the Cold War, from 1964-68, and told my teacher that Gierek, Cyrankiewicz, Beirut and Gomułlka had ZERO English or even German skills, but all understood Russian fluently! Perhaps the upper crust in the aristocracy still spoke French. Other than that, I couldn't imagine. I mean if in Greenpoint, Bklyn. there are many immigrants who still after many years in New York can barely manage simple English, what must it be like for the rank and file in Poland??

So much for Polish politicos and foreign languages.

It sounded more like the British interviewer was being too pushy and trying to trip him up and putting words in his mouth. As for his English he has a very good level. Far better than any of the others who were posted.

Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski



(He speaks fluently Polish and English, French, Russian, and German at the working level.)

In that regard then, various Polish leaders are farther along as concerns foreign languages than most Russian heads of state (except of course for Putin, whose years in East Germany gave him a powerful leg up in that language!).

To the best of my knowledge neither the new crop of Russians nor most of the Old Guard Kremlinites from Khruschev on through Chermomidryn spoke any English, with the exception of Andropov and Kosygin.

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