No biggie. a lot of people don't. I'd like to learn more but it's dificult to get lessons around here. I visit Poznan usually, but have been all over Poland while visiting....from the baltic coastline to the tatry mtns. I plan on returning in July.
Co słychac? ja dobrze. ja uczuje się jezyk polski w koledz czternaście tydzień. So i know more than a few words :)
Also i have been to Craców and Zakopane March and April of 2003 and i am currently planning my three week trip to Poland between the 22nd July and 15th August this year ... just spent the past 4 hours searching for 7 hotels for the 7 areas i am heading (Gdańsk, Toruń Poznań Warszawa, Wrocław, Craców and Zakopane) and also checking out train times for travel between these places which i have now written down and also booking my WizzAir flight home from Katowice Airport back here to Doncaster :)
Oh and maybe i am for future years planning to relocate to Poland and why not .. :) i also have Polish ancestry (my dad's dad ie my grandfather was polish)
i am learning polish to communicate with friends also with me thinking of moving there also it helps to know polish when in poland to understand it in written form :)
why, coz grandpa
my grandpa died in 2003 and i never really knew him only saw him one time in my whole life ... my father never spoke about his family and my father died 7 years ago ... so i am not learning for that reason.
I think many people are learning polish in the UK though some will argue this but when we have a est. 750,000 polish now living in this country it helps to understand the language :)
my mail i will send to you in a private message ok :)
Matyjasz .. Emigration it isn't the same what migration or mayby I'm wrong. I want go to Australia for half or one year, but I'm fine in Poland and I don't want spend rest of my life there.
The best week of my life was spent in Krakow in September last year ! I found the city to be the nicest one I have ever visited ! The people were so friendly and happy it really made me think about living over there !!
and you know, you don't feel like strangers - when you say that you are from Poland or 1/2 polish
You're right. People don't feel like strangers here in the US when they are Polish. There are so many different races here that no one feels outcast. There are entire neighborhoods or shopping centers for each race. I live in the Asian area because there is very little crime here compared to other areas. Not too far from here is an all Filipino area with Filipino stores and restaurants. And there's an entire area called Little India and there's also a German area with a shopping center that's designed like buildings in Germany. They sell Polish food and Polish items in their stores. There's also a place called Little Ethiopia. Just every race has a place here. It's probably not that way in Poland, huh?
