teflcat
30 Jan 2012
Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]
Can I sit in when you teach this next time? Sounds like fun.
altercation on the street etc....
Can I sit in when you teach this next time? Sounds like fun.
teflcat
30 Jan 2012
Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]
I'd suggest CAE. Although FCE is a great all-round intermediate level exam, the speaking element doesn't require much for a pass. If Stu insists on a B or an A at CAE, he can be pretty sure he'll get someone who can answer the phone and write e-mails.
Maybe advertise for someone with FCE?
I'd suggest CAE. Although FCE is a great all-round intermediate level exam, the speaking element doesn't require much for a pass. If Stu insists on a B or an A at CAE, he can be pretty sure he'll get someone who can answer the phone and write e-mails.
teflcat
28 Jan 2012
Love / ARE POLISH GIRLS GOLD-DIGGERS? [359]
Don't all women look for someone who can provide a decent lifestyle, or at least contribute towards having one? Polish women, and Poles in general, are not particularly materialistic; they value more important things in life, like family and friends. Having said that, things are changing.
Anyway, why should a woman settle for a guy who doesn't at least try to better himself?
Don't all women look for someone who can provide a decent lifestyle, or at least contribute towards having one? Polish women, and Poles in general, are not particularly materialistic; they value more important things in life, like family and friends. Having said that, things are changing.
Anyway, why should a woman settle for a guy who doesn't at least try to better himself?
teflcat
28 Jan 2012
Love / What do Polish guys think of Irish girls? [187]
Which website did you get that from?
Tosh
Surely fir bolg.
c)the anglo saxon (north)
Which website did you get that from?
d)british(middle east coast, called the pale of ireland). yes british and germaic/anglo saxon are diffrent gene pools.
Tosh
"fir blog"
Surely fir bolg.
teflcat
27 Jan 2012
teflcat
27 Jan 2012
Travel / Big Feet in Poland? [11]
Me too. I think the jerkiness of the footage/feetage was caused by Chewbacca's mate p1ssing himself laughing.
I'm certainly convinced
Me too. I think the jerkiness of the footage/feetage was caused by Chewbacca's mate p1ssing himself laughing.
teflcat
27 Jan 2012
Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]
I saw an ad in my local (Białystok) paper last week for English lessons given by a Polish Philology graduate. S/he wants 70PLN/hr. Anyone interested?
I saw an ad in my local (Białystok) paper last week for English lessons given by a Polish Philology graduate. S/he wants 70PLN/hr. Anyone interested?
teflcat
27 Jan 2012
UK, Ireland / Obtaining driving License in UK or Poland ..which is easier [8]
I'm afraid that's right. Where there's brass there's muck (to mangle an old expression). I heard it costs 900PLN to get a dodgy pass.
When I took my Polish test ten years ago I failed first time due to a combination of nerves and my interpreter mistranslating instructions, but the test centre was notorious for bent tests.
My instructor was an alcoholic in a school of alcoholics. On more than one occasion he failed to be there for early morning lessons (accompanied drives, actually, as I was fairly experienced) because, as he told me later, he was hungover. I hope things are more professional these days.
I'm afraid that's right. Where there's brass there's muck (to mangle an old expression). I heard it costs 900PLN to get a dodgy pass.
When I took my Polish test ten years ago I failed first time due to a combination of nerves and my interpreter mistranslating instructions, but the test centre was notorious for bent tests.
My instructor was an alcoholic in a school of alcoholics. On more than one occasion he failed to be there for early morning lessons (accompanied drives, actually, as I was fairly experienced) because, as he told me later, he was hungover. I hope things are more professional these days.
teflcat
23 Jan 2012
Work / Teaching salary per hour, PhD in Architecture [28]
The link is for more recent stats. As I said, we'll have to agree to differ. There are lots of more up-to-date lists than the one I cited, including a 2009 OECD report which gives $9186 as the entry level salary for teachers. That's $765/month. I wish you and your mother every success.
The link is for more recent stats. As I said, we'll have to agree to differ. There are lots of more up-to-date lists than the one I cited, including a 2009 OECD report which gives $9186 as the entry level salary for teachers. That's $765/month. I wish you and your mother every success.
teflcat
23 Jan 2012
Work / Teaching salary per hour, PhD in Architecture [28]
eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/documents/tools/salaries.pdf
The Polish Central Staistical Office states an average of 2811PLN/month for teachers at all school levels for 2005.
The above link quotes a figure of 41,819PLN/year (max) for senior high school teachers.
We'll just have to agree to differ.
eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/documents/tools/salaries.pdf
The Polish Central Staistical Office states an average of 2811PLN/month for teachers at all school levels for 2005.
The above link quotes a figure of 41,819PLN/year (max) for senior high school teachers.
We'll just have to agree to differ.
teflcat
23 Jan 2012
Work / Teaching salary per hour, PhD in Architecture [28]
No, but I don't know any school teacher who earns 5000/month from one state school job.
Are you implying that I am not telling the truth?
No, but I don't know any school teacher who earns 5000/month from one state school job.
teflcat
23 Jan 2012
Work / Teaching salary per hour, PhD in Architecture [28]
A school teacher in a state school? Pull the other one.
A few years ago a friend of mine left teaching because he just couldn't live on his 1800PLN salary. He had fifteen years' experience, two MAs and was a Matura examiner.
A school teacher in a state school? Pull the other one.
A few years ago a friend of mine left teaching because he just couldn't live on his 1800PLN salary. He had fifteen years' experience, two MAs and was a Matura examiner.
teflcat
22 Jan 2012
News / The New World Order and Poland's place [50]
I have received commands to buy a map of the World titled "I Am America" to teach people of how the earth will look like after the purification, the Day of Judgment from all dirt, mull and vermin. A few channels had an Ancient Prophecies program from which I bought the world's map "I Am America." From the website.
Hmm.
I have received commands to buy a map of the World titled "I Am America" to teach people of how the earth will look like after the purification, the Day of Judgment from all dirt, mull and vermin. A few channels had an Ancient Prophecies program from which I bought the world's map "I Am America." From the website.
Hmm.
teflcat
21 Jan 2012
Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]
What does this mean? Polonius, do you know what the word sanctimonious means? You are forever casting the first stone. Where's your Christian charity, forgiveness and understanding. Oh, sorry, I forgot. You're RC.
hedo-commercialist degeneracy
What does this mean? Polonius, do you know what the word sanctimonious means? You are forever casting the first stone. Where's your Christian charity, forgiveness and understanding. Oh, sorry, I forgot. You're RC.
teflcat
21 Jan 2012
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]
What next Marek? Holocaust denial?
What next Marek? Holocaust denial?
teflcat
16 Jan 2012
teflcat
16 Jan 2012
Work / Navy Guy seeks help looking for work in Poland! [19]
You should apply to foreign companies operating in Poland who employ engineers. I'd advise you to look at large outfits who are starting up here in Poland. I work a couple of days a week in a big Swedish company and it's like the Tower of Babel in the office and on-site. There are Swedes (of course), Brits, Germans, Czechs, Latvians, and many more nationalities, even a few Poles. English is the language medium in most encounters.
If you want to have TEFL as a back-up, do an RSA/Cambridge Certificate course. It takes a month full time and can cost a grand for a good one. (And look up the various uses of the word 'however'.)
You should apply to foreign companies operating in Poland who employ engineers. I'd advise you to look at large outfits who are starting up here in Poland. I work a couple of days a week in a big Swedish company and it's like the Tower of Babel in the office and on-site. There are Swedes (of course), Brits, Germans, Czechs, Latvians, and many more nationalities, even a few Poles. English is the language medium in most encounters.
If you want to have TEFL as a back-up, do an RSA/Cambridge Certificate course. It takes a month full time and can cost a grand for a good one. (And look up the various uses of the word 'however'.)
teflcat
16 Jan 2012
Work / Is it true that foreigners in Poland can teach English without any teaching certificate? [30]
The fact that English has never had an equivalent of the Academie Francaise (can't be arsed to find the French diacritics) is a strength. Jonathan Swift tried to regulate the language in England in the early 18th century, and so did Sir John Cheke in the Elizabethan period. Both were ignored, and quite rightly so. Language is organic in its nature, and while we may cringe at ephemeral neologisms, we may as well p*ss in the wind if we think we can arrest the development (and I mean that) of this amazing tongue.
The fact that English has never had an equivalent of the Academie Francaise (can't be arsed to find the French diacritics) is a strength. Jonathan Swift tried to regulate the language in England in the early 18th century, and so did Sir John Cheke in the Elizabethan period. Both were ignored, and quite rightly so. Language is organic in its nature, and while we may cringe at ephemeral neologisms, we may as well p*ss in the wind if we think we can arrest the development (and I mean that) of this amazing tongue.
teflcat
16 Jan 2012
Love / My Polish wife got married to me but she's still not in love? [34]
There are many cultures around the world where marriages are arranged to a greater or lesser extent by the parents of young people. In almost all cases the bride and groom agree to the match. It is thought in some very ancient cultures that being in love is the worst possible reason to get married, for the simple reason that when we are crazy about each other, we are just that: crazy. Most arranged, e.g. Indian, marriages develop into respectful, happy partnerships.
There are many cultures around the world where marriages are arranged to a greater or lesser extent by the parents of young people. In almost all cases the bride and groom agree to the match. It is thought in some very ancient cultures that being in love is the worst possible reason to get married, for the simple reason that when we are crazy about each other, we are just that: crazy. Most arranged, e.g. Indian, marriages develop into respectful, happy partnerships.
teflcat
16 Jan 2012
Love / My Polish wife got married to me but she's still not in love? [34]
You clearly do not love her if you can say something like that.
Take it easy. Don't pressurise her by constantly asking for declarations of love (whatever that is). Relationships take time to mature. So do some posters on PF.
if she could tell me that she doesnt love me yet i could show her the door
You clearly do not love her if you can say something like that.
everything she does shows she loves me but she doesnt say the i love u cause she doesnt feel it .
Take it easy. Don't pressurise her by constantly asking for declarations of love (whatever that is). Relationships take time to mature. So do some posters on PF.
teflcat
16 Jan 2012
UK, Ireland / Can i get insurance for a British car in Poland? [16]
A rare and beautiful phrase, seldom seen on PF. My compliments.
We pay about 430PLN OC for our 2001 Daewoo. 60% no claims. (Well) over 26!
I stand corrected
A rare and beautiful phrase, seldom seen on PF. My compliments.
We pay about 430PLN OC for our 2001 Daewoo. 60% no claims. (Well) over 26!
teflcat
16 Jan 2012
teflcat
16 Jan 2012
Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]
Prove it; you're a professional journalist.
I was married in the town hall, not in church. Does that mean my wife and I are fornicators Your Holiness?
If such fly-by-night arrangements are so good and modern, then why are such households more of a a hotbed of domestic violence, alcoholism, drugs, infidelity and confused, unhappy children than those of married couples?
Prove it; you're a professional journalist.
I was married in the town hall, not in church. Does that mean my wife and I are fornicators Your Holiness?
teflcat
16 Jan 2012
Work / Is it true that foreigners in Poland can teach English without any teaching certificate? [30]
Hardly. English is going from strength to strength as the world's lingua franca. Now, if you're lamenting falling standards, that's another thing entirely.
Daddy brings the wrong book upstairs for a bedtime story. Little Johhny complains, "Daddy, why did you bring that book I don't want to be read to out of up for?"
DELTA has an end-of-course exam. Damned tricky, too.
The mother tongue of Chaucer and Shakespeare has been put through the ringer and it's slowly becoming an endangered language, slated for extinction, along with Het, Basque, Brushaski and a few others.
Hardly. English is going from strength to strength as the world's lingua franca. Now, if you're lamenting falling standards, that's another thing entirely.
Sorry for ending a sentence with a preposition.(Does that rule still exist??)
Daddy brings the wrong book upstairs for a bedtime story. Little Johhny complains, "Daddy, why did you bring that book I don't want to be read to out of up for?"
There's no such thing as a "tefl exam".
DELTA has an end-of-course exam. Damned tricky, too.
teflcat
13 Jan 2012
Work / Teaching salary per hour, PhD in Architecture [28]
Correct. That's why I said freelance. In which case they are.
University staff are usually not paid by the hour
Correct. That's why I said freelance. In which case they are.
teflcat
13 Jan 2012
Travel / Driving through Poland and across Europe [17]
Chris. The weather here has been unseasonably mild up to now, but snow is forecast. In fact it's falling right now where I am in the east. If you don't want to spend your hard-earned on winter tyres, ffs take it easy when driving here. Slow, slow, slow. And make sure you have a shovel in the back.
Chris. The weather here has been unseasonably mild up to now, but snow is forecast. In fact it's falling right now where I am in the east. If you don't want to spend your hard-earned on winter tyres, ffs take it easy when driving here. Slow, slow, slow. And make sure you have a shovel in the back.
teflcat
13 Jan 2012
Work / Teaching salary per hour, PhD in Architecture [28]
You might get 60zł/hr on a freelance contract. That's a guess based on what I was getting a few years ago. I wasn't paid as much as that, but then I don't have a PhD. Weekend classes usually pay at time-and-a-half.
You might get 60zł/hr on a freelance contract. That's a guess based on what I was getting a few years ago. I wasn't paid as much as that, but then I don't have a PhD. Weekend classes usually pay at time-and-a-half.
teflcat
13 Jan 2012
Life / Why is Prostitution still legal in Poland? [106]
I stayed at a central Warsaw hotel a few times several years ago, and a flyer advertising prostitutes was slipped under my door each time. One time I stayed there with my brother and his wife. I got an ad but they didn't get one under their door, which proves that the hotel were cooperating with the pimps. Once, I opened my door just as a young lad was being 'delivered' to the room opposite by a large thuggish guy.
I stayed at a central Warsaw hotel a few times several years ago, and a flyer advertising prostitutes was slipped under my door each time. One time I stayed there with my brother and his wife. I got an ad but they didn't get one under their door, which proves that the hotel were cooperating with the pimps. Once, I opened my door just as a young lad was being 'delivered' to the room opposite by a large thuggish guy.
teflcat
12 Jan 2012
Genealogy / I'm half Polish American, but I'm very Patriotic about my ancestry [47]
Thanks Barney and RN.
Thanks Barney and RN.
teflcat
12 Jan 2012
Genealogy / I'm half Polish American, but I'm very Patriotic about my ancestry [47]
Do you mean eligible to apply for Irish citizenship? My mother was born in Longford in 1917. So I guess she was technically a British subject. What do you think my chances are?
If you are born to an Irish parent, you are, de-facto an Irish citizen.Betcha didnt know that, eh?
Do you mean eligible to apply for Irish citizenship? My mother was born in Longford in 1917. So I guess she was technically a British subject. What do you think my chances are?