USA, Canada / The long and proud links between Polish and American Muslims [20]


anyone with an EU passport can come to Poland...it works both ways..

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

it's kind of 'shocking' when a young woman is dead though isn't it? not very well 'managed',

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]


i know a group that was spiked with mcat, that would do it, for example.

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]


exactly - would there have been a translator? Was the hospital set up for mental health problems?
Would there even have been care offered?
For example in a nearby country, nurses dont work at night, you are expected to bring a friend or relative. which this girl obviously did not have.

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

jon why are you so insistent on presenting this 'nothing to see here' agenda?
Questions should be asked about this strange episode, for goodness sake, a family has lost their daughter.
I think Gregy's suggestion that she might have been spiked on the night she arrived is a reasonable one.

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]


well mental health problems come on don't they? Usually at about this age. Being in a hot climate and strange environment probably didnt help.

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]


because she was a young lone woman in an country with a very different culture and might have been raped.
I think that is what people are suggesting, isnt it?

News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]


lol yes it was, how did you guess?
And Esther Rancid, Eleanor Bron, and Natasha Walter.

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]


if she did have a mental health problem, you shouldn't be referring to her as 'tragically crazy' should you? She should be described as a 'person with a mental health problem'. I would have thought you would know this Jon.

The thing is with mental health problems is that they do come on in the early 20s, and travelling to a strange hot country could indeed be just the thing to bring it on. This is what happened to my brother, only it was Tenerife.

I mean, gregy , with hindsight you are right, he had been behaving strangely in the months leading to his 'breakdown' but this had been ignored/minimised by his family, who thought that a nice sunny holiday would be just the thing for him....

News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]

anyway could I just say that my North London girls school had a Jew quota right into the late 70s.

News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]


I think the record is pretty 'straight' by now don't you?
HOnestly when my children in the UK did WW2 history at junior school, you would think the only people who suffered were Jewish. That was how it was presented.

I don't mean any disrespect, but Stalin killed millions and so did Pol Pot. Among others.

And if you are still hung up on WW2 - what about the Polish slave labourers? What about the citizens of Dresden?
Was their suffering less valid?

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]


no, obviously not. They say 'cup of coffee' like they always have.
Weird.

Law / Can I obtain Polish citizenship by birth instead of the one I have, by naturalization? [10]

..and your parents marriage cert and your own birth cert

Love / Urgent Relationship help - wife wants to stay in Poland [118]

..?
check what 'conjecture' means in the dictionary if you are not sure.
I was merely pointing out that your assumption about Atch was wrong.

Love / Urgent Relationship help - wife wants to stay in Poland [118]

fgs I was just pointing out that in fact , contrary to your assumption about her, she does live in Poland.

Love / Urgent Relationship help - wife wants to stay in Poland [118]

well what you said was , at the end of your post, was that he even has to pay when he takes his children on holiday. So that does implicitly sound as though you think it is a little unfair ,. yes.

Love / Urgent Relationship help - wife wants to stay in Poland [118]

cairnick, Atch does live in Poland.

Love / Urgent Relationship help - wife wants to stay in Poland [118]


does that not seem fair to you? who else should pay when he takes his children on holiday?

News / Berlin terrorist attack -- Poland's ethnic homogeneity a true blessing [436]


What about the Reeperbahn?

News / Berlin terrorist attack -- Poland's ethnic homogeneity a true blessing [436]


the thing is , as Iron has already pointed out, the 'troubles' in NI had nothing to do with religion.

Food / Making American cheeses (Polish and EU ones are terrible!) [100]

When I was in the mountains near the Czech border, there was some lovely cheese that was a bit like Halloumi, you could fry it.

Work / What qualifications are required to teach English in Poland? Completed 2 week TEFL course [53]


well tough :)
Anyway there are also Americans and Spanish. Not great tbh.

Work / What qualifications are required to teach English in Poland? Completed 2 week TEFL course [53]

but how do you give any input to the student?

Work / What qualifications are required to teach English in Poland? Completed 2 week TEFL course [53]

yes I recall watching something about the silent way.
So what input does the student receive? I remember the trainer using those little colored rods that they used to use for maths in infant school.

Work / What qualifications are required to teach English in Poland? Completed 2 week TEFL course [53]

lol he sounds fab

Work / What qualifications are required to teach English in Poland? Completed 2 week TEFL course [53]


UK

who is John Rassias then?

Frankly, no, I am not going to get basic knowledge of Arabic, Chinese and Farsi. Too many languages , not enough time.
One of the most useful thing for teaching European language speakers, was learn some Greek. saves you explaining words that people already know the meaning of...:)

Work / What qualifications are required to teach English in Poland? Completed 2 week TEFL course [53]

well sure, but if you teach multilingual classes it's a tall order,....:)

Work / What qualifications are required to teach English in Poland? Completed 2 week TEFL course [53]


yes I can agree with that.

Work / What qualifications are required to teach English in Poland? Completed 2 week TEFL course [53]

oh lol Maf you are right - I did not mean 'target language' I meant native language of learners.
Certainly it would be better for the schools if the teachers know some survival language. (less hand holding as u say).
But the point of English teaching is that you use......<drum roll> English..

Work / What qualifications are required to teach English in Poland? Completed 2 week TEFL course [53]


no it isn't, the whole point of TEFL training is that you learn to teach without using the target language.