Po polsku / Dlaczego uczysz się Polskiego? [101]


To jest ciekawy przykład na nieprawidłowe użycie trybu czasownika. Opisujesz czynność, która już nie jest trwająca, zatem należy tutaj trybu dokonanego czasownika: muszę się zgodzić. Inaczej by było, gdybyś mówił o sytuacji cały czas niezakończonej, czyli niedokonanej np. "Z nim wolę się zawsze zgadzać".


Mówi się 'w językach obcych / w języku obcym', chociaż mówi się 'po angielsku / po polsku / po francusku'. Mówi się 'Amerykanów', a nie 'Amerykaninów' - wygląda to jednak na jakiś wyjątek od reguły, gdyż rzeczywiście mówimy 'Amerykanin', a nie 'Amerykan'.


Uczono ich tylko czytać, zamiast uczyć ich aktywnie słuchać czy mówić.

Po polsku / Dlaczego uczysz się Polskiego? [101]


Reading, writing, speaking and listening comprehension.

To bardzo ciekawe, albowiem proces naturalngo przyswajania języka przebiega niemalże w odwrotnym kierunku.Najpierw dzieciaki uczą się rozumieć co inni do nich mówią, potem same zaczynają mówić, następnie uczą się czytać, a na końcu uczą się pisać.

Oznacza to, że mózg człowieka dorosłego pracuje już w inny sposób i najłatwiej mu zaczynać naukę języka od czytania. Czy wyobrażacie sobie dziecko, które naukę języka rozpoczyna od czytania!? To byłby dopiero ewenement ('ewenement' z fr. 'événement' = chose extraordinaire)!

Travel / What on earth is happening with the Second World War museum in Gdansk ? [5]


In other words, the words of ancient Romans: si vis pacem, para bellum!

... which may be a good introduction to a visit in a world war museum!

News / Tesco out of Poland? Żabka and Biedronka opportunity. [73]


Biedronka in particular is likely to devour all the businesses that are too close to their outlets.
"Jak to dobrze, że Biedronka jest blisko Ciebie" - reads their advertising slogan.


The biggies may decide to leave when the PiS government decides to close shops on Sundays. But then voters may ultimately decide to vote PiS out of office if that happens.

Just saying ...

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


And what if they find happiness living together in Poland?

Feedback / Removal of Polish diacritical marks [45]



No need to set it as default. I've just enabled the French keyboard in my Windows7 and at the top of my Windows screen I have now a little button saying "PL Polski (Polska)" - it is my "default" which had existed before, but was not displayed. Now, if I click it, I can see another line just below it saying "FR Francuski (Francja)". When I click FR, this becomes "default" and is displayed (PL dissapears from the button) and since that very moment and I can write in French which means, for example, that pressing the key "9" results in having "ç" on my screen, pressing "2" results in having é etc.

When I want to go back to Polish, I press FR button and all possible choices (in my case PL and FR) appear again, so I click PL and from now things return to "normal" for myself, the PL is displayed again.

In your case you should add (that is enable or activate) PL, so you can switch to it whenever you want. Of course, you may add as many language keyboards choices as you wish. Next time I'm going to add the Russian keybord.

Feedback / Removal of Polish diacritical marks [45]


These are not Polish letters. You must have a different keyboard. Btw, how do type á or é on your keybord, for example?

Travel / Warsaw in May, Auschwitz, Kantor in Old Town [33]


Honestly, visiting three concentration camps on one day doesn't make sense at all. It can easily transform itself into an American-style trip 'if it's Tuesday, then we're in Belgium'. Visiting one at a slow pace and and with due reflection is all that can be advised to a tourist, even a history-minded tourist. Anyway, a former concentration camp isn't just 'history', but still a sad reality that some people still experience all over the world.


All kantors in central Warsaw are good (posibly those beyond as well). There is one (called "777", I think) in the underground passage alongside the Marriott hotel, and also one in the underground passage under the Dmowski round-about which always quote the best foreign-exchange rates.

Language / Polish - Absolute Beginner Questions. Study plan. [75]


I find it quite amusing. But a Polish person who doesn't know English will find it uncomprehensible.

That reminds me of those Silesians who speak Silesian with many German words in it and claim it is a Silesian language. Likewise, many non-Silesian people may not understand it, but I doubt it will be the Silesian language because of those German words in it.

Study / MS Finance vs MBA vs MFE in Poland? [13]

Search for DominicB on the forum and read through some of his replies and you will know what we are talking about.

Study / MS Finance vs MBA vs MFE in Poland? [13]

Dominic wants the world to be well organized and nearly always predictable. Even a single drop of madness is cleaned very thoroughly. Do we really need to live in such a world?

Genealogy / Why did(do) Poles sometimes have German first names? [28]


"It was not until the advent of modern historiography that his chronicle started to be criticised and disputed, mainly due to his favour of the magnates, lack of distinction between legends and historic accounts and his theory on the Roman origin of the Lithuanian ruling families." - says Wikipedia on M. Stryjkowski.


This is pure fantasy. Sources from the 10th and 11th centuries on Poland are more than extremely scarce. Marcin Bielski lived 400 years later. Even if it was true, there were no surnames in the 10th century, so those surnames could not survive until today.

Many mediaeval writers confounded reality with their own imagination putting it all this together in their books for readers to believe.

Love / My Polish girlfriend and her change of behavior [5]

Depends on what the person is shouting. If it is "I love you", it's OK, although a bit annoying at times.

Genealogy / Why did(do) Poles sometimes have German first names? [28]


I have a nice story to tell you. Do you know that "Kwiecień" is a Jewish surname in Poland? I had not known until recently, but the older generation in Poland does! When I went to visit my aunt who lives in Wrocław two years ago, she started to tell me family stories and she reminded me in connection with some story she was telling that another aunt of mine who lives in Kraków is Jewish. She thought I knew she was Jewish, but I did not! So she told me that the maiden name of that other aunt was Kwiecień, but she seemed to think it was obvious for everyone that a person with the surname Kwiecień was Jewish by origin. By that that time I already knew this as shortly before that meeting I read an article on the internet about a large group of Jewish people in Poland who converted to Christianity in the 18th century and were given surnames such as Kwiecień or Maj depending on the month in which their conversion took place. This is how I have discovered by pure chance a "Jewish" aunt (although a devoted Catholic) in my own family!


It is not that unlikely at all. You will come across quite a lot of German-sounding surnames in Kraków, for example. Many would arrive from Vienna or other provinces of Austria-Hungary to serve in Galicia as officials or clerks (more of them should be met in Lwów, at least until 1945, as Lemberg was the capital of Austrian Galicia). Their descendants would have been polonized over time. The most striking example of that is the famous Polish actor Jerzy Stuhr (the one starring in "Seksmisja") who even wrote a book on his truly Austrian origins.

News / Poland may take the EU to court if they step up pressure -- Kaczyński [89]

Our Dear Leader Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński is to meet Theresa May today - say the sources close to the British PM.

News / Poland may take the EU to court if they step up pressure -- Kaczyński [89]

Merged:

Theresa May meets Jarosław Kaczyński at Downing Street today

An unexpected meeting at Downing Street Nr 10 between British PM and one of the Polish MP, the chairman of PiS, also known on this forum as The Great Leader Jarosław Kaczyński, has just been announced by the spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Against whom are they going to conspire? Please discuss.

Language / After / Po (conjunction in Polish) [13]


It does. The typical way of saying it is:
Pozmywaliśmy/pozwymamy/pozmywajmy naczynia po obiedzie (posiłku, kolacji, śniadaniu).

History / Lithuanians hate Poles? [156]


No, they borrowed it from the ancient Romans as did almost anyone else in Europe.


The Czechs didn't do that. They rather "Husitited" it as the Czech diacritical marks were originally invented by Jan Hus, the great Czech reformer. So the Czechs "czechised" the Latin alphabet so to speak.


That's disputable. The Czech invention had one big advantage which would make people feel inclined to adopt it: you only have to use one symbol rather than two for rendering a single sound. But the Lithuanian alphabet has Polish letters in it, too.

Classifieds / Studio Apartment in Poznan, Poland [8]


You're welcome!


I see you are doing your homework now.

News / Re-polonisation surges ahead - after babking, media and telecoms... [20]


Do they publish a "Warschauer Beobachter" newspaper as well?

Work / Salary for a senior software engineer in Poland [195]


Now if he tells us the name of the company, we can investigate it a little further and tell the OP what sort of ******** it is. I agree that offering someone 3,000 while in reality they are prepared to offer 2,5 times more than that is a joke. I myself would stop talking to them at that point.

Work / Salary for a senior software engineer in Poland [195]


Now, that's pretty amusing. If they can increase their offer from 3,000 to 7,500, the company isn't particularly serious. You may well expect them to increase it yet another 2,5-fold now, that is to 18,750 zloty.

Work / Salary for a senior software engineer in Poland [195]

It depends on the contract. The czynsz may be either included in the rent or not The czynsz is typically included, so it is the owner who pays it, thus he adds this to the amount of the rent. It shshould be inscribed into the contract.

Classifieds / Studio Apartment in Poznan, Poland [8]

Don't look forward "eagerly". Check the proper websites yourself. We are not here to do your homework.

Work / Salary for a senior software engineer in Poland [195]


But these charges are paid accordingly to the reading of the meters. If the charges "turn out to be considerably more than the minor", it means the person uses a lot of gas or electricity.

News / 60% of Poles say Szydło's government should resign [238]


Those who are authors of this quote must be fanatics themselves. They are either his political opponents or people whose brains have been seriously damaged. One can be very sceptital of Jaro, but if you read articles or interviews in the Polish press coming from reliable people of various political backgrounds, you would have never arrived at such a conclusion.

News / 60% of Poles say Szydło's government should resign [238]


With this I can agree. What's the threshold in the UK, btw? Anyway, notice that if SLD didn't appoint themselves as a coalition with a required treshold of 8%, they would have been very likely to pass as a single party with a required threshold of 5%. That was their big mistake undoubtedly. If they managed to enter the Seym, PiS wouldn't have probably won the overwhelming majority which it does enjoy right now.

Study / Wroclaw or Krakow or Bialystok to study in Poland? [36]





I am seeing some evidence that he is making fun of you on the PF.

News / 60% of Poles say Szydło's government should resign [238]


It is not only this "someone". The whole gang is truly anti-democratic and if they by any chance had been promoted to top positions in Britain, I am sure they would have introduced a full dictatorship to the British nation. Luckily, they can only vent their frustration towards Poland using the PolishForums as a vehicle for that.

News / 60% of Poles say Szydło's government should resign [238]


The question here is: why hasn't any other party which won more than 15% of votes formed a government, but let the businnes to PiS?