Lyzko
17 Oct 2019
Lyzko
17 Oct 2019
Life / Awkward Polish dinner party conversations with 'patriots' ... [25]
Or the perennial Golden Pitchfork for shoveling the most manure:-)
Or the perennial Golden Pitchfork for shoveling the most manure:-)
Lyzko
16 Oct 2019
USA, Canada / Free Tyskie beer at Kiełbasa Factory [28]
Not according to Polish beer lovers!
Then again, nothing I've tasted beats bimber.
Not according to Polish beer lovers!
Then again, nothing I've tasted beats bimber.
Lyzko
16 Oct 2019
Life / Awkward Polish dinner party conversations with 'patriots' ... [25]
Simply avoid anything politically controversial, particularly as a foreigner!
Discuss the unsurpassed natural beauty of the Tatry, Zakopane, world famous Poles, the music of Chopin aka Szopen, and the heroism of her Ruch Uporu during the Big One, cuisine etc., and you should do just fine
Simply avoid anything politically controversial, particularly as a foreigner!
Discuss the unsurpassed natural beauty of the Tatry, Zakopane, world famous Poles, the music of Chopin aka Szopen, and the heroism of her Ruch Uporu during the Big One, cuisine etc., and you should do just fine
Lyzko
16 Oct 2019
USA, Canada / Free Tyskie beer at Kiełbasa Factory [28]
Tell y'all the gosh honest truth, always been a Warta Mocna man myself:-)
Advertised as having "gleboki smak". A smooth, rich taste is I suppose the best' way to translate it.
"Deep taste"?? Nahh!
Tell y'all the gosh honest truth, always been a Warta Mocna man myself:-)
Advertised as having "gleboki smak". A smooth, rich taste is I suppose the best' way to translate it.
"Deep taste"?? Nahh!
Lyzko
16 Oct 2019
Language / Can I learn Polish? I have a lisp disorder. [6]
I've always said jokingly that Yiddish sounds a little like German damaged on deliveryLOL
I've always said jokingly that Yiddish sounds a little like German damaged on deliveryLOL
Lyzko
16 Oct 2019
Love / Do the Polish girls like foreign boyfriends or they just prefer local boys? [34]
Maybe. However, his fluent social skills, his Polish, above all his good looks, ought to have been a shoe in. But it wasn't.
Maybe. However, his fluent social skills, his Polish, above all his good looks, ought to have been a shoe in. But it wasn't.
Lyzko
16 Oct 2019
Lyzko
16 Oct 2019
Love / Do the Polish girls like foreign boyfriends or they just prefer local boys? [34]
A colleague of mine who spent much longer than I in Poland, when we were both in our early thirties, told me when he returned, that he found most of the young ladies whom he tried to meet, were clearly more comfortable with local guys, particularly with those with whom they'd grown up.
He in fact spoke, indeed speaks, Polish far better than yours truly (having been raised in a Polish-American household of recent immigrants from Poland, much as with me and German), knows the culture inside out, and yet felt a bit of the ol' cold shoulder on many occasions from women he was attempting to date.
I might add too, he looks what one might describe as "typically Polish", nonetheless reported his disappointing experiences.
A colleague of mine who spent much longer than I in Poland, when we were both in our early thirties, told me when he returned, that he found most of the young ladies whom he tried to meet, were clearly more comfortable with local guys, particularly with those with whom they'd grown up.
He in fact spoke, indeed speaks, Polish far better than yours truly (having been raised in a Polish-American household of recent immigrants from Poland, much as with me and German), knows the culture inside out, and yet felt a bit of the ol' cold shoulder on many occasions from women he was attempting to date.
I might add too, he looks what one might describe as "typically Polish", nonetheless reported his disappointing experiences.
Lyzko
13 Oct 2019
Language / Is it too late for me to learn Polish..? [65]
In answer to the original thread post, NIGDY!!
It's never to late to start, but it's always too early to quitL0(
In answer to the original thread post, NIGDY!!
It's never to late to start, but it's always too early to quitL0(
Lyzko
9 Oct 2019
Lyzko
9 Oct 2019
Lyzko
6 Oct 2019
Lyzko
6 Oct 2019
Po polsku / Malgorzata Kidawa Blonska [8]
Czy ona bedzie kandydatka najwyjszego Urzadu Polski w nastepnych wyborach?
Czy ona bedzie kandydatka najwyjszego Urzadu Polski w nastepnych wyborach?
Lyzko
3 Oct 2019
Language / Getting the wrong ending of a word - do Polish still understand? [25]
Herein the gentle pitfalls of knowing a foreign language, in your case English, without fully knowing the culture and when certain joking is appropriate or when it's not.
Humor is almost always that which gets lost in translation:-)
Herein the gentle pitfalls of knowing a foreign language, in your case English, without fully knowing the culture and when certain joking is appropriate or when it's not.
Humor is almost always that which gets lost in translation:-)
Lyzko
3 Oct 2019
Language / Getting the wrong ending of a word - do Polish still understand? [25]
@Relax paw, old man! "You" in English refers to the generic/collective "one", One never stops learning. = Man lernt nie aus.
Point well taken, Lenka.
@Relax paw, old man! "You" in English refers to the generic/collective "one", One never stops learning. = Man lernt nie aus.
Point well taken, Lenka.
Lyzko
2 Oct 2019
Language / Getting the wrong ending of a word - do Polish still understand? [25]
The English version might then necessarily be different, Lenka.
In English we say, for example, "Hope springs eternal", whereas in another language, for instance, in German, the identical quoted saying translates
literally as "Hope is always the last to die".
Not exactly the same, is it!
The English version might then necessarily be different, Lenka.
In English we say, for example, "Hope springs eternal", whereas in another language, for instance, in German, the identical quoted saying translates
literally as "Hope is always the last to die".
Not exactly the same, is it!
Lyzko
2 Oct 2019
Language / Getting the wrong ending of a word - do Polish still understand? [25]
"The perfect is the enemy of the good enough" is the actual quote, paw.
Anyhow, am about to order "Fleksja Polska" by Jan Tokarski. You never stop learning!
:-)
"The perfect is the enemy of the good enough" is the actual quote, paw.
Anyhow, am about to order "Fleksja Polska" by Jan Tokarski. You never stop learning!
:-)
Lyzko
1 Oct 2019
Language / Getting the wrong ending of a word - do Polish still understand? [25]
I learned "W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie".
Anyway, most native speakers of any language scarcely expect non-natives to know as well as correctly spell AND pronounce a typically hard tongue twister!
I learned "W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie".
Anyway, most native speakers of any language scarcely expect non-natives to know as well as correctly spell AND pronounce a typically hard tongue twister!
Lyzko
1 Oct 2019
Language / Getting the wrong ending of a word - do Polish still understand? [25]
vndunne,
Poles know their language is quite challenging for non-Slavic foreigners, particularly Anglophone visitors or tourists. They will usually try at least to understand you, case ending mistakes and all, so don't despair if many might have a slightly puzzled look on their faces when speaking to them:-)
I found the Poles whom I met helpful. The same unfortunately I didn't find among the Hungarians!
vndunne,
Poles know their language is quite challenging for non-Slavic foreigners, particularly Anglophone visitors or tourists. They will usually try at least to understand you, case ending mistakes and all, so don't despair if many might have a slightly puzzled look on their faces when speaking to them:-)
I found the Poles whom I met helpful. The same unfortunately I didn't find among the Hungarians!
Lyzko
24 Sep 2019
Lyzko
19 Sep 2019
News / Commemoration of 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the WWII in Warsaw. Poland a full-fledged NATO member. [30]
History is usually interpreted by the Allies aka the victors rather than by the Axis Powers, that is, the losers in this case.
Germany invaded the Sudetenland in 1938, two years following the Anschluss or Annexation of Austria (the Nazi "Ostmark").
Only just one year later, correctly stated on the 9.of September 1939, Hitler decided to invade Poland, entry through Gleiwitz!
The photograph of the woman bathed in tears might be compared with that of the man from the '40 image by Cartier-Bresson showing tears streaming down his cheeks as the Germans took Paris, the year France fell. Unless you're referring to a separate photograph, that woman, her head turned dramatically to the side, her hand outstretched in a Nazi salute, was crying tears of desperation and sadness, surely not joy.
History is usually interpreted by the Allies aka the victors rather than by the Axis Powers, that is, the losers in this case.
Germany invaded the Sudetenland in 1938, two years following the Anschluss or Annexation of Austria (the Nazi "Ostmark").
Only just one year later, correctly stated on the 9.of September 1939, Hitler decided to invade Poland, entry through Gleiwitz!
The photograph of the woman bathed in tears might be compared with that of the man from the '40 image by Cartier-Bresson showing tears streaming down his cheeks as the Germans took Paris, the year France fell. Unless you're referring to a separate photograph, that woman, her head turned dramatically to the side, her hand outstretched in a Nazi salute, was crying tears of desperation and sadness, surely not joy.
Lyzko
18 Sep 2019
News / Commemoration of 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the WWII in Warsaw. Poland a full-fledged NATO member. [30]
...with the German Army "entering" Gleiwitz aka Gliwice to you, this hard on the heels of Hitler's invasion of the Sudetenland one year earlier.
Cartier-Bresson's famous shot, one of the most famous of the entire conflict, shows a Czech woman weeping into her handkerchief, unwillingly
forcing a Nazi salute as the German army rolls through the streets of her beloved Prague. Unforgettable, much as with Robert Capa's "Death
of a Loyalist" some years earlier during the Spanish Civil War.
...with the German Army "entering" Gleiwitz aka Gliwice to you, this hard on the heels of Hitler's invasion of the Sudetenland one year earlier.
Cartier-Bresson's famous shot, one of the most famous of the entire conflict, shows a Czech woman weeping into her handkerchief, unwillingly
forcing a Nazi salute as the German army rolls through the streets of her beloved Prague. Unforgettable, much as with Robert Capa's "Death
of a Loyalist" some years earlier during the Spanish Civil War.
Lyzko
18 Sep 2019
News / Commemoration of 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the WWII in Warsaw. Poland a full-fledged NATO member. [30]
Obviously, I was merely noting a point of word order:-)
Obviously, I was merely noting a point of word order:-)
Lyzko
17 Sep 2019
Polonia / What are qualites of Germans? [60]
Playing the Devil's Advocate once again, are we:-)
Well of course such developments are frightening, TheOther, quit playing psychology through shock value, please!
Admittedly, Hungary's Orban is much more rightist than Germany is, however the root of the problem remains Merkel's
stubborn unwillingness to depart from her exaggeratedly liberal agenda and her refusal to address the needs of the
common man.
Playing the Devil's Advocate once again, are we:-)
Well of course such developments are frightening, TheOther, quit playing psychology through shock value, please!
Admittedly, Hungary's Orban is much more rightist than Germany is, however the root of the problem remains Merkel's
stubborn unwillingness to depart from her exaggeratedly liberal agenda and her refusal to address the needs of the
common man.
Lyzko
17 Sep 2019
Polonia / What are qualites of Germans? [60]
Herbert Groenemeyer used to be ever so popular.
@Tacitus,
Spot on, right as rain!
And if I'm not mistaken, you and I once exchanged correspondence about a certain Otto Remer only several years after the end of WWII attempted to (unsuccessfully) resurrect a type of "deutsche Volkspartei", staffed by all former SS-members, oh round about 1951-'52, somewhere around then.
@Vlad,
Apparently you haven't been keeping up with current events across the border, but the AfD especially is gaining in the polls, much as people feared about the PEGIDA several years ago, and it's frightening.
Herbert Groenemeyer used to be ever so popular.
@Tacitus,
Spot on, right as rain!
And if I'm not mistaken, you and I once exchanged correspondence about a certain Otto Remer only several years after the end of WWII attempted to (unsuccessfully) resurrect a type of "deutsche Volkspartei", staffed by all former SS-members, oh round about 1951-'52, somewhere around then.
@Vlad,
Apparently you haven't been keeping up with current events across the border, but the AfD especially is gaining in the polls, much as people feared about the PEGIDA several years ago, and it's frightening.
Lyzko
16 Sep 2019
Polonia / What are qualites of Germans? [60]
I'd be interested as well whether or not such a survey has been done in Austria of late.
See private e-mail.
I'd be interested as well whether or not such a survey has been done in Austria of late.
See private e-mail.
Lyzko
16 Sep 2019
Polonia / What are qualites of Germans? [60]
@Vlad,
As generations pass, Germany certainly has opened up, at least superficially, to the rest of Europe and the world (not only the USLOL)!
Naturally, the DNA, so to speak, of any culture will probably not change. No matter how Germans internationalize aka "anglicize" their
own language, internationalize, that is, attempt to "ungermanize" popular given names, from Gerda, Mechthilde,Hildegard etc. to Bristol, Mindy,
Chelsea, Jennifer, and so on, Germany will essentially remain German in her heart and soul, cross-cultural concessions notwithstanding.
The regrettable rise of the AfD and the election of a known Neo-Nazi as mayor of a small city near Frankfurt, indicates that US-style
diversity still doesn't cut it for the rank and file German citizen.
@Vlad,
As generations pass, Germany certainly has opened up, at least superficially, to the rest of Europe and the world (not only the USLOL)!
Naturally, the DNA, so to speak, of any culture will probably not change. No matter how Germans internationalize aka "anglicize" their
own language, internationalize, that is, attempt to "ungermanize" popular given names, from Gerda, Mechthilde,Hildegard etc. to Bristol, Mindy,
Chelsea, Jennifer, and so on, Germany will essentially remain German in her heart and soul, cross-cultural concessions notwithstanding.
The regrettable rise of the AfD and the election of a known Neo-Nazi as mayor of a small city near Frankfurt, indicates that US-style
diversity still doesn't cut it for the rank and file German citizen.
Lyzko
14 Sep 2019
Polonia / What are qualites of Germans? [60]
When did I ever assert that pursuing the collective good at any cost is a "good" quality?
I merely stated what I've both experienced first hand as well as studied.
Furthermore, what has Bjorn Borg got to do with it anyway? He was a Swedish tennis star while you were probably still in diapers:-)
When did I ever assert that pursuing the collective good at any cost is a "good" quality?
I merely stated what I've both experienced first hand as well as studied.
Furthermore, what has Bjorn Borg got to do with it anyway? He was a Swedish tennis star while you were probably still in diapers:-)
Lyzko
14 Sep 2019
Polonia / Life in Poland vs Norway - good for children, benefits, etc? [43]
Tell that to the Swedes, who maintain their system.
Tell that to the Swedes, who maintain their system.