News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Good point, Atch:-)

The Poles and the Irish do indeed have lots in common; their bloody, intense, often tragic, struggles for independence against overwhelming odds which they both still managed to vanquish, their Catholicism, above all, their tenacity!

News / An EU army. Impact on Poland [155]

Merkel's still making her case for an EU army in which Germany would finally be playing a decisive role. Many though remain mired, indeed paralyzed, by memories of a German military presence in Occupied Europe during WWII.

News / An EU army. Impact on Poland [155]

Generalist!

News / An EU army. Impact on Poland [155]

AKA he's not helping things along. By definition, if he plans something his way but it's not going as he planned then it's not going his way, Bratwurst Boy!

Hate to split hairs here, but just want to make certain you and I are on the same home page:-)

News / An EU army. Impact on Poland [155]

At the moment, NATO and the EU are in a power struggle for control of the continent of Europe, and not
only for their own member states.

Trump isn't helping things along, nor certainly Macron for taking public pot shots at our president, detest the latter as I do.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Where are the likes of Michael Collins or Edward Carson today when you need them most, eh Atch?
Perhaps had the Irish Revolution succeeded as envisioned, there would have been no need to divide the country into Northern Ireland vs. "The Irish Free State". The Protestant English wouldn't have seen the need to "improve" Ireland and Cromwell would have decided to mind his own beeswax. But that sure ain't what happened!

One can only wonder:-)

Sorry for getting off topic.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

We can only hope that celebrating Poland's obviously well-deserved and hard fought independence won't mean in the future independence from the rest of Europe.

Hungary is making that mistake right now and no doubt it will cost them in time to come!

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

No, a chief reason for the rise of Nazism (among many others) was the deep-seated fear of the returning chaos and uncertainty of an unstable leadership as

occurred in 1918 with the collapse of the short-lived Communist "gov't." under Kurt Eisner, a Jew as well as a Bolshevik!

So destabilized were the Germans by this fiasco that they vowed to themselves never to be in such a tenuous situation again, hence forsaking liberty aka democracy for the security offered by Hitler that the German people would never again have to make any independent decisions as "Father Fuehrer" would guide them into the foreseeable future.

As Otto Wels uttered around the time just before the Nazi Seizure of Power: "Take our freedom, take our lives, but not our honor!" (Freiheit und Leben kann man uns nehmen, die Ehre nicht).

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Historical enmities are admittedly difficult to break down as are age-old hostilities between neighbors often hard to overcome.
I do though believe that post-Wall Germany HAS honestly turned over a new leaf and any time in the not so distant future any mean ol'

Nazis show up anywhere, the "new and improved" FRG will kick 'em right in the swastika where they belong!

Life / Why do Polish people love to say "No" to anything you ask? [12]

Spot on, maf ol' man!

Life / Why do Polish people love to say "No" to anything you ask? [12]

!) What do I look like, an oldie?

2) Thanks, I can afford it!

3) Quit projecting.

4) Wrong (Basically another "No")

5) Don'! think so.

And NO, Spike, you phrased those questions "perfectly"....but the answer is still N - O.
:-)

Classifieds / English/Polish speaking Canadian looking for work as Electrician in Poland [26]

Right on the money, Atch!

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

They appeal to primitive man's fear of and wonder at fire along with his fascination with fire in motion, namely torchlight parades (Fackelzuege) for which Hitler's minions were so famous, just like in the Middle Ages, when bigots burned a man for daring to be different. Furthermore, they pander to the lowest common denominator, still alive in modern man.

The more things change, the more they stay the same, so it seems.

Life / Why do Polish people love to say "No" to anything you ask? [12]

Because nobody except for the higher-ups in the party did in fact have anything:-)

Life / Why do Polish people love to say "No" to anything you ask? [12]

Quite, Chem!

it's all a matter of one's cultural DNA, after all, as Prof. Pinkert contends, each one of us is circuited differently:-)

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

I see, so they're there merely for "entertainment value" just in case the lefties get too comfortable, I suppose.

No, that's how I explain the spread of such manure from the Trump White House as DEFENDED by the likes of Hannity & Co.

Life / Why do Polish people love to say "No" to anything you ask? [12]

Seriously though, "No" can sometimes lead to a little wiggle room in negotiation. Other times, unlike in cultures with no word for "No", "No" DOES mean just that!!

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

"I know shockingly little...."

Then you'd be a perfect candidate for Fox 5 News:-) Only don't ever be alone with Bill O'Reilly. Hear he's a regular wolfLOL

Life / Why do Polish people love to say "No" to anything you ask? [12]

They learned from the Russians, no doubt:-)
"Mr. & Mrs. Nyet (ski)"! LOL

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Reminds me of the opposite in my childhood concerning protests during the late '60's, early '70's against the Vietnam War, whereby the press made it seem

as though there were far FEWER anti-war protesters than there actually were!

Classifieds / English/Polish speaking Canadian looking for work as Electrician in Poland [26]

Richthecat,

Only interjecting my two euros worth into the discussion thread, but without knowing the language of any European country, excluding of
course purely for tourism/vacation, the chances of personal success are limited to nill!

I can't repeat often enough how many colleagues as well as friends of mine merrily blundered their way off to places as "attractive" as

Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, believing that there was no honest-to-gosh need to learn the respective languages of those
countries. Live and learn. They went through hell until they abandoned their misconceptions finally and decided to get serious by learning
the language...not merely "hello!", "good bye!" etc.

Germans especially aren't impressed, not to mention the French:-)

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Independence Day for Poland must be indeed a challenge.

On the one hand, there are those who rightly, proudly, celebrate Poland's eventual freedom from Russian domination nearly one-hundred years ago on Sunday past, once of twice within one century. On the other hand, the PiS has an agenda which justifiably concerns the EU gravely. So many issues, so many opinions, so little coming together.

Hey, sounds a bit like Israel:-)

Study / CELTA course in Poland: Kraków vs Wrocław [21]

Thanks, JackRussell!

However in my teaching experience, British texts tend to be even more transparent, not to mention just plain thorough, in grammar presentation, usually omitted as "unimportant" for some reasons or other in US books. Ann Arbor Press in Michigan might be the one exception in the States.

The 'Grammar in Use' series, especially the red volume for beginners, covers topics from "do + infinitive" etc. with such clarity, the book seems to almost teach itself:-)

My European students swore bit it, and then of course, there's always Mr. Swan and his 'Practical English Grammar', along with 'Learner English'.

The latter two though ARE for teachers, not learners, I realize!

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Often a double-edged sword though.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Poles have much to proud of on the day of their independence! STO LAT, I say!

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

"NIE MA RADOSCI BEZ NIEPODLEGLOSCI." - Seen on a banner in front of a Polish-American school in Greenpoint, Bklyn.

Study / CELTA course in Poland: Kraków vs Wrocław [21]

No oversight body any more, nobody awake at the watch to make sure folks in local (English) school admin. aren't sleeping at the switch?

Little surprise at the often questionable quality of English instruction in many countries.

Wonder what the reasons are, apart from the obvious, namely funding.

Love / Don't know whether she loves me or not ? [64]

Thought they were the same thing, RichLOL

Study / CELTA course in Poland: Kraków vs Wrocław [21]

Delph, I was under the impression that the BC was responsible for all English-language schools throughout the continent, sponsoring a variety
of similiar programs. If funding was indeed cut, what then in the wake of BREXIT does the UK intend to do about the entire situation of language

instruction?

If all funds in fact are controlled by Britain, wouldn't that mean that finances would have to be split up among those European countries participating

in CELTA?

Love / Don't know whether she loves me or not ? [64]

But isn't all fair in love AND war?
:-)