News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]

Yes, American soldiers are far better equipped, rich government I suppose.

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]


I'v come across this, some countries do it one way, and others, the other way. Throw me at first, I think Turkey does it the Polish way around.

Yes, definitely, the cold weather is driver of well-built houses, the colder the weather, the better the houses.

History / Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime against Poland [97]


The Soviet Union was never at War with Japan during WWII.

Churchill definitely murdered all those Poles at Katyn.

News / Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]

It is all lies!!!! It is a Dirty Trick by Churchill!!!!!!!!!!!

News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]

Won't it be confusing,? MultiCam has been adopted by the British Army and now the Australian, and I think American Special forces use it as well?

Language / How do You Pronounce, "Polaczkow"? [10]


Yes.

I got the feeling it a put-down word, I thought, for rough, poor, uneducated Poles, maybe something like "Hill Billy" in America, is this right ? or is it more like a "Little Polanda" put down, or the Swedish, "Swen Swendson", "typical Swede" put down?

Language / How do You Pronounce, "Polaczkow"? [10]

It is a Polish word I keep coming across, used by Poles, no-one in any other knows the word let alone uses it.
What does it mean exactly?
is it Something the American expression "White Trash", or that new word the English hav come up with, "Chav"?

Language / How do You Pronounce, "Polaczkow"? [10]

Pol-lat-schkuw?

Language / Does Polish have a plural of "You"? [51]

if you hav a plural of "You", you must hav a plural of the possessive case of "You", as in English, "Yours". do you?

Language / Does Polish have a plural of "You"? [51]

More background info for me:

Are you* Polish people glad you* hav a plural of "You"?

Does it make life easier?

(*straight away it shows the need for a plural of "You", i think)

Ziemowit, you are right they are archaic words, not quite slang more a vernacular of a particular area

Language / Does Polish have a plural of "You"? [51]

Which is which, Jon? Which is the plural and which is the singular? "Thee", "Thou".

Language / Does Polish have a plural of "You"? [51]

Are you English, Lyzko? you seem hav an incredibly intimate knowledge of English to know stuff like that? Yes, you are right there is still the archaic, "Ye", which I hav heard mostly from Irish people, maybe we English should bring it back.

Language / Does Polish have a plural of "You"? [51]

In English speaking countries you will notice there is a grasping towards having a plural of "You", usually not accepted as acceptable English, in Ireland you got, following grammatical logic, "Yous" , in the Southern States of American, they hav "Y'all", in cockney London they hav "You Lot". Was you surprised by the lack of a plural in English when you first came across it, people?

Language / Does Polish have a plural of "You"? [51]

and what's the singular?

is this a formal/informal distinction as in French and some other languages?

Would you like /find it easier if English had a plural of "You"?

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]


did you hav Black children in your school? your first class? I hav a photo of me in a pram with some Black girls looking at me, 1964. I had foreign neighbours until i was 14, i had everything, Indain then African, then Italian, Indian/finnish and finally Chinese.

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]


,,and before that was? hence the plus sign, you was ruled by Russia (via a puppet government) from 1945-1990, you had only just got out of it.

What assumptions did i make about Poland?

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]

Rysavy, you are a fraud your English is worse than mine and certainly not American.

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]


Before the recent influx, I had met ONE Polish guy in my whole life, again on a kibbutz in Israel by now in my twenties, he told us what he had to do inorder to "escape",(pretend he was going to Yugoslavia) - you didn't travel, certainly not like we in Western Europe did at the same time and certainly not as much as you do now, that's not your fault, that's Stalin's fault! (not Churchill's incidently) and it was incidently, on that same trip that i met my first Russian, we treated him like some rare exotic specimen, we wer fascinated by this guy from "Russia", saying inane things like , "hello" to him. Unlike you Poland, we wer very familiar with People from other countries, my Best Friend came from Guinea, another best friend parents came from Guyana, we had West Indians, Indians, Pakistanis, 1 Chinese, Italians, Greek, a Turk or 2, an African, (we didn't hav many in those halcyon days), and even some boys from Chile and of course all the sons and daughter's of Irish immigrants including boy George's Brother, Gerald at my schools, I don't think you had that in your school. I lived in London nearly all my life and we hardly ever met people from behind the Iron Curtain, almost absolutely never! i suspect the few that did get to Britain wer the sons and daughters of the privilege Ruling Communist Party Elite, the spoilt Brats of the Communist Aristocracy. We used to feel sorry for you, and worry about you, and prayed one day you would be free! We wer over-joyed with the collapse of the Iron Curtain.

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]


Lyzko, I don't think you get the point I am getting at. Even since I was 18 and first went aboard, to a Kibbutz in Israel 31 years ago, I come across this constant sneering about British (and other English speakers British, Irish, American, Canadian, New Zealand, Australian, Jamaican, West Indian, Guyanese, South Africans, so on and so forth) not speaking other languages, the implication is we are not intelligent, but I ask you (again) what language do you want us to learn?

If there was Two World Lingu Francas we would learn the other one.

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]

*Why would Polish people learn French 20 years + ago? You wer under an oppressiv Government that would not allow you out of the country and certainly not to travel to France, a Western country.

Are you saying Polish children are cleverer than British children because they can speak English? That seems to be what you are saying.

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]

What you "stop-start" learning English?

You all learn English.

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]


What is this meant to say exactly?

>All those kids learn those languages? and learn them with ease?

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]

Severely dyslexic.

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]


It is NOT a case of just not bothering, it is; WHICH ONE?

You Poles say you hav 7 neighbours, for us it is like having to learn the language of every single one of them, I doubt very much you Poles speak even one of your neighbour's languages, but if you learn English you can speak to EVERYONE single one of your neighbours, there is a big insentiv to learning English, it is worth the effort.

How much of an asset learning English is and how wide spread it has become, I will giv you an example; today I was in an Chinese restaurant, when I group of Oriental people came in, I assumed that they wer Chinese, but when the waitress took their orders, she had to speak to them and they to her in English, I found out later they wer Vietnamese people not Chinese. So you hav two countries on the other side of the World, right next to each other, and they hav to communicate to each other in English!!!! I think it shows how International English has become the World's lingu franca.

Also it is easier for you to learn English than for us to learn another language.

1. You are all taught English at school, in England we do learn foreign languages, but one school will teach French, another school will teach German, that school teaches Spanish, and another school, trying to be all trendy and right-on, will teach Mandarin or some other language, like my niece's school, and since she has changed schools, she's stop learning Mandarin, and is now learning another language. You don't hav that "stop-start" non sense we hav, you can always add what English you learn to the English you hav already learned.

2. It is worth making the effort as we hav discussed before, no matter how much it is ******* you off it is still worth persevering learning English for all the rewards you are going to get., no English speaker has that incentiv.

3. You watch England language programs and films all the time, pick up a bit of English all the time - I think i hav watch two Polish language (with sub-titles) films in my life.

4. Even today, decades after it started, Pop Music, Rock Music what ever you want to call it, is still over-overwhelmingly in English. I don't think we hav ever had a Polish language Pop song in our charts, I can only think of about 4 foreign language songs that hav got into our Pop charts in the last 50 years, one of them being Gangnam Style which is in the charts at the moment, the others a Hebrew song in the 70's, a Spanish holidaySong in the 70's, una polona Blanca or something like that, there are probably others, but your charts are full of English language songs, and we all know how teenagers love Pop Music and culture, that is another source and insentiv to learn English, which they are already learning at school and watching on Telly at the same time.

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]


really? it is funny how people percieve langauages. The worst sounding language I've come across was Hebrew when I lived on a Kibbutz, it sounded like they were clearing their throats all the time.


I hav no idea what this is meant to be saying? is it humour or something? it is difficult to tell.

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]

It doesn't to me, but each to their own, to me French sounds beautiful, but some people on here hate it?

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]


Mandarin is not an international language, although it is a better bet than most other languages, there are a lot of them and the women are good looking. Russian, no chance! sounds like they are talking whilst slurping cabbage soup, it's not that international either.

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]


What language would you like us to learn? There is a massiv problem for English speakers, anybody learning English is making a wise investment it is a language they will use a lot if they go abroad, it is the World's lingu franca it is worth learning, but what do language do English speakers learn? Welsh? Gaelic? Danish? Finish? Estonian? Hungarian? no offence to these lovely people, but the rewards of learning their language are minimal! if I learn to speak Swedish, I can speak to 8 million Swedes, if a Swede learns English, he can speak to the World !!! and that's the same for a Polish.