Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]


It was actually a Russian friend of mine who lives in Portsmouth but came from Moscow originally and then later studied with me many years ago who talked of the word similarity between the two languages. I have never made a study of it myself.

Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]


It would be expected that Ukrainian and Polish may have similarities due to geographic location.

Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]


I believe I am right in saying that about eighty per cent of Ukrainian words are very similar to Russian words. I have been to the Ukraine as I spent a month in the summer time 1982 in a town called Kharkow. We flew to Moscow and then took an overnight train to Kharkow. Lovely weather during the summer time in the Ukraine.

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]

Mind you, if you are doing a DELTA which I imagine is a very intensive course, you will not have that amount of free time for sightseeing anyway. The powerful British pound might make Poland an even better choice of destination?

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]


I have been to Sopot many years ago. In fact there is a very nice modern private swimming pool there so if you enjoy swimming I can recommend it.

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]


I would not want to try and influence you but I notice you say yhat you are going to Prague to do your training. You may find the Czech republic a good place to find a job. I know nothing about pay rates in the Czech Republic and I have never worked as a TESOL teacher but in class, I found the Czechs to be hard working and conscientious students who took everything very seriously indeed. I had many Czech students in my English Language classes and I always found those from Slovakia and the Czech Republic to be very well adjusted and polite. It might be worth you staying on the Czech Republic than moving on.

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]


It was always the case but I am not sure of today's rates. I have not been to Poland for many years so it is unfair of me to judge. Certainly the rates in private schools were always traditionally more than in the state schools. If you want to earn money then I have heard that South Korea is the place to go, mind you, they only earn a thousand pound a month which still very very little indeed compared to U.K. rates. South Korea isnowhere near to Prague or Poland though!

Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

It is a well known fact that forty per cent of a woman's gens are lesbian and that is why they have a paternal instinct to form little groups.

Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]


I think that on the whole most polish girls are rather conservative towards sex, it might be the lesbian gene at work but I have noticed that they like to be in little groups and they often invite each other to each other's houses for tea and a chat. They are quite different from men!

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]


I think that is probably true of everybody all around the World.


I think that it would be a very good idea and why would you be 'throwing yourself at the wolves?' It would be a great way to meet local people and you would learn something for yourself and maybe gain some useful experiences on the way. As you have a job it is not the 'end of the World' for you in any case'? However, I will say one thing from the outset to put your mind at rest. In Poland human life has no value whatsoever and there is no such thing as 'friendship'. There is simply no such expression in the Polish vocabulary if you get my drift. You are a member of their tightly knit family or you are just an acquaintance and nothing more. If you are invited out to dinner at a Poles house and especally if there is a white table cloth-beware! Their son wants to marry your daughter, their daughter wants to marry your son or the man of the house has been out of work for two years and it so happens that you will shortly be going back to the U.K. and you live near Gatwick Airport and the unemployed man of the house who has no job just so happened to be an airplane fitter during National Service thirty years ago!! It just happens that there is an advertisement in yesterdays local paper for engine fitters in Gatwick, does the penny finally drop! help them if you must but do not allow yourself to be used. I have seen it all in my time.

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]


Yes, I know. It did not look right when I saw it but you will have to excuse me, partly my spelling in English is never and has never been the best, and partly as I start work at 5.30a.m. each morning by Friday afternoon I am beginning to sag a little.

Anyway, as a person with no education like myself, who can hardly spell-that is why I trained to be a quailified TESOL teacher!

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]


Addmitadly, it was probably at least five or six years ago now but the school still exists. I do not know the latest pay rates but it is still my advice to anybody searching such work to simply steer clear.

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]

You do not have to read it or agree with it and in fact you were not there at the same time anyway. In fact Gospodin Pole at university who thinks he knows everything, I was a student in Krakow even before you were born during the communist era and to tell you the truth, it may be a famous university because it is one of Europe's oldest but in fact I was not very impressed with the Polish education which I received. Mind you, this is years and years ago so maybe it has improved a little. And yes B.S. I too can translate in to Polish!

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]


No and I know what I am talking about. I was once on holiday and was spending a few nights in Warsaw. I was bored so decided to go for an interview for a position as an English Language teacher in a private school in Warsaw. I can not tell you the name of the school for obvious reasons but I think it was called Angloschool on Popieluszki 9! A nice drive out and a nice chat over a cup of coffee. That evening on my return I went out with the husband of the Polish lady who is out mutual friend. Towards his car he asks me "what did you do today" My answer, "I went for a job interview at Angloschool". He asks "and how much did they offer you in return for your services?". I can not remember the rate of pay, it was about six years ago now but when I told him he laughed and said, "you know what, my mobile phone bill is more than that per month. You will just be sitting at home drinking beer and eating peanuts!" I think that being an English Language teacher must be the most degrading jobs there is, besides being a security guard, that is.

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]


Is your English good?

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]

sad but true!

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]

You were certainly earn almost no money as teacher's pay in Poland is almost zero.

Work / I want to move to Poland (but of course we need to find a good job) [117]


Many people including myself never knew any of my grandfathers. It is quite distant really. Ask people from the other forums you attend for their views.

Work / I want to move to Poland (but of course we need to find a good job) [117]


That is still quite distant though.


Funny as we were walking back to town and we went through a lovely park called the Victoria Park and we were behind two Poles. One rather short wearing a shirt with Polish writing on it and another huge tall with long hair, a very odd couple indeed. I though to myself then, 'God, what sort of woman could give birth to such creatures!' Certainly, Portsmouth has changed a lot since my undergraduate days in that fine city all those years ago.

Work / I want to move to Poland (but of course we need to find a good job) [117]


personally, I thought that Poland was an awful place. There must be something there for you that drives you in to going there as you have no Polish blood yourself (or at least, that is what I imagine from your posts). Why not Australia-nice beaches, good beer, nice people, free Neighbours seven days a week! Why Poland where you do not even know the language and everybody is fleeing? The outlook is bleak in weather and economic terms. I would rather go to Wales with all those lovely old castles and scenery. Do you have immediate family there?

Work / I want to move to Poland (but of course we need to find a good job) [117]

I was in Portsmouth today and the place is full of Poles. If Poland is so nice and their future is so guaranteed then why have 400,000 decided to up and leave? There must be something well and truly wrong with the place!

Language / Dwa vs. dwie in Polish [85]


Yes, indeed, you should have seen my with my horse, sword and helmet riding in against the cannon balls.

Travel / Need information about Czestochowa! Hostels / Hotels? [24]

I was only there once very briefly. My brother in law took me there in his car. I can remember walking down to the road where there were a few shops if I remember rightly. I think that we went for about an hour or so-not very long at all. I remember that I liked the little castle in Czluchow and I also was taken to a nice castle of a sort (in very good condition) near to Bochnia, there were even the old canons still there, which impressed me, on another occasion but I can not remember what it was called now. One year soon, I must try and improve on my rusty Polish and come again and see how things have changed.

Language / Dwa vs. dwie in Polish [85]


Next time I see it, if I do, I will try and copy it, i.e. photocopy it and put it on the forum, if I would have the technical knowledge to do so, that is! It is rather a shame that I started this discussion in the first place, maybe it is simply boredom, as there are few interesting debates on this forum these days so we are limited to 'ku Warszawie!' No, I would not say that I am an expert at Polish grammar and would have to look up a lot these days as it is not a language I use any more, except ocassionally when I help people out in Tescos! I speak the language every day of my life but the written form is beyond me these days since my state examinations so many years ago. Rather a shame but as we say in Russian takawa zhyzn! Sorry to you mate.

Language / Dwa vs. dwie in Polish [85]

There is nothing wrong with the pronoun 'ja' and there is certainly nothing wrong with the dative case either. No, it is not worth disusing further. I am going ku gorze i ide ku lazience!! There are still many people who address their envelopes to Poland at Christmas time, the only time people write and still use the form ku Polsce.


Say nothing, it is really a waste of time and is not getting us anywhere at all. At the end of the day it is all a personal choice what people say and do. Live and let live.

Travel / Need information about Czestochowa! Hostels / Hotels? [24]

Actually, as I remember it it was not a very nice day, cold with a nasty wind but probably in the summer and a little luck...who knows? I do remember the place, though and walked all over the hills there. As far as I remember, there is not really that much to do there but it might make a nice day out from the hell hole of Czestochowa. He should try out the time table of the P.K.P. bus services.

Language / Dwa vs. dwie in Polish [85]


Yes, indeed.

The only thing is you must take care when using verbs with the combinations. Dwoch, trzech studentow, that is, plus gen. pl. but dwaj, trzej, czterej plus nom plural, dwaj studenci, trzej panowie

Language / Dwa vs. dwie in Polish [85]


Is it really worth a massive debate after such a little point of grammar? Ja jestem w Albionie i jutro ja pojade ku Polsce or ja jestem w Anglii i jutro pojade pociagiem do Polski. W koncu, wszysko jedno!

Travel / Need information about Czestochowa! Hostels / Hotels? [24]


I do not know but I think it has something to do with an exchange programme within the E.U. It gives students at British Universities an opportunity to spend some of their study period at an authorized overseas university and vise versa, students from Poland and other countries can count credit points from study in the United Kingdom towards their degree programes when back home. I think it is a little bit like trying to copy the American credit system.

If you are ever in Czestochowa in early June there is always a nice open air music festival that takes place in Mstow, not far from Czestochowa. I have not been for many years and have heard that it has not been very good over the last few years but I thought that it was great fun. A talent show, live music, a clothes show and comedy acts, it is really well worth checking it out should you be there at that time in the year.

Travel / Need information about Czestochowa! Hostels / Hotels? [24]


I would say that it must definatelly be true. I was unaware that there was a university in Czestochowa, though there was the Polytechnic of Czestochowa, I presume that it is the same thing under a new name? Czestochowa was never anything special but it is even more of a less important sort of a place now as it has lost its province capital status-it is now just a part of Slask. They do say that the petrol is now the most expensive in all of Poland now. There are, or were two railway stations, so when you buy train tickets to Warsaw, make sue that you go to the right one! The main university, returning to the subject of study was always Wroclaw but it costs money to stay away from home, hence people would agree to study close to home. The state swimming pool was quite nice from what I remember-in fact there may be more than one of course now. The main thorough fair, A.S.M, I think it is called for short is nice in summer and you can walk up to the Black Madona of Czestochowa though God only knows how many times you would want to repeat the experience. If you are young and like a little night life you can try a night club called Rura (the Tube), I know the people who run it. It is located just off the main thorough fair on the right as you walk up towards the Madona-just ask. You can register for a state dentist but the fillings just keep falling out. I got so sick of going back I just left the hole in the end and waited to get back to England. England's dentistry costs twice the price of Poland but what is the point of buying cheap rubbish!?

As a P.S., and without a car, I do not know how to get there but there is a little place called Olsztyn-not much there except the ruins of an old castle but it would certainly be fresh air after Czestochowa!