News / Thousands of teachers to lose their jobs in Poland [57]


Better how? Poland's pisa scores have improved since the introduction of gymnasia, if they start falling will you be happy?

Polonia / Who still speaks pidigin Polish after many years in the country? [59]


calling someone durniu is an example of the vocative (wołacz) not locative (miejscownik) case

for most masculine nouns the two forms are the same

News / Thousands of teachers to lose their jobs in Poland [57]


He really cares about.... some Polish families. The rest can starve for all he cares. A Pole hating patriot.

News / Thousands of teachers to lose their jobs in Poland [57]


No. He's the real ruler but faces no legal responisibility for his actions. It's that rotten PRL model all over again.


And the mask falls and the hatred for large swathes of the polish population shines through...


of one. the only one who matters, Comrade Kaczyński! Loved by all komuchy

Polonia / Who still speaks pidigin Polish after many years in the country? [59]


Proszę prosię.

News / Opole townsfolk outraged by mayor's destruction of their song festival [137]


So you should have a link or two (from Opole) about this....


Get back to me when he's got a Polish passport and/or tax bill.

Polonia / Who still speaks pidigin Polish after many years in the country? [59]

Or distinguish men and man (or hear the final consonants in the American pronuncitions of words like stop and stock)

Work / Dutch translator job Warsaw- salary? [21]


Not just any native speaker either, but preferably one with some background in translation in general and/or knowledge or Polish.


There still aren't enough native speakers of English with enough knowledge of Polish. There are also problems with training of same (topic of another post/thread).

Polonia / Who still speaks pidigin Polish after many years in the country? [59]

Yes, it's called non-Polish ears. I knew a phonetician (superstar in the field) who said that as far as they could tell no non-Polish native speakers really hear the difference consistently.

There are simply limits regarding how much learners can really learn to hear differences that aren't made in their native language and the distinctions between ś, ć, ź, dź vs sz, cz, ż and dż is one of them for most second language learners of Polish.

Work / Dutch translator job Warsaw- salary? [21]


Or "I speak both Polish and English fluently." or "I'm fluent in both Polish and English." (not sure why but I really want that 'both' in there, not sure if its American or teacherese....)

Polonia / Who still speaks pidigin Polish after many years in the country? [59]


but grać (to play) vs gracz (player)....

I can usually pronounce them clearly enough but I don't hear the difference (but minimal pairs are relatively rare so that doesn't much affect overall comprehension).

What's frustrating was hearing a new word and then asking a Polish person which it was ś or sz The answer would usually be śśśśśśśś or szszszsz which was basically no help at all.

News / Opole townsfolk outraged by mayor's destruction of their song festival [137]


He has his party line and his required talking points, and he's sticking with them!

Polonia / Who still speaks pidigin Polish after many years in the country? [59]

Can you year the diference between czeszę się and cieszę się? (roughly: I comb my hair, I'm glad) Cause I really can't... maybe in isolation spoken extra slowly yeah but in the middle of a sentence spoken at native speed.... nope. no way.

maybe CHYEH might be better than chee-e which suggests that the i is heard as a separate vowel (it's not)

Life / What about mindset? Polish people and atheism. [10]


Well in Poland catholic schools don't necessarily have the same reputation for discipline and academic standards that they do in the US (and apparently Ireland).

Here many catholic schools are dumping grounds for rejects from other schools. I had a friend (catholic school survivor) who accepted a job at a high school run by nuns and thought at least she wouldn't have to waste too much time disciplining students - and she was wroooong. The Polish nuns were very understanding about the students various hijinx and misbehavior. She finally quit when the _nuns_ wanted her to look the other way while an entire class flagrantly cheated on a test.

There are some good catholic schools too but "catholic school" is not a high end brand in Poland the way it is in some countries.

Life / What about mindset? Polish people and atheism. [10]


If she were your age then she might worry about those things.... did you worry about them when you were school age?

Life / What about mindset? Polish people and atheism. [10]


You want to exercise some restraint while you are learning how the system here works. Don't joke about death or god with teachers, it's okay with your fellow students when you know them a little better (or you hear them do the same).

Outside the school it's a mixed bag. Most Polish people respect the church as an institution that helped them survive the terrible ordeals of soviet domination and communism. I've known religious people into black humor and atheists who aren't into it so you'll need to go one by one.

News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]


Since when is a creation of the banking elite something to get happy about?

Genealogy / Polish First Names: Adam, Jadwiga, Ewa - in English [17]


Actually it means 'human being' or 'person' in modern Turkish. A male adult is erkek in modern Turkish (kadin, without the dot, is woman).

Years ago I knew Turkish woman who was disgusted at an English translation of a Turkish text that kept translating 'adam' as 'man'. She said it made the text much more male than the original which was about people in general.

Real Estate / Contact from a Łukasz Mróz about Krakow property inheritance is this a scam? [20]

Sounds like a scam to me. Is this a building that used to belong to your family?

Love / Advice needed... Canadian guy to meet a Polish woman in Poland [15]


No it isn't, a Russian (or Ukrainian) woman would likely eat him alive. Polish women rarely enter relationships with the goal of asset stripping, they almost always really want to make a go of things (though if things go south they will adopt a take no prisoners attitude).

Women from further east are more likely to see men as giant wallets from which money is to be extracted.

It's partly communism which had a terrifcally corrosive and degrading influence on human relationships (the longer and more sincerely followed, the worse the results).

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Western governments are clearly bound and determined to increase the number of non-westerners in their countries and are more devoted to this idea than any other single item of government.

There are lots of reasons for this (none of them connected to actual benefits that the new arrivals bring with them). But clearly only an extremist will even look at the issue.

Life / Driving skills of drivers in Poland? [41]


Not technically true since some accidents are caused by circumstances beyond any driver's control (and for which no reasonably laws can be written)


I see and understand what you are saying, but I for one am not prepared to make that sacrifice!

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


My thoughts were (before the referendum) that it had a greater than 50 % chance of passing. But then I was paying attention and European politicians mostly spend no time in actually thinking about citizen concerns (because the market state is soooo not about that), so of course they were surprised.

The question is solve for the Brexit referendum and the recent election results (yes, I know that domestic issues also played a part in the recent election but even those tie into the commonality).

Life / Driving skills of drivers in Poland? [41]


I've mostly just been to tourist places where the crowding means that nobody can go very fast.... I supposed rush hour Athens might do bad things to my heart. Mexico can be weird and terrifying (not Europe, no). A friend of mine used to say that the physical laws governing the universe changed at the US-Mexican border which is they only reason any Mexicans were still alive....

Life / Driving skills of drivers in Poland? [41]


Generally true, but not the worst I've seen in Europe.

Off the top of my head Romania and Malta are worse (I have't been to Russia or Italy yet so that might affect my rankings when/if I go).

History / Poland's law and justice.. return of Sanacja? [19]


IME simply showing him often speaking has a very negative affect on most Polish people. He's a confrontational ideologue with a superiority complex who is incapable of anything like diplomacy and he despises democracy beyond its role in giving him power.


you mean spineless marionettes who will jump any direction the party leader tells them.

Love / DO RELIGIOUS POLISH GIRLS STILL EXIST IN THIS GENERATION [66]


I was assuming he was fishing for a paid marriage to get a visa to Poland (and thence to western Europe)


His conscience or creditors or both.

Feedback / Editing time too short (5 minutes currently) [60]


The owner and/or moderators don't care about the content of the forum, only the google rankings. All the changes are about google whoring.

Love / DO RELIGIOUS POLISH GIRLS STILL EXIST IN THIS GENERATION [66]


If it's not the norm in Poland then why have there always been so many visibly pregnant brides? I'm not criticizing, just observing that there's not much stigma on pre-marital sex (as long as the couple gets married before the birth if there's a pregnancy).

I have no desire to change the religious status quo in Poland (and think that those that do are reckless fools). But the plain fact is that while declared catholicism is the norm, many are not very stringet in their observance. That's cool. There's a broad sweet spot for societies and religion too much leads to backwardness and repression and too little leads to nihilism and oblivion. Poland is in the sweet spot where enough people are religous enough to keep up some facsimile of social cohesion but not closed minded and backward about it.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

How so? Over 80 % of voters supported parties committed to pursuing it. On the other hand, the trend in the EU is toward muzzling democracy so overturning the result of the referendum (and election) would be par for the course.