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Joined: 13 Mar 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 27 Jan 2016
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Posts: Total: 896 / In This Archive: 563 		From: Gdansk, Poland
Speaks Polish?: learning
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scottie1113   
15 Dec 2011
Love / Want to ask a Polish girl out? [27]

Why bother to answer someone who isn't registered, can't write well though he claims to be an Irish man, and doesn't know how to ask a girl for a date? He sounds like he's 15.

Harsh?

Welcome to life.
scottie1113   
8 Dec 2011
Law / PRICE OF BEER CANS IN SUPERMARKETS IN POLAND [11]

True. That's why my "recycling" consists of leaving the empties next to the rubbish bins (trash cans in American English) near my flat. Guess who picks them up within minutes.
scottie1113   
8 Dec 2011
Law / PRICE OF BEER CANS IN SUPERMARKETS IN POLAND [11]

Browar Amber

Cans of Amber Naturalny are 2.5zl in my local sklep monopolwy. Bottles are a little less in the shop next to my flat. 5.7% alcohol, nice taste, easy to drink. I'm in Gdansk.
scottie1113   
8 Dec 2011
Travel / Whats your favourite Polish city and why? [132]

Bydgoszcz

I've been there several times. Nice city, some interesting architecture and lots of green in and around the city. Walking along the Brda is a pretty stroll and there's a rynek.

I just wouldn't want to live there.
scottie1113   
7 Dec 2011
Language / 24 hour time telling in Poland vs. other countries [29]

Yes, it's possible, especially if they're idiots. It's easy to figure out and you hear this a lot in movies.

What kind of party starts at 17.00? My Saturday dinner parties for my Polish friends and co-workers.
scottie1113   
5 Dec 2011
Language / Speaking with wrong Polish case endings? [94]

Get the book 301 Polish Verbs. I think verbs are easier than case endings, though in the beginning the prefixes made my crazy. Hmmm. They still do.
scottie1113   
5 Dec 2011
Language / Speaking with wrong Polish case endings? [94]

it's too much sitting in front of computer and TV and not formulating ideas in a communicative form in the Polish language on every day base

Could be true.
scottie1113   
5 Dec 2011
Language / Speaking with wrong Polish case endings? [94]

i think even polatsy have problems because the grammar is so complicated !!

I was talking to a Polish friend of mine at work today. She had spent the weekend with her 13 year old nephew helping to prepare him for a test in Polish this week. The kid consistently gets 1's and 2's-not good marks-because of his grammar, mostly case endings. Polish ain't easy, even for native speakers.
scottie1113   
4 Dec 2011
Life / Winter in Poland? [160]

I usually don't reply to people who haven't registered, but I'll answer this one.

I'm from San Diego although I've lived in a lolt of places where there was real winter. I wear waterproof boots, long underwear, sweaters, a waterproof parka with a hood, a muffler (scarf), a watch cap (wooly for you folks from the UK) and gloves. This year I'm going to buy a pair of Gore-Tex ski gloves.

There is no bad weather, only bad clothes.
scottie1113   
2 Dec 2011
Language / Speaking with wrong Polish case endings? [94]

And why do you think that?

On topic-I've asked my Polish friends to correct me when I make mistakes using case ending. They do, and they tell me that although they can understand what I mean, it doesn't sound right. I wanted to buy a ticket on SKM to Gdansk just after I had started learning Polish. I asked the man at the lkiosk for a ticket do Gdansku (I was thinking that it was like do domu). He smiled, gave me the ticket and said do Gdanska. He had understood me even though I had made a mistake, and I learned from it. We make mistakes because we're trying to speak quickly and don't think the grammar through and we learn from our mistakes. That's OK unless we make the same mistakes repeatedly. That ain't good.
scottie1113   
1 Dec 2011
Work / Chemistry degree - what are my chances of finding work in Poland? [29]

There is competition at the bottom end of the market, but most EFL teachers in poland are male, so a woman can usually find work more easily.

Having said that, the market in Poland has been declining for some time.

I don't think most EFL teachers in Poland are male. Maybe in lower tier schools, as I've already posted, but in better schools women outnumber men, and most of the women who teach Polish are Polish, and they're very good.

I'm not sure that the market has declined much, but it's certainly not growing. Part of that is because of the massive infusion of EU money for English programs. If a school gets a contract it's gravy. Otherwise the students go to another school because usually the courses are free. Which would you choose? Paying tuition at a school or getting a similar course for free? It's a no-brainer.

These funds will dry up next year. Good schools will still get students. The others will drop like flies. We'll see what happens.
scottie1113   
1 Dec 2011
Work / Chemistry degree - what are my chances of finding work in Poland? [29]

We've already established that she needs some credentials to work in Poland. Now it's only a matter of her deciding which one.

I have some British friends who work here without any other qualification than being a native speaker. They work for lower tier schools, but they do work, some more than others.
scottie1113   
1 Dec 2011
Work / Chemistry degree - what are my chances of finding work in Poland? [29]

Disregard the naysayers here. If you want to try living in Poland for a year and work here while you're doing it, teaching is one of the few options open to you. At my school there is a teacher who has a degree in math. Sorry. That's American English for maths. It doesn't matter what your degree is in, only that you have one. Mine is in French, which turned out to be a plus when it comes to teaching another language. You wouldn't believe the number of people who come here and think that because they're native speakers they can find a job teaching English.

Get a CELTA. You'll find a job. It isn't always easy, but it's possible.

Where in Poland would you like to live?
scottie1113   
30 Nov 2011
Work / Chemistry degree - what are my chances of finding work in Poland? [29]

but TEFL is taught in my local college and i just wondered if signing up for the course would give me a better chance of work or not.

Not in a good private school, which is where you'd want to teach. CELTA (google it) is an internationally accepted document while TEFL isn't. U nderstand what you're saying, and I'm just trying to help, not rain on your parade.

For more information, go to the Poland forum.
scottie1113   
30 Nov 2011
Work / Chemistry degree - what are my chances of finding work in Poland? [29]

Do you mean at a public school? For that you'll need to have full teaching credentials, and then the salary will be abysmal. Most good private schools require a CELTA and then, depending on location, you still won't make much money in your first year. Are you sure that you want to do this? Ask your postman about his experiences and you'll get more answers.
scottie1113   
29 Nov 2011
Language / 'lubię, lubisz' - Infinitive [86]

I share your pain, but as my Polish teacher pointed out, even books for beginning students (A1 level) are written in English. It takes some some and a dictionary, but it's working for me, although slowly. Heep up the good fight fight. You're doing great.
scottie1113   
21 Nov 2011
Language / 'lubię, lubisz' - Infinitive [86]

Not you Pawian. We were writing at the same time. I was going to give similar examples of Polish infinitives, but others have already done that.
scottie1113   
19 Nov 2011
History / Do polish people know that some of them fought a war against the United States? [60]

Walt.

Forgive my ignorance. I don't know what a Walt is.

Yes, assinine comments without any back up based on one post............troll.

Whatever you say.

( FYI, the german para had been a Glider Pilot, re trained as a Chopper Pilot,well documented)

THE German para is a far cry from chock full.

So, you were there after 1973 when US combat troops had been removed from the country ...you do know when the 1st AC left Vietnam dont you?

During 1973 until I left. Yes to the second question.
scottie1113   
19 Nov 2011
History / Do polish people know that some of them fought a war against the United States? [60]

Chock full means full of, a lot of, etc. A handful is not chock full. A handful is a few.

Its called rhetoric my colonial chum

Actually it's called being misinformed.

,Oh no, I doubt you'd bother doing that.....much rather a bit of indignation based on what, you like apocalypse now?
Anything to actually add or just trolling?

It's not indignation. It's just your ignorance. WWII ended in 1945. How old would these supposed former SS and Nazi paratroopers have been during the Vietnam war? Do the math. Oh, one more thing. There weren't any paratroopers in the unit you mentioned. You do know that, don't you?

I don't want to get into a p*ssing contest with you especially since you don't know what you're talking about it. I do. I was there. I flew with them as a US Marine.

Trolling? Hardly. BTW, the only Poles I met in Vietnam were there in 1973 after the so-called Paris peace talks resulted in a temporary cessation of hostilities. They were there to "supervise" the transition of US installations to the other side. Nobody was shooting then, so they were non-combatants. Technically, they didn't fight in a war against the US.
scottie1113   
18 Nov 2011
Real Estate / CZYNSZ - payment issue - help [43]

this 3rd world country!!

It's not a third world country. You just don't understand how business is conducted here. And this is my last reply to you until you bother to register.