Polonia / Learning Polish in Amsterdam [19]

When younger Dutch are speaking English, they definitely do. Take Rutger Hauer, for example:-) Older Dutch tend to gargle their back "r's" and devoice a lot, sounding almost as though they were trying to say all what they wanted to say all at the same time:
"VEL, AI TINK DETT ITT VOSS INTERRRESTING, BEWTT SOOHM TAIMSS..."

The youth typically enjoy walking around in their spare time, the guys often wearing chic-looking leather bomber jackets and dark glasses, the girls not too differently (just like in the cult classic 'Speters'!) and will usually pepper their English with vulgar slang:-)

As far as the differences between Dutch, German, and English, the above sentences should suffice:

"Bij het ontbijt, eet ik zachtgekokte eieren". = Zum Fruehstueck esse ich weich gekochte Eier.
" 'Zaterdags gaa ik altijd naar feestjes." = Sonnabends gehe ich immer auf eine Party.

The German is different enough from both the Dutch and the English, although both the word order and the vocabulary remains similar, if not exactly identical. In Dutch, for example, "S middags" means "Nachmittags", the "S" being a vestige of older Dutch "Des middags":-)

Polonia / Learning Polish in Amsterdam [19]

"For breakfast [each day] I have a soft-boiled egg." The second, "I always party on Saturdays."

Ziemowit's point is well taken, indeed, German is infinitely more precisely and crisply pronounced (especially among North Germans) than Dutch, which, like Danish in comparison with Swedish and Norwegian, sounds almost as though the speakers are drunk, so much slurring and cramming of sounds together:-)

Polonia / Learning Polish in Amsterdam [19]

An excellent question, Polonius3.

For an American-English speaker, probably there'll be more superficial familiarity with German through anglicized German words in the US like "wunderbar", "frankfurter wurst", weltanschauung, leitmotiv...and so forth. The grammar of Dutch though is still closer to German than to English, the word stock perhaps more recognizable to an moderately educated and observant Anglophone, e.g. 'bed' (bed), 'komen' (coming), 'waar' (where), etc.

Quite frankly, Dutch sounds a bit to German native speakers somewhat like Yiddish, namely, like German damaged on delivery:-)

Language / Polish online slang phrases? [12]

"Babcia pierdzi, chlop smierdzi."

lol

(More of a silly old saw really, than a current slang phrase.)

Life / Favourite Polish movies? [107]

Missed that one also!

Only so much one can see, isn't there:-)

Life / Favourite Polish movies? [107]

Danuta Szaflarki's still alive too. How about that! I wept during many of the last scenes of the film. A real tear jerker, with the Warszawianka in the background and our heroine fighting back tears as she sings along, realizing that somehow life must go on.

Missed "Ida". Caught "Zmroz oczy" years ago when it first came out. Nothing to write home about:-)

Life / Favourite Polish movies? [107]

I enjoy the real classics, "Zakazane piosenki", "Popiol i Diament", "Kanal", "Kolenie" as well as more modern films such as "Kret" about the post-Solidarity period in Poland.

Each of them great, yet in such different ways:-)

Law / Preparing for Polish B1 Exam for Citizenship [11]

I live in the States, in Fort Lee, New Jersey to be exact:-)

Language / Polish Past Tense [47]

It is true that in everyday speech, the two sounds are frequently blurred:-)

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

Sometimes. centrism is more needed, not to mention more comforting, than extreme left or right!

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

Jon's right, Maf, sorry:-)

Language / Proper Polish translation of "my love" [18]

Aha! I see..

Language / Proper Polish translation of "my love" [18]

I wasn't referring to a miscarriage, but rather to the thread title:-) "Kochano moja!" follows the pattern "Litwo, ojczyna moja!"

Language / Proper Polish translation of "my love" [18]

In that case, "KochanO moja!"
LOL

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

Germany's facing her own immense, although scarcely unique, challenges. With the various defeats of Hofer in Austria, Wilders in Holland, and up till now, Le Pen in France (along with a major victory for the SPD in Berlin earlier yesterday), it seems as though Ms. Petry and Mr. Hoecke are going to be pushing up daisies, so to speak, as AfD, and hopefully PEGIDA as well, will be all but politically dead come Fall '17!

:-)

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

You may be right on that score, dolno. However, let's wait an see how things unfold:-)

Language / Proper Polish translation of "my love" [18]

How about "Kochana moja!"?
:-)

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

Thank heavens, Macron won! The far right would merely have emboldened the far right fringe throughout the rest of the Continent.

He's hardly perfect, though he seems to be a leftists-centrist and that's a darned sight better than the radical extremist, xenophobic Le Pen supporters who'd gladly throw the baby out with the bathwater:-)

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

As I recall, the Nazis destroyed all trade unions, tossing their heads into concentration camps! Had Mme. Le Pen declared victory, what subtle form of manslaughter might we expect on the program, huh? All free thinkers to be thrown into prison?!

And this is the same country that produced the likes of Voltaire and Jean Moulin??? Anti-Semite though he surely was, Voltaire surely wouldn't have sought to revise his own country's history:-))

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

If France ever decides to dare attempt a repeat performance of what Britain's undertaken, we might as well all be whistlin' Dixey instead of the MarseillaiseLOL

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

And what pray does Le Pen offer France's youth, for pity's sake???! Hate, Vichy-style revisionism, xenophobia etc..???

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

According to yahoo.news, Macron just declared victory!! VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE! VICTOIR!

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

Because someone presents an intelligent, well-thought out counter argument, you figure they must be gay and or a liberal? While we're calling one another names, just what persuasion are YOU???

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

@Joker, no place is "safe" any longer, at least not in the way you and I understand the meaning of the word. However, far-rightist agitation certainly doesn't make things any less dangerous. Strong-arm bully tactics only beget more of the same.

Sort of reminds me of the justification for many years of the late John Gotti's("The Dapper Don", "The Teflon King") living protected for so many years in his neighborhood of Ozone Park, Queens, despite his legion killings and brutal crimes. Allegedly, he was best friends with local law enforcement and kept the streets "safe", yet at what a cost!!

News / Berlin terrorist attack -- Poland's ethnic homogeneity a true blessing [436]

Unfortunately, the limits of unbridled liberalism have been sorely tested to the limit and it looks as though they might lose unless more people are able to contain the threat coming from ISIS!

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

:-)!!!\

Anyhow, let's hope that a Le Pen defeat will signal a further weakening of far-right support throughout Europe, namely in Germany come this Fall.

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

Machron appears to be maintaining a healthy lead and so this encouraging. On the other hand, it's never over 'till the fat lady singsLOL

News / Berlin terrorist attack -- Poland's ethnic homogeneity a true blessing [436]

In addition, I'd like to return to the present thread title for a moment. As I'd posted earlier, being an ethnically homogeneous society is clearly no guaranty for peace, order, and tranquility! In similarly ethnically homogeneous societies such as Norway, Denmark, Holland or Sweden, are Neo-Nazis, Skinheads and the like "a true blessing" or more to the point, an actual curse which remains a blight upon the entire community?!!

The anticipated response to the above statement, that the latter are merely an understandable, even forgivable, response to mass immigration from predominantly Muslim nations, never voted on by the citizen, is never an excuse for the outcroppings of violence and cruelty, usually meted out upon the innocent who are punished for no other reason than that they happen to be the in wrong place at the wrong time.

News / Berlin terrorist attack -- Poland's ethnic homogeneity a true blessing [436]

Hansa Viertel wasn't too nice either:-) Bordellos on almost every other street, shabby-looking types (both German as well as other) hanging around and looking menacing......

As far as terrorism is concerned, one needn't forget that the prime 9/11 terror cell was located in Hamburg, not Berlin:-)))

News / Berlin terrorist attack -- Poland's ethnic homogeneity a true blessing [436]

Unfair comment of mine, TheOther. It was my first time in Germany and I was soaking up as much local color as I could. Everything seemed new and exciting:-)