Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]

As it's been years since I was last in England, I can't really judge and so will gladly take your word for it:-)

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]

Correct, but what the Polish people want, understandably enough, is for their country to remain a parliamentary democracy, dominated though (as for centuries ever since her inception) by a homogeneous CATHOLIC majority.

Can't very well tell the whole country that she'd wrong for feeling that way. Face it, NO European nation is an American-style melting pot.

Classifieds / Work in Australia for a Polish girl wanted (tourism/recreation) [34]

Why do you think you "offended" me? I couldn't care less if you've never visited Australia. For that matter, neither have I!
lol

LOVED Poland though, by the way:-) Wish I could've stayed in Sczcecin even longer than just 24 hours, but my friend had to return to Berlin (plus she didn't speak Polish)!

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]

Preferrable to theocracies, you mean. Yes, undoubtedly that's quite true.

Classifieds / Work in Australia for a Polish girl wanted (tourism/recreation) [34]

How many "Polish languages" are there, Kasiu? Always thought there was only one:-)

Just because I know Polish needn't necessarily mean that I'm Polish! Back to you. Your English will probably be more acceptable to Aussies than to Brits, as those from "Down Under" are much laxer about their usage than the English. Australians whom I've encountered are quite like Americans, so I don't think you'll have any problems whatsoever.LOL

Have you ever been to Australia?

PS
Sent you a message to your private e-mail acc't. listed above, but received no reply. My e-mail's tarsape@gmail

Classifieds / Work in Australia for a Polish girl wanted (tourism/recreation) [34]

He-he, not even closeLOL How come?

Classifieds / Work in Australia for a Polish girl wanted (tourism/recreation) [34]

From your brief bio, I can imagine you're indeed a quick study and someone ready, willing and able to job a bit before actually starting to work at a career:-)

In English, there is a difference, you know! (odłapać jobu ws. pracować w zawodzie)

Do you know New Jersey well? We live in Fort Lee, my wife and family, not as many Poles as where we used to live (nearby Greenpoint), but nevertheless quieter and cleaner than Queens!

Bydgoszcz is a city with which I'm familiar somewhat, although Szczecin's the only Polish city I ever visited up until now.

English is a tricky language, so don't despair and bądź mi pilna!

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]

..which is why other societies which are fundamentally alien to the Judeo-Christian ethic have such humungous difficulties adapting to our ways.

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]

He's obviously a PiS man, jon, don't worry, PF's well sprinkled with 'em:-)

As with that Murray fella in the States, and his Bell Curve nonsense, we should debate instead of probibit his right to "free" expression. We explain our viewpoint, he explains his and we then explain where he's a little mixed up, simple enough!

Work / Finance Work in Poland - is it hard for a non-Polish speaking person? [35]

Looks like you have plenty of skills to offer! Best of luck to you:-)

Classifieds / Work in Australia for a Polish girl wanted (tourism/recreation) [34]

No, I'm from New Jersey:-) Where in Poland are you from, that is, where are you living presently?

Australia seems a bit far from home, frankly, and there's always post-Brexit Britain if you're looking for some place to use/practice your English:-)

Classifieds / Work in Australia for a Polish girl wanted (tourism/recreation) [34]

Why Australia of all places, Kasiu?

Language / Having trouble pronouncing Polish words? [35]

Try: "N - I - E - D - Ź - W - I - E - D - Ź" (five times fast!!)

lol

Study / Ethics of teachers dating students in Poland [14]

You betcha! Can't argue with that last statement:-)

Language / Polish Grammar quiz/puzzles: [47]

When I was in Poland many years ago, I visited Szczecin aka Stettin, on a day trip from Berlin. On the train ride (less than two hours!), I just happened to sit beside a young couple chattering away in Polish. Thought there was something about the woman's Polish which sounded very distinct, deliberate almost. Turned out, she was a translator from Malmo, he an engineer from Germany who'd grown up in Poland:-)

Neither spoke much English at all, yet I decided to choose between the three languages in the compartment, and opted for Polish.

She confessed that counting objects and persons together drove her crazy. I could agree! The concept of non-living masculine vs. "virile" living nouns [dwaj przyjaciele vs. dwa rachunki etc. plus declensions!!!) was anethema to her, as well you can imagine.

Ha det saa bra,
tarsape@gmail

Study / Ethics of teachers dating students in Poland [14]

...and in the '70's, even more so, believe me:-)

Study / Ethics of teachers dating students in Poland [14]

However one plucky co-ed where I was, got back at the prof but GOOD! When he chided her in our world lit. class for not participating in the reading discussion, Missy shot back softly "My, we weren't so rough last night!" Everyone broke up.

:-)))

News / Looted Polish paintings found and return to Poland [14]

Greiser, Gauleiter of the Wartheland region, was known as a bit of an art collector, not to mention 'bon vivant/butcher'! Frank of the Generalgouvernement too wasn't much of a slouch either, I'm told, and knew his stuff where painting and sculpture were concerned:-)

Most top Nazis were, what we'd term, "cultured individuals" aka Ribbentrop, Speer etc. Poland became both their playground, their breadbasket and, oh, let's not forget, their killing field, above all!!

Study / Ethics of teachers dating students in Poland [14]

Used to be a dime a dozen of 'em back when I went to college! At least in most of the States, this practice has all but been discontinued, and high time, I should say:-)

Language / Polish Grammar quiz/puzzles: [47]

Hej, prova__ frammande spraak!

The considerable differences between Swedish vs.Polish confirm both our understanding that when working in a language not our birth aka"first" language, there is always bound to be interference. For example, my Swedish is far better than my Polish because in the latter, I continue on many occasions to translate from the German, instead of "thinking" in Polish, even though I have made inroads in that regard:-)

The counting quirks in Polish, coming from such relatively straightforward numerals/numbering systems in English and Swedish, certainly took me for a loop when I started learning. The time I took the quiz, I nearly flunked. However, the aspectual differences between verbs was almost a piece of cake and I bot almost none wrong, although neither Swedish nor English have anything even close to issues such as "brać" vs. "wziąć", both meaning "to take". German has prefixed verbs which sometimes show aspects, but they're nothing like Polish.

tarsape@gmail

Language / Polish Grammar quiz/puzzles: [47]

What is your first or native language? I ask only because source-language intereference is usually the biggest single stumbling block in foreign language acquisition. No offense meant and your English isn't bad at all:-)

Language / Polish Grammar quiz/puzzles: [47]

With the liczebniki zbiorowe (collective numeralia), DEFINITELY!! In the perfective/imperfective (dokonany/niedokonany) aspects for motion verbs (czasowniki ruchu), surprisingly, almost none:-)

Odd, isn't it how wrong we can be?

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

..what YOU thought tragic, of course:-)

Anyway, at the risk of incurring the REcurring ire of our lovely mods, I'll have to get back to the thread topic.

I see xenophobia against Muslims the way I see Muslim xenophobia against the West. Jihad cannot be measured by a double standard either!

As in the US, there are surely many ISIS supporters who do seek to do harm to European citizens! The problem arises when the gov't. has the thankless, sometimes futile, task of trying to ferret out the jihadists from the decent men and women of the Islamic faith who just happen to be caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Figured that, just wondering:-)

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Which? The brutal murder or the family's intransigence?

In my opinion, the latter is understandable, and forgivable. For generations, typically if Jews didn't look after one another, nobody else would!

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Recently, there was a horrible murder of a young Chasid! The parents or mispochah, naturally wanted to keep it quiet and have the trial before the Bet Din. However, since the murder took place in Borough Park, and NOT at home or on the boy's family's property, his grieving parents had no choice but to have the matter brought before Brooklyn Criminal Court or face contempt themselves for refusing to comply with US law.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

I can only speak for New York, where we used to reside. In B'klyn at least, Orthodox Jews are still permitted to insist that women sit separate from the men (in the back of the bus, no less!!!), but ONLY if it's a private conveyance and NOT public transport!

There, the Bet Din typically decides aka ajudicates ALL cases relating to everything from kashrut to moving violations on the sabbathLOL

*Thanks, rozumiemnic:-)

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Right. It's known as the 'Bet Din', and is traditionally used to settle purely domestic disputes etc. among the Ultra-Orthodox, Chasidim, and Satmar, mostly, all of whom basically distrust "outsiders" to ejudicate legal matters:-)

Language / Polish Grammar quiz/puzzles: [47]

Same with me, Chemikiem.

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]

Primarily all "dark-skinned", perceptibly foreign-looking men especially, who have strong accents, are targeted in Germany! This was apparent as far back as the mid-'80's when I was first there (in Hannover) as a young exchange student, when the initial wave or so were arriving from abroad, and I'm certain things have changed little since my last trip over in '05:-)

Interesting to note, that in the '80's, it was the former East Germany which boasted of hosting exchange scholars from Nigeria among other African nations, to study, even to lecture, at prestigious universities aka Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden!