Life / English Speaking Doctors (Psychiatrist) in Poland? [14]

Your English is excellent!

Only curious as to in which English-speaking countries you've worked, apart from the UK. Many Polish colleagues of mine have enjoyed lengthy sojourns in the States, Canada, even Australia, still others in formerly British colonies, such as in Zimbabwe, at local clinics, as well as in Nairobi, Kenya:-)

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Please stick to the topic

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

What you're saying is obviously what most capitalists would agree to; if a person can cheat another out of their fair share, and get away with it, then do it!

If Mexicans were as common in Denmark as Poles, the Danish boss would choose a Mexican. If the boss is concerned with quality, he'd hire a local Dane to do the job right! Same in Germany. Once, the BMW plant in Ruesselsheim near Frankfurt hired only native German employees to work the assembly lines and for other technical, skilled work. Later, Turks and Spaniards began to take over and as we see, quality suffered, because the pool of foreign-born labor was not trained any more than it was brought up in a culture which respected quality and precision.

Penny-wise and pound foolish has no rewards except for a quick fix which later comes apart!

History / Give back Lwow to Poland and Kaliningrad to Germany - is it possible? [198]

How true:-) On the same subject, how comical for Britain's former colonies to be given back to her Majesty's Empire!

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

WHEW!!!! I'm glad that's settled:-) Next argument, please?
lol

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

Certainly not! This is also a reason why Trump wants to try to do away with the possibility of cheaper-wage labor replacing already high-paid, skilled native-born US labor, as well as entitlements through "diversity empowerment" which allow those from cheaper-wage countries replacing Americans looking for those same jobs, yet being consistently underbid by outsiders:-)

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

The perception though has quickly BECOME the reality, Chemikiem! Danes have a world-renowned high standard of living to which most non-Scandis can only aspire. Although it may not seem fair that Danes should earn more on average than Poles, the age-old stereotype of the backward, if hard-working Pole, slogging through the bigotry, the working grind, and the disdain of his English, Danish, and German brothers each day while earning a pitance of their wages, continues to dog us.

I too must confess that whenever I meet a new colleague from one of the Scandinavian countries, I automatically assume excellent English skills, competence, honesty, thrift and industry. Sadly, I often wonder whether it's just plain counter-intuitive for Poles to be straightforward and rely on their training alone, without a certain degree of some back in Poland "smoothing the way" professionally.

It's a damned prejudice and I'll even admit it.

History / Silesia to Czechia [54]

According to a certain line of reasoning then, why not return formerly-German-held territory, now situated squarely in Poland, to Germany?
It's equally ludicrous!!
:-)

History / Give back Lwow to Poland and Kaliningrad to Germany - is it possible? [198]

Such a ridiculous thread topic post!

The entire concept of "returning" land never even established in codified written law as belonging to a people, except through oral agreement, is preposterous.

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

I roundly concur!

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

Our set, heretofore circumscribed notions of race, ethnicity, and civilization will have to be seriously re-thought, hadn't they!

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

Who says that the coffee will be adversely affected by adding a little cream (or at least, milk) --- IN REVERSE??

We've all been acculturated to believe that adding to a given race will only weaken or dilute the existing strain. Well, perhaps just the opposite is true.

Not being a geneticist however, I'm scarcely qualified to speak, but I can always conjecture:-))

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

Looks then as if Trump's closest European allies will be Theresa May (thus far, but who knows what tomorrow will bringLOL), Marine Le Pen, Umberto Bossi, Orban Viktor, Beata Szydło and (of course, the star of the show), Czar Vladimir in the flesh!!

Not the most impressive line up now, is it?
:-)

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

Danish salaries continue to be competitive within the EU-guidelines, I believe.

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

Is the "liberal " media really all that different from the conservative aka reactionary right (usually WRONG) media??

Both twist the truth, only apparently you people don't mind Hannity's, Savage's, Limbaugh's or O'Reilly's special bend:-)

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

Most Poles whom I've met recently arrived from Poland who live in or near Greenpoint, Brooklyn, speak poor English! Most Danes on the other speak and understand relatively fluent English.

Funny to have Danes teaching Poles English on the job. The Poles will come away sounding like Danes speaking with an Ersatz British accent:-)

How amusing!

Then again, in this global village we call planet earth, if a Dane has construction worker skills needed in Poland, Russia, or elsewhere and the Pole the identical or nearly identical skill set, the common language among them will remain unimportant.

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

I can never in my life time remember Conservative Republicans rioting in the streets....

Then you haven't lived, my boy:-) If you look back in history, in fact, that statement is incorrect, although your memory might only extend as far back as EisenhowerLOL

Indeed, my remarks about the Bully-in-Chief pertain most definitely to this thread topic, as Poland is one of the very few European nations (except for the "neutral" UK, thank you, PM May!!) which supports Trump! I'm referring to the PiS, not the KOD, naturally.

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

And the kicker is, Johnny, if the shoe were on the other foot and our Lady HILLARY had won instead of this buzzard, you people wouldn't have been rioting and rantin' till the cows came home??!!

Quit handin' us a line:-)

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

I was only asking questions, after2020, nothing more:-)

History / Should Poland be given ANY credit for ALLOWING Jews into Poland for 1000 years? [195]

Whereas today, nothanks, just the opposite is often the case! I know of a 100% Jewish woman hovering around her 60's from Warsaw who knows (or claims to know) NO Yiddish, only Polish as a mother tongue, plus fluent English and a smattering of high school Russian during the Communist era.

She shuns Jewish symbolism in public, looks "Polish" with high cheekbones, lightish eyes and a penchant for highly suggestive clothing. While she never wears a cross, on the streets of any Polish city, I assure you all she would be indistinguishable from any other Pole:-)

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

After2020,

Are the single standards of righties any more preferrable? No, you're not angry (LOL), merely missinformed! In German, "After" means "anus" and this is where many of your ideas appear to have originated...and remain:-)

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]

I met an elderly gentleman the other day who hailed from the former Rastenburg (Polish ??? I can't recall it at the moment), in the now long-defunct East Prussia who, while native to that time Germany, considered himself an East Prussian and refused to acknowledge that Koenigsberg is now Kaliningrad or that his original home town is now Polish rather than German:-)

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

In principle, Atch, I can only agree. The next hurdle to overcome then is to pay WOMEN of any stripe or nationality etc.. equal pay for equal work, European or not!!

:-)

Of the two nations, Poland and Denmark, the latter so far surpasses most of the Continent in the latter regard it's not even funny.

Heck, they had Europe's first female chief of parliament round about 1910 or so, Nina Bang.

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

Depends on the job you were doing.

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

@Ziemowit, it's much more transparent for an Anglophone than Polish, believe me:-) I still use it professionally for both teaching and translation!

@esbjergDK,

From a purely business point of view, I can well understand the desire for a Polish worker wishing to up his lot and move to Denmark, but I somehow can't imagine the reverseLOL

Danish salaries are competitive within the EU, and even non-EU nations I'm sure pay more than Poland.

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]

I wasn't aware of that, Archie Bunker. Thanks:-)

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]

Skimmed post too quickly. I misread your message.
Just ignore:-)

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

Statistically, accurate enough surmise on your part.

My experience though, both in Denmark as a visitor/student as well as briefly in Poland, is that an English-speaking Pole trying to communicate with an English-speaking Dane (of which there are MANY!!) might well be an attempt in need of an interpreter in both languages in order to intercede on account of the expected misscommunication between the two speakersLOL

In business/industry, Danes usually pride themselves on a high degree of English fluency. The same cannot necessarily be said on average for the Poles.

In addition, I speak Danish and if a Pole can eventually master English, he or she can almost certainly just as easily master basic Danish:-)

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]

If you spoke Ruthenian as a mother tongue, may I therefore assume you are a Huzul by birth?

MODS: Apologize once more if the query is ever so slightly "off topic"!
:-)))

History / Give Poland back it's lost land ! [132]

As it was explained to me by a former "Lembergerin", a refugee from Austria to Poland in 1938 (and currently ninety-five!!), who spent her adolecence in Lwów, was that German was the mother tongue of fellow Viennese-Jewish refugees, while Polish was the official language of all residents of the city, not even Yiddish among the native-born Jews:-)

Polonia / Work in Denmark? Do you want it? A versatile builder who can speak English needed. [55]

May I assume then that the reason for English knowledge is that your firm does considerable work with the UK or the States? I would think that a Pole with at least working knowledge of Danish would be preferable:-)

It may even increase your market share, as a Pole who speaks FLUENT Danish, not only English, German etc., is far more unusual to find than a Pole who has at least a working knowledge of English only!