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Joined: 4 Feb 2011 / Female ♀
Last Post: 12 Nov 2011
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From: UK, Nottingham
Speaks Polish?: tak
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chichimera   
4 Feb 2011
UK, Ireland / Why can't the poles speak english, if they want to work in England? [35]

forgive me im recovering from a stroke after being mugged by a bunch of polish men

really sorry to hear that! not all polish people are as nice as the ones on this forum :( regretfully.. and when one meets an awful person we often tend to dislike the whole nation, sort of a natural human reaction, i guess. i think anyone who lives in a multi-cultural environment knows how it feels
chichimera   
4 Feb 2011
UK, Ireland / Polish community in Northampton (any success stories / bad experiences?) [20]

i used to live in northampton between 2006-2009. made loads of friends, but most of them were foreigners like me (from all over the world, not only polish). i love many things about england, i even somewhat enjoy the weather :) i truly love the 'english atmosphere' which nowadays you find mostly only in old novels and during holidays for the retired :) i love the english gardens and literature and manners..

yet i find it very difficult to fit in, there always seems to be a sort of awkwardness in my relations with the english. i find the english smile very confusing - never know when it is for real and when it's backstabbing. the slav straightforwardness is often either misunderstood or taken advantage of. i've read the book "watching the english" and it explained a lot to me and helped me to understand the nation. but i can't say i have ever been allowed to feel here at home

i find it a bit easier with the scots, but haven't met too many of them

yes, i have changed. but i wouldn't call it losing my identity, rather a learning and enriching experience.
chichimera   
6 Feb 2011
UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]

loss of identity

the Polish didn't lose their identity during a hundred years of the partitions and the Irish have lost their identity during a few years of Polish immigration? wow. your national flexibility is admirable. not so much the strenght of your identity

They should show more patriotism and help their own nation

thank you for your concern, but you need not to worry - they do, believe me
chichimera   
6 Feb 2011
Love / POLISH GIRLS... wake up and prove you are respectable.... [135]

Ok, I am not interested in the poor man with nothing in his hands

Love should never be conditioned on the fact of possessing money. If it is, it's not love, it's the selling and buying deal. I understand that sometimes a guy who does not have anything lacks qualities like diligence, resourcefulness or even liability, but there are guys with money who lack the above all the same.
chichimera   
7 Feb 2011
Love / POLISH GIRLS... wake up and prove you are respectable.... [135]

@NomadatNet: I said: sometimes. All I meant was that sometimes the lack of money may indicate a lack of certain qualities, but not necessairly. I was trying to say that I understand that from the fact of having money some women may conclude about the personality of a man, yet making it one of the reasons whether or not they would "love" someone does not convince me at all
chichimera   
7 Feb 2011
Love / POLISH GIRLS... wake up and prove you are respectable.... [135]

while those guys with money don't need to have those qualities?

they do! that's why I've been saying all along that the qualities not the money are important :) I think you've mistaken me for someone who agrees that money should be considered when choosing a partner, while I am whole-heartedly the opposite
chichimera   
7 Feb 2011
Love / POLISH GIRLS... wake up and prove you are respectable.... [135]

you trying to be nice?)

I'm not trying to be nice. I am nice. It can 'sometimes' be a burden though.
People - women or men - are 'always' required to have qualities other than material possessions. Money is often used as a patch where the real values are missing.

Apart from the 'poor/rich guy' matter you are focusing on and which I seem to be unable to explain, I also said in my post:

Love should never be conditioned on the fact of possessing money. If it is, it's not love, it's the selling and buying deal.

That's my point.
chichimera   
7 Feb 2011
Love / POLISH GIRLS... wake up and prove you are respectable.... [135]

What will you do if you were between two men

I would choose the one I love, whether he's poor or he holds a gun. Crazy as it sounds, but that's the honest answer.

This is not a rare thing in the life

The practical (materialistic?) attitude towards life is probably more reasonable, but it's awfully boring. Although it all depends on what one is expecting from life - some have needy pockets, others - needy hearts.

Do you think money should be considered when choosing a partner? Cause I still can't figure it out from your posts.
chichimera   
8 Feb 2011
Language / Cheap way to learn polish [9]

you can try searching for some teaching videos on youtube. It's a very cheap way :) I find them quite useful for learning English.
chichimera   
8 Feb 2011
Language / Are the languages of Russian and Polish similar at all? [94]

Poles who claim to be able to understand a good 60% or 70% of what a Russian says

many of us obligatorily learnt Russian as children at school. I haven't used Russian for years, but I still remember quite a lot and understand a big deal - and I'm pretty sure it's because I learnt it as a kid, not so much because of similarities between the languages. Czech is much more similar to Polish, but I understand less of it than of Russian
chichimera   
8 Feb 2011
Language / Are the languages of Russian and Polish similar at all? [94]

Czechs understand Poles but Poles do not understand czech

Really? That's interesting. I don't know many Czech people, but the few times I tried to apply Polish-Slovak conversation rules (which is: a Pole speaks in Polish and gets answered in Slovak and everyone is happy) to my conversations with Czechs, it didn't work. Probably mainly on my part, if what you've said is true
chichimera   
9 Feb 2011
Love / American woman falls in love with a charming Polish man upon his visit to the U.S. [36]

I think you are a crazy person,seriously

I think it is crazy to "diagnose" a person as crazy from one or two posts.

In Poland we do not usually end our letters to friends with "Yours". By "Yours" we mean something more than friendship or a very special friendship. But I've noticed that poeple in England do that. Or end a birthday card to a workmate with "Love", which used to look a bit out of the blue to me.

This is bullsh1t and I call polish men to confirm that.

Agreed
chichimera   
9 Feb 2011
Language / "to be" (e.g. 'be yourself') [23]

Sorry, I should have written:

być sobą - that's the infinitive

but I'm not a teacher, so hopefully there will be someone on here who can give you more comprehensive answer
chichimera   
9 Feb 2011
Language / "to be" (e.g. 'be yourself') [23]

you can say "możesz włożyć w to serce", but "nie możesz włożyć w to serca"
chichimera   
9 Feb 2011
Language / "to be" (e.g. 'be yourself') [23]

i don't need to concentrate, i'm telling you how it is.

nie możesz włożyć w to (kogo? czego? - genitive) serca
możesz włożyć w to (kogo? co? - accusative) serce
chichimera   
10 Feb 2011
Language / "to be" (e.g. 'be yourself') [23]

This one always kills me - when is a negative object kogo/czego and when isn't it (for example, because it's in a subordinate clause)?

I'm sorry, I can't explain it - I don't have teacher's competency but really hope that someone on here will explain it eventually. But I'm a native Polish speaker with a pretty good intuition when it comes to Polish (wish I had it when it comes to English! lol) and I know that it should be: nie potrafisz włożyć w to serca

Over-applying of rules is characteristic for foreign language learners, isn't it? I know it from my own experience. My "killers" are the perfect tenses and the definite/indefinite articles.

I remember once I said to a native English speaker that I "did" something. She said: "Oh, have you? So I asked her why had she used the perfect tense and she said:"Oh, have done or did - it's the same isn't it?" I startled. Thought: Please, after all these hours I spent with my book trying to understand the mystery of the perfect tense,don't tell me that it's THE SAME...!

:-))
chichimera   
15 Mar 2011
History / What nation do Poles feel closer to? [74]

Hungarians.

I've got Hungarian friends and find them very close to Poles in everything... except the language. I've tried to learn a bit of it, but oh boy, the language is scary.
chichimera   
15 Mar 2011
Language / weź/wej - Pronunciation questions [4]

"wej sobie" rather than "weź sobie". Am I hearing wrong, or people actually say like that?

What people actually say is: "weś-sobie", and it's the neighbourhood of soft s and hard s, which results in this weird "wej-sobie" sound. Similairly in phrases "coś zrobić", "coś zjeść", you hear "coź-zrobić", "coź-zjeść", the voiceless ś becomes voiced and the źz sound gets simplified during normal speech.

You can ask your girlfriend to say "nasz ogród" - people from Northern Poland pronounce it "nasz-ogrót", if she's from the South it will sound "naż-ogrót" :)
chichimera   
15 Mar 2011
History / What nation do Poles feel closer to? [74]

NomadatNet: Work effortly, to China.

Really???

Not really. Poles expect a bit bigger salary for their hard work and also are very much concerned with their rights as employees.

Religiously and economically, to Germany.

Really???

Des Essientes, Marynka11, 1jola, PennBoy, MediaWatch, Polonius3, chichimera and my humble self
stated the obvious, really :)

On 23 March I'm going to paint myself red, white and green and go drinking and saber-fighting
chichimera   
17 Mar 2011
Language / Listening to music and learning Polish [45]

:-)))

And he even corrects himself - as if that could help.
I know someone who speaks like that guy. I was told it's because he was electrocuted as a child
chichimera   
19 Mar 2011
News / Polish Jesuits created a Facebook site for non-believers. Atheists not a total waste? [70]

people who believe in primitive mythology and religious fairy tales as if they had actually happened, then force their fantasies down people's throats

I like atheists, because they refuse to believe in superstitions, which are an offence to humans' intelligence and which live because life is so frightening.

But how can you conclude there is no God if you look into the eyes of a child or gaze at the beauty of nature?

And I like those who are truly religious, because in their hearts they've found the mark of the inexpressible

What if you're both right? :)

youtube.com/watch?v=PlXE-0LozHc