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Posts: Total: 8 / In This Archive: 7 		From: England
Speaks Polish?: Only a little bit, currently learning Polish

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Sonorous   
7 Sep 2013
UK, Ireland / Learning Polish - Polish shops in England? [34]

Hey everyone.

I'm currently learning Polish (I'm English and from England). I've only been learning for about three weeks, but I'm really loving it, it's an amazing language.

There are plenty of Polish shops (mostly with the name 'Polski sklep') around where I live. There's probably about five in my local city.

I was wondering, when I become a fair amount better at Polish, would it be a good idea to visit them and try out my Polish? (obviously I'd be buying things there).

Or would the Poles running the shop be a little bit reluctant to have an English person learning Polish in their shop?
Sonorous   
9 Sep 2013
UK, Ireland / Learning Polish - Polish shops in England? [34]

It's the Parisian waiter syndrome - you may have learnt enough to order, but they are busy and not generally in the mood for it. Is there a Polish Club anywhere near you?

I don't think there is, but I'll do my research.
I wouldn't go in until I was at least conversational enough to be able to understand them properly, I wouldn't go in if I was still just a beginner.

But thanks for the advice.

Also, welshguyinpola, how is this a ridiculous question? I imagine the best place to ask would be here, and it saves me from going in there and making myself look like an ass.
Sonorous   
10 Sep 2013
UK, Ireland / Learning Polish - Polish shops in England? [34]

Thanks for the advice, everyone.

I think it'd be great to actually talk to them, it'd be quite strange if you just went up to a Pole on the bus and started a conversation with them. At least in a Polish shop, you won't look out of place.
Sonorous   
17 Sep 2013
UK, Ireland / Learning Polish - Polish shops in England? [34]

Haha, I actually went into a Polski sklep near my house, the Polish girls in there were incredibly friendly.

The moment I told them 'jestem z Anglii' and that I'm learning Polish, they were pretty much taken aback. Where I am, lots of ignorant people don't like the Poles (typical 'they took our jobs' scenario).

But they were incredibly helpful with everything and always had a smile on their faces, I go there everyday to say good morning now!
A Polish builder in there even brought me a Polish-English dictionary for free, from Poland.
They really make my day :)
Sonorous   
18 Sep 2013
UK, Ireland / Daniel Pelka murder: Polish mother and stepfather face life sentences [96]

Social services are quite bad here in England, but again, they must have a lot on their hands.
The fact is, they didn't get there soon enough, the school was probably too afraid to do anything about Daniel when they saw his injuries, and an innocent little boy is dead because of the two people who were supposed to care for him. If social services workers deserve anything, it's guilt for not doing anything about it, if they could have done.
Sonorous   
18 Sep 2013
UK, Ireland / Learning Polish - Polish shops in England? [34]

If someone dropped their wallet, I'd pick it up and say 'excuse me' to the guy, but a lot of people would say 'oi, you dropped your wallet', which is quite rude.

We don't say 'sir' very often in the UK, there really isn't much comparison to ty and pan(i) in most cases, but in some cases, you have to call someone 'sir' in order to be polite.

It's always nice for someone to address me as 'sir', it's very polite and you can never go wrong with it.
Sonorous   
20 Nov 2013
Language / Learning Polish and Russian simultaneously, Is this a good idea? [10]

Cześć.

I'm currently learning Polish and I'm doing really well with it so far. Such a cool language, by the way.
However, I want to learn Russian as well, I love both the languages and I would love to learn both.
Is this a good idea? Has anyone here learned two languages simultaneously?

I consider myself quite good at learning languages, it's something I find very easy. For GCSE exams, I learned a lot of French and German together and never confused the two.

Dziękuję, ludzie!