Language / Is math in Polish different than in English? [59]

My experience of British education system is that when you ask an office worker to do a simple math problem (excel calculations) even inteligent British person usually says - "I can't do that, I'm not a mathematician!".

Go figure.

In Poland mathematics is important part of the studies, it is not being pushed aside (at least it didn't used to!).

I agree with memorising tons of material and not necessarily teaching you to think thing (again, at least that's how it used to be).

Work / Does Poland welcome overseas workers as much as the UK does? [34]

pinhead

Do you know anything about Poland?
You obviously have never been there.

Language / Is math in Polish different than in English? [59]

Roger, young accoutant?
You sure you didn't go to US? (Urząd skarbowy :))

Love / My wife is Polish and it's difficult for her to open up and talk about her feelings [14]

I think Polish people in general are not to fond of talking too much about their feelings (deep down ones not surface ones).
We tend to keep those things to ourselves, love to talk about other people though :)

Love / My wife is Polish and it's difficult for her to open up and talk about her feelings [14]

Gosc, even though you are right in saying that everyone is different, that kind of posts holds some merit. After all although everyone is different statistic can be applied to a group (Asimov).

Anyway saying that some generalizations cannot be made about a large group of people in unwise. Can't you generalize that Polish people are more religious than Czech people? Sure you can. Can't you generalize that there's more Black people in Africa than in Poland? Sure you can.

So kindly let people discuss as they please, if they don't offend someone.

I have lived in Poland all my life and hold different opinion than you, and I'm allowed to, kind sir.

Edit: "there is NO difference between Poles and others" - and this is simply untrue. Are you saying there is no cultural difference between person from Poland, Iran, Japan and USA, for example? There are. MASSIVE ones.

Love / My wife is Polish and it's difficult for her to open up and talk about her feelings [14]

I'm trying to say that not all such emails have to be baseless - for example fot me this one is not - it's a genuine question.

And in my opinion Polish women might have some reservations about talking deep feelings with their partners - it's a cultural thing, we like to keep those things to ourselves. Of course some tend to share more than the others,(I share a lot between close friends :)) however some really private stuff even I keep to myself :) What do you think?

Study / Is there racism in Poznan and hate crime against coloured people (students)? [59]

Gosc, kindly stop spreading this bu11$hit.

Work / Automotive engineers in Poland. Are they highly skilled? [3]

cl0ud - Polish engineers in general are quite good. I work in automotive and they seem fine. Don't know about other though.
Were did you get that opinion?

Life / Poland's Alior Bank reviews / ING / Millenium [26]

I wouldn't call them reputable. It's a new brand.

Life / Poland's Alior Bank reviews / ING / Millenium [26]

I have ING internet account. It's ok, moved there because it's free under certain conditions.

Life / Poland's Alior Bank reviews / ING / Millenium [26]

monde, I only have debit card with ING and like others said, if you use your card for 300 pln worth of transactions per month it's free.

Take care.

UK, Ireland / Pronunciation help (Pawel) for sensitive social work issue [12]

Possibly Danuta? You should read it as Danoot(a).

Study / I got accepted into a university in Gliwice, Poland! [38]

Nawzat

if you are looking for country that needs chemists you should look for countries with strong industrial production. Croatia is not one of them.

If you want to work elsewhere, then it doesn't matter :)

Study / I got accepted into a university in Gliwice, Poland! [38]

Nawzat, I'd stick with a country with a little bit more of freedom.

Life / How much money should I save to move to Poland? [17]

Ikea is for design, not necessery quality.
People nowadays don't want to buy furniture for 100years, those will be out of style/boring as *** in 10 years so it's better to buy cheap and change.

News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

InPolska - PO pays for the campaign from it's own budget, as every other party though they are being subsidied from taxpayers money unfortunatelly. This goes for all perties.

Life / Canadian Moving to Poznan, Poland - what to bring over, areas to avoid, school for a child. [54]

Hi Melis! If it's not too much to ask, I'd appreciate a longer post :) Maybe a blog? :)

Genealogy / Why Polish aren't white?? [272]

Uncle Mitch

I think what nothanks was trying to say is that if you are 25% German, 25% French and 50% Spanish, then you are neither. You are 100% American :) Of course you have some ancestry in Germany, but if you were not born in Germany or at least one of your parents, some may consider you 0% German for example. Not entirely my opinion though :)

Anyway, I'd love to hear a comparison between Tennesee and NJ, especially if you own a cabin and some land :) Great outdoors? Hate the city?

Please do not change the topic.

USA, Canada / Thoughts on moving to Poland from USA [62]

I believe you could easilly fit in.
First you should decide what location would be the best for you.
If you are looking for a large city with interesting night life and big English speaking comunity I'd check Wroclaw or Poznan. For following reasons:

- cleaner then Krakow,
- not Warsaw ;)
- Wroclaw is quite close to mountains
- college cities
- Wroclaw has stunning architecture and is a nice place to be.

Alternatively you could look for a small city close to forrests and stay there :). I have there two people fighting in me: one wants to live in the middle of the forrest with noone around, the other wants to live closer to culture, also for children's activities. None of them really wants to live in the middle of a big city. I could consider living in one of bi city "bedrooms", as long as it's close to forrest :).

Work / Current median income in Poland [14]

9500 net >>> 9900 gross

9900 gross is roughly 7000 net which is not that great for Warsaw.

UK, Ireland / Poles - go home make your country better [40]

The thing is that it's easy to pick on Eastern Europeans because then you are not 'racist', and it's easiest to pick on Poles, because we are the largest EE community.

Life / A move to Poland - where to live? What city would you recommend? [32]

I agree with what DominicB said.
It seems that you are looking for rich social and cultural life, and you only get that in big city. Also you are suggesting you will want to work on some point, that also suggests bigger city.

Wrocław would also be my number one choice. Poznań distant second. Łódź is a nono, Kraków is great city but too much polution and too many tourists. Warsaw has no appeal to me.

Wrocław is also quite close to mountains (hello skiing!), Kraków is close to mountains also.

If you were looking for nature I'd definitely go for a place in the mountains though :)

Life / A move to Poland - where to live? What city would you recommend? [32]

I love Szklarska Poręba! Lolobrygida FTW. Harrachov is also nearby.

Anyway, it's not really a place for "culture" or "partying".

Language / Appropriate word selection to positively describe someone in Polish [10]

The question is what do you want to say, becuase you are using words like exquisite and amazing, while you want to say someone is great and fantastic :) Those words are on different level "vocabularily".

Language / Need Help Translating from Polish - a Figurine [18]

Naważyć is archaism for to prepare.
The saying is "naważyć sobie piwa" or "musisz wypić co naważyłeś", which directly means "to preapare oneself a beer" and "you have to drink what you prepared".

It basically means - you have put yourself in that position, so you have to deal with it.

Rolek (name?), you prepared it, so drink.

Language / Need Help Translating from Polish - a Figurine [18]

gumishu

Polski język być trudna.

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

Pomyję can easily be used, but this is regionalism, it's not "proper" polish.

Life / What is the worst bank in Poland that I should avoid at all costs? [21]

Douglas Monarch Bank - never heard of them, so would not use.

I perosnally stayed with BZWBK for 15 years of my life until 3 years ago they introduced fee for foreign ATMs (everything else was fine).
Since then moved to ING and it's fine too, although they also removed free ATM's from their offer lately. Have some free ATMs with them in my city, and some other accounts, so will stay with them some more. Everything seems ok for now, didn't see anything terrible with them yet.

Don't like Alior somehow (small brand), used mband for a while, was ok. PKO seems to be very old fashioned, maybe it changed now.

Love / How much Polish guy cares about ladys' age? I'm from Japan. [32]

@Atch
While you are probably right, if not exagerrating a bit, be aware that the situation of women in Japan is X time worse. So by your "rant" you may discourage Selena, as she may see the situation to be worse than in Japan.

From what I've gathered women in Japan are a lot less independent, a lot more objectified, almost non existant in managerial circles and generally groomed to be best wifes first and foremost. They are of course educated, but just to do some simple work, as work culture is very strong in Japan. A woman that becomes a wife becomes almost "owned" ny husbands family.

All of this is not based on first hand experiance, maybe Selena can confirm\deny.

Anyway, my point is that situation of women in Poland is completely different, where Polish women are more often independent and strong.

@Selena
I think that Japan\Polish relationship (as in Japanese woman and Polish man) is quite good fit, as Polish society is generally similar to Japanese with following tradition, but woman's position is much stronger.

The other way around is no good for Japanese men, as I understand they require some degree of servitude, which they wouldn't get from Polish woman most of the time.

Love / How much Polish guy cares about ladys' age? I'm from Japan. [32]

@Selena88
Generally it varies from case to case, but in my opinion in most cases if a husband was not coming home for a month, that would be a pathological situation leading to a divorce. Those don't happen all that much becasue usually life/family is much more important to Pole than work. Work is simply a way to obtain money to have a life.

As for house budget I have no idea. My guess that it's either split accounts and husband\wife shares costs of running household or Single account with two credit cards and same story.

In Poland it is generally difficult to lead a family life on single income (unless high menagment) so usually both husband and wife are working and neither of it is "hobby" work, but a valid way to earn money necesarry.