Language / What are więcej przykładów of the Locative case - other examples in the Polish language [4]

@Skyman

learning Polish is useless unless you plan to spend the rest of your life here

Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]


I don't think this is entailed in the separation of church and state

Life / Dentist prices in Poland [6]

hmm maybe that's the going price in big cities - I live in the countryside

Life / Dentist prices in Poland [6]


the price seems normal - just to extract a tooth costs 100 PLN in most places

ok - my mom just told me that filling a tooth can be as low as 100 PLN - sorry for misinforming you - the price you were quoted seems to be a premium for English speaking dentist

Law / Poland tax laws regarding a 2nd job [2]


according to what I just read on the subject you should let your employer know you want them to deduct higher percentage tax (32) - but the article didn't state if it should be made as a formal note/letter. My wild guess is that telling them and making yourself clear/insisting about it is enough.

if your second job is a free-lance (działalność gospodarcza) you don't have to pay additional ZUS as far as I recall - but if it is a regular employee position further ZUS will be deducted percentage wise

Language / So why did you give up learning Polish? [105]

powiedziała mi is not shorter she told me - it's 5 syllables against 3

Language / So why did you give up learning Polish? [105]


very good - how long have you stayed in Poland (like since the 90's?)

Language / WHY THE HELL CANT I LEARN POLISH?? [64]

Rich is Polish at heart - he speaks things he doesn't think much about in a fervour and probably exaggaretes greatly from time to time - if he has contempt for the Polish language even though he grew up as Polish, so what? - let him be

Language / So why did you give up learning Polish? [105]

@mafketis

mafketis please translate this simple dialogue into Polish:

- I will tell mom.
- Don't tell mom.

if you manage it than i will concede that Polish is not difficult at all

Love / I want my Polish gf to live with me but she says life here is too hard [31]


maybe it takes just 100 bucks to go to the other coast of the US - but how much do you have to have to rent some place and start a new living - I think some women are not in a position to start from scratch in another part of the country (I'm talking also from my personal experience -well my mom's experience to be precise)

Please back on topic everyone

Language / WHY THE HELL CANT I LEARN POLISH?? [64]


I think Polish is too complicated to learn it this way perahps except for the very basic basics :):P

Life / Air shows in Poland are annoying [23]


yes, there was one - but it wasn't a MiG of Polish Air Forces (it was Belarusian if I recall correctly)

edit: I googled it - it was a Belarusian Su-27 - both crew memebers died - there were no casualties among the spectators - the year was 2009 (Radom Air Show)

Language / Please help with the translation in Polish of a set of English sentences [3]

The apple is red.
To jabłko jest czerwone.
This apple is red

It's John's apple.
To jabłko Johna
This apple John's

I give John the apple.
Daję to jabłko Johnowi
Give-I this apple to-John

We give him the apple.
Dajemy mu to jabłko
Give-we to-him this apple

He gives it to John.
On daje to Johnowi
He gives this John-to

She gives it to him
Ona mu to daje.
She to-him this gives.

Is the apple red?
(Czy) to jabłko jest czerwone?
(?) this apple is red?
(Czy is called interrogative particle at least in sentences like this one)

The only difference between To jabłko jest czerwone. and To jabłko jest czerwone? lies in the intonation

The apples are red.
Te jabłka są czerwone.
These apples are red.

I must give it to him.
Muszę mu to dać.
I-must to-him this give.

I want to give it to her.
Chcę jej to dać.
I-want to-her this give.

I'm going to know tomorrow.
Będę wiedział jutro.
I-will knew tomorrow.

I can't eat the apple.
Nie mogę zjeść tego jabłka.
Not I-can to-eat-up this apple.

alternatively
Nie mogę jeść tego jabłka.
Not I-can eat this apple.

I haven't eaten the apple.
Nie zajdłem tego jabłka.
Not I-ate-up this apple.

Classifieds / Job search in Swarzędz and surrounding areas. [5]

Swarzędz is not far from Poznań - (less than 30 km) - try looking for English speaking jobs in Poznań

this one is one of the latest offers : pracuj.pl/praca/specjalista-ds-obslugi-klientow-miedzynarodowych-z-j-angielskim-australia-poznan,oferta,6998746

Law / Motorbike registration / insurance in Poland, if I'm not living there [5]

@DanMD

it is impractical to insure in Poland a vehicle with foreing plates (you can insure it only for a 30 day period after which you are expected to register the vehicle in Poland) - if you are staying in Poland for the foreseeable future you should consider registering your motorbike in Poland

Language / "Pan" or "Ty" - how people address each other in Poland? [55]


that's amazing - I actually thought this is nigh on impossible

Life / In North Praga, Warsaw people are paranoid [16]


maybe they have things to hide - and maybe you look like an police secret agent

Life / What income/assets and worth, will give you a "rich" status in Poland? [22]


there are areas in Poland where you cannot plant a forest on agricultural land - also you cannot plant forests on meadows/pastures nationwide

Life / Slogans and designs on Polish T-shirts also represent culture of Poland [25]

I can relate to the first one ;)

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

oh sorry - I have no idea to be honest - but I honestly doubt present day Lithuanians understand much of Sanskrit

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Lithuanian-Sanskrit connection is a fact not a theory - simple as that Indoeuropeans originated from the Pontic Steppe - and they migrated in all directions from there after domesticating of the horse


it's not so idiotic as it may sound at first - Alans migrated in many directions and noone clearly knows where they originated - they are know from Eurasiatic Steppe from France, from Caucasus, from Tunisia and even from China -- all descendants of the same tribe

Law / Are foreigners with kids on work visa in Poland eligible for the "Family 500 PLN" benefit money? [36]


the article on the Najwyższy Czas was completely based on hearsay additionally

Law / Are foreigners with kids on work visa in Poland eligible for the "Family 500 PLN" benefit money? [36]


where?

the only place I found it was the Najwyższy Czas website which might not be the most veritable source

Law / Are foreigners with kids on work visa in Poland eligible for the "Family 500 PLN" benefit money? [36]


I haven't read the report to be honest - my imagination tells me though that there can a problem with double the number of first year students in secondary education - however we are in a demographic low so I honestly don't know if it will be really a huge problem

also - if you compare transitory (as I imagine) problems with education to a huge VAT and akcyza gap during PO-PSL terms then we are talking nuts versus hard dollars

Law / Are foreigners with kids on work visa in Poland eligible for the "Family 500 PLN" benefit money? [36]


this is not true for the original 500 plus programme which was thought up under realization that there is a huge VAT gap and it can be pretty easily reduced - essentially the growth in income in VAT tax funded the original 500 plus programme already a year after the programme was introduced

- there was also the issue of illegal fuel sales in Poland which could have been easily addressed when PO was in power but there was NO WILL to do it - when PiS addressed the issue the legal fuel (mostly diesel) sales grew more than 20 per cent between 2016 and 2017 - to a large extent this is not the case now with the new social spending programmes PiS promised -

a responsible leadership would say if you are not happy with us now and don't want us to continue fundamental changes in the judiciary and various other fields we just give up and you will see what you will get under opposition parties - Kaczyński gambled because the polls had shown people are not quite grateful for what they got under PiS - I still do not understand those who think PiS was worse than the previous government anyway

Law / Are foreigners with kids on work visa in Poland eligible for the "Family 500 PLN" benefit money? [36]


I thinks it's practically possible but I have no idea how common it is - sorry for not answering your question in my first post - I got carried away

Law / Are foreigners with kids on work visa in Poland eligible for the "Family 500 PLN" benefit money? [36]


Kennyboy - probably the best thing would be tax returns linked to having/raising children
- even though the original 500 plus programmed was entirely funded by the growth in VAT tax within a year of introducing the programme (curbing VAT tax fraud in Poland was a big success of PiS) the current/subsequent programmes are not based in the hard tax arithmetic (e.g they will be funded by national debt if not now then at any sing of economic downturn)

- the original 500 plus programme was delivered as promised before the election and it was based on the assumption that it would be pretty easy to tighten the grip on the VAT mafias - there is still a leak in the system of collecting taxes in Poland but it will be much more difficult to curb because it is in the area of income taxes which is not paid in Poland by most international corporations

- my guess is PiS went for 500 plus payment for the second and next children because it was a sing of generosity that all people with 2 or more children would instantly feel in their wallets regardless of how much they earn - some people earned real peanuts and the tax returns would be in fact lower than the child benefit they collect now - 500 plus child benefit got enough traction that (some) people believed PiS can deliver on all of their promises and are a responisible party - I believed it too - but now I am in a serious doubt about it (that they a responsible party)

- the main reason why, I think, PiS promised 500 PLN for each child (among other benefits) now is that the original programme has not given the party popular support they counted for (according to the polls) - so the new programme(s) are essentially a bribe - a bribe that worked (because a large section of society now believes PiS will deliver) as the recent EU parliament election shown - if the national election were held right now PiS would again gain the majority in the Parliament probably including the senate and this without the bad luck of some of the opposition parties had in the 2015 elections (PiS really had an instant of formidable luck in those elections)

Law / Are foreigners with kids on work visa in Poland eligible for the "Family 500 PLN" benefit money? [36]

do you believe it is responsible of you - I thought you were critical of PiS social programmes and now I see this - the 500 plus for every child is irresponsible move by PiS and it is possible that in the future the state finances will collapse under it's weight

Life / Rural Poland Heritage [39]

in the past it was pretty simple - people subsisted in their small farms but already during communist times with the baby boom people had to seek jobs in cities and towns - a lot of people used to commute to work (public communication was in certain ways much better than today) or for higher education - the situation is much different now - only a handful of people still run their own farms - it is even more pronounced in western Poland because most land there belonged to the state owned farms (PGR's) and since then just the owner changed for the land

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


man, where do you know it - I NEVER even heard about her

@pawian

I guess Museum of Aviation in Kraków - when I was there no German planes were on the exhibition but it was more than two decades ago