Love / Why Poland and Indian Sub-Continent? [30]

Of late, I have come across lots of relationships involving Poles and people from the Indian-Subcontinent. And I actually have one such marriage in my own family. And another married couple that I know of in my hometown.

I find this pattern strange. Polish girl and Indian guy or vice versa, you know. I mean it's never Czech and Indian or French and Indian.. It's always Polish and Indian. Is it just me?Or is it a fact?

And btw, in my opinion, I think such relationships are difficult.(Although, I know of an Indian-Russian couple in my hometown and they actually grew old together. I see them holding hands and going on walks together in the evening.)

So what do you think? My observation about this trend is correct? And do you think such relationships work?

Language / Indian-Polish Accent. :P [26]

Hey guys,

I am posting a link to an audio of me talking in Polish. It's nothing complex, just a short, simple introduction. I thought you might find it interesting to hear an Indian trying to speak Polish. So here it goes.

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It starts off after 4 seconds...

Thanks.

Naomi.

Language / Co wy z tym żurkiem? / Terez dręczy mnie cały czas - Please correct my Polish. [12]

This is informally addressed to a female. Could you please correct it for me?

Uczę się języka powoli i stopniowo. Mam nadzieję, do zobaczenia następnym roku w Polska i na weselu tutaj w Indiach. Kupiłem nowy telefon komórkowy. Chcę jeść Żurek. Kocham Sylwia Grzeszczak piosenki - Małe rzeczy. Bardzo ładny teksty piosenek. Kocham psy. Nie podoba mi kotów. I tak znowu, jestem twoim żartowniś.

Thank you so much,

Naomi.

Language / What I learned so far about the Polish language. [30]

Hello all,

I am learning Polish at the moment. (Yes, I have introduced myself here before if you were wondering. But oh, well, I will do it again - I am Naomi. I am from India. And I am 21.) This thread is just to share my excitement about the whole process with you.

I made a few great Polish friends on here. I am already in love with Polski. But my friends made me fall for the people too.

The language is no doubt complex, especially if you are doing it without a tutor. But I have some good resources to help me out. And of course my friends help me with the finer word usage details that books/softwares don't carry.

I will share here what I learnt in the 10 hours that I devoted to learning the language. Maybe you could correct, add to this or encourage me.

I learnt the sounds of the 32 alphabets and affricates.
I learnt the basic idea behind the 7 cases,5 genders and numbers; and how words forms change according to these parameters.
I learnt about the pronouns - On, Ona, Oni, One
Also how to identify the genders of some words.(most nouns ending with consonants are masculine, those ending with an 'a' are feminine and with 'o' are neuter.)

I also learnt a few basic words and phrases like dziewczynka, stol, powodzenia. (The spelling is so difficult! I downloaded a virtual Polish keyboard by the way)

And oh! A few cuss words as well. :P

I am learning Polish, Medicine, basic keyboard, advanced guitar all at one time! I am probably gonna go nuts at the end of this! Totally loving it!

Anyway, thanks for reading and ermm... I have a suggestion for the mods. It would be great if you remove the racists comments/threads posted here by some,well, racists. I think they should have no place on this website where people from all around the world come to learn about Poland. It simply reflects bad on the country. If someone talked shit about me or my country here, I will probably not fight back, but I will just know what kind of a place they come from...

\m/

Naomi

Language / Polish - Absolute Beginner Questions. Study plan. [75]

Hello all,

I am trying to learn Polish all from scratch and all by myself. I just started out a couple of days back. I read up a few things here and there on the internet and downloaded some study material. I also made one Polish speaking friend... I guess that's pretty alright for a start.

I have chalked out a study plan for me. It would be great if you share your opinion about it. So here it is -

Step 1 - Learn the alphabet

Step 2 - Learn the sounds associated with the alphabets(vowels, semi-vowels, consonants and affricates)

Step 3 - Learn to read and pronounce basic Polish from Phrasebooks.

Step 4 - Read Polish literature and look up the words in a dictionary. Listen to the Radio or watch Polish videos.

Step 5 - Study Polish grammar(Cases and so on).

(Logically, the step 5 should appear before or with step 4, but I wrote it that way since I learnt that there are more exceptions than rules in Polish grammar.)

And I request you to PM/email me, if you're a Polish speaker and interested in making a new Hindi/Marathi/English-speaking Indian friend. :)

Thank you and dzień dobry.

Naomi.