Life / Etiquette in a Store and Market Queues in Poland [146]


Thank you. Please tell that to my colleagues at work who make a paradise out of polish institutions.

Language / Pronunciation difficulties for Poles speaking English [40]

When I started learning Polish I was still in Greece and despite some "polish for foreigners,polish in 4 weeks" my wife brought also a book for kids which had some very basic polish-english dialogues. At the end was the vocabulary.

Three little pigs - (free little pigs ) - Trzy male swinki :D :D

Life / Etiquette in a Store and Market Queues in Poland [146]


Well thank you. I'm a Shkodran myself (just born).

Life / Etiquette in a Store and Market Queues in Poland [146]

Maybe it's about people's origin ?
To me Poland seems MUCH more in order than my country(Albania) and my wife points that out everytime we go there :D :D. The only thing that bothers me is the scratches at my car sometimes when are matches and the big bald guys pass by,but that's nothing to not finding the car at all which could very easily happen in my country. Now for british,german,french or dutch I think it looks more "eastern" and I guess it's normal considering the countries they come from.

Study / I want to move Poland from Chicago area and study.. Job prospects, cost of food, healthcare, other expenses [24]


Agreed!


Is that a good thing?

Law / Private information being disclosed by Pekao Bank [10]



That would NOT be a good morning :D. Joking aside, I definitely agree that they should ask the security questions at all times. What if you lose your mobile phone,and some guy who finds it answers the call pretending to be the owner of it ?!

Law / Private information being disclosed by Pekao Bank [10]


The worst banking experience I've had in 3 countries that I've lived.


If you'd need to make a deposit I'm sure they'd find the time, but since it was their fault of course they do not answer ;)


1- The guy who called forgot all about the procedures or
2- They're stoned again :D :D

Life / Drink driving a bike and losing your driving license in Poland [27]


I was also stopped a few days ago while riding the bike ( sober ), they asked if I have any documents and if I drank anything. When I showed them my karta pobytu they just said: Szerokiej drogi ( I think it was because of the name and surname :D ). As about your friend, I think they should've given him some penalty but that's too harsh.

Btw if someone gets his driving license taken, does he/she need to start the whole driving course from the beginning or only to go to the exam?

Work / Job offer from company in Warsaw, EU Logistics. Is this a scam? [22]


No, not really. The company I work in is shipping in Europe.
Try to search: CH ROBINSON, I think it's an american-based company. That's all I know out of Europe. Sorry.

News / Shops in Poland to be closed on Sunday? [208]


2/2 at my home :D

News / Shops in Poland to be closed on Sunday? [208]


Of course not, but as long as everybody who's working on the same line of work has a day off why am I supposed to work? The professions you mention are a bit different, because a miner knows where he's going to work, and a baker knows at what time he/she's supposed to start work. But in an average job which starts at 7-8:00 am and finishes somewhere in the afternoon ( 16-17:00 )and the workplace is above the ground it's a bit unfair for people to not be able to spend a normal holiday with kids or family. That's all I had in mind, no strikes.

News / Shops in Poland to be closed on Sunday? [208]


Yes


The damage is that when your girlfriend/fiancee/wife/friend/father/mother/brother/sister has a day off, you can't go to spend some time with him/her because you'll take another day off when he/she and everybody else is going to be at work, so you'll have a "fantastic" day by yourself. That's the damage.

News / Shops in Poland to be closed on Sunday? [208]


How about other businesses ? Construction,transport? Do the employees have to go to work if the boss says so? What do you guys think? In my opinion: YES because as somebody here mentioned it before,everybody needs to eat, and food costs money. Even if you're living alone, not mentioning people who have kids,mortgages to pay etc.

News / Shops in Poland to be closed on Sunday? [208]


Really? How is that possible if the kids learn religion in kindergarten & school?

Work / Job offer from company in Warsaw, EU Logistics. Is this a scam? [22]


After checking it with some colleagues who work in Warsaw I have that feeling that something doesn't add up. I don't know, also the website it's a bit weird,not complete. There is not a clear information on what they really do. Another thing is that here in PL there is a program which is used by almost every logistics company in Poland and eu logistics doesn't exist on their database.

That's what I could find out. I hope it helps.

Life / Foreigners learning to drive in Poland [2]


Yep, it's up to date.
Not long ago ( 1 year I think ) I had to take my polish driving license. And like you I didn't and I don't speak polish enough to take the theory test in polish, so I asked for the english version. You have to contact a few driving schools as I don't think everyone of them has an instructor who speaks english well enough( my instructor's wife being an english teacher helped me a lot in understanding what he couldn't find the english words for).

Not being a native english speaker made my life difficult as there were some different synonyms in the CD and in the book anyway after passing this minor obstacle I didn't have any problems. I don't know what changed with theory test, everybody says the same as you: IT'S UNBELIEVABLY DIFFICULT. But I think you shouldn't think that way, afterall it's not made to fail everybody :D.

After passing the theory test, I had the practical driving test, here I was told it's obligatory to have a translator with me. Not just somebody who speaks english but a certified translator. I payed him 100 PLN/hour and that was that. The examiner was a very nice guy who didn't seem to be trying to fail me(some of them do it)

P.S Hope that the examiner won't be some complete a-hole and you're done.

Study / Poligloci Language School...Anybody Heard Of Them...? [8]


Hi there, can you share some info about them please?
thnx in advance

Love / english girl struggling with polish boyfriend's friends [20]


That's not fair, opportunity to speak your native tongue you can find anytime. And intstead of making your girlfriend feel like $#it isn't it better to use your native tongue while watching a match with the guys or playing a football match or doing something where you're alone with your friends? (Assuming the girlfriend is not interested in football matches :D ). I remember myself trying to translate every single word to my gf when she was in Greece and (obviously) didn't speak any greek.

When I came in PL though it was a bit different, she was a bit lazy to translate for me, and her friends ( who before told her they speak english very well ) didn't really say anything other than: hi .

My advice is to make him understand, take him when you're with your friends and start telling some jokes from the past,something everybody is familiar with, and I guess he'll feel something similar to you. After that he might be able to understand your position when he's with his friends.

Love / english girl struggling with polish boyfriend's friends [20]


That's exactly how I felt during my first 6-8 months here in PL, I had to learn some polish for them to notice that I was there.

Work / Job offer from company in Warsaw, EU Logistics. Is this a scam? [22]


Can you provide more information about them? I'm currently working in logistics so I could help you with what they ship.A website? Adress? Contact person?

History / A map of the 2nd Republic - help? [5]

For the borders of Wielkopolska I guess you need a topographic map(considering you want to go and search those traces you mentioned). Bestmap.pl might help you with that. Once I got a VERY good map of Piwniczna Zdroj -Krynica Zdroj area from them.

News / Krystyna Pawłowicz and the 'marsz szmata' (slut walk) [52]

Please do it again. Maybe this time in Krakow?

Love / Asking Polish parents for permission to propose to my Polish girlfriend - help [5]


He got a point. Just keep it simple. Ironside translated it for you, scratch the language part and I guess it's ok.

Law / I got a job in Poland, but there's no work permission [3]


Rather yes, even if the procedure will last longer ( which for sure will :D :D) and you're visa will expire,they usually give you some sort of a stamp on your passport. That proves that you're in the middle of the process of getting a residence permit. I don't know though if you are eligible to work during the first 3 months( before getting the residence permit ).

Good luck

History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]


Yes, you're right, it's not about the origin. It's about what this language really is, and some experts say it's a bulgarian dialect.You were saying something about similiarities between languages and I agree there are similarities especially between slavic countries. But here we're talking about more than 90 % of the language, even Czech with Slovak I think have more differences. Anyway I think I will just drop it, this thread got way more interesting with : Harry,Flagless and Ironside, so it'd be a shame to spoil it. In less words: I agree with whatever you have to say, Alexander was Macedonian, born and raised in Skopja, right next to his statue somewhere and macedonian culture got spread till far east.

History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]


Dude, Poland didn't call itself Magdeburg,Morava or anything else. And didn't name any airports after some German/Czech/Russian/Ukrainian king :D :D.


Here I have to agree with you. Seriously.

History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]

Oh, really? Search for the origin of the "macedonian" language.

History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]


Ok, so how can you explain me that when I was in Macedonia with a bulgarian friend of mine he was communicating with them like 2 poles communicate with each-other ( one from Gdansk and the other from Silesia ) and even he was shocked from the similarities?


I don't think it has anything to do with it. Greece supported Serbia during the Bosnian war, and after the Kosovo war, and that was mostly because of the famous "Othodox brothers", but in Macedonia?? Macedonians are orthodox too ( at least that part that is called macedonian ).


Ok, so if you consider that normal, I have nothing to add.

Travel / A four days vacation, where to go in Poland? [39]


Yes, I live in Poland. 2 and half years now(Krakow) and of course I happen to see some cases of staring,or some old ladies trying to whisper ( they were quite loud but they thought they're whispering ) about an african young mother and her little baby, and my mother in law not understanding why I don't remember all catholic holidays. But I don't consider it a big deal. From what I read, you've been living here for 15 years, so I just have to step back because I'm nowhere your life experience in Poland.

History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]


Now think for a moment if there was a country called Republic of Malopolska,bordering Poland, pretending to have nothing to do with polish region in south of Poland. Take also some polish hero/king/prince and name the airport of this "country's" main airport,name also a few roads,put him on some banknotes, fill the children's history books with nothing close to the truth,invent a language ( which is basically just a dialect of another language ) and I guess you have it.

Now tell me if that sounds familiar, and if any state/country/nation in the world would agree with an identity theft?
P.S I'm not greek ;)