What makes you feel Polish?

So what my ancestors came from Europe? I feel 100% American and dont really care that much at all about Europe anymore. Its so old and run down to the ground, what's so special about it?? Its full of PC libtards, No free speech, super high cost of living, muzzies, dismal weather. I could go on and on....

Poland is still the best country out of the EU, hands down. I hope it stays that way.

Is Polish your mother tongue? If you learned English after a certain verx young ag, then it simply ISN'T your fir7langua

Nope, I was born in Chicago not Poland. You didnt know this until now?? lol


Nothing wrong with learning Polish if you plan on living in Poland, but you could actually get away without it now. Yeah, its fun going to the Polish bars in Chicago and talking to the girls with my cute American accent, hehe they love it! Im around Polish speakers everyday so Im used to it, but Im not taking lessons like Lyzko, why should I? If youre going to learn a foreign language in the USA, you would be crazy not to learn espaniol gringo:) Nobody speaks Polish outside of the Chicagoland area. Try going to a bar in New Orleans or Vegas and say "jak sie masz" and they will think youre Borat..lol

Poland is the third largest country in Europe and with the second greatest basically mono-lingual population, Polish is a major EU language.

Please stop turning every thread into a language thread

Yes, you were trying to prove that you were born in Poland, but as far as I remember you also were making sure that everyone on this forum know how much you don't feel Polish, you don't want to be Polish, you don't regard yourself as a Pole even in the slightest part, but as an American. You even claimed that you forgot the Polish language. It turned out you didn't forget.

Btw:


These days there aren't any "Polish Jews" left, I'd say. There aren't any Jewish enclaves anymore. There are only Poles with Jewish roots. They even have to import rabbis from abroad, it seems... I had only one Jewish classmate at highschool and I knew that he had Jewish roots only because of his first name and surname.

And he posts in a Polish forum....... he can deny it as much as he likes, but it is obvious that his umbilical cord is still, at least partially, attached to Poland.

Just like many are still attached to Auschwitz, or Katyn, or Normandy, or Vietnam. They never deny, never forget, and even spend big bucks to visit. So what?

Nobody forgets languages, or how to skate, or bike. With the passage of time, those skills - unused - become useless and any attempt to use them clumsier and clumsier. At some point, we just stop. I did stop using Polish because I found it useless here.

I don't deny anything except the right for anyone to guess and infer.


Let me put it as elegantly as I can. I am not trying to prove s**t. I claim. Don't believe my claims? Tough s**t. Your problem, not mine.

But you claimed you did. I'm just saying - that's what you wrote. When I wrote that it isn't possible to completely forget a native language if you were born in a given country, raised and educated and left it as an adult and I gave an example of one Pole who left Poland for the US in the 1950's and still could communicate in Polish, you started ranting about Poles living in the US for years and not knowing English. Because of all your ranting I didn't manage to explain it to you that the Pole I mentioned not only knew English, but was a university professor who lectured at American universities... in English. He had a very thick Polish accent when he spoke English, but he didn't fail to learn English for all those years in the US...


When you state something without providing proof - you claim. When you provide proof (no matter whether true or fake) - you're trying to prove something. You wrote yourself that you provided your WUT diploma, birth certificate, passport and the book you translated with your name on it. Just saying...

One can maybe "survive" in Europe without knowing the local lingo provided, the person lives entirely sequestered in some ex-pat colony of Brits or Yanks, e.g. Patrick Henry Village in Germany etc! Apart from that, I for one couldn't begin to imagine even a brief sojourn in Poland without knowledge of the language on a basic level, if for no other reasom out of plain respect for their culture.

Thats not true if you have an outgoing personality. Hey, have you ever encountered ppl staring at you in Poland?


Have sth to say to me tough guy?

"Staring" you dare to ask?? Odd that they should stare at me as a foreigner for deigning to speak their language when they don't speak mine:-)

I wrote I wish I could just delete Polish like we delete files to make room on the hard drive.
I have no use for Polish anything. Do I remember Poland? Sure do. Am I curious about what's going on there? Sure, just like in the UK. That's it. Case closed.

Take a gun of yours point that end with a hole in it at your temple and pull a trigger, you will delete it just fine and people will have a party celebrating.

It's supposed to be.. .Both errors are actually very popular here so don't feel bad.
What makes me feel Polish is food. When I see tatar and flaki, I recall instantly where I was born.

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And I see zurek z bígosem...LOL

there I actually learned the lingo and it still shows after all those years ..well...who would have thunk...


Not sh't Sherlock, you are making THAT suggestion to everyone....


He stole it from me but if you like it you can make a badge out of it and wear it. It'll fit you like a glove ..

I will wear Angry Simpleton before I would I am an overeducated and always happy weasel.

Long live Polish cuisine! NIECH ZYJE POLSKA KUCHNIA! (..even if it's not kosher, he-he)

A new anthem of Poland - My Motherland (or rather Fatherland in Polish)

youtu.be/2PGpllZk4_w

I think this is a very good historical animation.

youtu.be/6Vfz7WhXoI4

More information for people with an interest in Polish history, but maybe not too much knowledge.
Apologies to all of you that know this stuff, but I think these posts will open the eyes of some people of Polish descent, living outside of Poland.

And many youngsters too.

youtu.be/u6haKM9MyXU

My last post tonight.

youtu.be/17NArJ6wQqo

That is simple. You should speak Polish and love Poland. You don`t even have to be born here.

E.g., - these guys sing the Polish anthem in the countryside and feel true Poles.

youtu.be/5By3HD4CRgs

Sometimes when reciting Iwaszkiewicz I feel Polish.

Wow, that is very interesting. Iwaszkiewicz is more known for his wonderful fiction - a lot of films adaptations of his novels have been made

I feel Polish when I see tartar and vodka in front of me.

@Pawian, do you know the one that begins "Przez caly bialy dzionek czekam, az stanie wieczor wiencu gwiazd.. ?."

Szopen's Etude in E "La Tristesse" aka "Smutnosc" to me is the soul of Poland.

The correct answer to the question of what makes you feel Polish is: Nothing.
We feel sad, happy, depressed, and many other things but not Polish or German or any other nationality.
In response to how do you feel, did anyone ever say, I feel Polish?

You can feel Polish if you live abroad and it is sometimes very difficult. In Poland instead of you are Polish (or not). I think this feeling to be Polish is in Poland in daily use not neccesary. You are just Polish.

@miroslaw
Thans for the links, funilly enough i stumbled onto that channel a few days ago. Good gfx but did not really warm to the western perspective.

Have you seen this one? Animated History of Poland made by Polish VFX company for world expo. Very emotional. !
youtu.be/7SpddNW7a3k

Yeah, I have, really superb!