History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]


But she was in office far too long, crippling the entire political system along the way. After 8-10 years, no head of state is really effective at serving the citizenry - they begin to serve themselves which is bad for the system as a whole.

Worst, she continued the horrifically misguided policy of making Germany into a hostage of a dictator by making the economy so dependent on Russian hydrocarbons. She wasn't the only or worst guilty party in that process but what did she do to stop it or provide alternatives?

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]


Not so much Hungarians, from what I gather many just didn't want a change in uncertain times... like Putin and Merkel and Erdogan, Orban has somehow convinced many Hungarians that they can't survive without him...

You do see the two maps (the modern and pre-Trianon borders) all over the place in Hungary...

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


Quite true. I''ve followed some Russians online who write English at native level but when I found spoken interviews... yikes! I can barely understand what they're saying..

A person's first language shapes their speech apparatus in ways that make some other languages essentially impossible to pronounce really well.

That said, I've had several Russian speaking students who do manage reasonably well.

(Polish speakers are not disadvantaged in English but are horribly disadvantaged in languages in which vowel length is important (Japanese and some other Asian languages especially) they seem really uncapable of producing short and long vowel sounds).

Travel / Your best memory after visiting Poland [41]


I guess past a certain age, life really does revolve around going to the bathroom...

Life / Debt in Poland. (problems at the polish customs?) [8]


But using the a-word allows him to blame something besides his own choices.

Life / Debt in Poland. (problems at the polish customs?) [8]


Something tells me that the poster is actually the "best friend" and he isn't as cleaned up as he thinks....

Life / Debt in Poland. (problems at the polish customs?) [8]


Hopefully. He has not turned his life around until he makes peace with his creditors in Poland.

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


That's why the modern left hates borders.... they reveal collective differences which are intolerable to the left which tends to see humans as interchangeable widgets....

Food / Poland's best cheap beers? [72]


Why? I've tried it a few times and gotten terrible headaches each time (before I'm done with the first bottle) yikes, nasty stuff....

Life / Is it normal for men to abandon their children in Poland? [26]


No a Polish group, not a musician I'd ever heard of (though I have heard of some groups/performers he'd played with such as Oddział Zamknięty. Pudelsi or Urszula...

Life / Is it normal for men to abandon their children in Poland? [26]


Brother of a friend has done that twice.... he paid/pays child support but seemed to lose all interest in the kids after the divorce and made/makes no effort to visit (even though they live in the same city).

Before the divorce was very involved but after... ghost.


Me either, not really well known in Poland (though he's played with a couple of groups I'd heard of).

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


pierdalać is a back-formation

pierdolić = imperfective

if you add a prefix that makes it perfective, odpierdolić

to make an imperfective verb in that case you change some stem vowels to -a- and/or harden consonants and/or and a suffix with -w-

It's the same process with prosić, zaprosić and zapraszać (adding za- makes it perfective and so you change o to a and harden -si- to -sza- to have an imperfecive verb.

Does that make sense?

Work / American High School Teacher looking to teach English in Poland [27]


I forgot to explicitly state that this happened in Germany (in or close to Berlin).

Guy was not.... religious... at all. He did have a sense of humor about the situation

Work / American High School Teacher looking to teach English in Poland [27]


short answer... "no, they're not"

Some years ago I knew and Irish guy who had taught in an adult education program. Once he made a joke about his Irish accent... and the next thing he knows there are people going to the administration complaining: They were paying for lessons in Hochenglisch and not some regional Dialekt...

Work / American High School Teacher looking to teach English in Poland [27]


And terrible communicators... I've seen some impressively awful attempts. Foreign language learning has a lot of secondary benefits that can end up being more important than knowledge of a language for most people so ehn foreign language education is scaled back that kneecaps people's ability to communicate across language barriers.

Classes in the foreign country are a different mater, though in the case of the UK I think that ends up being more related to having a tourist experrience rather than actual language learning (the... very unique Szkutnik* used to have some words to say about that.

*why doesn't he have an English wikipedia page?


In Poland, saying you prefer British English is a Gricean response that doesn't necessarily correspond to reality (certainly almost no one actually attempts a British pronunciation).

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Leszek_Szkutnik

Work / American High School Teacher looking to teach English in Poland [27]


How did the worst language learners in Europe get promoted to be in charge of foreign language learning? Makes no sense....

I think there is a time and place for classes with no use of the local language and a time and place where the learner's language is a valuable resource in learning...


Taiwan has never struck me as a center of good foreign language learning... even in Asia....

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


The attempts by Belarus to destabilize the Polish border...

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

You supported Belarus against Poland, get lost you lousy Serb....

Life / Healthcare Cover in Poland - accessing Spanish healthcare through ZUS? [5]


I think it's Polish residents paying into ZUS (or permanent residents?) I'm not a citizen but I have karta stałego pobytu and I also have EKUZ (never had to use it so don't know how well it would work for me...)

News / Good news: Poland's PiS to rule at least 12 years -- Morawiecki [91]

Collaborators really cannot understand the mind of those who want freedom....


How often was that happening in Ukraine?

Again your sick fantasies are not an argument about anything.

News / Good news: Poland's PiS to rule at least 12 years -- Morawiecki [91]


Exactly! You do understand after all!

Po polsku / Karma zawsze (zwykle?) wraca - przykłady z życia [62]

Może.... kiedyś.... nie ma pośpiechu....

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Is acting as funeral director for conscripts murdered by Putin

msn.com/pl-pl/wiadomosci/polska/bia%C5%82oru%C5%9B-niekt%C3%B3re-szpitale-na-po%C5%82udniu-kraju-pe%C5%82ne-rannych-rosyjskich-%C5%BCo%C5%82nierzy-a-kostnice-ich-cia%C5%82/ar-AAUZNon

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


In Bizarro Universe?

Is there a special Fountain of Stupidity that Serbs drink from?

How can Poland and Russia be friends while Russia is slaughtering Slavic civilians?

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


Something that doesn't exist.... can't strengthen.... don't you ever get tired of being 100% wrong? What batteries do you use to charge your stupidity?

Language / Is This the Correct Way to Say 'bro, wake up, it's the 90's'? [10]

what about kolesiu? brachu? (genuinely curious this is the kind of stylistic thing I'm bad at...)

Genealogy / Wladyslaw and the English equivalent [22]


IINM that's the Latin version of Władysław

Genealogy / Wladyslaw and the English equivalent [22]


A man's name, the female version is Władysława (now very rare). In old-fashioned pronunciation you can hear a sequence that sounds a bit like Lotty -łady- (in the modern pronunciation it would sound like 'wotty')

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


We don't agree!

EU yes, Serbia no.

why are serbs always trying to boss everyone else around? can't they just mind their own business like normal people for once?

Off-Topic / Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in EU in 2030? [105]


A Russian speaking Ukrainian told me that Russians (even intelligent and well-meaning ones) just don't understand that Ukrainians don't like them very much and don't find Russian social life very appealing (Russians are obedient and passive while Ukrainians..... are neither).

This doesn't necessarily extend to interpersonal relations (this person was happily married to a Russian) but at the macro-level Ukraine has a very different history from Russia (related to different geographic and other factors) and Ukrainians, even if they only speak Russian, have no intention of joining any Russian led configuration.