Travel / Had the most unwelcoming experience in all my travels in Poland, very unfriendly people. [115]

You're from the Netherlands and most likely under forty-:) Hard not to judge any people based on even one awful experience. Although my all too brief sojourn to Poland was but umpteen years ago on vacation as well, I was still able to look past much inconvenience. We even plan to return one day. Regarding the Netherlands, I in fact found the Poles far more welcoming than the Dutch, and in Utrecht I even spoke some of the language, at the time far better than Polish! Try not to let a few bad apples spoil the batch.

Classifieds / Teaching Arabic school in Warsaw? [22]

Is Farsi much in demand?

USA, Canada / Looking to move to Poland within the next 5-7 years from the US and need some guidance on your process. [15]

To which the obvious solution is to familiarize oneself with the target culture/language PRIOR TO going over-:)

USA, Canada / Looking to move to Poland within the next 5-7 years from the US and need some guidance on your process. [15]

They meant "to become a part OF...", I think.

USA, Canada / Looking to move to Poland within the next 5-7 years from the US and need some guidance on your process. [15]

Right as rain! When I was a young TA in the '9O's in Europe, I'd often cringe at the flat unwillingness of other American teaching fellows to learn the language of the country in which they were working!

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

...or: This, the MOST UNKINDEST cut of all. (Hamlet Act II Scene I, if memory serves me correctly).

Study / Studying Medicine in Poland with weak Polish? I speak native Slavic language - Macedonian [10]

In Poland, better weak Polish than no Polish at all.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

Aha, mais au contraire, Pierre! Communism sounds trés lousé both in theory and practiceLOL

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

In theory, for certain! In practice? Trump nearly destroyed that standard.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

It was common coin in Shakespeare's time to speak not only in double negations, but in double superlatives as well-:)

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

@Novichok, ships and countries among the educated classes are typically referred to in the feminine-:) @Maf, even the Allies couldn't work miracles.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

First, read the facts folksies, then comment! Countries are often referred to as"she", at least in standard English. Wrong on both counts LOL

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

The US acted as buffer while the Soviets exerted ever greater hegemony over Eastern Bloc neighbors.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

The West saved Poland's butt and here but for the grace of G_d went Germany along with the rest of the Axis! The Americans were far from perfect, but many other nations might never even wanted to make diplomatic amends with the enemy, either erstwhile or current-:)

History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [231]

I must beg to differ here. Comparing the Judenraete with Jews in or even after wartime Poland is a specious argument at best, not worthy of our inteligence to say the least!

UK, Ireland / Are the Polish in the UK actually rude or bitter? [38]

Well Ioshi, from which garden spot on the globe do YOU hail, pray? You might be interested to know that Germany and Poland have some of the most beautiful landscapes anywhere in Europe.

UK, Ireland / Are the Polish in the UK actually rude or bitter? [38]

Speak for yourself, dude!

UK, Ireland / Are the Polish in the UK actually rude or bitter? [38]

Germans typically cherish their personal space aka "Privatsphaere" with near zealous ardor! Perhaps the Poles along with certain other groups are the same.

UK, Ireland / Are the Polish in the UK actually rude or bitter? [38]

Sounds like a stereotype of the Germans, frankly-:)

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Clarity needn't be infantile, Lenka.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Communication also consists technically of burps and flatulence, but what then separates us from the four-legged variety of animal? I find Polish infinitely more consistent than English spelling..any day!

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Ck. out the sophisticated dialogue from classic Hollywood movies for ORDINARY Americans in the '4O's through the 6O's and tell me English is so simple. Our morphology may be transparent, our lexic and idiom?? Don't think so-:) Forget about tour orthography.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

I think we all know to whom I'm referring, B.B.LOL

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

NO language has a monopoly on difficulty! English is labeled as "easy", while to communicate both correctly as well as coherently (much less completely idiomatically) among most Europeans,, seems but a Sissyphussian task, save for all but the rarest of prodigies. A bit of the proverbial double standard once again-:)

Genealogy / Which Polish first names are considered unpopular / obsolete in Poland? [124]

-:) Dana Bielec is the author of "Elementary Polísh", Routledge Press and published in the 'OOs.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]

How about Art Spiegelman's "Maus"?

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]

Sadly misguided majority, only a corageous minority stood up for what ís right and just.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]

Hitler was supported by the likes of the Grand Mufti!

Genealogy / Which Polish first names are considered unpopular / obsolete in Poland? [124]

Like Dana Bielec?

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]

The Vatican propagated lies too.