History / Vilamovian language - now that's something interesting [24]

An old saying goes something like this, "Good butter and good cheese is good English and good Fries". While I've no tangible personal knowledge of the language which is the topic of this thread, linguists have theorized that modern West Frisian, still spoken in sections of Northern Germany, is the closest extant tongue to present-day English.

Po polsku / Elity wygrywają. Z narzędziami, które posiadamy nie ma nadziei dla ludzkości. [14]

Co myslesz o dwie partie system tu w USA? Moim zdaniem nie jest sprawiedliwy.

Po polsku / Elity wygrywają. Z narzędziami, które posiadamy nie ma nadziei dla ludzkości. [14]

Tak jest. Zgodze sie z ta opinia.Takie napady zagrazaja naszej demokracjii.

Po polsku / Elity wygrywają. Z narzędziami, które posiadamy nie ma nadziei dla ludzkości. [14]

Ludzie ktorzy popelnili straszny napad na Kapitol Budynek w Waszyngtonie nie sa "ludzkoscmi", lecz prosto chuliganami oraz drabami!

Language / Family Polish Language Games [11]

Oh, I definitely agree. How can someone think any faster than they already can? :-)

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

A potentially tortuous read at worst, an exhillarating one, once mastered, at best! I can only recommend it for any serious students of Polish.

Genealogy / I'm polish and have a darker complexion - WHY? [78]

Something got lost in the translation along the way, as usual:-)

Genealogy / I'm polish and have a darker complexion - WHY? [78]

I know any number of rank-and-file Poles whe are naturally dark brown haired and dark eyed.

Language / Family Polish Language Games [11]

Doubtless a Polish version of the US game "THINK FAST".

Language / Family Polish Language Games [11]

Merged:

Is anybody here familiar with "MYSL SZYBKOWO"? (a Polish Game)

Is anybody here familiar with "MYSL SZYBKOWO: IMPREZA NA KTOREJ TY WIEDZIESZ ODPOWIEDZ"? It's produced by Ridley Games.

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

True. Perhaps then for advanced Polish university students.

Merely a postscript, but even for non-Polish, Anglophone learners such as yours truly, Tokarski's book systematically covers all the required inflections in comprehensive depth, don't you think?

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

Oh, of course not, I meant solely for Matura prep:-)

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

Good to know. What do you think of "FLEKSJA POLSKA" by J. Tokarski for a solid review?

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

Terrific, kaprys:-) Will have to ck. those out as well.

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

The primer was from the Gierek Era, but I was only learning during the early 9O's:-)

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

It was nearly thirty years back!

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

It was long ago and so Maf might be right.

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

For Poles learning their own language, naturally. Always best for serious foreign learners to learn the target language IN the target language!

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

"PRACOWITA MATKA" has no ancillary audio-visual materials included of which I am aware. Moreover, the grammar was very thorough, if unidiomatic:-)

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

I used a primer for native speakers daating way back to the Communist days, probably from the '7O's, entitled "PRACOWITA MATKA"..

Work / Black English Teacher going to Wroclaw [247]

Nawzajemnie, Joker LOL You (conveniently) missed my point. A Frenchman, Italian, Swede, even a German, in all likelihood wouldn't have eyed me with such mistrust. In addition, the woman was practically my age:-) Furthermore, 5O+ is scarcely that "over the hill". Finally, in what language, pray, ought I have entrusted an involved transaction anyway? She dealt almost exclusively with Polish clients to boot.

History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

Pachamama. Is that anywhere near Panama? LOL

History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

Poles consider themselves Europeans!

History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

Yet St. Petrus is buried in Wieczne Miasto, not in Czestochowa:-)

History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

The differences are negligible, but I do concede you may have a point, albeit a minor one.

History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

Spot on, Maf! @Novi, I read #9 at least onceLOL As regards Mickiewicz, this is a dismaying reflection on the typically post-'6Os trend towards making learning "relevant", whatever the heck that means. Used to be in this country that just because someone worked with their hands didn't mean they didn't work with their minds!

History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

Novi: When were those lovely buildings in the Old Town built? Average Pole: No. Not old houses, because much Polish now living in other towns of Poland.... And you claim the run-of- the-mill Pole knows "fluent" English?? Even their German would be better:-)

History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

BS! If the language in question isn't natural aka idiomatically correct, then it's essentially worthless.

History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

@Novi, you can "phase out" a language, but not a culture - which informs a language and always has. Superimposing some metalanguage onto an already existing mother tongue of millions, in your example English onto Polish, German, what have you, is not only idiotic and ethnocentric, but impossible! Poles will never learn to communicate as an educated Anglo-Saxon native speaker.

Work / Black English Teacher going to Wroclaw [247]

Good luck finding many, that is, who would freely admit they speak it! A clannish bunch I must say.

Just an afterthought, people. Went on a Skype call with my Polish acqaintance here in Fort Lee not long after the virus broke, and we were on face time with her fiancee at an outdoor venue in the center of Gdansk. The casual passers by looked seemingly diverse to me. Noticed a number of blacks blending easily with the crowd:-)