Polonia / Poland, Germany, France, Spain or Greece? [35]

Krakow is still considered by many to be the crowning jewel among Polish cities. Although I've not yet been,
had I had more time way back during my first visit to Poland, I'd have done much better to have seen the
Sukiennica, Wawel and the Old Town, than Szczecin:-)

News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]

I too can let such things roll off my back, to be sure though, they can also be quite annoying over time:-)

News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]

Perhaps, B.B. Yet it all depends upon which side of the fence you're sitting at the time as well!

News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]

Anyone who suffers from an inferiority complex will project such feelings onto others whom they sense as in some way a threat!

.....as Eastern European arrogance and feelings of superiority are legion, Crow!
:-)

Language / Information on Polish textbook Hurra Po Polsku [33]

As I can now vaguely recollect, there is or was a series with different cover colors. I believe it was "Mowimy po polsku" or somewhere in that series, but it was a paperback edition with a dark blue jacket and was an advanced text/"primer".

There's another such book, also all in Polish, (doubtless reprinted numerous times, or maybe by now long out of print) entitled "Brak mi slow", which had countless tips for vocabulary building, with exercises, but no CD.

Language / Information on Polish textbook Hurra Po Polsku [33]

All that may well change as Poland takes on an ever greater role in the EU!
Poland is, next to Spain and France, the third largest country on the European continent, not including millions of Polish citizens living and working abroad.

It has a population, still largely non-English speaking, as compared with France, Germany among others, nonetheless eager and willing to take part in the larger European workforce.

Learning Polish will thus become of immense importance in the not too distant future.

Looks fairly interactive to me as a foreigner, Pan Zbigniew:-)
I used two Polish-language textbooks with listening component, the more recent being "Wsrod Polakow" (1999).
Although I was learning one-on-one with a Polish native speaker, I regreted only the lack of more authentic material in Polish, instead of translated excerpts in often somewhat fractured EnglishLOL

Love / Sexually liberal ----- Is this a fact or myth for Polish women living in Poland? [61]

Maybe.

Love / Sexually liberal ----- Is this a fact or myth for Polish women living in Poland? [61]

Hey, Johnnie! What if those women were Polish Jews, huh? Yes, we obviously do move in different circles. In mine, women still wear a bra and men don't screw the first thing that moves:-)

LOL

Glad we agree, Milo, at least on that point.

Love / Sexually liberal ----- Is this a fact or myth for Polish women living in Poland? [61]

And I've heard the same.

There are though two sides to every coin, no?

Love / Sexually liberal ----- Is this a fact or myth for Polish women living in Poland? [61]

Get real, man!

The Poles whom I've described continuously bemoaned in my presence how they'd had it up to here with the common perception
of Polish, Czech or Russian women as necessarily loose females.

Love / Sexually liberal ----- Is this a fact or myth for Polish women living in Poland? [61]

The Polish women, particularly those whom I know here in the States who have been living here for several years by now, are by in large sick and tired of this image of "Polish women are sluts!".

I know of NO self-respecting, attractive Polish woman who honestly revels in this garbage.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Hit the nail on the head!

"Litwo, ojczyzno moja!......" Can't be plainer than that.

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]

I take it then, Milo, that you're a BREXIT supporter, yes?

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]

What on earth are you babbling about?

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]

Seduced??? Cancer...metasthesized...?!

Why are you so anti-EU, Crow?

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]

Although I live on the other side of the Pond, so to speak, I feel nonetheless that a Polexit would be sheer folly on the part of the current government! What could Poland possibly gain from it anyway?

Off-Topic / Random movies (not Polish) proposed by forum users [95]

Afraid the last "great" Russian film I saw was "Oblomov" based on a Gogol short story, I believe, way back in the late '80's:-)

"Nikita Magalov's "Slave of Love" came much later, but I only saw the trailersLOL

Life / "The Poland question?" Is antisemitism growing? [21]

Apparently, Dresden has just declared a "Nazi emergency" (Notaufnahmezustand) throughout the city!

Life / "The Poland question?" Is antisemitism growing? [21]

Sounds as though you're describing the now "Old-Left" during the late '60's, supporting Arafat and condemning Israel.

Life / "The Poland question?" Is antisemitism growing? [21]

Not only in Poland!

According to recent polls in Germany, the AfD and their firebrand "leader" Bjorn Hoecke are on the rise once again.
Sweden too isn't that far behind either.

Law / Working in Poland while being self employed in the UK and paying tax and in there [24]

Ordinarily, I'd have answered your query with a simple "It depends on whether she's an EU citizen or not!"
However with this whole BREXIT thing looming, three days hence as the deadline, everything now is all messed up. Wish I could be more helpful.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Exactly. When US corporate Execs "leave" or are sometimes forced out by dissatisfied shareholders, they typically develop a
strategy whereby they make a killing on their way out, landing on their feet RICH, instead of on their butts and dirt poor:-)
The former is called a Golden Parachute.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

It was the title of an erstwhile popular job seekers book from the '80's. As with "glass ceiling", it became an oft quoted phrase.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

But once you hit the ceiling (not literally, not even figuratively in the sense of to get suddenly angry), there's not place to fall but downward:-)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Before you HIT THE GLASS CEILING, don't forget on your way out/down WHAT COLOR YOUR PARACHUTE is!

Love / Are the Polish the most suspicious people in Europe? [73]

No doubt. Those East German apparatchiki, Ulbricht, Willi Stopf, Honecker included, were often even more rigid, "linientreu" (hardliners) than
their bosses in Moscow:-) They kissed ass royally just to curry favor, and told 'em it smells like roses!

Love / Are the Polish the most suspicious people in Europe? [73]

Where d'you think ol' Parteigenosse Honecker got it from, dude?

Love / Are the Polish the most suspicious people in Europe? [73]

Erich Honecker "Trust is fine, but control is better."

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [187]

Such attention-getting rubbish is not even worthy of PF.

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

Yet if Soviet citizens, including full-born Jews such as Kaganovitch, Sverdlov along with numerous other Politburo hacks, Isaac Babel in literature, Eisenstein in cinema etc. curried favor with Stalin implicitly, they certainly were free to live among their gentile fellow ethnic Russians, not fearing imprisonment in the gulags, if only to save their own skins along with those of their families!

Such was not the case in Hitler's Germany, where all full Jews, even those who sought naively to appease Hitler aka the Judenraete, were targets of imprisonment, later extermination, for the very fact of their being born Jewish.

This is a key distinction, often ignored in Revisionist or Revisionist-style debate.