Work / I'm retired teacher, age 69 - I want to teach English in Poland voluntarily, in return for Polish language [22]


A quick apology.

I mixed up your post with the original one in the thread from someone wanting to work for free.

If you're looking for normal paid work, the market is saturated in some places by unqualified 'Teachers' who don't know a lesson plan, as assessment criteria or a scheme of work from their elbow, however if you have a teaching qualification and experience, you've got a head start. Wages are stagnant though and increasingly private training providers are run by locals which lowers the wages and worsens the working environment.

Nevertheless, there are plenty of companies in Warsaw to contact. Most will give a few hours here and there.

You do need to be in PL to apply and of course you'll need to be able to work legally in the EU without need for work permits which aren't generally worth the company getting since there's Polish citizens with near-native levels and Masters degrees looking for work.

Work / I'm retired teacher, age 69 - I want to teach English in Poland voluntarily, in return for Polish language [22]


Very easily if you're offering to work for free in a nowadays affluent country. The owners of private language schools will scarcely believe their luck.

Worth remembering though that there's an oversupply of people chasing teaching work in PL and every lesson you teach, you'll be taking bread off the table of a Teacher there.Some have kids to feed and depend on their wages to live.

If you're still interested, there's a company that does intensive courses (at a high cost to participants) which are taught in good rural hotels by mostly elderly volunteers. All they get is meals and a (shared) hotel room. I forget the name but will ask an octogenarian friend who sometimes does it when I write to her later today.

Another possibility is to advertise free lessons for the unemployed who otherwise wouldn't have access to them. Churches and charities in poorer post industrial areas may be able to advise on that. If you want a contact, there's also an organisation called Smile Warsaw. They're on Facebook and findable on Google. They work with the homeless and mostly provide food however other professionals do offer their services for free. They're a good bunch of people and if language training doesn't fit, someone there may be able to point you in a direction that may suit.

News / Poles drinking more than ever, as incomes rise. [32]


That should probably be called the lowest alcohol blood content!

A bit sad that Guinness acknowledge that record.

At least he survived.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]


I don't think so. His name was Artur Oppman (despite the German surname from an ancestor many generations back, he wasn't German) and the Or in his name was originally Ar (as in Artur) however a book printer made a typesetting mistake and the Or stuck.

Off-Topic / Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! [21]

May next year's be prouder yet, and may most of us still be here to see it.

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Off-Topic / Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! [21]

Foreign rightards are so sweet. No wonder they all shoot each other.

Anyway, Happy Independence Day to Ukraine, and may Putler and those who enable and/or support face fair yet resolute judgement for their deeds.

Off-Topic / Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! [21]


The two Ukrainiabn families I know best aren't in any sense patriarchial. The men are respected however they do not dominate.


We had that among better off farmers until relatively recently (except for in Kent which legally followed a pre-Saxon model until 1974). That was to preserve assets (rather than dilute them as in Fance/Poland with sizable landholdings degenerating to smallish plots in a few generations) and also had the effect of creating a legal/medical profession, a married clergy and a rathger large navy and mercantile class.

Off-Topic / Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! [21]


You are 70 years out of date.


Don't be silly.

Slava Ukraini, heroyom slava!

Off-Topic / Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! [21]

Slava Ukraini, heroyom slava!

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]


Have you read Or-ot?

An amazing Polish poet.

Travel / Lovely trips to Poland - Warsaw and Wrocław, Krakow and Warsaw, Poznań and Gdańsk [48]


Yes.

And it can't be easy for people who live on one side of the border and commute to the other.

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]


And rightly so.

The sad thing is that some former ones were allowed to continue in public life after the war.

Off-Topic / Energy-free rail from North to South? [54]


It really doesn't.


Straightforward.

Off-Topic / Energy-free rail from North to South? [54]


It really wouldn't.

It's hard to know what you mean by the "ball shape", however gravity is both weak and strong; we can resist it(and do so every time we stand up) yet cannot escape it.


Pìss in a bog is not one of the planet's major rivers.

Off-Topic / Energy-free rail from North to South? [54]


More or less.


The way all rivers flow in whatever direction. Much to do with the geology that allows river courses to form and often change.


Probably. Leave a powerful enough tap running in your garden and the water will go somewhere. First through t( topsoil which will eventually either turn marshy or wash away and then wherever gravity takes it.

Travel / Lovely trips to Poland - Warsaw and Wrocław, Krakow and Warsaw, Poznań and Gdańsk [48]


Let's hope. The current situation has slowed down travel.

Food / Why Poles not like rice? [98]

Me too. It has more flavour and more texture.

History / Poland's borders throughout history [47]


Is that a euphemism for cuntish?

News / War propaganda - are we really THAT retarded? [28]


Livestock prices and reports of chip pan fires maybe.

Nothing else, except "breaking news" stuff and announcements of Royal births and sports coverage, however the better state-owned news outlets aim for neutrality.

Any sort of comment and analysis by news media is necessary subject to the outlets' editorial policy and sometimes the journalists' own views.

Good journalists however can turn out copy that suits that regardless of their own views. We should not assume that if a newspaper is either rightwing or decent, that the journalists' own views are the same.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]


It depends on whether they're clean or dirty, maybe.


Ask anyone who "goes commando".

History / What Was Happening in Poland around 1905? [71]


Sad to say, they still are,

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]


Or on harmful drugs, perhaps ones manufactured by his own dysfunctional brain.

Life / Life in Poland - ECONOMY [59]


They'd still have done a revolution at some point.

Or perhaps they wouldn't, since the settlers were British people who'd gone there in tranches after their side lost the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and also posh but poor Scots who travelled back and to. Several of my ancestors were born in America and usually returned to Scotland when they inherited something worth having.


Be careful what you wish for.

Life / Life in Poland - ECONOMY [59]


It already is, since r*SSia does not count

History / Poland's borders throughout history [47]


This, Ron, is key to it.

History / Poland's borders throughout history [47]


This is correct. There's a precise legal definition in international law.

In WW2, Poland was occupied. Particularly brutally.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]

This one's a bit fishy...

Off-Topic / The agreement in Alaska between the US and Russia. [43]


He's been right about the time. Twice a day.

History / Archaeology in Poland [5]



They should have been locked up for a long time because of that.

And with the various discoveries at Şroda Şląska, the authorities should have cordoned off the whole area with archaeologists present 24/7.

At least it was mended, however you do wonder how many pieces were taken from the area that year, never to be seen again.