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pawian   
2 Mar 2024
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

You're a language teacher who

Yes, I judge their fluency from teacher`s point of view, having the expectations towards an examinee at the oral exam in mind. I would definitely prefer to examine Trzaskowski than Sikorski who, while debunking the Russian ambassador`s lies in the UN, was speaking slowly, monotonously, in a dull voice with a lot of pausing.

It isn't.

Yes, it is . You have no idea what the requirements at the oral exam are. Amasing! :):)

Check it out:

Fluency of speech
2 points - there are no pauses in the statement OR there are pauses, which sometimes are unnatural, but do not interfere with the reception of the message

1 point - pauses in speech occur frequently and are unnatural; sometimes they disturb the reception of the message

0 points -
· pauses in speech occur very often and are unnatural; interfere with the reception of the message

pawian   
2 Mar 2024
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Fluency involves pausing, repetition,

:):):) Amasing!
You`d better check the meaning of fluency again. :):):)
pawian   
1 Mar 2024
Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]

Psycho Polish males rape and murder foreign migrant women.

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- Unfortunately, we are very sorry, but we could not save her. The patient died today before noon. She arrived at our hospital in a very serious condition, but doctors tried to save her life. The direct cause of the woman's death was brain death, said Barbara Mietkowska, spokeswoman for UCK WUM, in an interview with Onet. The prosecutor's office also confirms the woman's death.

Doctors fought for the life of a 25-year-old woman who was in a critical condition. In the morning of Sunday, February 25, she was found naked and unconscious by the caretaker of one of the buildings at ul. Żurawia in the center of Warsaw.

It turned out that the attacker first raped her and then tried to strangle her. Surveillance recordings show that he was wearing a balaclava, ran up to the victim from behind, put a knife to her neck and dragged her to the entrance gate. He raped her in the stairwell of one of the tenement houses.

He took her wallet, phones and payment cards, left her and took a tram towards Mokotów. It was there that he lived with his partner in a rented apartment. As "Fakt" found out, he did not have a permanent job and changed his place of residence several times . Before moving to Warsaw, he lived in Opole.

- It's a shock to me. I would like to know why he did it, the perpetrator's girlfriend told "Fakt" . − His girlfriend has been living here for several years. Fights and quarrels in the apartment started only when she met this boy. I heard screams every day, said the couple's neighbor in an interview with a "Super Express" journalist.

The perpetrator is Dorian S., a 23-year-old resident of Warsaw. The police detained him a few hours after the incident - surveillance footage and tracking dogs helped. He was surprised, but did not resist, he admitted to his crime. He was charged with attempting to murder a woman for robbery and sexual reasons, and was detained for three months.

Onet established that there will be an autopsy, if the result confirms that the woman died as a result of a brutal attack, the classification of the act will certainly change and the 23-year-old will be charged with murder.
pawian   
1 Mar 2024
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

removing them from speech makes a person sound unnatural.

No, it doesn`t. :):):) Filler words are a clear sign of sb`s inaptitude.

you speaking Polish naturally they'd hear lots of filler words.

Not really. I do my best to avoid filler words coz they imply incompetence and that`s what I can`t afford as an intelligent ape. Ha!!!
pawian   
1 Mar 2024
News / Poland hates Poland [24]

it is a disappearing species.

Yes, let`s pray to Goddess to make it a permanent phenomenon:
Mother unser who are in Himmel........... etc etc
pawian   
1 Mar 2024
News / Poland hates Poland [24]

PiS destructive policies and suspended a lot of their services.

I meant policies which consisted in reducing the budgets of local councils. PIS robbed them of their incomes in broad daylight.
Today, before the local gov elections in early April, PiS bolsheviks claim they did their best to enhance councils` development. Stinking liars!!!
pawian   
1 Mar 2024
Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [211]

Weather forecast for mid/late March and early April in my area is very optimistic - wet or snowy almost every day. Thank you, Goddess, for your benevolence. We needed that!


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pawian   
1 Mar 2024
News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

Some leftists in Poland complain that Tusk`s gov`s performance at the border is extremely disappointing

Activists helping refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border are dissatisfied with the activities of the services. They complain, among others: on the so-called pushbacks, i.e. pushing people who were already on Polish territory back to Belarus. Another problem is the brutality of the Border Guard.

- Those in power think that if they slightly change the language and replace "deportations" with "returns", everything will change, but it doesn't work like that. There's the same crap underneath that powder. There remains the problem of pushbacks and brutal violence at the border. Other words do not change this reality, they only distort it. The new government's announcements are nothing more than a continuation of PiS policy, says Aleksandra Chrzanowska from the Legal Intervention Association and the Granica Group in an interview with Onet.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk recently spoke at a meeting in Morąg about the situation on the border. He assured that he cares about the humane treatment of migrants, but Polish territory is to be tightly protected.

- My task is to make sure pushbacks are not needed at all. They are illegal from the point of view of international law, but I will not make any decision that will make our border less tight than it is now - He added that it is not tight, but constantly strengthened. - This is a matter of the survival of our Western civilization. If we are open to all forms of migration without any control, our world will collapse. The state is responsible for guarding its border, and my government is responsible for ensuring that it is consistent with humanitarian principles, concluded the politician.

pawian   
1 Mar 2024
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

but his avoidance of normal filler words

That`s what fluency consists in. :):):) To my ears, filler words sound awful.
pawian   
1 Mar 2024
News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

Protecting the country against Putin and Lukashenka` s guests isn`t barbarity, it is defence. Simple.

Some leftists in Poland complain that Tusk`s gov`s performance at the border is extremely disappointing coz the old policy of pushing back migrants brought by Belarus and Russia`s regimes is still continued. Those leftists have counted on open borders after the elections. Really mad. :(:(:(:(

We have no choice. If we let in 10.000, next year the regimes will bring 100.000.

Exactly. Anybody who demands free entry at the border is out of their mind.
Support our border protectors!
pawian   
1 Mar 2024
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

less fluent as a whole.

He's not more fluent.

Amasing coz you both seem not to realise what fluent actually means: :):):)

Fluency in a language means speaking easily, reasonably quickly and without having to stop and pause a lot.
pawian   
1 Mar 2024
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

these petty issues now.

Petty??? Law and Justice issues petty????? :):):)
Exactly, petty issues, coz they are just petty thieves. :):)
pawian   
1 Mar 2024
News / Chairman Kaczyński said........ part two [28]

On today`s meeting, top PIS leaders, after seeing the plummeting poll resulys, decided to change their attitude completely. :):):) AmaSSing guys......

The decisions of the PiS leadership - as we hear from our interlocutors - will also affect Kaczyński himself. The leader of the party allegedly promised his colleagues that he would change the tone of his emotional statements and curb his language, which had recently caused the party a lot of problems, although it was supposed to result from the real emotions that had been bothering the president of Law and Justice in recent months.


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pawian   
1 Mar 2024
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Sikorsky certainly has higher fluency and a much greater range.

Rafał Trzaskowski - his interview for CNN


pawian   
1 Mar 2024
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

Each day brings news about PIS` dirty activities from the past - their amaSSing corruption. lack of basic morals, thievery, nepotism.
It is unbelievable that a party called Law and Justice could prostitute themselves into such criminal condition.

The latest news is that PIS politicians and activists bought MBA diplomas from the corrupt board of Collegium Humanum, a third tier institution set up by rightists in 2018.

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The private university Collegium Humanum in Warsaw offered rapid courses that allowed you to obtain an MBA diploma. A quickly obtained diploma made it easier for its holder to join, for example, supervisory boards of state-owned companies. This path was used - as revealed by "Newsweek" - by many people associated with the United Right camp. The credibility of documents issued by Collegium Humanum was to be ensured, among others, by: foreign universities, but as a journalist's investigation showed, they were not authorized to offer MBA studies.

On February 21, officers of the Central Anticorruption Bureau of the Delegation in Rzeszów detained seven people in an investigation regarding, among others, a criminal group organized in the Collegium Humanum in Warsaw and irregularities related to the activities of the former president of the health resort in Rymanów Zdrój. On Friday, the detainees were charged.

Maciej Gdula, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, admitted that he was "shocked" by the matter. - Collegium Humanum is a series in the style of "The Sopranos". We are used to the fact that at universities, as everywhere, there are some abuses, but this resembles a very dark institution - he commented in "Radio TOK FM Morning".

The Collegium Humanum case does not end with arrests. The university issued diplomas and there were many people who received them. - We have a situation in which someone was probably handing out diplomas entitling them to legally sit on supervisory boards. The question arises whether there is some total deregulation taking place here - said Gdula.

pawian   
27 Feb 2024
History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Who cares about their 'point of view'?

Poles and Polesses who didn`t vote for PIS and nazio far rightists at the last elections. Do you know how many people it involves???? :):):)

You realize

It is truly amassing how you try to convince me about sth that only you feel or see. :):):)
pawian   
27 Feb 2024
Off-Topic / How to get some smoke [16]

Ironside knows where to get it, he is always on the high.