News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

For whatever it's worth to anyone, van der Bellen and the Greens won in Austria, thankfully defeating Hofer's FPOE:-)

Perhaps now, Pegida and AfD won't feel quite so emboldened. Germany's Sigmar Gabriel of the Left Coalition of Merkel's party watched the Austrian elections with baited breath and expressed a deep sigh of relief at yesterday's outcome!

Italy's Renzi though wasn't as fortunate.I think we can forget about Francois Hollande for the forseeable future as well.

Feedback / Member warning system to prevent abuse / spam / off-topic posts [145]

Prob is though, it's never gonna happen, because PF is dedicated to inclusion rather than exclusion, and unless someone's "civil rights" have been provably violated though trash talk, the alleged "victim" hasn't a leg to stand on:-)

Study / Poland-Germany university transfer? [16]

First off, in order to study within the EU, knowledge of the target language is a must. While many countries offer university courses in English, they aren't always taught by native English speakers:-)

My experience as both an exchange student in Germany as well as visiting instructor of ESL, is that any talk of "credit transfer" TO a German univerisity requires that a working knowledge of the language be attested to.

Feedback / Member warning system to prevent abuse / spam / off-topic posts [145]

Purposely offensive and inflammatory posts should simply be removed, end of story!

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

Well guys, if the PEGIDA, or more likely the AfD, is swept into office come end of next year, this'll be the ultimate game changer now, won't it?

Heck, this Sunday, according to the US press anyway, Freedom Partier Horbert Hofer will be the people's choice in Austria:-))

Language / Polish gravestone translation [45]

"Blood relations", no doubt:-)

Language / Polish gravestone translation [45]

True. In the end, only a true native or even bilingual native Polish speaker could "fill in the blanks"!
Unfortunately, I'm not one of them:-)

Language / Polish gravestone translation [45]

In Belaruś, most likely the language used would have been White Russian (or even Ruthenian!), Yiddish, of course, if it was a Jewish cemetary:-)

Language / Polish gravestone translation [45]

In truth, it's more am issue of the spelling transcription, for example,"jeco", and "pamier", both of which are not even standard Polish word forms!

Language / Polish gravestone translation [45]

Apologies, but the above transcription is so garbled in spots, I can barely make heads or tales of the whole thing:-)

The second line looks as though it ought to read "...pamięci żony" or "in memory of his wife".

Wish I could be more helpful!

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]

I'm sure the Brexit didn't exactly help matters, eh? The more distracted people are, often, the more they eat!
:-)

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

Merkel's humanity is her generation's attempt to "undo" the unspeakably horrific past with which she has had to contend. Now, the pendulum has swung too far left.

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

Although the (im)migrants perhaps oughtn't have been allowed in in the first place, allowed in they were and the countries simply must find a humane means of discouraging wanton abuse of the system!

What that solution would be, I honestly can't say unfortunately. I do know that glib answers to complex questions in the end help nobody:-)

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

Merkel's mismanaged the whole migrant question abysmally, and again, it'll probably cost her the election next year! Lofgren's also struggling with the same problems, I take it.

Language / Polish Language Exchange Thread [145]

I hope so)))

Oh, the typo, yes, thanks! Indeed, your English AND your Polish both look excellent:-)
Practice makes perfect/Ćwiczenie czyni mistrza.
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Language / Polish Language Exchange Thread [145]

Welcome, Haydi _Kroft!

As you post that you are a Bulgarian native speaker looking to learn Polish, how authentic is your English? I ask because you offer assistance with those wishing to learn English and I was only curious whether you are bilingual, that's all:-)

News / How serious is existence of Lithuania as independent state between Poland and Russia ? [72]

The Baltic States were under the Soviet heel for so very long that by the time the early '90's rolled around, they were already prepared, at least psychologically, for the freedom from Russian domination for which they had hungered for generations:-)

Poland and Lithuania also share a common cultural heritage, as Poland's foremost 19th century bard, namely Mickiewicz, considered his country as Lithuania, even though he wrote exclusively in and surely set the standard for Polish!

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

As far though as Sweden is concerned, if only to return to the topic post, she is having a belly full of the whole migrant issue and might soon follow the conservative JOBBIK party, the PEGIDA and AfD along with the rest of the far-right groups on the continent of Europe before long.

Liberalism has been fraying at the edges for some time now!

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

Perhaps it was the UNESCO survey, you could be right.

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

Atch is correct:-)

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

To be sure, the imposition of English throughout the entire civilized (and uncivilizedLOL) world owes much of its dubious success to the advent of American digitalization, aided and abetted by Hollywood along with Madison Avenue:-)

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

Nice way of putting things, Ziemowit!

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

Let me amend. Colonies of Great Britain did indeed, only Poland and Germany DO share common borders.

Genealogy / Does your last name end in CKI not SKI [60]

Right.

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

Not analogous, NotTo Foreigners, since Poland as well as England/America never conquered other countries and imposed their language by force of rule, unless of course, you mean the spread of World English through sheerly a marketing and public relations takeover by the international media aka the Internet.

However this is social and political rather than military:-)

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

If you bothered to look at the latest PISA-study, Finland was found to be number 2 (TWO!!!!) throughout Europe, perhaps the world, in terms of literacy, solid general education, and foreign language acquisition:-) Number 1 was Iceland, no surprise.

Poland was number 15, Germany of all places, nearly the same, maybe lower!!

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

On some older or pre-War German maps, most Polish cities and towns were "Germanized", Bytom/Beuthen, Łódż/Litzmannstadt, etc...
Even nowadays, in German atlases, the Polish is always side-by-side with the German, like Gdańsk (Danzig), and so forth.

Genealogy / Does your last name end in CKI not SKI [60]

'C' is pronounced as "TS", not "S"!

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

Quit trolling, rubku! No one's paying attention anyway:-)

Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

Tut, tut now Robbie! Your betters are watching:-)