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Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [171]

Same as in German, "hamstern" or "to hoard".

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [171]

Tak jest!

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Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [171]

I can speak fluent Polish and not every Pole can speak English as effectively
as those who studied either German or Russian!

Oh, they'll pretend that they "love" to communicate in English, yet make oodles of errors
which in my experience they rarely if ever endeavor to correct.

On the other hand, they'll usually make every endeavor to correct a foreign visitor's Polish
at the drop of a hat.

As with many Europeans, the Dutch among the worst offenders in this regard, far too many Poles somehow
feel that if nearly every utterance is not peppered with the "f-curse", then they're not speaking EnglishLOL

Food / Healthy polish food? [134]

That's not stupid at all. However, bacon and sausage are the very ingredients which add flavor and verve to the dish.

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Food / Healthy polish food? [134]

@Atch,
I'll gladly exchange one of your bangers & mash for one of their bigos platters any day of the week
and then you and I can talk salt or saturated fat content!

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Food / Healthy polish food? [134]

Polish food is not only exceptionally tasty, but healthy too!

News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

Well we know that. Furthermore, I'm not a Polish native speaker
nor did I ever pretend to be.

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News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

I guess then the legion mistakes I made in Polish were also intentionalLOL

News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

Tak jest, ale nie "a", lecz "a,"(diacritical mark below) Narzednik/Instrumentalis.

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Study / Are Masters in Poland free of charge for EE citizens? (English) [7]

@Atch, as I've stated on previous occasions, if the professor(s) are native UK speakers, for instance,
who teach the course in English to other English native speaking students, where's the problem?

However, I could scarcely imagine a Greek native speaker sitting in a lecture/seminar room and listening to
a Polish, German or French native speaker with all the second, even third language interference which such
entails, lecturing or discussing in their semi-fluent English.

This is the stuff of lowbrow comedy, Abbot & Costello meets the Marx Bros.LOL

I recall a brief incident where a German professor visited our school in Manhattan to give a seminar on
new ESL teaching techniques. We all arrived for the seminar, all of us English native speakers, to find the
professor writing various learning tips on the board: "Scheduled learning is going in front of all."
The words are English, yet the sense was incomprehensible to our group. I suggested to the speaker, being
a second language English speaker, that perhaps he meant "Systematic study is of primary importance."
when the fellow snapped at me "Ahemm, you obviously don't understand what I mean, but in English, we
say "Scheduled learning"!

Obviously he was translating almost word for word from his native German " Vor allem planmaessiges Studium
ist ganz wichtig".But arrogance on this level I never encountered in my entire career.

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Study / Are Masters in Poland free of charge for EE citizens? (English) [7]

Why again would someone want to study in Poland in English of all things??
The converse would be equally moronic, studying abroad in a language not
in the student's native tongue, moreover taught by a non-native of that language!
It's the blind leading the blind.

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News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

Not in the slightest.

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News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

Borodin's not to everyone's taste:-)

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