Lyzko
24 Apr 2024
Lyzko
23 Apr 2024
Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]
Whoops, I meant "czerwona kapusta", sorry!
Occasionally I confuse the adjective order.
I realize there is a difference:-)
Whoops, I meant "czerwona kapusta", sorry!
Occasionally I confuse the adjective order.
I realize there is a difference:-)
Lyzko
23 Apr 2024
Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]
@johnny, actually, I haven't got a Polish translation program as yet. Am looking for one though:-)
Oh, yes! Fladra with a side of kapusta czerwona along with pyzy or barring that, placki ziemniaczne.
YUMMMMMMMY
@johnny, actually, I haven't got a Polish translation program as yet. Am looking for one though:-)
Oh, yes! Fladra with a side of kapusta czerwona along with pyzy or barring that, placki ziemniaczne.
YUMMMMMMMY
Lyzko
23 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]
The evidence is too numerous to list.
The evidence is too numerous to list.
Lyzko
23 Apr 2024
Lyzko
23 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]
The proof is in the reading, you lot, so get real!
The proof is in the reading, you lot, so get real!
Lyzko
23 Apr 2024
Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]
@Rich & Milo, all I'm saying is that twenty is bloody advanced to acquire something totally new, be it
a motor skill such as driving (most here learn by seventeen tops) or certainly a new language.
Sure it's done. It's done all the time. All I'm saying is that the younger, all the better for maximum success.
You were born in London, and so your English is obviously completely native, regardless of whatever
language was spoken at home. Rich was born in Poland, didn't even attend high school in a native English-
speaking environment. Naturally there's going to be second language interference in his English that will
probably last for the rest of his life.
My own grandfather arrived in this country at around twenty-one years of age, having never learned English
until arriving at Ellis Island from Germany. He had an accent you could cut with a machete. Meanwhile, his
children, my father, came to New York at age ten or thereabouts, surely not older, and spoke, wrote, and understood
English indistinguishably from a native-born American.
@Rich & Milo, all I'm saying is that twenty is bloody advanced to acquire something totally new, be it
a motor skill such as driving (most here learn by seventeen tops) or certainly a new language.
Sure it's done. It's done all the time. All I'm saying is that the younger, all the better for maximum success.
You were born in London, and so your English is obviously completely native, regardless of whatever
language was spoken at home. Rich was born in Poland, didn't even attend high school in a native English-
speaking environment. Naturally there's going to be second language interference in his English that will
probably last for the rest of his life.
My own grandfather arrived in this country at around twenty-one years of age, having never learned English
until arriving at Ellis Island from Germany. He had an accent you could cut with a machete. Meanwhile, his
children, my father, came to New York at age ten or thereabouts, surely not older, and spoke, wrote, and understood
English indistinguishably from a native-born American.
Lyzko
22 Apr 2024
Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]
I submit you were too old when you arrived in the States to fully adapt linguistically or culturally
to the American experience! Most people lose their foreigner accent before or up to no later than
the age of twelve.
F-bombs and Woodstock culture alone do NOT an American make (paraphrasing Mark Twain on a separate topicLOL).
I submit you were too old when you arrived in the States to fully adapt linguistically or culturally
to the American experience! Most people lose their foreigner accent before or up to no later than
the age of twelve.
F-bombs and Woodstock culture alone do NOT an American make (paraphrasing Mark Twain on a separate topicLOL).
Lyzko
22 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]
Right about the fact that my English is way superior to yours, that's what.
Right about the fact that my English is way superior to yours, that's what.
Lyzko
22 Apr 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]
Quite, Alien! Don't even dignify such shock value with a response.
Quite, Alien! Don't even dignify such shock value with a response.
Lyzko
22 Apr 2024
Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]
My favorite traditional Polish dish(s):
Zurek (or Chlodnik, depending on the season!)
Bigos
My favorite traditional Polish dish(s):
Zurek (or Chlodnik, depending on the season!)
Bigos
Lyzko
21 Apr 2024
Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]
Therefore old enough to have already been ingrained with the Polish language.
Tough to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, Rich. Once a Pole, always a Pole.
If I'd gone to Germany at 24, having scarcely any underpinning in German, save
for a light high school course taught by some random American, I'd barely have been
prepared for what I encountered when I arrived there at roughly 25:-)
I grew up with German, you didn't grow up with English, and therein lies the key difference!
Therefore old enough to have already been ingrained with the Polish language.
Tough to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, Rich. Once a Pole, always a Pole.
If I'd gone to Germany at 24, having scarcely any underpinning in German, save
for a light high school course taught by some random American, I'd barely have been
prepared for what I encountered when I arrived there at roughly 25:-)
I grew up with German, you didn't grow up with English, and therein lies the key difference!
Lyzko
21 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]
Thanks, Lenka.
@Rich, you know I'm right and it just galls you, doesn't it!
Thanks, Lenka.
@Rich, you know I'm right and it just galls you, doesn't it!
Lyzko
21 Apr 2024
Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]
How old were you though when you left Poland with your folks, Rich?
How old were you though when you left Poland with your folks, Rich?
Lyzko
20 Apr 2024
Lyzko
20 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]
It isn't, actually!
More of a pun, albeit apparently unsuccessful, on a Polish candy bramd produced to look like mini barrels LOL
It isn't, actually!
More of a pun, albeit apparently unsuccessful, on a Polish candy bramd produced to look like mini barrels LOL
Lyzko
20 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]
Amen, Pawian!
@Rich, my English is superior to yours any day of the bloody week. Polish? There, you've clearly got me over a barelka, he-he:-)
Amen, Pawian!
@Rich, my English is superior to yours any day of the bloody week. Polish? There, you've clearly got me over a barelka, he-he:-)
Lyzko
20 Apr 2024
Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]
Rich, as always, it's your word against that which actually happened!
Obviously there must be a rational explanation for your protracted bitterness
against Poland, and somehow, I can't believe it's because of Gomulka's politics LOL
Rich, as always, it's your word against that which actually happened!
Obviously there must be a rational explanation for your protracted bitterness
against Poland, and somehow, I can't believe it's because of Gomulka's politics LOL
Lyzko
19 Apr 2024
Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]
A common tongue, you mean. Yes, I can't disagree with that statement.
Sort of reminds me once more of that short, cute little scene in "Casablanca":
Man: And now we speak only English in America. You, treasure! Please, how
much watch?
Woman: Six watch.
Foreign Observer: I see you will both fit in perfectly in America!
A common tongue, you mean. Yes, I can't disagree with that statement.
Sort of reminds me once more of that short, cute little scene in "Casablanca":
Man: And now we speak only English in America. You, treasure! Please, how
much watch?
Woman: Six watch.
Foreign Observer: I see you will both fit in perfectly in America!
Lyzko
19 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]
Protestations to the contrary, one's mother tongue remains one's
mother tongue for the rest of one's life!
Although I've never heard you speak, based solely upon brief
samples of your English posting here on the Forum, there are still
clear, if isolated, examples of first language interference in the way
you express yourself in English, especially when angry, which seems
quite often these days:-)
Above all, you came to the States essentially as an immigrant, not
a visitor, and so ridding your accent as well as trying to linguistically
adapt at leisure to the cultural nuances of American English
and the like, were probably the last things on your young mind.
A language is much like an iceberg. It seems normal on the surface,
yet beneath the ice, there's a hard chunk below the water.
Maybe you spent hours just watching American TV for as long as
possible. That doesn't necessarily mean that you absorbed the language
like a native speaker. There're always bound to be gaps and holes.
Hate to burst your bubble.
Protestations to the contrary, one's mother tongue remains one's
mother tongue for the rest of one's life!
Although I've never heard you speak, based solely upon brief
samples of your English posting here on the Forum, there are still
clear, if isolated, examples of first language interference in the way
you express yourself in English, especially when angry, which seems
quite often these days:-)
Above all, you came to the States essentially as an immigrant, not
a visitor, and so ridding your accent as well as trying to linguistically
adapt at leisure to the cultural nuances of American English
and the like, were probably the last things on your young mind.
A language is much like an iceberg. It seems normal on the surface,
yet beneath the ice, there's a hard chunk below the water.
Maybe you spent hours just watching American TV for as long as
possible. That doesn't necessarily mean that you absorbed the language
like a native speaker. There're always bound to be gaps and holes.
Hate to burst your bubble.
Lyzko
18 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]
@Rich, while I can't substantiate your experience in Poland
and would scarcely wish to claim you're not being truthful,
unless you were either completely soused on bimber or
were looking at pretty women's skirts (which I could well understand),
I somehow can't believe that you had zero comprehension issues
not speaking Polish in Poland, furthermore, that somehow American
English will become the "second language" there in the future.
Simply put, I think you were on something, dude!
@Rich, while I can't substantiate your experience in Poland
and would scarcely wish to claim you're not being truthful,
unless you were either completely soused on bimber or
were looking at pretty women's skirts (which I could well understand),
I somehow can't believe that you had zero comprehension issues
not speaking Polish in Poland, furthermore, that somehow American
English will become the "second language" there in the future.
Simply put, I think you were on something, dude!
Lyzko
18 Apr 2024
Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]
Ideally, you both should learn each other's language,
at least, practice speaking the other's mother tongue.
Ideally, you both should learn each other's language,
at least, practice speaking the other's mother tongue.
Lyzko
17 Apr 2024
Lyzko
17 Apr 2024
Study / Jagiellonian vs University of Wrocław for a master's degree in English? [15]
Actually, you're right about that!
Although only briefly in Poland, I did notice greater confidence when I
returned home.
Actually, you're right about that!
Although only briefly in Poland, I did notice greater confidence when I
returned home.
Lyzko
17 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]
Or how about "niedzwiedz" LOL
(Missing several diacritical accent marks however, sorry!)
Or how about "niedzwiedz" LOL
(Missing several diacritical accent marks however, sorry!)
Lyzko
17 Apr 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]
@Rich, you're either a plain ol' troll or just plain nuts.....or both!
@Rich, you're either a plain ol' troll or just plain nuts.....or both!
Lyzko
16 Apr 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]
I couldn't concur more roundly, Miloslaw.
I couldn't concur more roundly, Miloslaw.
Lyzko
16 Apr 2024
Study / Jagiellonian vs University of Wrocław for a master's degree in English? [15]
The only waste is obtaining a degree of English in a country in which English is not only not
the mother tongue, but more to the point, taught by professors whose first language isn't even
the language in which they are teaching. If the courses are in fact being taught in Polish, this
would seem to defeat the entire purpose of pursuing a degree in English instead of Polish.
The only waste is obtaining a degree of English in a country in which English is not only not
the mother tongue, but more to the point, taught by professors whose first language isn't even
the language in which they are teaching. If the courses are in fact being taught in Polish, this
would seem to defeat the entire purpose of pursuing a degree in English instead of Polish.
Lyzko
16 Apr 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]
"Sucking up" to whom, pray, Johnny Reb??
Perhaps to the forces of democracy and humanity?
The only brownie points we gain here would be the
satisfaction of having done the right thing against the
enemy of infantile gratification and cynicism!
"Sucking up" to whom, pray, Johnny Reb??
Perhaps to the forces of democracy and humanity?
The only brownie points we gain here would be the
satisfaction of having done the right thing against the
enemy of infantile gratification and cynicism!
Lyzko
15 Apr 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]
Scarcely, but rather a return to something resembling FDR's New Deal, although far from perfect.
Scarcely, but rather a return to something resembling FDR's New Deal, although far from perfect.