Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

Rich, what you meant was that in your opinion, English was all that was needed in the Netherlands!
Aren't you the slightest bit curious about your global neighbors, dude?

Perhaps some teen trauma zapped your natural curiosity concerning our fellow beings
and turned you into some gung ho jingoist.

News / What Polish diaspora need and expect from Poland, from Poles in Poland? [43]

Would you be talking like that when you become old? Definitely not.
Just remember, it's not up to you, it's up to G-d!

The Nazis felt the same way until we bombed their asses back into the Stone Age:-)

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

Your ignorance is obviously put on. It's shock value pure and simple.

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

Rich is merely babbling his usual ethnocentric nonsense solely for shock value!
How one person could be so naive is beyond me. Obviously faking.

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

Is that what life is all about, Rich? Have you no aspirations besides your stomach??

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

@Rich, again, it depends on what type of English you mean. I suppose if you dumb down your conversation one-syllable words or less, one might have a near flawless

conversation with the run-of-the-mill foreigner abroad. Anything higher, not so sure. LOL

Rich: How do you like living in your city?

Foreigner: Yes, yes!

Rich: No, I mean HOW DO YOU LIKE LIVING HERE IN MADRID?

Foreigner: No. I like Madrid.

Rich: Why?

Foreigner: Why.

Rich: Do you understand me, you #%$^in' moron???!

Foreigner: Yes, you like Madrid too?

etc.....

And that's what you have the nerve to call communicating world wide in English? Apparently you don't have very high expectations.

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

@Rich, once again, NO language is "useless"!
It is statistically true that English has every other language on the
planet beat in terms of sheer recognizability. This is a fact and sadly
I know many colleagues who've actually left the field on the basis of
statistics that fewer Americans are studying foreign languages.

While such may be the case, the latter certainly doesn't mean that learning
foreign languages isn't useful. All it means is that it's going to be an uphill
battle trying to convince Poles, Germans, Frenchmen or Spaniards etc. that
their English is somehow less than perfect and that the double standard
must be abandoned.

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

Your circle of conversation partners is growing ever smaller, I see.
Obviously, you are lexically or maybe DISlexically challenged, as
the words I used and use in all of my English-language posts are
plain to anyone who graduated from a decent US high school, forget
even about college or university:-)

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

jon, the answer to your question is more than likely YES!!!

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

@Rich, you missed the humor, the complete armchair security in knowing that
your Dutch conversation partner was as sure of his English as a native speaker, as well
as being armed with the knowledge that that partner was naturally, conventionally
expressing, rather than approximating, their feelings only in order to prove a point!!

Doesn't it sort of gall you when people of any age substitute an f-bomb for a perfectly
respectable English vocabulary word, merely in order to sound "cool"?

Bugs the bejesus out of me, that's for dang sure.

As I said at the start of this post, don't you want to know for absolute certain if
somebody from a another country's yankin' yer chains? What better way than by
knowing their language.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

I roundly disagree, Rich!
A Polish ESL student of mine, when asked whether or not
she had any Jewish classmates at her university,
the Catholic University of Lublin, replied that she
didn't know of any off hand. If there were any, they'd
be in the section of the school exclusively for foreigners.

Does that answer your question?

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

@Novichok, and everybody needs English??
I see you haven't kept up with the news of late,
but Germany has been the number one migrant
hot spot in Europe for the last ten years and counting!

If Germans all knew, at least spoke, English as though
they were educated native American English speakers,
you might have a small point. However, nothing could be
further from the truth.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

Honestly couldn't care less what his original family name was, Poloniusz, nor should you.
Fact is, he changed or had his name changed in order to sound less Jewish, this is clear.

You do love to play the Devil's Advocate now, don't you

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

However, monolingual texts or readings w/accompanying dialogues in the language being acquired must be
supplemented exclusively with visuals in order to make clear what the learner is learning in a language
not their own. The danger is that the learner simply learns to translate into their native tongue instead of
learning the language they wish to know.

Otherwise, it can be an exercise in frustration, that's obvious.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

I'm only familiar with Borowski's text in translation ("This way to the gas, Ladies and Gentlemen!") I never ran across the
original, unfortunately.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

Jewish, albeit hidden Jewish, heritage. Surely nobody here is foolish enough to believe that a Jew in Poland, even an assimilated one,
has had the identical experience with that of a rank-and-file Polish gentile!

By the way, those who claim others are "projecting", are usually guilty of same, but are unwilling to admit it.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

So true, jon ol' man, so true indeed.

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

If Poles all learn English as you do, I shouldn't be at all surprised LOL
Truly knowing a language goes way beyond merely the idiom, the slang, the grammar
or the vocab, Ironside!

The reason your English is workaday fluent, yet will never be native, is precisely because
your language breathes, bleeds your Polish mother tongue.

Such passionately, blithely unbridled arrogance bordering, indeed often exceeding, pure
nastiness in my direction, reveals little of the more space giving Anglo-American, the irony
which allows the other bloke the benefit of the doubt, even if you hate their guts.

Conversely, my Polish will probably always be stymied by the mere fact that I by nature
tend to hold back my unbridled passions and am usually quick to compliment rather than
insult, indeed will apologize instead of keeping up the attacks.

Back to the thread of bilingual education, again, having taught German for umpteen years,
learning to translate only serves to satisfy the momentary need to "understand" a spoken
utterance, yet in the end doesn't allow the student to express themselves independently in
the target language.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

Poloniusz is wrong. But it's hard to convince others of the truth.

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

I've taught college level German to US students for nearly twenty-five years and find
that source language texts prove more valuable in the long run, often frustrating
as they can be in the beginning for reasons which I stated.

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

As a foreign language teacher, I caution against the down side of bilingual education for adults learning a second language.
While it can be useful while learning to see the trot in one's native language right alongside the language being learned,
in my experience, this can also serve as a crutch which can actually slow down instead of speed up the learning process.
When the mother tongue has been removed and the learner is then forced to communicate in their "new" language, frequently
they can become tongue tied and rely more and more on their first language, gradually losing idiomatic control of the language
they are trying to acquire. The result is that the learner will be looking for someone to constantly feed them the words in
English, or whatever their native language and the new language will never become a reality for them.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

You're merely taking offense for zero reason in order to appear politically correct......as usual!
Being Jewish has EVERYTHING to do with Kosinski's heritage, especially as he was nearly
forced into being an altar boy in a small village in order to survive!

What you posted, as with certain others here in PF, is merely to spread garbage as to my
person without the slightest scintilla of evidence.

The rest will back me up and show your type up for what you really are, and it's nothing
to be proud of, I can assure you.

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Well, "The dignity of every human being is an inaliable right" pretty much spells it out there, Alien.
Not much wiggle room, I'd say.

If a body, organ or similar authority is in violation of this, action should be taken.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

Exactly, Maf! "Jewess" sounds hopelessly old-fashioned nowadays!

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]

German agriculture is particularly susceptible to environmental protection. The EU
realizes that the Federal Republic represents the most powerful economy in Europe,
is therefore most willing to accomodate Germany.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

@pawian, the word "Polasses" doesn't exist in English. For female Poles, English
simply uses "Poles".

USA, Canada / Where can I meet Polish women in Chicago [85]

I'm not trolling! I was merely making a remark about a well known movie
about Polish life in Chicago, nothing more!
You extrapolated something from the message which wasn't there.

Language / Is it possible to master the Polish language fluently for a non-Polish speaker? [120]

Yes, you're doubtless correct. Imagine the editing required for a foreign
author, much less for a native English speaking one:-)

Life / Jerzy Kosinski: Are his works popular in Poland? [48]

@Poloniusz, please try to resist twisting my words! You're trolling, that's all.
Where did I ever imply what you claim I stated??

Language / Is it possible to master the Polish language fluently for a non-Polish speaker? [120]

Much appreciated!