Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]

The message is very straightforward. Maybe the best thing to do is to ask him (or more probably the recipient) yourself and if he's happy with you knowing I'm sure he'll tell you.

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]


Price is the bottom line nowadays and you are more likely to get that sort of person pitching up in PL today than a few years ago since wages have been driven down post 2004..

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [335]


That is so funny to hear. You are, however, entitled to hold or pretend to hold whatever opinion you choose, however bizarre.


Who? What about Ivy? Didn't you say you'd written a book...


Now what about about


, Honest?

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [335]


Do you think that Polish people often feel they want to discuss life their own country with each other in a foreign language like English? There are a hundred and one forums in Polish for that, some of them quite good.

Amazing that you're using so many of the same phrases, words and textual characteristics as 'Honest'. Rather similar to Puzzie too.

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [335]


Yes. Two posts worth.


What "line up"? Why do you think people in Poland queue in an orderly line for public transport?


So why the capitals, which are shouting?

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [335]


You know, I grew up around Polish people, knew many even before I moved to PL, and I never, ever heard the stereotype


.

It must be something in America. We certainly don't have it.

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [335]


Prove they don't, angry guest poster - and first, prove some of your wild assertions about British etc.

Life / Internet providers In Poznan? [6]


Ask your neighbours what they use. If you live in an apartment building it should be cabled up already, perhaps by more than one provider (I don't remember whether or not they do that in Poznań) ask the caretaker which company most residents use.

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [335]


Do you realise that this is 100% the rule in Poland among both young and old. Nothing to do with 'ignorance', that's just the way it is.


You'll be waiting a long time.

Always strange when guest posters launch into nasty aggressive rants.

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]


If you mean teaching qualifications, then it's a paradox since by the time you're qualified, you'd no longer be a teacher would you are you. You could read up on "pupil teachers" however they haven't existed (in your country or mine) for decades.


What about history, economics, English, art, cookery, geography?


For teaching, the key is ability to teach. Or more pertinently the ability to get people to learn. Teaching qualifications, if awarded properly at least give the tool kit.


Perhaps because you haven't figured how much more of the big picture they see...


I take it your familiar with the famous quote from Mother Julian...

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]


You mean as an unqualified teenager.


You assume so much but know so little.

But still manage to shoot your mouth off.

Keep to the topic and less of the personal insults, This thread was cleaned yesterday because of you, and your mate.

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]


"Writting"????

No. It's wittering on. As are you.


Again, no...

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]


Yet that doesn't seem to stop you wittering on about teaching degrees. By the way, they exist in your country.


Teaching degree online?? They (in Europe anyway) involve extensive assessed TP.

B.Sc.Ed too...


So below both of mine then.


This is a good idea - even if you don't want to teach especially, you will always have something to fall back on.


At least one poster in this thread is, and some of us are in education and training management.

Amusing to see someone pontificating about the world of work when they are a teenager.

Life / Brazilian moving to Gdansk and need some help with finding a flat to rent and also a good school for daughters [33]


It's very worth it since the Gdansk suburbs in winter are not cheerful especially with the wind and rain from the Baltic, whereas in the old town you'll be within an easy walk of so much and it is of course a beautiful place.

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]


That's the way it goes, however for 'off the street' students the bottom line is usually money.


Indeed. What's with these so-called 'methodologists' that downmarket language schools use, anyway?


Sort of. Now that couple have really made some dosh out of it all. Believe it or not their books are still used in some places.

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]


Excuse us if nobody believes that.


In most of Europe.


Compared to courses that don't


Who?

Why would one study chemistry to teach languages? I wonder how you'd manage on a Linguistics course...


Sounds American. Remind us about the literacy rates there.


And that shows you really do know nothing.


As does that.

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]


That's pure comedy! Maybe on some substandard 'masters' courses wherever you live, however none of those are common in mainstream M Ed, MATESOL and PGCE courses elsewhere. They usually require a very high level of candidate before even starting. Not to mention the rigorously assessed teaching practice.


Some bitter person's evidently having a bad hair day.

Love / Do Polish men date black women?? [69]


Much more reliable than some statistic for the type of person who thinks a link to a website is a 'source'.


The best way by far is real life. I do know couples where the man has black heritage and the woman is Polish (real Polish, meaning from Poland) however due to gender patterns in migration (and possibly a stranger being a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of Polish men) marriage between someone black and someone Polish tends to be the other way round.

Real Estate / Landlord in Poland - tenant laws, statue of limitation [26]

Remember you can always give notice and move somewhere else. Most landlords are not as bad as they one you're using.

Law / Do I need proof of name change when registering in Poland? [3]

I suppose that would depend on how thorough and scrupulous you are. Since your name changed as a child rather than, say, last week I wouldn't mention it.

History / Royal Family still in Poland? [79]


Exactly.

In any case, there have been three legally valid constitutions since the 3rd May Constitution, none of which make provision for any sort of monarchy or aristocracy.

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]


Looks that way. This one keeps coming and coming.

Mind you, it's just possible that someone has some rare overprinted banknote from the first days of the second republic.

History / Royal Family still in Poland? [79]


It was an elected monarchy so nobody is 'in line' to the throne. The throne by the way was abolished 200 years ago and none of the three regimes since has decided to re activate it. Nor is there any significant movement for that to happen.

Life / Are there any prescriptions / medications for adult ADHD in Poland? [12]

Take a letter from your doctor back home explaining your diagnosis and treatment regime, take it to the right doctor here and they can doubtless prescribe something.

Love / Am I The Only One Who Doesn't Find Polish Women Attractive? [93]

I suppose you may well say that, with your decades of life experience and historical insight (oops - I forgot you're a teenager).


Spot on, though not everyone is the same.


Two rather similar nationalities, if anything.

Life / What should I get for a gift for somebody who's never visited Poland? [59]


That's a good idea. Any Cepelia shop should have plenty of stuff like that (in Warsaw, the easiest to find is on Marszalkowska, opposite Metro Centrum, in the 70s modernist pavilion building by the side of the Metropol Hotel. There's also a good linen shop further up Marszalkowska, past MacDonalds, sort of opposite Metro Swietokrzyszka.

Life / Volunteering in Poland [21]

There are hundreds of charities and other organisations who are looking for volunteer help (and plenty around Olsztyn).

The Wielka Orkiestra runs a volunteering programme although it's mostly about fund-raising. They should have details at wosp.org.pl

There's also the Red Cross and the Order Usmiechu (who do work with children).

Specific to Olsztyn, there's ocop:
ocop.olsztyn.pl/spinacz/?page=news&grupa=5
who mostly work with older people and there's the Klub Woluntariusze who co-ordinate volunteering in and around Olsztyn and should be able to put you in touch with someone:

bazy.ngo.pl/search/info.asp?id=185202

These people also run a programme for those who wish to volunteer with children and young people in Olsztyn:
uniwersytetdzieci.pl/wolontariat

Life / What should I get for a gift for somebody who's never visited Poland? [59]


No worries, I replied early morning before I found my glasses or drank a coffee ;-)

Roger's suggestion of Sękacz is a good one. Most food shops in town should have it (and definitely not a whole one!). Cherries in chocolate and alcohol are good too, as is nalewka, Wiśniówka is a nice one. Tins of goose pate are good (get from Krakowskie Kredens or whatever it's called, at Nowy Swiat 23 rather than the supermarket; they have lots of traditional stuff in fancy boxes which make nice gifts).

A good bottle of vodka always goes down well. Contrary to what people say, there isn't that much difference between them, if you exclude the bottom and top 10% of the price range, so just choose the one with a label that looks good.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

At least these Polish cats have now been rescued:
A WOMAN who tried to join together dead and alive cats to create a Frankenstein-style animal has been arrested by police after nearly 100 dead felines were found in freezers her house......The horrifying story was revealed by police after they raided her house in Warsaw, Poland when neighbours complained of a horrid smell and loud high pitched noise nearby.

dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/348388/Woman-arrested-after-trying-to-create-Frankenstein-animal-out-of-dead-and-alive-cats

Life / What should I get for a gift for somebody who's never visited Poland? [59]

They don't usher you into the duty-free shop during a random border check. In my experience they just look at passports and maybe sniff at the baggage in the hold.

It would be useful if you'd mentioned that you're travelling to Switzerland rather than the UK, the only country other than Poland that you mentioned in your original post. Unless you're planning on luxury (doubtful since you're using buses) the 300CHF limit will not be an issue for you.