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


Narcissists have to make everything about them and get lots of narcissistic supply (attention from others) it doesn't matter if it's positive or negative.... like small children. Narcissists actually remain small children inside which is why therapists refuse to work with them. They're actually incapable of personal growth or adult development.

Sad...

Food / Why Poles not like rice? [98]


Simple boiled potatoes (maybe with some grease drippings and/or dill on top) are far, far, far more common in Poland.

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News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


Many different names for a long sandwich in different parts of the US

sub(marine), hero, Cuban, hoagie, grinder etc

Where do ou think the name Subway comes from?

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]


Three weeks sounds... generous.....

There's nothing like national (federal) law on vacations, that's left up to the states and the employers/employees....

I've heard different stories. IIRC a two week period was mandatory at some point and there were a few 'personal' days also allowed.

I've also heard of workplaces that give employees a set number of free days for anything (including sick days....) and it's not a huge amount.

I once worked three straight months full time without a single day off (including holidays) and then was forced to take 7 days away (paid for 5).

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


Send Greta!!!! NOW!!!!!!

Food / Why Poles not like rice? [98]

When I do rice my instinct is to go the Spanish route, with cinammon, cumin (kmin rzymski) and tumeric (kurkuma) (maybe chicken broth, chopped onions and paprika etc). Oddly I mostly haven't liked the paella I've had in Spain (they have a tendency to undercook it).

I also like italian style rice polenta (just boil and cook and stir till its a porridge) but only with a spicy sauce.

I don't mind east asian style rice with east asian food but don't make that much at home,

Never much liked risotto (just doesn't hit for me)...

In Turkey once I had rice mixed with vermicelli that was incredibly delicious maybe the best rice I've ever had...

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


Cheap hack for very casual study...

Put newspapers in the target language in your twitter feed.

Try to read the tweets that show up and then use the 'translate' option to check yourself.

Quick way to pick up lots of journalism vocabulary (maybe not the most useful on a daily basis but.... also necessary to read media).

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]


I've _never_ been so insulted!!!!!!

from...... Georgia?????

I am not a dirt eating redneck!

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


There's no such concept in the US. Education is usually controlled at the local level maybe a bit at the state level. I don't remember much about WWII in school, i'm sure it was there but probably at least as much about the pacific theater where the US role was more important....

But in English it was usually excerpts rather than whole works (again largely chosen by the particular teacher).

I was probably the last generation that acceptable public education as the republicans began dismantling it to avoid paying school taxes.... and crazy leftists have also ruined the content....

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


Yikes! That seems _way_ too intense for teenagers.... I absolutely recommend it to those over 21 but.... it is just so.... primal I don't think most teenagers are capable of absorbing it.... (I have the same thoughts about Israeli school trips to Auschwitz... that's not age appropriate).

There's a fascinating story on the American radio show "This American Life" about one of the first people to interview camp inmates.... The people sound dazed and disoriented at least partly because they didn't have a vocabulary for what happened to them.... a lot of vocabulary and concepts around the camps were only lexicalized much later and those who experienced them first hand didn't have language for it....

thisamericanlife.org/197/before-it-had-a-name/act-one-7

a site devoted Boder's work:

voices.library.iit.edu/

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

Oh.... what?

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

Is what what what said?

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


Some gentiles (Tadeusz Borowski, author of one of the most devastating works on the holocaust) had it pretty bad....

Again, why should Kosiński have any kind of notable readership in Poland?

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


But what does Kosiński have/add that Polish writers haven't? Why prioritize his works (which have to be translated) over those written in Polish?

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


By that time the change had happened on the ground (and in public transportation) years previously....

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


I remember when one person saying the k-word outloud shocked an entire streetcar full of people into silence....

A few years later kids sayind k-word this, ch-word that, d-word other p-word, j-word (hardly a sentence without two or three) and people just sighed.....

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


Years ago a friend who spent a couple of years in the PRL described a train trip (overnighter). Somehow the first conductor took his ticket and didn't return it and when the second conductor came by he was totally blanking on the word for 'took'

Inny konduktor..... took mój bilet!

Pierwszy konduktor.... took it!

Other passengers were no help whatsoever...

He had been specially learning Polish profanity and finally he blurted out "Konduktor zapierdolił mi bilet!" and everyone froze in shock... the conductor slowly backed out of the compartment and left him alone.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


no such thing....

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

eve-NING!

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


Though not much used in modern Polish to refer to a feature of female anatomy.... (a word beginning with c seems to be far more common).....

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

He's the one who led the russian invasion of Donbas in 2014.... now in jail for criticizing the tsar.

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


I've seen bits and pieces (will start watching episodes today) and have no idea how it can be translated with humor intact.....

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]


Like this?

youtube.com/watch?v=PT0ay9u1gg4

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]


thanks for that, the whole thing's on youtube.... watched a few minutes and my first idea is that while Brits are controlled (maybe a bit too tightly) by the superego Australians keep the Id a _lot_ closer to the surface...

News / WOSP in Poland [161]

I find JO to be a tad.... irritating but he and WOŚP have my respect as the first citizen (rather than government or church) initiated civil society project.

That's why JK hates it and why PiS slanders it without pause, they hate what they don't control.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]


Turkish soap operas have been more popular than latin american telenovelas in Poland for some time now. the historical one based on Roxelana (the Magnificent Century) was the first but modern ones are very popular now.

I've watched a number of non-telenovela Turkish series and they're.... interesting. Recently saw Yaratilan (Creature) a retelling of the Frankenstein story (set in the Ottoman era with Turkish icy mountains replacing the arctic) that got off to a rocky start but was pretty good toward the ending. Ben Gri (I'm gray) a high tech surveillance thriller ended in a genuine surprise that I didn't see coming and Arayis (the Search) was a nice take on the inner working of cults as a skeptic who wants to extricate her friend from a cult ends up becoming a member.


Was Neighbors the first? most famous? I had no idea that they made others..... was there any need to?

I've mentioned I recently enjoyed Fisk (comedy) and Bay of Fires (black comedy/drama) though the best two characters on the latter were played by New Zealanders.....

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


ready to give Alaska back, coward?

Law / Lost without my daughter - father rights in Poland [32]


you know where russia is.... move there or be exposed as a poser with no principles.....

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


To be fair, there are subjects that do require some rote memorization (times tables being a very simple example) but it gets extended in Poland far too much which means that too many take the three Z approach for things that should be remembered.

Also, using short term memory a _lot_ in exercises is very effective in long term learning. But cramming a bunch of stuff for a test is the opposite of learning.


Not a teacher. Someone who got the job under false pretenses....


Process orientation... it works best with self-starters or those who can be turned into self-starters (not everyone by any means....)

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


I wrote badly. I meant that universities give separate class and exam grades and I don't know if high schools do or not.

In either case, I don't like that. It makes the exams too high stakes and encourages cramming and cheating...


student centered philosophy that sounds nice and for it to work students have to want autonomy and independence (which is far from the case always, esp in Poland)


it was only recently (comparitively speaking) that grades for class were counted at all (rather than just 'zal.') Testing has a place but it's teacher centered (all the motivation is negative and encourages too much error-avoidance which is death to real learning).