Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]

@Bobko,
Oh, come on yourself!
In terms orthographic consistency, SlovakMaster might well have you over a barrel, buster.

Polish is to be sure orthographically consistent, most of the time, yet as somebody who's also studied Hungarian, the latter has ZERO silent vowels and reveals a regularity in its consonants which beats even Polish:-)

Moreover, Hungarian's ever consistent pronunciation and regularity of intonation leaves Polish at the starting gate, I'm afraid,

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]

...which among the Slavic languages has clitics (unknown in Russian or Polish!) as well as more tenses per se than in Polish, for example.

My forrays into Hungarian promptly ended when my teacher returned to Szombatvasarhely following the Covid outbreak! Compared with Polish, Hungarian has zero Slavic roots, although considerable cross-pollination of neighboring vocabulary from nearby Slavs. Polish of course has seven cases compared with the approx. fifteen or so in Hungarian:-)

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

I enjoy those alcohol-filled chocolates "Sliwki",
plum brandy, I believe, already mentioned by feliks
earlier:-)

Po polsku / Wymiana jezykowa polski-angielski [19]

Slicznie dziekuje za objasienie, Maf!

Po polsku / Wymiana jezykowa polski-angielski [19]

Wazne tematy zawsze sa najinteresujasze, prawda?

Life / Understanding Poland's Birthday Tradition [67]

I recall hearing "Sto lat!" in Poland following a loud sneeze as well.

Po polsku / Wymiana jezykowa polski-angielski [19]

Panie Michale,

juz wyslalem panu odpowiedz:-)

Study / Need advice with applying in University of Warsaw [3]

@Mavisho,
Did you decide to learn any Polish before applying? Not a necessity though, I'd expect. As with much of the Continent, Poland too has many native English speaking instructors among their university teaching faculty, I've been told.

However, as the trend nowadays is to teach in Globish, chances are also good that your professors will be from either Poland, Germany, the Netherlands etc., not only from the UK, Canada or the States:-)

Life / Polish mentality towards Pakistan [108]

Who's complaining? Merely an observation, hardly a cause celebre:-)

Po polsku / Czy Walentynka jest popularna w Polsce? [7]

Dziekuje za Wasze odpowiedzi!

Life / Understanding Poland's Birthday Tradition [67]

This is news to me.

Life / A couple of questions about the LGBT movement in Warsaw. [31]

TomasJ,

As I understand it, Sweden has gone dramatically far to the right, principally owing to what many Swedes feel is a run-away immigration policy, not necessarily because of LGBTQ.

Having myself not been to Sweden in some thirty or so years, I do try to keep myself abreast of what's happening, in both the US as well as the Swedish press.

What I've observed thus far, your major dailies such as >AFTONSBLADET< etc. are still rather on the leftists liberal side.

Life / Polish mentality towards Pakistan [108]

??? Apples and oranges, dude! 'Twas not I who brought up Poles and Pakistanis here!

I merely observed that coming from such a multi-ethnic megalopolis as NYC, I had to get visually used to seeing a plethora of Caucasians, that's all, no more, no less.

If certain folks here on PF can't handle it, TOUGH DARTS!!

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

OMG, I'm a linguist by trade and therefore tend to listen for stuff the average person might not!

Merely giving my honest impressions. Pity here that honesty doesn't cut both ways.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Recently heard a YouTube interview with the director Pawlikowski out of London and confess to being quite impressed by the clarity, not to mention the idiomatic naturalness of his English!

Barely would have recognized that he wasn't a Brit, were it not for a degree of interference when pronouncing certain affricates and dipthongs.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Isn't it?

I Zoom almost on a regular basis with native, "educated" Poles and detect similar such issues with their English. Oh, they'll try to conceal them, of course. Motto here is though, they can run but they can't hide!

Life / Polish mentality towards Pakistan [108]

Amen, brother!

Life / Polish mentality towards Pakistan [108]

Milo loves to jump at politically correct buzz words in order to make himself look good.

Can Milo even tell us what a racist is? I'll tell you what it isn't; it's not only white people against the other complected:-) It cuts both ways.

Life / Polish mentality towards Pakistan [108]

As a native New Yorker, I'm so used to it by now that when I first visited Germany (long before visiting Poland or Sweden), my eyes needed a chance to adjust to all the sea of white, often Nordic-looking, faces.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

I was speaking on average regarding my experience both teaching
as well as conversing with Poles.

Life / Polish mentality towards Pakistan [108]

Doesn't that sound a little bit like saying
"I'm not antagonistic to him! I hate is guts,
but I'm not antagonistic to him."?

Being racist MEANS precisely the following; feeling
hostile to those who don't belong to the Caucasian
race.

Quite sure you understand the word?

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Poles frequently omit articles and sometimes will
overcompensate for unfamiliarity with English, by
speaking in a loud, deliberate manner.

However in private many will actually internalize
correction and respond to corrective recast by a
native English speaking interlocutor.

Po polsku / Wymiana jezykowa polski-angielski [19]

Czesc! Czy dostal pan moja wiadomosc od wczoraj?

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

"Too soon old, too late smart!" might well be the operative sentence here.

History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

Both actually. My spell check did not work lol

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]

No one can effectively judge the nature of my experiences in the classroom! What was described happened precisely as it was and without exaggeration, believe it as you wish. Read the autobiography of pola Negri.

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]

In my experience, Poles can frequently become highly emotional to the point of tears, misting up unabashedly if they sense their nation, history or character has been impugned, especially by foreigners!

Need I re-quote my story about an ESL class exclusively of Poles I was teaching, starting to tear up as the subject of "POLISH Concentration Camps" from the NYT was broached by one angry student? Within about five minutes from the start of a young lady's presentation (coincidentally on the natural wonders of Poland), the group became so upset we couldn't continue the lesson and needed a five minute break so that the students could compose themselves.

Other nationalities, Israelis, German, French, Brits etc. would have reacted with either fiery words, fisticuffs, uncomfortable laughter, but scarcely by crying.

History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

The went crazy for other reasons though. Some have maintained they were crazy right from the start!
LOL

Back to the topic please

History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

Kaszub, Hitler was a tea totaler who discouraged, indeed forbade, the consumption of alcohol!