Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


French and a couple of other languages (Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian) also have ogonki (under consonants in this case) and they were long called the French term cedille

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


the hat is officialy called hacek even in English linguistics (it's a borrowing from Czech language)

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


well Ingveon means sort of West West Germanic - I was actually wrong when I said Plattdeutsch and Dutch are Ingveon - only English and Frisian are - the name presumably comes from the old Germanic god Yngvi

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingaevones

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


so you also don't believe in PiS integrity??? I thought you were a supporter :P

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


young people were manipulated by the pedagogy of shame - now young people see the fruits of the 8 years of PO government and act accordingly


you want examples of corruption in PO - afera hazardowa, afera autostradowa, afera stoczniowa, afera stadionowa, afera taśmowa, afera Ambergold, afera informatyczna, afera gazoportowa

now give me examples of 'endemic' corruption within PiS


corruption levels haven't fallen, the services which are supposed to fight the corruption turned deaf and blind

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


if they were so easy why haven't you translated them???
you failed my test jon

£yżko you have a good memory for languages - you would learn Polish pretty well given sufficient exposure - you already have a good base

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]

jon you might have missed my challenge so I repeat it - please translate this following tiny dialogue into Polish to prove your competence in Polish:

- I will tell mum.
- Don't tell her!

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


the situation you describe has happened after Marcinkiewicz was removed from the prime minister post and when he was already a PO supporter


and this was this serious disaster??? have foreign investments fallen because of that? I accept only hard data for the foreign investments claim - btw you are British - what does it matter to you how Poland is perceived by the outside world


this was this serious disaster? no beer on train buffets? - I thought it must have been a serious thing


what kind of weidness? was it really disastrous? for whom?


PiS is a danger to whom???

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


what disastrous actually happened back then jon - can you explain??

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

it's not about the difference but similarity - Polish was the first language that the -tio ending of Latin changed into -cja and Russians borrowed the convention (slightly changing the ending to suit their ways of pronounciation)

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]

it may be quite nuanced but 'nalał swoim braciom' does not convey exactly the same notion as 'ponalewał'

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


ponalewał is the regular form and is widely used by anyone competent in Polish - the other ways of conveying the same message are highly periphrastic

jon - there is simpler way to tell your competence in Polish just translate a simple dialogue into Polish:
-I will tell mum!
Don't tell mum!
simple - if you get it right I will proclaim you are competent in Polish

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


and we are done in

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


jon have you already mastered Polish? i think this is a rhetorical question
the learning curve of the Polish language is so steep that the less abundant vocabulary of Polish doesn't have any significant influence on the learning process for beginners

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

must be a borrowing from Ukrainian or Belarussian

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

dozens

Life / Electricity in Poland: plug and voltage? [73]


polarity does not really matter for alternated current electric appliances - this is no direct current (DC) where polarity matters - no need to swap anything

History / Origins of Polish Slavs [139]

you have no idea about linguistics it seems - no problem for me

History / Origins of Polish Slavs [139]

yes this is precisely the point - the names of the majority of Polish rivers don't mean a thing in Polish (or any Slavic language) - they have been taken from former inhabitants and modified to suit Slavic phonology

History / Origins of Polish Slavs [139]


linguistic chronology tells more or less that Slavs are a branch of Baltic peoples that separated quite early, came into contact with the Iranian speaking peoples of the steppes of Ukraine then early in our era ca. 3-4th century came in contact with the Gothic people in who settled first in Volhynia then in southern Ukraine. Then Hun invasion of Europe and Migration Period happened. Slavic expansion followed. (first into the almost emptied lands to the west and south of northern Ukraine then also to the east and north)

History / Origins of Polish Slavs [139]


actually early geography of Slavs is pretty well documented linguisticly and also inferred from archaelogy. Early Slavs lived in the area of northern Ukraine - it is from there they have expanded

Travel / From Krakow to Auschwitz (transportation) [29]


actually Kraków is not that far from Auschwitz - it's only about 80km - that's why it is a popular destinations for tours from Kraków - like the tours advertised on the website

Life / Polish movies with English subtitles [87]

Have you downloaded them as a divx?

If you buy them in an on-line store (say Merlin.pl) they should have English subtitles - they are dirt cheap

oh well - Warszawa is not available through Merlin.pl at the moment

Work / How much is the average living cost in Poland for foreign student? [46]


basic blood tests (so called morphology) is lower than 20 zł, basic urine analysis circa 10 PLN - there are however plenty of specialised blood and urine tests and these can be quite expensive (even 40 PLN for a single blood test)

Work / How much is the average living cost in Poland for foreign student? [46]


she said she is going to be provided with travel expenses within Warsaw

Work / How much is the average living cost in Poland for foreign student? [46]

trains in Poland are quite cheap - the travel from Warsaw to Kraków can cost you as little as 60 PLN (zloty) - you can book online here

intercity.pl/en/site/for-passengers/information/journey-planner.html
- there are also some weekend offers

bus connection is even cheaper but takes longer

Work / How much is the average living cost in Poland for foreign student? [46]


185 euros for food should be enough if you prepare most of your food yourselves - there used to be places called milk bars- bar mleczny (not to confuse with sweets) where cheap meals (mostly meatless) were served but I have no idea if these are still around (they were subsidised) - food is not more expensive in Warsaw if you buy from chain stores like Biedronka or Lidl - you should be able to afford a night (or a couple - depending on how much you are going to spend) out a month for this money too

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]

I was taught British or rather BBC English at school. I thought I was quite good at mimicking the accent. I was shocked when I first arrived in London that people in the streets mostly speak some strange dialect I could hardly understand instead of the BBC English. Then I managed to learn how to differenatiate some accents. I still believed I don't speak with an accent (i.e a Polish accent) - then I worked with a guy who was born in Ireland but immigrated to London when he was six - I could hear that he had noticeable Irish accent or at least traces of it - so I told him that he spoke with an accent - then much to my surpirse I was met with an answer that I too speak with a strange accent

now after some time I actually shifted my accent to more American (perhaps MidAtlantic) I no longer swallow the final r's and also pronounce words like better, daughter the American way. - I am pretty sure I still have a 'strange' accent though

Polonia / Polish satellite TV abroad [40]


what is the point of pushing the Polish language onto the child - if he's reluctant he should not be bothered I think

Genealogy / Woloczyn or Wolosczyn: Am I Polish? Help [22]


I think the suffix in question is -in/-yn not -szyn --- the -in suffix denoted genetive in the past (it is present in place names for example Zosin, Anin, Teresin)