Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

A question about the family name KOSZARSKI.
Might the translation be BASKETMAKER'S SON, or something
in this neighborhood?

Po polsku / Praca i życie w Hiszpanii [4]

Witam pana,

ucz sie pan bezposrednio jezyka hiszpanskiego, zanim sie przeprowadiac do Hiszpani!
Kolega byl w jesieni w Barcelonii (Katalunyii) a zadny czlowiek mowil po angielsku.

Co jest pan zawodowo?

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

Can't argue with ya there, jon.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

Perhaps because as immigrants abroad, they felt they had to work twice as hard.

News / News article on Poland absorbing Ukrainian refugees [47]

@Maf,
Kindly name a newspaper/-agency which IS an "objectively" satisfactory newspaper for information!
The Washington Post? The Boston Globe? The London Times?, DER SPIEGEL?.......?

News / News article on Poland absorbing Ukrainian refugees [47]

So far, however just wait and see.

News / News article on Poland absorbing Ukrainian refugees [47]

Yet who would be manning those factories you speak of, Rich?
Guess who, REFUGEES!

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

In my experience, Poles always had the reputation of being most industrious! Still recall the name of my first Polish textbook from the Communist Era, "Pracowita Matka", praising the image of the hard-working Polish mother, in accordance with the propaganda of the period:-)

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]

@Milo, mate you continue to expose yourself as little more than a troll!

@jon, Oh well, serving Shepherd's Pie to a guest's nothing to "stew" about, is it? LOL

News / News article on Poland absorbing Ukrainian refugees [47]

This I can well understand, they being Slavic brethren and all!
Apparently though, the Ukrainians have a less than savory reputation among many Poles for certain acts of violence perpetrated years ago.

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]

Nice post. Thanks, jon!
Why though need the offerings necessarily be "posh", unless of course one is trying to make a particular impression on wealthy company?

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]

England does have certain wines such as port and claret which, because of a colder climate for growing grapes, Poland doesn't have. If I lived in England and had a Polish house guest, I'd probably opt for typically English Stilton or Wensleydale and a nice claret:-) For an encore, perhaps some rare roast beef, maybe some shepherd's pie for a main course.

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!