USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

I happen to agree with you, Paulina. We are a relatively young nation compared to yours and still looking back yearningly to our European forbearers.

Real Estate / Buying a residential flat/apt in Poland as a foreigner [24]

You got it!

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

Good to know.

Real Estate / Buying a residential flat/apt in Poland as a foreigner [24]

A Polish colleague informed not too long ago, post-Brexit, that most local banks have notaries on staff much as is the practice here in the States.

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

Which one would that be, Tyskie, Zywiec or Warta?
:-)

Study / Can Szkoły policealne certificate be a substitute for B1 language certificate [10]

A potential false friend indeed.

Study / Can Szkoły policealne certificate be a substitute for B1 language certificate [10]

I concur here, Rich.

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

You bet it is, mate!

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

It also explains that Germanic influence.

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

Derived from "Speck", obviously, or "bacon".
Noticed many such dialect/regional words and expressions which derive from German,
but especially in the area of Silesia.

Study / Learning TV directing in Poland? [6]

The Polish equivalent of Hollywood is "HollyLODZ" because it's cheap to produce there.

Classifieds / I am from Yaounde, Cameroon searching for a job in Poland [11]

Yaounde, do you plan on learning Polish?

Life / What do Poles think about Austrians? [12]

Not unless you want to be the comic, Ironside.

Life / What do Poles think about Austrians? [12]

Both are staunch Catholics and practice the time-honored handkiss.

Language / Polish opinions on foreign languages? [54]

Many thanks.

Language / Polish opinions on foreign languages? [54]

At last:-)

Language / Polish opinions on foreign languages? [54]

As both a teacher and erstwhile learner, I can only concur, personally as well as professionally!

Language / Ethnic backround of suffixes of Polish surnames [54]

I'd forgotten that, thank you.

Language / Ethnic backround of suffixes of Polish surnames [54]

"-ou" is also Czech as in "Na Sledanou!".

Language / Polish opinions on foreign languages? [54]

Often, foreign language instruction consists of principally grammar-translation! It's not only boring, it's impractical.

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

Not unless the PEGIDA or Gauland's AfD have a say!

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

No Muslim candidates in Germany's current election. Cem Ozdemir, are you sleeping the next one out too?

Language / Polish opinions on foreign languages? [54]

Quickly yes, well, no.

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

Folk songs were beginning to fall out of favor among younger Germans as far back as the '8O's! Heard an older man whistling "Wenn wir marschieren..." at a bus stop in Hamburg and somebody summoned a policeman. That was in 2OOO-:)

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

Merkel's out of touch!

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

What do Laschet, Baerbock or Scholz have to say, more to the point.

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

Hitler was a Darwinist who misunderstood Darwin as he did Nietzsche-:)

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

A solid point, but a tough call for German liberals!

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

Well, I can only say that the US in this respect is waaayyyyy difference from Europe, at least from Germany:-)
There, if one is born in Germany itself, speaks no language other than German (apart of course from foreign languages learned in grade school), yet whose parents are from abroad and therefore not German citizens or nationals, those people from Germany as I described are NOT considered "Germans"!

This might though have changed over the past several years, but when I was last in Europe in the early '00's, this was still the case.

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

Add to that, Rich, one is considered "American" even if one's parents are from elsewhere! Being born here is sufficient.