Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

NO language has a monopoly on difficulty! English is labeled as "easy", while to communicate both correctly as well as coherently (much less completely idiomatically) among most Europeans,, seems but a Sissyphussian task, save for all but the rarest of prodigies. A bit of the proverbial double standard once again-:)

Genealogy / Which Polish first names are considered unpopular / obsolete in Poland? [124]

-:) Dana Bielec is the author of "Elementary Polísh", Routledge Press and published in the 'OOs.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

How about Art Spiegelman's "Maus"?

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Sadly misguided majority, only a corageous minority stood up for what ís right and just.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Hitler was supported by the likes of the Grand Mufti!

Genealogy / Which Polish first names are considered unpopular / obsolete in Poland? [124]

Like Dana Bielec?

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

The Vatican propagated lies too.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

You are an unrepenitent anti-Semite who can't see G_d's truth right in front of him.

Genealogy / Which Polish first names are considered unpopular / obsolete in Poland? [124]

Maybe naming trends go through cycles. I presently am teaching two twenty-someting ESLers named Bronislawa aka Bronka and Danuta who prefers to be called Danka-:)

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Poland initially saw some value in allowing the Jews in, therefore it was only natural that the Jews felt they owed something to their adopted Ojczyzna!

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

@Rich's not only an anti-Semite, but a mega hypocrite to boot. He speaks a language other than Polish but does that make him a non-Pole?! In addition, his espursions re: assimilated European Jews is straight out of "The Eternal Jew" by Fritz Hippler.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Assimilated Polish-born Jews considered themselves as ordinary Poles just as American-born, English native-speaking Jews feel 1OO% ,red-white-blue American, pre-Nazi German Jews were German to the bone etc. 'Cuz bigots like you set a super duper double standard's YER problem, bro, not mine!

Life / Polish cartoons/soap operas/other series with Polish subtitles [9]

Oh, sounds good!

Life / Polish cartoons/soap operas/other series with Polish subtitles [9]

Polish films w/POLISH subtitles - ideal!

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

A Jew began the Christian religion! Ya can't beat that.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Bernie was but the tip of the iceberg! Furthermore, as I recollect, our Yankee doodle Dandy Robber Barons were NOT Jewish.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Through no inherent fault of course, but they had the thankless task of needing to survive...with ZERO help from any Jewish auxilliary organizations, most of which didn't exíst at the time-:)

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

The early Jews were typically not allowed in most creative endeavors, school quotas and the like (even art schools!). Therefore, with precious few exceptions such as the incomparable Edith Head neé Horowitz, Bernard Herrmann, Miklos Rosza, directors Lewis Milestone, Henry Koster ("The Bishop's Wife") etc., most Hollywood Jews ended up as ruthless, cut-throat money men further fueling anti-Jewish stereotypes.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Nobody's perfect, Rich! Wagner helped pave the way for Hitler and yet we acknowledge his incomparable contributions to culture.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

More the same Polanski who graced us with "Nóz w wodzie"-:)

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

No, Jews are simply another kind of Pole, that's all.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Understood already that most Poles are Chrístian, DUHH, hence Jews are the minority.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Come again please, Rysku, what does that palaver mean in English??

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Aleksandr Ford, Roman Polanski, and Agnieszka Holland belong to some of Poland's greatest post-War directors! Henryk Szeryng was one of the most renowned modern Polísh violinists.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

And who came up with the most Polish of tongue twisters...??Jan Brzechwa, son of a Jewish mother-:)

Language / What are the hard aspects of Polish according to its learners? - home essay [21]

I'm rather confused at this point, sorry to say.

Love / Foreign Older vs Younger Relationships In Poland [20]

Your remarks sound to me as an American with many years of close contact with the Polish professional community more like typically US- ethnocentric value judgements. Not ALL Polish women fit neatly into such stereotypes. By the way, American men come across to Polish women I've known as testosterone-pumping, machismo manchildren!

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

The Enlightenment all but failed to take hold in Germany when it was most desparately needed, that is, during the rise of the Third Reich. Irrational Romanticism instead held sway.

Po polsku / Lepiej powiedzieć "ślepy nie jestem" czy "nie jestem ślepy" i dlaczego? [27]

Porów n.p. "Jestem ciekawy" ws. "Ciekawy jestem".

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

You're an unrepenetant anti-Semite.