Michal
9 Jul 2007
Genealogy / How hard is it to get a Polish passport? [74]
I thought that my U.K. origins were quite clearly stated
I thought that my U.K. origins were quite clearly stated
Michal
9 Jul 2007
Genealogy / How hard is it to get a Polish passport? [74]
No, the Pewex is hitory now of course but I remember how we used to use them. I do not know if it was a good idea or not. I think today, I would shun those sort of places as I am against it through principle but these Pewex or whatever they were existed throughout Eastern Europe. They were known as Bieriozka in Russia and we had them in the ukraine too, known as 'Kasztan'. I remember when I was in Kharkow I even used on to buy some dreadful Russian wine and took it back to England. My father never said a word and I never bought any more!
PEWEX in one thread,
No, the Pewex is hitory now of course but I remember how we used to use them. I do not know if it was a good idea or not. I think today, I would shun those sort of places as I am against it through principle but these Pewex or whatever they were existed throughout Eastern Europe. They were known as Bieriozka in Russia and we had them in the ukraine too, known as 'Kasztan'. I remember when I was in Kharkow I even used on to buy some dreadful Russian wine and took it back to England. My father never said a word and I never bought any more!
Michal
8 Jul 2007
Genealogy / How hard is it to get a Polish passport? [74]
so again, it all goes down to the fact that women are very devious when they want to be.
but she will get her fair share evenif he writes her out of her will. No getting away from it.......unfortunately
so again, it all goes down to the fact that women are very devious when they want to be.
Michal
8 Jul 2007
Genealogy / How hard is it to get a Polish passport? [74]
That has to be decided
No, you are saying that you parents and grandparents were Polish. I have not discussed your nationality at all.
She'll still be entitled to a chunk of the money if they ever do divorce.
That has to be decided
re you now calling me Polish ?
No, you are saying that you parents and grandparents were Polish. I have not discussed your nationality at all.
Michal
8 Jul 2007
Genealogy / How hard is it to get a Polish passport? [74]
She ended up loosing her job and as far as I know, they are back together again now.
You might be right but then again, I only know and can answer what people are saying on a forum, knowing people in real life is totally different and much more complicated.
No-that is impossible. Polish people love to talk and talk and talk. They will say anything and everything to anybody about everybody else, it is in their natures.
I was not slagging anybody off, I just warned of the dangers and bad sides to holding another overseas passport.
He'll have to do that anyway if they get divorced. !
She ended up loosing her job and as far as I know, they are back together again now.
could really have benefited from your advice?
You might be right but then again, I only know and can answer what people are saying on a forum, knowing people in real life is totally different and much more complicated.
This Forum has certainly taught me a few things..............
No-that is impossible. Polish people love to talk and talk and talk. They will say anything and everything to anybody about everybody else, it is in their natures.
a man who marries a Polish woman then constantly slags of Pole
I was not slagging anybody off, I just warned of the dangers and bad sides to holding another overseas passport.
Michal
8 Jul 2007
Genealogy / How hard is it to get a Polish passport? [74]
Yes, and that is what they do. People come over from the former Soviet union and buy a Polish passport. Then, they can move on, for example, into England and find work religitimatlly. There was a very interesting television programme not so long ago where a lady traveled through the former Eastern Europe and bought for herself loads and loads of passports, all of course, on the black market.
Maybe they could not speak to each other in the same language! Maybe one was a Pole showing somebody else where the consulate was? But yes, I know what you mean. I was once in Tesco doing my shopping and met someone with whom I was working and he was with his wife. He talked-she said nothing and simply walked on! I wondered 'what on earth did they have in common?' Later on she left him and rented out a house on her own. He had to pay the rent for her house because she threatened to make him sell their house and split the money if he did not agree to her demands. I could see that there was nothing between them but he had not seen it for himself but who am I to tell somebody what I can see?
Yes, and that is what they do. People come over from the former Soviet union and buy a Polish passport. Then, they can move on, for example, into England and find work religitimatlly. There was a very interesting television programme not so long ago where a lady traveled through the former Eastern Europe and bought for herself loads and loads of passports, all of course, on the black market.
e consular office there was a married couple and for the whole of the 20 minutes I was there they didnt say one word to another. I couldnt believe it, I lived with my ex-girlfriend and also w
Maybe they could not speak to each other in the same language! Maybe one was a Pole showing somebody else where the consulate was? But yes, I know what you mean. I was once in Tesco doing my shopping and met someone with whom I was working and he was with his wife. He talked-she said nothing and simply walked on! I wondered 'what on earth did they have in common?' Later on she left him and rented out a house on her own. He had to pay the rent for her house because she threatened to make him sell their house and split the money if he did not agree to her demands. I could see that there was nothing between them but he had not seen it for himself but who am I to tell somebody what I can see?
Michal
7 Jul 2007
Genealogy / How hard is it to get a Polish passport? [74]
Rubbish-you do not know what you are talking about. My boy still has both passports though the Polish one is now out of date and unused.
t have to surrender your British passport before getting a Polish on
Rubbish-you do not know what you are talking about. My boy still has both passports though the Polish one is now out of date and unused.
Michal
7 Jul 2007
Michal
7 Jul 2007
Genealogy / How hard is it to get a Polish passport? [74]
Why? I have explained to you why it is such a bad idea. It has nothing to do with Communism. My eldest son got a Polish passport when he was about six months old and had never even been to Poland. Anybody of Polish origin can have one but what for?
I hope so, I'd like to have dual nationality.
Why? I have explained to you why it is such a bad idea. It has nothing to do with Communism. My eldest son got a Polish passport when he was about six months old and had never even been to Poland. Anybody of Polish origin can have one but what for?
Michal
6 Jul 2007
Genealogy / How hard is it to get a Polish passport? [74]
Yes you can have two passports if you want to. It is not a good idea to have two passports if you are British in Poland as if you have Polish nationality and you are in trouble with the police or they want to to undertake national service you will have to do it and the British Consulate will do nothing to help you. If you are an American, I do not know though I suppose that it is a nice way to get around all the bureaucracy and be able to work your way around Europe without having to apply for work permits and visas, after all, Poland is in the EU and it gives privileges now.
But, why would I want it and would I then lose my British Nationality because I thought Poland didn't allow you dual citizenship. All a bit confusing really. Won
Yes you can have two passports if you want to. It is not a good idea to have two passports if you are British in Poland as if you have Polish nationality and you are in trouble with the police or they want to to undertake national service you will have to do it and the British Consulate will do nothing to help you. If you are an American, I do not know though I suppose that it is a nice way to get around all the bureaucracy and be able to work your way around Europe without having to apply for work permits and visas, after all, Poland is in the EU and it gives privileges now.
Michal
27 Jun 2007
Language / Przypadki (Polish language cases) [59]
Polish grammar does seem difficult at first and a good book should help. It all seems a little stupid why you need to change things at all anyway as an example ja jest w Londyn i pracuie w biuro. Ja mam duzo kolegi i teraz siedzi tu w pokoj i czyta ksiazka. All the information is there and there is no need to know grammar to convey meaning. The funny thing about the Poles is that they do not want to say przepraszam but only the English word sorry and I even heard over the weekend on M jak Milosc-'to nie bylo fair' just as in English, not 'to nie jest fairowe! so it all depends on the Poles. When they do not want to know about grammatical declensions anything goes for them too.
Polish grammar does seem difficult at first and a good book should help. It all seems a little stupid why you need to change things at all anyway as an example ja jest w Londyn i pracuie w biuro. Ja mam duzo kolegi i teraz siedzi tu w pokoj i czyta ksiazka. All the information is there and there is no need to know grammar to convey meaning. The funny thing about the Poles is that they do not want to say przepraszam but only the English word sorry and I even heard over the weekend on M jak Milosc-'to nie bylo fair' just as in English, not 'to nie jest fairowe! so it all depends on the Poles. When they do not want to know about grammatical declensions anything goes for them too.
Michal
21 Jun 2007
Language / Przypadki (Polish language cases) [59]
The thing would be to show the person a table of grammatical execises, many books will show you how this is done, even some dictionaries will give examples.
The thing would be to show the person a table of grammatical execises, many books will show you how this is done, even some dictionaries will give examples.
Michal
14 Jun 2007
Language / Polish Lessons Units [189]
I think that is probably the case with most languages. I know someone who used to study German. He told me that German starts easy and becomes difficult whereas English for Germans starts difficult but then becomes easy. There must certainly always be a 'threshold' over which each and every one of us has to climb.
Incidentlaly, I really like the tapes of Polish sounds.
My theory is that the Polish Language appears very difficult at the beginning but after somebody manages to reach a certain point of knowledge - this language becomes unexpectedly easy to speak
I think that is probably the case with most languages. I know someone who used to study German. He told me that German starts easy and becomes difficult whereas English for Germans starts difficult but then becomes easy. There must certainly always be a 'threshold' over which each and every one of us has to climb.
Incidentlaly, I really like the tapes of Polish sounds.
Michal
12 Jun 2007
Travel / Photos from Poland [258]
Yes, you can sit under a tree and have a nice cold Polish beer. I used to like the Polish beer when I used to drink alcohol.
Yes, you can sit under a tree and have a nice cold Polish beer. I used to like the Polish beer when I used to drink alcohol.
Michal
12 Jun 2007
Travel / Photos from Poland [258]
June and early July can be nice. It can be very hot in the summer time. The world is a big place, why Poland? There are many other more interesting places than Poland to visit. Even Prague in the Czech Republic 'knocks the socks off' anything in Poland.
when is the most right time to visit poland? i wanna to visit poland
June and early July can be nice. It can be very hot in the summer time. The world is a big place, why Poland? There are many other more interesting places than Poland to visit. Even Prague in the Czech Republic 'knocks the socks off' anything in Poland.
Michal
12 Jun 2007
Travel / Photos from Poland [258]
Actually, my wife's family comes from a little village called Skrzydlow, which is a fair drive from Czestochowa.
Actually, my wife's family comes from a little village called Skrzydlow, which is a fair drive from Czestochowa.
Michal
11 Jun 2007
Travel / Photos from Poland [258]
Actually, to tell you the truth, I think it is an awfull place and visit it as little as possible. Obviously, I do not have that 'personal touch' with the place though as your family comes from there then that is a different story.
Actually, to tell you the truth, I think it is an awfull place and visit it as little as possible. Obviously, I do not have that 'personal touch' with the place though as your family comes from there then that is a different story.
Michal
9 Jun 2007
Travel / Photos from Poland [258]
Yes, I know it well. My wife comes from Czestochowa and this is not very far away at all. Nothing much there to see, mind you, though the countryside is nice. Best of all is to go down towards the Czech border.
For me, the best place in Poland, probably as it is the only place I know in that country which does not look like Poland!
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Yes, I know it well. My wife comes from Czestochowa and this is not very far away at all. Nothing much there to see, mind you, though the countryside is nice. Best of all is to go down towards the Czech border.
Kazimierz Dolny (taken Sept 2005
For me, the best place in Poland, probably as it is the only place I know in that country which does not look like Poland!
Michal
29 May 2007
Language / Where can I find audio of polish words [24]
Yes, but byki.com is very very limited, better than nothing for a few of the very basics but you will not learn to speak a language from that material.
Yes, but byki.com is very very limited, better than nothing for a few of the very basics but you will not learn to speak a language from that material.
Michal
28 May 2007
Language / Where can I find audio of polish words [24]
You are lucky if you have a college, which offers lessons. In London it may be easy but otherwise around the U.K. I would think that there are very few courses which would attract enough students to keep them going for long. At Guildford College, I was told by the receptionist, who was Polish herself until she left for another job, that the college is to start lessons in the next acamemic year. Motivation is the one thing above all other things, which will spell final success or failure. I had lessons in Guildford each evening with my Polish wife in the local pub, I would read a chapter and then we would sit down together and go through all the things I found difficult. It worked for me at both 'O' and 'A' level, though this is years ago. I think that maybe I married a Polish teacher rather than a wife! I do not have that 'get up and go' now though.
You are lucky if you have a college, which offers lessons. In London it may be easy but otherwise around the U.K. I would think that there are very few courses which would attract enough students to keep them going for long. At Guildford College, I was told by the receptionist, who was Polish herself until she left for another job, that the college is to start lessons in the next acamemic year. Motivation is the one thing above all other things, which will spell final success or failure. I had lessons in Guildford each evening with my Polish wife in the local pub, I would read a chapter and then we would sit down together and go through all the things I found difficult. It worked for me at both 'O' and 'A' level, though this is years ago. I think that maybe I married a Polish teacher rather than a wife! I do not have that 'get up and go' now though.
Michal
28 May 2007
Language / Where can I find audio of polish words [24]
It is a very good course to begin your studies of Polish and everybody has to start somewhere. Otherwise people just worry so much about which course that they never start at all. The best courses are the old ones anyway, long out of print. In Poland they produced some very fine courses with records (I still have a set). They are very good and I have never heard or seen anything better nowadays. When England had the old G.C.E. 'O'' levels standards were higher but since the emergance of the G.C.S.E.'s in the 1990's books have been rewritten in a somewhat childish fashion and that is a real shame. The original Teach Yourself book (no tapes) was a very good bookbeing written during the war years. In Moscow I had a copy annd each evening I would sit with my Polish girl friend and we would do a chapter together. People think that money and technology will buy them success but it is the work that they put in themselves that counts.
It is a very good course to begin your studies of Polish and everybody has to start somewhere. Otherwise people just worry so much about which course that they never start at all. The best courses are the old ones anyway, long out of print. In Poland they produced some very fine courses with records (I still have a set). They are very good and I have never heard or seen anything better nowadays. When England had the old G.C.E. 'O'' levels standards were higher but since the emergance of the G.C.S.E.'s in the 1990's books have been rewritten in a somewhat childish fashion and that is a real shame. The original Teach Yourself book (no tapes) was a very good bookbeing written during the war years. In Moscow I had a copy annd each evening I would sit with my Polish girl friend and we would do a chapter together. People think that money and technology will buy them success but it is the work that they put in themselves that counts.
Michal
28 May 2007
Language / Where can I find audio of polish words [24]
I simply suggested a good starting point in learning Polish words-a course entitled Eurotalkinteractive and you say that you do not recommend the course as it sounds robotic. Earlier, Matyjasz said that my Polish was good but sounded robotic so I imagine that your words are a copy of his. That is all!
I simply suggested a good starting point in learning Polish words-a course entitled Eurotalkinteractive and you say that you do not recommend the course as it sounds robotic. Earlier, Matyjasz said that my Polish was good but sounded robotic so I imagine that your words are a copy of his. That is all!
Michal
27 May 2007
Language / Where can I find audio of polish words [24]
I think that most courses which are teaching basic vocabulary will sound a bit robotic but they seem to be good at teaching someone the basics of at least how a language sounds.
There is also a Teach Yourself book with a set of tapes and a Colloquial Polish by B.W. Mazur also with tapes that is very good. I bought a brand new copy, unused for £1 pound fifty pence at my local car boot! I will never use it and you can have it for free if you want. I have even got Learn Polish Now for a computer which I never use and you can have it too. I have loads of stuff, which I will never use again and will probably throw away.
Should be just up your street then!
I think that most courses which are teaching basic vocabulary will sound a bit robotic but they seem to be good at teaching someone the basics of at least how a language sounds.
There is also a Teach Yourself book with a set of tapes and a Colloquial Polish by B.W. Mazur also with tapes that is very good. I bought a brand new copy, unused for £1 pound fifty pence at my local car boot! I will never use it and you can have it for free if you want. I have even got Learn Polish Now for a computer which I never use and you can have it too. I have loads of stuff, which I will never use again and will probably throw away.
Sounded robotic to me
Should be just up your street then!
Michal
27 May 2007
Language / Where can I find audio of polish words [24]
They are expensive to buy but you can go to a good library or buy in perhaps on line? There is a series called EuroTalkinteractive-I am sure that you can pick them up in Computerworld but they cost nearly 20 pounds. I have one on Maltese, which cost me one pound at a car boot! They are really good and are easy to download. If you are in the U.K you may be able to get it on order via your central library. It will teach you lots of basic words and you can slow down the speed of the recordings. There are about three different levels but for you, the basic one would be just fine.
They are expensive to buy but you can go to a good library or buy in perhaps on line? There is a series called EuroTalkinteractive-I am sure that you can pick them up in Computerworld but they cost nearly 20 pounds. I have one on Maltese, which cost me one pound at a car boot! They are really good and are easy to download. If you are in the U.K you may be able to get it on order via your central library. It will teach you lots of basic words and you can slow down the speed of the recordings. There are about three different levels but for you, the basic one would be just fine.
Michal
16 May 2007
Language / Is it too late for me to learn Polish..? [65]
Yes, I think that he is probably right. All these languages are conected in the same way as English has similarities to Dutch and then the Dutch can understand a lot of German and if you study German you should be able to at least read quite a lot of Swedish. I have looked at some Slovenian words and they are similar to Polish. Slovak is probably one of the nearest living languages to Polish. If you know Czech, you should be able to learn Serbo Croatian fairly easily as it is nearer than Polish is. I have never studied seriously Czech or Slovak but I studied Russian at university and my wife is Polish so if I had to, then I should be able to fill in most of the other slavic languages to some extent.
Yes, I think that he is probably right. All these languages are conected in the same way as English has similarities to Dutch and then the Dutch can understand a lot of German and if you study German you should be able to at least read quite a lot of Swedish. I have looked at some Slovenian words and they are similar to Polish. Slovak is probably one of the nearest living languages to Polish. If you know Czech, you should be able to learn Serbo Croatian fairly easily as it is nearer than Polish is. I have never studied seriously Czech or Slovak but I studied Russian at university and my wife is Polish so if I had to, then I should be able to fill in most of the other slavic languages to some extent.
Michal
16 May 2007
Language / Is it too late for me to learn Polish..? [65]
I think that Sparrow meant that Czech and Slovak are similar in the fact that they are similarly difficult to Polish and not that the two languages are the same thing.
Quote . Yesterday, 05:53 . #36
Quoting: sparrow
It's on the same level as Polish & Slovak.
No no no :( It's not. Polish and Slovak are similar, Czech is similar on the grammatical level, tricky on the lexical (lotsa words which are written almost the same but mean a different
Quoting: sparrow
It's on the same level as Polish & Slovak.
No no no :( It's not. Polish and Slovak are similar, Czech is similar on the grammatical level, tricky on the lexical (lotsa words which are written almost the same but mean a different
I think that Sparrow meant that Czech and Slovak are similar in the fact that they are similarly difficult to Polish and not that the two languages are the same thing.
Michal
13 May 2007
Language / Is it too late for me to learn Polish..? [65]
Sometimes I hear Slovakian spoken in the street and it is difficult to know if it is Polish or not as it is so similar to Polish-six weeks in Slovakia and I would be fluent in this language.
Why is Czech a difficult language?
Sometimes I hear Slovakian spoken in the street and it is difficult to know if it is Polish or not as it is so similar to Polish-six weeks in Slovakia and I would be fluent in this language.
You know, you must do that on purpose, that "naive/I-know-everything" attitude. Then ha-ha-ha, very funny guy you are.
If not, I am really sorry, I cannot help you, if you cannot read with understanding more than just a sequence of letters, mate.
If not, I am really sorry, I cannot help you, if you cannot read with understanding more than just a sequence of letters, mate.
Why is Czech a difficult language?
Michal
11 May 2007
Language / Is it too late for me to learn Polish..? [65]
Some years ago I met a lady who came from the Czech Republic as a guest of one of my friends in London. I spoke Polish and she spoke Czech as well as German (which I do not speak) and we had no problem in understanding each oother. After about twenty minutes I was understanding easily 80 per cent of all her words.
Some years ago I met a lady who came from the Czech Republic as a guest of one of my friends in London. I spoke Polish and she spoke Czech as well as German (which I do not speak) and we had no problem in understanding each oother. After about twenty minutes I was understanding easily 80 per cent of all her words.
Michal
11 May 2007
Language / Is it too late for me to learn Polish..? [65]
How can the Brits be dying out? Czech is just an old fashioned Polish country language. It is very easy to learn.
you base your opinion on a visit to Radom on a Saturday? Well, I think then that the Brits are dying out, because in Chickerell, Dorset I could wander around for hours on a Sunday and not meet a soul! This is ridiculous, sorry.
How can the Brits be dying out? Czech is just an old fashioned Polish country language. It is very easy to learn.
Michal
10 May 2007
Language / Is it too late for me to learn Polish..? [65]
It is not very nice being called an ******* but the truth is is that we have many Polish people in England now-they say that we have something like 600,000 in the U.K and Ireland. As he has Polish roots then of course he can study Polish and he is free to do so. However, why so many Polish want to come to England is strange. When I was a student in Russia twenty years ago, the Polish (and there were many in Moscow at the same time) never had a single good word to say for the English. Churchill sold Poland to the Russians and so on and so on. Juz wystarczy...
got one more enemy in your life and it
Stop spreading lies. This guy wants go back to roots, and you can`t stop him. Wanna spit on polish language? Fine. But you got one more enemy in your life and it is me. You are stupid a s s h o l e.
It is not very nice being called an ******* but the truth is is that we have many Polish people in England now-they say that we have something like 600,000 in the U.K and Ireland. As he has Polish roots then of course he can study Polish and he is free to do so. However, why so many Polish want to come to England is strange. When I was a student in Russia twenty years ago, the Polish (and there were many in Moscow at the same time) never had a single good word to say for the English. Churchill sold Poland to the Russians and so on and so on. Juz wystarczy...