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Michal   
8 Jul 2008
Polonia / Are Polish people required to have tourist visa for Thailand? [32]

ere there is a visa exemption (but Russia is - weird eh)

No, not really because when there was Communism in Eastern Europe, Russia was not one of those eastern European countries that made everybody pay for a visa and then screw the tourists for daily official currency exchanges. Have you forgotten those good old days of the Polish PEWEX shop where everybody had to queue up for decent coffee and tea? It always seems beyond me that the poles are the first to complain about paying for visas yet they were always the first to introduce them themselves when it was to their own advantage. A really funny lot the Poles if you ask me!
Michal   
2 Jul 2008
Language / WHAT CASE DOES BŁOGOSŁAWIĆ TAKE? [6]

'To bless' plus the genitive case or 'to give one's blessing to someone or something' plus the dative case.
Michal   
11 Jun 2008
UK, Ireland / Posting from UK to Poland....not good! [53]

It is well known that the Polish Post office is full of thieves. Lots of things go missing. I have heard that it is safer to have things sent to firm's addresses as it has a higher chance of arriving but to private homes? No way, Jose!!
Michal   
22 Apr 2008
Study / The reputation of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. [52]

Two week residential at Krakow summer school is approx $650 + travel/food.

Actually, that is still cheaper than I thought it would be. Do you know by any chance how much the longer courses are, that is, if they are still running? In the 1980's a six week course including three meals a day was about £600.
Michal   
21 Apr 2008
Study / The reputation of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. [52]

I'm a 34 yr old warehouse worker looking for a two week intensive Polish language course.

I far as I am aware, the courses in Kraków are now very expensive indeed and are not worth the money. You can buy a good course and study at home for far less. However, on these courses you can meet some interesting people, many from the United States of America either of polish extraction or other people simply interested in language and culture. To pay well over a thousand pounds (and I think these courses now cost over a thousand pounds) for a month in Kraków is simply insane. You will learn in a month almost nothing anyway.
Michal   
3 Apr 2008
History / "SOLIDARNOŚĆ" is just a word for Polish people? [47]

Yes, her simplified transliteration is acceptable but, like Arabic and Japanese, there is no official transliteration so you must either learn the official alphabet or not try at all.
Michal   
3 Apr 2008
History / "SOLIDARNOŚĆ" is just a word for Polish people? [47]

No. The Russian word is перестройка.

Had you read what I had wrote then you would have seen that I had written in Latin script the exact same thing. It is pjerjestroika-that is how it is written.
Michal   
31 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / I have concerns over the British immigration policy so I wrote to my MP. [126]

very reasonable post for a change. It is nice to read a comment of somebody with brains.

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In actual fact, very few Poles died in active service in World War 2. A few died from 'friendly fire' as the Russians had to fight their way westwards through Warsaw towards Berlin but the truth is, most died from natural causes in the labour camps from dysentery and other common diseases.
Michal   
25 Mar 2008
Language / Use of A/An/The ...... Articles [186]

There is the Polish word jakiś that is used for this purpose in both spoken and written Polish.
Michal   
20 Mar 2008
Language / A good place to start learning Polish? [29]

o you have any suggestions about good places to start learning? I was thinking of Rosetta Stone. What do you think

I have never seen this course but it is a complete no-no and very expensive too. It is a waste of money learning Polish just for Christmas. Try your local library-there might be a colloquial Polish course or a copy of Teach Yourself, both excellent beginners courses and free too when taken from the library!
Michal   
18 Mar 2008
Life / Cost of converting cars in Poland to left-hand drive [58]

I know they are very good at converting cars in Russia as the Mafia steals cars in the West before taking them back East for conversion. Unless you have a very good high quality car such as a Polonez or the latest Syrenka, I doubt if the costs would be worth while. Some cars can not be converted as the clutch lengths are different in some cars. Hire a horse, they can trot anywhere!
Michal   
26 Feb 2008
Work / Why Poland employers are afraid of hiring any foreign nationals? [171]

on't you think that its a kind of discrimination against foreigners?

The Polish Nation is very nationalistic and will only employ similar people. Mind you, there are a lot of nasty Poles in England now. You only have to watch programmes like Crimes Watch U.K. to see the number of murderers and child abusers who are being caught by their D.N.A. and are being brought back to England and given life sentences.
Michal   
24 Feb 2008
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

At least we have an explanation for ours, but can you justify yours?

I have an explanation for your nastiness-it does not come from you so please do not try and turn things around. Life in Canada sure is boring. Anyway, I know the Polish very well indeed and they lie the whole time. no wonder there are thirty words in the Polish vocabulary for bull ****! Be it on the telephone or in person they make things up as they go along like little children.
Michal   
19 Feb 2008
Law / Shipping a car from USA to Poland [85]

Can you not simply buy a nice Polish Polonez motor car in Poland already registered and insured? It would make life so much more easy.
Michal   
19 Feb 2008
History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

I think to answer the question you have to look at the problem in a different way. It is not a question of whom the Poles like less but after who do the Poles come from? The Polish Nation has inherited some really nasty traits from both sides, especially from the Ukraine where the Poles have taken their nastiest streaks from. Would a German or a Russian want to be a Pole? Not on your bloody life is the answer!!
Michal   
19 Feb 2008
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

he POW camp that my Grandfather was in, never housed

That might be true but is not true of all of them and it is certainly not true of the POW camp near Slough of which I was speaking.
Michal   
19 Feb 2008
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

The Polish have always been a nation of liars. I was on a bus yesterday and got talking to an old man who is a close neighbour. He was telling me about life in England just after the war when they filled all the ex prisoner of war camps with Poles! There is agreement between us and that was that in many ways, Polish nastiness is genetic and inborn and is beyond the self help or control of the Poles themselves. After the end of World War 2 in England with the arrival of the Poles knife crime rose almost over night.
Michal   
19 Feb 2008
Work / International House - Kracow school - any chances of being offered a job there [59]

If you check on availability on the internet you could book a place and do it overseas in Barcelona in Spain or even in Prague in the Czech Republic. You may find it a little cheaper that way too and have the bonus of experiencing life overseas at the same time. Who knows, you may even get offered a job by the course provider after the course ends.
Michal   
18 Feb 2008
Work / International House - Kracow school - any chances of being offered a job there [59]

International House does run teacher training courses but those

They certainly used to because once, a long time ago, I even went to London, to International House in London's Piccadilly for an interview. In those days they ran the Preparatory certificate, as it was called in those days of the Royal society of Arts. I think it has since amalgamated and is now called CELTA. I am certain that in my time International House ran TESOL courses and that if you got a grade B then you were classified as immediately employable by International House around the World.
Michal   
16 Feb 2008
Work / International House - Kracow school - any chances of being offered a job there [59]

Is there anyone here who has studied or taught there?

International House is a total con and you should steer well clear of this organization. International House makes a lot of money by running English Language classes all taught by student teachers. This brings in lots of money for International House as students of English pay money for the privilege of these so called lessons and the English Language Student Teachers are also paying for the privilege. It is not good and I would not recommend either International House or a TESOL job in the first place. You can get a job teaching the English Language without any sort of training whatsoever. If you want to live in Poland and live on a hundred pounds a month so well be it but I think its just exploitation. Members of the Polish youth can be very rude in class too.
Michal   
5 Feb 2008
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

Poland is definitely an eastern European country and the mentality of the people is very similar to the Russians. Poland is interested in western money to put the bloody country right. They have never had any interest in western culture or civilization.