Love / How easy is it to pick up a girl from a club/bar in Warsaw ? [65]

Post a picture of yourself and your bank statement and then you'll get more replies ;)

Travel / Poland-My 9-day experience [239]

This thread is a good laugh!

Some parts of Poland are pretty ugly. Look at the dirty, grey buildings in Warsaw, I was in an ugly area of Gdansk last month. A bit depressing (one of my friends lived there!). And if you don't want to be even more depressed, don't go anywhere near a hospital! Well the three that I have visited looked more like Arkham Asylum.

But there are of course beautiful parts of Poland as well. The Tatry in the winter look amazing.
Some suburbs in Melbourne are pretty bad too. Just go for a walk in Collingwood and see how many needles you step on! Anywhere around housing commission flats look dodgy. All countries have there good and bad parts. Some more than others.

There are waves in Poland, occasionally. Just need the right conditions on the Baltic. It's only wind chop though. Anyone expecting waves in Poland has either no knowledge of how the weather works, failed geography/science or is just ignorant.

Hospitality in Poland is a joke though. The reason McD & KFC were the most courteous is because these companies originated in America.

Anyway, who cares?!?! If you didn't like Poland, don't come back!

Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]

This thread is a great read. I have been entertained here for the last 30 minutes.
Anyway, I have been living in Poland for the past 3.5 years and I have only ever had 2 Polish lessons. I understand quite a lot and my vocabulary is pretty good, but if I have to say something...... that's another story. Terrible is all I can say. Sure I can string together words which are grammatically incorrect, and that sucks. Most people understand me, but it is frustrating when you are out in a group, and you want to say something, and by the time I think of how I can say it, the subject has passed. This basically comes down to laziness and money. If I had more money, I'd learn Polish at a school, but I can only read from a book, which is as boring as hell, and sometimes more confusing. Does anybody know of any good computer language software for learning Polish?

A bit off topic, but someones post reminded me of this. Regarding the "Visa Office" on Długa, in Warsaw. This place is a bloody bureaucratic nightmare! Copies and documents, and then my case was "lost" and then found. I finally received my "Karta Pobytu", almost 7 months after I gave them all my documents etc.

I loved that post about the dog. My dog is bilingual too! She understands Polish and English. £apa! Piątka!

Language / Google translate thinks a Polish car is a baby? Bing example. [12]

It depends if you use capital A and lowercase a. Writing "Auto..." the translation is baby, but as jump_bunny showed above "auto..." you get car.