Language / Polish people: did you struggle learning English - differences between both languages [75]

Rubbish. It all depends on your mother tongue, and how much you want to learn. Unless, as in my case, you grow up fully bilingual from the moment you start to learn to speak.

Japanese is easier for Chinese speakers to learn than Polish is, and French is easier for an English speaker than Kiswahili is.

icls.com/FLD/ILRlevels.htm

And if, as is often alleged on here and elsewhere, certain ethnic groups have low IQ, then how come those ethnic groups mostly speak at least two or three languages?

By the way, multilingualism is more common than monolingualism, so if anyone should be regarded as "thick" or "low IQ", then it would be monolinguals. But this is not true!

cal.org/resources/Digest/digestglobal.html

Love / Ten things to remember when you have a Polish girlfriend [79]

1. Her name
Bear with me, I’m not being (completely) flippant. About 90 percent of all women in Poland are named Magda, Ola, Anna, Dorota, or Kasia. That’s it. This can be confusing. If you can’t remember your Polish girlfriend’s first name ask her what her second name is. Everybody has a second name here. Unfortunately it’s usually just one of the above, but you might get lucky and come across a Jadwiga (if you’ll pardon the expression).

This is why she only gets called "kochanie" lol

2. Women’s Day

same with all women really

3. She is a a princess
Polish girls are brought up in the tradition of old-fashioned chivalry and deference to the ‘weaker sex.’ That means YOU carry the bags, open the door, mend things, make tea in the morning, escort her to the bus stop etc. When a little exasperated by this I often point out to my girlfriend that she’s being a ‘bit of a princess’ to which she usually smiles and flutters her eyelids in complete ignorance of the negative connotations of the phrase in British and American English. Oh well.

She just needs to be reminded occasionally about who is the prince :)

4. Walking is impossible
Part of the chivalry thing mentioned above is the expectation that whenever you are walking somewhere together she should have her arm looped through yours. Down narrow and crowded streets this makes progress painfully slow. It’s sweet, and I kind of like it sometimes, but it would be nice to walk through crowded areas in single file sometimes instead of having to go through ridiculous sideways-shuffling maneuvers, every five feet.

This is 100% true LMAO

5. You are furniture
While trying to relax and watch a film in which hundreds of Russian troops are hosed down by panzers she will use you as a pillow / footstool / nose-scratching device. This is also kind of sweet and nice, but it can make it hard to concentrate on the body count.

And this! But all women do this ime. I object to being a doormat but I don't mind being a footrest lol

6. She has a mother…

Actually, no. She died young.

7. Your food is not your own
It’s a well known fact amongst men that women mysteriously become ravenously hungry only when you happen to have a large plate of long-anticipated chips in front of you. However, the effect does seem to be particularly pronounced among Polish women, who claim to eat almost nothing. Always, and I mean ALWAYS, order or cook more than you can possibly eat because your stick-thin Polish girlfriend will inevitably develop the appetite of a blue whale the moment her anxiously selected ’small salad’ arrives.

100% true again - but you forgot to mention the ketchup lol

8. You can kiss other women

I wouldn't want to lol

9. She’s smarter than you are
The Polish education system is a marvel and good education is respected above almost everything else here. Chances are that your Polish girlfriend not only speaks English, German, and Russian (how many languages do you speak)

she usually isn't, three and a bit, and she could barely speak English never mind Russian or German haha

but also has a pretty good grasp of a lot of things that you slept through at school. You’re only hope is to pretend that such things ‘aren’t considered important in Western culture’ and shrug until she buys it.

all that education and they go and work in a nail bar when they leave school lol :D

10. …uh oh I’ve forgotten the last one! I’m in big trouble.

That's why she dumped you for a foreigner ;)

Study / Rumor about racism - will I be fine in Poland as a black International student from Africa? [245]


So 99.2% of Africa is non-white, yet there are absolutely no "calls" from the usual "liberals" for more multiculturalism in Africa! If multiculturalism "improves" Europe, then why doesn't it "improve "Africa?

Also, a significant proportion of those whites you mention above are likely to live in the RSA. Whereas here in the UK, we've probably got close to 7.5 million non-whites in a population of only 61 MILLION! I rest my case.


I think we would be hard-pushed to find anywhere in Europe where blacks are being slaughtered and thrown off their land because it's "white land". The same cannot be said about certain African countries where whites have settled, unfortunately.

Study / Rumor about racism - will I be fine in Poland as a black International student from Africa? [245]


Funny how this only applies to Europe!

I don't see much evidence of multiculturalism in Africa or Asia; most African/Asian countries are at least 98% Black/Asian, and are doing a good job of making sure it stays that way!

So when are African/Asian countries going to start "enriching" their countries with multiculturalism, and start allowing millions of white Europeans in?

Food / What's your favorite Polish coffee? [73]


In my experience, Poles from Poland won't touch anything except Gold Blend.

I mean, why??? I take them to a cafe which does REAL coffee, and all they do is moan that "it's not the same as mine back home" (i.e. their jar of Gold Blend instant!).

You couldn't make it up! :D

Food / What's your favorite Polish coffee? [73]

People from Yorkshire must grow tea next to their rhubarb then, lol.

Food / What's your favorite Polish coffee? [73]

wtf is "Polish coffee"? It sounds as daft as "Yorkshire Tea"! lol!

Work / CPAs in Poland? [8]


Not to work as a registered nurse, no.

The training has changed over the years, but has been a minimum of three years training for many years now. There used to be a "enrolled nurse" course (two years) but this was phased out in the early 1990s. Some of these nurses still exist, but many are approaching retirement; the rest did conversion courses to raise their qualifications to "registered nurse" level.

20 years ago, most nurses were employed by local hospitals on "training contracts" for three years and trained in "schools of nursing". Educationally, their qualification was equivalent to completing the first year of a 3-year degree.

Then the training became a little less practical; the universities took over the training, and the minimum educational qualification was raised to DipHE (diploma of higher education) level, i.e. equivalent to completing two years of a 3-year degree.

From 2012, the diploma-level courses will no longer be offered, so from 2015 onwards, every nurse will still undergo three years training, but will graduate with a bachelor's degree.

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

I found Mandarin a little easier, but I really want to learn Cantonese because I love Hong Kong, lol.

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


It is ;)

p.s. If anyone REALLY thinks that Polish is the hardest language in the world, then you clearly haven't tried Cantonese yet. You can trust me on this ;)

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

omg, I've just heard that the priest who conducted my marriage ceremony died in that accident. I never imagined that such an event could become so personal :(

Po polsku / Nazywam się Jade i mieszkam w Anglii. [37]


I was going to say that it's Jadę, but that wouldn't make sense, then of course I realised that Jade is a chavvy first name lol :)


Should be uwielbiam really, we don't "love" inanimate objects in Polish ;)

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

Typical. I might have guessed that the usual onlin "armchair flight investigators" would blame "the Jew" or "Russia for this. So I'm just going to ignore them and say that my thoughts go out to all those that died and their families. I didn't exactly share Kaczynski's politics, but he hardly deserved to die like this, and neither did anyone else in that plane. R.I.P.