News / Dumbing-down in Polish schools and the Matura [185]

Oral from English is really easy to pass and in my opinion doesn't really check your skills. In my group 6/7 pupils got 20 points (100%).
Oral from Polish is just a waste of time. It's really easy to abuse (a lot of people buy ready presentation and just memorized it).

By the way I think that students that choose advance level shoudn't have to take a basic one.

News / Dumbing-down in Polish schools and the Matura [185]

Frustrating thing about "Matura" is a "Key of answers" (I don't know how to translate into English). Sometimes you answers is good but doesn't have a word or phrase that is in "Key" and you recive 0 points. What is Frustrating that they make an exam in order to check our skills and they make mistakes in it (for example "Matura" from Polish this year has at least two mistakes).

Travel / Szczecin-Torun train [4]

Yes, it is possible but generally you have to change train at least one there isn't a direct one.

rozklad-pkp.pl/?q=en/node/143

Law / What banks are people using in Poland? [50]

mbank.pl/en/

Life / Understanding Poland's Birthday Tradition [66]

Like Maaarysia said, some say it's a tradition some doesn't heard about it at all.
My parents are from Rzeszów and they didn't heard about it. My brothers and I was born in Silesia and we had our 18 birthday here. We were all "spanked".

Honestly if you have normal friends (and no morons without brain) it isn't even painful. I didn't even feel it, really :) and my butt wasn't purple after it, not even red :D It's more a symbol and generally it's done gently just to touch the butt with a belt and not really hit you with it.

And the purpose - it's a symbol, you get hit 18 times on you birthday so after it you can't get hurt or be unhappy in your adulthood.

Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]


I really liked them :D

Law / Poland's Laws and Regulations: Health and Safety, Licensing, Crowd Management, etc. [11]

I don't think that he can do this.

Food / 'Shortening' is used for baking and stuff [14]


It's good for baking too :) I always use it and I think it's really good :) I like it more than Kasia

Po polsku / Sprawiedliwy z Gniewczyny [94]


Całkiem możliwe, możemy spekulowac, ale pewności miec nie będziemy.

Natomiast na pewno w Polsce jakiś poziom antysemizmu był - czym innym wytłumaczyc chociażby Pogrom w Kielcach z 1946 roku?
Albo sytuację Żydów po zakończeniu II wojny światowej w państwie komunistycznym?

Life / Are young Polish people following traditional values? [7]

I think that it depends.


Yes, I think that we're more open minden and westernized. Diffrent values? It's hard to tell it depend on the person :)

From some time now it's really popular among young people to complain about church and priests and to not go to the church in the sunday, but still there are a lot of young people that going to church regullary but they're telling that they're not going because it's "trendy" or people that are saing that the're belive in Good but don't belive in church.

But I think that majority still is very traditional and such behavior is frowned upon (especially by the older generation).

News / Polish people mocked and humiliated in Season 7 of House MD [60]

I don' deny that there are a lot of Polish women working as a maids or housekeepers and that half off them just want to marry their "boss" to have green card.

But I watched this episode and I don't think that they are mocking Poland (especially that that girl has rather Russian surname, not polish). I feel that they are mocking all girls that are doing this just for getting green card.

And I dont think that in being maid is something wrong - of course if it's only job and no a way to get a rich man or green card ;)

News / Polish people mocked and humiliated in Season 7 of House MD [60]

lol xD

Kupek, I don't think that it shoud offend Polish people. Is being a maid shameful job? I don't think so. She wants to marry just to get a green card? So what? You will find a lot of girls like that (from Poland too).

I don't think that they put it to mock Polish people.

Food / 'Shortening' is used for baking and stuff [14]

Kasia is good but I think Palma is better :)

Love / Polish girls and traditions (esp. between mother in laws and daughter in laws) [45]


Exactly. She did it out of respect for a women who had given birth to her beloved one.

I also want to hear more about this visit :) And what about your grandson? I bet he charmed all members of the family XD What exactly is his name?

Good luck! I wish you all the best.

Travel / Katowice Airport to Katowice centre-whats best way to get there ? [10]


Belive me, when I saw the price that was my reaction too. You can check it here:
pkm.katowice.pl/pyrzowice.php

martin2020

If you have enough money to spend it woud be reallmy more comfortable to take taxi. Especially that bus station is closed 'couse they're rebuildin it, and it woud be harder to find the right way to the hotel. The taxi woud take you straight there

Love / What are the best love poems in Polish to receive? [77]

My favourite poem is "Rozmowa liriczna" Gałczyńskiego


A Lyrical Exchange

- Tell me how you love me?
- I'll tell.
- Well?
- I love you in the sun. In candlelight flushes.
I love you in your cap and beret,
Upon a windy open road, at a concert or play.
Among lilac, birch, maple and raspberry bushes.
When you are sleeping, or are hard at work.
When you cleanly crack an egg,
Even when you drop the spoon.
In a taxi or car. I am coursed, I shall never bend.
At the beginning of a road or its extreme end.
And parting your hair with a comb.
In a danger. On a merry-go round at a fairground meet.
At the see, in the mountains. In welly boots or bare feet.
Today, yesterday, tomorrow. Night and day.
In springtime, when the swallows hold sway.
- And in summer how do you love me?
- With the depth of a year.
- And in autumn with clouds and humours?
- Even when you lose umbrellas.
- And when winter's patterns are on the window pane?
- In winter I love you like a merry flame.
Close to your heart it embers and glows.
With the snow outside. Crows upon the snow.

Travel / Katowice Airport to Katowice centre-whats best way to get there ? [10]

Exactly.

Here you have timetable - from PKM Katowice Sp. z o.o.


It takes about 50 minut to get to the center.

single ticket cost 23 zł

here you have a map, where you can get off the bus
pkm.katowice.pl/docs/mapka_przystankow.pdf

where
1) Railway station
2) Sokolska street
3) Novotel hotel
4) Sosnowiec, the crossroad in Milowice

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

Why shoud I hate russians or germans? Why shoud i hate some girl or boy from russia or germany - they didn't hurt me in any way.

I think that more and more people in Poland (especially the younger ones) doesn't dislike someone just because they are from Germany or Russia, of course there are still a lot of people that are predjucted.

What I hate is that part of history, I hate Hitler and Stalin. I hate people from those country that without any regret, did what they did - as well like I hate Poles that betrayed Poland - because of fear or because they wanted to gain something.

But hating the whole nation for that woud be really unfair and it woud be bitter for those (because there were such people but we often forget about them) that give their live because they didn't want to listen to Stalin or Hitler. People from Russia or Germany that helped Poles.

Genealogy / Looking Into The Surname Bednarczuk: Ukrainian, Polish, Ruthenian, Belarusian, etc? [27]

Hmm... I found information that the surname Bednarczuk has Ukrainian origin and it's name comes from "bednarz" (cooper)

Kowalczuk - comes from the root "kowal", meaning smith or blacksmith The -czyk suffix is a variation of "son of," so this surname literally means "son of Smith." It is poular surname in Russia and Ukraina although it has polish origin

Love / American woman falls in love with a charming Polish man upon his visit to the U.S. [36]

Yeah, I agree with Ziemowit.

I think that he meant that you are bothering and upseting him by writing to him all the time rather than you "sexually" molesting him