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Poles speaking English - examples [244]
In my experience, the majority of youngish and middle-age Poles whom I've
encountered tend to attempt a solid imitation of an educated Britisher.
Those clodhopper, caricatured "Polish accent" heard among uneducated
Polish immigrants has become a thing of the past, I think. For example,
in Greenpoint Bklyn. not far from where we live in Fort Lee, NJ, one typically
hears people who speak English so influenced by their native Polish pronunciation
and sentence structure, idiom etc., it's often difficult for me to understand them.
They seem to understand my Polish better than I am to understand their English.
I only say that because whenever I respond in Polish, they in turn answer correctly in Polish as well,
giving the impression that I made myself crystal clear.