Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [243]

hey neemo - welcome to the funny-animal-bird-(now fish)-and-other-lovely-creature-farm. lots of help available on the forums - check out the language sections. i have gotten most help by asking direct questions. are you having lessons? for me, that is the best way - pronounciation can be really difficult, but it's possible to develop an ear for that if you hear polish a lot. I'm in Warsaw, so that's the easy part for me - the grammar is a nightmare though. You can ask anybody around here how many silly questions I have asked on these pages ;)

Food / Barszcz czerwony recipe (Beetroot Soup) [48]


:P

Food / Barszcz czerwony recipe (Beetroot Soup) [48]

hi mike - it seems as if the forum has gone half to sleep over the festive season - i'm sure they'll wake up soon and come to your rescue. in the meantime, check out the food and drink section - maybe you'll find something there?

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [243]

this Polish? :P

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

eat your little heart out shawny! ;-)

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]



Welcome to South Africa, boys and girls. I'm glad you like our beers. SA Breweries has the controlling share in Kompania Piwo Warska :)

Life / Body hair-depilatories - do Polish women and men use them? [43]


:P :D :P

Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]


enjoy

M


Btw, this is not an easy thing for everybody you know ? ;)

Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]


Show me a society that does ...

Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]


;) no problem. I do know though that people live here and are happy. They still care about each other, and somehow, Polish people also manage - with their small salaries - to do great things! I've always been fascinated when I think how they do it. One of the staff members at my husband's office, eg. has tens of thousands of rands worth of camera equipment to pursue his photography interest. I know that he took some time off work a while ago, to redo the floors of their flat to save money for a camra lens :) He has a wife and three daughters to look after.

Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]

hey polly

Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]


Sorry norgean - I'm not an expert on salaries in Poland, but from what I heard, Polish people are really paid badly. I might be wrong, but I think Polish doctors' salaries averaged in the beginning of the year around 1 200 PLN. There are some threads regarding salaries elsewhere on the forum as well. It might be different in international companies, but I'm not sure.

I am sure that someone will correct me, and inform you some more.

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

do kładnie

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

yeah yeah, i like it that way too, but i have sweet memories of Żubrówka and apple juice.

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]


thanx andy - at last got that one sorted.

i usually joke about szarlotka that you eat and that you drink - all polish waitrons seem to understand ;)

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

have a question about that. before we came to poland, I read in some travel guide that Żubrówka served with apple juice is called tatanka. Polish people don't seem to know that or use that though? Here I have come to know it also as szarlotka ;) or is tatanka something else?

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

don't know about that
loooooove Żubrówka though \\_______________________//

Genealogy / Do Polish people have big noses? [451]

Forgive me - didn't read the whole thread.

Too lazy, can you bring me up to speed in one sentence?

Genealogy / Do Polish people have big noses? [451]

you donkeys too!

Hey you lot - one can see that I was away - you're all bored to death ;) lol

I mean bored to nose measuring

Travel / Hometown / Vacation pictures Poland [201]

Hey Krysia. Seems every time I see you, you have anew face! ;) Imagine if we could do that in real life! ;)

UK, Ireland / What do you hate about England and English people? [142]


At Carrefour! Pay through my nose for it though!

UK, Ireland / Polish opinion of England as a country and the English nation [64]

Agree

Food / Your favourite Polish foods! [180]

szarlotka - the one you eat

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and the one you drink! ;-)

UK, Ireland / Polish opinion of England as a country and the English nation [64]

I'm neither English nor Pole, but this thread will be extremely fascinating to watch... So bring it on. I'm sitting on the sidelines. :)

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

I gather you love eating and drinking Osiol ;0)

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Hubby works here - in warsaw. Originally from RPA.

will be going back in three years

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Have been here for a year and two months now. In the beginning I really had to get used to the 'tram faces'. Polish people have a way of ignoring other people's existence when they are on the street - looking right through you, and, if you dare smile at them (habit of people in my home country), it's like: 'What do you want from me?!!' Started to learn Polish though, and although I still speak very little, and my grammar is always a shambles, my pronunciation is good, so if it's just Dzien Dobry, and maybe a little bit more, I fool them with my accent. Also, Polish Moms and Dads with little ones melt like snow in the sun if you play a game with the little ones. And then I found out that if you can get past the tram faces, Polish people bloom open like the tulips in spring - as colourful and full of surprises as you could never imagine any tram face would be. :0)