Do Poles prefer US American or UK English language?

Doric is the dialect of the NE of Scotland. Type in Learning Scottish words to Youtube and you can hear it (kintakintya is the uploader).

You've had plenty of years to develop your imagination ;) ;)

I'm quite well into my adult years too ;)

Polish people usually learn American sounding english with British words.. : o

OK, thanks :)


;))) Does our conversation still has something to do with tongue? ;D


I can see that ;)

British English is much more popular among young people.

My guess would be that it's because so many people go working in England.

I've never been to Zakopane and don't know what's this 'Zakopane ł' is :P And I'm not sure what this 'dark' Russian variety means.

Do you mean the old "ł" which you can hear in old Polish films and which is spoken by people from Kresy? It sounds more like "l", yes?

Tongue? You mean this ;p or what? ;)

32 is ok :)

My native tongue is not my only tongue :)

Poles like to imitate both forms but more AmE in my experience. They use slang from the 80's, LOL :)

Well, I decided to have a try at some wordplay ;)))
Couldn't help myself ;D


:)


So what other tongues have you acquired? :)

That would be telling ;) ;) That would sidetrack the thread.

It's strange to speak of UK English when there is such variety. Like German has Hochdeutsche and Japanese has Hyoujungyo, I guess there is some discernible British English but I see a lot of variation.

Well, you've started it ;) Not my fault - co złego, to nie ja ;D

Well, 'I've started so I'll finish' is a famous line from Mastermind in GB :)

Co złego, to nie ja. I like it. It reminds me of this, some classic AmE in a Bronx accent,... quite funny. A song for the mohair berets.

Some of the hard accents are really interesting for Poles, regardless of whether it be AmE or BrE.

Sounds reasonable :)


;D

There are some Poles who really like Scottish English. It's funny to hear them speaking in a Scottish way.

My students are blown away when speak in Doric to them. The ones that speak English well get a nasty shock. It really is quite different.

I said before on here i heard a native Pole speak with a Northern Irish accent, twas ammusing.

So you can immitate all the UK accents Seanus?

Did you see this, was posted before:

youtu.be/3UgpfSp2t6k

I can imitate most of them, yes. Not as well as she does it, though.

ha! she was born in Texas! ;))

I thought she did the Texan accent the worst ;)

Wow, she's amazing :D

how would you know? ;)

I've listened to Bush often enough :(

you should have stopped that... :)

Post something up on youtube then Seanus, we had a speaking thread on here and i dont remember hearing you at all. SeanBM posted as i did and quite a few others.

With regard to Amy Walker i would never have said she was an American.

I wouldn't know how ;)

I remember that thread but I think it has been deleted.

in my experience, they prefer american english, but often times misunderstand it. many words for poles are easier to pronounce or detect when spoken in british english, but due to the sheer exposure they have of american english, many prefer it.

It depends, I never heard a single Pole saying "lorry" they are all truck here and there ; ) I could probably find more examples.. Surely because of american english being more present in everydays life, movies, tv shows and so on.

Are they telling you that just to be polite?

British English is far more popular - people are far more likely to come into contact with Brits than Americans. American English is somewhat derided in Poland as being inferior, possibly because the gold standard is a Cambridge qualification.

delphiandomine wrote:


yes, yes they are Delph. they all lie to me. they don't want to hurt my feelings. they also purposely act like they can't understand some of the words i say, and pronounce some words with british accents just to be "quirky". also, all those movies they watch from america, surely none of the american accents rub off on them. they simply ignore it all because they're shooting for the CPE exam.

seanus wrote:


anyone from the NY area can see the brooklyn accent is pretty off. i'd say that was the weakest one she did.

Yeah, it didn't have the characteristic AAAAAW sound. Noo Yaaaawk :)

I alway hear Polish people prefer British language better than America.

I only know England, North America and Canada are same English.
Each one have their own accents. I don't know how they do it.

Polish complained about America English because we have too many meaning.
For example:
Ball - Ball is like Ballroom( party), beach ball to play with or ball can mean fun too.

I don't know English accents that well, but I've noticed the French accent was also rather weak - she just said some words in French and I didn't hear that typical French "r" ;)

Thanks, Paulina:-)