cześć everyone, i'm a spanish citizen who is thinking about going to live to Poland or Ukraine someday, my question is does anybody know what are the linguistic requirements to work as a tram driver in warsaw or any other tram as a foreigner? does a B2 level on english allow me to get the job or do i need polish 100%?
In terms of "linguistic requirements" to work as a street car driver in Warsaw, I'd think a knowledge of Polish would prove more valuable in the long run, don't you?
A foreigner in Spain without knowledge of Spanish probably today would have more chance at communication in basic English than in Poland.
Merely a suggestion. Good luck in your job search.
Not sure about trams though - never seen a foreigner driving one
Pretty sure I've heard some Ukrainians driving them (not sure if that really counts).
Originally Indian bus drivers weren't expected to know Polish (they had translators on standby that could be reached by phone). I'm not sure how many now know Polish and to what degree.....
thgis is exactly why you people are inferior and why i hope the world will know one day whart sort of naiton this is and this will finalyl give excuse to kamala harris and biden to move nato troops and abses away from this antionalsit racist backweard sh-hole and make russia great again by making dog **** in polan d with 16 yr olds like they do there.
i didn't mention i speak a little ukrainian, i saw you mentioned some ukrainian drivers are now working in poland, could this be a plus? also, it's very similar to polish so it would be "easy" to learn
some ukrainian drivers are now working in poland, could this be a plus?
In showing that foreigners are accepted as drivers yes.
it's very similar to polish so it would be "easy" to learn
Look at it the other way, any Ukrainian you know would help you learn Polish very quickly.
But beware about mixing slavic languages. For non-native speakers, a second or third slavic language is liable to interfere with those you already know in weird and unpredictable ways.
This is unlike Romance languages where knowledge of one mostly helps with others and where interference (dropping Italian words into Spanish or vice versa) doesn't make you sound crazy.
Especially Polish and Ukrainian are just similar enough and just far enough apart that it will be tricky to keep them apart but randomly using words from one in the other will sound.... very weird.
Learn Polish (not so hard if you know some Ukrainian) and start contacting the mass transit authorities in cities with streetcar networks, see here for the larger cities with trams to enquire about feasability of your plan:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Poland#Tram
nb. Very often in Poland the first answer to any request or enquiry is "No." Don't take that too seriously... often it means "I'm busy now" or "Let me think about it" or "Convince me".... persistence pays off!
The regulations on employing foreign nationals in public transport seem to vary from city to city. Warsaw seems to not want foreign drivers. There are some special training courses for Ukrainians but that seems to be because of the war and giving refugees a chance to find work. These courses are for Ukrainians only.
I did a bit more looking into the process for being a tram driver and it IS possible in theory for a foreigner to drive a tram in some Polish cities anyway, but you have to do a training course and that will be conducted in Polish so ................. it's probably better to improve your Polish skills. It will be more useful to you anyway if you want to live in Poland.
A bit puzzled as to why you are considering living in Ukraine. Much harder life there than in Poland.
life maybe harder in Ukraine, but i see it as a country with a great hidden(repressed) potential, i also fell in love with ukrainian culture, language, history, etc, so when everything is over i would like to move to Ukraine, but Poland is also a land i know a few things of and feel a lot of sympathy to, especially history(my passion), so both are good options, an advantage of living in Poland is i could switch to another profession i'm interested in, historical advisor in the film and entertainment industry in general, and your historical movies and series are usually much more real, much more crude and with a great attention to detail, i know they are two very different paths but both are a part of my life and interests along with some others
