Yanc
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Post by Yanc on Jan 6, 2006 6:03:32 GMT -7
I'll bet that those guys from Poland laugh at my typing Polish words.. Hej Franek, przegra³eœ zak³ad. You lost the bet. Nobody is laughing. You are making mistakes - true, some words are mispelled - true, grammar is sometimes not correct - also true. But the same applies to me and anybody in this forum writing in foreign language. I know I am making mistakes in my english - and I know this is not to be laughed about. My grammar is sometimes funny, vocabulary limited - but who cares - I am still learning. I guess you are not learning polish any longer, but remembering words which you probably learned some 60 years ago is still most impressive and deserve respect. Greetings from freezy Poland Yanc |
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Post by pieter on Jan 7, 2006 10:11:16 GMT -7
Why to speak Polish at all, everybody should learn only English, right? Why these small countries even have their languages? Just to mislead us and to have their "secret language/code"?   ;D Polish is one of the bigger Slavic languages with Russian, Ukranian and Servo-Croat. Poles is probably used by 60 million people. France and Great-Brittain have 50 million people, but more than that speak French and English. I aggree on you on the smaller languages, why should Duch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian survive. All those people speak English. I hope that in the future English will be the European language, because it is easier for me than French or German, with their complicated grammars. But ofcourse I will continue to use my Duch in private. |
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alfred
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Post by alfred on Jan 7, 2006 17:43:55 GMT -7
I can curse in Polish.
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Post by Jaga on Jan 7, 2006 20:12:36 GMT -7
Luis/Alfred this is the first thing people usually learn in the foreign language |
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piwo
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Post by piwo on Jan 7, 2006 21:15:24 GMT -7
It's actually kind of funny: in any foreign language, one learns how to be polite ( hello, thank you, good bye, good day), and then all the curse words. It's universal! |
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nancy
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Post by nancy on Jan 7, 2006 21:52:00 GMT -7
I haven't learned any curse words yet ...  ... better get back to the lessons! |
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Yanc
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Post by Yanc on Jan 10, 2006 3:48:26 GMT -7
I haven't learned any curse words yet ... ... better get back to the lessons! Nancy, contact me if you need any lessons.  |
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Post by varsovian on Jan 10, 2006 5:43:00 GMT -7
The test was easy ...
I find myself being too darn polite in Polish company because I can't think fast enough to speak out at the right time. So I just sit back ask questions, give short answers and let people talk as much as they want - in my native England I chatter away and people don't like me half as much.
I read well, speak acceptably but try to avoid writing in the same way as a semi-literate would.
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Post by leslie on Jan 10, 2006 6:21:55 GMT -7
There must be something wrong with me (OK Nancy, Frank, Charles etc - there is no need to respond to that), I know no curse/swear words at all in Polish. Everything I have learned so far have been polite or ultra-polite words/phrases. My education is obviously sadly lacking - Yanc, Forza, Nancy (when you learn them), Frank et al who know the words I should know. But it's no use putting them on the forum as the guardian is very Puritan - erased my darn to d**n - but I resent dam n! Leslie
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Post by jimpres on Jan 10, 2006 7:47:38 GMT -7
Leslie,
I am with you my mother never taught me any curse words. I guess we will just have to continue to be polite.
Jim
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Post by varsovian on Jan 10, 2006 8:47:12 GMT -7
You can't avoid the crudest of swear words in Poland - everyday occurrence and you see the graffitti too.
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Post by jimpres on Jan 10, 2006 8:52:49 GMT -7
Varsovian,
I guess if I heard them it would not matter, I don't understand the word. On my trips to Poland if there were any spoken I missed them becase I never learned them.
Jim
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piwo
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Post by piwo on Jan 10, 2006 18:05:12 GMT -7
 psssssssssssssst. I don't know a single curse word in Polish. My daughter however, after spending 6 intense days with her 4th cousins, knows many of them... and she taught a few English ones as well. There is the fascination of this for anyone learning a new language I suppose. I did learn many in Hebrew (I have Israeli friends from college).
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Post by rdywenur on Jan 10, 2006 18:33:22 GMT -7
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... better get back to the lessons!
psssssssssssssst. I don't know a single curse word in Polish. My daughter however, after spending 6 intense days with her 4th cousins, knows many of them... and she taught a few English ones as well. There is the fascination of this for anyone learning a new language I suppose. I did learn many in Hebrew (I have Israeli friends from college). 
