Polish language :-)

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KIELBASA!

Polish people live in my father's basement, and when they take a pause from work outside my house, i hear their language, and i don't understand ANY. SINGLE. THING.

Polish belongs to the Slavic language family. So if you know Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, or Bulgarian, you'll have a dramatically easier time learning Polish. A lot of the words sound similar among those languages, so if you know one of those language, you can parse out the meaning of a corresponding word from another language. The only difference is that Polish uses the Latin alphabet, while the others use the Cyrillic alphabet.

All I know is 'chaiest' (sp?), which supposedly means 'later'...

I spoke Russian (badly) in front of someone Polish once. He asked if I had spoken Polish, and I said Russian...which he did not find amusing (Poles hate Russians, at least the older ones do...

The literal meaning of this word is “whore” but Poles use it in such contexts in which English speaking people would use the term “f**k”. It’s our MAJOR swear word (it’s pronounced as coor-vah for those who would ever feel like using it ) – an American/Englishman when shocked, scared or surprised shouts “f**k”, my compatriot in the same situation will shout “kurwa.”

It reminds me of an anecdote I once read – about Superkurwa who was a superheroine who intended to help Polish prostitutes and pimps. Unfortunately our brave heroine was forced to resign from her new work two hours later after having heard people summoning her for help by shouting her name from the whole country like fifty thousands of times.

A much more subtle version of such language inventions like ‘f**k’ or ‘s**t’ is ‘do diabla’ (to devil, like: go to a devil with it) or ‘do licha’ (to likho: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likho). The latter one is not vulgar at all and already obsolete although still used.

I know some people that speak Polish. I don't know much of it, however, I know what SpongeBob is called in Polish. "SpongeBob Kanciastoporty."

Mowi troje po Polsku.

Moj Ojciec jest Polski ale moja Matka jest niemiecki.

I'm actually a little better at speaking then writing Polish. So my spelling may be bad.

Czy pani rozumiem po Polsku?

Tak, ja troche rozumiem po Polsku.

Trawa=grass
samochod=car
Piec= dog
kot= cat
krolik= rabbit
Ulitsa=road
chodnyk= pavement
rybka= fish
mama= mum(my)
Tata= dad(dy)


Yeah, I know more (not sure if all the spellings are correct!). I am learning Polish from one of my carers who only came here 2 years ago and can speak really good English! We go out on walks and she points things out to me!

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