Polish language :-)

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Has someone here ever tried learning my beautiful native language? I know, asking this question is rather futile; unfortunately Polish doesn't belong to the most popular (and easiest) languages. But maybe someone here knows only several words... I don't expect a fluent knowledge

Well... Ana54, what about you? You're interested in history of Auschwitz KL which was built in Poland, after all

LOL, you remembered! I was actually gonna mention my obsession with Oswiecim and Brzezinka (Auschwitz and Birkenau).


I only know a few words in Polish... and they're all (except for babcia [grandmother]) from Holocaust survivors' accounts... selekcja=selection, bombowiec=born with the bombs ( THINK that's Polish), and I think I know some others too but forget them!


That's one of the languages I want to learn though!

I know four Polish words:

"Jezu ufam tobie" (because I saw it on the Divine Mercy painting)

and

"Usta!" (from VeggieTales)

I know a few words of Polish.I have worked with Poles for the last few years,there are hundreds of thousands of them in Ireland and the UK.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OneHFlVmlRg[/youtube]

Babcia means rather grandma or gran, a diminutive Grandmother it's babka Bombowiec doesn't mean born with the bombs (there isn't even such word in Polish) but a bomber - a military aircraft designed to attack ground targets dropping bombs.

Hi,
I was in Wroc?aw a few weeks ago and bought a Polish dictionary.
I started reading the dictionary from "A", and was really surprised
at how many words are cognates with germanic or romance language words.
I was able to guess the meanings of a large percentage of the words I read. But
I wasn't able to understand any spoken Polish at all!

It seems to be a really interesting language. I was tempted to make a project
of learning it.

Gwenevyn, that singing cucumber Larry with his obsession about lips caused an attack of convulsive laughter in me

Btw, usta doesn't mean lips but mouth. Lips it's wargi in Polish.

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http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=CG0vT0s8930
Before you go to buy A Polish Language Handbook for Beginners and a dictionary listen to this

It's our favourite tongue twister We love torturing foreigners with it Have you tried to repeat W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie? With what result?

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A Polish girl was a chemistry major at my college. She was too cute.

I like Polish Sausage and remember when Polish jokes were the fad. Like the Polish coffee mug had the handle on the inside. Really quite rude. I do know some German...another rough language.

Have you tried here?

People say I have a polish accent
I think theyre full of crap but Im slightly familliar with just about every other language though, not this one

That mug they did the same thing for Afrikaans in South Africa, my folks have got a mug like that from the early 80s.

Oh, yes, I forgot "Solidarnosc"... Solidarity! I was planning a few months ago to start a workers' union--exactly like the Polish Solidarity movement, but a Canadian version-- that threatened riots if the government didn't make sure that every worker, no matter how menial, got at least $20 an hour.

I would love to learn Polish because my mother's mother was Polish...from Krakow.
She was bought over just before the Holocaust.
The rest of my mother's family on maternal side died in the concentration camps (I am Jewish in blood)
Someone recently even asked me if I was from Eastern Europe, saying I had that look.
I dont think I do.