Highly amusing

I came across these examples of ‘unusual’ sentences written by Polish students of English. I know I shouldn’t laugh, but they really are screamingly funny: I felt shiver on my spinach. I think that supermarkets are great creatures. Another thing is the possibility to wear light clothes, uncovered shoulders and half-naked paunches, which alure the [...]

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Ten things I love about Poland

If you read the WordPress sign-up agreement carefully it clearly states that you must write at least one post every month that includes the words ‘Top ten…,’ or ‘Ten things…,’ in the title. This explains a lot about the content of the internet. Yesterday I received an email from WordPress admin that opened with the [...]

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What is Poland? redux

It’s probably just something I ate, but I feel the need to be serious for a moment. One of my regular commentators (ok, ok, my only regular commentator) the mysterious PolishPress left a particularly thoughtful and heartfelt comment in response to my ‘What IS Poland anyway?‘ post (read it now for the good of your [...]

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Comments in Polish… Skomentuj po polsku…

By the way, please feel free to post comments in Polish if it feels more comfortable. I won’t be able to understand them, but I know people who can translate them for my poor monolingual brain.

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What is Poland anyway?

As I think I’ve mentioned before I misspent a portion of my youth in Poland. I first came here in 1997. In those days speaking English on the street could draw a crowd. It was almost impossible not to stand out. Although I am ostensibly a white northern European of fairly average height, weight, and [...]

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Drinking in Poland – the truth

Many years ago, during my misspent youth, I decided to come to Poland and teach English for a while. Actually, I decided to come to Poland and do nothing but soon after arriving here I discovered that it was easy to earn a living teaching English and thought ‘what the hell.’ In those days if [...]

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What ARE Polish people like? Part I

When you first meet Polish people in Poland, one of the first questions they always ask you is ‘So, what do you think of Polish people?’ or ‘So, what do you think of Poland’ I’m not saying they introduce themselves with these words, but I would bet money that it will come up within the [...]

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