the POLSKI blog

Hiya, I’m back. Spent two glorious weeks on the beach in Greece, swimming in the sea, eating and drinking too much. Nothing new then. Now I’m back home and I have to say I keep noticing more and more let’s call them ‘informal’ signs of the Polish ‘invasion’ on the streets of London (or should [...]

As promised in my previous polish your Polish post, time now to learn how to say ‘Goodbye’ in Polish. The most popular phrase is probably Do widzenia! which is the equivalent of ‘Goodbye’. This is a bit formal, but also one of the most common phrases, apart from Cześć which is the same as the [...]

Sometimes you read something and wonder why people (journalists) even bother. One of the free London papers has a regular column called Funny Old World with short quirkies from all over the world. While sitting on the tube today I noticed a one-sentence funny ‘piece’ from Poland: Zielona Gora, a medieval village, has been ordered [...]

Well, honestly, I didn’t even know such a thing existed. But I guess after Poland’s less than impressive performances at the ‘proper’ Eurovision Song Contest, this is probably good news. Polish actor Marcin Mroczek and dancer Edyta Herbus performed a very energetic routine and by the looks of it, managed to impress almost everyone. Well [...]

Still fiddling with various settings and tweaking things behing the scenes, but already managed to set up a Twitter account for my blog – you can now follow the POLSKIblog on Twitter via http://twitter.com/thepolskiblog. Which also means every update on here will automatically appear on Twitter. Yippee. (Or ‘hurra’ in Polish). Narazie!

So, I got carried away with my previous polish your Polish post, but I had to tell you how to express love in Polish, ok? Sorry if my voice sounded very uninspiring, but somehow the idea of expressing my feelings to an inanimate object (i.e. my microphone) didn’t quite work for me. Hence today I’m [...]