The Polish in Ireland

Culchie

Hi,

Is there any community website such as boards.ie that the Polish community frequent?

shepthedog

I dont see the relevance of this to the advertising/marketing forum? Maybe try after hours or one of regional forums..

fly_agaric

Irrelevant (or not): http://www.polskidublin.com/ was mentioned on another thread here I think.

Have you got someone who'll translate for you?:D

emel

It is relevant link. I can translate it. I know polish quite well. I'm Polish:D

alleepally

Is Polish a difficult language to learn. Was thinking of learning it so I could speak to Polish customers.

AARRRGH

http://www.immigrant.ie/forumdisplay.php?f=36

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fly_agaric

@emel: ^Lol:D . I was asking Culchie. Perhaps you can translate it for him! (if you are not the same person)

emel

I can translate. I'm not Culchie. Culchie or anybody else - just tell me, what are you interested in? What subject? I would need many weekends to translate all web site;)

And alleepally - I think polish is difficult. Many foreigners say so. But it's difficult for people whose mother tongue is english because these languages are completely different. Nothing is just easy or difficult in itself. Only if you comare it with something else. For me english language is different comapring to what I was listening to since I was born. But when I learning english shows me, how different might be the way people, nations observe reality. It's fantasic to have a look at the world through the red glass, than through the green glass, yellow maybe in a future?... I was learnig latin for a while. It was so hard! After 2 years I was able to read a sentence - and almost understand it!:) But I loved it. I hope I will have opportunity to continue latin course. And this langue is dead now, nobody uses it. But gives another colour of glass I look through.

emel

mistake: "but learning english shows me" not "but when I learning..."

pork99

emel wrote:

I think polish is difficult. Many foreigners say so. But it's difficult for people whose mother tongue is english because these languages are completely different.

But probably not as hard as learning Finnish or Hungarian? Polish being, along with languages such as English, French, German, Russian and Irish, and indo-European langauge in contrast to Finnish and Hungarian which are Ural-Altaic languages. For example notice how the words for 1 to 10 in Polish

Polish: jeden dwa trzy cztery pie,c' szes'c' siedem osiem dziewie,c' dziesie,c'

have many broad similarities with the corresponding words in other Indo-European languages

English: one two three four five six seven eight nine ten

German: eins zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun zehn

French: un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf dix

Latin: u:nus duo tre:s quattuor quinque sex septem octo: novem decem

Irish: aon dó trí ceathair cúig sé seacht ocht naoi deich

Russian: odín dva tri chety're pyat' shest' sem' vósem' dévyat' désyat'

and how dissimiliar from these none Indo-European languages

Hungarian: egy kettö három négy öt hat hét nyolc kilenc tíz

Finnish: yksi kaksi kolme neljä viisi kuusi seitsemän kahdeksan yhdeksän kymmenen

Arabic: wa:hid ithna:n thala:thah 'arba`ah xamsah sittah sab`ah thama:niyyah tis`ah `asharah

http://www.zompist.com/numbers.shtml