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Old 06-15-2007, 08:15 AM
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I think it's awesome we have more than one person to help us with Polish!
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Old 06-15-2007, 08:52 AM
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Actually we have one more, hanula ...
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Old 06-15-2007, 09:31 PM
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regarding love and food...

yes, in general Polish people only like their food (lubic is the infinitive form of the verb) (Ja lubie or bardzo lubie), but if they are truly enamoured of it, they might say "uwielbiac" .... (Ja) uwielbiam lody!

Happy to help with translations if I have time...
Just know that I am still uncertain to this day how it is that I know how to write in Polish as I officially never "learned" how. I left Poland when I was 2.5! My mother (a highly educated individual with more degrees than is decent) claims my Polish is about on the level of a Polish 8th grader. That may not be a bad thing when writing to children :-)

I had no difficulties conversing with anyone in Poland, however, and thoroughly shocked our agency rep with my fluency. On the other hand, my vocabulary is 20 years behind the times, so every once in a while, people would get very confused when I would indicate my complete ignorance about something that is completely every day for them. For example I had no idea that there were ATMs everywhere and was asking about how to change money at the hotel. The receptionist could not understand my confusions until I told her the last time I had been in Poland was 20 years ago and that at that time I exchanged dollars on the black market for about 1500 zl each and that there WERE no ATMS anywhere, much less in what I would consider to be a relatively small town...
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Polish phrases

I know this topic has come up before, so I am going to try to gather all the old threads with different phrases and put them here, then when we need more Polish, we have at least three wonderful people to give us more ways to talk to our children!
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P- My 8.5 year old Russian princess, two prosthetic legs don't stop her from being dancer extrodiaire Home From Russia June 12, 2000
M- 8 No legs, one arm, fast wheels!
Home forever November 29, 2006 from Poland!
Dh - Often just another child, but mostly my best friend and a pretty understanding guy.


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Old 06-25-2007, 05:25 PM
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Polish phrases

I am merging and making sticky all our posts on Polish phrases, please add more to help new parents.
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S- my 15 year old son -Aspergers, but doing great!
W - my 13 year old son- dyslexic, caretaker to his siblings.
P- My 8.5 year old Russian princess, two prosthetic legs don't stop her from being dancer extrodiaire Home From Russia June 12, 2000
M- 8 No legs, one arm, fast wheels!
Home forever November 29, 2006 from Poland!
Dh - Often just another child, but mostly my best friend and a pretty understanding guy.


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The phrases posted by Jasiu/Kama and Aurika have been very helpful. I especially like the English phonetic spelling on the compiled list by Kama

If anyone who speaks Polish could help me with translating the following, I'd greatly appreciate it:

1) doll
2) more (as in "more, please")
2) all done
3) walk (as in "walk, please" if a child were running)
4) run and no running (both the command to run and the negative)
5) jump and no jumping
6) princess (as in "you look like a princess")

Since our girls are still young, I was trying to make a list of the most common toys and phrases I might use in the most simplest form. I have a larger list, but these are one's I'm not sure about.

Thanks a million!
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Megan:

Here they are! I hope this helps. Let me know if anything is unclear as far as how to pronounce these.


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The phrases posted by Jasiu/Kama and Aurika have been very helpful. I especially like the English phonetic spelling on the compiled list by Kama

If anyone who speaks Polish could help me with translating the following, I'd greatly appreciate it:

1) doll

LALKA "LULL-KAH"

2) more (as in "more, please")
WIECEJ "VEE-ANN-TSEY" but also commonly used is "YESH-CHEH"

2) all done

We usually use KONIEC "KOH-KNEE-YETS" meaning "the end", but you could also use JUZ NIE MA or NIE MA "YOOSH-KNEE-YEAH-MAH" or "[b]KNEE-YEAH/B]-MAH" meaning "there isn't any anymore"

3) walk (as in "walk, please" if a child were running)

I would use "don't run" NIE BIEGAJ "KNEE-YEAH BEE-EGG-GUY"

4) run and no running (both the command to run and the negative)

BIEGNIJ "BEE-EGG-KNEEY" and "no running" as above no. 3

5) jump and no jumping

SKACZ "SCOTCH" vs. "KNEEY SCOTCH"

6) princess (as in "you look like a princess")

OK, this is a tough one, princess in Polish is KSIEZNICZKA "KSHE-YEAH-ZHNICHKA" (something like that!), but I would use another word for princess something like KROLEWNA "CRUEL-EV-NAH" or the word for doll "LULL-KAH".



Since our girls are still young, I was trying to make a list of the most common toys and phrases I might use in the most simplest form. I have a larger list, but these are one's I'm not sure about.

Thanks a million!
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Old 01-08-2008, 07:49 PM
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Thanks Kama!!!!
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