"Hilarious" Mistakes? (Esp. Across Polish and other Slavic Languages)

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Edited by: catsoldier Dec 8, 11, 20:42 #61

pam:

i have grown a hide :)

:-), that's a good one!

Marynka11:

My husband picks up this kind of Polish

Kids Polish is embarrassing but what if a man used the same language that a woman would use?! :-( If you told her that she spoke good english, she might say nie słódź mi, sometime later you meet a stranger(a man), they say that you speak good Polish, trying to keep up the pretence of speaking good Polish and being stuck for another answer except the one you remember you say..................... :-(, tragedia i wstyd.

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Dec 8, 11, 21:48 #62

pam:

This is the sort trouble you will find when you learn without a good grammar book

Hi pam et al

Don't be disheartened. It sounds as though you know quite a bit of the language already.

As I have mentioned in a previous post, I use three books:

1. Hurra!!! Po Polsku - Malgorzata Małolepsza and Aneta Szymkiewicz.
2. Polish Verbs & Essentials of Grammar - Oscar E. Swan.
3. Basic Polish - Dana Bielec.

They are excellent books - the third is a bit heavy and there is quite a lot of grammar rules, but unforutunately is just boils down the learning it. In the book by Oscar Swan, he has compiled very useful lists of vocabulary - i am learning roughly 10 words a day... at the minute adverbs...

gumishuThreads: 17 Posts: 3,943 Joined: Apr 6, 09 ♂	Edited by: gumishu Dec 8, 11, 22:12 #63
catsoldier: Kids Polish is embarrassing no, it isn't Sidliste_Chodov: I bet he asks for a torebka instead of a reklamówka as well :) torebka can well be used instead of reklamówka - it's not that torebka is only purse and that's it - a small paper bag is also torebka

Sidliste_ChodovThreads: 2 Posts: 683 Joined: Jul 27, 11 ♂	Edited by: Sidliste_Chodov Dec 8, 11, 22:35 #64
gumishu: a small paper bag is also torebka which would be no use for all that shopping, which is why he needs a carrier bag and not a handbag ;)

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Edited by: wwwpolyglotocom Dec 8, 11, 23:23 #65

Sidliste_Chodov:

which would be no use for all that shopping, which is why he needs a carrier bag and not a handbag ;)

Yeah it is all about homonyms which I believe are troublesome for everyone in every language as two words can be pronounced in the same way but mean different things and their spelling might be actually different to. You just need to remember them, practice, practice and more practice :)

pamThreads: 22 Posts: 463 Joined: Oct 11, 11 MEMBER ♀	Dec 8, 11, 23:35 #66
Chrzaszcz: the third is a bit heavy er...how heavy is a bit heavy chraszcz? its a basic polish book? would have to get a book online as its not easy buying books on polish grammar here :)

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Dec 9, 11, 10:05 #67
For Natasa and Crow, what does opaliłem się mean in Serbo-Croatian? How about zatrudnić kogoś? Poles often say 'oh, kurcze'. Any different meaning in S-C?

gumishuThreads: 17 Posts: 3,943 Joined: Apr 6, 09 ♂	Dec 9, 11, 12:58 #68
gumishu: torebka can well be used instead of reklamówka I didn't make myself clear - where I live the word 'torebka' can well be used in place of 'reklamówka' - rekalamówka can actually be a not so big plastc bag with no graphics on it

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