What is the most annoying thing about non-native Polish speakers?

Welcome to the "global world."

Two Polish friends of mine said they were walking behind a beautiful girl in Rome, one commented in Polish "Co za ladna dupa" and the girl turned around and said, "Tak, ale nie dla wszystkich." ["What a lovely butt." "Yes, but it's not for everyone."]

Hehehe, the moral of that story is never assume that the person doesn't understand u

I've known alot of Poles that can't pronounce the word "the" using the "th" with their tongue or "Ibiza" (Ib-eetha.) Alot tend to use "ver" or "da."

There's alot of English words Poles can't pronounce correctly and there's alot of Polish words that English people can't pronounce properly.

When they try to pronounce "Thirty" :)

I've never asked them to pronounce that but I would imagine it's "Firty..." Alot of them start spitting when they try to pronounce the "th" lol

I tried to teach a friend but it took 10 min. to just get the th right. lol

This is supposed to be about people speaking Polish as a learnt language, but in keeping with the way this thread is going, can I mention how Poles trying to speak German very often sound far more aggressive than native German speakers? All that rolling of the letter R and failiure to do nice Ö and Ü sounds - it grates!


I've been trying to teach someone the th sound for about a year now. I still feel like I'm getting nowhere. I fink I might give up...
Or perhaps I tink I might give up.

You are better off to forget it because he never learned it with me. lol
But he always brought me a case of lays chips when he came so I'm suppose to look the other way HAHA. He worked at the company. :)

Tell them to pretend they have speech impairment (even eef you fink zey already du).

Polish "zezem" - English "thethem" (both voiced)

The crazy thing is, when my student here gets excited, he does already talk with a lisp.

luvvy jubbly in english means Very nice, but in polish ' nice arse'

Doesn't Polish "taka" typically function as English "a/an", and Polish "to" typically function as English "the". (Please note that I will never get the hang of Polish gender.)

Have you ever heard a Pole try to pronounce "plural"? Basically, it comes out something like "plular" with a very thick accent (trilled "l", distinct "u"). I'm not sure if this is a pronunciation difficulty or just confusion with the fact that "singular" ends in "-ular". But English is the only language I've every heard that treats its "l" and "r" in such a strange way.

As far as trying to speak Polish, I imagine that I annoy (or amuse) the Poles to equal degree by utterly abusing their prepositions and noun declensions (seven nontrivial cases, why!?), and to a lesser degree by not being able to pronounce things like "dzwi" and "trzy" (Come on, let's have some vowels in there) or the distinction between "s", "si", and "sz", etc. (which, to an English speaker, all three = "sh").

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