Share Perfective and Imperfective Polish verbs

Useless?? Why is Polish a useless language when dealing with Poland, especially since we've already established in this very forum that Poland has become an even more significant country/economy thanks to the euro currency?

What other language are we going to use when dealing with Poland? For that matter, what other language other than German is used when doing serious business with Germany, Russian with Russia, English with North America etc....?

Remember: The most important language in the world is the language the customer speaks!

Clearly he meant on an international scale....of course when dealing with Poles it is a very useful language :)

If you spoke English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic there are not many places you could not communicate....Polish has a limited value unless you are dealing with Poland or Chicago.

Jones,
True enough. I think it valuable as well to mention in addition to those other languages you named, that all too often the double-standard of 'practicing' vs. 'speaking' a language rears its head. Frequently, in certain countries, e.g. Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands etc., the inhabitants will rarely give a non-native, even if fluent in their language, as much as a chance to speak, yet will instantly switch to English. When this happened to yours truly, I responded "Oh, fine! So, you'd like to practice your English as well?", I was met with a smug, cold irritation: "Practice?! I think I speak English quite well, thank you very much!"

My answer: "Yes, and you seem to be a majority of one." The person was speechless.

Mind you, both Chinese and Arabic have so many dialects that I do not know how you would have enough years to live in order to master them all properly.