Reaction To Living In Poland - American Expat (The Good and the Bad)
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- Reaction To Living In Poland - American Expat (The Good and the Bad)
This is my reaction to Living In Poland - American Expat (The Good and the Bad)
In this video I react to an American talking about his life living in Poland and the good points and bad points about life in Poland.
#poland #culture #reaction
Original Video - • Living In Poland - Ame...
"Poland is very well situated in Europe" is a sentence that is historically is not said without a "but" 😅
English:
1. Two
2. Second
Polish:
1. dwa
2. dwie
3. dwoje
4. dwaj
5. dwiema
6. dwom
8. dwoma
9. dwojga
10. dwojgu
11. dwojgiem
12. dwójka
13. dwójki
14. dwójkę
15. dwójką
16. dwójce
17. dwójko
English:
1. Eat
2. eats
3. ate
4. eaten
5. eating
Polish:
1. Jeść
2. zjeść
3. jadać
4. zjadać
5. jem
6. zjem
7. jadam
8. zjadam
9. jesz
10. zjesz
11. jadasz
12. zjadasz
13. je
14. zje
15. jada
16. zjada
17. jemy
18. zjemy
19. jadamy
20. zjadamy
21. jecie
22. zjecie
23. jadacie
24. zjadacie
25. jedzą
26. zjedzą
27. jadają
28. zjadają
29. jadłem
30. jadłaś
31. zjadłem
32. zjadłaś
33. jadałem
34. jadałaś
25. zjadłem
26. zjadałaś
27. jadł
28. jadła
29. jadło
30. zjadł
31. zjadło
32. jadałem
33. jadłam
34. jadło
35. zjadałem
36.zjadałam
37. zjadało
38. jedliśmy
39. jadłyśmy
190. zjadającemu
and more and more....
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That's true :D
The language barrier problem or rather the problem if you know some Polish, but you are embarrassed to even try. No worries. We know that Polish is just stupid hard, especially for English speakers, so you just trying to speak Polish wins you 100/100 respect points right from the get go.
PS: Something that is very unique about Poland is the way how he address each other in any situation no matter the age difference if we dont know the other person:
Proszę Pani / Pana - Dear Mister / Miss-es
Dziękuję Pani / Panu - Thank you Mister / Miss-es
Poproszę - Can I have ... please
Przepraszam Pana / Panią - Excuse me Mister / Miss-es
We have a lot of Ukrainians and Belarusians in Poland and they really like that elegant way of addressing another person.
Also addressing a stranger per "Ty" ("You") is seen as rude since we culturally draw a clear line if we consider someone a friend or neutral / foe. Thats also why, in most cases, its very easy to distinguish if a Pole considers you a friend or not.
In Poland, there are 43 universities and 19 technical universities, including 14 named as polytechnics. For the past 30 years, English has been introduced as the primary foreign language in the majority of primary schools. You can communicate everywhere in here in English.
Transportation system in Poland - it's improved massively in the last 20 years and still there's room for improvement 😉
In poland we have west prices, and still east payments. It's one of the main reasons to work so a lot abroad in west Europe.
Poland is my homeland. I know she has a lot of flaws... but I love her and I can't imagine living anywhere else
I lived in Krakow and even though it is much smaller than any typical American cities, you definitelty cannot just walk everywhere just "because it's so close to everything". Well, you can, but it will take you hours. And trams do stop at red lights by the way. Traffic rules apply to all road users..
To be fair Poland was one of the least homogenous countries in Europe before WW2. Both war and USSR relocation policies are responsible for this change.
Actually 3000PLN isn't salary for good job it's closer to minimal wage
Hello . I've been to Scotland several times. I think the people there are nice and friendly. I also like the Scottish countryside. And of course the oldest chapel in Europe in Glasgow Castle. Regards
12:23 it is funny. I usually meet nice salespersons
Bigos, placki ziemniaczane, łazanki, ogórkowa zupa, pieczarkowa! Kapusta kiszona i ogorki kiszone.... uwielbiam to!
yes, a new iPhone would be worth your monthly wage. the reason is what he mentioned - currency exchange and earning potential. this is why in Poland Android phones and Windows computers are much more popular than Apple products. Apple products are more of a status symbol and only people who make a lot of money can afford them.
This is the case everywhere. Apple products are considered premium, more expensive and not cheap at all. Poland isn't an exception. The same applies to the UK
If I heard correctly that he said that he lives in Krakow, I generally agree with him, because I live there too. This video is a few years old and some things have changed slightly, e.g. prices (as everywhere) 😅
7:00 As a polish preson in Warsaw. Public transport is usually not terible, but there is still much to be done. Moving througtht city from one site to another by car using ring road usually is even twice as fast and many times the buses are unreliable, especialy during holidays, when many roads and in renovation. This can be also a problem for car, but when some buses can not come at all and you wait 20 min. for the next one you often regret not taking a car.
However to be fair if you are going to the center it often takes simillar time both bycar and by bus and when using public transport you don't have to warry about parking, which in center of european citis is often a big problem.
I want to add something about polish transport. I live in Poland and I see all good changes in my town, I live in one of the cities of silesian agnomeration.
I noticed there is much more bikes and electric scooters. Right now you don't have to buy any of them, you can just download aplication on your phone and find a scooter or merked bike on the street. You can ride on them on the brand new bike paths which are going through the whole city. Payment for scooter is much lower than for taxi also it's ecological and sometimes it's even faster than public transport. Probably that's why borrowing bikes and scooters started to be popular.
It is true, our public transport is so advanced. Before I moved to Ireland at age of 20 I havehad to get my driving license passed cos I would not be able to travel between work and Village that I lived in at the time. And of course I had to learn how to drive on the other side of road 😅.
2 in polish = dwa, dwaj, dwóch, dwie, dwoje, dwojga, dwóm, dwom, dwojgiem, dwoma, dwójka, dwója - there's 12 twos in polish (not including two as backjoke)
I enjoy weather in Poland
That is so true about Poland...
Same thing in Canada work work work from 7 am to 8 pm sleep and next day same thing
I have never been in Scotland, but people in England are waaaaay far from being straight forward.
I'd like to recommend you two videos on YT about Poland:
1. "Why Poland Is Quietly Becoming Europe's Next Superpower"
2. "Why I left California for Warsaw, Poland."
Ad also... could you make one video about your move to Malaysia? :)
I'm wondering why Malaysia not Thailand or Philippines. How it is to live there, how you can earn money for life being there and everything you could say about your life in Malaysia. Maybe show some some nice views like landscapes, etc. :) That woud be awesome!
Customer service part is soooo wrong!!! Any shop I go to, I get the best and nicest treatment possible.
To all those who complain about the coarseness and difficulty of the Polish language: The opening excerpt from the fourth chapter of "Sexus", a novel by Henry Miller, an American writer of German descent.
"There is one thing I like about the Poles - their language. Polish, when it is spoken by intelligent people, puts me in ecstasy. The sound of the language evokes strange images in which there is always a greensward of fine spiked grass in which hornets and snakes play a great part. I remember days long back when Stanley would invite me to visit his relatives; he used to make me carry a roll of music because he wanted to show me off to these rich relatives. I remember this atmosphere well because in the presence of these smooth-tongued, overly polite, pretentious and thoroughly false Poles I felt miserably uncomfortable. But when they spoke to one another, sometimes in French, sometimes in Polish,I sat back and watched them fascinatedly. They made strange Polish grimaces, altogether unlike our relatives, who were stupid barbarians at bottom. The Poles were like standing snakes fitted up with collars of hornets. I never knew what they were talking about but it always seemed to me as if they were politely assassinating someone. They were all fitted up with sabers and broadswords which they held in their teeth or brandished fiercely in a thundering charge. They never swerved from the path but rode roughshod over women and children, spiking them with long spikes beribboned with blood-red pennants. All this, of course, in the drawing room over a glass of strong tea, the men in butter-colored gloves, the women dangling their silly lorgnettes. The women were always ravishingly beautiful, the blond houri type garnered centuries ago during the Crusades. They hissed their long polychromatic words through tiny, sensual mouths whose lips were soft as geraniums. These furious sorties with adders and rose petals made an intoxicating sort of music, a steel-gibber which could also register anomalous sounds like sobs and falling jets of water."
So let us put snakes and hornets in the armour of our mouths.🤩🤩
Yes, I love this quote. It always makes me laugh.. "politely assasinating"..😂
Dobrze, że nie spytał jak Polacy słyszą niemiecki.
I am from Poland and we do often travel to other neighbouring countries in the EU. That means that Belarus and Russia and also Ukraine never were holiday destinations. People living in the northern parts would take a ferry to Sweden while the southern parts would travel to Chechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, or Italy. The western part would travel to Germany. But it is generally expensive to travel abroad and usually, we are limited to travelling domestically.
I just took the Leo Express two weeks ago from Tychy to Prague for 125 zloty (€40) one way with decent snack/lunch on board included in the fare. Still very affordable and a fast mode of travel. I live in Vancouver, BC, and to go to Seattle, I would have to pay around €60 on Amtrack with only 2 trips daily.
Just come and visit Poland brother. And try our food ;)
Good job in Poland is more like 6k pln in month
Oh, with these different variations of the numeral "two", he probably underestimated the situation :D in English, the numeral appears only as "two", "second" and "twice", in Polish "dwa", "drugi", "druga", "drugie", "drugiej", "drugiemu", "drugim", "drudzy", "dwie", "dwóch", "dwoje", "dwaj", "dwiema", "dwóm", "dwoma", "dwojga", "dwojgu", "dwójka", "dwójki", "dwójkę", "dwójce", "dwójko", "dwojgiem" :D
3000 zlotys a month (net, i.e. after all taxes) is actually a minimum wage nowadays. A good job will pay twice that or more.
Oo "the moving avrage" in Poland. Nice
it's easy in major cities to get by just with English
Oh the good old expat - my favourite word ;)
Idk when this guy made this video but he doesn't seem to have the numbers right. PLN3000 is really a low salary. The minimum salary to be introduced next year is well above PLN4000- that's over $1000. Re: gas/petrol is one of the cheapest in Europe..and PLN300 is an equivalent to approx.$75.. The new mobile phone prices are roughly the same as in other European countries
two things most important one are: beautiful women and the best food in the world
As for the turns signals we're not obliged to give the way, it just a pure courtesy.
Mert I recommend channel “ I love my Poland”lots of good info regarding Poland. The guy is from USA and live in Poland over 10 years
Need to know polish depends where you live. In bigger cities lots (if not majority) of people know english at some level so you will be able to cumicate quite easy. In some remote places, this might be harder cos quite often people there are not so good educated, probably a bit more oldfashioned and in whole older generation.
About pricing and rarnings. Now (August 2023 medicore salary is more like 5000 pln). Thing is that stuff made locally (like most food) is made for all steps at such economy. So prices are reasonable. When you import goods from richer countties they cost money according to those countries. So, for example polish bread is made from polish wheat so, at every step expenses are covered according to polish salaries ric. IPhone is American phone targeted at US market. They are priced due to American salaries, US economy. When Apple sells them to Poland they will not lower the price to adjust to polish economy. They still want "American" price. From worker that earns 1/3-1/4 of that what American gets.
Yesss make video about polish food
I small miss understanding, in Poland gas , tv and new iPhone is not few times more expensive than the other countries, the prices are similar, we just get 4 times less wages. Usually monthly wage in Poland You can easy get in one week in UK (or even better) Standard Polish people live for amount of money what in UK is just government support for no working people. Can You survive all month for 300-400£ ? That way standard person earn in months a hard work in Poland, no joke. I moved out from Poland 15yrs ago because my monthly wage was 170£, in UK at this time my first wage for a week was 400£.
14:55 yes, but currency is the thing. Hard to expect iPhone to have cheaper price than in USA as then all customers would buy here. We are cathobg up with salaries to West but it takes time
Word "two" you can translate to at least 20 Polish words.
At this speed you will be an expert in Polish Area in 3 months.
*expert on the Polish culture and geography in 3 months (far better than saying area).
ok, hold your horses, drive through Kraków in 15 minutes? maybe in a helicopter, not possible in a car, also the trains are often late, I love Kraków but let´s be realistic. If you want trains on time come to Scandinavia, and even more dense cities
Lol I polish and working as a customer service manager in London . I really know what you talking about Polish service lol lol .
$30 bucks for a tank of gas, maybe in Texas or somewhere in the deep south but not on the coasts. In Seattle, yesterday, I paid about $70 for to fill up my 2 liter engine Japanese sedan.
Same thing in Toronto its crazy how gasoline costs this day
70 uds is about 275 PLN , so the price is basically the same
Thats why we work hard because all stuff is expensive
I recommend channels
Vigo’s Dad
Sarah Achleithner
Love My Poland!
PLANET KRAKOW
Brit in Poland
Good recommendation! Vigos Dad and Love My Poland especially
Check word “ game “ in polish language 😊 if I’m not wrong it’s 47 different forms!
Mert, minutes 16-17 of this video - a very good comment👍👍
13:44 Nope, not really.
There are 35 ways to say "2" depending on declination/context. :)
Its Ecomony thing
Polish food obeys polish prices
But import stuff, like Iphones (and I don't think we even have an Iphone factory in Poland at all)
Obeys import prices. So again
You earn 3000PLN
But Iphone costs 100$ = 450 PLN
meanwhile polish bread costs polish 2 pln
Instead of 2 $ that pepsi costs (9pln)
Meanwhile, Olsztyn... should have trams done by 2090? (They have them, but have been building them for a dacade)
people are sooo polite on the road in UK, huge respect
18:11 not sure when recorde but tgere were some improvements especially due to COVID as implified and with digital office
it's best go to Poland and try great polish food and Polish beer :))
On electronics.. I would think that all programming is translated to Polish language from English and that's why the price is higher. I might be wrong tho.
Two in polish has 17 form.
in official matters, ask a smart Pole for help, so that he will go with you to the Offices ... it will be easier and faster.
Driving in the UK is so much better and polite than in Poland, Americans have got much to learn 🤣
12:40 people in Poland don't like "customer service oriented culture". I seems suspicies if someone is too nice
Most of the positive things he mentioned are drawbacks of USA comped to Europe;
This guy was wrong about prices of iPhone. 1 dollar is about 4zł so 699 dollars is about 2800zl
gosh, it used to be 3 and a half, what happened to Poland. 3.4 to be exact.
2- Dwa, dwie, dwoje, dwójka, dwojga ...
3000 zł is not a good salary. It is the lowest possible salary.
London transport is greater than in Poland.
I live in Austria and here, for example, the iPhone 14 Pro Max costs € 2,026.49,
iPhone 13 Pro Max costs € 1,960.39. On average, monthly net income in Vienna is € 1,500-1,800. Maybe in AMERICA, electronic equipment is cheap in Europe (and therefore also in Poland), it is not cheap. You have to get used to it, We would also like I wish it was as cheap as in the USA. That's what I thought now, If electronic devices are so cheap in the USA then how are the riots then why the first thing they do is rob stores with electronic equipment???!!!
konfederacja ++
Italy and France are not homogenous anymore...I dont agree with what he said about shopping, I love to buy stuff in Poland and I chat with almost every salesman. Yes, Poland is expensive considering what you can earn.
I hate Winter.
Transport system in Poland is so disappointing sometimes you have to wait 10mins - 1 hour for late train also 1-3 min for late tram or bus it's not acceptable in this days....
JOKE😂😂😂
Even if sometimes sh...t happen so if you can't do anything just be patient 😂😂😂
I'm polish guy leaving in Yorkshire so I can compare UK public transport to polish one...
No!!! I can't 😂😂😂
I like ur videos mate maybe I should do some videos about Scotland and my favourite city.... ❤❤❤Edinburgh ❤❤❤
To powinienes zobaczyc jak w UK potrafia przyjechac trzy busy jednoczesnie na przystanek. :D Wtedy dopiero mozna narzekac hehe.
Do you need an iphone to be happy?
its an example, but yes . Every body need a telephone ( smartphone)
but not Iphone from Apple Corp.
@@jerryorange6983 what is wrong with it?
no, you don't @@_Rozgniatacz_mend
you haven't listened to Edward Snowden they really are spy devices like everything else smart for jews collecting your data so they will try and attack you again @@_Rozgniatacz_mend
As for the iPhone and monthly earnings, it doesn't look like that. if you have a good job in Poland, you earn not PLN 3,000, but over PLN 6,000. the lowest salary is about PLN 3.400
Wow people are really minimum wage in Australia too, they get taxed so much my family was so jealous though that we got to live here. My family in Poland really took advantage of us living in Australia, it's honestly about the same, while we went poor and hungry they claimed they were and without money. Due to the exchange rate for them now they're all rich with houses they own and with businesses and we're still struggling in a country where we should never have been taxed on our pay let alone the other things we've been put through. Poland thinks it's so easy living in Australia it's not, you have to constantly pull immigrants in line and protect our borders, lots of people ended up at Garden Island because they illegally tried to come here by boat it was a huge problem, now immigrants are flooding in acting like this is their country when it's not so you have really rude people from other cultures and non Christians that shouldn't be here as per our laws.
The jews have really made a number of White Australians in America and especially Australia, they think they can get away with what they've done and White people here have been easy targets, in 2024 they'll think again and remember us Whites especially Aussie Poles which all of us have some Polish in us in Australia how not to ever mess with us again and their 2030 and 2050 plans will be shuved right up their filthy satanic jew ass.
Every Pole knows that Polish language is stupid hard to learn. We struggled as children and we see new generations struggle with it too. If you as a foreigner at least try to say something and attempt to learn you will be rewarded.
Really? You struggled with Polish as a child?
I suspect you struggled at school , period, not only with the Polish language.
NO, we are poor drivers. I don't know what is the experiance in USA, Polish like to rush and they are angrydriving.
Meh... who would like to get an iPhone :D Look at this... if you are average Pole it's hard for you to earn enough money to get an new iPhone, but there is a lot of rich people who can do it right away and they think they are 'better' than others because of wealth. BUT in US or UK you don't have to be rich to get a new iPhone, so our rich people are morons because they want to looks like average people in western country where average people doesn't try to look like anyone else. It's complicated :D
Czumu nie zaprosiłeś polka?
with ur acent.... no way. i do like it but is hard to undrestand ya arse.
Dude has few things wrong. Like those iPhone crap. In Poland, only small percentage is sold in store. In almost every single case, you are just buying phone from your carrier for few złoty and then you pay few złoty per month with your phone bill and that's how you are paying off your phone. And with DMV and other official crap, you can do almost everything from your home. Every citizen over 18 have access to its own electronic signature and you do everything from your computer/smartphone with few clicks. You don't even need to carry your own ID card, because you will have everything you need in your electronic ID in your smartphone if you want. Even your prescriptions for drugs.
You can get by with English in Poland by speaking to young people below 40 years old. It’s a b@ch learning polish though.
Polish is not that difficult, if they took the 5g towers down in Poland they'd find they'd be able to speak much better and their memory would improve.
Back in the day like 20 years ago there were better English speakers in Poland and there were some foreigners that could speak better Polish than some Polish even! By foreigners I mean other White people from other White countries.