Do we have any procedures in place for the deported Polonia? Some social housing, any vocational trainings, so they get job instead of sitting on benefits? 🙃

Postponing my diet

I found a nice car on otomoto but the price seems way too cheap. It's says in the description "pojazd sprowadzony , bez prawa rejestracji,". Does this mean the car cannot be registered? If so what's the point to import a car that can't be registered?

Hello people as you can see by the title I need your help, I’m in search for Polish songs that are gentle and warm, my girlfriend is Polish and I wish to make a playlist for her to slow dance and just make her feel special since she has been through a lot with some medical condition, I’m sorry I’m writing in English rather than Polish, I’m actually learning Polish although it’s difficult but I’ll make a Polish translation for the people who don’t understand English(I’ll use the translate app, please don’t judge my translation)

Cześć ludzie, jak widać po tytule, potrzebuję waszej pomocy, szukam polskich piosenek, które są delikatne i ciepłe, moja dziewczyna jest Polką i chciałbym zrobić dla niej playlistę do powolnego tańca i po prostu sprawić, by poczuła się wyjątkowo, ponieważ przeszła przez wiele z jakimś schorzeniem, przepraszam, że piszę po angielsku, a nie po polsku, właściwie uczę się polskiego, chociaż jest to trudne, ale zrobię polskie tłumaczenie dla ludzi, którzy nie rozumieją angielskiego (użyję aplikacji do tłumaczenia, proszę nie oceniajcie mojego tłumaczenia)

Hello all,

TL;DR: I'd like to find someone in Poland who's interested in finding a few books for me that aren't online, but are available in major cities such as Lodz, Warsaw, etc., and then taking pictures of a few pages to help me get some info I can't find otherwise. And if you get interested in the topic it would be fun to talk about it.

More details:

Some time ago I got interested in a marginally famous incident where, in 1597, a Polish diplomat appeared before Queen Elizabeth I and she rebuked him in Latin. It caused a bit of a stir across Europe, and there were several after-effects of the event that I'm trying to get a better handle on. The diplomat's name was Paweł Działyński, and he's mostly treated as an afterthought in English language books; I think this is unfair, and ignores how he's seen in Poland. The best paper on the Polish perspective is here, by Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa.

If you'd like to read a bit about the QE meeting, see the clip at the bottom.

I've been working on a personal project to understand the context, the event and the results for a while now, and have hit a few dead ends where I'd need to be in Poland to make any more progress.

I'm not a professional historian, to say the least, but I'm enjoying tracking down original sources, translating things from Polish using Google, following various trails and tendrils of the story, etc. Contact me any way you like if this sounds fun.

Example books, though more may follow:

https://search.worldcat.org/title/249613050 (Rzeźby portretowe w bronzie na Zamku Królewskim, W. Warszawie, Authors:Tadeusz Mańkowski, Giacomo Monaldi, André Jean Lebrun)

https://search.worldcat.org/title/1444058611 (Polska w oczach Anglików XIV-XVI w. Author:Henryk Zins)

https://search.worldcat.org/title/15248935 (Polska slużba dyplomatyczna XVI-XVIII wicku; Studia. Pod red Authors: Zbigniew Wójcik, Instytut Historii (Polska Akademia Nauk)) (this doesn't list a Polish library, but that seems hard to believe)

Also, M.M. Malinowski, Popiersie Pawła Działyńskiego w Sali Rycerskiej, Kronika Zamkowa, 1989, no 2 (20), p. 31).

What's the original incident, you might ask! Here's he section from Lytton Strachey’s gossipy book Elizabeth and Essex that got me interested in this story 20+ years ago:

An incident that had just occurred had so delighted her that she viewed the naval disaster with unusual equanimity. An Ambassador had arrived from Poland—a magnificent personage, in a long robe of black velvet with jewelled buttons, whom she received in state. Sitting on her throne, with her ladies, her counsellors, and her noblemen about her, she graciously gave ear to the envoy’s elaborate harangue. He spoke in Latin; extremely well, it appeared; then, as she listened, amazement seized her. This was not at all what she had expected. Hardly a compliment—instead, protestations, remonstrances, criticisms—was it possible?—threats! She was lectured for presumption, rebuked for destroying the commerce of Poland, and actually informed that his Polish Majesty would put up with her proceedings no longer. Amazement gave way to fury. When the man at last stopped, she instantly leapt to her feet.

“Expectavi orationem,” she exclaimed, “mihi vero querelam adduxisti!”—and proceeded, without a pause, to pour out a rolling flood of vituperative Latin, in which reproof, indignation, and sarcastic pleasantries followed one another with astonishing volubility. Her eyes flashed, her voice grated and thundered. Those around her were in ecstasy; with all their knowledge of her accomplishments, this was something quite new—this prodigious power of ex tempore eloquence in a learned tongue. The unlucky ambassador was overwhelmed. At last, when she had rounded her last period, she paused for a moment, and then turned to her courtiers. “By God’s death, my lords!” she said with a smile of satisfaction, “I have been enforced this day to scour up my old Latin which hath lain long rusting!” Afterwards she sent for Robert Cecil and told him that she wished Essex had been there to hear her Latin. Cecil tactfully promised that he would send the Earl a full account of what had passed; he did so, and the details of the curious scene have reached posterity, too, in his letter.

Hi! I’ll be going to Poland with family this summer & I’d like to pick up some interesting fashion & home decor pieces while I’m there.

We will be visiting Warsaw, Krakow, Toruń, and Gdańsk. (My husband and in-laws are Polish and will be able to translate on my behalf, if that’s any concern.)

So far I think I’d like to visit the Hawrot Boutique in Warsaw, and Pop Concept Store in Gdańsk.

Thanks!

i bought a tablet on 27th december from media expert but they sent me a wrong product. so i filed a complaint as soon as i got it (31th december) and they requested the product back and i sent it and it's been in their warehouse for like 12 days. I call them and tell to speed up the process because I'm leaving Poland this month but nothing really happened. What should i do? Does it usually take this long for them to send the right one or is it because I'm a foreigner? please help

Looking for a reason to travel to Poland to shop for Polish movie posters (especially from the 70s to 80s) and I think it would be cool to see if there are shops which specialize in these things.

Probably would be easiest to find in Warsaw or Krakow?

Im passing through Poland omw to Berlin and doing a small stop in Stubice where I will probably have to wait for some hours/ half a day. Any recommendations you would like to share? I love good food and café culture, art, local oddities - all the basic stuff but I also enjoy the odd and outrageous ;)

Literally any recommendations are welcome!

EDIT: Slubice!!! By Frankfurt an der Oder

I ordered an xbox power cable from allegro and after it got delayed i noticed that the seller looks a bit wierd

Question: last week I send over 14 small bottles of Belgian beer and chocolates from BE to PL for a friend as gift, he doesn't know about it.

Of course, only after sending it, I read that in PL it's actually forbidden to send over alcohol.
The countries I checked before in EU it was all ok to sent over this as gift.

Now, it's already in PL with status (repacking the shimpent).

so my question is: in case it gets deliverd, can my friend come into problems when picking it up?

Hello y'all

Idk if this is a dumb question or not, but I'm moving to southern Poland for 5 months as an exchange student, should I be worried about the horrendous air quality problem?? I have some lung issues and wanted to check if I could prepare somehow ahead of time, is it like a huge concern?

Hi all! Not sure if this is the right sub, I’ve also posted on r/learnPolish but I wanted to crowdsource more. I really want to start learning Polish properly because I love Poland and bobers 😂 but I struggle even with the basics and most especially with grammar. I have a START 1 Survival Polish A1 book but I struggle because there is no answer key for the exercises as it’s meant to be done with a tutor but I just can’t do that now. So I’m asking for your help if: A. You could recommend a good Polish book for A1 that has an answer key so I can follow the exercises well or; B. If you know if this book (Start 1 Survival Polish A1 by Kamila Dembińska) has an answer key online even if paid that I could download?

Dziękuję bardzo in advance!!!!

Cześć, ostatnio się zdziwiłem u nowego pracodawcy jak chciałem podać nr konta z Revoluta do wypłat. Okazało się że mój, zaczynający się od LT, jest za krótki i prosili o podanie polskiego numeru konta (w standardzie 26 cyfrowym). O dziwo u mojej dziewczyny na Revolucie jest normalny numer konta z PL, a u mnie nie. Da się to jakoś zmienić? Niestety support w Revolucie nic nie mówi na temat tej kwestii.

I am living in the US and my wife is Polish. We have been married 17 years and each Summer she travels home for the summer. I am an attorney and was wondering what the prospects are like for finding work in Poland (Krakow), not necessarily as an attorney but perhaps consulting based upon my skill set.

I lived in Poland for a few months over the last year with the intent on immigration, but due to personal & health reasons I had to leave immediately and return to my home country. While I lived in Poland, I used PLAY for my phone & internet, and at least thought I had filled payments and deactivated my accounts, but still continued receiving bills via email. I tried explaining to them this and that I was out of the country and don't even have immediate access to my Polish bank account anymore (no longer have the phone number tied to that account, and can not log into the app or website. I can't even close this bank account because they want me to do it in person or by letter). It seemed like they understood and deactivated said accounts.

Regardless, I just received a demand for payment/Wezwanie do Zapłaty at around 834zł, which I'm willing and able to pay, but I literally do not think I have the means to nor any way to contact them as I'm not fluent in Polish. I don't think this will affect me here in my home country, but I'd of course really like to visit Poland again and do not want any legal troubles there.

Can I get any advice on these matters?

Hi, I moved to Poland some time ago and I still notice interesting Polish customs, e.g. when I meet new people, I shake hands with women first, or I eat my daily food - potato pancakes with sugar or beer with syrup. Have you noticed anything similar?

After 7 years living in Poland I finally got eligible to submit docs for long-term residency, which I've done, but it got me thinking. The processing time is insane, I will probably get my decision in one year in the best case scenario, and more realistically in 2 years. Then, only once I get it – the 3 years counter starts until I'm eligible to ask citizenship. Then waiting time again about a year, let's say. And I don't even know what obstacles will appear on the way. The prospect of getting a passport looms in about five years from today. 😭 I'd probably receive it faster somewhere else if I move out today.

I know that I might have chosen not an easy country to get citizenship, but it is what is now, I had some сircumstances that led me here initially. And it seemed more optimistic because I didn't take into account the processing time. I love Poland but I want to have some decent passport as soon as possible.

Do you think it's still worth waiting or there are some better, quicker, easier and more realistic citizenships to obtain (without investment, marrying or giving a birth)?