The Language of Love
With all these countries like Poland and Hungary joining the EU last year contacts are increasing noticeably between the old member states and the new. Here in Poland, firms from the old EU countries are more and more interested in either recruiting workers or in opening up branches over here. Recently has seen cheap flights starting, for example between Gdansk and Liverpool, London, Warsaw etc and so a lot of Poles are traveling and looking for work in the UK and Ireland, countries which allow them to work without having to apply for a work permit.
A Polish friend of mine living in London told me that there are so many Poles in London now that young British men have learnt how to say “You’re beautiful” in Polish (“jestes piekna”). This is the only time I’ve ever heard of Brits thinking there was any use in learning a foreign language. Perhaps when I was learning French at school many years ago they should have introduced us to nice looking French girls who couldn’t speak any English. We’d soon have picked up the basics I’m sure. There’s a lesson to be learnt here for language teachers about student motivation, I just can’t quite work out how to apply it practically to the classroom! Any ideas, let me know.
My wife’s Polish, before I met her I had several Polish girlfriends so I had some experience of the differences. In the UK for example, women are much more forward at letting you know if they like you or not. Polish girls on the other hand tend to let you think they aren’t in the least bit interested, and then suddenly you discover (usually through a friend) that they are. This takes a bit of getting used to for British men at least. Also, it’s all a bit more old fashioned here, the man is expected to pay on dates and open doors, buy flowers etc. And so the pace is all (a little bit) slower.
Mind you, don’t get me wrong, Poles are not as catholic as they might lead you to think they are. Just about all young couples have a sexual relationship before they’re married, just like in the UK. In fact I think people here are less hung up about all things sexual than in the UK. As my Polish (very Catholic) grandmother told me, “If there weren’t any sex there wouldn’t be people would there?”
LATEST FUNNY BIT
(I overheard this recently, here in Poland)
Young Man to Girlfriend; Women are never satisfied. How are we supposed to keep you happy? You always want something different.
Girlfriend to Young Man; Well, men are never satisfied. How are we supposed to keep you happy? You always want the same thing.
Bye for now
Julian
julian@bes.info.pl
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info@polishrecruitment.com
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