We are a Polish/ Portuguese couple living in Switzerland, we speak english at home, french and german at the job (official languages where we work). We'd like our son to communicate properly with his grandparents, with us and his friends. Which language should we teach him first? Why?

I'm 13 years old, living in San Jose, and most of my family is Polish. I really want to learn it, but my dad never taught me and my I don't see my grandparents and other relatives enough to learn it.
is there any school in my city that I can learn it in? or any software?
thank you!

Ok so i live in America, but i am 1/4 polish i know its not much but my mom still cooks polish food now and then, my grandfather was 100% polish and he knew the language and cultures and all that stuff, though he didnt have a chance to pass any of it down to my mom, when ever i look in our old photo albums its always of my polish grandparents and stuff and it made me very curious now im thinking about learning the language and taking a trip over there, i was woundering what people in poland would think of an american that knew polish to the point where you could hold a conversation but with an accent of course. cause all i hear is about how people in Europe think Americans are horrible disgusting pigs who need a better education.

Im polish living in NewZealand. My parents where born in poland but i was born here. I still get deeply upset about the talk of ww2 jsut becasue I get upset thinking about my grandparents in the war. Do you care about it or no?
Sorry that was really hard to word,sorry if it doesnt make much sense.

My dad told me that the only way I can get a German Shepherd puppy is if I call my grandparents in Poland and ask them politely if they could bring back a Purebred German Shepherd for me when they visit next month (they are wealthy people and probably wouldn't even care).

I know how to speak Polish, but I'm not sure how to phrase it. How should I tell them in the nicest way " If it wouldn't be a bother, I want a true gorgeous German Shepherd from Poland, if you guys could ,only if you don't mind, possibly get me one and bring it back for the next visit because it is all I've ever wanted and my parents made this agreement with me???????"

Or something along those lines.. Just something polite would be nice. PLEASE HELP??

At my grandfather's funeral, a man he had known from his youth delivered his eulogy. Unfortunately, he was very old and didn't speak very clearly. Even worse, he has now also passed so I can't ask him. My great-grandparents were immigrants from Poland and apparently my grandfather's childhood nickname sounded something like /noon-you/ or maybe /yoon-you/ It was phonetically something along those lines. Does anyone who speaks Polish know of any word and its meaning in English that could be used as a nickname that sounds something like that? I don't know if it is even a word with meaning, it could just be a pet name.

Thanks in advance!

i speak french polish and english but i live in canada polish is my family language but idk if girls find it a turn off bc my mom and grandparents all talk polish. french i learned from french immersion but french is not that cool but im just wondering bout polish

Hello,

I need birth certificates for my great-grandparents. They were born in Poland around 1890 (I have the exact dates and towns where they were born).

(1) Does anyone know how I can obtain a copy of the birth certificate?
(2) What information would be on a birth certificate from this time period?

If it matters, I do not speak Polish.

Thanks!
Hi,

Unfortunately, I'm not in Poland.

Thanks!
Hello,

Thanks everyone for your replies. All three were very helpful.

Kind Regards,

I called Polish Consulate. Because it was occupied then, my grandparents are NOT Polish citizens. I spoke to Hungary and Austria embassies and it seems NO ONE WANTS TO INCLUDE THEIR OCCUPATIONS INTO THEIR STATES NOW. I am a person with NO (country) heritage! I want a passport from any EU country. Is there anything I can do?

My great grandparents and other family moved to canada a long time ago. Both sides of my family are Polish. Both my last names are Polish. My parents both have polish last names but were born in Canada. Me and my brother were born in Canada also. Does this mean I have Canadian Blood in me? Or i'm just a Canadian Resident?

My grandparents speak polish quite often when i'm around them. But i was never too sure if i am 100% Polish or not.

My guess is that i am because my entire family is Polish on both sides.

I very badly want to speak Polish. My grandparents never taught my father, so I'm left with no one to teach in person. It's actually really hard to find a willing tutor online, but I'm almost desperate ;^_^

Anyone willing to teach me?
Sadly, no one is will to pay for it for me. I will have to wait years until I can get a job. My parents won't even give an allowance V.V
*For Rosetta Stone.

I very badly want to speak Polish. My grandparents never taught my father, so I'm left with no one to teach in person. It's actually really hard to find a willing tutor online, but I'm almost desperate ;^_^

Anyone willing to teach me?

My mother is fluent in Polish and so are my grandparents and other extended family. Whenever we visit them, they speak only Polish and I don't understand because I don't speak Polish. I feel so left out. I've tried to learn, but it is hard to teach yourself.

So my dad is 100% polish, and his parents lived in Poland when they were children. Both of them spoke Polish as their first language, and learned English when they moved to America. My dad never learned it, and my grandparents died when I was 10 years old. I've recently been more and more interested in my Polish heritage and really want to learn how to speak it. Unfortunatly my school doesn't offer it as a class, and my parents think it's kinda weird how I'm so interested in it (so I'd rather just learn it on my own). Are there any websites where I can learn th basics? That has accurate translations? In about 10 minutes I've learn No (Nia), and Przepraszam (I'm sorry) <- I may have mispelt that. But then my mom got home so I had to sign out. Should I just wait and take it in college? I'm currently taking Spanish right now and it's coming pretty easy to me...
Thanks for the Rosetta Stone suggestions. Unfortunatly that costs money, so I guess I will just learn the basics online, and then buy it when I move out in 3 years.

My family is Polish and My grandparents spoke Polish. Grandma and Grandpa had always said that 'shut up' in Polish was pronounced [chee-oh-beach], but when I looked through a search engine, 'shut up' in Polish comes up as 'zamknij się'.

I'm just simply looking for a small helpful explanation as to why my grandparents would have told me this and how to pronounce 'zamknij się'.

THANKS!

So my dad is 100% polish, and his parents lived in Poland when they were children. Both of them spoke Polish as their first language, and learned English when they moved to America. My dad never learned it, and my grandparents died when I was 10 years old. I've recently been more and more interested in my Polish heritage and really want to learn how to speak it. Unfortunatly my school doesn't offer it as a class, and my parents think it's kinda weird how I'm so interested in it (so I'd rather just learn it on my own). Are there any websites where I can learn th basics? That has accurate translations? In about 10 minutes I've learn No (Nia), and Przepraszam (I'm sorry) <- I may have mispelt that. But then my mom got home so I had to sign out. Should I just wait and take it in college? I'm currently taking Spanish right now and it's coming pretty easy to me...
I don't have native speakers at home. My parents don't know how to speak it, and my grandparents are no longer alive.

I am half polish and I would like to get a tattoo that says Love Forever in polish to commemorate my grandparents who are the strongest people I know (Lived throughout the holocaust) and I really don't trust the Polish->English translators online so a little help would be awesome. Either just the translation of the 2 words or as a phrase. Thanks guys!!

I need help translating the phrase "Till the end of Time" to Polish. Please no google computer translator things, I know those are wrong. I need help from someone who can actually speak and write the language. I found the phrase "Na zawsze". Is that correct? any help is appreciated! Thank you so much!
Jason- The reason i ask is i'm thinking of getting that saying as a tattoo. It's a way my grandparents used to sign off letters/pictures to each other and from what i understand it was a song title or lyric.
could you please tell me what would be the common Polish phrase that means the same as "till the end of time"? I had an old co worker say they thought Na zawsze was appropriate so im just looking for other opinions and since i want it as a tattoo i dont want people giving me weird looks when i go to the polish festivals if it's way off

Our family name was Grabowski until grandparents arrived in US then it was changed to Gabriel. I am wanting to know what our name looks like written in the Polish language.

My parents, grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles. etc. born in Poland. I go to polish school and speak fluent polish read and write, my parents say I'm 100%, but some people say I'm 50/50. I'm just curious that's all.

I speak English. My grandparents were Polish, and I have memories of them speaking Polish all the time. Unfortunately they died before I could ask them to teach me.

Now that I'm an adult I find myself wishing I knew how to speak the language. When I mentioned this to my father (Polish as well, but only knows a few words) he gave me a tourist book and I am overwhelmed! It seems very complicated.

Can an old dog learn a new trick?