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Posted on 09/17/2007 10:19:34 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Polish phrase cards handed out to firefighters
Firefighters in Lancashire are being handed Polish phrase-cards with sentences including 'What is on fire?' and 'Are you hurt?' to help cope with an influx of eastern Europeans.
Free Polish classes are also on offer to firefighters, to help make them understood by the 50,000 Polish immigrants who have settled in Lancashire neighbourhoods.
Most have arrived since the country was admitted to the European Union.
But Polish communities are said to be instinctively suspicious of any uniformed services due to experiences in their homeland.
The card has been produced to try and gain their help and support.
As well as the cards, firefighters have been attempting to raise awareness on the dangers of incidents sparked off by drying clothes over fires, cooking, and people drinking or smoking.
Therefore thousands of fire safety leaflets have also been printed in Polish and distributed across the county.
Assistant chief fire officer Peter O'Brien said that many Poles lived in shared houses which were often overcrowded and considered to be a fire hazard.
He said: "The accommodation being used is often poorly maintained and, when combined with over-crowded conditions, the risk of fire occurring and causing serious injury or death is heightened."
Phrases included in the leaflet:
• Are you Polish?
Czy jestes Polakiem?
•Do you know anyone who speaks English?
Kto Mowi Po Angielsku?
• How many people live here?
Ile osob tu mieszka?
•Is everyone out?
Czy wszyscy sa na zewnatrz?
• Where is the fire situated?
Gzdie dokladnie jest pozar?
• What is on fire?
Co jest w plomieniach?
• Is there anyone in the building?
Czy jest ktos w tym budynku?
• Are you hurt?
Czy jestes ranny?
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Better Polish than Arabic . . .
My thoughts exactly ...
You now live in the UK - learn English.
Could not find a English to Polish translation - so:
Usted ahora vivo en el Reino Unido - aprenda el inglés
Close enough I suppose.
Hard to believe they don’t know English living in the UK, I work with Engineers from Poland and they are fluent in English & Russian as well as their first language... Polish
Monty Python Hungarian Phrasebook sketch (the words for the Youtube impaired)
My hovercraft is full of eels.
I wouldn’t know how to understand any of those phrases without basic knowledge of the Polish language.
***But Polish communities are said to be instinctively suspicious of any uniformed services due to experiences in their homeland.***
And yes, perfectly understandable.
Actually once you learn the rules, it's fairly easy to get the hang of it, as they at least are consistent.
Now trying to understand the different cases and their conjugations are what makes Polish a real pain to learn.
From what I’ve seen of written Welsh/Gaelic, these Brits should have the least trouble with the Polish pronunciations...
How do you do Mrs. Wil-ey?
Well I’ve met few Poles who know absolutely no English, but the majority here are not ‘professionals’ such as engineers.
Most of the Poles learn English.
Living in San Diego with tens of thousands of illegal Mexicans, I will take 50,000 Polish any day.
They are religious, respect freedom and we share much of the same culture.
Polish “Are you on fire?” card ping.
Most of the Poles in the UK are laborers, who have little desire to stay, although I'm sure many of them will.
Yep, especially if they asked someone “what’s your name” and he replied something like - Szczepan Brzeczyszczykiewicz.
This is not for fun, as this could be a real Polish name :-)))
didn’t exactly embrace a culture of entrepreneuralism
Probably decades of living under communism, many didn’t know entrepreneuralism and was not allowed.
When I was in East Germany in 1983, you get a first hand look what these people lived under.
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