Polish phrases

[FONT=Verdana] In our pigeon Polish conversation with our oldest adoptee (then just 7 years old) within a few days of us meeting him in Poland, we were trying to tell him that we "kocham'ed" certain foods. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]He rolled his eyes a little :rolleyes:, and then patiently explained to us that the correct word for expressing fondness for a certain food was was "lubie".[/FONT]

Aurika - I can't thank you enough for the translation AND help with more correct phrasing!! We are going to be sending postcards about twice a week and just wanted some basic phrases we could mix and match for each of the three girls. In fact I am sending out three this morning thanks to your help :thanks:.We got plenty of giggles at some of our pronunciation. Our oldest loved sitting down with the polish/english dictionary with us and having us try to say the polish and her the english. She was much much better than we were! Mom_2_4 - We and some of the same at first with the laughing and eye-rolling. Funny my DH and I thought our polish was getting better by the end of the trip but now I am wondering now if the girls had just gotten better at understanding our poor pronunciation and grammar. ;)

Good job Aurika! Sorry I have not responded, I am usually more than happy to help with translations but I am teaching this summer and had to prepare my first lectures the past few days. :)

I think it's awesome we have more than one person to help us with Polish!

Actually we have one more, hanula ;)...

regarding love and food... yes, in general Polish people only like their food (lubic is the infinitive form of the verb) (Ja lubie or bardzo lubie), but if they are truly enamoured of it, they might say "uwielbiac" .... (Ja) uwielbiam lody! Happy to help with translations if I have time...Just know that I am still uncertain to this day how it is that I know how to write in Polish as I officially never "learned" how. I left Poland when I was 2.5! My mother (a highly educated individual with more degrees than is decent) claims my Polish is about on the level of a Polish 8th grader. That may not be a bad thing when writing to children :-) I had no difficulties conversing with anyone in Poland, however, and thoroughly shocked our agency rep with my fluency. On the other hand, my vocabulary is 20 years behind the times, so every once in a while, people would get very confused when I would indicate my complete ignorance about something that is completely every day for them. For example I had no idea that there were ATMs everywhere and was asking about how to change money at the hotel. The receptionist could not understand my confusions until I told her the last time I had been in Poland was 20 years ago and that at that time I exchanged dollars on the black market for about 1500 zl each and that there WERE no ATMS anywhere, much less in what I would consider to be a relatively small town...

I know this topic has come up before, so I am going to try to gather all the old threads with different phrases and put them here, then when we need more Polish, we have at least three wonderful people to give us more ways to talk to our children!

I am merging and making sticky all our posts on Polish phrases, please add more to help new parents.

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The phrases posted by Jasiu/Kama and Aurika have been very helpful. I especially like the English phonetic spelling on the compiled list by Kama :) If anyone who speaks Polish could help me with translating the following, I'd greatly appreciate it: 1) doll2) more (as in "more, please")2) all done3) walk (as in "walk, please" if a child were running)4) run and no running (both the command to run and the negative)5) jump and no jumping6) princess (as in "you look like a princess") Since our girls are still young, I was trying to make a list of the most common toys and phrases I might use in the most simplest form. I have a larger list, but these are one's I'm not sure about. Thanks a million!

Megan: Here they are! I hope this helps. Let me know if anything is unclear as far as how to pronounce these. :)