Words and gestures
When the greetings are over the talking starts. In any group there is bound to be someone who speaks English - the most popular foreign language in Poland. The rest will wholeheartedly take it upon themselves to teach the foreigner some Polish.
Someone
will almost certainly suggest you repeat the tongue
twister: ‘W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie’* (say: Vuh
Shchebsheshinyeh kshanshch bshmee vuh tshchynyeh,
- son-wave/w Szczebrzeszynie.wav
meaning ‘In Szczebrzeszyn a
beetle buzzes in reeds’), which is difficult even for Poles to say properly. The
foreigner can but try - and in so doing amuse all those assembled. After this
the conversation may continue in the form of unconjugated verbs and gestures.
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