#546 Poland Then & Now: An 18-Year Perspective on Independence Day

0:00 Welcome to Learn Polish Podcast. You can find all our episodes on learnpolishpodcast.com. Rump it, shoot, shoot, shoot, and rumble. You can get lessons from Anya. Whether it's Polish or in Spanish, you can find it in the show notes. But the video, you'll find everything about me. If you're watching on the video, you can just scan the QR code or go to roycullen.com. If you're looking to start a podcast or you have an existing one you want to improve, I've got a school group, two of them actually, one for podcasting and one for brain fitness. And I have the links in the show notes So if you're looking for Varshal Assistant School of BA.org. Cześć, Ania. No cześć. Dzisiaj chciałam z tą porozmawiać na taki dosyć ważny temat, ponieważ zbliża się ważny dzień w Polsce. Czy wiesz, co będziemy świętować?

0:43 Co? Wiem od ten grafika 11 listopada, tak? Tak, ja myślałam, że bez grafiki też wiesz. Chyba nie. Ale ja nie wiem, że ludzie ma urlap. Oh, it's one stop. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I say, yeah, I work, it's like, oh, it's Jen, I don't watch TV or anything, so I don't have any information on this topic, so my son says, I don't have school in the morning, so I'll be with my mom, I said, no, that's.

1:48 So you've never seen a march or a celebration, a meeting where people have flags? Sometimes flags, but the worst thing is when I have the chance to something to a store and the store is closed. And then the question is if today is the 11th of September, right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. To prawda, sklepy też są zamknięte, ale chyba żabka będzie otwarta. Żabka jest zawsze otwarta, a 300 mano do 11, tak? Ej, żabka zawsze jest otwarta, więc jakbyś czegoś potrzebował, to możesz iść do żabki i nic. No, dobra.

2:32 Dzisiaj porozmawiamy sobie trochę o Polsce, no, bo to już jest, no, dużo lat niepodległości. No tak, powiedz mi, Roi, mieszkasz w Polsce już 18 lat. Well, you can tell us how you observe the Polish evolution, because you know, that 18 years ago, Poland looked at the same way, and now it is. How is it with Poland? How did it change? What did you observe? A few things. One, the autostrader, because when I went to Giedenck, It was 8 hours. Now it's a lot of me, because I have a very good autostrader, right? Infrastructure has been developed.

3:17 It's important, very important. I remember, because I have a lot of clients, because I spread my own and I remember that once I saw a lot of people and said, where is this person? Grubi osoba. Nie ma grubi osoba. In Irlandia, it was. And now it's exactly the same as in Irlandia. People eat a lot of McDonald's, KFC, and it's not good. And a chicken. Do you eat a lot of things that are healthy? No. Everything is hot dog or something not good.

3:57 And unfortunately, people are not healthy. They're very healthy. So you want to say that Polarists are healthy? Well, there is a tendency to be gruby, right? Well, there is a tendency to be gruby. It is fantastic. But a few percent is the tendency to be. General tendency, no, it's true. I also see people, they are gruby. I also see, that they are Polish. Who is doing sport, who is doing it. Then he is not gruby. no ale faktycznie większość społeczeństwa nie chodzi na siłowny jednak mimo wszystko i jem po prostu tak. Nie mówię, od czasu do czasu hodod z Żabki jest fajny, ale jeśli się goje ciągle, no to nie, nie może tak być.

4:45 No dobra, czyli taka rewolucja w Polsce, infrastruktura, ludzie tyją, czyli stają się coraz grubsi, tyją. Czy co jeszcze? On a przykład, kiedy prowadzi samochód Irlandia, kiedy nie jesteś na głównej ulicy Irlandia, zawsze następna osoba może patrzeć, proszę bardzo, tak, proszę bardzo, ale tutaj, kiedy byłem pierwszy, musi być kamikaze, bo nigdy mówię proszę bardzo, tak. But teraz jest trochę lepiej, Irlandia 100%, but since 18 years now there is a bit of culture. I think that's the person who works in Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, who is coming back.

5:30 Maybe that's why, I don't know, but it's a bit better. Okay, tell me in this case, Poland is evolving, and it's still growing, and we hope it will grow. And at the end of this holiday, to właśnie taki temat, a powiedz mi Roy, jak myślisz, z czego Polacy mogą być dumni? Bo ten kraj jest bardzo bezpiecznie, safe niż resta Europa, bo i mój kraj nie ma bezpieczeństwa teraz, tak? Wielka Brytania jest gorsza, ale tutaj może idzie na spacer and in the night, normal, you don't have to look at everything in the same way, normal is okay.

6:23 So Poland has to be afraid of that, right? Yes, for example, when you go to the gallery and you have your car and you have your own things in the middle of the car, when you return, you will be back, but in Hispania, maybe not in a few countries, you can't, right? like, maybe the baggage, people look at it. But for me, I've never been like that. Maybe 15 years ago, but now I'm, Też nie. Dobra, a powiedz mi, Roj, czy ty znasz w ogóle historię poluski? Jakoś tak w trochę chociaż? Czy nie? Ja, jak słuchałam od tych ludzi, kto ma wings, kto wojny z Rosją, I can't remember, they had wings. To muże kateria.

7:15 Ale na wszystko wiem od wojny World War II, od So, Russia was so... And it was also very alive for me, because Poland was from Great Britain, Spain, USA, and then, oh, give your country half to Russia. It wasn't normal, right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no ski or something like that.

8:12 The wall, the Russian wall, the Arden, not Russian wall, Berlin, when you got odd communism, odd, chyba, rok 89, right? Tak, to ten moment. A dlaczego ten moment? Ja myślałam, że inny. No, nie wiem. Po prostu cię interesuje, tak? O tak, w Polsce komunizm też był. No i tak. No dobra. So we have our Polish love. Now, to be honest. tożsamość polska. Uważasz, no bo trochę Polskę znasz, na pewno znasz jakieś polskie tradycje, no potrawy, ja myślę, że nie muszę wspominać o polskim jedzeniu, no to powiedz mi, czy znasz jakieś polskie tradycje i czy jakaś tradycja polska jest dla ciebie szczególnie znowu interesująca jakoś, z perspektywy obcokrajowca, może tak, no bo ty Polakiem nie jesteś.

9:08 Co najbardziej cię ciekawi w polskiej kulturze na przykład, w zachowaniu Polaków w kuchni? No, Kuknia. No, Pologi, tak? No, to вкус she's interesting. Yes, but in general, there are some cultural aspects of it, no, I don't know. For me, in Irlandia, before people were very close to their family, always with them, and then the country was rich, people work all the time and pay money, and they were not very close to their family, to their people. And here, when I was here, there were always people on Christmas, New Year, all together, everything was very important day, right?

9:54 And, for example, I was here alone, because my son was with my mom on Easter, and my son said, you can be alone, but when I was, I don't know, 20-30 people on the house, everything was close. to do everything and for me it is very important. So, so, so. Okay, so. We were talking about how Poland will evolve. You mentioned about your experience from 18 years ago. How was it when and now? So, maybe we'll talk about how Poland will look at. How do you think? How do you think? How do you think? How do you think about the scenario for Poland? How do you think, in which direction the country will go?

10:42 Because a perspective is, every country has some perspective. How do you think, looking at Poland, you know what happens here, you see what happens here, and politically, and economic, and so on, how do you define the perspective of Poland? Do you know, if we are going to be a strong country or not at all? On paper is a big no open on other people it's good but it can be changed tomorrow and. To jest na cały świat jest problem, bo energy jest dość wysoki, gaz, prąd i obiet.

11:27 Bo ja znam na przykład starej osoby, kto było zawsze dobre za pieniądze, ale jest amatora i teraz nie ma pieniądze na wszystko od ten kraj. So, when, for example, your armory is, I don't know, 2000, and 4 years before, and now your gas and prąd is more, you have more money, and you can't buy good food, you can't buy everything. So, it's not a good country, when you make it. But it's in the whole world.

12:08 It's not only here. So, I don't know what will happen. I look at everything when I open and I don't feel anything. See you. But now it's probably the best in Hungary and here it's the best in Europe. To Węgry in Poland. Węgry, yes. So, in Węgrzech and here in Poland. So, security above all. All right, I'm very happy that you like Poland and the peace of mind. No, it's true. We are here pretty safe in our country. No, okay. And finally, talking about the day of the day, the day of the day of the day, tell me, Roy, today, because today, we know what it is.

12:59 And now, today, the society, the people. Or maybe not, is it the freedom for them is the same thing that it meant for people who had to fight for Poland? Is it the same thing or not? I think maybe the older people know what it is, but it's like, hey, I don't have work. So, when you don't feel pain, you don't know what's wrong. Yes, that's true. That's true. That's what we do. We're not very much. I think that's true.

13:43 Well, I wanted to talk about this. It's a very important holiday. Poland has actually found a new place from the 11th of September. We are here. We are here. We are speaking in Polish, we are learning Polish, to understand us here in this country, and so on, of course, everything is positive, so Roja, thank you very much for this podcast, and that's it. Thank you very much, see you again. Thank you very much, Zania. So if you want lessons from Zania and Polish or Spanish, the links are in the show notes, both on the audio and the video. Find everything about me. Scan the QR code. Go to rycon.com.

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