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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by richthegeek on Monday January 16, 2017 @11:17AM (#13410798)
From dating a Polish girl, and meeting some of her relatives and friends in Poland, I'd say it's mostly a problem of confidence. Once they started talking there was rarely a problem (at least for non-rare words), but a lot of them didn't speak English to non-Poles often enough to feel like they actually could.
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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by nkkollaw on Monday January 16, 2017 @11:21AM (#13410835)
I too believe that young people are just self-conscious, perhaps because they're not used to speaking it.

A lot of old people dislike foreigners to a certain extend, however, and I bet some of them wouldn't speak it on purpose even if they could. For instance, an old lady at a drugstore complained to the cashier at the register because I took too long picking some medicine, while "there were Poles waiting in line".

Let's just say that Berlin was more foreign-friendly in my experience.

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