[Official Site] KACPER ŁOPATA JOINS THE REDS

The Wigan recruiter is a German and our boy threw his hands up at that suggestion and said “NOOO I’m a Pole, Walther!”

 

How long have you been watching Barnsley?

Don't go all Wednesday on me.

 

I can imagine him battering the opposition goalkeepers next season lol, and every one of them saying to the ref..
"I slipped sir!" or "It was an accident!".

 

Hopefully you are right but I still don't think he's a replacement for Mads, it's taken 4 years to get to his level I don't see a rookie being his replacement.

 

Think I mentioned this before to you.. my best friend in my 20s, Milosz (mewash) is from Przemysl (p-sh-eh-mish). We spent 11 nights there and Krakow (Krakuv) in 2011, getting the train through Rzeszow (Je-shuv) For a week I was called Wu-cash instead of Luke (Lukas) by Milosz's friends and family

 

Surely you pick out a few examples of dobrze (dobsh)! Every other word seems to be that

 

Oh yes I can pick words like that, in isolation, and a few others as well. The problem is when they speak quickly. It’s just oral scribble then!

 

Our nephew over there is a “Wukash” and is several years into his musical studies, heading for professional status hopefully. He’s a brilliant jazz musician, mainly playing the vibraphone (I think that’s what it’s called). It’s a rare instrument in Poland and was imported, via us in the UK, from the States. We then took it to him in the car.

 

Polish pronunciation and orthography looks completely off the scale mad to me, although I'm guessing it's actually reasonably regular once you get used to the rules. Being so used to the Cyrillic alphabet in Russian, I really struggle to decipher Polish, Croatian and Czech, which all use Latin script. I can just about manage a menu, but that's about it.

 

Happy with this we have some cracking players at this level with moon coming back after a positive loan spell.

 

45 years, usually over 40 games a season. Nothing Wednesday at all about saying that I think the Board under Conway-Lee crashed the finances of the club by spending too much on scattergun replacements who weren't up to the job - cf the best windows ever parts 1 and 2 - and I thought this version of the Board were heading in the right direction by concentrating on quality not quantity, which I hope they don't reverse now.

 

Key thing for me is he's absolutely full of self confidence and isn't scared to make brave decisions to get to the top. If he puts in the effort that I expect then he could very well be a world beater.

Also I'm glad he walked out on Southend. I expect players to take football seriously and remember it's a JOB but that means clubs need to remember that's what it is too and stop taking the piss. If a few of Wigan's players walked out things would change there quickly too

 

Too many words with x, z and w in them. I think all the Slavic languages must be like that.

From my personal experience the Poles are far better at languages than we are. My partner speaks Russian and a smattering of Hungarian, as well as perfect English. Her daughter in law came over to England to join her husband, bringing their ten year old daughter with them. They could hardly speak a word of English but now, four years later, they are fluent. Amazing achievement really. I can get by (sort of) in French and German and have a bit of Spanish but I cannot claim fluency in any of those.

 

I spent far too long trying to work out what you were trying to say about Jim O'brien. I was worried someone hadn't paid him.

 

You should try Spanish. I got as far as learning to count to 20. Those guys don't stop for breath.

 

I have tried it, and not got very far with it. During the weeks and months that I was living there in the last few years I came to the conclusion that nobody in the world is as loud as the Spanish people and that their language is not very attractive to listen to.

I should have made more effort to learn but it’s easier just to enjoy being there than put the work in.

 

That's brilliant! Never heard of the vibraphone, good on him!

 

Like a xylophone only more sophisticated and a lot more expensive, and it’s electronic.

 

Actually, there's no X or W at all in Russian, and no real Cyrillic equivalent. The pronunciation is very different. Ukrainian seems to be a transition between the two, which makes perfect sense from a geographical point of view. However, a lot of the lexicon and the grammatical rules are very similar, hence Poles being able to learn Russian or Ukrainian very easily, and vice-versa.

I think that most people who come to England tend to pick up English very quickly, as there's no real way to fall back on their native language if they actually want to go about their daily lives with any semblance of normality. Poles do seem to be particularly good at it.

As English speakers abroad, we are very much pandered to in many countries, where basic services are available in English. I think that this is a dual-edged sword though, as by not being forced to learn the local language, many British expats are missing out on so much. That's their problem, though. Personally, I can't imagine why someone would want to go and live in another country and not learn the language.

 

Sure your neighbour’s not a Geordie?

Sure your Polish lady isn’t a Geordie?