How Polish Became England's Second Tongue

[@NameExplain]

Any Poles in the UK watching now? Would love to hear your experience of living in the nation.

[@Yusuketh443]

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[@missquprison]

I am polish. I've been living for some time, but after experiencing quite a bit of xenophobia I decided to come back. One of the things that happened for example was some homeless dude attacking me at the town square for speaking polish to my cousin brother. Which is a good that happened since I missed poland and thanks to that occurence it was rather short lived stay in England. Before anyone asks I've been to cambridgeshire for about 5months. I am gonna tell you what england propably lost lots of hardworking immigrants due to racist endevours of it's own citizens and it's kinda shame, but also hillarious when I hear the UK news that poles are welcomed to come back to work in england. I'm gonna tell you what, every english is welcomed to work jobs in poland, unlike UK we respect hardworking people.

[@lukefleetwood7958]

@@missquprison K seeya. Nobody wanted you here to begin with. And let us be honest, if a significant portion of the Polish nation in the span of 2 decades suddenly started speaking Albanian or Arabic or English even after an open borders experiment by the government, you'll feel very differently about immigrants in your country, especially when the crime statistics come out. So while you speak from the privilege of coming from a largely ethnically homogenous nation, perhaps try and empathise more with those whose nations are being invaded and swamped by unwanted foreigners who do not respect our values, history, culture or the land by getting off your insufferable multicultural high horse and facing reality.

[@E-UN-1945]

I’m 1% Polish who lives in England.

[@alinaqirizvi1441]

Haven't Polish people started to go back in recent years

[@TomOakleyUK]

Due to a large number of Polish workers where my father used to work, he taught himself Polish with language CDs and books over the past 15 years. He now lives in Poland and is studying Polish at University there at the age of 68! He has become recognised locally as the British man who always wears shorts.

[@boskee]

Well done dad. It's never too late to learn new things!

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

I am also British and taught myself Polish at home online. I began learning in around 2008 when I was working in a shop and started noticing more and more Polish customers, some who didn't speak much English, and I had some Polish friends to practice with too. Now I have a beautiful Polish wife and we run a small Polish takeaway.

[@polskifutera]

I teach Polish and my oldest student was 80+, so your dad is still young in comparison :)

[@SillyMoustache]

Yes, a great deal of Polish folk came to work in the UK in the 2000s, but this videos seems to miss out in the large number who came, and were welcomed, when the Nazis invaded in 1939. I grew up in West London and met a great deal of Polish folks in the '60s and '70s. I have great respect for the Polish.

[@999goat]

5:45

[@tiwaking8001]

He discusses this in the video. Did you even watch the video?

[@Henderson101]

There is a Polish Centre in London that pre dates the influx of new arrivals in the 2000s and I believe was a remnant of the 1930s Poles. I remember going to a IT conference there in about 1999/2000. All the staff were Polish, despite all us attending being mostly English. The only real Polish thing was the catered lunch was basically Kotlet in a sauce with potatoes.

[@SillyMoustache]

@ Thanks 999, must have been when the phone rang -very brief mention for a very significant migration.

[@LMB222]

Two great uncles of mine fled to the UK in 1939, and both served in WW2. One was even a fighter pilot, and while I never got to meet him, I've spoken to his wife only to find… that he was revered like a demi-god by the entire family. Nice.

[@sdspivey]

"It takes courage ... to leave your family." Not if you don't like your family.

[@askarufus7939]

My Polish neighbour who left for Britain, married a Brit, works a regular job in Britain plus after work she has her own hair saloon and still struggles to make the ends meet, now considers coming back to Poland. The problem is the children know only basic words in polish and it would be hard for them

[@ImpastaTronic78]

Just wait 'till we establish Nowe Bałuty in -Birmingham- Birmonowo

[@lukefleetwood7958]

Thanks to immigration, Birmingham is already a shithole.

[@arkadiuszkieler4085]

Tommy Ślepy (Maks)

[@alinaqirizvi1441]

Unlikely considering the Polish population has peaked as people are going back because Poland has developed a lot and the UK is basically dying

[@lukefleetwood7958]

@alinaqirizvi1441 So they come here in the millions for our generous benefits, tank our economy and social services then dip back home when things further decline and their own country which is very strict in it's immigration policy starts to thrive.

[@Zyragonn]

Berminiów

[@Artur_M.]

Do you known that in the 16th and 17th century Scottish people were emigrating in large scale to Poland (and Lithuania)? Could be a potential topic for a video.

[@revinhatol]

A Scot even became mayor of Warsaw for a while.

[@AmonRa-z8w]

Also many Scots emigrated to the Russian Empire, many of them became great in it.

[@ted_splitter]

That's fascinating! I'd love to watch a video about it.

[@michaireneuszjakubowski5289]

The Scots, the Flemish (the Flemish are still here, kinda), the Jews (those came much earlier tho, arguably there were Jews in Poland before Poland was even a thing), the Armenians, and those are just the ones to establish localities IN THEIR LAW and off the top of my head, could be more.

[@b3nzayizkoolyo]

My English grandma prides herself in being descended from 18th century Polish sailors who washed up in England for some reason

[@davidroddini1512]

At about 8:49 in the video Patrick says “the eastern block” but the graphics on screen say “EASTER BLOC”. I didn’t know there was an Easter Bloc 😜

[@martso9288]

I'm pretty sure its the historical spelling...

[@romad275]

It is a large group ruled by the Easter Bunny who gives out free colored hard boiled eggs and candy once a year!

[@anowarjibbali]

He's commenting on the Easter, not the Bloc

[@martso9288]

oooooohh, man I was wondering where the bunny comes in.

[@gregwochlik9233]

Probably an Easter Egg?

[@Tafrara-idir]

The Anglo-Saxons getting replaced by the Polish-Kashubians

[@MartinAhlman]

Kashubians share a lot of words with Swedish, and I find that very fascinating!

[@GeraldEatsSoup]

Anglo Saxons? Its not the 11th Century

[@JediSimpson]

@GeraldEatsSoup- It’s clearly a joke.

[@lachlanchester8142]

@@JediSimpsonidk you would be surprised, unfortunately ive ended up on far right TikTok and they say this in all seriousness, to the point you can’t tell what is a joke 💀

[@lukefleetwood7958]

@@lachlanchester8142 Anglo-Saxon is just a historical form of saying English. It is not incorrect to refer to the ethnic English as Anglo-Saxon.

[@christopherbentley7289]

It would be a bit of an exaggeration to state that Polish groceries have somehow appeared overnight in the UK in this past couple of decades, Krakus jam and Pek ham, for example, being childhood memories of mine...and I'm sixty-three! They are perhaps rather more ubiquitous than they were, though.

[@peterc4082]

This was known as "deficit food". Poland (known as PRL when it was the Polish People's Republic) especially under Gierek had borrowed a lot of capitalist money and needed to pay it back. At that time Poland produced mostly agricultural goods and mined goods. Ham was considered an export item and these hams were rare to find in Poland but were produced for export to earn USD or currency which could be converted into USD. Some Hifi equipment made by the Polish state enterprise known as UNITRA was also sometimes rebranded and sold abroad, but in the cheapest category as communist electronics was about 10 years behind.

[@JRCSalter]

I've worked with many Polish people over the years, and absolutely noticed this trend. If someone asked me what is the most populous language spoken in England other than English, I would not hesitate in saying Polish. I have tried to learn it before, as I feel it would be the most useful language for me to learn considering this fact. However, I barely got past a simple greeting. It's just so difficult, and looks like someone banged their head on the keyboard out of frustration. I've even had a Polish person tell me English was easier to learn. English! The language that is three languages in a trenchcoat. I did however learn one word that has now entered my vocabulary, and I apologise to any Polish people I meet if it accidentally slips out.

[@hagridek.]

i presume it's the famous "K" word

[@peterc4082]

Polish is a very difficult language to learn for non-Slavic people. And even other Slavs when they speak it, you can immediately tell they're not native. The ts and tshi sounds etc are also hard. If you study it as a kid you'll speak fluently as in maybe dual language households but for adults - it's incredibly hard. Kudos to you for trying to learn it.

[@arthvritto]

​@@peterc4082 But the point of learning a language is not to sound perfect but to be communicative, and variations of ch and sh in Polish are no more difficult than English 'th' that most of the immigrants don't know how to pronounce correctly and still get away with it, let alone those who barely speak a word in English and have lived in London for a few years. Sure, Polish pronunciation and grammar are complex, but it ain't a problem if you simply want to understand and be understood, and that is a challenge in French for instance.

[@peterc4082]

@ Polish is one of the most difficult languages, they've been rated, It' s there with Mandarin, Korean and Japanese. Yes of course it's not an impossible language to learn but all I said was it's a difficult language and I acknowledged that and said kudos to you for learning it. There is no reason for you to be so assertive here. Relax.

[@arthvritto]

@@peterc4082 I am just encouraging to learn it! It is not as difficult as it seems and as Polish people portray it to be. It was never rated on any scale to be as hard as Japanese, it’s bs. Most Poles will suddenly approach you and dare to say chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie and other shit.

[@pawelszabla]

I remember jokes from 2008 saying thatbthe lasto of us to leave for uk has to turn off the lights

[@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe]

Polish & Czechoslovakian, and other Central and Eastern European, people who came and fought in the British armed forces in World War II , For your information, the Polish RAF squadrons had a far higher kill rate of Nazi aircraft, especially during the Battle of Britain.

[@Dhi_Bee]

Racist Americans always said the same something similar about (“will the last American left please take the flag with you”) where I grew up in the Miami area (because of the many Latinos & non-English-speaking Caribbean people)

[@Artur_M.]

Fun fact: one of the most acclaimed British writers of all time, Joseph Conrad was actually Polish. His real name was Józef Korzeniowski (or in full Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). He only started learning English as an young adult, working as a sailor. Although, his father, Apollo Korzeniowski used to translate Shakespeare into Polish for fun, so maybe he had an innate talent for it.

[@bar88888]

5:35 - Poland in the 16th century was a very tolerant country for different religions. In 1573, Poland announced the "Act of the Warsaw Confederation" at the Sejm, which gave everyone freedom of religion. This was due to the fact that the PLC was very diverse in terms of religion: in addition to Catholics, there were many Orthodox, Protestants, Jews, and even some Muslims. An additional factor due to which this act was passed is that Poland was a noble democracy (demokracja szlachecka), where every nobleman (szlachcic), regardless of religion, was equal and had the same right to vote. The only religion that was persecuted was the "bracia polscy" - Arians - but it was very specific exemption. So the teory that many od Polish expats come to England because of they faith seems fake.

[@techno6637]

Ever since I was a kid, Poland was deeply Catholic. And back in early 2000, I was bullied for not being Catholic despite being Christian at the time. So at some point in recent history it's not too hard to believe some people emigrated because of their religion. That being said in the recent years I was blown away how much more tolerant Poland has become.

[@bar88888]

​@@techno6637 Of course, it may seem strange that Poland was the most tolerant country in Europe, but people's minds are constantly changing. Poland became strongly Catholic in the 19th century, when nationalism developed under the partitions, and with it the idea of ​​combining Polishness and Catholicism, which was caused by the fact that faith united Poles, who thanks to it distinguished themselves from Protestant Germans and Orthodox Russians. In addition, this idea was greatly strengthened by the consequences of World War II. The Germans got rid of most Jews from the country, and later the USSR took Kresy Wchodnie where many Orthodox Christians lived, and then carried out a large deportation of Germans from rest of Poland - as a result, Poland became almost completely a mono-ethnic and mono-religious country, thanks to which there was no need to be tolerant towards other religions, because there were none. In addition, because the PRL government persecuted the church to some extent, people in the opposition to the government supported the church a lot, which was further strengthened by the election of John Paul II as pope. So, in fact, after the fall of the PRL, in the 90s and early 2000s, Poland was very Catholic. However, currently, Poland is secularizing very quickly, mainly because of scandals related to the church (similarly to Ireland).

[@jeremias-serus]

I am 4th generation Polish living in US. Grew up in a Polish community in Linden, NJ. It’s even a tradition for the Polish President to fly over to the US and visit Linden. Polska górą! Cheers

[@kodlyoko]

*gurom

[@kacpersuski4459]

Don't take offence, but in most cases being Polish in 4th generation doesn't mean that ud have much in common with Poles living in Poland considering knowledge of language, culture or others

[@modmaker7617]

Poles like to spell górą as gurom as a meme.

[@peterc4082]

Guess what Joe Biden made Poland TIER 2 for advanced computer chips exports (such as for Ai purposes). That means PL can get at max 5000 while Germany, France, UK, Finland etc can get unlimited amounts. Poles are up in arms but that means Poland is still seen as untrustworthy and primitive by the American establishment.

[@GeraldEatsSoup]

My parents came to The UK from Poland a year before they joined the EU and i was born here

[@irenenesser2673]

There are even big Polish communities in pretty small rural towns, for example Maryport in Cumbria. This is because there is a factory and most of the people who work there are Polish. My partner is Polish and I am currently learning. It's such a hard language! But Poland is beautiful and so are Polish people :)

[@peterc4082]

It's a hard language. But be weary of your Polish partner. I know Biden is not British but the other day he put Poland on a restricted list of exports for artificial intelligence computer chips. Poland is there with the less pro US countries. So in American eyes, Poles are sus. So be careful and weary of them (us).

[@irenenesser2673]

@peterc4082 is this satire?

[@peterc4082]

@ Not according to Joe Biden and the outgoing administration. And the new one is likely to be more isolationist so maybe they'll continue this assessment of Poles. Good enough to buy tanks and Netflix but not good enough for advanced chips. Thank you.

[@ignonito6130]

@@irenenesser2673 Im guessing the peterc4082 tried making a joke, but they completely failed at it.

[@bazzatheblue]

Id have said Bengali or urdu,if it is polish I reckon the numbers will drop after Britain leaving the EU and people returning home to retire at some point and Poland becoming a more.powerful nation since 2004.

[@peterc4082]

Some will leave. Poland will never become powerful. Mid sized country. All the big corps are already owned by foreigners. It will stay relatively poor for 100s of years.

[@andyalder7910]

You seem to have forgotten the Poles that arrived during and just after WW2 although admittedly they all learnt English and integrated.

[@FoggyD]

Yeah, my Mum went to university with one like that who's just a typical inner Londoner these days... except when Polish plumbers come round and she can actually converse with them.

[@Donut-Eater]

I would think it would be Bengali or something

[@altosaxophonie]

Most of the Bangladeshi community in the UK (or at least London) speak Sylheti. It's not dissimilar to Bangla but could be considered as another language. Though the South Asian diaspora is a large minority in the UK, there is so much linguistic diversity (think Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, so on) that no one language has enough speakers to overtake Polish and Romanian.

[@dante89921]

You literally have flag on picture of video

[@Donut-Eater]

@dante89921 no I don't?

[@belstar1128]

soon

[@Personal-TVstation]

@@altosaxophonie I appreciate the elaboration since while one minority seems prevalent enough and phenotypically dissimilar from the majority the lack of a single common language can make it that another minority (and one which can more often pass for the majority at that) makes for speakers of the second most prevalent language

Not for long. People are already moving back to Poland, because England is getting worse than Poland was in the 2000's. And Poland is getting better than England.

[@peterc4082]

It will get worse. Joe Biden already blocked full access to NVIDIA advanced chips for AI to Poland. We're tier too together with BRICS nations, like India and South Africa. But those actually are friendly to China and Russia to some degree. Poland is f-ed. I think this is as good as it will get.

[@Lando-kx6so]

I wouldn't be suprised if the UK rejoins the single market in the next 5 years

[@FictionHubZA]

We shouldn't be so optimistic. It would need a vote and I'm sure the British wouldn't want to go begging to rejoin. If they do the EU would be even more restrictive than before cause we should not forget they left cause they felt they were different from the mainland.

[@dearthditch]

I think they’ll wait to see what the second language of France is by then 😅

[@fawltytowers7086]

@@dearthditch ha, ha! 😁

[@belstar1128]

i hope not they would make the eu worse

[@wolfzmusic9706]

​​@@FictionHubZAI would say we mainly left due to wanting low immigration. It's a shame though really cuz only 52% voted to leave, a very small majority

[@highpath4776]

Quite a few Polish airmen stayed in UK after WW2, Some would migrate to Canada

[@JimNH777]

The main reason is because immigrants from Commonwealth speak English natively. But more importantly I wonder how outdated or soon outdated that study will be. I am Polish, I live in UK, but so many people are coming back. The difference in wages is by no means as high as 20 or even 10 years ago (basically Poland kept on developing and real wages in UK are stagnant since 2008). And another huge issue - I kept on meeting new people who are Polish but were basically raised here (since they remember, since they've been 7, maybe a teenager etc). They speak better English than Polish, have no connection to Poland, have no accent, often struggle to even express themselves in Polish. So that period of 2010-20 was just anomaly. I bet at this point Polish is already further down the list.

[@bapabs]

Definitely can vouch for your point concerning the younger poles raised in the UK, a large amount of them really do struggle with the language and that part of their identity in my experience.

[@peterc4082]

Poland is tier 2 for AI chips so restricted access to advanced NVIDIA chips as per Joe Biden the other day. Poles think they are f-ed and I think we are. No advanced AI for Poland. Remember in the UK you are someone worth semi trust. It's absurd isn't it? Maybe Trump will reverse this.

[@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe]

There is a lot of memory loss among the people commenting on this video. Go back 300 years and you will find many Polish people coming to the UK. The social media generation knows little about the history of the UK.

[@blugaledoh2669]

1700s?

[@peterc4082]

Yes but not this many. There were waves of emigration from Poland. My own cousin lives in the UK and he moved there in the mid 1990s from South Africa where he moved to with his parents as a small kid in the 1980s.

[@sams3015]

Next door in Ireland we had more Polish speakers than Irish speakers lol

[@frankchan4272]

There’s a large community of Polish people in Wood Dale, IL, near Chicago. They have restaurants, stores & other businesses in Polish there. They even have a dedicated radio station in Polish there, too.

[@peterc4082]

Be weary of them. Joe Biden just called Poles untrustworthy to have unrestricted access to US AI tech computer chips from NVIDIA. They're not banned but they're on a restricted list together with countries which sort of are friendly with Russia and China. Germans, French, Dutch, Koreans and Japanese are OK to. Those guys you can trust. Have a good day.

[@oliverwortley3822]

well that’s okay, thank god it’s not urdu, hindi, gujarati or bengali. The polish are our european, christian and white friends, brothers and family.

[@samphillips4925]

I'm surprised French is not bigger, considering it's "nextdoor" and all.

[@Personal-TVstation]

Autocthonic 'white' French ppl don't have as much reason to emigrate en masse like after WWII or since back when the Normans were a thing for that matter ;I

[@peterc4082]

France is rich. Poland is poor. Why move when you are also rich?

[@LordWoodlouse]

I'm 43 and from memory can remember encountering a French person here maybe once.

[@Jacob1986]

Im Polish but living in Canada. This is pretty interesting.

[@antyrak7905]

I'm a pole living in England, i came here when I was 15, like 16 years ago and the only mistreatment I've saw was from fellow Poles and literally only comment I could consider as "bad" was from this older guy who worked at my place, when the Ukraine war started he asked why I won't go back fight for Ukraine, I'm sorry for all these Ukrainians and all but I'm not a soldier neither I am a soldier material and even if it was Poland being attacked, i'd do everything to stay away from war.

[@askarufus7939]

You should have asked him why didn't he go back to fight the Dakota's or Confederates. Or why didn't he go build the wall on Mexican border

[@realkekz]

You're a coward

[@realkekz]

​@@askarufus7939 And you're an idiot

[@davedavids57]

You made a pretty big mistake when you missed the massive number of Poles who lived to the UK during and after WW2. There was even a special act of Parliament in 1947, "The Police Resettlement act" which gave the right of residents to an estimated 400,000 Polish former military and their families. After the reoccupation of Poland by the Soviets the hundreds of thousands of Polish Service people who were in the Polish Army who fought under British Command didn't feel safe going home. So thousands of them were allowed to stay. In 1931 the Polish born population in the UK was 44,642 and in 1951 it was 162,339. Polish was then the second most spoken language in England. This is likely why so many Polish people decided to move to the UK after 2004 as there was already familiar and cultural links to the UK.

[@jonjohnson2844]

I left school just before the expansion of the EU - we had Australian, Indian, New Zealand, South African and Iranian classmates, all speaking English perfectly fine, we had dinner and sleepovers at each others homes, it was a lovely time. What a fucking shame what has happened to this country.

[@kFY514]

As many others pointed out, there was also a wave of migration to the UK during WW2, and it's worth mentioning that actually during the war and later the communist era in Poland, there was even a Polish government-in-exile headquartered in London. It was a continuation of the interwar Polish government, initially administering the wartime partisan effort from the relative safety of emigration, and later being a largely symbolic entity opposing the communist government in Warsaw. After the fall of communism in 1989-1990, its competencies were also symbolically transferred to the newly formed democratic government in Warsaw, legitimizing the current Republic of Poland as a legal successor to its prewar counterpart. For those reasons, the government-in-exile is widely respected in Polish history, even though its role after the war was largely symbolic. And of course there were the now-legendary Polish fighter pilots who served in the RAF during the Battle of Britain. Of course the pre-2004 Polish diaspora in England (and the UK as a whole) was tiny relative to what happened afterwards, but you could argue that there was a bit of a special bond at least since WW2.

[@mitchelmodine9197]

“Most of you were alive and conscious during this time period. I myself was alive during this period…” 😅

[@peterc4082]

The late Prince Philip had Polish roots. Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh. His great grandmother Countess Julia Hauke born in Warsaw in 1825. Back then Poland did not exist but Poles did and she was initially taken in by the Tsars and later by the Prussians. But her father was a Polish noble.

[@RyanHannaMusic]

why do you put an A on the end of the last word of the sentence? england-a? system-a? decade-a? school-a? ive noticed it a lot nowadays

[@davea6314]

Hello Limeys and Poles. I'm a Yank who lives in a suburb of Chicago. There is a very large community of Poles within 20 miles of where I live. Most Poles I have met are friendly working in a variety of professions. I have yet to meet a Pole who is a pole dancer but I don't go to nightclubs much. -Dave the Yank

[@TwilightLimits-sk7kn]

Lots of Polish people came over to Ireland around the same time. Some seem to have went back after the economic crash, others seem to have integrated or moved to bigger towns/cities

[@unbeatable_all]

Our Polish is quite different to the one spoken in Poland. We tend to substitute forgotten words with English words in particular. I guess we also simply our grammar and wording to an extent. I've noticed that alot of older speakers pronounce the suffix -ą quite "nasally" (if thats even a good way of explaining it) but the younger generation(s) pronounce it as -om. Another thing would that in some words the - tk- cluster is pronounced more like -k-. dotknął > doknął 😂

[@sambettridge3674]

am going to Poland on holiday in march lol, need to learn some basics before then 😂

[@modmaker7617]

Polski jest trudnym językiem.

[@michaelhaywood8262]

There have been Poles in England well before 2000, as some came over in WW2 and who stayed on afterwards. I used to have a Polish neighbour who came over in the war and afterwards stayed on and married a British woman. I have also met others with Polish surnames, who were probably second or third generation from those who came over in the forties.

[@ahdahsh]

I'm not a Polish migrant to Britain, but I visited as a Polish American in 2012. In London I had multiple people tell me how much they wished Americans would move there, not these awful Poles. One one lady told me that in a Starbucks in full view of a Polish worker. I ecstatic to order green tea in Polish from Agnieszka. Gave me a bad taste in my mouth, I left the country early and still have never gone back.

[@kozodoev]

I used to visit the UK and England in particular quite often in 2003-2005 and I remember the beginning of the Polish wave and a lot of hate towards them at the time. I even had some spill a bit on me, being a native Russian/Ukrainian speaker and someone wasn't happy hearing me speak Russian in public. Convinced me to not move to the UK (I had a job offer) and move to the US instead. Was a bit heartbreaking at the time, but looking back at it, I couldn't be happier in the end.

[@Dhi_Bee]

As an American, I always assumed Punjabi was the 2nd most spoken language. I knew y’all had a lot of Polish-speakers, but I assumed it would be the 3rd or 4th most spoken language in the UK

[@EA00000]

Myself I enjoyed living in UK and really appreciate for the possibilities to work get good experience and improve my english ! I got the job latter in Australian Arline Qantas as cabin crew and later move to Sydney Australia

[@thomashattey8037]

I heard a Polish woman interviewed a few years ago. She said the UK preferd Poles because "well take anything (employment).

[@LewisLowers]

I hope they brought pierogi.

[@jorgelotr3752]

8:45 that misspelling makes it look more jolly than it was.

[@patrykkozubik6051]

Off topic, but I notice you finish your sentences with a schwa after voiced consonants/sonorants. Is that part of your dialect? Sorry for the weird question 😅

[@Bazroshan]

This being the case, it's high time the English learnt a little about Polish pronunciation!

[@ChihuahuaLover2004]

I think Cantonese and Ukrainian will become extremely common for the same reasons in the coming few years

[@highpath4776]

Had Polish Chap at university for two years, in the third year he left to join the "war" to liberate Poland with the free trade union/s

[@cfcinilope]

Was is the English zloty ? During WW2 there were many refugees in England -a good many were Polish - it is probably why so many came there in 2004 - they already had connections - it flows both ways too in the late 1600’s one Scottish born Pole became mayor of Warsaw -Alexander Chalmers - they like him so much they elected 4 times.

[@YujiKuribara]

1) you are actually compensating for the birth deficit, especially among boys 2) apparently, unlike other countries, the British government did not plan divide and conquer by accepting bits of a number of origins such as 20% Poles, 20% Czech, 20% Romanian, 20% Serbian and 20% Croatian as to prevent agglomeration and the need to organise education in those languages since there would be too few of them; you should keep account of the number of people taking A-Level Polish. 3) if this is happening now, then why do you think they talk about Angles, Mercians, Normans, Saxons, Danes and so forth?

[@marekurbaniak1164]

Cześć! (A Pole watching from Poland 🇵🇱)

[@modmaker7617]

Cześć! (Jestem polskim imigratem w Wielkiej Brytanii)

[@peterc4082]

How you feel about the AI chip ban by Joe Biden? Google that story.

[@unbeatable_all]

Czesc (ja jestem polakiem z drugiej generacji w Wielkiej Brytani)

[@TapOnX]

Siedem

[@helloahla239]

i would have thought Hindi Arabic Chinese and maybe Spanish to be more spoken than Polish

[@IABITVpresents]

Is the third one Lithuanian? We have a pretty big diaspora in the UK and for some years we even got 12 points from the UK televote in Eurovision.

[@1113-f7o]

Polish people are 1.3% of the UK and 2.6% of the US.

[@DonaldMains]

No, Polish people aren't 2.6% in the US. Americans of Polish descent maybe 2.6%, but Poles in US is probably less than 0.1%.

[@1113-f7o]

@@DonaldMains I should have said descent. Wisconsin alone is 8% Polish ancestry.

[@FictionHubZA]

​@@1113-f7oWisconsin is so weird. It's like every migrants group from Europe settled there. They used to have a large German community.

[@kacpersuski4459]

@@1113-f7o Yeah but it doesn't really mean anything anymore. Polish Americans over 2nd generation doesn't have much in common with Poles in Poland

[@peterc4082]

@@kacpersuski4459 Yes. Especially as their hero Joe Biden blocked export of AI chips to Poland the other day, as Poland is untrustworthy.

[@DonaldMains]

I find it hard to believe that Hindi, Urdu or Punjabi aren't more spoken than Polish. Care to cite your source?

[@JesmondBeeBee]

The sources are in the video description. Looks like the main source of the data is the 2011 census.

[@FictionHubZA]

It makes sense if you think about it Hindi is spoken by about 40% of India natively and Urdu is spoken by 8% of Pakistan while everyone in Poland speaks Polish.

[@belstar1128]

@@JesmondBeeBee 2011 is a long time ago now

[@slonskipieron]

​@@FictionHubZA I'm from Poland 🇵🇱, but my language is Silesian (ślōnskŏ gŏdka), not Polish (język polski)

[@slonskipieron]

I'm from Poland 🇵🇱, but my language is Silesian (ślōnskŏ gŏdka), not Polish (język polski)

[@tamarajurisic8523]

My son understands polish. At his school there are polish children or half polish. It is close to croatian.

[@LMB222]

A minir correction regarding the rwligion at 4:10 : the nation had "Christianity" as its religion - Catholicism dufnt exist yet. And no, Poland is not "very Catholic" - thatd a stereotype. People are _spiritual_ - yes, hence you'll find many Buddhists, but ask a Pole a question about the Catholic faith and you will NOT get an answer.

[@montecorbit8280]

You didn't mention what language is in third place.... That would have been nice.

[@ehdrootofbeard4411]

My great uncle (not blood related) and his brother came over to England from Poland ON FOOT after they witnessed their father dragged away by Nazis 👀😥

[@infinitejest401]

Hi there. I am from Scotland, you mentioned that Scots is the third most popular laungauge spoken in the UK. I know if you Google it, it says there's 1.5 million speakers of Scots in Scotland but I feel like this is a little misleading. Not your fault, I just feel like if you weren't from here you'd be missing some context, so let me explain. Yes Scots is it's own laungauge, but the 1.5 million referenced are really just speaking English with some Scots words thrown in there, as well multiple alternate ways of pronouncing words. I know alot people consider it a creole or a dialogue, which is fair enough because there alot of differences, although to my ear it just sounds like normal English. Alot of non-natives or even some natives have trouble understanding the Scottish accent, but they are speaking English, just with Scottish characteristics. I think it's a little misleading to say there are 1.5 million speakers of Scots because if you go and listen to an old poetry book of Scots it's completely unmutually intelligble with modern English. I have no idea what they are saying, and nobody speaks like that in modern Scotland. The way you mentioned the statistic makes it sound like Scots is like Welsh, which is far more distinct from English than the Scots dialectic of English (as well as more widespread .)So I think it would be alot more accurate to say that there are infact alot more polish speakers in Scotland than Scots, and Gaelic as well for that matter. If there's any Scottish people who'd like to share there interpretation, I'd love to hear, but this the way it always seemed to me.

[@gregwochlik9233]

Well, as a consolidation English is the silver-place language here in Poland. Bronze goes to Ukrainian. Watching from Wroclaw (Poland). I have lived in Her Majesty's formal Colony of South Africa for 30 years (age 11 to 41).

[@revinhatol]

In Ilkla Moor Baht 'at

[@michaelhawkins7389]

Most people would have thought it being Indian due to the UK having a large Indian population

[@dralbora]

Odd question: are these posts AI narration or an actual person speaking. I detect a stress/elongation of many last syllables. Thanks.

[@michaelhawkins7389]

You forget that there was already polish people living in the UK during the 80s , and befor that some polish people had moved to the UK after ww2 due to the Russians

[@samaval9920]

1 of most famous Polish British persons is novelist Joseph Conrad Lord Jim Heart of Darkness Fitzcarraldo Nostromo Many have been filmed.

[@David_Rafuse]

I call Bullshit on this; England's second language is Urdu. ☄🔥

[@sureshmukhi2316]

I was thinking that too, or Hindi or Punjabi and maybe even Arabic.

[@Oscarism9]

xd statistically no cope harder

[@unbeatable_all]

@@David_Rafuse You wish

[@The0Stroy]

Polska Gurom!

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

I left school in the middle of 2005 so I honestly I have no memory of this sudden influx of new students happening. I guess it was in the years after I left. In theory some would have started in September 2004 after Poland joined the EU in May but I don't remember it.

[@Illumisepoolist]

I also think that Greek is the second most common language in Germany.

[@10hawell]

Polska Gurom Poland Motain 🇵🇱🏔️

[@Uboat1407]

Polaco, é a segunda língua falado em Inglaterra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿? Há lá assim tantos polacos ? Caramba 🇵🇹

[@GeraldEatsSoup]

Im British born to Polish parents and yes. There are indeed a lot of Polish people here

[@modmaker7617]

I was born in Poland but my parents took me as a baby to Scotland and my brother was born in the UK.

[@mikesands4681]

9:00 the Easter Bloc? :)

[@mtarkes]

But still they dont teach polish in public schools in London.

[@GeraldEatsSoup]

But you can take Polish GCSEs

[@davidroddini1512]

They don’t teach Polish in public schools? Do they at least serve Polish… sausages 😉

[@caiden5855]

Good

[@bigtex4864]

Why would they? Should we encourage the Pols to integrate instead?

[@modmaker7617]

​@bigtex4864 I'd prefer a cultural exchange. We Poles learned English so I'd want Brits to learn Polish. To be even and not one way.

[@highpath4776]

Lot of Polish (women!) for some reason settling in Norwich. Other Poles around Immingham for oil plant work and its near Poland by ferry from Newcastle area

[@johnka5407]

Easter Bloc 🥚🐰✝️

[@bennelong8451]

I thought it was Arabic

[@Llotel972]

I feel like it was very important not use "United kingdom" and "England" interchangebly in this video, England's second most spoken language is Polish but Welsh and Scots outnumber it in the United Kingdom

[@محمدالعمري-ز9و]

Interesting that among the Eastern Slavic Languages you mentioned Ukrainian and not Russian.

[@SecondPolishRepublic]

Are you sure the study isnt outdated? Alot of poles went back to Poland in 2020, like ALOT

[@modmaker7617]

I'm a "British Pole" and there's still a lot of Poles in the UK after 2020.

[@dianeweiss4562]

Why Easter and not Eastern?

[@vavqnok473]

Thank you for saying Polish comes from central europe, we're all fed up with this east europe bullshit

[@nickimontie]

Interesting - who knew?

[@TheHoveHeretic]

I beg to differ. English is England's second most widely spoken language .... behind an utterly incomprehensible gibberish employing many of the same words and phrases, with neither fixed nor consistent definitions.

[@dearthditch]

And here I thought Welsh was dragging them down 😅

[@MMmk1]

Dobra, przejmujemy ten film.

[@modmaker7617]

Tak przyjmujemy. Jestem polskim imigrantem w Wielkiej Brytanii.

[@renezescribe1229]

PATRICK, PLEASE, please, please disable the KZbin Auto-Dub on your videos! It's a feature KZbin SECRETLY IMPLEMENTED TWO MONTHS AGO and it fcan't be disabled from our side. It's awful and ill-suited for any content; most likely launched prematurely. It gives you a voice equivalent to a Steven Hawking's 3rd generation voice box! The AI Voice has no soul, no warmth, it has all the charm of an self-service checkout machine in a Sainsbury's! Moreover, for your kind of content, having your voice mindlessly translating your voice without much ability. Lastly, 3 out of 4 KZbinrs I contacted have disabled that feature; what are you waiting for? • Here are the infos & explanations on how to disable it. If you don't like to blindly follow links, here are all the stats: KZbinr : _Daniel Kovacs_ Video Title: *How to Disable KZbin AI Dubbing* Link: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6SxoIycrdCappI&pp=ygUeUmVtb3ZpbmcgdGhlIGF1dG8gZHViIFlvdVR1YmUg

[@shureee1]

3:18 meanwhile all the indo- part xD

[@bugsby4663]

Alive in the 2010s, yes. Conscious? Maybe not

[@gingersperg]

Not Arabic?

[@royarievilo1580]

I thought it was Hindi or Arabic lmaooo

[@gazza2933]

Food Processing Factories and David Cameron M.P. A few more decades and English will be a second language... ...If we're lucky. 🙄

[@Oscarism9]

cope

[@informer3000]

Open borders

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

I thought it would be arabic