Q&A: We Answered Your Questions! Plus HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT That Will Change This Channel Forever.

[@Immigrantwriter]

Hello everybody, thank you so much for all the lovely comments! It really means a lot to us, you are an amazing, supportive community and you are making JT feel at home in this little piece of Internet that meets the world and Poland's culture ❤ we really appreciate it!

[@ronin36963]

I'm a born American of Polish ancestry. Parents are right "off the boat" type who taught me Polish since I was born. I took a job at a Polish exporting company here in New Jersey and after 2 hours of answering phones in Polish i realized I don't know Polish. I picked up about 2% of what was spoken to me and I felt overwhelmed. Polish people speak ridiculously fast at times and compared to English, the Polish language definitely uses more words (per day) to get the point across. In the USA, all you really need to know is "how much?" and a few phrases here and there to get around. My mother has been living here since 1980 and she still doesn't care about learning English properly because she doesn't need to. Best of luck on your journey with the Polish language. I also agree that I brush up on Polish the best when I'm in Poland, go figure lol. God Bless.

[@RickRock-y2e]

As a Puerto Rican with a Polish girlfriend, I have to say that I've experienced almost the same things. First , felicidades por el embarazo. 😊 Now, The weather is hard for me, I need sun and beaches. Language is a nightmare, it's really hard to meet people - our cultures are too different. A normal Latino behavior could be perceived as rude. Bureaucracy is wow😏🥴. I received my TRC after 2 years living in Warsaw. And of course, as a couple it's a challenge. We have to have a lot of patience, respect, and understanding - we have to accept our cultural differences, but I won't change it for anything. She is an incredible human being. My European Model, moja królowa.🇵🇷♥️🇵🇱💯. Gracias por compartir 👍

[@Immigrantwriter]

beautiful ❤

[@michadybczak4862]

The weather is hard for us too. It's a thing that you won't get use to. I would love to move my whole house and family and all my life to Spain or Greece to have sun and higher temperatures, but it's not possible. If I had moved, I would have to live there without a family, in buildings that are not properly insulated, so winter would be even worse. The southern people who are very outgoing, which is terrifying, because I'm an introvert. I love to be there for vacation, but living there is an entirely different thing. Although weather is important, it's not more important than relationships and the place I call home. Ironically, the climate change made the weather to be a bit better, but still not on a level of Southern Europe, and there is still too little sun.

[@RickRock-y2e]

Well Spain and Greece are hotter than Puerto Rico. I didn't like them because of that 🤔🤔. I love Italy though. I can say..... I'm more of an extrovert, I'm latino. I was missing how easy it is to approach another Latino. It isn't like that with Poles 🤣😂😅. Thx for your comments. Take care but enjoy life, always.👍👍

[@michadybczak4862]

@@RickRock-y2e Not everyone will agree, but I love hot, but dry weather, so I am OK with sunny weather with 28-34 degrees for longer periods. It doesn't wear me off. I thrive in those conditions. Ideally, I would live in 28-32 all year round. I also love hot nights, around 26 degrees of Celsius. Basically, I love extremes, either burning hot or freezing cold (-5 to -20). The temperatures in Poland most of the time are out of my comfort zone. The only positive thing is, that we have a good heating systems and insulation, so since November till the end of April (oftentimes longer), the heating is on and temperature is constant, 20-22, which is fine, but my comfort zone at home is 24-26. I don't think I would be happy with Greek or -Spain houses in Winter. In summers, our Polish homes are also better, with thick walls, we get much cooler air inside, like in a cave, even when outside is 30+. No need to have air-conditioning. We even have opened windows all the time, so it's sunny inside with comfortable breeze and nice temperatures 22-26 in the Summer. The big minus are cold nights, 12-16 degrees, usually on the lower end of that scale. This means, we have to wear a jacket in the evenings when being outside.

[@RickRock-y2e]

You would love Puerto Rico 🇵🇷😅😅. It's always around 30'C. No matter the season. It's summer the whole year. Perfect for the beach, the rivers or lakes or just a walk at the mountains.👍💪. I'm telling you, I can't live in Greece or Spain. They are top hot for me. Even the wind is hot. It's like a blower. Maybe the north of Spain is different. I've never been there 🤔

[@wojstube9359]

I knew! I knew it from the very beginnimg. But i didn't scroll 🤗😁😉 Congratulations!!! 🇩🇴❤️🇵🇱🤝🙌

[@Immigrantwriter]

aawww 🥰

[@BLatko44]

l knew it right away, that Karolina is pregnant 🤰, you looks different, you are glowing! Congrats to both of you 🎉Gratulacje najserdeczniejsze! Love watching you both

[@jansoltes971]

I knew it! Congrats guys, I'm happy for you!!! ❤

[@bailaconmara]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! Beautiful girls in the house now!!!! Best wishes for both!

[@Agarudzik]

Oh my gosh 🤩🤩🤩 congratulations to you both and Vigo 😍😍 that's a wonderful news 😍

[@Immigrantwriter]

😍

[@alik202]

Tbh seeing this title i knew what announcement its gonna be😂 congrats🎉❤

[@justynatarantowicz5416]

I am sending warm congratulations not only from Poland but from the centre of... Tuszyn :). May the new season of your lives be calm and joyful.

[@Immigrantwriter]

dziekujemy ❤

[@isabellacb1602]

Congrats! Such great news! 👶🏼 🎉felicidades 🎈 💗

[@joannazielinska8575]

Super extra , ale się cieszę Waszym szczęściem 🥰

[@igor_PL]

Congratulations!

[@tyago1949]

Omg you guys !!! I'm so happy for you 🥹. Thank you so much for all the hard work you put in your videos. I see myself a lot like Vigo's Dad. I feel that i am almost like you. I am portuguese and i have a polish boyfriend now and i'm trying to learn polish for him. Quite a challenge let me tell you. I hope that you never run out of topics to discuss in this channel becausr i them ! Congrats once again and i wish you all the best ❤

[@DS11129]

Congrats to you both. I met my Polish wife in 2001 from AOL Chat :). She was trying to improve English and me my German as we were living in Germany. She spent over 17 years in the US and our intent when I retired was to move to Germany. Yet with all that was going on there better option was Poland in 2020 as well. We speak English as main language but wife communicates with kids more in Polish. Her issue with Polish is she left Poland after the wall fell so some situations she does not know words and while Polish some will think she is not. Her German though is more of a German. Maybe cause her grandad was German/Polish and fought for Poland in WWII. I feel you though on the language. Been trying to get fluent and can read and understand quite a bit but difficult to speak. I am blessed if I find others speak German or English. Keep sharing insights on Poland towns.

[@alinas.2375]

❤

[@tromp2000]

Congratulations you two! I agree with your wife, nice polish girls are the best ambassadors, I found your channel because I was meeting a polish girl and I wanted to know what I was getting myself into, and now we're getting married next year! As a fellow latino, getting insights from someone from a similar culture is great help, love your videos and hope you keep going!

[@agatabakalarek9798]

I thought that something has changed in Karolina but wasn't sure what and stupidly I didn't figure out that's the actual change to channel 😂😂 Congratulations kochani! You are great parents and Vigo will be an amazing older brother ❤❤

[@grazynamazur6724]

Congratulations! I congratulate you with all my heart!

[@donatapluskota9875]

Huge congratulations!!!!

[@PiotrJaser]

You have a wise wife. Poland is changing quickly. Today it can be an attractive place to live, in my opinion.

[@Immigrantwriter]

thank you! ❤

[@grazynamartusewicz6680]

FELICIDADES A LOS DOS

[@doriz628]

Congrats for a new baby!😗

[@Vigo36063]

Nice video

[@giovannalark212]

Congrats❤

[@bartoszkalinowski6542]

Gratuluję ❤

[@randomistria7523]

I'm also joining the "Congratulations!!!" club, and I could also see what you gonna announce, just from reading the title 😀 Welcome to the new future member and greetings from Pula! 😊

[@michadybczak4862]

Congrats!👶

[@chriszolcinski6322]

Congratulations you two (actually three😃)! Best wishes.

[@magdalenadetoffol6406]

Congratulations! 💐🌺 what wonderful news!

[@romek257]

gratulacje

[@krzysztofsyty4625]

Gratulacje !Piekny odcinek - dobrą robotę robisz.

[@martynab8295]

Congratulations! All the best for you guys and good health for Karolina 🥰

[@angelikanyzio5012]

Omg! Congrats! I love you guys do much! My husband and I are planning on moving to Poland in 2 years. Lots of planning .... your channel always makes me feel like we are doing the right thing for our boys and for us. Congrats!!

[@JuliaThorn]

Gratulacje!! 😍😍😍

[@vaniilla4581]

Congrats 🎈

[@pdk1427]

"She is still nagging me about it" - Welcome to be married my friend. 🤣 Congrats to you both!

[@Immigrantwriter]

😅🥰

[@gregz3796]

CONGRADULATIONS 😁

[@00brs]

Congrats YOU TWOOO!

[@pamlacooper3288]

Congratulations ❤❤

[@gregorypaul0]

Felicidades por el embarazo. Supongo que ahora ya habrá nacido la bebé o pronto llegará :)

[@pamelajaye]

By the way I wouldn't know an A1 from an a2 or any of those other levels they talk about. And I'm trying a little harder now. But there was that gigantic gap between 1985 and last year when I didn't try at all and I only tried for 10 months in 1985 and I only had books and there was no internet and after a few months there was this adult education course that was like once every two weeks for a couple months and The things the teacher was saying, they didn't seem to mesh with what I had been learning from the books. And then after 10 months I ran into the prepositions and it was just too much and I gave up. But also You said she was the only Polish person you know and it seemed very exotic. It's unusual that you would use that word. How long ago was that? Honestly? I don't want to do the math. When I was in school I took French and Spanish which doesn't mean that I can speak them. But then I wasn't in school and it was the only thing I missed apparently. I sure didn't miss writing term papers which was one of the reasons I didn't go to college. I hate writing. You would never guess. :-) When I was 23 I was like I wish I was learning a language. My friend was learning Italian - nope. Too much like French and Spanish. In high school I skipped German because I thought I might choke myself. Honestly it's sort of sounds like a cat trying to get rid of a hairball. My apologies to the Germans. And Latin - because it had cases and it was a dead language. What would I use it for? Mind you I don't think I knew what a case was. And gee only five? Well I guess it could be worse. I heard a Polish teacher prepping herself for teaching cases by studying Finnish because apparently it has 12. But the point I was going for I hadn't finished the story. A couple years later my friends were all learning Russian and it sounded very exotic. There's that word again. Of course it did. It was 1985 or maybe 1984 at the time. And everything was behind the iron curtain and we didn't know anything about what was going on so yeah, it was exotic. It was mysterious. It was just really really different. Unfortunately it was also written in Cyrillic. So no. And then in '85 my coworker was teaching my boss Polish. I mean I don't know how many words she learned. I only remember gumki. And even that might be wrong. But it sounded like Russian and it didn't have a Cyrillic alphabet! There was a guy I had a crush on from 84 to 86 and he was from Poland and sometimes I was in his mother's kitchen, but I wasn't planning on speaking to him in Polish. I'm way too shy. And I don't know what I got from his mother because again I'm too shy and I don't know if I was paying attention. His mother spoke English, he spoke English, but hey this sounds like Russian, so exotic! Back then when nobody knew what was going on except there were bread lines and food lines and nobody got to say what they believed and everyone was oppressed. (We will just ignore the part in December of 1980 When solidarity was rising up and I was looking at the TV saying Oh no! Don't do that! You will make Russia mad! And my roommate who was actually half Polish, which I should have noticed from the ski at the end of her name, yelled at me. But I never heard her speak Polish) In 1985 I read Poland twice and got an album from the grocery store - you know it was an LP - it was just some compilation of Chopin. I liked one side better than the other. And then I read some book by some man I found in the Boston public library who was part of the government in exile or something. I will never find that again. I don't even know who it was. And years later Scott Bakula had the option to make a movie from the book Night Never Ending, by a man Who said that he escaped the Katyn forest massacre and I don't know why I shouldn't believe that. Since it was probably Russia who said that he was lying. He said that people were chasing him around the world. I don't know any died but he must have died by now. My father was in World War II but only because he lied about his age and joined the Navy when he was 15 so he was in the Pacific and he never said anything about it but then again he never talked to us about anything at all, even things that were not about war. Everything I know about my father is something my mother told me. To us he did not talk he just yelled a lot. Anyway... Oh and also PBS had this multi-part thing about Poland and I don't even know what it covered but I watched it back then and I could sing the first verse of the national anthem. Although I never knew why people were marching from Italy. (That little part with the book that Scott had was after 2001 but nothing ever came of it. There was no movie. A friend loaned me the book and I gave it back and nobody has it now Well that's not exactly true. There are some used copies. I just have no money. But all the other parts were in 1985 when there was No internet, no Google translate, no KZbin. And all I knew was what was in those three books and that series on PBS and everything everything was always about World War II - mostly. And all that stuff is really scary. Especially now. With the war next door. So it's not like I wanted to know about it. I just couldn't help myself.) And you say your Polish is... However it is... Except that it has holes in it. And yes it's like that. There are still things stuck in my head from 85 they're buried very deep but sometimes they float back up. Seriously the other day I remembered the word for surprise. After I heard it three times. And it has just come from various places but it's not like I can string a sentence together. And it's not just the cases, apparently word order is loose but not as loose as they say it is, and there are verbs that have prefixes on them and I'm not even talking about the aspects. (I bounced around between the four books. When I hit a wall, I tried another book and then another one and then back again. And now I learn some things and then I forget them. But the things I learned back then... I remember them better but that's just the words and not the grammar.)

[@czeremchaczeremcha2318]

It is very difficult.I lived in UK fr almost 15 yers and I had English friends from work but otherwise I would never have friends over there.

[@pamelajaye]

I listened to the end at the end. Gratulacje/Felicidades I used to watch this guy American in Ukraine. Except he was in Poland almost all the time that I watched him. And then he changed the name of his channel. And then and his wife settled down and had their baby and had some visitations from relatives and... we almost made it to Krakow and Zakopane... And then he was in Moldova And then Ukraine and then Cypress and then he hasn't been heard of since at least a year. Yes I know I have been MIA. I will be here more often. I think that was the last thing we heard. You know, we were invested. Oh well. (So now I watch this channel called Inside Russia. Except they are actually inside Uzbekistan. And maybe in the future they'll be inside somewhere else. They are safe, they are together, we are happy. And they didn't disappear. And they didn't go to the gulag or to the war. So, all good things. Oh yeah, I found another lady who moved from Russia to Poland. I'm pretty sure it was because of the war but her Polish sounds really really good. I couldn't tell you though. She does have it captioned - in Russian...)

[@labondek78]

10 - why You tolk about MY WIFE?!! 🤣😂

[@pamelajaye]

8:16 that should be a timestamp but it's black...? Did you stop the multilingual captions? I know I saw more than one video out there on how to create them automatically (if you want, you can edit the errors you can see) Nynke is subtitling her stuff by hand. I have to appreciate the effort. I wonder if her Polish is better than yours? Probably just variations on "not so great but better than Pam's" (I notice my keyboard has Google translate built in. When I see something I know some the words, I type it in and fiddle with it til it stops using words I don't know - or close - then I sometimes look up the ones I don't know. I don't trust it cause I think it's crowd sourced - and I try to catch it when it thinks I'm male. Right now I just notice adjectives and past tense)

[@pamelajaye]

I am still bad with my cases but even worse, I will never learn what these cases are called in Polish. I learned what they were called in English. Sometimes people are nice and they tell you both the Polish name of it and the English name of it French? Really? Why?

[@joannamadejczyk244]

Vigo czy to prawda że mężczyźni z Dominikany lubią wyzyskiwać kobiety z pieniędzy i nie mają respektu nie wszyscy ale większość taką opinię słyszę często w Kanadzie co myślisz o tym Ty jesteś wspaniały Cuidate 👍

[@pamelajaye]

Question number one: I was thinking that at least you are not in the Dominican Republic which is next to a country that looks very very very dangerous. And then I realized you were next to Ukraine which is at war. Oh well.

[@krewetkaaaa]

Still it is safe here in Poland

[@katarzynalpzm0arajko-nenow32]

Because "Poczta Polska" is actually French company... and you know what attitude have French ppl to their language. For them it's a pain in the ass that lingua Franca is not so lingua Franca any more. 😂

[@Immigrantwriter]

omg that's so crazy 😀 but makes sense now!

[@krewetkaaaa]

Still they should also have English on those forms 😅

[@pamelajaye]

...And Polish people are always looking for who's responsible./ Commercial arrives. Title of commercial: Mercy without limits Too funny! I know my family was not Polish is not has not ever been I'm not punctuating today. Except for that. So Polish families are like you are doing good? Yes you are why do we have to tell you? That was a synopsis of what I think you said. Half of it :-) Yeah my family is like that. So much that if somebody did something that probably you should have done yourself, I would never say thank you because what I did they would be like *reminded*. And then they would tell me Well you should have done that yourself! Not all the time. But often enough. And my brother has this fixation that if you don't do something for someone else then you are an A**hole. And I'm trying to tell him no, you're just an ordinary person who's living their own life and not thinking about other people which is perfectly normal as far as I'm aware. I don't know how it is that the two of us grew up in the same family! Of course in other ways we have exactly the same baggage. So...

[@DarrellWaters-sw4rw]

Do Pollish men kiss each other on both cheeks when tehy greet each other or what?

[@nightingaleblackbird1313]

Rarely,depends on the occasion and on their level of intimacy ,like for example relatives during wedding but on the day to day basis- no

[@anetgumienik4476]

Congratulations. Love watching you. I just saw a clip of you in Lublin but you said that you were in Janow Lubelski that’s my home town can you please let me know how it is because I haven’t been there in 15 years