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Simon on 03 Feb 2007

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18 Responses to “Language quiz”

1. Stephen on 03 Feb 2007 at 6:53 pm #

   Obviously Poland! As for which one sticks out…no idea…maybe Kurczak de volaille?

2. Podolsky on 03 Feb 2007 at 7:36 pm #

   Poland.
   Księgarnia is bookshop.

3. Polly on 03 Feb 2007 at 7:49 pm #

   Certainly looks Polish:

   Zupa ogórkowa Obviously soup of some kind
   Śledź w śmietanie Something in sour cream

   Sztuka mięsa w sosie chrzanowym Pieces of meat in black sauce?
   Placki kartoflane Something with potatoes

   I don’t even know why I’m making the attempt. Some of the items looked familiar.

4. Osman on 03 Feb 2007 at 8:48 pm #

   I just can say that it is a Slavic language :)

   But people seem to already knew the answer!

5. David on 04 Feb 2007 at 1:02 am #

   I’d say Poland, it looks a lot like it :-)

6. David on 04 Feb 2007 at 3:14 am #

   Soup Ogórkowa- Zupa ogórkowa
   In cream herring- Śledź w śmietanie
   Chicken de volaille- Kurczak de volaille
   Art of meat in sauce chrzanowym- Sztuka mięsa w sosie chrzanowym
   Cereal with acid gryczana- Kasza gryczana z kwaśnym
   Bookstore- Księgarnia
   Potato fried cakes- Placki kartoflane

   And Makowiec I can’t seem to figure out, but half of this doesn’t even make sense and besides that who would eat a bookstore for dinner??

7. Ben L. on 04 Feb 2007 at 3:28 am #

   Per Google:

   “Makowiec (pronounced “Ma-KOH-viets”) isn’t, strictly speaking, a holiday bread. But it is a classic Polish dessert or tea bread…”

8. Ricky on 04 Feb 2007 at 4:52 am #

   Wouldn’t ‘Zupa ogórkowa’ be cucumber soup?

9. BnB on 04 Feb 2007 at 6:18 am #

   The only one I would attempt is the first as Cucumber Soup.

   (Polish style pickles are polski ogorki; “cucumbers” in German are “gurken”)

10. Simon on 04 Feb 2007 at 1:32 pm #

    Here are the answers:

    The country is Poland.

    Zupa ogórkowa = hot sour cucumber soup

    Śledzie w śmietanie = herring in sour cream, usually with onion

    Kurczak de volaille = chicken steaks spread with butter, filled with mushrooms and bread crumbed, originally French

    Sztuka mięsa w sosie chrzanowym = boiled chunk of beef in horseradish sauce

    Kasza gryczana z kwaśnym mlekiem = buckwheat groats with sour milk or buttermilk

    Placki kartoflane = potato pancakes (also known as Placki ziemniaczane)

    Makowiec = sweet poppy cake

    The odd one out was Księgarnia, which means bookshop.

    Source: http://www.staypoland.com/poland-food.htm

    There are some recipies for the above dishes, and other Polish food, here and here.

11. jdotjdot89 on 04 Feb 2007 at 11:10 pm #

    Totally on topic–I’m going to Poland, Prague, and some other places in eastern Europe. Any quick books or short-term courses for the language lover that anyone could recommend me?

    We definitely need some sort of forum.

12. jdotjdot89 on 05 Feb 2007 at 2:34 am #

    On the subject of forums, I was messing around with communications possibilities for a chapter of an organization that I lead, and I ran across Google Groups as a POSSIBLE forum-type thing to use, though it is really more of an e-mail group/listserv–but it could work. What do you think, Simon?

13. Simon on 05 Feb 2007 at 12:14 pm #

    Here are some sites that might be useful:
    http://www.meetpoland.com/useful-polish-words-and-phrases.html
    http://onestoppolish.com/useful_polish_phrases.htm
    http://www.locallingo.com/
    http://www.myczechrepublic.com/czech_language/czech_phrases.html

    I’m currently setting up a forum using phpbb. If you have any suggestions for categories or forum topics, let me know.

14. Polly on 05 Feb 2007 at 4:48 pm #

    Topics:
    language exchange - It would be be nice to be able to get quick translations from each other. Or just resources, Like J.J.89 just did.

    Others:
    Language learning (obviously)
    Travel for the language enthusiast (this can be broken out be continent)
    Language as it pertains to religious texts or works of literature
    ancient/dead languages
    English and all its forms
    History of writing
    Conlangs/international (development of, spread of)
    Nearly extinct languages

15. jdotjdot89 on 07 Feb 2007 at 6:14 am #

    I like the topics that Polly mentioned; I would just add two. One would be miscellaneous, for random or interesting things, and another would be a category that could cover etymology and/or language comparison and contrast… for example, looking at how words were borrowed from one language or family of languages to another.

16. Bearrus on 09 Feb 2007 at 10:21 am #

    As people already says it Poland. And if you very often need to translate poland to english - try link below
    http://www-old.ectaco.com/online/diction.php3?lang=7

17. IZQ on 11 Feb 2007 at 4:59 pm #

    po polsku :D:D:D

    choć zamiast “kartofle” dałabym “ziemniaki”,bo nikt w sumie malo sie używa tego słowa :p

    sorka że nie po angielsku piszę,ale jeszcze nie umiem go na tyle dobrze :p

    pozdrówka :D pozdrawiam:P

18. Monika on 13 Feb 2007 at 3:02 pm #

    A Polish menu !! yum yum :)

    ‘Księgarnia’ to be crossed out as it means bookshop.

    I will translate them into the Korean language, because I am a Korean living in Poland. ^_^ The truth is that all the translated menu sounds a little bit strange in Korean words as most of Koreans would not have heard of them or seen them.

    Zupa ogórkowa = 오이 수프

    Śledzie w śmietanie = 크림에 담근 청어

    Kurczak de volaille = 프랑스식 치킨 커틀렛

    Sztuka mięsa w sosie chrzanowym = 양고추냉이 소스를 얹은 삶은 고기

    Kasza gryczana z kwaśnym mlekiem = 산패유를 얹은 찐메밀

    Placki kartoflane = 감자 부침

    Makowiec = 양귀비씨 케잌

    Cheers,
    Monika aka Hyesun