That's very nice of you that you are explaining etymology of the names of months in polish. Very good pronouncing by the way. Some of them could be kinda difficult. Also I appreciate that you are referring to so called pagan or just old slavic traditions comparing them to present ones along the way of your journey through Poland learning local legends and all of that. In fact many of old pagan/slavic traditions have been replaced by catholic ones, some even very similar and on the same day to cover old ones and get rid of them from local culture. You can find catholic monasteries in Poland built where used to be places of old pagan/slavic cult, usualy on hills or holy mountains for slavic people like today's monastery placed on one of the highest hills of Holy Cross mountains or even Karczowka monastery in Kielce but that's other story to be told...
@@siwaszkotka I’m more into prehistory at heart, so I like to uncover the origins of things, and indeed much of Slavic tradition has remained and its great to see, I just wish traditions like the drowning of Marzena were not outlawed in Warsaw 😅
Hello there! There is snow laying down on north-east coast of UK since Sunday but I even enjoy it comparing to other days here in winter 😅 hope will be snowing for Christmas because Christmas without snow are not proper Christmas ⛄ 🌲 🎁
Zgadzam się, co to za święta bez śniegu, a ostatnio takich świat jest coraz mniej w miejscach gdzie klimat powinien to gwarantować i to jest niedobrze. 👍👍☺☺
@@britinpoland2392 I was born in Warsaw and grew up there but I live in NYC now. I sent over 40 years in NYC and I'm afraid to go back to Warsaw. W marcu jak w garncu ! Every summer I used to spend at Mazurian Lakes. Ruciane. Gizycko.
@@britinpoland2392 In the USA I spend vacations in Pennsylvania ,where is a lot of lakes and wildlife but nothing beats Mazurian Lakes. Fall I use to spend at Bieszczady or Sudety. Amazing places. Leaving Poland I did not realized how many beautiful places I left behind.
@ as I was amazed by how many beautiful places I’ve found here 😊 Definitely plan more mountain and lake trips next year! Saying that going to the tatras next month 😁
Bardzo ładne wideo 🥰 Polska jest piękna w swym krajobrazie we wszystkich porach roku, kto narzeka to nie potrafi docenić to ,że mamy: góry, doliny, jeziora morze z cudownym piaskiem , mamy piękną wiosnę, lato, jesień i zimę.... więc tylko się cieszyć 🥰🇵🇱😍🇵🇱🤩🇵🇱❤
@@weronikaorenczak102 Poland is full of wonders and in time I want to see them all 😁 So much to appreciate here and every year I discover more and more of them for myself!
Za ten film zasłużył Pan na nagrodę podobną do tej, jaką otrzymał Władysław Stanisław Reymont. Stało się to w 1924 roku a Literacką Nagrodę Nobla otrzymał za czterotomową „epopeję chłopską” CHŁOPI. Cztery tomy wzięły się stąd, że opisał życie mieszkańców polskiej wsi na tle czterech głównych pór roku. Z wielką znajomością wspomina Pan również o tzw. międzyporach roku, które ostatnio jakby zanikały a szkoda. W Polsce mówimy "aby do wiosny" a ta przyjdzie niezawodnie za 4 miesiące. Niech się Pan trzyma ciepło i pozdrawiam!
Thank you! Appreciate the historical reference as well, it all helps with my knowledge of Poland ❤️ I hope for future videos far more deserving of your praise, but more travelling to do and more knowledge to acquire, Poland is a real gold mine!
@@arturkrol2907 my pleasure 😊 In time I want to try and cover every aspect about Poland with my videos, it will take a long time but it’s a passion I have 😁
Jak patrzę na te zdjęcia to widać, że klimat nam się zmienia. Kiedyś w Polsce to w grudniu już była porządna zima ze śniegiem i temperatury mocno poniżej zera, a lata ciepłe ale nie afrykańskie, a teraz mamy odwrotnie, zimy prawie nie ma, a lata mają temperatury afrykańskie. Dziś opowieści o białych niedźwiedziach to już są zupełnie bez sensu. 😂 Pamiętam zimę stulecia, zaspy na 2 metry na ulicach i tunele ze śniegu, wszystko stało bo nic nie jeździło, nawet pociągi stały. Ludzie szli do roboty na piechotę z drugiego końca miasta, a koleżanka przyjechała maluchem. Patrzyli na nią jak na wariata i do dziś nie wiemy jakim cudem ona dojechała do tej roboty. 😂 Dziś jak ludzie zobaczą śnieg to się cieszą jakby w życiu śniegu nie widzieli. Lata są teraz z temperaturami afrykańskimi to nic dziwnego, że wakacje w Polsce są droższe niż za granicą, a na plażach to nie można igły wcisnąć bo za przeproszeniem leży dupa przy dupie i nawet ratownicy mają problem aby te plaże patrolować. No i poziom życia w Polsce mocno się poprawił to stonka turystyczne jest teraz już wszędzie. Teraz to każde zadupie ma swoje atrakcje turystyczne bo lud się dorobił to jeździ. Kiedyś jak była bieda to ta turystyka wyglądała tak, że ludzie jechali za granicę za chlebem, a w kraju to raczej na wakacje jechało się z różnych instytucji, które te wakacje dofinansowywały. Jak to wszystko się pozmieniało i kto by pomyślał te 30 lat temu, że tak będzie. No dobra rozgadałem się. Pozdrawiam☺☺
@@matrixmannn it’s even got warmer in the relatively short time I’ve lived here 😅 That -20 winter I had at the beginning I haven’t seen again…though maybe not the worst aspect 😛 I think Poland doesn’t make the most of its tourism industry for foreigners, everyone goes to the same main places while there is so much to see everywhere!
@@britinpoland2392 To prawda, powinno się tych turystów rozproszyć, zresztą nie tylko obcokrajowców ale wiesz jak to działa, coś tam przeczytali, pojechał jeden, podobało się to poczta szeptana lepiej działa niż wszystkie akcje reklamowe. To zaczęto robić ale przyszedł covid, potem wojna i jest jak jest ale czytałem statystyki, że Polska Izba Turystyczna obliczyła, że poziom turystyki wrócił do sytuacji z przed covidu i nawet się poprawił i co ciekawe coraz więcej turystów wybiera Polskę wschodnią. Pewnie to ten dreszczyk emocji związany z granicą i ciekawość jak tam jest. Rzeszów mocno zyskał i Białystok. Bieszczady ostatnio zrobiły się modne.
I have just come back from Warsaw and had an excellent time. The queue at Chopin airport was so short and speedy, nothing like the bad experience in Katowice where they ask so many stupid questions. As you live and work in Warsaw, have you been to the Museum Naradowe? There is an exhibition of the paintings of Jozef Chelmonski and it is on until some date in January. I am not usually interedted in art galleries but this was well wort seeing. You could make an excellent short video on it for your viewers!
Glad you had fun in Warsaw! Shame about the timing and my trip away 😅 Indeed, never had an issue in Polish airports and have travelled via a few now! Thanks for the heads up about the exhibition, hopefully will find some time to see it 😅
Thank you for the very informative film. I never really think about where words come from, I just learn them 'parrot-fashion' but it must be such an aid to getting a better understanding of how vocabulary is built up in a particular language. February or luty, as far as I am aware, comes from an old Polish word for dirty or bleak as February is normally the worst month of the year. I was unaware that it had any connection to frost as frost in Polish is mróz. Are you confusing the Polish word for ice, which is lód but sounds similar? Of course, from the word lód we get the plural form lody meaning ice cream.
@@michaelmckelvey5122 I took that explanation from a site online which had all the months and their derivations listed, maybe someone Polish can confirm 😅
luty means "HARSH" as in "harsh cold = luty mróz". It's an archaic adjective, basically only used in connection with this month or cold weather nowadays (luty mróz), but in old Polish it was just an adjective.
Very good idea for a film! But in my opinion this film lacked more information about Christmas in December (about decorating Christmas trees, about going to the Midnight Mass, about building Christmas stables) and about the Three Kings' Day in January. Do you understand what I mean? Christmas markets are a commercial phenomenon and have no significance in Poland, whereas, for example, building Christmas stables in every church in Poland (sometimes with live animals) is a tradition that can only be found in Poland.And on Christmas in large cities in Poland people walk from church to church to see these Christmas stables. In addition, if winter in Poland is snowy, sleigh rides are organized and children go sledding and building snowmen. This is also a tradition. In addition, in every larger city in Poland artificial ice rinks are built in winter. Forgive me, but in my opinion you said very little about the activities of Poles during winter and made Poland a second Russia, where only bears walk the streets in winter 😂
@@oto.Kielce I understand where you are coming from, however I don’t think this fit into the theme of the video, as I was focusing on traditions linked to the weather specifically, one day I will do a video of Polish traditions year round certainly…but one issue I have is I always go back to the U.K. at Christmas to see my family and haven’t experienced a proper Polish Christmas yet to get the footage for such a film. Though I did forget to cover ice rinks, that would have been worth including 😅
There are twelve months to the year and the video lasted for just 18 minutes. I assumed the theme was on the twelve names of the months and how, in some cases at least, the names of the months are linked in some way to the weather phenomena.
@@michaelmckelvey5122 This is true and some of the Polish names of the months inform about the activity of Polish people during these months. So, culturally these month names are connected with Polish folk customs and religiosity, so to understand these names you have to talk about what Poles do during each month.
@@britinpoland2392 A nice African from Nigeria has moved to Kielce - and here is a recording of him taking part in a traditional Polish "kulig" (sleigh ride): th-cam.com/users/shortsy-JpRyfGeJg
Well...let me tell you something Richard. It's a commonly known fact among Poles. When there is nothing to talk about Poles usually tend to talk about weather 😁.
@@britinpoland2392 Oh yes 😉. My father did that 😂. Brewing potions was his little hobby as for a chemist like himself. It was very popular during communism when there was nothing available in the stores. You want to have something done??? Do it yourself 😉.
once again splendid resume of polish seasons ...... ty good work
@@wojtekrogalski5419 my pleasure 😊
It’s nice to do these summary videos once in a while 😁
That's very nice of you that you are explaining etymology of the names of months in polish. Very good pronouncing by the way. Some of them could be kinda difficult. Also I appreciate that you are referring to so called pagan or just old slavic traditions comparing them to present ones along the way of your journey through Poland learning local legends and all of that. In fact many of old pagan/slavic traditions have been replaced by catholic ones, some even very similar and on the same day to cover old ones and get rid of them from local culture. You can find catholic monasteries in Poland built where used to be places of old pagan/slavic cult, usualy on hills or holy mountains for slavic people like today's monastery placed on one of the highest hills of Holy Cross mountains or even Karczowka monastery in Kielce but that's other story to be told...
Wszystko prawda. Jak to mówią, jak nie możesz pokonać wroga to włącz go do swojego rytuału ale to też temat na oddzielne opowiadanie.
@@matrixmannn that’s how the Romans rolled 👍
@@siwaszkotka I’m more into prehistory at heart, so I like to uncover the origins of things, and indeed much of Slavic tradition has remained and its great to see, I just wish traditions like the drowning of Marzena were not outlawed in Warsaw 😅
@@britinpoland2392 Dokładnie tak bo tak powstają imperia.
@@matrixmannn dokladnie tak
Hello there! There is snow laying down on north-east coast of UK since Sunday but I even enjoy it comparing to other days here in winter 😅 hope will be snowing for Christmas because Christmas without snow are not proper Christmas ⛄ 🌲 🎁
@@siwaszkotka it’s started with snow in Warsaw as well today…it begins, hoping for a white Christmas too 😁
Zgadzam się, co to za święta bez śniegu, a ostatnio takich świat jest coraz mniej w miejscach gdzie klimat powinien to gwarantować i to jest niedobrze. 👍👍☺☺
Beautiful video. I hope you love to stay in Poland.
@@mikezabo3134 best decisions I ever made in my life staying here in this amazing country!
@@britinpoland2392 I was born in Warsaw and grew up there but I live in NYC now. I sent over 40 years in NYC and I'm afraid to go back to Warsaw. W marcu jak w garncu ! Every summer I used to spend at Mazurian Lakes. Ruciane. Gizycko.
@ I hope your life in the USA has been great 😁
I hope to spend some time with the lakes next year!
@@britinpoland2392 In the USA I spend vacations in Pennsylvania ,where is a lot of lakes and wildlife but nothing beats Mazurian Lakes. Fall I use to spend at Bieszczady or Sudety. Amazing places. Leaving Poland I did not realized how many beautiful places I left behind.
@ as I was amazed by how many beautiful places I’ve found here 😊
Definitely plan more mountain and lake trips next year! Saying that going to the tatras next month 😁
Bardzo ładne wideo 🥰 Polska jest piękna w swym krajobrazie we wszystkich porach roku, kto narzeka to nie potrafi docenić to ,że mamy: góry, doliny, jeziora morze z cudownym piaskiem , mamy piękną wiosnę, lato, jesień i zimę.... więc tylko się cieszyć 🥰🇵🇱😍🇵🇱🤩🇵🇱❤
@@weronikaorenczak102 Poland is full of wonders and in time I want to see them all 😁
So much to appreciate here and every year I discover more and more of them for myself!
Thank you for a nice film about the seasons in Poland! Some foreigners have a wrong image of Poland and think that white bears roam here!
@@andrzejszczepanik9945 no danger of that now with rising temperatures 😜
Za ten film zasłużył Pan na nagrodę podobną do tej, jaką otrzymał Władysław Stanisław Reymont.
Stało się to w 1924 roku a Literacką Nagrodę Nobla otrzymał za czterotomową „epopeję chłopską” CHŁOPI. Cztery tomy wzięły się stąd, że opisał życie mieszkańców polskiej wsi na tle czterech głównych pór roku.
Z wielką znajomością wspomina Pan również o tzw. międzyporach roku, które ostatnio jakby zanikały a szkoda.
W Polsce mówimy "aby do wiosny" a ta przyjdzie niezawodnie za 4 miesiące.
Niech się Pan trzyma ciepło i pozdrawiam!
Thank you! Appreciate the historical reference as well, it all helps with my knowledge of Poland ❤️
I hope for future videos far more deserving of your praise, but more travelling to do and more knowledge to acquire, Poland is a real gold mine!
Thank you for the work you put into this summary. Very pertinent and perceptive. 👌
@@arturkrol2907 my pleasure 😊
In time I want to try and cover every aspect about Poland with my videos, it will take a long time but it’s a passion I have 😁
yes, light rain+snow = messy in warsaw today
@@glenlu5832 good day to chill inside 😅
On point. As always 👍😊
@@wojstube9359 thank you, I try 😊
Jak patrzę na te zdjęcia to widać, że klimat nam się zmienia. Kiedyś w Polsce to w grudniu już była porządna zima ze śniegiem i temperatury mocno poniżej zera, a lata ciepłe ale nie afrykańskie, a teraz mamy odwrotnie, zimy prawie nie ma, a lata mają temperatury afrykańskie. Dziś opowieści o białych niedźwiedziach to już są zupełnie bez sensu. 😂
Pamiętam zimę stulecia, zaspy na 2 metry na ulicach i tunele ze śniegu, wszystko stało bo nic nie jeździło, nawet pociągi stały. Ludzie szli do roboty na piechotę z drugiego końca miasta, a koleżanka przyjechała maluchem. Patrzyli na nią jak na wariata i do dziś nie wiemy jakim cudem ona dojechała do tej roboty. 😂 Dziś jak ludzie zobaczą śnieg to się cieszą jakby w życiu śniegu nie widzieli.
Lata są teraz z temperaturami afrykańskimi to nic dziwnego, że wakacje w Polsce są droższe niż za granicą, a na plażach to nie można igły wcisnąć bo za przeproszeniem leży dupa przy dupie i nawet ratownicy mają problem aby te plaże patrolować.
No i poziom życia w Polsce mocno się poprawił to stonka turystyczne jest teraz już wszędzie. Teraz to każde zadupie ma swoje atrakcje turystyczne bo lud się dorobił to jeździ.
Kiedyś jak była bieda to ta turystyka wyglądała tak, że ludzie jechali za granicę za chlebem, a w kraju to raczej na wakacje jechało się z różnych instytucji, które te wakacje dofinansowywały.
Jak to wszystko się pozmieniało i kto by pomyślał te 30 lat temu, że tak będzie.
No dobra rozgadałem się. Pozdrawiam☺☺
@@matrixmannn it’s even got warmer in the relatively short time I’ve lived here 😅
That -20 winter I had at the beginning I haven’t seen again…though maybe not the worst aspect 😛
I think Poland doesn’t make the most of its tourism industry for foreigners, everyone goes to the same main places while there is so much to see everywhere!
@@britinpoland2392 To prawda, powinno się tych turystów rozproszyć, zresztą nie tylko obcokrajowców ale wiesz jak to działa, coś tam przeczytali, pojechał jeden, podobało się to poczta szeptana lepiej działa niż wszystkie akcje reklamowe. To zaczęto robić ale przyszedł covid, potem wojna i jest jak jest ale czytałem statystyki, że Polska Izba Turystyczna obliczyła, że poziom turystyki wrócił do sytuacji z przed covidu i nawet się poprawił i co ciekawe coraz więcej turystów wybiera Polskę wschodnią. Pewnie to ten dreszczyk emocji związany z granicą i ciekawość jak tam jest. Rzeszów mocno zyskał i Białystok. Bieszczady ostatnio zrobiły się modne.
Nice video. Thanks
@@Stykol thank you 😊
Well done tys piknie 👍
@@olowrohek9540 dziękuję 😊
Nice video.
Thank you 😊
I have just come back from Warsaw and had an excellent time. The queue at Chopin airport was so short and speedy, nothing like the bad experience in Katowice where they ask so many stupid questions. As you live and work in Warsaw, have you been to the Museum Naradowe? There is an exhibition of the paintings of Jozef Chelmonski and it is on until some date in January. I am not usually interedted in art galleries but this was well wort seeing. You could make an excellent short video on it for your viewers!
Glad you had fun in Warsaw! Shame about the timing and my trip away 😅
Indeed, never had an issue in Polish airports and have travelled via a few now!
Thanks for the heads up about the exhibition, hopefully will find some time to see it 😅
thx
Thank you for the very informative film. I never really think about where words come from, I just learn them 'parrot-fashion' but it must be such an aid to getting a better understanding of how vocabulary is built up in a particular language. February or luty, as far as I am aware, comes from an old Polish word for dirty or bleak as February is normally the worst month of the year. I was unaware that it had any connection to frost as frost in Polish is mróz. Are you confusing the Polish word for ice, which is lód but sounds similar? Of course, from the word lód we get the plural form lody meaning ice cream.
@@michaelmckelvey5122 I took that explanation from a site online which had all the months and their derivations listed, maybe someone Polish can confirm 😅
luty means "HARSH" as in "harsh cold = luty mróz". It's an archaic adjective, basically only used in connection with this month or cold weather nowadays (luty mróz), but in old Polish it was just an adjective.
@ thank you! Great to know 😊
@@ajuc005 Tak, stary polski przymiotnik. O ile dobrze wiem, przymiotnik luty mniej wiecej oznacza brzydki. Rzeczownik mróz to cos innego.
@@michaelmckelvey5122 luty to mniej więcej to samo co "srogi" a nie "brzydki".
Poznaję ten kraj ! Tak, to moja ojczyzna 😊❤
@@ireneuszpyrak961 The best homeland you could ever hope for ❤️
Very good idea for a film! But in my opinion this film lacked more information about Christmas in December (about decorating Christmas trees, about going to the Midnight Mass, about building Christmas stables) and about the Three Kings' Day in January. Do you understand what I mean? Christmas markets are a commercial phenomenon and have no significance in Poland, whereas, for example, building Christmas stables in every church in Poland (sometimes with live animals) is a tradition that can only be found in Poland.And on Christmas in large cities in Poland people walk from church to church to see these Christmas stables. In addition, if winter in Poland is snowy, sleigh rides are organized and children go sledding and building snowmen. This is also a tradition. In addition, in every larger city in Poland artificial ice rinks are built in winter. Forgive me, but in my opinion you said very little about the activities of Poles during winter and made Poland a second Russia, where only bears walk the streets in winter 😂
@@oto.Kielce I understand where you are coming from, however I don’t think this fit into the theme of the video, as I was focusing on traditions linked to the weather specifically, one day I will do a video of Polish traditions year round certainly…but one issue I have is I always go back to the U.K. at Christmas to see my family and haven’t experienced a proper Polish Christmas yet to get the footage for such a film.
Though I did forget to cover ice rinks, that would have been worth including 😅
@@britinpoland2392 😀
There are twelve months to the year and the video lasted for just 18 minutes. I assumed the theme was on the twelve names of the months and how, in some cases at least, the names of the months are linked in some way to the weather phenomena.
@@michaelmckelvey5122 This is true and some of the Polish names of the months inform about the activity of Polish people during these months. So, culturally these month names are connected with Polish folk customs and religiosity, so to understand these names you have to talk about what Poles do during each month.
@@britinpoland2392 A nice African from Nigeria has moved to Kielce - and here is a recording of him taking part in a traditional Polish "kulig" (sleigh ride): th-cam.com/users/shortsy-JpRyfGeJg
In summary: if you like moderate weather and do sightseeing visit Poland between April-June or September-October. The rest means freezing or boiling.😊
@@izabela1961 true, I’ve roasted enough in July and August these last two years 😅
Well...let me tell you something Richard. It's a commonly known fact among Poles. When there is nothing to talk about Poles usually tend to talk about weather 😁.
@@michalwandas3743 hahaha, yes very true, should have mentioned that 😅
@britinpoland2392 Yeah, you should have 😉. Now believe it or not by making this video you have become one of us 😉😜👍.
@ ticking off the being Polish boxes one by one…next need to make a video about brewing your own alcohol…
@@britinpoland2392 Oh yes 😉. My father did that 😂. Brewing potions was his little hobby as for a chemist like himself. It was very popular during communism when there was nothing available in the stores. You want to have something done??? Do it yourself 😉.
@ just need some fruits and spiritus 😁
polish seasons: Autumn, Spring and moisture
@@kristofforos1007 hahaha, I felt some hot summers these last couple of years!
Wilgoć kojarzy mi się wyłącznie z Wielką Brytannią, nigdy w życiu nie widziałem aż tyle pleśni w łazienkach 😁