2. Basic Info
312 697 km2
770 km of the coastline
38 mln inhabitants
123 inhabitants/km2
The highest peak: Rysy (2499,1 m)
Temperatures:
(-40) -6 to 30 °C (+42)
Forestation: 30%
5. Polish National Anthem:
Mazurek Dąbrowskiego
The song of the Polish legions
in Italy, by Józef Wibicki (1797)
Poland has not yet parished,
As long as we remain.
What the foe by force has seized,
Sword in hand we’ll regain.
Symbols
22. Nobel Prizes
Maria Skłodowska – Curie (rad & polon)
Lech Wałęsa (peaceful fight freedom)
Henryk Sienkiewicz („Quo Vadis”), Władysław Reymont
(„Chłopi”)
Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska (for resurecting poetry
in the age of mass culture)
23. Fryderyk Chopin
1810 – 1849
Born in Żelazowa Wola
He wrote 200 compositions,
the first at the age of 6
(Polonaise)
„Revolutionary Etude” – the
reflection of despair after the
failure of November Uprising in
Poland (1830)
His body is buried in France,
but the heart was returned to
Poland.
28. Polish (język polski)
Spoken by up to 48 mln people around the world
the 2nd spoken language in Ireland
32 letters:
Aa, Ąą, Bb, Cc, Ćć, Dd, Ee, Ęę, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Łł, Mm, Nn, Ńń,
Oo, Óó, Pp, Rr, Ss, Śś, Tt, Uu, Ww, Yy, Zz, Źź, Żż
'Two or three in one’:
cz, sz, ci, si, dz, dż (=drz), dź, dzi, zi, ni, ch (=h), rz (=ż), ó (=u)
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie, a
Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.
Language
29. What does it mean?
straight
an hour
tomorrow
November
July
a blueberry
a looser
a person
You smoke
prosto
godzina
jutro
listopad
lipiec
jagoda
frajer
osoba
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