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Some years ago, my father decided to learn Polish and started off with some basic phrases, like na zdrowie, cheers, and dobranoc, good night.
One evening, at a party, he decided to raise a toast. He stood up, raised his glass, chirpily exclaimed dobranoc! - and chugged the vodka! In his defence, six or seven shots later it was dobranoc for real!

Sent by: Dan

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Giedre 2009-02-14

I am Lithuanian but sometimes people ask me if I am Polish and then at the end of conversation say spasibo which is thank you in Russian.

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Ewa 2005-06-23

Thank you, that's pretty funny! Polish can be confusing ;)

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Ktoś 2005-06-19

It's really nice when people come to Poland and say zdrastwujte, which means 'hello' ... but in Russian :)

Poliglots ...

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