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As an L2 German speaker living in Germany, I have witnessed how slight vowel length differences matter. In my native Polish, vowel length is not phonemic - unlike in German. I've r…

I sometimes meet foreigners who have been to Poland and learned a few phrases from the locals. Usually "How are you" is among them only because they have specifically requested thi…

Read the twitter bio of that movement's page and tell me your definition of "everyone" here. If you don't support Stolzmonat's agenda, then you are probably not welcome - pretty mu…

I'd be all up for an initiative that attempts to burst the liberal bubble which seems to reject the possibility that people have other things to do than follow the latest inclusivi…

The legal minimum is 20 working days, though. The people in tech I've met in Berlin are getting anything between 26 and 30. My contract starts with 27 days and this number will be …

I'd agree that this mentality of "we don't need a trade union as IT workers" is pretty widespread, and it's not only a Polish thing - I've moved to Germany a long time ago and witn…

It's true that Berlin public transit has no physical fare enforcement (e.g. there are no ticket gates at subway stations), but the state operator of public transit is anything but …

That's not really a question in a legal system in which judges are removable by a ministerial decree. The judiciary that has ruled this has been installed illegally and is literall…

Exactly my reasoning for moving out of Poland. It's fun to watch and cheer if you are a normative citizen who will never be affected by this, but for everyone else it turns into he…