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English in Poland
English is used in Poland by a fair amount of people. A lot of Polish people can speak English to a certain degree and are able to communicate with non-speakers of Polish, for example tourists. In larger cities you would find people to help you find destinations you are looking for. The statistics say that 37% of Polish people speak English as their second language as it is taught in schools. If you decide to visit a village or a smaller town in Poland, you are less likely to find people speaking Polish comparing to a tourist city such as Warsaw, Kraków and Gdansk. The amount of people being able to speak English in Poland grows with younger generations being able to learn and speak the language comparing to older generations. Menus at restaurants have English translations on them and cash ATMs also have an English as an option.

Languages in Poland
Polish language is a Slavic language and the widely spoken language by Poles is Russian as their second language as it belongs to the Slavic family of languages. In certain regions Polish people might also speak Ukrainian and German and have natives of those languages as Poland borders with those countries.

The History of English in Poland
French and Latin dominated in Polish teaching of another language and English entered Poland in 1706 yet the first English handbook was released in the late 18th century. After time English replaced French due to Poles leaving the country to United States in 1830 for opportunities such as freedom and employment. First English program was made in Kraków in 1908 and English became a learning language by Poles. Later in the 1948 English language has been stopped from teaching in schools due to the idea of only Russian being needed as a foreign and second language in schools and Russian became compulsory language till 1960. English was considered as not practical and ‘snobbish.’ In the 20s younger generation became more interested in English language and bigger number of students started taking English in schools as another language to learn. English became more important that Russian in the late 1980s. Learning English became more popular and younger generations preferred to learn English language to any other language, statistics say that 72% of Poles chose English, 46% German and 9% choosing Russian as the second language they should learn in schools.

English in classrooms
Russian language became less important in Polish schools after Poland opened economically, politically, and culturally for the West. The number of English teachers went from 1,200 to 36,000 meaning a lot of Russian teachers became unemployed and they had to retrain to, so they were able to teach English instead of Russian. English became most studied language in Poland by the second decade of the twenty first century and now 89% of population is studying English as their second language. English is still not compulsory language, but it is chosen by 80% of students on their last exam of finish high school (Matura). English might be taught by majority of schools and there are a lot of English teachers but there still is an inadequate quality of teaching the languages in public schools due to the pay teachers receive.

Motivation to learn English
In the study carried by | Janina Iwaniec (polish researcher) she collected data to find out if Polish people are motivated to study English and what influences their motivation. Iwaniec (2014) concludes that Polish students find English useful in job market and parents motivated their pupils to study the language. Comparing to Hungarian students' Polish students enjoy less studying English language meaning their motivation is lower to learn the language and they put less effort into it. The study says how to create higher motivation towards the language is to build positive image of students as English learners, but the students are aware of the importance of English language and the opportunities knowing the language can bring to their future job wise in Poland and abroad. Students living closer to the borders have more motivation to learn the language due to contact with foreign students.

Influence of English on Polish
Polish has been influenced back in the 18th and 19th century when the boarders for the West opened. In 2006 Mańczak-Wohlfeld collected and analysed about 1700 words being borrowed from English language to Polish. There are five different lexical borrowings of English language to Polish and some borrowed words are the same at their origin such as sweater (sweter), joystick (dżojstik). Polish started borrowing words from English same as the other languages. Other words that are the same in both languages are e-mail, router and laptop and they are from computing words genre. Nowadays people tend to fit English words in Polish sentences, so it is quite common to hear some English words while walking around Polish streets.