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Living in Poland with mixed expat/local circles, I’ll say meetups crush for speed. But online lets me cross languages gently. I open in English, switch to Polish if they’re comfy, and drop a video invite fast. When I say “Thursday, 18:30, Nowy Świat, 45 minutes,” yes/no happens quickly and ghosting disappears.
17Fellow Pole here. What helped me in Rio was treating Portuguese like a warm-up, not a performance. I’d open with “Oi, tudo bem? Posso falar devagar?” and then switch to simple English when I got stuck. Açaí + short beach walk didn’t read cheap; it read practical in the heat. Confirm same-day because plans shift. If she says “vamos ver,” I reply with two options, then I let it go.
27She kept answering FaceTimes from “clients” mid-sushi, then tried to recruit me into her “wellness downline” with a starter kit in her tote. When I declined, she told the server to separate checks because I “lacked abundance mindset.” I biked home, ate cereal, and thanked my chain lube for never trying to upsell me.
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