Chill out
There's no point interrupting the person you're talking to just to tell them it's “w każdym razie”, not “w każdym bądź razie”, or that it's “jest napisane”, not “pisze”.
Focus on the message.
And sometimes you'll write “ludzią” instead of “ludziom”, and so what. No need to call it out.
- poszłem
- weszłem
- po najmniejszej linii oporu
- lubieć
- najbardziej optymalny
- półtorej roku
- dwutysięczny dwudziesty trzeci
Every item above has a mistake in it, but it doesn't matter one bit. The meaning comes through just fine. Language keeps evolving, getting more economical and picking up lots of handy foreign words.
I know Poles aren't geese, but our Polish is full of English: we have benefits, go for lunch and do research. We work at startups, in an open space, hooked up to the router over Wi-Fi, we have video calls, targets and tasks due ASAP, and at the standup we talk about our weekend hobbies.
Sometimes someone says AY-pul instead of AP-ul (Apple) or BLEK instead of BLAK (Black), and that's cool too. Don't insist on being a native speaker to communicate effectively. After all, communicating is all that matters here.
So eat your krołsanciki and chill out.
An international crowd
When I came to Denmark five years ago to visit a company I'd just started working with, I was standing in the kitchen making myself a coffee. People started coming up to me, from all sorts of countries, to say hi and chat, curious about who I was.
Back then I thought my English was pretty decent. After all, I'd worked abroad before and done a student exchange in Ireland.
It turned out, though, that almost everyone spoke fluent English with a beautiful accent. Some of them talked so fast I had trouble keeping up.
In a situation like that, does anyone care that I made a grammar mistake, mixed up a tense or mispronounced a word? Absolutely not. Everyone focused on what I was trying to say, not on how well I was managing to say it.
Their sophisticated vocabulary still surprises me, and I pick up loads from everyday conversations. Honestly, I really envy how easily they communicate in a foreign language.
But it works the other way too. People with strong accents, say from Portugal or Greece, just chat away, well or not so well, without any stress, saying whatever comes into their heads.