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My name is Jolanta Trzebuniak and I come from Poland. I live in the mountain resort, Zawoja, situated in the Beskid Mountains.

I have lived in Germany for about 1,5 year time, I worked in Rheda-Wiedenbruck, in the area of Luxembourg, in Cologne, Wiesbaden and Freiburg. I left in order to earn money. Through these leaves also could many interesting places such as the Cathedral in Cologne, and beautiful Renaissance great churches and museums.

And I must say that you can come to Germany as a tourist and visit this beautiful country.

Moreover after the arrival to Germany I was able to buy a car and pay for college. The biggest barrier after my arrival to Germany was the language. I had studied German in Poland, for about 4 years, but at school it sounded a little differently, each word was separate, clearly spoken.

However, it appeared that the Germans speak very quickly, with a different kinds of accent and words merge into one continious chain.

Only after two days I began to distinguish individual words in these statements and understood the context. Moreover, in everyday language are used a number of words that are not taught in science Hochdeutsch (the official German language). Additionally, for example, in the vicinity of Luxembourg or the Black Forest I came into contact with dialects, which also made communication difficult to me. However, after this first period, I must say that living in Germany is very different from the reality of Polish salaries. In Germany salaries are too or three times higher than in Poland, and prices for food, clothing, or the media are relatively on the same level, as in our country.

The largest group among foreigners, 1,7 million people, are Turkish, on the second place are the Italians (530 thousand). Therefore, prior to German politics and society is put the challenge of immigrants of integration. The hardest thing is to integrate people of different religion, especially Islam and those who do not know the German language and deploy them to the labor market so there they wiil not be a social burden to the community, but to assist them in the creation of the domestic product.

My friend, Beatrice, got married to Italian and now they have 4-year-old child, with whom they speak in Polish, Italian and German at home, but his level of German may be too weak to have found in a peer group and functioned well at school. Unfortunately, this is a very common problem of children from immigrant families. Beatrice said that didn’t want her child was pointing the finger at school and, therefor, decided to hire a German babysitter and asked her to talk to a child as much as it is possible. However, not all parents are so resourceful and caring, a lot of people come from countries with much lower levels of development, such as Romania or Africa, and if they did not help the German state, unfortunately, this can cause a lot of social pathology among adolescent foreign language youth. In Germany, it is expected in the near future network of caregivers who are helping children and young people from immigrant families in school and during training.

The area of Germany, is inhabited by about 82 million population, including only 1/5 in eastern Germany, on the territory of the former GDR. It is easy to see when coming to Germany, that in a society dominated quantitatively elder group. I could see this on the street, on trams, shops. A lot of old people are disabled and move by using special walkers and wheelchairs. In addition, there is a problem of very

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