I am half Polish. They don't know that here. My name's not Polish or anything. It was my mother, she came here after the war. spoke Polish till I was six, baby Polish full of rhymes Mum taught me. Then my father put a stop to it. "You'll get her all mixed up, now she's going to school. What use is Polish ever going to be to her? can't speak it now. I've got a tape, a tape of me speaking Polish with Mum I listen, and I think I'm going to understand what we're saying, and then I don't.