Poles in other countries is as alien to me as my own moving around growing up. So not at all. Poles older than myself speaking the language of another country so as to be taken for a native is a a far less common occurrence in my experience. It’s interesting to see the tells of this cross-cultural code switching in her. She sounds like a native but is dressed like a Pole. And even though she uses all the right words and expressions the Polish mannerisms still shine through. .