Three smiling, positive-minded girls in the presented twenty-minute video give the first lesson in learning the Polish language. And it begins, of course, with the alphabet. In the form of a cheerful conversation and even a game, they focus the attention of the audience on the correct pronunciation of some complex sounds, especially paying attention to softness and melodiousness.
Girls won't make you difficult participial phrases And compound sentences. Their task is to give an idea of the simple spoken language, where it will be possible to communicate with an intelligent resident of Warsaw and with a simple Polish peasant and with a representative of the Catholic clergy. The knowledge gained during this lesson will definitely come in handy, but the lesson itself is quite interesting and fun. Watch the video “Polish language lessons for beginners” at good quality 720 HD. All materials from 2017 and 2018 are contained on Youtube.com and are available on our website without registration.
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When we were planning to go to Poland, we did not specifically teach Polish language. At first I had a small attempt to do something, “Polish for Russians,” I think that’s what it was called. I opened it, as it should be, on the alphabet and when I saw all these letters that were strangely pronounced, which had no analogues in the Russian language, I was horrified, closed it and decided that I’d better leave it, and, having arrived in Poland, I’ll start learning Polish language.
There were a couple of attempts to listen to some Polish speech or some lessons in the Polish language, and for some reason it seemed to me that it was very similar to Ukrainian, and if we came to Poland, we would be able to speak Ukrainian without any problems. But don't be mistaken, please, because the Poles don't understand at all Ukrainian language. We also encountered such a moment, it was like this for us, maybe for someone it was different, but when we were talking with the Poles and literally made a mistake in one letter or made a slightly incorrect emphasis, they absolutely could not understand what you were talking about at all we're talking about.
People of an earlier generation learned Russian in schools. This certainly helped us when we arrived, because older people could at least understand us, not talk, but understand. We were lucky that when we arrived, we met a lot of people from Ukraine and Belarus who speak Ukrainian and Russian. For the first few months, they went with us everywhere and translated everything. We are very, very grateful to them for this.
What helped me learn Polish. Of course, this is communication. We communicated with the Poles several times a week. We didn’t complete special courses, didn’t go to special schools, just lively communication with friends, listened to Polish speech, tried to repeat something. This allowed me, within three weeks, to at least understand what was being said. 70%-80% I have already begun to understand what we are talking about. For two months we listened and tried to say something. My advice to you: don’t be afraid to speak Polish! Ask your friends to correct you if you say something wrong, even if you don't know.
Although everyone has their own capabilities, it is very difficult when learning Polish to immediately start speaking correctly. Practice, practice and more practice! Two months later, we asked our friends to study Polish grammar with us. We took several lessons, but in this course we were recommended a wonderful book called “Zaczynam mówić po polsku”. This book has a wonderful overview of all the grammar. This book is only in Polish. The first two months when we arrived, Polish was already heard a little. We saw Polish signs, there was some communication in Polish in shops and with friends. I resorted to such a wonderful course as Polish in 7 lessons: http://speakasap.com/ru/polish-lesson1.html. I think it will be useful to you.
Of course, when you come to Poland and encounter the language, people, and culture here, it was much easier for me to accept this language and start studying it. I do not have the ability to study foreign languages; for me it is something very difficult. For me, mathematics, exact sciences, web design are easier, but by no means languages. This is something very difficult, very difficult for me. As far as I have read different books about learning languages, each person has his own abilities. For some it is easier to perceive by ear, for some it is easier to perceive certain images, for others associative thinking. You can read Polish books, watch films in Polish, talk, listen to some dialogues. Find a method that is more optimal and convenient for you. Another very wonderful book on Polish grammar is called “Ten ta to”. Another great course that was recently recommended to us is called “Polish in 4 weeks”. A wonderful book that can be downloaded on the Internet along with audio lessons. The book is based on dialogues on various topics. Dialogues are written that are very easy to understand. Then the grammar is written, and at the end of the word. You listen to the pronunciation, and before your eyes you have it all in written form. You can listen to dialogues on the road by repeating different words, or read on convenient devices.
If you found this video useful, please leave a like and comment! See you again! Bye!
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Considering that trade and tourism between Poland and the countries of the East (Ukraine, Belarus, Russia) are flourishing, more and more attention is being paid to the language of communication and business, and its popularity among Ukrainians is growing rapidly. We believe that learning Polish is extremely simple and does not require significant financial or time expenditure. The main thing is your motivation and desire to gain knowledge of the Polish language. The rest is up to us!
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Learning Polish through films, TV series and music
Many people consider the process of learning a foreign language to be quite difficult and even boring. However, today, in order to master another language, it is no longer necessary to sit for hours in front of textbooks and dictionaries, doing a lot of uninteresting exercises. It is quite convenient and at the same time exciting to learn a foreign language (including Polish) by watching films or TV series, or listening to songs in the original language.
This allows you not only to learn new words, but also to understand their correct pronunciation, intonation, stress, and examples of use in conversation. It is quite possible to gain a good knowledge of the Polish language through films, TV series and music, and the process itself will be interesting and fun. You can select a film or TV series in Polish to watch in the following articles:
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Fiction in Polish
If you have already acquired basic knowledge of the Polish language, it will be useful and interesting for you to try reading Polish fiction. Reading in a foreign language will not only consolidate the knowledge already acquired, but also deepen it as much as possible. As you read, you can trace the spelling of words, correct construction sentences, grammar of another language and the like.
We suggest starting with “The Little Prince” (Mały Książę) by Exupery, “A Christmas Carol” (Opowieść wigilijna) by Charles Dickens or, for example, “The Snow Queen” (Krolowa sniegu) by H.H. Andersen. Next we should move on to more complex works, we recommend the classics in this order: Arthur Conan Doyle “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (Pies Baskerville), Daniel Defoe “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” (Robinson Crusoe), Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (Portret Doriana) Graya), Mikhail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita" (Mistrz i Małgorzata) and Erich Maria Remarque "Three Comrades" (
And to be more precise, how force learn Polish on your own and, if possible, quickly at home.
Everyone and everything talks about motivation; on every corner of the World Wide Web you can find a coach, trainer, psychologist or some other specialist,
which will tell us all about motivation. I don’t know about you, but this doesn’t work very well for me. Perhaps I'm too lazy or skeptical, but I usually don't have enough time for a long time, or I don't start following the advice at all. I'm just reading in vain.
I am not a coach, not a psychologist, and most likely not even a specialist. I won't tell you how to force yourself to do something. at all. Get up early, do exercises, read a lot, don’t crack seeds with your teeth - that’s not what this article is about! No, I understand only one type of motivation - how to force yourself to learn Polish on your own.
How I had no motivation at all
I think I understand this only because of my own experience forcing yourself to learn Polish. Because I didn’t have the motivation, like you, dear readers, to go to Poland to study/work. I had no motivation at all. I went to my first lesson “with the company”, as they say, everyone went - and I went. Here, perhaps, I was a little motivated by the fact that the lesson was free.
Then I signed up for the course. How? I do not know. I decided to go best friend(in his words - just like that) - and I went tail. Also - just like that. It seemed to me that Polish was a very easy and funny language (it still seems that way sometimes). And I walked for three long months (or two?). And the friend stopped, who would doubt it. And all the castles in the air began to collapse. I realized that although I was interested in the language, I understood little. The Pole teacher rarely explained anything in such a way that everyone understood. Usually he just talked, we tried to do some exercises - and I often had a lot of questions at home about how and where I did it. Because there were no explanations for exceptions, because there were few examples, because... In general, I gave up.
Several months of complete absence of Polish practically erased everything from my mind.
That’s why “random” meetings with Polish people began. Either I found some old girly magazine in Polish at home (!), then someone posted some picture in Polish on VK, gave me songs to listen to, claiming that they were in Polish (but they were in Serbian). In general, life was slowly turning in the right direction.
How did motivation come about?
A friend of a friend of a friend asked me to study Polish with a girl. But before that, my friend said: “Place an ad on Desk, become a tutor.” To which I answered: “How??? I don’t know Polish at all!”
Polish was needed not for admission or anything like that, but so that when the family moved to Poland, the girl would not have stress, so that she would already know letters and some words. And so, having named a ridiculous price for the lesson (because I basically wanted to teach for free), I began to teach an eight-year-old girl, pretending with all my might that I knew the language. Deception, you say? The most real one. But it became my motivation.
You see, I hope that I am not the type of person who can pretend for a long time and take money for it. Therefore, from the first lesson I began to prepare like hell. I brought with me a bunch of materials I found on the Internet, a laptop with downloads (the girl’s favorite cartoon was “Koszmarny Karolek”), I crammed pronunciation, rules and words at home. I listened to cartoons a hundred times to know exactly what they were talking about, how to explain and translate them to a child. I didn’t study pedagogy, but my parents are teachers, and I knew some things just like that. The girl studied, in addition to Polish, three more languages, went to tennis and to the pool, so we spent a lot of time playing with her, playing in Polish. We staged theatrical productions with toys, where everyone spoke Polish, we drew fairy tales, where the characters learned the Polish alphabet, we watched cartoons and rewound to special interesting words and moments. We learned together.
Then another girl appeared and my self-confidence. The girl was much older, and we were already studying from a textbook that I kept after the course. And I memorized everything that was there, I explained the rules to myself, looked for them in other sources, bought myself other book sources - and was always ready for the lesson. Yes, I was sometimes caught off guard by questions like: “What is this called in Polish?”, but I knew the real teacher’s excuse: “Great question! Let this be your homework? Both their and my studies progressed at a frantic pace.
Poor girls?
What have I just told you? That at the beginning of my tutoring history I had no right to do this at all? Yes. Did not have. But I did, and I did, sometimes it seems to me, sometimes even better than now. Now I’m ready for almost any questions, I can chat in Polish for days, I’ll recite many grammatical rules from memory - but I’m unlikely to draw fairy tales in Polish or play theater with anyone. Although I still have a craving for this (forgive me, my dear students, when I get too carried away).
And now - how to quickly learn Polish on your own at home
You've already read how =)
But seriously, I’ll highlight everything point by point and add something else:
- Find someone to teach. This could be your own child, the child of your girlfriend or boyfriend, your husband/wife, brother/sister, parents - anyone with whom you are willing to spend an hour or two at least twice a week. By the way, I already mentioned children before.
- You can formulate the task for yourself differently - do not teach, but talk about what you yourself have learned, tell it so that it is like the joke: “Well, students are stupid! I explained and explained to them, I already understood, but they still didn’t understand.”
- If this is a child, arrange everything as a game, watch cartoons in Polish together, sing songs, read poems, make the Polish alphabet.
- Have a serious conversation with an adult, explain how important it is for you to learn Polish quickly, on your own, but with his help.
- If you already have some knowledge of Polish and feel like I once did, place ads, set a low price, indicate that you are teaching from scratch (or maybe mainly with children) - and start studying hard.
Responsibility motivates me very much. I think this is true for many people. Did you still do your coursework/diplomas on the last night before delivery? The deadline motivates, and responsibility. So it is here. I understand that if someone hires you for money, it’s terrible, what a responsibility, but also great, what motivation.
P.S. If after reading this article you want to unsubscribe from the newsletter/subscribe to the news because I have greatly disappointed you, that is your right. If you have angry comments about how I could deceive people like that, then re-read the article again, and then write a comment. And if you yourself have a similar story, I would be very glad to read it!
In general, the article is about how to deceive yourself and still force yourself to learn Polish on your own - but still with someone’s help. I hope that these many letters of mine will help you either decide on something, or sit down with your son/daughter new game called "Polish".
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What good youth! Think correctly, girls. I can retire peacefully.
I remember that we once talked about this topic and your story of learning the language became a kind of motivation. I decided, why don’t I try it?! My level of language knowledge has become higher, and there are +1 people among Polish language lovers :)
In general, everyone was satisfied.
Thank you, Ekaterina!
I had a similar experience. I learned Portuguese about five years ago and then there was very little European Portuguese material. It seemed unfair to me. I started blogging, translated articles and audio, reviews, lessons. I checked all the information very carefully. It seemed unacceptable to me to write something without checking it thoroughly. As a result, the level jumped very quickly, in a year and a half of self-study (+ constant conversations with a native speaker) I was able to pass the C1 qualifying exam! Since then I have had students and have been doing translations. I love Portuguese very much and now I use it to read science articles according to my profession) very good advice You gave great way!
Modern technologies offer a person ample opportunities for improvement and development in many areas of life. Education is no exception. Today a huge amount has been developed mobile applications, which allow you to study foreign languages in a convenient format and at any time. In our review we will talk about several programs that will help you learn and/or improve your Polish.
To improve your Polish language skills, you need not only theory, but also practice. Download applications, read, listen correct speech and, of course, talk.
NEMO
A free app that allows you to learn the most common Polish constructions and phrases. All words are pronounced by native speakers, so you simultaneously learn to perceive speech by ear and learn the correct pronunciation. To evaluate your progress, you can record phrases in the “Recording Studio” section. The program is designed for beginners, so you can learn the language from scratch.
iTalk Polish language
The program offers to study not just individual words, but entire phrases. Agree, learning phrases is more expedient and convenient, this way the connections are remembered better, and it also helps you feel the language, its structure, and construction. You can record and analyze your progress. You can also take Quiz tests every day and work on your mistakes.
FunEasyLearn
A convenient application that works without an Internet connection. There are three levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced. In total, the dictionary contains more than 6,000 words, which come with pictures and transcription, and are also voiced by native speakers. All words are divided into topics and smaller subtopics. You can learn vocabulary through games, which will especially captivate children. The program also offers various methods memorizing the material, practicing it and consolidating it.
We learn and play. Polish free
An excellent mobile Polish tutor for beginners. The application is more like a game with elements of learning phonetics and vocabulary. All words presented in the program are used in Everyday life, so that the student immediately learns the correct pronunciation, writing and listening comprehension of the new language. The application has visual and audio support. There are also tests and texts here.
Duolingo
A popular language application that is well-designed and understandable. This full course Polish for beginners, containing exercises for memorization and development of writing skills. The only negative is the interface on English language. However basic level English is enough to understand the material. But in fact, this will help you learn two languages at once: English and Polish.
Polish in 7 lessons
The application will help in as soon as possible Learn the basics of Polish from scratch. The course is very simple, logical and well structured. Includes audio and video materials with explanations, interactive exercises, tests. All lessons, with the exception of videos, are already in the program, so a constant Internet connection is not required.
L-Lingo
L-Lingo is 65 Polish lessons on basic topics (at home, at the airport, in the store, etc.). These are words and phrases that were written down by native speakers, and they are also clear pictures for remembering entire expressions. Some content is paid.
Rosetta Stone
If you want to learn Polish with full immersion language environment, then this application is indispensable. It suggests learning a language through association, repetition and communication. There is not a single Russian or English word, only Polish phrases and designs. With each new lesson the level of difficulty increases. There is paid content.
Learn Polish easily
A free Polish phrasebook that will help you learn basic words quickly and easily. All words presented come with the original pronunciation. Vocabulary is easy to memorize using flash cards. You can test your knowledge through quizzes and earn points. IN free version 11 categories for learning: basic dialogue, numbers, greetings and others.
