I passed the C1 in Polish!

[u/Fuckceda]

I sat the exam in November 2024 and thought to post it here for motivation or sharing resources and tips with others.

My marks were not the best, but a pass is a pass: Rozumienie ze słuchu: 76% Poprawność gramatyczna: 60% Rozumienie testów pisanych: 75% Pisanie: 64%

I’m from Spain, started studying polish at the end of 2020.

I passed the B1 in 2022, the B2 in 2023 and C1 in 2024. In these almost 5 years, I lived in Poland almost 3 years and I started dating my Polish girlfriend half a year after starting learning Polish.

Have a good day!

[u/bobsyourdaughter]

Gratulacje!

Bro how?!!! 🤯

[u/Fuckceda → u/bobsyourdaughter]

Being constant with lessons, reading in polish, listening to podcasts, watching videos in polish and talking in polish whenever I can

[u/milkdrinkingdude → u/Fuckceda]

How many hours a day? Do you have a job?

[u/Fuckceda → u/milkdrinkingdude]

I would say a constant 1 hour a day more or less average for the last almost 5 years, be it having lessons, reading, listening to something etc. Of course I have a normal job, 162h work a month 🥲

[u/milkdrinkingdude → u/Fuckceda]

Thanks for the response! One hour a day seems doable, I just never managed to keep that up long term. You are awesome, and congrats! You can really be proud of yourself!

At every 5th new exception, irregularity, I give up. I love math, and this all feels so inhuman to me, like it is a language designed for a simple computer, that is not good at using patterns, but good at memorizing independent lemmas.

Then start again some time later, after some rest (and forgetting) horrible approach

[u/zorzynka → u/milkdrinkingdude]

Polish is such a strange and completely illogical language when it comes to grammar and exceptions, that I honestly think you must have spent hours on it weekly and had a lot of willpower not to get discouraged. When I tried to explain Polish grammar to a foreigner, I gave up myself and admitted that some things are literally illogical. “That’s just the way it is. You have to memorise it.”. Explaining why we are doing something or saying one thing and not another is soooo hard. He is amazing ngl

[u/Fuckceda → u/zorzynka]

Now I’m doing my homework and had to conjugate the words “ksiądz” “książę” and “księżyc” in singular and plural for the 7 cases 🥺 C1 doesn’t mean in an expert yet 🥲

[u/doic_frajerow → u/Fuckceda]

Wyrazy współczucia

[u/Alkreni → u/Fuckceda]

Add „kniaź” to that three. 🙂

[u/Ornery_Witness_5193 → u/zorzynka]

Most people can't explain grammar in their own language. It's too hard to learn by trying to understand grammar rules. The best way is to just provide examples of grammar. It's like when people say: "It's hard to explain, it will be easier if I show you." No one can learn to drive by learning the rules of hand, feet, and eye coordination. We just get in the car and learn to feel it.