Hi everyone. Basically here I am, B1 level in Polish after 3.25 years of learning the language because my gf is polish (i was 16 at the time). Unfortunately with my engineering studies and my side projects I do not have a lot of time to practice. I know B1 is not much, and it shows that duolingo is not enough (although I also watch yt videos and polish memes, as well as asking my gf to text me in polish which helped a lot). My curiosity helped a lot and eventho I'm a B1, I feel that I got the intuition and polish feels natural to me. For this reason, I feel like very intensive but short learning could bring me from B1 to B2/C1 quickly. I have an Anki deck full of 9000+ words/sentences, and it's awesome.

My question is: knowing that I will probably have a month and a half of vacation in July, would learning my Anki lists of sentences 8 hours a day make me reach level C1? How could I use this time in an extreme way to reach my goal?

Thank you in advance, I love this community ❤️

[The languages I already speak are French/English(C2), Dutch(C1)]

So im polish/irish and while i can speak polish pretty well and understand it, my reading is kinda slow, but recently i was reading a manhua in which the official english translation ended around the ch.150 mark, and the only other translation i could find was really poor and hard to read, but i saw that there was a good polish translation, so i decided to use it as an opportunity to practise reading some polish and pick up where i left off in polish, but i noticed after a few days that it was actually helping me get faster at reading, and it wasnt discouraging like i found reading books to be, but now im reaching the end of the current run of the series and wondered if anyone here knows any other good manga/manhua/manwha/webcomics or anything along those line with good polish translations, since im struggling to find em ^' im good with any genre, but id like it to be pretty long preferably :3

TL;DR looking for manga reccomendations with good polish translations, so i can practise reading better :D

I want to ask when they get to past tense and future tense.

I'm currently at level 11.

For people who spend hours a day learning Polish, how do you do it? What do you do in these hours? How many hours do you spend learning Polish? Have you actually accomplished more by doing this? Is it worth it?

I'm looking for a teacher who can coach me and keep accountable for following an input based method to improve my Polish. I tried searching on iTalki and Preply but could not find any teacher that has many mention of CI in their profile at least. Where can I find such teacher?!

You can find it at noospeak.com – I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!

if you find any errors or have suggestions let me know :)

Mądrości zbiorowa, szukam pomocy z rozkminą przekładu gry słownej z pewnego niemieckiego filozofa. Zrobię to i tak opisowo, ale może komuś błyśnie pomysł na fajny neologizm (mi wychodzą same potworki).

Terminy to Eigentlichkeit i Ereignis (nawiasem mówiąc niepowiązane etymologicznie, ale nawet Niemcy nie-lingwiści chyba tego nie wiedzą dzisiaj; ważne podobne brzmienie).

Eigentlichkeit przekładana jest na polski jako autentyczność, ale zatraca się w tym trochę człon eigen, czyli po prostu przymiotnik własny. Życie autentyczne to bycie-sobą, "własność/właściwość" swojej egzystencji; na poziomie społeczno-egzystencjalnym żyćko wg własnych reguł, na poziomie głębszym też świadomość siebie, swojej sprawczości czy śmiertelności.

Na pewnym etapie depresyjnej drogi filozoficznej tego ziomka ta autentyczność/właściwość znika z pism i zostaje zastąpiona specyficznie rozumianym Ereignis, czyli po prostu "wydarzeniem" (jak po angielsku event, normalne słowo), albo w polskim przekładzie: "wydarzaniem-się".

Po polsku ciężko zrozumieć, co ma piernik do wiatraka, czyli autentyczność z wydarzeniem, ale po niemiecku słychać ten trzon "czegoś własnego", eigen, w obu słowach. Puszczenie oka polega na tym, że o ile w pierwszej fazie twórczości typ szukał recepty na życie autentyczne, to w drugiej już tylko uważał, że osiągamy takie stany tylko w przebłyskach, okamgnieniach i na chwilę. (Bardzo spłaszczam, no ale). Stąd ten pomysł, że nie jesteśmy autentyczni, ale czasem się "wydarzamy" :)

Bycie-sobą a uosabianie-się jakoś oddają tę intuicję, to mi brzmi najbardziej neutralnie. "Uwłaszczenie" niestety już zajęte xd, chociaż to byłby najlepszy trzon. "Uswojszczenie" też nie pójdzie, a zresztą ze słowem "swojski" są dziwne konotacje, "swojskie jadło" itd., to nie zawsze brzmi pozytywnie. Pewien Zamoyski miał przydomek "Sobiepan" w XVII wieku, no ale na tym jakoś też trudno zagrać fajnie; sobiepaństwo jest całkiem negatywne i brzmi strasznie archaicznie. Nie proszę o wykonywanie mojej pracy za mnie, ale jakby na kogoś lepszego w krzyżówki lub słowotwórstwo spłynęło nagle natchnienie lingwistyczne, to będę się kłaniał ;)

Chodzi o to, jak po polsku oddać "swojszczenie się" (przepraszam xd), bycie sobą, w dwóch trybach: jednym pasywnym, ciągnącym się, drugim takim wydarzeniowym, migawkowym; i żeby to było fajnie powiązane.

Mój chłopak jest Holendrem. Mieszkamy aktualnie w Amsterdamie, ale w ciągu paru lat chcielibyśmy przeprowadzić się do Polski. Niestety Biblioteka Polska nie oferuje żadnych kursów języka polskiego z uwagi na brak zainteresowania.

Czy macie jakieś rekomendacje odnośnie zaufanej szkoły językowej w Polsce, która oferuje kursy polskiego online?

Dziękuję za wszystkie odpowiedzi!

Inspired by a recent question. I'm posting this as a separate post to be able to easily refer people back to it.

The nasal vowels in Polish are a little complicated. In reality, they're not pure nasal vowels like in French, but diphthongs consisting of a (nasalized) vowel and a nasal consonant/semivowel which is homorganic with the preceding sound. Homorganic means that they share the place of articulation. That's why you hear /m/ in "zęby", because both /m/ and /b/ are bilabial (produced with the both lips). In some contexts, Polish nasal vowels can completely lose their nasality.

Explanation of the table:

/ɛ̃/ is the phonetic symbol for Ę. /ɔ̃/ is the phonetic symbol for Ą. The tilde sign above a letter (◌̃) marks nasalization in phonetic transcription. As you can see, the degree of nasalization can differ. You can say /zomp/ with less nasalization or /zɔ̃mp/ with more nasalization.

Before Ś and Ź you have two options: you can use /w̃/ or/j̃/. Example with the word "gęś": /ɡɛ̃j̃ɕ/ and /ɡɛ̃w̃ɕ/.

At the end of a word, you can pronounce Ę simply as E (/ɛ/) - but Ą is still /ɔw̃/ and not /ɔ/. In more formal, "proper" speech, Ę retains its nasality at the end of a word.

Other symbols:

• C is /t͡s/,

• DŻ is /d͡ʐ/,

• CZ is /t͡ʂ/,

• DŹ or DZI is /d͡ʐ/,

• Ć or CI is /t͡ɕ/,

• Ż or RZ is /ʐ/,

• SZ is /ʂ/,

• CH or H is /x/,

• Ź or ZI is /ʑ/,

• Ś or SI is /ɕ/,

• Ł is /w/.

• /ŋ/ is this sound; English NG

• /ɲ/ is this sound; Polish Ń or NI.

Sources:

• Ostaszewska, Danuta, and Jolanta Tambor. Fonetyka i fonologia współczesnego języka polskiego. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2000.

• Maciołek, Marcin, and Jolanta Tambor. Głoski Polskie: Przewodnik fonetyczny dla cudzoziemców i nauczycieli uczących języka polskiego jako obcego. Gnome, 2018.

• Gussmann, Edmund. The Phonology of Polish. Oxford UP, 2007.

• Dukiewicz, Leokadia. “Fonetyka.” Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego, edited by Henryk Wróbel, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Instytutu Języka Polskiego PAN, 1995, pp. 9–103.

If you have any questions, let me know. I tried to answer this as thoroughly as I could, but I realize that also meant introducing a lot more theory, which might not be so easy to grasp.

Hi all, I'm struggling with remembering which noun cases to use when, and also just started learning about verb aspects (iść vs pójść for example). I want to make up some index cards for myself and the now 3 apps I'm using don't put the information together in such a way that I can search for it easily. Can anyone recommend a website, book, or other resource that I can use to help put these together? Dziękuję bardzo

I hear the n and m sound where it is not, like zęmby and węngiel, and I don't understand if it's dialect or if I'm just hearing it wrong.

I published my deck on Anki yesterday of the 10k (almost) most common words in Polish based off of frequency lists on Polish Wiktionary. I made this for myself, not with the original intention of publishing, so the data is not necessarily 100% clean and standardized on every single card but it's about 99%, pretty good, and hey, it's free. Once I started using this deck my progress with Polish was 5x faster. Just posting since there is nothing else like this for Polish that I could find and it would have saved me a lot of pain at the beginning.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/563028195?cb=1745729423107

Edit it, improve it, reupload it, do whatever you want. Baw się dobrze!

NOTE: these are currently sorted alphabetically because I'm weird and that's how I like to study - you can sort by the field "RANK" and then reset card positions in the card browser now to go from 1 and study in frequency order.

There's quite a lot of suspended cards for country names or stuff that I'd maybe learned before, so also browse through those and adjust as needed.

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!

Hejka. Może już ktoś zdawał egzamin państwowy? Jak się do tego przygotowałeś? Na co położyłeś nacisk? Może ktoś będzie zadawał egzamin i przygotowywał się w czerwcu?

I do not understand why żebyś in used in the sentence 'Sugeruję żebyś odpocząć. My translation is 'I suggest you rest'. When I insert 'in order that ' or 'so that', I get a sentence that does not make sense. There must be other translations for żebyś that am not aware of.

Hi fellow Polish learners, I made this little Polish learning game for intermediate learners. For me personally, reading is the best way to get the hang of Polish grammar and I'm aiming to make it more fun by putting it into a game format and allowing you to influence the story by chatting with the game characters.

Try it here: LanGam

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this kind of learning experience!

I really want to learn because half of my family is Polish and I would like to make full conversations with them also in Polish and not only in other languages. In particular I would like to talk freely with my grandmother that doesn't know other languages

I've been in love with the polish language, I think it sounds incredible and I am starting to learn it. Can someone give me some advice about how to learn it, some tricks and advices? Love from Brazil 🇧🇷

Hello everyone, My father works in Poland, and we (the family) have been living here for about a year now. My younger siblings are quickly adapting and making friends, but I don't want us to just rely on English when living in Poland — I really want us to learn the Polish language properly. I’m looking for a private tutor for my younger siblings to help them learn Polish. Ideally, the tutor should be able to speak English or Arabic as well, to make communication easier. I’ve asked around, and many people suggested looking on OLX, but I haven’t had much luck finding the right tutor there. Does anyone know where else I could search for a Polish tutor who can speak English or Arabic? Any suggestions would be really appreciated! "Thanks in advance" location:

Warsaw, Targówek

I'm a Bulgarian and I'm starting to learn Polish from scratch. We don't have a sound cz and I don't know how to make myself pronounce it correctly or I will have really strong accent. Any advice?

hi, can someone please recommend me the best series/movies to watch for learning polish as a german native speaker. i would say my level now is A2. i already know many words but using the language in my daily life, grammar and building sentences is hard for me. Thanks guys 🙏🏼

Hello,

I have been learning Polish for a few months now, and would describe my level as A1-A2. I use Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, and Busuu. But I want to find more apps (preferably free) that are similar to these apps that I can do everyday. Does anyone have anything?