#learn polish

[nearlydark]

Finally after years of like…needing my notes to be a certain way I have let go and embraced chaos (but planned). I think my biggest gripe w learning languages is the amount of resources and how to properly track what you’re learning from where but at the end of the day it’s all going to the same place (my brain) so who fucking cares??? So right now my system is to just chug along in this book and use duolingo for practice, maybe some YouTube channels for more listening practice/understanding but have it all in this notebook. Wish me luck 🇵🇱

[strawberrymleko]

Week 1: Apr 28 - May 4 🦋

Polish 🇵🇱

Duolingo Units 1-6: basic greetings, basic verbs, some basic use of accusative and instrumental cases, people, food

Colloquial Polish Units 1-3: basic greetings, a few verbs, basic questions, accusative case

Clozemaster

Watched Dzień Świra on yt with English subtitles

Put all new words into flashcards

Russian 🇷🇺

Clozemaster

Ukrainian 🇺🇦

Clozemaster

Pics: Rose Garden near the Natural History Museum in LA 🌹

[pol-ski]

Noun genders in Polish | Polish for Beginners

[langguessr]

You can now learn languages with LangGuessr! Pick your level from 1 to 20, from the most common to the most obscure words, translate the words you know and memorise the ones you don't.

This is a learning method I developed to work best for myself, if it works for any of you then all the better!

List of languages currently available (more coming soon!):

- Bosnian - Bulgarian - Catalan - Croatian - Czech - Dutch - Esperanto - Finnish - French - Galician - Georgian - German - Greek - Hebrew - Hungarian - Italian - Kabyle (Berber) - Latin - Lithuanian - Mandarin - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Serbian - Spanish - Swedish - Turkish - Ukrainian - Yiddish

[gardens-and-cats]

Polish pronunciation tips

Pronouncing trzy (three):

If you're struggling with this, it may be because you're trying to say it like t-rzy, when really it is said t-szy. This is because putting an unvoiced consonant before a voiced one causes devoicing, so the consonant cluster becomes unvoiced. If you don't know what voicing in consonants is:

So a word such as żabka ("froggie", also the name of a major retailer) is said like żapka. Another thing to note is that the t in trzy must be pronounced distinctly and not said as if the word is czy (if, or, question marker).

Ę and ą - why do they sometimes sound like e and o?

A development in the Polish language is the loss of nasalization on ę and ą, particularly at the ends of words. This isn't universal across Poland, but it will be common enough that you should know it.

Ę and ą are nasalized except for when at the end of words. So mężczyzna (man) is said menżczyzna but piję (I drink) is pronounced like pije. Likewise, skąd (from where) is said skond but piją (they drink) like pijo.

[languah]

Family Vocabulary in Polish

All vocabulary comes from Polish English Visual Dictionary and Polishpod101. I have started to take this language more seriously and plan to post a vocab list weekly. Eventually I will post about grammar as well so keep an eye out.

rodzina, family

babcia, grandmother

dziadek, grandfather

wujek, uncle

ciotka, aunt

ojciec, father

matka, mother

kuzyn, cousin

brat, brother

siostra, sister

synowa, daughter-in-law

syn, son

wnuk, grandson

wnuczka, granddaughter

córka, daughter

zięć, son-in-law

mąż, husband

żona, wife

teściowa, mother-in-law

teść, father-in-law

szwagier, brother-in-law

szwagierka, sister-in-law

siostrzenica, niece

siostrzeniec, nephew

krewni, relatives

rodzice, parents

wnuki, grandchildren

macocha, stepmother

pasierb, stepson

pokolenie, generation

dziadkowie, grandparents

dzieci, children

ojczym, stepfather

pasierbica, stepdaughter

partner, partner

bliźnięta, twins

niemowlę, baby

dziecko, child

chłopiec, boy

dziewczynka, girl

nastolatek/ak, teenager

dorosły, adult

mężczyzna, man

kobieta, woman

pani, mrs

pan, mr

panna, miss/ms

chłopak, boyfriend

dziewczyna, girlfriend

para, couple

narzeczony, fiancé

narzeczona, fiancée

narzeczeni, engaged couple

młodsza siostra, younger sister

młodszy brat, younger brother

starszy brat, older brother

prababcia, great-grandmother

[lipowanoc]

Months: September means Wrzesień

The month September is called wrzesień in Polish language. The name comes from the name of a heather - in Polish wrzos.

As you can see by now, you can create a name for a month by adding the ending -eń or -ec to the characteristic occurence that mark these season. Thats rule applies to:

-EŃ ending: styczeń, kwiecień, sierpień, wrzesień, grudzień

-EC ending: marzec, czerwiec, lipiec,

OTHERS: luty, maj, październik, listopad,

(I'll cover the upcoming months in separate posts)

The adjective of wrzesień is - wrześniowy/a/e. And some examples:

Wrześniowe niebo - September sky

Wrześniowy wypad w góry - September excursion in to the mountains

Kampania wrześniowa - September Campaign of 1939. Note that the adjective comes second, as it is the proper name of the historical event. I wrote about it in one of the previous posts.

[melancholic-academic]

Chcę nauczyć się języka polskiego

Jestem Amerykaninem. Mieszkam w stanach zjednoczonych. Bardzo chciałbym nauczyć się języka polskiego, ale powiedziano mi, że jest to trudne. Radzę sobie tylko z Tłumaczem Google, nawet z niego korzystam w tym poście i wiem, że nie jest on zbyt dokładny, ale liczyłem, że dostanę jakieś wskazówki, jak uczyć się polskiego.

Czy ktoś ma jakieś rady lub sugestie dotyczące nauki języka polskiego? Jest to bardzo cenione! Dziękuję!

[njeha]

15.10.2023 polish vocabulary

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złamać komuś serce - to break someone's heart

wypłakiwać sobie oczy - to sob one's heart out

oddać komuś serce - to give one's heart to somebody

podbić/zdobyć serce kogoś - to capture/win somebody's heart

skraść komuś serce - to steal somebody's heart

z ciężkim/lekkim sercem - with a heavy/light heart

droga do jego/jej serca - the way to his/her heart

współczuję mu z całego serca - my heart goes out to him

z całego serca - from the bottom of one's heart

otworzyć przed kimś serce - to open one's heart to somebody

brać coś sobie do serce - to take something to heart

iść za głosem serca - to follow one's heart

kochać kogoś całym sercem - to love somebody with all one's heart

pragnąć z całego serca, żeby... - to wish with all one's heart that...

nie mam do tego serca - my heart is not in it

być bliskim sercu kogoś - to be close/dear/near to somebody's heart

nie mieć serca coś zrobić - to not have the heart to do something

nie mam serca odm��wić - i didn't have the heart to refuse

mieć miękkie/dobre serce - to have a soft/kind heart

mieć serce jak z lodu - to have a cold heart

nie mogłem się zdobyć na wybaczenie im - i couldn't find it in my heart to forgive them

rozmyślić się - to have a change of heart

stracić ducha/otuchę - to lose heart

głowa do góry! - take heart!

[polish-langblr]

Words I easily mix up

stół - table

sounds similar to the english word "stool", so I usually assume chair

Masculine, inanimate noun

Declension:

case - singular (table) - plural (tables)

Nomnative - stół - stoły

Gentive - stołu - stołów

Dative - stołowi - stołom

Accusative - stół - stóły

Instrumental - stołem - stołami

Locative - stole - stołach

Vocative - stole - stoły

source: wiktionary

[abnomi]

been trying to get back into animation

original gif below ^^ teehee!

[nearlydark]

I just went down a rabbit hole of new (to me) language learning resources since I’ve been away from the community for some time and holy shit there are some really cool things?? This app/site Clozemaster seems pretty helpful; you fill in a word in a sentence, each language seems to have 10k+ sentences, but I guess it’s better to know the basics in a language before doing this (I can get by in Polish on there rn basically from knowing Russian and Ukrainian lmfao but otherwise I would have no clue on most of the words). I also found Readlang, which would be pretty helpful when trying to read an e-book bc you can see the translation right there on the page (I was basically doing this for Russian; downloading pdfs of books and highlighting words I didn’t know and then looking them up lmfao fuck). Technology is amazing sometimes

[strawberrymleko]

Dzień Świra (2002) (Day of the Wacko)

I really enjoyed this movie. It’s a Polish dark comedy of a few days in the life of a guy with severe OCD. Very well done; I could really feel how stuck he was due to his compulsions and the sensory triggers.

Link here on YT with English subtitles 💗

[tkpolski]

Mastering Polish CDs?

I rented this book by Albert Juszcsak from the library, but it doesn't have the CDs with it. I figure it's a long-shot, but does anyone know where I could find the audio online?? Dziękuję!

[kasdim]

The "Carrie" scene is fire and i want more of that fucked up Cassandra's face. Terrifying. Thank you Avia Team fot this incredible game.

(I need to finish other routes and make a gazilion fan arts. Because there was some art demon inside me when I drew this.)

[tangled-pixel-harpsichord]