#polish course

[askepka]

Hei hei :)

short version: if you need any help with Polish - I’m a native speaker and I am offering my help :)

long version: under the cut

  Since Duolingo recently released Polish course many people that wanted to learn Polish now started and I guess, as it is a difficult language, some may need some help or additional info. Probably as it’s not so popular language you may have problems with finding someone fluent in the language - I’m a native speaker and I will gladly help :) I’m not a professional by any means but I’m pretty sure that for basic to intermediate level I know enough :)   On this blog I don’t post any polish things (only fun facts if any) but if you guys will be interested I may start a blog for polish learners where I could answer more questions, maybe put some lessons and maybe even videos if there will be bigger interest :)

[mekkila]

Hi everyone! I promised that I will give you new theory material, but before -  I want to put one polish song on with translation of the first tranza and of the refrain (I did my best!). I hope it will help you with pronunciation and that you will know much more words than earlier ♥

So click ‘play’ and look below!

There is a stars’ carousel behind the window after midnight 

I’m in life’s curve, it just happened

‘You have also the following day to use’ - they console me...

They say‘be strong’ ‘you have to be brave’

You need to begin everything again you have to close the door

I’m not going to thank you 

Everything burned - ashes and smoke

If it doesn’t kill me it will make me stronger

I feel shame that I trusted you

You need to stay alive without any tearafter this night

Without any tears - How? How? How! Just this way!

Without any tears, you have to check if everything will be fine

There is a risk that everything’ll finish wrong!

I hope you enjoyed and that it will help you with learning. Good bye! ♥

[mekkila]

Introduce yourself!

Hi again! Today I'm going to show you how you say about yourself in polish + small dose of grammar. Take a look!

How can you say ,,My name is..."?

Nazywam się...

Moje imię to... (word for word)

And other expressions:

Jestem...           I am...

Pochodzę z...    I come from...

Jestem z...         I am from...

Jestem Polakiem* -  I am Polish. (male)

Jestem Polką**     -  I am Polish (female)

Jestem Anglikiem. - I am Enlgish (male)

Jestem Angielką.  - I am English (female)

Jestem Niemcem. - I am German (m)

Jestem Niemką.    - I am German (f)

Jestem Japończykiem. - I am Japanese. (m)

Jestem Japonką.  - I am Japanese (f)

* ablative form from Polak (polish for males)

** ablative form from Polka (polish for females)

Lubię + accusative  -  I like sth

Mam x lat  -  I am x years old.

Gram na pianinie. - I play on piano.

Gram na gitarze. - I play on guitar.

Mam brata. Nazywa się... - I have one brother. His name is...

Mam siostrę. Nazywa się... - I have one sister. Her name is...

Mam dwóch braci. - I have two brothers.

Mam dwie siostry. - I have two sisters.

Mam dwóch braci i siostrę. - I have two brothers and one sister.

Jestem jedynakiem. - I am an only child (m)

Jestem jedynaczką. - I am an only child (f)

Moja rodzina jest duża. - My family is big.

Moja rodzina nie jest duża. - My family isn't big.

Mam czarne* włosy - I have black hair.

* or brązowe (brown), blond (blond), ciemne (dark), jasne (fair) kolorowe (colorful) krótkie (short) długie (long) proste (straight) kręcone (curly)

Mam niebieskie* oczy. - I have blue eyes.

* or brązowe (brown), czarne (black) czerwone (red) zielone (green) piwne (hazel)

Jestem wysoki - I am tall (male)

Jestem wysoka - I am tall (female)

Jestem niski - I am low (m)

Jestem niska - I am low (f)

Jestem chudy - I am thin (m)

Jestem chuda. - I am thin (f)

Jestem gruby. - I am fat (m)

Jestem gruba. - I am fat (f)

Nationalities:

  Male                female              where from

Polak               Polka                from Poland

Niemiec            Niemka             from German

Włoch             Włoszka            from Italy

Japończyk      Japonka             from Japan

Norweg           Norweżka           from Norway

Anglik             Angliczka            from England

Litwin              Litwinka              from Lithuania

Rosjanin         Rosjanka            from Russia

* (m) - for males

   (f) - for females

Oczy (eyes) and włosy (hair) are plural in polish and adjective has ,,plural form" (brązowe instead brązowy etc). This plural form is nearly always the same like  neuter form, for example: 

- Małe oczy. (Little eyes)          Małe jajko. (Little egg)  egg = neuter

- Zdrowe dzieci. (Healthy children)    Zdrowe ciało. (Healthy body)

- Kolorowe sukienki (Colorful dresses)  Kolorowe lato (Colorful summer)

It's all for today. I hope it'll help you understand and know polish language. See you later!

If I Made some mistakes it would be nice if you correct me. I don't want to hurt so beautiful language!

And remember: Only the person who believes in himself or herself can achieve huge wonderful success.

Have a nice day!

[mekkila]

Food

Today I will show you vocabulary, grammar and verb conjugation (jeść). Have you ever wonder what is ,,milk" in polish? Or maybe you know it? If you didn't: You'll learn new polish words in this post and much more. Come in!

So first look below:

kanapka - sandwich

chleb - bread

masło - butter

miód - honey

mleko - milk

ziemniaki - potatoes

widelec - fork

łyżka - spoon

herbata - tea

kawa - coffee

szklanka - glass (vessel)

filiżanka - cup 

pieprz - pepper

sól - salt

truskawki - strawberries

maliny - raspberries

jabłka - apples

zupa - soup

zupa pomidorowa - tomato soup

rosół - broth

talerz - plate

picie, napój / napoje - drink / drinks

jedzenie - foods

kurczak - chicken

ryby - fish (plural)

Second item, that you've reached to, is noun's declension.

If you want to say that you like something or eat something, this 'something' have to be used in accusative. 

It's the reason to show you above nouns on accusative.

I'll write it in the earlier order:

kanapka ----> kanapkę

chleb ----> chleb

masło ----> masło

miód ----> miód

mleko ----> mleko

ziemniaki ----> ziemniaki

widelec ----> widelec

łyżka ----> łyżkę

herbata -----> herbatę

kawa -----> kawę

szklanka ----> szklankę

filiżanka ----> filiżankę

pieprz ----> pieprz

sól ----> sól

truskawki ----> truskawki

maliny ----> maliny

jabłka ----> jabłka

zupa ----> zupę

zupa pomidorowa ----> zupę pomidorową

rosół ----> rosół

talerz ----> talerz

picie, napój / napoje ----> picie, napój / napoje

jedzenie ----> jedzenie

kurczak ----> kurczaka

ryby ----> ryby

ryba ----> rybę   (fish(singular))

You probably noticed that some nouns don't change themselves. It's good news! But what is the rule of it? So you maybe know that feminine is nearly always ended by 'a' and as 'zupa' changed to 'zupę' as most of femines changed themselves.

And rosół (broth) is masculine and it didn't change. Jedzenie (food) is neuter and it didn't change. Ziemniaki are plural and didn't change. But 'łyżka' transformed to 'łyżkę' cause it is feminine.

It isn't only rule. Did you realise every 'a' is replaced by 'ę'? (herbata - herbatę) It's the second rule.

Exceptions:

Alas! We have exceptions like every other language. Some of them appeared above. Look:

sól (femine) ----> sól   (it's little nice exception)

kurczak (masculine) ----> kurczaka 

I won't show you more: today topis is 'food' and we don't have many exceptions here.

Third item for today is verb ,,jeść" (eat). When you want to say you eat something or you are eating something you use transformed verb:

Ja (I)                        jem

Ty (You)                  jesz

On (He)                   je

Ona (She)               je

Ono (It)                    je

My (We)                  jemy

Wy (You - plural)     jecie

Oni (They)              jedzą

Jem kurczaka - I am eating a chicken.* or I eat a chicken.

Jesz rybę?  -  Are you eating a fish?

Jesz ryby? - Are you eating fish? or Do you eat fish?

Lubię jabłka. - I like apples.

On je kanapkę. - He eats sandwich or He's eating sandwich

Jemy ziemniaki. - We eat potatoes. or We're eating potatoes.

Oni jedzą truskawki. - They eat strawberries or They're eating                                                    strawberries.

! We don't use "a", "an" and "the" in polish (We don't have something like that in our language)

More natural in Poland is when you skip persona in sentence (not all, but Ja, Ty, My, Wy and On/Ona/Ono somethimes either). It doesn't sound good when you skip Oni or On or Ona or Ono (but these three last not always), so It'd better if they are in the sentence.

It's all for today. I hope you understand everything what I showed and that you like this language.

Remember - Who you are doesn't decide if you are succeed or not. This one what decide is if you give up or not.

If I made some mistakes in English - correct me please! I want to improve my abilities and give you more faultless text next time. I'd be very appreciate!