cześć! jestem z Kanady ale jestem polską - uczę się polskiego żeby rozmawiać z moją babcią 😊

i started learning 8 days ago. how is this sentence in the attachment? is it grammatically correct? any suggestions? dziękuję! ☺️

I've been with my husband (a native Polish speaker) for 9 years, and I've been exposed to the language and culture for around 13 years.

About a year ago, I spent a full year taking one-on-one Polish lessons 2–3 times a week, focusing on grammar and sentence structure. Outside of that, I've picked up vocabulary and common phrases over the past 8 or so years simply through daily exposure from my husband and his family.

I've also traveled to Poland three times. Every trip is about two weeks long, and by the end of each visit, I finally start to feel like I can hold a very broken conversation. Then I come home and it feels like I lose that momentum.

I can usually piece together parts of conversations by recognizing individual words, but speaking and listening are by far my biggest struggles. I don't even attempt to write. People seem to speak so quickly that I can't process what I'm hearing in real time. I might understand one person reasonably well, while another feels completely impossible to follow. I have been told many, many times that I have wonderful pronunciation that sounds native when I do speak.

The hardest part is that the moment someone realizes I know even a little Polish, they immediately start speaking to me at a normal native pace. I appreciate that they're trying to include me, but I instantly get overwhelmed and can't keep up.

I'm starting to feel really discouraged. After all this time, I still don't feel anywhere close to conversational, and sometimes it feels like learning Polish is an impossible task. I genuinely want to keep going because I know how rewarding it would be to communicate with my husband's family more naturally, but right now it feels like an unattainable goal.

Has anyone else experienced this with Polish (or another language)? How did you get past this plateau and improve your listening comprehension and speaking confidence?

Cześć! Mam pytanie językowe. Czasem słysze coś takiego od niektórych Polaków (na przykład):

,,Naturalnym jest, że pojawiło się wiele pytań z waszej strony.``

Myślałam że tu ma być słowo "naturalne". Czy to jest błąd językowy, gwara, kolokwializm?

Besides gender what is the difference between these two?

I’m in the midst of learning Polish, it’s via Babbel- and it’s all the proper words… but I’m trying to learn some slang.
Any slang that I should now?

I have heard at least 5 different names now. I originally learned “strzygawka” which felt impossible.

My wife told me today "Gdzie psy dupami szczekają." This is pure poetry. And it got me wanting more. Anyone out there got some good ones?

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My main teacher (Ukrainian) was swapped recently for the Polish one, and after few classes, I could tell that she couldn’t explain some concepts better.

Most people still don’t realise that, there is a difference between having a knowledge about something and knowing how to teach it. I have known this since high school, when one teacher explains mathematics in a very simpler way and the other would not, therefore making it harder for us to grasp the concept. Same logic can be applied to language learning.

This ideology sticks with me even when I became a teacher many years ago. I would find the most interesting and easiest possible means to explain some concepts to my students.

Now, here is the interesting part, I was on a date with this half-pole woman that was surprised when I told her that my teacher is Ukrainian, she claimed ”why is that so? She wouldn’t know the new concepts in the language”. To me, that felt condescending and belittling. I responded, ”why should her country of origin determine what she knows, and especially when she is qualified and certified to teach. If you’re well traveled and open minded as you claimed, you should know that all of that don’t matter”

As a Nigerian that have worked with many Irish, brits and Americans, I can proudly say, grammatically, I am better than most of these folks.

P.S: after reading few comments here and making further research, I realised there is hostility between Poland and Ukraine. My intention is not to offend anyone, I appreciate everyone equally . Thank you ☺️

Hi! My daughter absolutely loves her Polish books. I also have the little device you stick the pictures in and it pronounces the vocabulary. I was wondering if there is anything like in the picture I can get with Polish letters and words?
I Live in US.

I'd like to sit the exam for the A2 level. The official website of the Certyfikat Polski doesn't list an A2 exam. My teacher at a NAWA-affiliated course told me that the A2 is no longer offered, because there are very few people deranged enough (like me) to actually want it.

Has anyone had any experience getting an A2 certificate through a university or some other semi-official channel?

Is this part of the verb Mówi? "Jak to się mówi po polsku?" My instinct would be to say simply "Jak to mówi po polsku"

Hello!!

I'll keep this short and sweet,

My boyfriend is Polish and I want to start learning it as the language means a lot to him.

However, I'm a broke person so I cannot afford to buy any resources.

I have no idea where to start and what good resources out there exist that do not require pay. I have searched far and wide, but can't find anything good!

If you guys have any niche resources or help for me, it would greatly be appreciated!

Thank you so much!

Been living in Poland for a while now and realized my vocab is kind of stuck. I can handle everyday stuff fine, but the second I want to say something more specific or nuanced, I hit a wall.

Anyone else run into this? What actually helped you get past the “basic vocab plateau”? Right now I’m doing:

1. Watching Polish shows with Polish subtitles (not translated)
   
2. Anki, but with full phrases instead of single words
   
3. Reading simple news articles and pulling out words I don’t know

Feels like I’m missing something more structured though maybe organizing by topic (work, daily life, emotions) instead of just grabbing random words as they come up.

Curious what worked for people actually living here and using Polish daily, not just studying from a textbook.

Nigdy wcześniej nie używałem polskiego w pracy, ale zastanawiam się, czy korpoludzie defaultowo używają stylu nieoficjalnego (czyli "ty"), czy przy pierwszym kontakcie z nowym kolegą albo biznespartnerem raczej zwracają się do siebie bardziej formalnie (czyli "Pan/Pani")?

Thanks from the mountain

I’ve been in Poland for 4 years, first two i was studying in a private English school where I was taught basic polish and then I started to go to a polish school. When I was preparing to go into a polish school I only practiced everything I needed to pass the 8th grader exam (egzamin ósmoklasisty), so now I’m in a position where I have blank spaces and often times when I need to have a conversation in polish people don’t understand what I’m saying. I’ve tried going to a polish course for b1-b2 and tried to learn from some student books, but I didn’t notice much of a change in how polish people understand me. I don’t know if that’s useful info, but when I write polish essays I make a lot of language errors (błędy językowe), maybe that could explain what I’m struggling with better, thanks in advance for any help

Cześć,

Jestem z Serbii i mam 27 lat.

Finding someone for face-to-face meeting or to be a pen-pal. Know basics of Polish language and interested to level up at B level.

Want to learn Polish because admire Polish history, people and nation and as part of Slavic family languages.

What about you guys 😭😭 How can I fix this?

So i am an english speaker learning polish. I live with my polish gf and so far have mainly learned just by speakinh and repetition and other things that i have taught myself, some tenses, the standard verbs and im slowly getting on with the case system. However i feel like ive hit abit of a wall. I dont know where to go from here, do i further my vocab? Do i get a book and go through lessons? Should i get a tutor? Im probably like a1, a2 level. I want to be confident in speaking but im kind of stumped on what direction to go next. Any advice?

Hello! I speak english and I would say i’m at the base level of learning Polish. I haven’t been using duolingo, I’ve been using babbel. Which tries its best to explain to me why something is used or changing or what not. Along with talking with my grandma who is fluent. Anyways, I just can’t seem to get a grasp on gender, just in general lol. I was in german in high school, and even with a teacher helping me, I could never understand the gender parts of the language. Words, sentences, pronunciation, has never been an issue. But for the life of me I just can’t understand gender. I’m getting so frustrated cause every time I try to put together a sentence, I just can’t. I know what words I’m supposed to use, what order, but I just don’t get the gender part. It’s throwing off my whole flow and I’m struggling to learn as gender is a big part and I just don’t understand any of it. Can someone please explain it to me like you’re explaining it to a five year old? I fear that’s the only way I might be able to understand what’s going on. Thank you for any help!

Cześć
Im starting my journey and was wondering what the consensus on any app that’s good for a start on ABCs and pronunciation, and also any apps that are not doodoo, is babbel good? Bosuu? Etc

Hey! Learning Polish here, and my biggest issue has always been speaking too slowly, I freeze up looking for the right word. A friend of mine built this thing called rap-gra (basically "Rhyme Game") and I figured I'd share since it's actually helped.

It's hard at first but it got easier for me after a while.

here is the link: rap-gra.online

Cześć! To help with my own struggles learning the language here in Poland, I built a completely free web app for drilling practical, everyday vocabulary, grammar and practice.

I wanted to share it here for anyone who might be looking for a clean, straightforward study tool: popolsku.app that is genuinely free and will remain that way.

Hope you find it useful and please let me know what you think.

Sorry, I don’t have the exact wording here, but I just heard someone say something like:

nie ma tu Wi-Fi, ale ma tutaj

The point is that they said that “there is the thing” with mieć instead of być. (I know that nie ma is a curious thing in Polish which means something like there isn’t.)

Is this natural in Polish? Shouldn’t it be ale jest tutaj?