Polish is a West Slavonic language with around 40 million speakers mainly in Poland but with large communities in the United States, Canada and Britain (more specifically in London and Chicago).
Test yourself on the Polish Colours.
Test yourself on the Polish words for fruits.
Test yourself on the Months.
A quick game to test yourself on the Polish Numbers from 1 to 10.
Test yourself on the Numbers 11 to 20.
Learn Polish and internalise the grammatical structures through sentences. Six hundred useful Polish Sentences covering the present and past tenses.
An extract from a Polish version of the Little Prince translated by Krystyna rodowska and published by parramón paidotribo,.
Kiedy miałem sześć lat, zobaczyłem pewnego razu wspaniały obrazek, zamiesz- czony w książce o dziewiczej puszczy, noszącej tytuł Historie prawdziwe. przedstawiał on węża boa, pożerającego jakieś dzikie zwierzę. A oto kopia tego rysunku:
When I was six years old, in a book about primeval forests, called 'True Stories from Nature', I saw a magnificant drawing. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.
Ojcze Nasz, któryś jest w niebiesiech,
święć się imię twoje;
przyjdż królestwo twoje,
bądż wola twoja,
jako w niebie tak i na ziemi.
Chleba naszego powszedniego daj nam dzisiaj,
i odpuść nam nasze winy,
jako i my odpuszczamy naszym winowajcom.
I nie wódż nas w pokuszenie,
ale nas zbaw ode złego
Amen
The language is inflected, nouns have three genders, and adjectives agree with nouns. So, for instance, 'Polish film(s)' may be 'polski film', 'polskiego filmu', 'polskim filmom' .. depending on the construction.
Possesives and personal pronouns also decline depending on number, case and gender. So 'my' can be 'moye, 'moich', 'moim', 'moimi' and 'moich' and so on.
A few first words. 1, A few first words. 2, A few first words. 3, Bathroom. Items, Bedroom. Items, Buying things. General phrases, Buyings things. Useful words, Countries, Communication problems, Conversation. Introductions, Conversation. Small talk. 1, Conversation. Small talk. 2, Conversation. Filler words, Conversation. Small talk. Sport, Conversation. Small talk. The weather, Days. General, Days of the week, Describing things. Colours, Describing things. Adjectives, Directions. 1, Directions. 2, Eating items, Eating phrases. 1, Eating phrases. 2, Emergencies, Family, Food and drink. General phrases, Food and drink. At the bar or café. 1, Food and drink. At the bar or café. 2, Food and drink. At the bar or café. 3, General phrases, Getting around. General phrases, Getting around. Train and bus, Getting around by taxi, Getting around by car, Health, Household items, Money, Months of the year, Numbers. 1 to 10, Numbers. 11 to 20, Numbers. 30 to 1000, Parts of the body, Places and buildings. 1, Places and buildings. 2, Question and size words, Somewhere to stay. 1, Somewhere to stay. 2, The house, Useful words to recognize, Words to do with food. General, Words to do with food. Fruit, Words to do with food. Meat.
Polish grammar written by yours truly.
A basic Polish grammar
A simplified table of Polish adjectival endings
Days of the week and the accusative
The instrumental case
Z followed by instrumental with examples
W followed by locative with examples
A Polish crossword with language suitable for beginners and an intermediale crossword with language suitable for more advanced learners. There is also a Word search.
Five hundred Polish sentences
Learn 200 of the most frequently used words in spoken Polish
Learn Polish verbs such as 'być' (to be), 'mieć' (to have) and 'móc' (to be able).
Polish Phrases ordered by topic.
polish.slavic.pitt.edu/firstyear Polish Grammar (in a nutshell).
BBC Polska - Polish radio - www.bbc.co.uk/polish
www.intopolish.com who did a great job for the translations in the Polish language course.
West Slavic
Czech
Kashubian
Polish
Silesian
Slovak
Sorbian
Belarusian
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Macedonian
Russian
Ukrainian