I am Darek, and I hope that your polish will be better than my english is right now.
I know, I make a lot of mistake, sometimes I am not understandable, and I mess up with grammar. But I do my best and I believe myself. I wish you the same attitude :)
OPT? What is this?
I decided to create this simple blog for my friend. She thought that would be great (I guess) to learn some polish words and senteces. I told her - polish is immposible, and I am not sure if she is able to get it (but she seems to be smart ;) ).She is self-confident (we'll see how long :p ) so let's get it started.
She told me, there's no so much places and sources which could be helpfull for polish learning, so this is kinda Online Polish Textbook. It's free, simple, (and I believe) practical.
Everything you need is to read, do easy excersices, speak (more and more) - that might be enough to be able to talk on A1 level in a 3 - 12 months, it's depends on your personal skills, patience and engagement (good for start?)
And now, get your aaaaaa... I mean eyes (my first joke ;>), and prepare:
1. Sheet of paper - note and write a lot!
2. Google translator (you will see, how could you pronaunce words and simple sentences), speak, speak, speak (it must be in your nighmares! Strange polish phrases over and over)
The main rule of learning polish language
Don't ask yourself "why is that", don't ask me, don't try to understand grammar, forget about logical thinking. I mean in first weeks/months. Be like a little child which heards a lot of phrases and words, and try to understand a basic/whole meaning. You got it?Time when you will start with grammar will come some day, but now you need to understand, and be able to give an information (I guess a word feedback is popular in english language).
First polish lesson
I am gonna use your engagement, and try to teach you some basics.You have to know what you should to say to people, so let's start with greetings, and things like that. Don't try with next lesson if you will not get it in 100%, swear it to me!
Polish greetings (salutation?) / Polskie przywitania
Hi - cześć (to friends, people which we know, and also for young people). You san say cześć to a new girl on the street, like: Cześć! Co słychać?How are you? - Co słychać / Jak leci (idioms! Don't try to translate word by word, because first sounds like: what it's heard, and second: how to fly.
Hi for best friends - siema! (usually tenagers)
Welcome - witaj! or witam Cię!
If you wan't to answer, you should say.
I am fine - dobrze (good)/ ok / super / wspaniale (briliant!)/ nieźle (quite good)/ ekstra (great).
When you feel bad, you can say:
nothing special - nic ciekawego/ crap - do dupy (vulgar)/ don't even ask - szkoda gadać :(
Nothing much /nothin new - nic nowego
And you? - A Ty? (when you want to ask your interlocutor)
I missed you so much - stęskniłem się za tobą (a man says), stęskniłam się za tobą (a woman says)
More formal greetings
Good morning / Good afternoon / Good (from morning to sunset) - Dzień dobry.
We don't care about hours. If here is a winter, and about 4 pm is dark outside, we should say Dzień dobry. A better way would be...
Good evening - Dobry wieczór
Good night - Dobranoc (goodbye in the night)
Goodbye - Do widzenia (usually in the day)
See you - do zobaczenia
Enough polish language for today
Learn it, because next time we will start with polish "to be" - być.I will show you most popular verbs, and you will build your first polish sentences, will be funny, I am sure ;)
