r/learnpolish

Cześć! Jestem z Polski. Szczerze mnie zaskakuje jak aktywny jest r/learnpolish. Wcześniej to było dla mnie trudne, kiedy widziałam kanały na yt, które pomagają uczyć się polskiego. Uważam, że Polska to ładny kraj, mało drapieżników, ale gospodarka, zarządzanie, ludzie którzy siebie wzajemnie nie lubią, klepanie biedy - naprawdę się zastanawiam, czy większość z Was ma jakiś opracowany plan, czy pochodzi z gospodarczo gorszego kraju, bo u nas jest przeciętnie słabo. Dlaczego uczycie się polskiego?

Jeżeli zły sub proszę przekierujcie mnie na ten prawidłowy.

Czy zdanie: "Trzeba wiedzieć po co się tu przyszło", ma poprawną formę? Czy jest to zapis tylko potoczny, czy można zastosować go też formalnie?

Does anyone have any resources that teach Polish entirely (or almost entirely) auditorily?

I will soon be spending 2 hours a day commuting and want to listen on my phone. I cannot look, or only briefly, at written content. I know this is a hard ask. I have a couple of textbooks that have auditory components but require reading at the same time. I would study these when I have time and aren't travelling but I want to do something for 2 hours.

Dziękuję!

Cześć! Szukam kogoś z okolic Siemiatycz, kto pomógłby mi w nauce języka polskiego poprzez zwykłą rozmowę. W zamian mogę pomóc w nauce języka tureckiego lub po prostu odwdzięczyć się dobrą kawą i ciekawą rozmową. Jeśli masz chwilę czasu i chęci, odezwij się w wiadomości prywatnej! 😊

So heeeeey… is anyone kinda lonely in Poland, Lublin? 25-35yo preferably and not a pervert, I only need freaking buddies and girlies to spend time with. I will add that I actually do not care about your ethnicity, gender or queerness or anything, whatever suits you, just dont be like extremely in your face with everything and loud af because I’m introverted….

I genuinely believe that everyone can be like that. If we don’t click then we just don’t and that’s okay

I want an X for stupid girlie things and gossips but also not one that needs a 3h to leave a house and is in love in X mirror reflection. Obsessed. Be clean but looks and full glam and muscles ain’t everything. But yes, we love ✨ glam ✨ too! When there’s time to this kind of stuff, for some sporty things and cute photos - yes, let’s do that - but from time to time. Sometimes I just „go out just like that”. I double check if I have pants and shoes and I’m good. It’s healthy sometimes.

I am a couch bug, play games, read manga, watch anime - but what do you expect? I am lonely as fck. I can be outgoing, probably, not that introverted to the core eventually, just small steps. I don’t really mind any music taste… ok… for real… some are pretty bad and embarrassing. But show me what you like, I’m open. Maybe you will like my music too! Ideally we would do the other things I listed together, sometimes. Games, anime, movies maybe.

Having some sense of humour is a big thing too.

I don’t know… it doesn’t sound like A LOT in my head and I don’t need anyone to tick all the boxes exactly as I want to. But I just need… someone human like that. No romance at all, please…

Any app suggestions? Any likeminded people here? Any mentions that I am a needy bitch?

Also kinda outside the „age range” is okay, it all depends and varies from person to person… 🌸 have a good evening ✨

So I've been learning Polish for a while and case endings have never fully stuck with me. I've tried a bunch of different resources and really I just needed somewhere to actually practice. I like a lot of pure repetition, because I need to get the endings wrong 50 times before they start feeling automatic.

I couldn't find anything that really did that, so I built something. It started simple and kind of snowballed into a proper tool which I quite like.

The two things I use the most are the Case Drills and the Word Drill. Case Drills give you a sentence in English (with focus on one grammar case e.g. Genitive), you type it in Polish, and it checks the endings, prepositions, verb forms - and it's flexible about word order since Polish allows that (also flexible on diacritics / Polish letter accents). Word Drill zooms in on a single noun and tests you on every case form, singular and plural. Everything in the app tracks what you get wrong, and these two in particular use spaced repetition to keep hitting you with the stuff you struggle with until the endings stick.

There's some more in there too - adjective endings, verb conjugation, prepositions, numbers, a Case ID mode where you identify cases in real Polish sentences with grammar breakdowns. I'm not going to list everything because there's too much, but a few things worth showing:

https://preview.redd.it/gofl0zcy05wg1.png?width=992&format=png&auto=webp&s=b431a1897c514983ae49a54f35a7cbdd871c81f1

It tracks your progress properly, for example specific words you keep getting wrong, which case endings, which declension patterns etc... There's also a weak spots mode that specifically targets the stuff you're bad at. I find this really useful because I kept making the same mistakes and not realizing it, and it gives you them with spaced repetition to help drill it into your brain.

https://preview.redd.it/585xhruz05wg1.png?width=1358&format=png&auto=webp&s=f29d388f4639c09c32cd52bf8e55ddb60e6ab2cf

There's a patterns reference section that breaks down all the different declension types - hard stem, soft stem, fleeting-e, -ość feminines, all of it - with real examples and color-coded endings so you can see which forms look the same across cases. I keep going back to this one myself, since it highlights and color codes the patterns of when e.g. the form ending of one case is identical to another.

https://preview.redd.it/td30c9c115wg1.png?width=987&format=png&auto=webp&s=f82f620d0b11309c5165147e9e787d9a69d49ad4

The Case ID mode is the one I've been working on most recently. You get a real Polish sentence, a word is highlighted, and you have to figure out what case it's in. After you answer it shows you a full word-by-word grammar breakdown color-coded by case. Really helpful for building intuition.

https://preview.redd.it/6qp8g38215wg1.png?width=1078&format=png&auto=webp&s=6bebc366bc5982690a5b78e86bb90af782f231d7

There's also a full analytics section that tracks everything - your accuracy per case, per gender, per declension pattern, which specific words you keep getting wrong, your session history over time. If you plug in an Anthropic or OpenAI API key it can also do AI analysis of your mistake patterns, reading breakdowns, and journal corrections. Totally optional though, and your key stays in your browser.

You can sync between devices with just a code, no account needed - like on a laptop at home, or a phone on the tram (if you get tired of scrolling :p).

While this tool isn't designed for absolute beginners, I have added some beginner resources like a "What are cases?" section that explains each case from scratch with English examples first, tips on the easy patterns, and a beginner drill mode. However, if you're a beginner and up to the challenge I'm sure it can be manageable! It pairs well with a grammar book or something like Learning Polish with Ania on Youtube, you learn the rules and the context elsewhere, you come here to practice and drill until the endings become automatic. I'm planning to add guided lessons and pointers to external resources down the road, but right now it's mostly practice oriented.

And just to be clear, right now it's mostly a practice tool, not a comprehensive learning resource. It's meant to supplement however you're already learning. That said, I do think you can learn a lot just from practicing on your own and seeing what you get wrong, people learn in different ways. I'm going to keep adding things to make it more guided and more tutor-like over time, but yeah, that's where it's at currently.

Free to try for 6 hours, no account, no email, nothing. After that it's €5.99 - one payment, lifetime license, no subscription, and everything I add in the future is included. Built and hosted in the EU, I'm based in Warsaw. Code REDDIT for a 100% discount, first 5 people.

Still actively building this and I know there's things to improve. If something's broken or confusing or you want a feature, DM me. I genuinely want the feedback.

Thanks to the mods for letting me share this here.

https://przypadki.eu

I hope this type of post is ok since it has multiple questions. I didn't want to spam the front page with separate posts (mods if that's preferable let me know).

I only got through half of the article so far but my trouble started here:

"Rosnące ceny na stacjach paliw spędzają sen z powiek milionom."

Rising prices at the gas stations spend dreams from eyelids of millions? Or am in mistranslating one of these words?

Another was:

O tym, jak są ważni, pod koniec lat 80. ubiegłego wieku

I think the literal translation of "jak są ważni" is "if they are important". I'm not sure if that fits (seems to have a slightly disrespectful tone). Or is this a typical phrase that's used?

Finally, translating the word "głębinowe" yields "deep-sea" but I'm not certain it's correct. It could be, but I think deep under ground would make more sense. Could it be used that way?

The article is on Onet. (Not adding a link because automod gives me enough trouble as it is.)

Odsalarnie wody ważniejsze niż ropa. Dzisiaj najbardziej strategicznym produktem na świecie jest słodka woda

title says it all but i am serious about learning polish!! and would love if people could explain their translation as well (adjective declension etc) please-- thank you

I started learning polish 2 months ago and I started feeling frustrated because I’m feeling that I’m doing it wrong or not effective enough,right now I use Duolingo for practice ,drops and quizlet for word cards every day and a few times a week I’m sitting with Gemini as an ai teacher for a new material but I feel like I’m missing something and not advancing enough.

Or maybe I need to focus on different topics and ways to learn

For the context I’m a native Russian speaker and I know Ukrainian on a1-a2 level so right now l understand like 50% of the words but I don’t really know how to use them or how to build phrases in polish.

I would love if someone who had the same experience could share their thoughts on it and maybe give some advices ❤️

so I've planning to take tests in next year Feb, depending on the time, and I'm currently in A2, and my own native lager has nothing to do with Polish, but my English is around C1, therefore I so have some faith in learning this new language, I would be happy to hear some really useful information! I already found the official website for mock exam (the state polish exam) but want sth more, thanks a lot!

I've been running into these words repeatedly. Translate provides the same translation for both - "to contain" but the definitions provided by sjp are different. However, in reading, it seems they are used interchangeably. Is this the case?

My understanding previously was that "zawierać" means" comprised", whereas "zwierać" means "to hold within".

Która wersja jest poprawna? W różnych poradniach widziałam różne wersje. Chodzi o mianownik, np. 'Dwaj strażacy są teraz w budynku' - jak do tego dodać 20+?
Dziękuję bardzo za pomoc!

Guys!

This question is for both Poles and foreigners who live in Poland or have visited and had a chance to try Polish food. What would you recommend someone try on their first visit? :-)

​I discovered Dawid Podsiadło and Taco Hemingway through a Polish friend. I’ve also been listening to Mgła and occasionally Maanam, but it’s been a while since I updated my catalog. I would love to get some recommendations from you!

P. S: dancing polish cow is my all time fav

I'm new to Slavic languages, and I consider Polish to be the most useful and influential one after Russian. What do I need to know before I start so I don't get too frustrated and have a better experience? I'm from Latin America and plan to leave my country after I finish college to pursue my career as an engineer. I was thinking of going to the United States, but things don't look good for us immigrants there. I want to be prepared when I leave my country.

what is the purpose for moving the verb suffix like this? is it for emphasis or what?