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@piotrsodel3077

2 ай бұрын

I'm here to help you. The guest in this material speaks with an accent, so this is not a vlog of a Polish resident. At the beginning there are "gopnic" - it is the prison culture of the Russians, it has nothing to do with Poland. The language is not the easiest, but without exaggeration. It's easy for English people to learn it because the sentence structure is similar. Words are different, sometimes similar, and the composition of sentences must be done according to the knowledge of the conjugation of words and their gender. E.g. it - sun, he - moon, she weather. You'll say about yourself "ja pobiegłem", but your girlfriend will say "ja pobiegłam". If you make a mistake, every Pole will understand you. The most similar language to Polish will be Ukrainian and Slovak, Czech is a different matter, a different accent, different diminutives. It's not as bad as in this vlog, the guy claims, seriously. p.s. Can I try to send you Polish products to try? barszcz biały czerwony, kisiel, budyń, zupki grzybową, ogórkową ?

@arturb5131

2 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mpp-y9Cyn8m3lM4.html the best film about polish language

@oszustoslaw

2 ай бұрын

That should be better. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mpp-y9Cyn8m3lM4.html

@piotrsodel3077

2 ай бұрын

It's funny that someone focused on the differences in both languages ​​and not on the similarities. For example: in English "a woman" in Polish "kobieta" means a woman, while "the woman" and "ta kobieta" mean a specific meaning - the construction is the same. Combining letters? In Polish "dz" "rz" "cz" and in English "ee" "ae" it is also there. Asking questions ? Do you know? in Polish "Czy ty wiesz? It can be multiplied. eng. "problem" pol. "problem", eng. "computer" pol. komputer", many words are pronounced differently.

@smiechuwarte-qt8pn

2 ай бұрын

To cheer you up, a fragment of a Polish comedy about World War II kzread.info/dash/bejne/daBsw6uidqzXmag.html&ab_channel=BenDover

"Polish language is like science" yes that's why we deciphered enigma 😂

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

😂

@user-wq3in3xk2l

Ай бұрын

​​​@@BB.Beyond.BordersLanguage is logic, improvization and memory. That's why users of difficult languages (Chinese, Koreans, Poles)are very good at mathematics and informatics. Anyone have heard about Apple, Commodore, Atari, internet. Not everyone knows they were created by Steve Wozniak, Jacej Trzmiel, Paul Baran. In an international informatics competitions young Poles are, on regular basis, on winning places. One of their advantage is that from very beginning of their lifes they learn how to operate a complex language.

@SumeoneYouDontWannaKnaow

26 күн бұрын

​@@user-wq3in3xk2lwoah bro wrote a whole essay for no reason 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 NOICE

"Polish should be on periodic table" *looks at Polon*

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

🙈

@sunebeale

2 ай бұрын

😂

it's so funny to watch this if you're polish. Kto z Polski?

@marysiajeremiejczuk1616

2 ай бұрын

ja

@mrskelital691

2 ай бұрын

Moja dziewczyna jest z Polski i ja mieszkam w Polsce z ona

@jozeffurman9343

Ай бұрын

@@mrskelital691 "i ja mieszkam w Polsce z ona" Kolego- nie "z ONA" tylko "z NIĄ"😉 Ale nic się nie martw- tak jak powiedziane we filmie- każdy Polak Ci zrozumie🙂

@darekd.6090

5 күн бұрын

ja

@dragonsquad1000

2 күн бұрын

@@jozeffurman9343 nie poprawiaj nauczycielu, bedziesz mial przewage

As the author said, Polish does not have "V" in the alphabet. Polish letter "W" is pronounced as a "V" sound. Now, the Polish letter "Ł" is pronounced as an "W" in English, so you could say, someone removed "V" added "Ł" and "moved" the pronunciation from "V" to "W" and from "W" to "Ł" xD

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Aaaaah. Okay, thanks for sharing. Makes sense. So there is another letter for W

@TheDekazer

2 ай бұрын

Yes, but when it's before or after unvoiced consonant( like w), or when on the word end, it becomes unvoiced f. So Robert Lewandowski surname is prononced "Levandofsky".

@Tirnon

2 ай бұрын

@@BB.Beyond.Borders I am sorry but it is a bit more complicated. In old Poland they used v, problem was that v was used for u too. So when w were invented they started use w instead of v and v chanded to u and in Polish there was sound u and NOSAL o writen with crosed o, today u and ó have the same sound. As to w. Ł in slavic languages is similar to L. Emglish W is like "uo" in old polish is "uo" too but the tongue touches the roof of the mouth. That has disappeared and today everyone says "uo". In the 70s of the twentieth century, actors were still taught to speak like this. Generally lads, in XV centrury Polish and Czech were identical. Czechs are using v and l. Bench-Ławka-Lavice

@anyas2002

2 ай бұрын

There is a letter v in polish alfabet, we have extendedv36 not jut 24 letters. This simply shows hoe old and elaborate is the language in comperesing to english which without 100 year british - french war was not in existence

@jarosawklejnocki6633

2 ай бұрын

@@BB.Beyond.Borders Imagine then, that the city are going to - Wrocław, is pronounced like this: Vroswav...

Wrong understanding, Polish is not a peasant language because the nobility also spoke Polish, but it was fashionable among the nobility to speak Latin. Polish nobility learned this language from childhood, which enabled them to communicate with other European nationalities, something like English today.

@nameunname7898

2 ай бұрын

In XVII i XVIII in PL nobity use french language. So now is about 6000 loanwords forom from FR !

Mikołaj Rej said the famous words - "Let the nations of the world know , that Poles are not geese, they have their own language". And he wrote his literary works in Polish.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Regardless of whether the language is difficult or not, It’s a beautiful language ❤️

@wizardman1976

2 ай бұрын

Gdybyś nie spał na lekcjach to wiedziałbyś, że "gęsi" w tym cytacie to przymiotnik w sensie "gęsi język" a nie rzeczownik.

@ToChoIOCUS

Ай бұрын

actually he didnt said poles are not goose but he said polish have own language, not 'goose' language ( goose language means latin language cause of capitolian goose who warned italians 390 AD). Word 'goose' can in the same time be noun and adjective

Creating polish alfabet was a process and was based on latin (not english) pronunciation of letters. That's why C sounds different then S. W is different then V. Also gramma is almost as elaborated as latin. Polish people are not geniuses :D but you are right, polish language is very consistent in writing and more precise in gramma in comparison to other european languages (even slavic). English is the opposite site of scale. So, you may think of it as kind of "computer language" and therefore thinking :D

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Wow! Interesting 🧐 thanks for sharing. If you speak polish, you are a genius in my eyes ✌🏼❤️

"If they use W for V, what replaces W". The answer taking up a quarter of the screen, lol.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Crazy😂

@benq994

2 ай бұрын

No it's not that complicated "W" is "Ł" in polish.

@misiek_xp4886

2 ай бұрын

@@benq994 It was about Afrikaans.

AFAIK that was the same in old England - nobles spoke in Latin or French.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

It’s crazy to think that this died out and it’s no longer spoken in these regions anymore

Actually, we say weekend in English way (łikend), not "veekend" ;) Do you remember BARSZCZ from Polish food video? It's easy - barshch ;) The most Polish word - żółć ('bile' in English). It consists only of Polish letters.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

We maybe used a bad example to explain

@masicmasicowski8814

2 ай бұрын

żółć najbardziej Polskie słowo.

"No" from old Polish🇵🇱 "Ano"(So). "Ano tak"-once (so yes)."No tak" now-(so yes )

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Maybe it’s just confusing for English speakers and not for poles🤔

@michaelmckelvey5122

2 ай бұрын

That is interesting because ano is still used in the Czech language.

For children in Poland 🇵🇱 the language is not complicated. It speaks for itself.😁

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Probably much better learning it as a child. It’s like second nature. Much easier than learning it as an adult 😅

@charko4191

2 ай бұрын

we do have to learn the proper grammar all of these ć ś rz ż ó etc. when do we use it and how each word is written acording to the rules so yes it is a struggle and we do have "dyktanda"

@HEN-Huzar

2 ай бұрын

@@charko4191 Talking and writing correctly are two different things.

@charko4191

2 ай бұрын

but they were refering to both so I wanted to point that out @@HEN-Huzar

@mariolondyn50

2 ай бұрын

Young brains easy absorbed any language .

Tak = yes Nie = No Polish no = yes No tak = yes No, no = yes No nie = no 😅

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Easy! It’s not that bad 😂😉😏

@milczar_

2 ай бұрын

@@BB.Beyond.Borders Polish "no" for yes came from Czech language (ano = yes). Our "no" is a short form of Czech "ano". Although some Poles say "ano", too.

@MsMaasi

2 ай бұрын

@@milczar_ yes, we are close to Slovakia in the mountains and sometimes use it but elongated compared to how the Czechs say it

@milczar_

2 ай бұрын

I forgot to mention that our 'no' (yes) is used only in loose relations (family, friends, some neighbors), not formal. You can't say like this to teacher, policeman or something like that.

@TheDekazer

2 ай бұрын

@@BB.Beyond.Borders I'd compare polish "no" to english " well" in phrases like "well yes" , " well no".

Like he said at the end, even if you say something wrong, or without any change, Everyone will understand you. So up to the communicative level it should be easy for you.

latin was Universal language acros all of europ

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

I wonder why it died out… like we’ve never come across a European that can speak Latin

@aarturos4510

2 ай бұрын

@@BB.Beyond.Borders i mean that was language used by educated people, nobility, scholars just like now its English but regular people speak their language depends of region

@MikrySoft

2 ай бұрын

@@BB.Beyond.Borders It didn't die out, not really. It just split into Italian, Spanish, Romanian etc. As for why Latin itself didn't survive (outside of Vatican), there was that little thing called the fall of Roman Empire.

In the bigger cities in Poland you can easily communicate in English so don't worry. Its not that hard. I was in South Africa in 2019, did a car trip from Cape Town to St. Lucia by car and it was absolutely beautiful. Greetings from Silesia, Poland.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. South Africa is beautiful place, and even though it can be unsafe (pending where you go) we always tell people to visit because it’s such an amazing place!!!

It's very good that you watched this video, but it is very messy. Regards . If you have any questions (about Poland), I will be happy to answer.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! We’ve been recommended a ton of videos that we are going to check out😅

Rej i Kochanowski mentioned as "fathers of written literature" lived in XV century. Is it really recent?

@dzejrid

2 ай бұрын

You're asking on human scale or on geological scale?

@jarosawklejnocki6633

2 ай бұрын

Oj, jednak w XVI żyli :), XV to było jeszcze średniowiecze, za jego koniec (symboliczny oczywiście) uważa się rok śmierci Kazimierza Jagiellończyka; rok ten był jednocześnie rokiem odkrycia Ameryki (1492).

@bogna8877

2 ай бұрын

​@@jarosawklejnocki6633 Shakespeare born 1564 Rej born 1505
 Kochanowski born 1530

 Not Shakespeare nor Rej were first to write in native language but first as significant. For example „Legenda o świętym Aleksym”, variation of popular legend in whole continent was written many times between XIV and XV.

@jarosawklejnocki6633

2 ай бұрын

@@bogna8877 Well, the years 1500-1600 are the 16th century, and the plot of the "Legend of Saint Alexius" is completely illogical here. What does this have to do with the Renaissance? And literary texts in Old Polish were, of course, written before Rej and Kochanowski, most often anonymously, like "Bogarodzica", "Kazania świętokrzyskie". If the text is anonymous and it is not even known whether it was written by one person or several, it is difficult to talk about specific writers. In the Renaissance, it became common for authors to sign their works, so we can symbolically recognize someone as the "founder" of literature, although of course it was not the case that there was a void before him, and then suddenly Rej came and started writing in Polish. These are obvious things at the level of secondary school knowledge.

@bogna8877

2 ай бұрын

@@jarosawklejnocki6633 Thank you for this patronising elaborate, but I never mentioned any literature period for a reason. It does not matter as long as we are trying to determine the age of literature, not styles, logical or illogical plots, etc. Simple facts of existence of literature in polish language.

As a Polish speaker, I think languages like Mandarin, Cantonese, other Chinese dialects and other Asian languages that use tones are the most difficult. I also think that there are more difficult European languages like Finnish or Hungarian. Polish grammar is pretty hard, the pronunciation is super hard. But is it the most difficult? Seriously doubt it.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

I think it’s all perspectives and what people feel.

@jerzy7118

2 ай бұрын

Finnish and Hungarian are completely different and the origins of their languages are a mystery to linguists.@@BB.Beyond.Borders

I couldn't resist myself to not to quickly explain: in English you can say: "I would like to play". in Polish we use one word: ""Zagrałbym" it contains not only the meaning of it, but it contains also gender of a person who speaks, because woman would say "Zagrałabym". Yeah it is tough to learn/grasp, but so fewer letters :) XOXO!

guys, reading polish is super easy. you read what has been written. Literally. its because polish letters will soud the same for 99,9999% cases.

You have to feel secure about all your nice videos. I am amazed how nice all of them ❤❤are . I like both your videos and comments. Your South African accent sounds very sweet, too.❤ Greetings from Toronto, 🇨🇦 Canada.

"Press play so we can find out" 😂😂😂😂😂

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

😂

I'm Polish and I don't use K-word at all. But outside my family I don't know anyone that also doesn't use it. At most people that strongly limit using it. also, in polish: yes = tak no = nie yhym/yup = no And yeah, English is super basic. It barely has any grammar etc. The only problem about it is that its writing system is inconsistent, and the same letter, for example 'e' is reed differently depending on what other letters are around. In polish the same letter is always reed the same way (That is if you could dz, cz and sz as letters, and we more or less do that here) btw. linguistics are far away from most of the science + kid learning his/her native language doesn't exactly study it. We often don't know much about how different parts of grammar and language itself are called like foreigners learning their second language do. We use it because it's our first language we use instinctively. Parents don't teach kids the details of why something is said that way, they just teach it's said that way and the kid learns just that. At the end, just learn simple greetings, sorry and thank you in polish, and poles will take it as a compliment - You took time to learn some words in our complicated language. Always brings a smile to my face. Unless it's from Ukrainians. It's too easy for them, and they often learn Polish to the point that they sound fully native and can only tell they're from behind the eastern border by hearing their name. ps. when the guy was speaking Polish, he said something like "I'm saying strange things to you here, but they don't understand us at all" XD

@yumikomikan3772

2 ай бұрын

I don't use it at all, and most of my family doesn't use it either, so you are not alone :) And I know some young people as well

@jednorogini82

2 ай бұрын

I don't agree with "same letter is always reed the same way". For exaple "rz" after letter "P" sounds like "sz". "W" in endings "~awka" sounds like "F". "Jabłko" is being read as "japko", "rodzice chrzestni" as "chrześni", and many many more.

@hory-portier

2 ай бұрын

​@@jednorogini82it's so-called 'ubezdźwięcznienie'. It happens naturally when you attempt to say it as it's written but don't try to force it.

And is it a peasant language? As much as English is a peasant language, because the comparison is close. After William the Conqueror conquered England, French and Latin were the languages of the nobility, the peasants spoke English.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

And so we learn

Funny idea about being scientists since grade one. I'm 26 and I still find my language as very nice travel to learn more about it.

Now after watching you react to this really complicated tutorial of polish pronunciation I really want to create my own video for you to see that it's not that complicated :D

16:10 - Latin alphabet don't have all slavic language vocal sounds. Cyryllic alphabet do it, but we never using this. We need adjust latin alphabet to our vocal language.

You say that the English language is simpler, but the Polish language is more precise and leaves no ambiguities, which is why the Goole translator cannot cope with my language.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

English probably just feels simpler to us because it’s the only thing we know. Besides for Sune, she’s Afrikaans

@jerzy7118

2 ай бұрын

@@BB.Beyond.Borders

You are such a beautiful couple 😊 and your boyfriend is so sweet he make me smiles 😂

Łrołkłoł 😂😂😂😂 Try to listen Wrocław in google translator.

16:100 - polish W sounds the same as latin V. And sound in english "weekend" you referred to is notated by letter that you have on screen - it is Ł.

Hey, you asked for animations about Poland with a historical explanation of what's happening on the screen, so I'm sending you the titles of the films with the voice of Sean Bean as the narrator. These are: "Unconquered" and the prequel "Unconquered: Trying Times", both available on the IPNtvPL channel. I would highly recommend!

You chose a not very happy video, but we have to get over it. The Polish language was the first, native and, contrary to appearances, existing without any influences. For every foreign word, there are at least several purely Slavic versions, which are still our word-formation base, even among the youth generation. Poles have one flaw, an unjustified minority complex, which is why they have liked loanwords for centuries. They wanted to prove their worldliness, completely unnecessary, because we don't have to be ashamed of anything. Peasant speech is a compliment in this case, because it shows the age of the language as such. Latin came to us with an occupier, the Vatican, and our poets only brought back to life what had always existed.

When you take the maturity exam in Poland, which is called Matura, which I took in the United Kingdom because I attended both Polish and British high school, if you make more than three grammatical mistakes in the Polish language final exam, which was the case back in the 1980s, you would actually get a really poor score. Then, again, due to this fact, learning other languages, and figuring out a little bit more difficult concepts is somewhat easier if you were put through this process in the first place.

@jerzy7118

2 ай бұрын

Też zdawałem maturę w 1980 r : język polski ,matematykę i przedmiot wybrany. Najbardziej obawiałem się języka polskiego ze względu na ortografię i interpunkcję 😄

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Sounds very strict. In South Africa the passing rate for languages is 40% 😂

In middle ages Latin was like English nowadays. Establishment spoke latin but straight people spoke own language (Polish, English, German, Czech, etc.)

I love your hyphothesis why Poles are clever, that at primary school they learn Polish which is difficult like the science. Yes, they train their brains at the early age and keep doing it in other subjects. As a teacher I've noticed that the level of pupils' knowledge have lovered a lot after the changing in the school programme ( reduction of many topics, less practise, etc) in the 1st -3 rd grade in 2009. Today it is not the same as before...

I really love to listen to your comments on the Polish language. Your beautiful South African accent sounds like a beautiful 🎵 song.

@sunebeale

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I am sometimes very insecure about it 😂

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Aaaw Thanks ❤️🙏🏻

15:45 medieval polish used "v" and "y" for the same sounds as in English. But it was German influence which replaced "v" with "w" and "y" with "j". In old family names you still may see "y" where modern Polish would put "j".

My take on it as a Polish native, who was raised by history buffs: Polish society was highly elitist for the most part, with strong social class divisions, strengthened by culture, tradition and church. Also, Polish nobility was inclined to always try to keep up with the Joneses, that's why they spoke Latin and other Western European languages, especially French, to sort of, in their own minds, 'mingle' with the foreign Western nobility/royalty and stand apart from their native, but highly despised peasantry. Polish was not a peasant-language, it is a language that arose naturally from the slavic language branch as populations migrated, separated and then Polish state was formed. Its just that nobility was so fixed on setting themselves apart from lower classes that thy would go as far as forsaking their own native tongue. Plus, Latin was their English back then. To exchange ideas and culture cross-border, you had to be fluent in Latin.

The Polish language is very difficult if you want to speak relatively correctly, but all these rules, inflections, declensions, conjugations and endings are mainly for precise and accurate thought. To understand at a basic level, English syntax and uninflected nouns, adjectives and verbs (infinitives) are enough - such Polish language is terrible, axed, but every Pole will understand more or less what it is about, and that is what communication is all about. Of course, such crude/primitive language is not suitable for expressing more complex content or feelings. The above video discourages people from learning Polish, and its author is not 100% Polish (I'm guessing he's Danish and has a Polish mother), because he unintentionally made a few mistakes. To clarify and complete some information: 1. Latin was an additional language that educated people learned and wrote in, in the 18th and 19th centuries this role was played by French, and today by English. It was not the case that Polish was the language of peasants and lower classes, and the higher classes did not use it - before 15th century it concerned the written language and had a very limited scope. 2. This Polish "no" as a confirmation is a curiosity - 90% of Poles will answer "tak" as a yes. "No" is a rather casual confirmation, sometimes used, but not as an answer to a question, but rather as a confirmation of a view that someone is expressing in our presence, e.g. - "This Trump is a cynical player !" - by answering "no" in Polish, we agree. The example from the video with "no" as the answer to the question whether anyone was in the store is not inaccurate, because the answer to such a question is "tak" (yes). 3. Yiddish was the language spoken by European Jews - it was a specific variety of German with various foreign influences. After 1945, this language was abandoned in favor of Hebrew - today it is probably still used in some Jewish communities in the USA 4. Polish is a Slavic language - strange letters or combinations of two letters appeared to write sounds present in the spoken language and not represented in the Latin alphabet. In the Czech or Russian alphabet, some analogous letters were also added to solve this problem: sz (Polish) = š (Czech) = ш(Russian) cz (Polish) = č (Czech) = ч (Russian) ż or rz (Polish) = ř (Czech) = ж(Russian)

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to explain this. Great!

@matejmatuska6700

2 ай бұрын

will you recoment me as slovak speaker to speak in slovak or english in poland I plan to visit north cities gdansk gdynia sopot but I dont speak any polish so is it better to use slovak or english there ?

@thomasturski2837

2 ай бұрын

@@matejmatuska6700 IMO mów jak Ci wygodnie i w zależności od tego, czy będziesz widział zrozumienie w oczach rozmówcy. Jak będziesz mówił powoli po słowacku, to większość Polaków Ciebie zrozumie, szczególnie, że starsze pokolenie może nie znać angielskiego. Słowacki jest IMO najbardziej podobnym językiem podobnym do polskiego, a Słowacy są w Polsce bardzo lubianą nacją Opanuj podstawowe zwroty: - Dzień dobry - dziękuję - proszę - proszę dwa piwa i rybę/pierogi - Do widzenia Mam nadzieję, że zrozumiałeś 80% powyższego tekstu bez pomocy Google Translate ;-)

Vrotswav, not Roclow 😜

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

We got to work a bit on our pronunciation game 😏😅🤭

@michabonski398

2 ай бұрын

perhaps the channel Let's Polish will help you learn...Polish. Although I have not been a viewer for a few years, but from what I remember, the author of the channel conveys reliable knowledge in an accessible way, uses realistic examples and, it seems, his viewers significantly expand their knowledge of the Polish language

The etymology of the Polish word "rekin" traces back to the Old Polish word "rakon" or "rachon," which had similar meanings, long before any contact or influence from French. Furthermore, historical linguistic studies show that the Polish word "rekin" has cognates in other Slavic languages, such as "rěka" in Czech or "řeka" in Slovak, suggesting a shared root in the Proto-Slavic language. It's the same with other words...

Yiddish is a language of Jews, since XII century Jews were the biggest minority in PL. We have influences from our history, we had a Queen from Italy, Bona, who brought us some veggies, we have been 123 years shared under the rule of three powers: Austria, Prussia and Russia, that is why we have such mix in our language and cuisine.

BTW Vanuatu in Polish is Vanuatu

Hi, I am from Poland and I had Latin at School and when I started learning English, medical English was easy for me because it is almost the same like Latin

As to word "no" in Polish. Formally, yes is "tak" and no is "nie". But there's informal version of yes (like yeah in English), which is "no" (pronounced different than English no, with short "o", like Englishman would pronounce "noh" or "naw"). This comes from Czech "ano" (which means yes) and got informally shortened, but in Polish full version of "ano" is now rarely used, and is understood as "well, yes" (actually "no" is also more like "well, yes" than just "yes").

22:37 he is talking about what happens when you stick a pencil into a bee 😭

As to Yiddish - it's jewish dialect of German (actually similar to Swabian dialect, with some hebrew words) but written with hebrew letters. It was the language used by Polish Jewish community before ww2. Many german words in Polish actually came from Yiddish not German directly.

11:55 You are 100% correct. Very smart. To people that don't know rules of Polish it seems like You have to memorise all of them as different words. If You know Polish grammar You dont need to do that.

"No" in literary Polish is "nie," and "tak" is "yes." The Polish "no" that he is referring to is used casually in speech, similar to the English "yah."

the most difficult thing is the context, you may know the words, but you won't understand them without the context :) Language is the ability to convey thoughts... for example, I am not able to convey thoughts in English... (I use a translator)

I think the best thing about Polish is that there are no "silent" letters in words. Once you learn the pronunciation of the alphabet and some combinations of letters and their modifications: ż, ź, rz, dż ... (no mention is made i think of softenings such as "ci" which sounds the same as "ć"), you will be able to pronounce every word in Polish because we pronounce everything in words. Tricky in writing can be letters that in modern polish lost difference in sound: rz - ż, and u - ó. There are rules of usage in writing (and of course exceptions depending on the origin of the word), but they are pronounced the same.

the classic Latin alphabet (which is based on one of the many ancient Greek alphabets) had only 23 letters. It had no 'J', no 'W', no 'J'. If you read on the many old texts or buildings something like 'AVGVSTVS' then this means 'Augustus' - in just a few contexts it has something to do with the modern way of 'v/f'! The letters 'J', 'U', 'W' were introduced later after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and when the different Germanic (or in other regions Slavic) dynasties took over and now dealt with a mix of their own language and Latin as lingua franca for the academia (a minority of nobilities, clerics etc.) - which then introduced depending on their native languages/cultural influences and evolution some letters to the alphabet (the results were then for instance a Germanized Vulgar Latin/Medieval alphabet which differs for such reasons from the classic Latin ...). Over time when the native languages became more of a thing for everyone other chars were added to the Alphabet, again depending on the cultural spheres - which is why Polish got now the alphabet it has and why English and German share in one way the same alphabet but Germans, Dutch, Danish and Scandinavians have also still some extra chars around (Umlaute or 'Ø' stuff which are from older common Germanic origins etc. )

Coincidentally the video that starts around 11:00 is recorded in Wrocław 😊

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Very small piece of the video 😅

@jakubg7749

2 ай бұрын

​@@BB.Beyond.Bordersnot that small actually, all the way to 12:50 and then old town at 13:25 is also from Wrocław.

I'm curious what the Polish language sounds like in your opinion, or whether it actually sounds as someone described it; "like I was quickly looking for a radio station on the radio"

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

The language to foreigners like ourselves who don’t speak polish sounds pretty cool. You can hear a bit of Slavic pronunciation in words. But overall a beautiful language to listen to❤️ probably not as violent or aggressive as Afrikaans can be

9:09,in English you can find words from different languages, mostly Latin, then French, Spanish, Italian, because people travel. Polish is similar to Slovakian, Czech, Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, maybe some more

I swear it is not so difficult. I remember nothing bad from the primary school but the mystery of using different way for writing the same sound (ch=h, ó=u, rz=ż). In the first year of primary school you get all rules to read and write everything what you can hear and that's it! The only problem whether you can get it with your ears or not. For non-Slavic speakers it can be difficult to distinguish these sounds sz and ś, cz and ć, dż and dź. My daughters had had spellings exercises entire primary school (we live in the UK) in Polish there is no need to learn an intuition of spelling. Unfortunately "Hi" is "Cześć", so you will be recognised as non-native speakers in the first word, however you can also say "hey" or "heykah" and you will be recognised in the second word 😉 Those permutations of one word are extended to the forms rarely used and old like 100 yrs ago. No worries you don't need them to communicate. My daughters make grammar mistakes but I can understand them. There are English-native speakers, who can speak very good. Asian people can also speak Polish very good. So all depends on your need and will. Latin was written language indeed, however if you were an owner of the village you would need to speak the same language as your peasants. No other option. Those lads, who were nobles and started to use written Polish, I can imagine they did so, because they couldn't express something so well in Latin. Btw, Latin was used in church during the mass also before 2WW. And all peasants did not understand the word. 😆 When you are in Wrocław you MUST visit this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qI6IwcqugJWdlNo.html

There is a video that would really clearly explain how to read polish based on the sounds that already exist in english so you can check it out: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaJlz8yCmaWfqrA.html Have a great trip to Poland!

HAhaha, so funy. Simple workd, with prefix you can make grades of word. No - meening may differ depending on the sentance context.

Congrats on making something fun and interesting out of the most boring video ever 🤣 Love your energy and smart comments, peeps! 1. I've been teaching Polish as a second language for ages and I totally disagree with most of the bullcrap the guy said... It seems like his purpose was to shock people with (oh how!) difficult Polish pronunciation is while it actually is the easiest part of the learning process (unlike grammar 😒 ). English pronunciation is much more complicated than Polish because if you learn our phonetics and alphabet once than you are able to read every single thing applying the same rules, while in English you need to learn how to read each word separately (tEAch, hEAd, brEAk, nEAr, bEAr 🤐 ). 2. I live in Wrocław (VRO-TZ-WA-V) and some of my recommendations are: -the market square (pet the bear for good luck, check out the whipping post and the fountain, have a cup of hot chocolate in "Wedel", climb 300 steps up the tower of the Garrison Church for the birdseye view, visit EMPiK bookstore for cool souvenirs with Wrocław/Poland design, have a pint in Spiż pub/restaurant with a microbrewery right at your table) -Plac Solny - a smaller square by the main Market Square; full of flowers, cafes and restaurants; it used to be a salt market back in the days when salt was a premium product -the oldest restaurant in the world Piwnica Świdnicka (food sucks there but the place is awesome so just have a beer or two, take some photos and run🤣) -dwarves... these little buggers are literally everywhere so keep your eyes peeled and try to count them all 😂 -my personal favourite breakfast/brunch spot: Mleczarnia club by the synagogue (have some mead, grog, mulled beer or wine as well) -Ostrów Tumski-the oldest part of Wrocław -hydropolis -amazing museum of water -Panorama Racławicka -a must see if you're into art and history-a 114m long cycloramic painting depicting one of the battles during the Kościuszko Uprising -"dream jump" in Wrocław Stadium... so basically a bungee jump but it's fuuuuuun (and an opportunity to use public transport in the city-quite an adventure too🙃) Have an awesome stay in my city, guys!

@michaelmckelvey5122

2 ай бұрын

Have you watched the film on KZread by Brit in Poland? He visited some of the places you mention here in your commentary.

@kamilawojcik6133

2 ай бұрын

@@michaelmckelvey5122 oh I don't remember if I have, sorry😔 I binge-watched the whole internet when I had a flu and now everything seems so familiar and yet so new 🤣🤣🤣 is it good though?

Im bad at polish but im learning by my self im polish but in uk from year 3 you need to get used to it

Polish language is a peasant language in the same meaning as English was a peasant language in the times when most of your nobility was speaking French. Or Latin. Same phenomenon. Rej and Kochanowski, guys he mentions were associated with making Polish the general language for all, including poetry, law, religion etc., were doing it in the XVIth century!! So no - Polish has not been a peasant language for a loong time. And there have been several "fashionable" languages that nobility or "it" people would use over ages - first it was indeed Latin (as it was all over Europe), then it was French, now English has a similar role. It does not change the fact that Polish has always been widely spoken and used for literature and science, and has been a critical factor in maintaining Polish national identity in the times when Poland was fighting for its independence. Thought I would make it clear.. Have a great time in Wroclaw. Vrotslove - that should be closer to the way you pronounce it...

Yidish is the language of germanic (eastern european) Jews. It's essentially a mix of Hebrew and German.

Polish "no" doesn't exactly mean "yes". It means "yep". Besides in other contexts "no" means other things. "No, tak" - "well, yes". "No to co?" - "so what?" etc.

grammatical variations in Polish for the word "miss": tęskniono, nietęskniącymi, tęskniłem, nietęsknieniami, nietęskniącej, tęskniliśmy, nietęsknienia, tęskniłybyście, nietęsknieniach, nietęskniącym, tęskniące, tęsknijmyż, tęskniącego, tęskniłyście, tęsknij, tęskniłoby, tęsknijmy, tęsknię, tęskniącym, tęsknienia, tęskniłabyś, tęskniłobyś, nietęskniących, tęskniłobym, tęsknień, tęsknisz, tęskniłyby, tęskniącą, tęskniłby, tęskniłom, tęskniącemu, tęskniła, tęsknią, tęskniącej, tęskniłabym, tęskniący, tęskniłaby, tęsknimy, tęskniłbyś, nietęsknieniu, tęskniłyśmy, tęskniłeś, tęsknijcie, nietęskniącego, tęskniło, tęsknił, nietęsknień, tęskniłoś, nietęskniący, tęsknienie, tęsknijcież, nietęskniąca, nietęskniące, tęsknieniu, tęskniłybyśmy, tęsknili, nietęsknienie, tęsknieniom, nietęsknieniom, tęskniłbym, tęskniąc, tęskniliby, tęskniącymi, tęskniłaś, tęsknieniami, tęskniłam, tęskniących, tęsknilibyście, tęsknicie, tęskniły, tęsknieniem, tęskni, tęskniąca, tęsknilibyśmy, tęsknijże, nietęskniącą, tęskniliście, tęsknieniach, nietęsknieniem, nietęskniącemu

Best of all in acting my language I got by eating the polish quark chies with onion. Then I play my black metal with a brilliant polish growl...

As someone said: Polish is a mixture of many languages, but made more difficult

Czech is similar to Polish, but Slovak is even more similar :-)

Its so fun to watch some ppl strugling with polish🦟🦟

jeeesus i needed like a minute to understand that you're coming to Wrocław XD I think best phonetic way to write it woul be Vrocwav with C pronounced as C not K

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Pronunciation was not the greatest 🤣🤣🤣

Yiddish, spoken by Ashkenazi Jews is mostly German, integrating a lot of Hebrew words, plus some local and modern vocabulary of the host country.

No = nie Yes = tak (colloquialy „no”) !! but it also „no” has another meaning. In Czech yes = ano. So is conected.

It's not about not using it, it's about "kurwa" just not overusing it. It is true that it is volgaism, but it has a very emotional or functional character. There are those of us who can say a five-word sentence with three "kurwa" words, it's bad. But if you are shocked by something, if you stub your little toe while walking around the room, or if you step on a Lego brick, or if you want to emphasize your statement with something, feel free to use this word. Alternatively, it also matters where, as even a practical vulgarity, it will look bad at grandma's during dinner, but in a pub with friends it will be fine

U r verry open cleaaver giril. Polish is rich besose how it is!

I think " No tak" will blow your minds :P

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Maybe we should watch a video on this 😏🤔

@katarzynagrzebyk3461

2 ай бұрын

It's just means "oh, yes" Verb "no" in Polish is like "mhm", very unofficial "yes"

I’m sorry… but you guys are so funny at this! I think that you are thinking too much! Just go to Poland and enjoy it 😊😊😊

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

We’ll be there soon 👀😎

Polish, some kind of way is peasant language beacose it comes from the times of antic Rome. The word "slavic" comes from present word "slave". Historically, we have often been captured by the Romans and that's how it goes but it reffers to the very past. BTW I'm polish :)

"for me, English is easy to learn." Hehe, for me, Polish is easy to learn because I know it.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

I think if you can speak polish you can accomplish any other language easily 😅

@jerzy7118

2 ай бұрын

Not really, because it is difficult to switch to another language where there are fewer cases, modes and varieties. The Polish language is precise and unambiguous, and that's why when I translate from English to Polish in Google, I get such nonsense that it's unclear what I mean, e.g. whether it's a man or a woman, and there's even a problem with English names; e.g. the English name "Christian" is translated by Google as and here I have to write it differently as a baptized person, and I should use one word, but Google will translate this name.@@BB.Beyond.Borders

just try to remember: "vrotswaav" or use that on google translate to check how english speaker can pronounce that. (english/germanic people have a different set for sounds/pronouncement than slavic people)

@jell_pl

2 ай бұрын

just try to remember that your "double u" in polish language has the same sound as "v", while "double u" sound is used also for polish "Ł/ł" letter (like in "˝Łódka" (which means small boat") which is very close to "wódka", which is spoken in polish as "voodka" (polish "ó" (and "u") is almost the same as "oo" ("long o") in "woods")

13:49, "No"( people in the north use mostly "Jo") = it can mean both yes and no, depends on how person says it or/and on a context

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Probably got a lot to do with the person using it

When you saw so many variations of the word GRA, you were probably confused, but it comes to Poles automatically. So much of the word GRA results from the forms he, she, it, the perfective, subjunctive, present, singular and plural, and several others that do not exist in English. It is said that this is what old civilizations do.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Many things that are confusing, but I think that’s because we just simply do not know the language 🙈

If I understand correctly, You will go to Wrocław you said ? Soooo I dont know if someone said it before but you can pronounce it like this 'Vrotswav' = Wrocław, maby I wrote it not so perfect, but your pronunciation was very wrong. I recommend google translator and listening to the words, it helps. Keep up the good work, I belive in You two 😄

Try this famous polish "sentence": Zażółć gęślą jaźń.

It's like watching Inception. With 2 levels of boredom.

English is peasant language as well, so is for example Turkish. Elites were speaking foreign languages becouse it was more prestigious and socially beneficial. It's why smaller languages are dying now too. They were languages of education and educated people too.

9:26 is also my favorite part of the video. Try not to laugh challenge 😅😅😅😅

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

😂

Polish longest word is "Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka", 32 letters and means little female citizen of Constantinople

@misiek_xp4886

2 ай бұрын

It's incorrect word created arificially only for fun. Young female dweller of Constatntinople would be Konstantynopolitaneczka.

Hello, Friends :) I appreciate that many people have already given you tips in the comments. From what I noticed, as they write in the comments, English-speaking people do not know that the W in Polish is V and the English W corresponds to the Polish letter Ł. We pronounce Polish U/Ó like the English "oo" (for example, too, boo) Polish DŻ we can compare it to the English J, for example (Jack - Dżak/Dżek). SZ =Shh - like (Sh)out. Etc. I have always liked the method of translating into associations when learning. Take a Polish word, write it down, then listen to how it sounds and try to match the sounds to the words in your language and write down your version of pronunciation. For example, the name Łukasz - check how it sounds in Polish and try to write it fontetically in English using associations so : Ł=W like - woops. U = oo like -too. K is short = C in Corn. A - is short like for example: Doctor examining your throat say to You "please say aaa". At the end we have SZ = sh - like hush. So Łukasz = WooKAsh. Associations are a good way to remember. At the end, I will give you a funny example. In Polish we have an curse term : "chuju jebany", which means nothing else than a "fu**ing dick". If a Pole says these words to an English-speaking person, that person will hear: "Who~You~Yeah~Bunny". So remember, when you hear this word in a conversation, it will not be about identity of bunnies ;)

Yiddish is also a West Germanic language like German or English. And while it is considered as 'own language' it sounds even much closer than Dutch to German (which is already relatively close). For me it just sounds like a different dialect and I can right away understand most things - if written than even more. The main difference is also in reality only that Yiddish uses much more 'old/old school Eastern German generation expressions'. If one knows them due to knowing a bit more classic literature or just heard it 1-2 generations ago then it is not a big problem to get most. And thats also proofen in some youtube videos where even younger Germans (who for the same reasons are often not anymore familiar with older words their parents still were more familiar with) can understand a lot. Of course if it is written better (as long its not written in Hebrew but Latin Alphabet (actually Germanized Vulgar Latin alphabet - thats what we used today, also in English).

her accent is so cool

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Did you know that the South African accent was voted as the sexiest language in the world last year

The basic error I see in the video you are watching is that someone claims that Latin was spoken in Poland, and that the Polish language was used only by peasants. Someone forgot to add that Poland already existed before 966, which is considered the date when the Polish state was established. Our country existed before Polish baptism, it already had its rulers before that, and they all spoke Polish. One of the rulers, Mieszko I, decided in 966 to adopt the Christian faith. It was then, under the influence of Rome, that Latin began to be introduced among the nobility, to the royal court and widely in schools,which in those days were run only by churches . Latin was also used in the written language, since there were no books in Polish. The first books in Polish were written in the 12th century. Before the baptism of Poland, only the Polish language was used .There are many words from other languages, because they tried to eradicate this language, introducing Latin after the baptism of Poland, in later centuries the French language even German. As you can see, no one managed to destroy the Polish language. Yes it is a difficult language, but also very rich. Greetings.

Here's the translation of that Polish part near the end of the video: If you can understand what I'm saying right now, then you're in luck. because you're Polish. And you should be proud to be Polish, because Poland is a really cool country. Regardless of what you think, Poland has achieved much cool stuff. And a bee and a beetle are forest insects, though they can sometimes be on a meadow. And that's very interesting. If you stab a bee with a pencil, then a reed will come out of it, regardless of what you think. And maybe the blood will look like some bile. I'm telling you very weird stuff here, but fortunately, they can't understand us.

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

Very cool. Thanks for translating 😅

If you will be in Lodz I can be your guide. Karolina

You think, that english is very easy, but you just forgot, that you have learned it as a child and don't see the difficult part. Like the difference in reading and writing. "Read rhymes with lead and read rhymes with lead, but read doesn't rhyme with lead and read doesn't rhyme with lead".

Imagine that for polish people English for as is like Polish for you and yet we all learn it in schools because it is an international language. Tbh i am not enjoying English pronunciation and the constant change of letter sounds depending on the word is just complicated. In Polish one letter = one sound. This is so much easier then English.

hey!! so Wrocław is actually pronounced Vrots-wav, as the W is pronounced as V and Ł- like W :), also Yiddish is a language of the European jews

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

We may have had a bit of a mispronunciation there 😅 our apologies 🙈

@polakulesza5579

2 ай бұрын

@@BB.Beyond.Borders no worries!!

Wrocław is pronounced Vroh-tswav. :-)

@BB.Beyond.Borders

2 ай бұрын

We need to learn a bit more polish 😅

21:50 it wasn't proper polish,it was some kind of generator of polish