Hi everyone! If you're currently learning Polish, visit PolishPod101 ( bit.ly/Polishpod101 ) for a HUGE collection of audio/video lessons for students of all levels. I'm an active member on several Pod101 sites, and I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do! A free account gives you access to lots of content, and then if you want their entire library you can upgrade to a paid plan. For 33 other languages, check out my review! langfocus.com/innovative-language-podcasts/ (Full disclosure: if you upgrade to a paid plan, Langfocus receives a small referral fee. But if I didn't like it, I wouldn't recommend it, and the free account is pretty good on its own!) *** A couple of notes about this video. In the video I said that Polish is the most linguistically homogeneous country in Europe, as it is reported in some sources. But there are other countries including Hungary and Greece that may be more linguistically homogeneous (Hungary at 98.9%, and Greece at 99%). I looked at some documents from the Polish Central Statistics Office and got these stats: 96.2% of people in Poland use only Polish at home. Another 2% use both Polish and another language at home, making it 98.2%. And if we include speakers of Silesian who only speak Silesian at home, it's 98.5%. So it's among the most homogeneous, but it doesn't seem to be #1. Another thing, in the video I said that Z is the most common letter in Polish, but it's only the most common consonant. There are several vowels that occur more frequently than any consonant. There's a typo @12:00 - the singular dative of matka is matce, not matke. @12:14 - the masculine personal plural nominative of "młody" is "młodzi", not "młodi". And

@alexanderhanooman

4 жыл бұрын

You're forgiven, you reignited my wanting to learn Polish. But I always thought of polish as a Germanic language. So thanks for correcting my thinking!

@Robertoslaw.Iksinski

4 жыл бұрын

Although in 12:14 "młodi" as "młodzi" in the masculine personal plural nominative (which is used also as "młody" in the masculine personal singular nominative) is not a typo in Poland, because it's very correct Kashubian, which in Poland is not a foreign language :)

@zdzislawmeglicki2262

4 жыл бұрын

Another curious feature of Polish is that it's got... five genders! Yes, there are three masculine genders, feminine and neuter. The masculine genders, human, animate, and inanimate, differ subtly, but they differ nevertheless. This is best seen when declining the nouns in combination with adjectives. How I ever managed to master the language is beyond me. Today, I find it fantastically complicated.

@alexanderhanooman

4 жыл бұрын

@@zdzislawmeglicki2262 so polish was not your mother tongue, but can I as, what was your motivation factor? For learning Polish and are you a native English speaker?

@mariuszwarchulski5393

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Paul, don't worry about some critical comments, maybe some people are surprised that "z" is the most common in Poland. The video is very professional and very educational even for the Pole, we just don't focus on these all aspects and word endings which is obvious. Thank you for your effort

Ten dziwny moment, gdy jako Polak oglądasz film o języku polskim w języku angielskim...

@paweln2033

4 жыл бұрын

i se uświadamiasz że nasz język jest zdrowo popieprzony

@szaggy2k

4 жыл бұрын

Wbrew pozorom, jak się ogląda ten film to można odnieść wrażenie że naszego języka jednak nie zaprojektował jakiś alkoholik z wadą wymowy

@samsonpl1110

4 жыл бұрын

Jest trudniejszy od wielu na świecie ale da się go nauczyć. Może nie bardzo dobrze ale dość by dało się komunikować :D

@jandron8519

4 жыл бұрын

... i uczysz się więcej niż w szkole

@kyanbasu

4 жыл бұрын

tak było

Profesor filologii polskiej na wykładzie: - Jak Państwo wiecie w językach słowiańskich jest nie tylko pojedyncze zaprzeczenie. Jest też podwójne zaprzeczenie. A nawet podwójne zaprzeczenie jako potwierdzenie. Nie ma natomiast podwójnego potwierdzenia jako zaprzeczenia. Na to student z ostatniej ławki: - Dobra, dobra.

@clintjones6966

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, right...

@matez9133

4 жыл бұрын

eee dobre

@himmla5459

4 жыл бұрын

A helping hand: Polish filology professor on lecture: -As you know, there is not only single negation in Slavic languages. There is double negation too. (when you combine can't + never it's still a negation in Polish). Even double negation as affirmation. (this is more difficult; if someone asks: Didn't you drink last night?, you answer: No, I didn't drink, so you double negate to say yes and it works in Polish XD). But there's no double affirmation working as negation. Student sitting in last bench: yeah, yeah (said, of course, in sarcastic manner)

@ddsferd1628

4 жыл бұрын

@@himmla5459 thank you for the translate. My native Russian couldn't help me.

@TheOstry322

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahah dobre

When I began learning Polish in 2008, the grammar was incomprehensible for me since I am an American, native English speaker. Fast-forward to 2023 and there are people from all corners of the world moving here and the methods of teaching Polish as a second language have drastically improved! My advice to anyone living in Poland is to try to speak as much as possible and never get intimidated. Most Poles are happy that you at least try! Krok po kroku idziemy do przodu!

@plrc4593

Жыл бұрын

And to learn as much words and sentences by heart as possible.

@Kawka1122

10 ай бұрын

Tip from Polish person to people learning Polish: don't care about grammar that much much in the begging- only vocabulary matters. We will understand you anyway. And true, we get overexcited when l foreigners speak Polish, cause it's well known how complex this language is.

@andersjjensen

9 ай бұрын

@@Kawka1122 Funny. Danish is as hard or harder than Polish, but when foreigners try to learn it they don't stand a chance because we will automatically switch to English if their Danish is hard to understand. Which is the case unless they're very good at it. One annoying feature of Danish is that besides having three more vowels than English in the alphabet (æ,ø and å) every vowel has at least three different pronunciations, and if people get them wrong it's borderline impossible to decipher what they're saying. If they also mess syllable emphasis (which can be VERY subtle phonetically but has a huge influence on intention/context/mood/humor) it can take several tries to understand them... which just makes English SO much easier for everyone involved even if their English is objectively as bad as their Danish.

@TetranDakker

9 ай бұрын

chrząszcz w szczebrzeszynie

@plrc4593

9 ай бұрын

@@andersjjensen If Danes have such huge problems with understanding Danish, maybe you're not the brightest bulb in the chandelier? 😜

W tym momencie zaczynam się zastanawiać jakim cudem ja potrafię mówić po polsku

@ralleyquattro

Жыл бұрын

Dokładnie. Ciekawe, no nie?

@Aa-dz4um

Жыл бұрын

Ja tak samo ha ha, az mi sie ciezka glowa zrobila od tego wszystkiego a co dopiero dla obcokrajowca ha ha

@drewbydoobydoo2918

Жыл бұрын

Trudno się tego nauczyć. Wiem, że Angielska wymowa jest trudna do nauczenia, wcale nie jest intuicyjna.

@lubiezolwie

Жыл бұрын

ja też

@Aa-dz4um

Жыл бұрын

@@drewbydoobydoo2918 ale nam chodzi o jezyk Polski.

youtube recommendation: hey wanna learn some polish? me, a native polish speaker: sure, why not

@lilywhitetouhou

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr XDD

@joshuaarmijo5213

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 I'm a filipino and I'm studying polish 🤣

@killing_potion6663

4 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaarmijo5213 polish sucks

@joshuaarmijo5213

4 жыл бұрын

@@killing_potion6663 I know it's hard, But i really want tp learn it

@yoyoyoi487

4 жыл бұрын

That's totally right! And I am learning German and KZread has recommended me this video. 👍

We, the Polish, have a simple rule: we see a video about our country, we flock like moths to a flame.

@roskcity

3 жыл бұрын

Just like any other country.

@checkdescriptionordontrepl2897

3 жыл бұрын

@@roskcity But Poland is an extreme version, trust me. It's hard to find video mentioning Poland without comment section full loaded with Polish comments.

@bearriver666

3 жыл бұрын

you are also that way about alcohol and being stupid

@elecstorm3701

3 жыл бұрын

@@bearriver666 a stereotypical way of thinking, but i'll let it slide cause it's close to truth

@checkdescriptionordontrepl2897

3 жыл бұрын

@@bearriver666 I don't know are you trying to insult Poland or not (i hope not, we had enough - we have been attacked many times by apmost all European countries, and many times attacked on internet, sometimes worldwide), but it's not true. Well, except alcohol in some cases, but only in half, Poland is not Russia. It's Semi-Russia.

I'm a Bulgarian Polish speaker, and I can confirm that this has been the hardest Slavic language to learn. Guess the reason is that Poland is geographically the most distant country to Bulgaria from all other Slavic. However, I love the Polish culture, patriotic spirit, and the Polish people! BG♥PL!

@alexandermalinowski4277

11 ай бұрын

And you Bulgarians made Russians to use your language in the churches!

@Bakambol

9 ай бұрын

Wszystkiego dobrego dla ciebie bracie😊

@aziatix1168

7 ай бұрын

Bulgarian language is based! 🇧🇬💞!

@guest23314

2 ай бұрын

try learning Silesian ❤️ (its not dialect its language just polacks are mad)

@user-br1be3il7q

Ай бұрын

Hi boy Bulgarian I want learn your and English or Spanish but so so hardly for me😢😢😢 how ca I learn Bulgarian ❤❤❤

As native, i need to tell: we dont know how we speak, it's just our "flow" so dont be afraid ;) PS: when you talk about "czytać" and "przeczytać" i was thinking about 1 super hard thing: we got: - czytać (read) - odczytać (read to others on loud for example speach) - wyczytać (read on loud too but for example list of students) - wczytać (read with high precission, with special commitment) - przeczytać (when you gonna read something in the future) - rozczytać (read something hard to understand, for example ugly letters on paper) - sczytać (download a file) - poczytać (read something for fun, without commitment) - doczytać (read something back what we left before) And we have maaaany words like this ;)

@datamek

5 ай бұрын

Zaczytalem sie kompletnie w tym czytaniu

@cupcakkeisaslayqueen

3 ай бұрын

Odczytać can also mean just reading a message on like messenger, basically here it's used same as in english

@Abobus717

2 ай бұрын

Интересно,а с глаголами движения у вас как обстоят дела?в русском языке это кошмар для иностранцев. Ехать,заехать,объехать,переехать,выехать,въехать,отъехать и так далее.

@marcinpominski4591

Ай бұрын

@@Abobus717 W polskim jest tak samo.

@Abobus717

Ай бұрын

@@marcinpominski4591 ясно

po obejrzeniu dziwie się, że potrafię mówić po polsku.

@mkawosz

4 жыл бұрын

ja też

@vennomen6286

4 жыл бұрын

Haha to samo

@Greg74948

4 жыл бұрын

Tak ci się może wydawać. Posłuchaj mowy noblowskiej Olgi Tokarczuk i powiedz, ile udało ci się zrozumieć.

@drzewoznieba6297

4 жыл бұрын

Ja też

@drzyzgarobert

4 жыл бұрын

@@Greg74948 Poetka jak poetka, przemowa jak przemowa. Nie robi wrażenia po wszystkich latach języka polskiego w szkole.

English: two, both Polish: dwa, dwaj, dwie, dwu, dwóm, dwóch, dwiema, dwoma, dwojga, dwoje, dwójka, dwójki, dwójce, dwójkę, dwójką, dwójek, dwójkom, dwójkami, dwójkach, obydwa, obydwaj, obydwie, obydwu, obydwóm, obydwóch, obydwiema, obydwoma, obydwoje, obydwojga, obydwojgu, obydwojgiem, oboje, obojga, obojgu, obojgiem, oba, obu, obaj, obie, obiema, oboma I think that's all forms, but I still might have missed something. Learn Polish! It's easy! 😃

@escobar9086

4 жыл бұрын

Double, twin, twice xd

@miramarczynska8706

4 жыл бұрын

Dwójce, dwójka, dwójką, podwójny, podwójna, podwojony

@Greg74948

4 жыл бұрын

English: double Polish: podwójny, podwójnego, podwójnemu, podwójnym, podwójna, podwójnej, podwójną, podwójne, podwójni, podwójnych, podwójnymi, podwójnie English: twin (adj.) Polish: bliźniaczy, bliźniaczego, bliźniaczemu, bliźniaczym, bliźniacza, bliźniaczej, bliźniaczą, bliźniacze, bliźniaczych, bliźniaczymi twin/twins (noun) = bliźniak (masc. sg.), bliźniaczka (fem. sg.)/bliźniaki (pl.), bliźniacy (masc. pl.) English: twice Polish: dwukrotnie, dwa razy, podwójnie

@maczopaczo123

4 жыл бұрын

GrEaT iDeA! VeRy EaSy (im polish bruh)

@michalmazur4566

4 жыл бұрын

Xd aż tyle tych odmian

Profesor filologii polskiej na wykładzie: - Jak państwo wiecie, w językach słowiańskich jest nie tylko pojedyncze zaprzeczenie. Jest też podwójne zaprzeczenie. A nawet podwójne zaprzeczenie jako potwierdzenie. Nie ma natomiast podwójnego potwierdzenia jako zaprzeczenia. Na to głos z ostatniej ławki: - Dobra, dobra…

@rhodesianbrushstroke

11 ай бұрын

"Jak państwo wiedzą"- forma "wiecie" jest w tym wypadku nieprawidłowa; albo jesteśmy na "ty" albo na "państwo".

@Klejnotnilu666

10 ай бұрын

To sie profesor pomylil. jak moja kobieta mowi mi"tak, tak jedz na ryby" to znaczy ze nie mam jechac xD

@megfinn2336

9 ай бұрын

🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣 Dobre !

@Durczykiewicz

9 ай бұрын

Fajny żarcik:-)

@Durczykiewicz

9 ай бұрын

@@Klejnotnilu666 Jeszcze ważna jest intonacja :-)

I'm russian, and when I came to meet relatives in Belarus, I met a Polish girl at the station and we understood only the general meaning of the phrases, but we somehow communicated. An hour later we were speaking some weird sort of dialect of the pan-slavic mixed with alien language and understood each other perfectly) Beautiful language, nice people, and, in my opinion, the most beautiful writing, maybe one day I will start learning. Best wishes for poles and everyone who read this Edit: guys in the comments are so friendly and tell interesting stories, omg I love this channel

@katharina...

6 ай бұрын

Ha ha, great story! 👍

@koultcechan

6 ай бұрын

Как писал один комментатор: «Быть русскоговорящим и слышать Польскую речь похоже на сон, который ты только что видел и пытаешься вспомнить» :D

@e-xmile1044

5 ай бұрын

good to know that we're not forgotten by other countries and their society. Great story though! I hope you'll have fun learning our language!

@eighthelement

5 ай бұрын

As Polish I understand almost nothing of spoken Russian, but once I learned the cyryllic alphabet, I could easily read and understand Rybar posts. I feel like our languages are more similar than we think they are.

@user-yp2fz4xh4b

5 ай бұрын

@@eighthelement I think it only takes to get used to hearing and reading another language. By the way, having watched "Shrek" in Polish with subs (wonderful experience), I understand Polish videos almost 100%

Just as the Indonesian 🇮🇩 and Polish 🇵🇱 flags are opposite to each other, "tak" means no in Indonesian and yes in Polish.

@drania76

4 жыл бұрын

It also mean thank you in Norwegian.

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

The Polish flag is also the opposite of the flag of Monaco, though I'm not sure if "tak" means anything in French or Monégasque.

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

@You Kou: Poland and Indonesia don't have the same ratio in their flags either. Poland has 5:8 and Indonesia has 2:3.

@joshua5g

4 жыл бұрын

There's also another way to say yes in Polish, it's "no"

@ari_jean

4 жыл бұрын

Omg wow! :O

Chciałem sobie poczytać komentarze z zagranicy a tu kurwa sami Polacy

@filokbobdragon1397

4 жыл бұрын

Amerykańskie komentarze nie są takie popierdolone jak nasze xd

@tomaszdziamaek1839

4 жыл бұрын

Wyrażaj się? Bez tej prostytutki nie można zdania zbudować, co?

@Kyumifun

4 жыл бұрын

Ja też Te uczucie kiedy po obejrzeniu zagranicznego filmu o Polsce na YT chcesz przejrzeć komentarze a tam sami Polacy

@robdob5350

4 жыл бұрын

Jesteś jednym z nich, który napisał, więc idźże w chuj! xD btw feel the same

@smitepeke7456

4 жыл бұрын

To na chuj dodajesz kolejny

I'm Costa Rican. I speak Spanish. She's Polish. Obviously speaks Polish. We met for the first time in Japan since we teach Japanese in our respective countries. We speak in Japanese. I taught her a little bit of Spanish. She enjoyed it. I ask her to teach me Polish. Then she said in Japanese "you don't want to learn Polish, believe me, there is nothing simple I can teach you". Still I was curious. Then, I watched this video. Yep, she was totally right. I can't believe Polish is this complicated. But, if someday I go there, I want to speak a little Polish to make her happy. If she someday comes here, I want to speak a little Polish in case she becomes homesick. So, ¡yo le entro, papá! 望むところにござる！

@r-poko2578

8 ай бұрын

very random and metedor you are compa latino

@azarishiba2559

8 ай бұрын

@@r-poko2578 Ser aleatorio es parte de mi personalidad n_n

@wPeniSwiadomy

7 ай бұрын

Polski ma ten plus, że bez znajomości gramatyki, znając same słowa i używając ich bez odmian. W 90% przypadków, ludzie Cię zrozumią. Wiec nie przejmuj się i ucz słów :)

@azarishiba2559

7 ай бұрын

@@wPeniSwiadomy Dziękuję! (I had to use a traslator, but really, thanks for the advice and good wishes!)

@mathusalen1

2 күн бұрын

De Costa Rica también y estoy aprendiendo polaco, la verdad me parece que es desde el español es más fácil de aprender que desde el inglés, tanto en términos de pronunciación (aunque palabras como mężczyzna me matan todavía jaja) como de ciertos aspectos gramaticales

Polish is the official language in Heaven. You have the whole eternity to learn it.

@boryskrupa5102

Жыл бұрын

I do solemnly confirm! Either you are a Pole and have fun immediately or you just need to learn for eternity to start having fun. hahahaha

@stevenbaker7025

7 ай бұрын

Nah that would be sexual moans 😏

@konradtomaszewski1677

6 ай бұрын

in Heaven you actually have a binary choice of what to spend eternity on - learning Polish or Chinese alphabet. The sad thing is that a lot of Poles now choose the former;)

@David280GG

3 ай бұрын

​@@stevenbaker7025what🌩🧑🏿🌩💀

@cupcakkeisaslayqueen

2 ай бұрын

​@@stevenbaker7025bruh what 😭

"Polska w tytule" Polacy: HI THERE

@petepete432pj8

3 жыл бұрын

Tak prawda hehe

@mariamalinowska3099

3 жыл бұрын

XDD dokładnie

@bartekcalinski1221

3 жыл бұрын

"its free real estate"

@itssooverweresoback

3 жыл бұрын

Racja,

@tharealmikezee3165

3 жыл бұрын

@@bartekcalinski1221 hahaha yeah everyone wants a piece of it: location, location, location

Fun fact: słońce = the Sun słonice = multiple female elephants

@321imperator

3 жыл бұрын

it could be funny, if "słonice" (which is correct of course) is at least in use. As long as I live in Poland, I have never heard anyone saying "słonice" (female). We are using just "słoń" (male) as we do not know if the specific elephant is male or female :D we always use the male variety first if the gender of an animal is unknown

@januszgin3680

3 жыл бұрын

xd wiem

@kreizzz__6198

3 жыл бұрын

@@321imperator ponieważ in Poland a small group of people using a female name for Animals

@321imperator

3 жыл бұрын

​ @kreizzz __ well there are few animals that are only in female or male variation, so słonica does not sounds that natural, like e.g. "ta żaba" is female, and legends says that there is someone using "ten żab" as a male variation

@kreizzz__6198

3 жыл бұрын

@@321imperator i know people who tel ten żab for the male of frog

Legend has it the poles would be the most technologically advanced people were it not for the fact that they spend 85 percent of their brain power comprehending their own language *Edit* Is only joke why you have to be mad

@niunka1

Жыл бұрын

true, true

@annasamek5179

Жыл бұрын

No, not at all, this is an exaggeration, if you learn it as a child it's not a problem. I think chinese with it's system of writing is much worse.

@mohammadwasapedopig665

Жыл бұрын

You're not the sharpest tool in the shed are you?🤣

@Romczy

Жыл бұрын

@@annasamek5179 as would EDI say "That was a joke"

@aneraxxmusic2343

Жыл бұрын

@@annasamek5179 Chinese grammar is really straightforward, it's really just alphabet and tones that make it tough

Zawsze się zastanawiałem jak wyglądałaby lekcja polskiego w anglii

@piotrang8634

Жыл бұрын

Polacy tylko dzięki temu mówią po polsku, że nie uczyli się mówić po polsku na lekcjach.

Im a simple hungarian. When I see something about Poland, I press like like there is no tomorrow!

@marcinsznn

4 жыл бұрын

Hungarian is quite fascinating.

@nyanniachan4963

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm a simple Pole and appreciate the friendship ;)

@Dominik-lc4pl

4 жыл бұрын

Dwa bratanki!

@MrMateunho

4 жыл бұрын

Dziękuję! Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát.

@user-ns1eq8sd9e

4 жыл бұрын

I ship Poland x Hungary

"Hey how do I say this in Polish?" "Well that depends..." "On what?" "On several things; who's saying it, what they're saying it about, what time of day it is, whether you slept well last night, how many planets are currently in retrograde, etc." "Ah... Thanks"

@robertagajeenian7222

4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Been trying to learn Croatian, and there are days when your little joke wasn't so funny! Thank God Croatian pronunciation is not as difficult as Polish.

@samuan001

4 жыл бұрын

Well, I used to answer in such manner, when someone asked me: " how would you say in English...?" now, I've learnt to make a random choice of one option and I point out that" among other ways we can say..." :-)

@therealdave06

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertagajeenian7222 Krk

@pepe72x

4 жыл бұрын

perfect joke. I will share it with my friends :)

@MrNATAN467

4 жыл бұрын

"Cóż, to zależy..." "Od czego?" "Od kilku rzeczy; kto to mówi, o czym mówią, jaka jest pora dnia, czy się wyspałeś poprzedniej nocy, ile planet jest właśnie w retrogradacji, itp." Oh, and you did not need to thank me in advance, but it's appreciated.

I've just started learning polish. I'm progressing quite quickly but damn is this language complicated. Just when you think you know a word, you find out that word has a million inflections.

@patrickb1811

Жыл бұрын

It gets easier when u get a chance to speak with natives. gl

Thanks to this, Polish is very rich and beautiful especially for books and poetry. Also you can create literally any new words you want and they will be understood. Best of luck to those who learn Polish 🙂 One thing from me is that thanks to cases and other grammar rules you mentioned, you can change word order in a sentence and it still means the same. Peter loves Kate. It's different to Kate loves Peter, or to Loves Peter Kate (incorrect in English), Peter Kate loves, etc. It either doesn't make sense or has opposite meaning. While in Polish, Piotr kocha Kasię, Kasię kocha Piotr, Kocha Kasię Piotr, Kasię Piotr Kocha, etc., they all mean exactly the same 😆

@bartomiejbonski6791

Жыл бұрын

Yes, when we have 3 words SVO like: Peter loves Marry - technically all 3! = 6 permutations are correct, but in every of them we accentuate different things or every of them sounds different, although the meaning is the same. I will show you this example: Piotr kocha Marię == Peter loves Marry. Piotr - nominative kocha - 3rd person (he or she) singular present tense of the verb "kochać" Marię - dative (nominative is Maria) 1// Piotr kocha Marię - classic, standard SVO. 2// Piotr Marię kocha - we accent "to love" = he loves her, not hates or only likes. We know that Peter has someting to Marry, but what? This is love, oh! 3// Kocha Piotr Marię - it sounds like a question: "Does Peter loves Marry?" = an inversion S and V, or we accent Marry: he loves Marry, not Monica or Jessica. We know that Peter loves somebody, but who is he or her? This is Marry, oh! 4// Kocha Marię Piotr - it also sounds like a question: "Does Peter loves Marry?" = an inversion V and O, or we accent Peter - it is Peter, not Mark or Henry. We know that Marry is loved, but by who? This is Peter, oh! 5// Marię Piotr kocha - this is like nr 2 - we accent "to love", but the next (second) accent is "Peter" - opposite to nr 2 when the second accent is for "Marry". 6// Marię kocha Piotr - this is like nr 4/ - we accent "Peter", but the next (second) accent is "to love" - opposite to nr 4 when the second accent is for "Marry". As you can see, the most accentuated word is the last word, next the second from the end and so on. And this feature of Polish is valuable thing for accentuation certain word or words in the sentence, it is good thing for poetry or general speaking and writing. We can also add of these 6 permutations a question mark or exclamation mark at the end and all 3x6=18 sentences would be correct, for example: a// Piotr kocha Marię? = Czy Piotr kocha Marię? == Does Peter loves Marry? - standard question. b// Marię kocha Piotr! == Peter loves Marry! - he said angrily. and so on... You can have 18 sentences. When it comes to frequency in normal everyday speaking or writing, I would define these 6 permutations like this: 1// Piotr kocha Marię - standard SVO, neutral, normal sentence, accent on Maria. 2// Piotr Marię kocha - quite solemnly, wow, this is love! Accent on Maria = SHE is loved! 3// Kocha Piotr Marię - in 90% sounds like question accenting Maria, as a claim quite strange or it sounds like poetry. 4// Kocha Marię Piotr - in 90% sounds like question accenting Piotr, as a claim quite strange or it sounds like poetry. 5// Marię Piotr kocha - quite solemnly, wow, this is love! Accent on Piotr = this is HIM! 6// Marię kocha Piotr - quite normal, neutral, but accent on Piotr, not Maria like in 1. Peter loves Marry == Piotr (nominative) kocha Marię (dative). Marry loves Peter == Maria (nominative) kocha Piotra (dative).

@namibiaxx1016

Жыл бұрын

German native here Polish my absolute favourite foreign language :)

Ja jako albańczyk chodziłem na studium języka polskiego w łodzi 4 lata temu i tam nauczyłem się polskiego. Jestem bardzo zadowolony że podjąłęm tą decyzje bo teraz pracuję jaką przewodnik i oprowadzam polaków po albanii. Pozdrawiam

@brihoo

4 жыл бұрын

No i super! :)

@raphaelloyola3495

4 жыл бұрын

Szacun

@xaxas94

4 жыл бұрын

Bardzo ładnie, ale tę decyzję a nie tą decyzję (popularny błąd, wielu Polaków też go popełnia). :)

@staramenda857

4 жыл бұрын

W Albanii jest pięknie :D

@bartekr8870

4 жыл бұрын

Szacunek :) Chciałbym kiedyś pojechać do Albanii mając ciebie za przewodnika. Może kiedyś :)

As a person from Poland I sometimes think we made our language so hard in order to confuse foreign spies.

@maruseyes1320

3 жыл бұрын

I speak russian and i understand the meaning of the 70% of the words

@ireneusztrzcinski7209

3 жыл бұрын

@@maruseyes1320 Not possible. There is too much difference between Polish and Russian vocabulary. I learnt Russian in school for 10 years and the grammar was easy to learn but the vocabulary is rather different. Some words are the same or very similar but in most cases words are different for the same things even for basic things (compare "thank you" in Russian and in Polish).

@Wojtackic

3 жыл бұрын

@@ireneusztrzcinski7209 sometimes it's easier for a language to learn another language than the other way round. Maybe Russians can understand more polish than polish can understand russian. Also you can't just say a person's experience is "not possible", maybe they actually do recognize 70% of the vocabulary

@ireneusztrzcinski7209

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wojtackic You are right. It is possible. You can never estimate somebody's abilities to understand a languague.

@svefngengillv3522

3 жыл бұрын

@@ireneusztrzcinski7209 I think we (Russians) can understand 50-60% of Polish but at the same time many Polish words sound archaic to us. We don't have them in modern vocabulary anymore but we understand them because we see these words in Russian literature of 18-19 centuries. So there's additional possibility why we can possibly understand more words.

I'm Bulgarian and the grammar in our polish brothers language is the same as Bulgarian, so it's easy for me to understand it :D Love poland from bulgaria 🇧🇬❤️🇵🇱

@plrc4593

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Poland, friends. It's intereting what you say because Bulgarian is always pointed out as the most unique slavic language.

@bozydarziemniak1853

Жыл бұрын

I know from bulgarian workers sentence: Cigarita palita? :D

@aziatix1168

Жыл бұрын

🇵🇱🤜🏻💞🤛🏻🇧🇬

@arturhofa4327

Жыл бұрын

Kocham Bułgarię z Polski!

@monke3842

Жыл бұрын

Граматиката няма нищо общо, ти пиян ли си ?

For me, one of the most interesting feature of Polish is that the grammar allows us to express our attitude towards magical or mythical characters. For example the word: Anioły / Aniołowie. They both stand for "Angels". But one has a grammatical ending as a human being and the other as a thing or an animal. And in this way we can emphasize the difference of: when we talk about angels and we mean beings resembling humans or kind of inhuman creatures.

@martanowicka3340

4 ай бұрын

@@Jaze09 Thanks to your comment I've revisited my own thought and changed a bit my poor English grammar. I hope it's still OK with you :-) BTW thank you for your comment :-) I appreciate it!

Polish for dummies: Lesson 1: Mama (mom), Tata (dad) Lesson 2: Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz, Chrząszczyżewoszyce, powiat Łękołody. Have fun learning.

@dinobot796

4 жыл бұрын

Zloto Bro

@shellgecko

4 жыл бұрын

Instructions unclear I ended up summoning a demon.

@aarpftsz

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Brzęczyszczykiewicz isn't even a real surname

@Axacqk

4 жыл бұрын

@@shellgecko Underrated!

@ricorodrigues489

4 жыл бұрын

Waste of time lol

Hungarians: We made our language so hard that noone foreigner can learn it Poles: Hold my vodka

@mokragapka4999

4 жыл бұрын

wódka

@frogmancoolboy1631

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly we arent in vodka anymore. Maybe some drunks on street are in vodka.

@magdalenamaqbool1326

4 жыл бұрын

Hungarian.polish.swedish .finish icelandic. arabic mandarynian hardcore:///

@lejanuszerskijanuszer5528

4 жыл бұрын

@WiseQ This vodka suits perfectly

@sweetieimikadox1549

4 жыл бұрын

Chyba wódka*

For me, a student of Polish for 6 years, the most difficult/irritating features were the constant grammatical exceptions and the seemingly endless synonyms. But once you get them, it just makes your language experience all the richer.

Ten divný moment, keď si ako Slovák povieš, že poľský komentár by bol zrozumitelnejší 😂

@watarod

10 ай бұрын

cześć pozdrawiam z polski

@patrik1881

10 ай бұрын

@@watarod Ja tiež pozdravujem do Poľska.

@shadow111pl

10 ай бұрын

ten śmieszny moment kiedy rozumiesz język czeski nawet jeśli się go nie uczyłeś.

@Lilly20998

10 ай бұрын

jak ja to umiem przeczytać

@MrTheVootz

9 ай бұрын

😅

Polski jest taki trudny że aż Polacy oglądają filmiki po angielsku o języku polskim😅🤣

@ziooom86

2 жыл бұрын

Haha pozamiatałeś

@strawberrymoon9875

2 жыл бұрын

rel XD

@Antek0111

2 жыл бұрын

no

@jowitapodgorska2932

2 жыл бұрын

Prawda

@Koralciekocha

2 жыл бұрын

XD

My native language is Russian, but I really adore Polish, it’s so beautifully expressive. Moje najlepsze życzenia dla wszystkich Polaków!

@beredentod

4 жыл бұрын

Самое лучше поздравление! И мы желаем всем Русским всего лучшего!

@damirimamagic5064

4 жыл бұрын

I’m Bosnian, and I agree, Polish is beautiful, but it’s difficult!

@MarekWoi

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers from Poland!

@Xback86

4 жыл бұрын

Awww Dziękuje ❤ I love Rusdian

@Dziewczynafajna

4 жыл бұрын

Dziękujemy! ❤️😇

*Poles flocking to video talking about Poland*. Very Brazilian of you, poles! Or... very Polish of us, Brazilians?! I feel tremendous endearment for Poland and Polish culture, living in Curitiba/Paraná, where a considerable polish immigrant population exists and is an important part of our shared cultural heritage. Cheers, from Brazil!

@plrc4593

Жыл бұрын

I like very much how Portuguese sounds. With all those sh and j (like in Rio de Janeiro) and nasal vowels it sounds like Polish except that I don't understand anything :D Pity Portugal is that far away, not to mention Brazil ;/ Greetings from Poland.

@StrzelbaStian

Жыл бұрын

É assim, neste aspecto somos iguais. Se bem que quando vejo otros polacos a "conquistarem" a secção de comentários fico com vergonha alheia 😒

@janjarco3983

Жыл бұрын

In Warsaw we used to have a bar called Parana with a latinoamerican vibe but it didn't survive the pandemic (sad story). WOuld you say that this village is kind of exception in terms of share of Polish population? Greetings from Poland!

@mistaPL

Жыл бұрын

@@janjarco3983 Curitiba is actually a big city.

@nobodynemoq

Жыл бұрын

You know, that huge amount of Poles emigrated to Brazil in the late 19th century? 😉

Now you can understand why polish programmers (IT developers) can so well comprehend programming languages and are so good in general... No language is a challenge after such preparation! ;)

@boryskrupa5102

Жыл бұрын

Hyperlogic imprinted in childhood. Clever ancestors did a great job. Primitive languages waste computing power of kids brains. Polish jokes have a cause - simple minds get envious.

@Aa-dz4um

Жыл бұрын

@@boryskrupa5102 a jak myslisz kto stoi za Polish jokes?

@boryskrupa5102

Жыл бұрын

@@Aa-dz4um stoją za nimi kompleksy prymitywnych niemców i rosjan.

@Aa-dz4um

Жыл бұрын

@@boryskrupa5102 😂😂😂 i tu sie bardzo mylisz. Niemcy i Rosjanie nie maja z tym nic wspolnego.

@boryskrupa5102

Жыл бұрын

@@Aa-dz4um ostatni raz jak się pomyliłem to było 22 lata temu, więc mała szansa hehehehe.

How difficult can a language be? Poland: yes

@aiire9137

4 жыл бұрын

@Antoś Raczyk ić stont

@PatrO_exe

4 жыл бұрын

@Antoś Raczyk nie kłam

@knurbojowy629

4 жыл бұрын

Weź stąd spieprzaj

@_rd_5043

4 жыл бұрын

@@knurbojowy629 do kogo mówisz?

@Mario-np3dz

4 жыл бұрын

Tak to jest trudny język

I'm a simple Hungarian. I see Poland, I klick like. 🇭🇺❤🇵🇱

@Xyliaaa

3 жыл бұрын

@szczepanmaj8771

3 жыл бұрын

💓🇭🇺🇵🇱

@nataliak5277

3 жыл бұрын

aww

@alfrangomes454

3 жыл бұрын

Love from germany... Wait

@DarekPhotography

3 жыл бұрын

Lengyel és magyar: két unokaöccs.

Język polski jest piękny - bardzo bogaty, precyzyjny i "skłonny do poezji". Cieszę się, że go znam.

@watcher13th

11 ай бұрын

Tez tak myslalem, dopuki nie pomiseszkalem 20 lat w usa i zauwazylem ze w Polskim brakuje bardzo wielu slow... Jest wiele slow (nie tylko angielskich), ktore trzeba "opisywac" krotkim zdaniem aby je wyrazic po Polsku. Co gorsza jezyk sie nie "rozwija", nie mowie tu o zapozyczeniach i slangu, tylko wlasnie o tworzeniu nowych slow ktorych brakuje.

@Lina-qn5hj

10 ай бұрын

​@@watcher13th brak niektórych słów działa w dwie strony, ale po tym "dopuki" wnioskuję, że raczej słabo u ciebie z polskim, nic dziwnego, że słów nie znasz

@watcher13th

10 ай бұрын

@@Lina-qn5hj Zgadza sie, nie uzywam Polskiego od wielu lat, ale chyba nie jest tak zle bo zrozumialas co napisalem. Natomiast z tym dzialaniem w dwie strony to poniekad masz racje, ale jest duza dysproporcja na niekozysc Polskiego wlasnie z powodu ze ludzie za bardzo "pilnuja poprawnosci", jak ty przed chwila. Nie mozna latwo "stwozyc" swojego slowa bo zaraz ktos sie przyczepi ze to "nie po polsku", pomimo ze wie co mowisz. Dziala to w brew pozorom na niekorzysc jezyka bo sie nie rozwija.

@Lina-qn5hj

10 ай бұрын

@@watcher13th to była akurat prosta ortografia, a nie tworzenie nowych słów ;)

@jankowal8871

10 ай бұрын

@@watcher13th Dokładnie ,dużo rzeczy powinno zostać usuniętych z ortografii bo po co trzymać np. u - ó, ż-rz,ch-h

As a Hungarian, I'm happy to be here and learn a lot about Polish language 🤗🍻

@plrc4593

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Poland.

@movemelody1

10 ай бұрын

Dlaczego wybraliście Orbana?

@maxdeliver

9 ай бұрын

@@movemelody1 a Ty czemu wybrałeś Kaczora?

@-kattya-

8 ай бұрын

@@movemelody1 good question.. I've never voted for him and never will. Hungarians are brainwashed :(

@ikkai2354

6 ай бұрын

lmaoo @@maxdeliver

🇮🇩 (ID) Tak = No 🇵🇱 (PL) Tak = Yes Also look at our flags, they oppose each other.

@Langfocus

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, interesting coincidence.

@user-sb2gt8dy6i

2 жыл бұрын

In czech : xD Ano=yes ne=no no=yes jo=ano And tha is somebody cofused when we say "ano.. no jo no" :DDD

@arcoiris_naranja

2 жыл бұрын

„No“ in polish also is used as „yes“. 😈 - Chcesz coś zjeść? - No. - Do you want something to eat? - Yes.

@fqmq4975

2 жыл бұрын

🇷🇺 Tak - So

@theWater763

2 жыл бұрын

that's amazing I love it xD

I'm a Russian. I've learned German, French, Spanish, Ukrainian, English, and Polish to some degree, tried to taste Arabic, Korean and Persian. But my favorite one is undoubtedly Polish. It's just amazing. Pronounciation is an exercise and pleasure for your tounge. The sound is so versatile... You just can make it sound as you wish - super soft, super harsh, elegant, colloquial, high or low... It's so amazingly flexive, so you may speak shortly and move words anywhere you want to emphasize any of them, because the form of a word says enough and gives you freedom. And one more thing wich is perhaps only for a Russian speaker - Polish sounds so lovely aristocratic, it looks just a Renaissance-styled speech indeed. The words which are archaic now in Russian are common in Polish (such as "pokój" (room) or "usta" (mouth)), and speaking Polish I feel myself in XIX century or sometimes in an old tale a bit :) You may find a lot of literature in Polish (I prefer "The Witcher" and Sienkiewicz historical novels). And most of games I play have Polish localization, so It's easy to immerse yourself into the language. And, yeah, there are some 45 million Poles to speak :)

@alxawr9479

4 жыл бұрын

@@adamkasztankiewicz8835 Ma pan rację. For instance in pre-soviet Russian there were two plural pronouns for third person: "oni" and "one", just like in Polish, but now there is only "oni" for both masculine and feminine. But also Polish was formed as a literary language in 16th century (like Italian), while Russian - in 19th century (like German). So many words and forms, wich were fixed in Polish since 16th, became obsolete and disappeared in Russian to 19th.

@bogudanbogosz4150

4 жыл бұрын

@@adamkasztankiewicz8835 -- zastrzeliłeś mnie tym. Bardzo interesujące spostrzeżenie.

@onesandzeroes

4 жыл бұрын

That's a fascinating perspective. I never thought a Russian would perceive Polish like that.

@bogudanbogosz4150

4 жыл бұрын

@@alxawr9479 i Adamie Kasztankiewicz -- bardzo interesujące, skąd macie taką wiedzę? Czy jesteście nauczycielami?

@ertekt4540

4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting point of view. Thank you.

After working for 6 years with the most intelligent, and hardworking polish guys Maciej and Łukasz, I can say only this: "O kurva! I love Poland!" 🥰

@opabinnier

10 ай бұрын

I speak Serbocroat... that sounds shockingly indecent. Maybe in Polish "k***a" does not mean hussy or slut or anything like that! OR MAYBE IT DOES?!?!?! :)

@MrQuyag

10 ай бұрын

@@opabinnier Słowo "k*rwa" jest nieprzyzwoitym słowem którego nie przystoi używać w miejscach publicznych oraz ma więcej potocznych znaczeń. Od potocznie używanego słowa na prostytutkę, wyzwisk po przekleństwa które dzięki intonacji głosu możesz wyczuć czy osoba używająca tego słowa jest zdenerwowany, przestraszony, zdziwiony czy szczęśliwy :D

@wlodek7422

9 ай бұрын

​@@opabinnierit does but it's used as "shit" too, and it can be used in expressive way when you're happy/disapointed etc, it fits everywhere lol

@marcind-ec1de

4 ай бұрын

Haha! No jokes, man :-)

This seems so difficult to learn but I am so determine to learn Polish 🤩

@worldclassyoutuber2085

Жыл бұрын

Any reason you like to torture yourself with Polish? 😂

@izzy4833

Жыл бұрын

@@worldclassyoutuber2085 My dad's side of the family is Polish. I just want to be closer to them. ☺️

@marta.mp3

Жыл бұрын

@@izzy4833 I wish you luck! ♥

@IthliniEllyanSenah

Жыл бұрын

@Izzy R U still determined? 😅

@mario150ba4

Жыл бұрын

I can help you, if you want.

If I was not a native Polish speaker, my head would explode from just watching this video.

@VladderGraf

4 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly :)

@spoonwithoutleg

4 жыл бұрын

Guys, as a native Polish speaker, my head is maybe not exploding, but I know, I'm not able to explain that to my Filipina girlfriend. I'm not bad in Polish, but to explain it and why is that and that... Kudos to all the teachers.

@tobyevans2474

4 жыл бұрын

At some point, I could not process, I just took it in.

@T3mas1

4 жыл бұрын

I am Czech and I had the very same feeling.

@NorseGraphic

4 жыл бұрын

I got a blue screen of death and shut down. Not my computer. Me.

A niechaj narodowie wżdy postronni znają, iż Polacy nie gęsi, iż swój język mają.

@Antonio-pz2cu

4 жыл бұрын

Spierdalaj

@kucikukan

4 жыл бұрын

@@Antonio-pz2cu Sprecyzuj

@Antonio-pz2cu

4 жыл бұрын

Bardzo proszę szanownego Pana o spierdalanie z sekcji komentarzy

@Antonio-pz2cu

4 жыл бұрын

Nie no, nudzi mi się po prostu. Przepraszam, nie chciałem Cię obrazić

@kucikukan

4 жыл бұрын

@@Antonio-pz2cu Dziękuję szanownemu Panu za tę jakże pouczającą i merytoryczną wypowiedź Jestem pewny, że w przyszłości nasze wnuki będą się zastanawiały "co autor miał na myśli"

As a third generation Polish-American, I'm fascinated. I've learned a lot by watching this video. Thank you!

@sebastiankrajewski2029

Жыл бұрын

No, you're just american. The fact that your grandfather was a shoemaker doesn't make you one.

@aak8297

Жыл бұрын

That's lovely Kathy! There is a lot to be proud of when it comes to your roots, don't let anyone fool you!

@niewiem553

Жыл бұрын

yet there are mistakes in the video

@jamesbukowski

Жыл бұрын

Super Kasia. Cieszymy się razem z Tobą 👌😉

@penultimania4295

Жыл бұрын

@Sebastian Krajewski exactly lol, I'm so fed up with Americans claiming they are 'xyz-American' when they were born and have spent their entire life in America. You are NOT one of us, whatever the country may be. Everyone looks at you like you're insane. Polką to ty nie jesteś, więc daruj sobie Amerykańska dziewko o/

A lot of love to Poland from Ukraine ❤️❤️❤️ We love you with all our hearts!

@KristVladic

Жыл бұрын

@Khokhol Slayer Wołyń, Katyń, Palmiry, Ponary. Pamiętamy, nie zapominamy. Nie dajemy putinowcom marzącym o nowym Katyniu.. ...grać naszymi ofiarami.

@lomejordepolonia

Жыл бұрын

God bless Ukraine!

@opabinnier

10 ай бұрын

That is so sweet.

@Doones51

7 ай бұрын

i have many DNA relatives in Ukraine. I pray for the war to be over and for the Russians leaving your country.

@djvojtan

5 ай бұрын

Slava Ukrainie!

„Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki.” Greetings from Hungary.

@RetroDiamond07

4 жыл бұрын

Júlia Polyákné Kelemen thanks brothers grettings from Poland too!

@danielkobos3609

4 жыл бұрын

Ria ria Hungaria! Greetings grom Poland

@josephlombardo5711

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Julia for a nice words greetings from Poland:)

As a native speaker of Polish I am beyond grateful that I didn’t have to learn it

@maxx1014

4 жыл бұрын

The question is who has to learn Polish

@landyandy270

4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty certain I heard a chorus of 'Amen' then.

@Byrod1

4 жыл бұрын

@@maxx1014 Those that want to live in Poland have to learn it, hundreds of thousands of refugees from fucked up Western Europe.

@jjwp-ql5rv

4 жыл бұрын

You still had to learn it. You weren't born talking it.

@janstozek4850

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, if I had to learn it as a second language, I'd probably never been able to do it. Although I've met several foreigners speaking very good Polish. And not all of them are Ukrainians, who catch it very fast, if they are up to.

I am polish and I think you didnt mention VERY important factor - Melody of our language. Using different intonation/stress/melody the sentence can be fact or question. 'On jest szybki.' can be translate as 'He's fast.' or 'Is he fast?' Of course in written language you'll use question mark and all is clear. 'On jest szybki?' But in spoken language we dont use questionmarks :D Just change intonation/melody. BTW - good work!

Moving to Poland to study economics and Polish! Studied it for a month by myself now and gotta say, a very interesting language. Knowing Russian definately helps here to an extent 😅

@plrc4593

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Poland

dear englishmen kind, this is most forms of word eat in polish, and it isn't all forms of eat: Jeść - to eat (unfinished) Zjeść - to eat (finished) Jadać - to eat (unfinished + regularly for X peroid of time, "I like to eat at KFC") Zjadać - to eat (finished + regulary, "I like to eat fish bones") Jem - I eat Zjem - I will eat Jadam - I eat (unfinished + regularly for X peroid of time, "I eat at KFC") Zjadam - I eat (finished + regulary, "I eat fish bones") Jesz - you eat Zjesz - you will eat Jadasz - you eat (unfinished + regularly for X peroid of time, "You eat at KFC") Zjadasz - you eat (finished + regulary, "You eat fish bones") Je - he/she/it eats Zje - he/she/it will eat Jada - he/she/it eats (finished + regularly for X peroid of time, "He eats at KFC") Zjada - he/she/it eats (finished + regulary, "He eats fish bones") Jemy - we eat Zjemy - we will eat Jadamy - we eat (unfinished + regularly for X peroid of time, "We eat at KFC") Zjadamy - we eat (finished + regularly, "We eat fish bones") Jecie - you eat Zjecie - you will eat Jadacie - you eat (unfinished + regularly for X peroid of time, "You eat at KFC") Zjadacie - you eat (finished + regularly, "You eat fish bones") Jedzą - they eat Zjedzą - they will eat Jadają - they eat (unfinished for X peroid of time, "We eat in KFC") Zjadają - they eat (finished + regularly, "We eat fish bones") Jadłem - I [man] was eating (unfinished) Jadłam - I [woman] was eating (unfinished) Jadłeś - you [man] were eating (unfinished) Jadłaś - you [woman] were eating (unfinished) Zjadłem - I [man] ate (finished) Zjadłam - I [woman] ate (finished) Zjadłeś - you [man] ate (finished) Zjadłaś - you [woman] ate (finished) Jadałem - I [man] used to eat (unfinished + reguraly in the past (unfinished at the time) = I'm not doing it anymore, "I used to eat KFC") Jadałam - I [woman] used to eat (reguraly in the past + unfinished at the time = I'm not doing it anymore, "I used to eat at KFC") Zjadałem - I [man] used to eat (regularly in the past + finished at the time, "I used to eat fish bones") Zjadałam - I [woman] used to eat (regularly in the past + finished at the time, "I used to eat fish bones") Zjadałeś - You [man] used to eat (regularly in the past + finished at the time, "You used to eat fish bones") Zjadałaś - You [woman] used to eat (regularly in the past + finished at the time, "You used to eat fish bones") Jadł - he was eating (unfinished) Jadła -she was eating (unfinished) Jadło - it was eating (unfinished) Zjadł - he ate (finished) Zjadał - he used to eat (regularly in the past + finished at the time) Zjadła - she ate (finished) Zjadała - she used to eat (regularly in the past + finished at the time) Zjadło - it ate (finished) Zjadało - it used to eat (regularly in the past + finished at the time) Jedliśmy - we [men] were eating (unfinished) Jadłyśmy - we [women] were eating (unfinished) Jadaliśmy - we [men] used to eat (regularly it the past for X peroid of time + unfinished at the time, "We used to it at KFC") Jadałyśmy - we [women] used to it (regularly it the past for X peroid of time + unfinished at the time, "We used to it at KFC") Zjadaliśmy - we [men] used to eat (regularly it the past + finished at the time, "We used to eat fish bones") Zjadałyśmy - we [women] used to eat (regularly it the past + finished at the time, "We used to eat fish bones") Jedliście - you [men] were eating (unfinished) Jadłyście - you [women] were eating (unfinished) Jadaliście - you [men] used to eat (unfinished at the time) Jadałyście - you [women] used to eat (unfinished at the time) Zjedliście - you [men] ate (finished) Zjadłyście - you [women] ate (finished) Jedli - they [men] were eating (unfinished) Jadły - they [women] were eating (unfinished) Jadali - they [men] used to eat (unfinished at the time) Jadały - they [women] used to eat (unfinished at the time) Zjedli - they [men] ate (finished) Zjadły - they [women] ate (finished) Zjadali - they [men] used to eat (unfinished at the time) Zjadały - they [women] used to eat (unfinished at the time) Jedzono - (there was) an eating (unfinished at the time), "There was a dinner. Eating vegan meals (unfinished)." Zjedzono - (there was) an eating (finished at the time), "There was a dinner. Eating vegan meals (finished)." Jadano - (there was) an eating (regularly + unfinished at the time), "In medival Europe there was no eating of potatos." Zjadano - (there was) an eating (regularly + finished at the time), "In royal spheres there was no eating of fish bones." Jedz - eat (unfinished){order}, "Keep eating" Zjedz - eat (finished){order}, "Eat it" Jadaj - eat (regularly and unfinished){order}, "Eat more vitamins." Zjadaj - eat (regularly and finished){order}, "Eat whole meals." (in case of "eat" there is no difference here, but it can be for other verbs") Jedzmy - let's eat (present, unfinished) Zjedzmy - let's eat (present, finished), "Let's eat that pizza, don't order next one" Jadajmy - let's eat (in future + regularly + unfinished), "Let's eat at KFC more often." Zjadajmy - let's eat (in future + regularly + finished) Jedzcie - you [plural] eat {order}, "Eat a soup now" Zjedzcie - you [plural] eat (finished){order} Jadajcie - you [plural] eat (regularly and unfinished {order}, "Eat more vitamins." Zjadajcie - you [plural] eat (regularly and finished {order} Jadłbym - I [man] would eat (unfinished = without specified intention) Zjadłbym - I [man] would eat (finished = with intention to finish it) Jadłabym - I [woman] would eat (unfinished) Zjadłabym - I [woman] would eat (finished) Jadłbyś - you [man] would eat (unfinished) Jadłabyś - you [woman] would eat (unfinished) Zjadłbyś - you [man] would eat (finished) Zjadłabyś - you [woman] would eat (finished) Jadłby - he would eat (unfinished) Jadłaby - she would eat (unfinished) Jadłoby - it would eat (unfinished) Zjadłby - he would eat (finished) Zjadłaby - she would eat (finished) Zjadłoby - it would eat (finished) Jadałbym - I [man] would eat (regularly + unfinished) Jadłabym - I [woman] would eat (regularly + unfinished) Zjadałbym - I [man] would eat (regularly + finished) Zjadałabym - I [woman] would eat (regularly + finished) Jadałbyś - you [man] would eat (regularly + unfinished) Jadałabyś - you [woman] would eat (regularly + unfinished) Zjadałbyś - you [man] would eat (regularly + finished) Zjadałabyś - you [woman] would eat (regularly + finished) Jadłby - he would eat (unfinished) Zjadłby - he would eat (finished) Jadałaby - she would eat (unfinished) Zjadałaby - she would eat (finished) Jadłoby - it would eat (unfinished) Zjadłoby - it would eat (finished) Jedlibyśmy - we [men] would eat (unfinished) Jedłybyśmy - we [women] would eat (unfinished) Zjedlibyśmy - we [men] would eat (finished) Zjadłybyśmy - we [women] would eat (finished) Jadalibyśmy - we [men] would eat (regularly + unfinished) Jadałybyśmy - we [women] woule eat (regularly + unfinished) Zjadalibyśmy - we [men] would eat (regularly + finished) Zjadałybyśmy - we [women] would eat (regularly + finished) Jedlibyście - you [men] would eat (unfinished) Jedłybyście - you [women] would eat (unfinished) Zjedlibyście - you [men] would eat (finished) Zjadłybyście - you [women] would eat (finished) Jadalibyście - you [men] would eat (regularly + unfinished) Jadałybyście - you [women] would eat (regularly + unfinished) Zjadalibyście - you [men] would eat (regularly + finished) Zjadałybyście - you [women] would eat (regularly + finished) Jedliby - they [men] would eat (unfinished) Jadłyby - they [women] would eat (unfinished) Zjedliby - they [men] would eat (finished) Zjadłyby - they [women] would eat (finished) Jadaliby - they [men] would eat (regularly + unfinished) Jadałyby - they [women] would eat (regularly + unfinished) Zjadaliby - they [men] would eat (regularly + finished) Zjadałyby - they [women] would eat (regularly + finished) >>> Jedzony - being eaten (masculine)(unfinished), "This meal is being eaten." Jedzona - being eaten (feminine)(unfinished), "This soup is being eaten." Zjedzony - being eaten (masculine)(finished), "This meal has been eaten." Zjedzona - being eaten (feminine)(finished), "This suop has been eaten." Jedzeni - being eaten (plural masculine)(unfinished), Jedzone - being eaten (plural feminine)(unfinished), "Apples are being eaten by worms." Zjedzeni - being eaten (plural masculine)(finished), Zjedzone - being eaten (plural feminine)(finished), "Apples have been eaten by worms." Jadany - eaten (masculine)(unfinished), "That meal is often eaten in Spain" Jadana - eaten (feminine)(unfinished), "Pizza is usually eaten with ketchup" Jadani - eaten (prural masculine)(unfinished) Jadane - eaten (plural feminine)(unfinished), "Slogs are eaten in France" Zjadany - eaten (masculine)(finished) Zjadana - eaten (feminine)(finished) Zjadani - eaten (prural masculine)(finished) Zjadane - eaten (plural feminine)(finished), "Corpses of dead animals are eaten by worms" there is some more, but it was too hard to translate

@skibi__

4 жыл бұрын

I respect that

@impact0r

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, stick it to them, the englishmen kind!

@aVeColleCter

4 жыл бұрын

tak pokrótce

@user-tg4jn1fn1b

4 жыл бұрын

Najdłuższy komentarz ever! 👍

@mangozjebuspospolitus6638

4 жыл бұрын

Boże, aż zaczęłam dziwnie patrzeć na te słowa xF

Say "chrząszcz" and you get Polish passport for free.

@Niedorzecze

4 жыл бұрын

translate.google.pl/?hl=pl#view=home&op=translate&sl=pl&tl=en&text=w%20Szczebrzeszynie%20chrz%C4%85szcz%20brzmi%20w%20trzcinie

@Niedorzecze

4 жыл бұрын

translate.google.pl/?hl=pl#view=home&op=translate&sl=pl&tl=en&text=st%C3%B3%C5%82%20z%20powy%C5%82amywanymi%20nogami

@Niedorzecze

4 жыл бұрын

That is better

@janbury8113

4 жыл бұрын

Or 'strzelec' (eng. shooter) :)

@Purrczak

4 жыл бұрын

Try Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

Thanks for the first comprehensive and comprehensible explanation of the verb aspect I've ever come across. Dziękuję bardzo 🙂

I recently went to poland for a vacation, warszawa is absolutely lovely. Although I was a very basic understanding I've started to put alot more work into it. A great thing to practice when you learn how to say something new is to list out all of the ways you could use it in every form of a sentence. I know that helps me with getting used to the looser syntactical rules. Hopefully I'll be able to move there for my doctorate, and by then I'll speak much better. Go poland!

As a Polish native speaker i would say: Ok. That was the basics. Now let's talk about the exceptions 😂🤣

@Aciek25

4 жыл бұрын

And our inconsistent grammar

@Turagrong

4 жыл бұрын

As a Czech I don't believe you have so few declension and conjugation classes :-)

@henningbartels6245

4 жыл бұрын

I ' ve once heart that Polish has the most exceptions amoung the Slavic languages?!

@ewaleokadia76

4 жыл бұрын

In Polish, there are exceptions of exceptions. I took Polish in college so that I could better improve in the language although I already spoke it and could read and write it. My grandparents, especially, grandpa taught me the most.😀

@piotrr4509

4 жыл бұрын

@@henningbartels6245 The biggest problem is that if you are not a native speaker you will never rember all the exceptions, becouse even native speakers don't remember them

English speaker: How hard is Polish? Polish speaker: Tak

@user-yd8fn1iz3v

4 жыл бұрын

*Polisz spikier: KURWA!

@WrzodX

4 жыл бұрын

"Tak" can be translated as "so much".

@_Killkor

4 жыл бұрын

Polish speaker: No No, as "yeah". It's a very informal alternative to "tak".

@vinny9868

4 жыл бұрын

Slightly easier than English. And English is a hell of a language.

@pepe72x

4 жыл бұрын

AFAIR it is Group 4.

There are also quite interesting iterative verb forms in Polish. They're used with some verbs. to see - widzieć (imperfective form), zobaczyć (perfective form), widywać iterative form - to see from time to time; to go/walk - chodzić/iść (imperf. form), pójść (perf. form), chadzać (iterative form); to sleep - spać (imperf. f.), zasnąć (perf. f.), sypiać (iterative f.). All these verbs conjugate. E.g. the 1st person sg.: chodziłem / poszedłem / chadzałem; widziałem / zobaczylem / widywałem.

@Matthew.Morycinski

8 ай бұрын

Chodziłem do szkoły = I used to go to school. Chadzałem do szkoły = I used to go to school, sometimes. (more as a joke, I did not make it a habit to go to school.) 😀

Więcej nauczyłem o swoim języku z filmiku po angielsku, niż przez 9 lat nauki polskiego w szkole :D

@IthliniEllyanSenah

Жыл бұрын

No to nie ma się czym chwalić, bo to wiedza ze szkoły podstawowej :I

@maciejfratczak4136

Жыл бұрын

widocznie obcokrajowcy spoglądają nań bardziej pragmatycznie. Ciekawe jest rozróżnienie czasowników w kategoriach przeszłość - nieprzeszłość.

@Kirito865

Жыл бұрын

​@@IthliniEllyanSenah Fakt jest taki, że dla przeciętnego człowieka to nie ma większego znaczenia, chyba że bierze udział w zawodach związanych z językoznawstwem. W pewnym momencie, instynktownie potrafimy pisać, czytać i mówić. Ja sam zacząłem zwracać uwagę na te kwestie, kiedy już osiągnąłem konkretny poziom w kilku językach, między innymi, angielskim, niemieckim teraz polski. [Jestem Japończykiem]. Robiłem to jednak tylko po to, aby móc sporządzać pewne dokumentacje, które musiały spełniać najwyższe standardy. Nadmienię, że przeczytałem blisko 250 książek po polsku, każda miała od 300 do 1000 stron. Obejrzałem setki filmów, grałem w dziesiątki gier i codziennie czytam polskie portale. Dopiero teraz do tego podchodzę, bo mam zamiar również sporządzać i tłumaczyć dokumentacje na język polski. Myślę, mimo iż nigdy nie zacząłem się uczyć tych zasad, to jest zrozumiały i całkiem poprawny ortograficznie, interpunkcyjnie, gramatycznie i składniowo, choć nie jest idealnie.

@fikujez

11 ай бұрын

​@@IthliniEllyanSenahbyło, pamiętam jak mając 10-11 lat musiałem się uczyć tych rzeczy i kompletnie nie rozumiałem jak to działa (ani dlaczego się o tym uczę). Może teraz podstawa programowa się zmieniła, nie wiem, ale za moich czasów gramatyka była o wiele za wcześnie.

@opabinnier

10 ай бұрын

OMG. Shocking!

No one: Absolutely no one: Poles: *Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz*

@nomtbg

4 жыл бұрын

Urodzony Chrząszczyżewoszyce, powiat Łękołody 😀

@csweezey18

4 жыл бұрын

We call that "consonant soup."

@dziadek.b575

4 жыл бұрын

W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie ;)

@rufusx98

4 жыл бұрын

​@@dziadek.b575 I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie. ;3

@sharkinahat

4 жыл бұрын

Funny, except when your name is actually Grzegorz. These days, I just tell people my name is Greg.

okay, youtube recommendation. why are you showing me this. i'm already polish

@wojciech9538

4 жыл бұрын

May be you Just want to learn polish 🤔

@filipswiercz280

4 жыл бұрын

Polski jest łatwy... Przynajmniej dla mnie ;)

@turasogoras4728

4 жыл бұрын

@@filipswiercz280 bo jesteś polakiem ? xd

@nnawaia7462

4 жыл бұрын

Witamy

@astralvcid

4 жыл бұрын

@@wojciech9538 i already know polish lol

Thank you so much for your content! Your explanations blow my mind. You are so knowledgeable and manage to simplify even the most challenging topics! Well done!

In Polish scrabble, Z is worth only one point

@eddieb3913

4 жыл бұрын

But we have "Ź" and it is worth 9 points ;p

@sinapis

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

@tjaryma

4 жыл бұрын

@@sinapis In Norwegian Z is 0 points because we do not have any.

@B56H2

4 жыл бұрын

Damn it XD

@_Killkor

4 жыл бұрын

You have a point there ...I see myself out.

Maybe it's just me but I find it so adorable that Poles are so happy whenever somebody talks about their language

@szyszszysz2062

4 жыл бұрын

well yea :D

@VoCiech

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah pretty much this. But it's basically everywhere not only on youtube or just internet lol

@zuzannawalczak8178

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe that's because our leanguage isn't very popular in other countries. Many peoples are talking in Spanish, German, French and English (of course).

@vinceyo5073

4 жыл бұрын

So do I but as a Pole I can tell you that's sometimes annoying when some famous person mentions Poland and everyone in the country is screaming OH MY GOD SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT MY COUNTRY. Same thing is when Pole sees a polish name in the starring captions at the end of a movie OMG HIS LAST NAME SOUNDS LIKE POLISH OH MY OH MY. But just for the records I am a bit excited too, maybe not as the example I gave you few second ago but it's always cool to see that there are people who ain't polish and yet consider Poland great country. Hell it took loads of time to type that xd

@maugustyniak

4 жыл бұрын

I find it extremely suspicious and cannot help but think that our language is far too simple.

I randomly came across this video and I like it very much. You've focused on grammar of Polish language. However, there is also the ability to enrich vocabulary by adding prefixes that is quite a big part of the language. For example simple word "jechać" (to go) can have extra meaning by adding prefixes Wjechać - go in, go up Zjechać - go down Wyjechać - go out Przyjechać - arrive Przejechać - go over smth, pass by Odjechać - leave Zajechać - come in Wyjechać - go somewhere The similar rule may be applied to most verbs.

Wspaniałe, gorgeous, herrlich... Uczenie się języka polskiego to jakieś wyzwanie i dzieło miłośników. Dzięki temu wideo rozumiem, że osiąnęłem coś. Puh!

@worldclassyoutuber2085

Жыл бұрын

osiągnąłem*

@kinddesuniversums7685

Жыл бұрын

@@worldclassyoutuber2085 haha:) Oczywiście

@user-bb4iz7rs5p

4 ай бұрын

Gratuluję Ci kolego!

Me, an Italian girl: I have to go to Olsztyn in October for my Erasmus project, let's learn Polish to make new friends! Me after learning alphabet pronunciation and a few words: I... mustn't... give up...

@wiessiew9853

3 жыл бұрын

I have read that Italians learn Polish easiest of all from West Europe

@89Sawik

3 жыл бұрын

@@wiessiew9853 They still learn latin in schools, so inflections are more understandable for them ;) Italian colleague told me.

@gumkaczka6222

3 жыл бұрын

hah I'm from Olsztyn in Poland

@Laia92

3 жыл бұрын

@@89Sawik Not in all schools latin is studied, I didn't and never studied cases. But I'm learning Polish bit by bit, and I already can tell simple sentences. I'm in Poland now and I've seen Olsztyn, Gdańsk, Warszawa, Malbork castle, and a few other places. I really love your country!

@fabiolagiorgio839

3 жыл бұрын

@@wiessiew9853 I guess so, it seems like we're engaged with many of them LOL

Im dłużej tego słucham tym bardziej się zastanawiam jakim cudem ktokolwiek nie z Polski umie mówić tym językiem

@margplsr3120

2 жыл бұрын

są dużo trudniejsze języki także... ludzie potrafią nauczyć się chińskiego czy koreańskiego nie mówiąc o innych językach także.. :D

@motorolka164

2 жыл бұрын

@@margplsr3120 troche złe przykłady :) chiński ma łatwą gramatykę tylko pismo to zajęcie do końca życia, koreański jest inny od naszego, ale alfabet jest jak cyryliza tylko zapisywany z bloczkach sylabowych temu dziwnie wygląda. Trudnośc języka to raczej jak daleko jest od naszego. Masz np jezyk mlaskany w afryce. Angielski też do super łatwych dla nas nie jest. W polskim uwielbiam jak przed odmiany i słowotwórstwo łatwo się wyrazić :D

@krzysztofjozwiak8710

2 жыл бұрын

@@motorolka164 Jako Polak podzielam tą opinię w 100% - (tzn. co do chińskiego i koreańskiego też, ale to już po prostu znajomość faktów). Ale to prawda, że w naszym języku można powiedzieć to samo na wiele różnych sposobów, również dzięki neologizmom, z których bardzo obficie się korzysta, nie tylko w mowie potocznej, ale i w literaturze, oczywiście w poezji szczególnie. Ale nasz ortografia! O rety... ucze się jej całe życie... jak Chińczycy swoich znaków :)

@motorolka164

2 жыл бұрын

@@krzysztofjozwiak8710 mi się ortografia poprawiła w którym momencie w którym zaczęłam dużo czytać i pisząc wizualnie wiedziałam, że dobrze wybrałam. niestety przez internet mam obecnie problem z niektórymi słowami które co chwilę ktoś odkrywa na nowo w zapisie np skąd :D

@krzysztofjozwiak8710

2 жыл бұрын

@@motorolka164 - czy dobrze zrozumiałem, że jesteś Chinką? Jak by nie było, wygląda na to, że masz o wiele większą zdolność do języków niż ja :) nawet do mojego własnego :) :) :) A, tak nawiasem mówiąc - zachęcam swoje dzieci do nauki Mandaryńskiego. W przyszłym roku po prostu postawię im ultimatum! Pozdrawiam Serdecznie!

Bravo for this film, it had to take you al lot more time and energy to make it. Thank you.

17:02 - numbers _ending_ in 1-4 have different forms depending on the case and gender of the noun. E.g. jedna muszelka (1 shell), dwie, trzy, cztery muszelki (2, 3, 4 shells), piec, szesc, siedem,.. muszelek (5, 6, 7, ... shells). However, czerdziesci dwie muszelki (42 shells, same as 2), but czerdziesci piec muszelek (45 shells, same as 5). Very interesting for a native speaker nearly 40 years after my last grammar class. Did not realize this until started to think about it.

@walterweiss7124

Жыл бұрын

podzial podobnie jest w rosyjskim

@boryskrupa5102

Жыл бұрын

stop giving these pornographic examples!

As a Pole I want to say that Polish people know that their language is extremely difficult that's why they really really appreciate everyone who learns it. If you learn it don't be afraid to make mistakes, every Polish person will help you with pleasure.

@kensley94

4 жыл бұрын

I know they were very impressed that i could do tongue twisters :P

@abrahamberlin4519

4 жыл бұрын

Usually, the people are very kind and get happy when they hear a foreigner tryng to speak their language, but this doesn't happen in all countries, for example, from what I've heard, the Americans and French can be rude if you speak their language with your native accent. 😅 But as a native Spanish speaker, my eyes shine when I hear a foreigner tryng to speak my language. 😍

@Aciek25

4 жыл бұрын

@@kensley94 all of them? Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz, Chrząszczyrzewoszyce, powiat Łękołody?

@alittlebird3818

4 жыл бұрын

@@abrahamberlin4519 Soy de alemania y aprendo español. Me encanta el idioma mucho. Yo amo la cultura de los países en español. Y un dia voy a ser fluento y vistaré los países 🙂

@abrahamberlin4519

4 жыл бұрын

@@Shaun-Vargas, gracias, muchas gracias, es que de verdad he escuchado comentarios de mis paisanos que me dicen que han tenido algunos incidentes con los americanos sólo por el hecho de hablar con su acento, aunque hablen el inglés de forma gramaticalmente correcta y entendible. 😕

I'm Czech and basically this whole video, especially when he talked about the grammar, I was like: "Same. Same. Same. Same." :D Also, thumbs up for recognizing central Europe is a thing.

@TheWoodenshark

4 жыл бұрын

Hey you guys also have no vowel monsters like prst and strć. Easy for other slavic people to pronounce, absolute monstrosity for westerners.

@msmichellewinchester

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheWoodenshark Yeah, those are fun :D. That's because we kind of see r and l as half vowels. So then you have have things like "vlk zhlt prst a zdrh" which most English speakers would probably not believe is a full sentence :D.

@TheWoodenshark

4 жыл бұрын

Ok that one is pretty hardcore but one round of listening on google translate and I'm good. But still, this is insane.

@msmichellewinchester

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheWoodenshark I admire anyone who's learning Czech or any Slavic language. Learning another language is hard enough and especially one outside of your language family. Learning our insane grammar and consonant clusters is another level. But hey, at least we don't have articles :D.

@krzysztof-ratajczyk

4 жыл бұрын

@@msmichellewinchester "the same" - and this is the most beautiful, nejkrásnější :D

Great video! This is explained so well I'm actually shocked why anyone would put so much effort into knowing our language. Most of us know english so the barrier is not so big. As a Pole I would add a one small additional info to emphasize meaning of 'przeczytać' (perfective non past of read). Przeczytam actually means 'I will have it read in unspecified time, but I will, I promise, I have will to get it done' not just 'będę czytać' which exactly means 'I will read, I will be doing that but i don't know if I finish'. Przeczytałem means 'I finished the book' not just 'I finished the action of reading' which is 'czytałem' - 'I was reading, I finished that action but I did not finish the book'. The same with 'naprawię/ naprawiłem' and 'będę naprawiać/naprawiałem' (I promise to to finish the reparations/I repaired and I will be repairing/I was repairing). This is some kind of thinking about the future like it is already a past but more in sense of willing or expecting than being certain. It's like you see a car speeding towards a guy walking on the road looking into smartphone. You say 'kierowca przejedzie go zaraz' meaning 'the driver will be in a state of having him ran over already in a second'. You are almost sure it will happen having limited info. Or something like that. It's not so obvious all the time; Apart from video declinations are generally a bit easier than in latin but with many new symbols it gets even, I guess. Good thing we nowadays don't use past perfect or latin plusquamperfectum on a daily basis. But books, poetry and old people still can use it sometimes which is funny because many Poles even don't understand it. Examples: Now we say 'znikłem z oczu' - "I (or I had ) disappeared from sight(from eyes)' But some elders could say 'znikłem byłem z oczu' which exactly means 'I had disappeared from sight(from eyes)' But in polish it is not 'have' but 'to be' so person says 'I disappeared I was from the sight' it's just strange for unused people; And this pro-drop is very common. Normally we don't use 'Ja' 'I' while talking as it is obvious who from just the verb. We only use 'I' when we need to emphasize that it is myself who does something or list who did what. This is dead giveaway to tell the non native speakers as it's more like a instinct not a rule. Also we have cases of talking in third person which conveys either respect or lack of respect, or talking in plural forms. For example if you tell someone 'usiądzie' 'he/she will sit' but without saying who (3rd p. perfective non past as mentioned above) that actually is treated as an order from someone having even slightly more power over us. Used mostly in hospitals by nurses. But if you say 'Mamusia usiądzie' while talking to your Mum it means 'Mommy please sit'. You can say 'usiądzie' to someone while talking about someone other who is going to sit and this would be just as normal. Next thing is the plural form like pluralis maiestatis. It also conveys respect but I think not so much as it was used both by nobles and by communists. It's just more formal way from old times. In english 'you' is both singular and plural so you don't see difference. Last thing I wanted to mention is talking to someone in third person plural form. This is almost extinct I think but you can say to your grandmother 'Babcia usiądą' and treat one person as 'they' with utmost respect asking your grandmother to sit down. Also in english there would be no difference because verbs sound the same in every person singular and plural. These quirks can be confusing especially when non binary people are trying to change meanings of long established terms because they don't even know the're established

One of the distinctive features of Polish is a clear difference between formal and informal speech - every time you speak with an adult stranger, business relations (clients, but also suppliers) and many other cases, you use Mr. or Mrs. forms - Pan, Pani. This influences also the way the sentence is constructed, changing the verb to 3rd person even if the subject of the sentence is in 2nd person. For example, "idziesz do kina?" is a question "are you going to cinema", while if we use Pan/Pani, "Idzie Pani do kina?" or "Czy idzie Pani do kina?" verb "iść" (to go) changes from 2nd person "idziesz" to 3rd person "idzie"

@user-pk9qo1gd6r

Жыл бұрын

While this is a feature, it is not a distinctive feature at all.

@michastepien8326

Жыл бұрын

But that is in German, too. You can address some else as Du (you) or Sie (they) -- Sie is quite formal counterpart of Polish Pan/Pani.

"Poland is Central Europe" - that's right Paul. All Polish happy, no one complains in the comments.

@bezcz

4 жыл бұрын

Becouse its geographically correct. As Sławomir Mrożek said: on the east from west and west of east (na wchód od zachodu i na zachód od wschodu)

@pumcia718

4 жыл бұрын

I was so happy that someone finally got it right.

@andrzejklein7846

4 жыл бұрын

Poland is an Eastern European country located in Central Europe.

@p.s.1907

4 жыл бұрын

Poland is in central Europe.

@nick-.t

4 жыл бұрын

poland is the centre of the universe

I got headache after all this. I am glad I learned all this as a toddler.

@BocchiMan.

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@run2fire

2 жыл бұрын

Uczę się polskiego. Mam 51 lat! 😂

@szymon940

2 жыл бұрын

@@run2fire Powodzenia. Przyda się

@craftah

2 жыл бұрын

U just don't know anything about the languages.

@Aurora_1407

2 жыл бұрын

Me too 🙈😁

I love both the video and the comments! You guys are incredible! Take care

Please do a vid about Lithuanian and Latvian languages. These have completely separate language family. Which I believe makes these languages unique. Also in Lithuania there žemaičių language/dialect and tuteišų which I think is absolutely separate language mixed between polish, Belarus, Russian and Lithuanian altogether, its like hearing a sentence in all for languages all together.

@Ruunawayboy

Жыл бұрын

I agree in 100% The Lithuanian language is one of the oldest Slavic languages with its roots in ancient times

@michastepien8326

Жыл бұрын

@@Ruunawayboy Lithuanian is not Slavic language.

I have a Polish friend who’s 6’7” and waves his arms about and randomly switches to Polish when shouting or arguing and it’s both terrifying and hilarious 😂

@Zogixaas09

4 жыл бұрын

LOL bruuh

@VoleOfVoices

4 жыл бұрын

As A simple polish man i know how changing your language during argument to polish is super effective

@kingakwiecien426

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he said 'kurwa' sometimes? We said this word realy often XDD

@efeambroseenthusiast180

4 жыл бұрын

rty markowski lol

@efeambroseenthusiast180

4 жыл бұрын

Kinga Kwiecień yeah sometimes when he’s talking to female teachers and he also says “pierdolić” and “pieprzyć,” such a beautiful language 😂🇵🇱❤️

I am Czech, and I can recognize basically all the grammar rules and example sentences here. The only difference, which makes our languages unintelligible (kind of) are the words, that were borrowed from different languages. Our languages are therefore very close! Zdravím všechny Poláky z Česka!

@Aciek25

4 жыл бұрын

And the same last sentence in Polish would be: Pozdrawiam wszystkich Polaków z Czech! Quite similar for me.

@Robertoslaw.Iksinski

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Polish and you're right Jestem Polakiem i masz rację (in latinised "modern Polish" ) Jeśm Polak i masz prawdę (in Old Polish) Jsem Polák a máš pravdu (in Czech) Zdravím všechny Čechy z Polska!

@FrikInCasualMode

4 жыл бұрын

Shovel = "szpadel" in Polish, "rypadlo ipadlo" in Czech. "Rypadło ypadełko" = crude slang nickname for bed in Polish(from "rypać" - crude slang word for sex). Many a Czech elicited surprised snort of laughter from a Pole who hears this word not knowing the real meaning. We just can't help it, and we are usually very sorry for it - but many perfectly normal Czech words sound very amusing to us, Poles.

@danieldabczak1240

4 жыл бұрын

@@FrikInCasualMode Now's my turn. You, poles, use one word - Szukać/šukat all the time. It means to fuck in czech. In Harry Potter saga Harry plays a seeker (in czech chytač - "catcher"). In polish it's szukający (šukající - a person who is fucking someone right now). So funny. haha Besides shovel is "lopata" not rypadlo. I hadn't known what is rypadlo until some polak told me it's so funny, then I found out it's "bagr"

@nextghost

4 жыл бұрын

@@FrikInCasualMode Shovel is called "lopata" in Czech. "Rypadlo" is an excavator. Also: In Polish, "szukać" = to look for something In Czech, "šukat" = to fuck

❤...straight forward and really knowledgeable way to get through complexity of subject....love the way i see my language be so good example it this pill...kudos

Actually, the perfective verb used in the past means not only that the action has been completed, but also that the goal of the action has been accomplished, i.e. „przeczytałem” means I finished reading and I have read the book to the end.

I'm Polish and I watch English guy teaching me how to speak Polish. What is my life

@pawemadej94

4 жыл бұрын

He's not english

@aksb2482

4 жыл бұрын

He's actually Canadian

@UrPPhard

4 жыл бұрын

@@aksb2482 ok thanks. I didn't know

@efisgpr

4 жыл бұрын

Least you're practicing English ...

@Przemo-c

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Loving it, especially the part when finally something simple about polish language is presented at 19min on a 22min video.

Polish ppl after they see a video about poland: Hippity hoppity this comment section is our property. Edit: the replies to this comment are pure cringe ugh

@Sandra-uu7tf

4 жыл бұрын

Muczkapl ten komentarz ma za mało łapek w góre

@sans_theskeleton

4 жыл бұрын

That's so true (I'm polish btw)

@compulsivecommenter990

4 жыл бұрын

Ohhh kurwa

@johnuferbach9166

4 жыл бұрын

same goes for German ppl and videos about German things... maybe it's just what ppl do? xD

@insertcoolnamehere9087

4 жыл бұрын

Tak :)

About the "nie ma" part at the end. It comes from the old polish form "nie masz ci" which means something like "you don't have him/her/it here". For example: "Nie ma go tu" would be "nie masz ci go" (you don't have him here). It was eventually shortened into "nie ma".

It's important to remember that native speakers do never study grammar. We should just get inmmersed in the language. Languages were developed to acquire them, not to be studied, unless you want to be a teacher or a writer. I mean is always good to have some grammar knowledge, but you may not think about it when you're having a conversation.

they told me more about my native language than i've ever learned by my entire education

@MrsMagdalenaKamila

4 жыл бұрын

Zgadza się 🙈👍

@nortche6339

4 жыл бұрын

nie wiem jak wy, ale ja spędziłam ostatnie 8 lat w szkole ucząc się tego

@uuufu9553

4 жыл бұрын

@@nortche6339 nie zawsze uczyc sie to rowniez nauczyc

@nortche6339

4 жыл бұрын

@@uuufu9553 no, to akurat prawda. nie zrozumiałam dobrze twojego komentarza

@triciakemp8528

4 жыл бұрын

@@nortche6339 omg same lmao

"When the enemy cannot learn your language, you already won" Sun Tzu Art of War

@teoplaysgames123

3 жыл бұрын

our enemies did need to learn polish, They just learnt how to shot to us xD

@anielad8721

3 жыл бұрын

@@teoplaysgames123 XDDD i don’t understand a single thing

@barrowwiththecanoon6655

3 жыл бұрын

@@anielad8721 let me translate, "our enemies didn't needed to learn our language, they just learned how to shoot us out", it's about WW2 events

@Luxtenebris2467

3 жыл бұрын

" our enemies didn't needed to learn our language, they just learned how buy us and converted to the enemy side"

@pOpCoRn0531

3 жыл бұрын

Unless you get “blitzed.”

And I thought Russian sounded like Portuguese, but Polish definitely beats it with its nasal vowels!

I would add one more important feature of Polish language: DIMINUTIVES OF NOUNS. Examples: pies - piesek (dog - little dog) miecze - mieczyki (swords - little swords) szklanka - szklaneczka (glass [of tea] - little glass) brody - bródki (beards - little beards) okno - okienko (window - little window) oka - oczka (eyes - little eyes) There are lots of forms, endings and rules in this.

I accidently installed Windows in Polish instead of Portuguese, there are still some words that are in Polish even though I changed the system language. I don't have a headphone, I have a Glósniki. I am almost fluent....

@The0Stroy

4 жыл бұрын

Głośniki are "speakers" Słuchawki are "headphones"

@yahya_elistinsary

4 жыл бұрын

@@The0Stroy To Russians speaker some Polish words sound very funny because they take a know root en and change it to make it sound funny. Glosniki is maybe from golas en golas is voice Sluchawki is from sluchat to listen. If you would say this to a Russian person we would understand what would be mean.

@Grzegoo

4 жыл бұрын

@@The0Stroy give the guy a break, it's windows.

@dzejrid

4 жыл бұрын

@@Grzegoo break. Nie ma za co ;)

@jarlfenrir

4 жыл бұрын

@@yahya_elistinsary Głośniki comes from "głos". Głos means a voice in polish. Golas in polish means a naked person :P

Me: Can you give me the short version? Paul: This is the short version

@jocker3648

3 жыл бұрын

Nemanul Coy This is a very short version. Paul did not mention double or triple denial, which can also be a confirmation. He did not raise the exceptions, which have their exceptions, and there are other exceptions from them.

Another honorable mention: In Polish you can have double or even triple or quadruple negations and it it still a negation

As a Polish person i'm proud of you for learning it and putting in your time and effort

I am Serbian and I can't believe how similar Serbian and Polish are in terms of grammar. For every single feature, I was like: "Same!", even for the extra one.

@TheRazorJDM

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like Slavic languages from these groups mentioned in beginning (west, east, etc), if they are in same group they gonna be very similar to eachother when it comes to grammar and way we build sentence. That's why Serbian is so similar, and I assume if I would learn Serbian words, we could easily communicate :3

@mikeoxlong4358

4 жыл бұрын

Nie pierdol serio?

@szorstkismuky3887

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikeoxlong4358 ty nie masz czym pierdolić xD

@mikeoxlong4358

4 жыл бұрын

@@szorstkismuky3887 ty nie masz co pierdolić

@szorstkismuky3887

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikeoxlong4358 to.spytaj swoich rodziców

5 minutes in : I love the history of the Polish language ! 10 minutes in : The ortoghraphy is a bit complicated, but that's pretty good! 11 minutes in : Polish has both singular and plural nouns and all of them have masculine, feminine, and neutral form? Well a bit hard but still acceptable. 15 minutes in : see *verb conjugation* and *noun cases* and tons of different form (dizzy) 20 minutes in : Wszyscy? HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE THAT???!! 22 minutes in : Alright. Life's is too short to learn Polish. Also : Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz : **Laughs in Polish**

@michakubiak9922

4 жыл бұрын

Speaking of verbs conjugation the verb "czytać" for example, which means "to read" has total of 110 forms depending on the part of the speech (including tenses, conditional and participles). So, yes it's very confusing for the foreigners.

@mateuszwenderski6779

4 жыл бұрын

oh come on, two years old children usually can speak Polish fluently :)

@dandanovich6729

4 жыл бұрын

Fellow Russian reaction here: 5 mins: Well. Better forget that part 10 mins: Why 11 mins: Now we're talking 15 mins: A little bit outdated. We've got rid of many of those centuries ago. Now we have it more modern. And more complex (LAUGHS IN ГРАММАТИКА) 20 mins: вшисци 22 mins: I will never learn it anyway Гжегош Бженчишчикевич

@clairebear0713

4 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@hatridmunpitaa

4 жыл бұрын

[f-shis-tsih]

It is very nice to hear how learn Polish language in English 😊 usualy in Poland we learn this informations in Polish or we learn English grammar in Polish 😊 great experience! Thanks for this movie and your respect for us and our beauty Polish language! 🇵🇱❤️

Polnisch ist so ne schöne Sprache, ich will so gerne lernen

@memensziom2846

Жыл бұрын

Viel Glück! :D

@borntobesaint3733

Жыл бұрын

ich komme aus Polen, ich will gerne helfen

@michaelhenter2856

Жыл бұрын

Nun, Schönheit ist sichetlich eine ganz individuelle Empfindung. Leider finde ich die polnische Sprache eine der am wenigsten gut klingenden Sprachen Europas. Wie gesagt, mein persönliches Gefühl.

@danielszczesny6413

Жыл бұрын

Bro you must be masochisty to do such a think when i look at this video now i see how fucked up is my leaungue compair to other nations xd

@boryskrupa5102

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelhenter2856 machine guns sound much better for german ears. We are all well aware of that.