Englishman Reacts to... How to read Polish or something 

"So there you go! I can now read english!" Well congratulations, Rob.

😂 !!! Bravo. I can’t even imagine how hard it must be to pronounce it for you. But it’s only a matter of time and practice. You’re doing perfectly well!

Brawo Rob! Podziwiam twój zapał do nauki polskiego i twoje zaintersowanie polska kulturą 😁

Polish language for foreigners is very hard to pronounce already but the grammar, oh man it is an another level. Pronounced between grammar is like jumping from 1st floor and 20th floor

Cześć Rob! Jestem też z Anglii i uczę się też polskiego! One thing I've found really useful to know about is consonant devoicing. In the video he mentions the "w" in "wszyczy" being pronounced like an "f", which would be an example of this. The thing is, "w" (or English "v") and "f" are basically the same sound, except that in the case of "w" / "v" we vibrate our vocal chords. So "w" is called a voiced consonant, whereas "f" is unvoiced. You can literally feel this difference if you touch your Adam's apple and say the sounds. It turns out that in Polish, consonant clusters (i.e. consonants next to each other with no vowels in between) are always either all voiced or all unvoiced. In the word "wszyczy", the "w" is "devoiced" and becomes "f", but the reason for this is that "sz" is unvoiced and you can't have a mix of voiced and unvoiced consonants in a consonant cluster. There's a really good explanation here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tb_HJENSqHg.htmlsi=JMsimRpSJf9w6b33 P.S. When we devoice everything, that's what we call whispering. Or in other words, whispering is talking without vibrating our vocal chords at all.

Good job, Rob! The reason why "w" in "wszyscy" is pronounced as "f" (it becomes voiceless) is because it is followed by a voiceless "sz". If it were followed by a "ż" (voiced counterpart of "sz"), it would remain "w" (that is an English v sound), e.g. in the word "wżer".

He forgot to mention that in a word "wstrzemięźliwe" 'rz' is spelled after voiceless 't' which is gonna change voiced 'rz' to voiceless 'sz' as it is almost impossible to pronounce voiced 'rz' after voiceless consonant. The rest was laid out pretty nicely ;)

Really nice video :) About "ń" and "ni", I was waiting for "słońce" and "słonice", but it's still great lesson of polish spelling.

0:06 Excellent!

I'm Polish, and I'm really happy that I don't have to learn this language, 😂 I would give up after one sentence. Good job, your Polish is good 👍

Bardzo fajna lekcja polskiego, na śmiesznie człowiek szybciej się uczy. Rob, świetnie sobie radzisz, fantastycznie szybko się uczysz 😍 Pozdrawiam ze Szczecina ! (Nazwa mojego miasta też jest fajna do ćwiczenia wymowy...😁)

Rob keep going to learn. You got entire life 😂 But to be serious... You are trying super hard difficult language to learn. Big respect, can't wait to see you in hmmm... one year... Best luck my man 👍👊

Robert, zrób nam fajnie i przecztaj: "Wczoraj ja czekałem 15 minut na autobus", "Pies szczeka na swojego pana" 😂 Kabaret Ani mru mru - Angielskie wyjście, lekcja języka polskiego

im czech so i can give you the czech equivalent of "wszyscy" which is "všichni" where "š" is like "sh" which in polish is the "sz". then "szczodrze" in czech is "štědře" where "ř" is "rz" in polish and as the video said, there is no english equivalent. and "ě" well the pronounciation depends on what the letter is before this, in some cases it can be pronounced as "je" which is in english like "ye" in "YEP" and in other cases it can change the spelling of the letter before the "ě" and the "ě" itself is pronounced like normal "E". In this case it changes like this : "tě" -> "ťe" where Ť ( ť ) and the only example for a word that uses the same pronounciation of that is "STEW" in english... same happens for "ti" where the T becomes Ť.

This is amazing. If You learn this roles You can read Polish. It's probably best Polish lesson what I ever seen.

Well done! I didn't expect you to read it properly, but you did great job. I could easily understand you. And that sentence is as hard as it gets.

i love listenng to foreigners trying to pronounce polish. It's just hilarious

The fact that when there’s a video about non poles reading polish, polish community just unities and watches the video (and most of the time leaves positive comments) is really wholesome But jokes aside honestly great job Rob, you’re pronouncing was mostly on point (except wstrzemięźliwie but honestly I hate that word too)

6:10 you said "smok" perfectly, it means dragon in polish!

Wow. That guy is very good at explaining that.

It was funny to watch how someone tries to learn polish xd You did pretty well anyway! My favourite polish world is "rześki" - means "someone is full of energy" or "feeling of cold but it is refreshing". "Lubię wychodzić w zimę na dwór w samym podkoszulku, jest to rześkie!" :> but it is not a common word

Rob, If anyone never told you.... You can play with language when you speak Polish. It's like a game. I don't see it in English culture.

Brawo,dajesz radę😅

That sentence from the thumbnail. Nothing further from truth. Bees like alcohol. But European bees you can pet and they rather will not cause any trouble

Rob brawo, bardzo dobrze Panu idzie, język polski to jeden z najtrudniejszych języków świata, a Pan podjął to wyzwanie😊

The difference between "Before watching" and "After watching" is surprisingly big.

Wow, your polish progress is amazing!

G4U Rob. Keep going.with learning. Don't give up. You're doing great 👍

Polish speakers soften consonants. The last consonant in a word is always soft. B becomes P, D becomes T, W becomes F, G becomes K, RZ becomes SZ. In addition a soft consonant makes the preceding one soft as way. W in wszyscy sounds F but in Wrzątek W sounds like W because RZ is hard. D in kreda sounds like D. In kredka it sounds like T because the K is soft and softens the D into K

You've done good job for someone who tried Polish language first time. Keep going!

Well done Rob! So proud of you :)

It is a very good educating video! Respect for this author 🎉 good job! And for you too for learning 😁

"Warszawa 1944 | Cały film | II wojna światowa ". Polecam. Piękny film

Akira Toriyama creator of Dragon Ball passed away. 😶 I am speechless.

Hehehehe! 🤣 Fantastic vlog and respect for trying! Small correction of the translation: "Wstrzemięźliwe pszczoły" should be "temperate bees" instead of "temperamental". If you wish to continue challenges, could you try next time: "Czy możesz przeczytać źdźbło?". This one is really mean. Good luck! 😉

I love the way that the author of the video deals with the subject. I have the same reflection about it. Even if I like English language, its notation is really strange and chaotic. In this case Polish is much more simple and organised. Anyway, you are getting better and better, Rob! Keep it up!

Good job. Don't give up! Polish is amazing, you will see.

yo, i haven't checked out your vids in a bit but what you said in the beginning sounded so good! good luck in your studies! pozdrowienia z polski! edit: you did great pronouncing the absurd sentence in the video, too! it sounded great, even if your "wst" made me chuckle

WOW, really nice try 👏 I'm impressed. You're really good at Polish pronunciation.

As a Pole, I understood you with your first attempt with bees, very nice

You're a SUPERSTAR, Rob! Two months in Poland and you'll be fluent! 🤘

I like that 13:40 dzwonek when you pronounce that d-zwonek a second before there was a reminder that its dzwonek not d-zwonek.

howtopolish... love this men

Not bad at all, with such after all difficult words. And the whole video, explaining the rules of pronounciation in Polish by using some comparisons to English, was also quite interesting.

12:19 nowadays you can't hear the difference, because it died, but long ago it really was pronounced differently 😅

But we do soften the 'rz' sound in wstrzemięźliwi to our 'sz' or English 'sh' sound, so our 'rz' is not always the same

2:48 - "Wrzyzdżi, yeah!" 😂btw Its my first comment here. I discovered your channel by looking for Piotr Szumowski videos. You are doing a really good job mate.

What you said about "ą" becoming "om" - it low key happen to "ł" - before WW2, especially on the east of Poland it was pronounced as "hard L" instead of how it is nowadays.

Amazing job with speaking. Repeating by syllables make it even better. I think every polish native speaker would understand You. I would say, not everyone of Polish people could even say this bee sentence as well, as You did. Pozdrawiam serdecznie :)

Great video and you did very well! 😀 Your pronunciation is really good and with a little practice you'll deifinitely get there in no time. Unlike me... I will always sound Polish while speaking English. I don't know why but when I try to imitate the accent I fell as if I am mocking Brits 😅. So I guess I'll just stick to tougher sounds 😔 P.S. there is actually a scene from the movie Miś (the same one where they eat from the chained plates) where a lady announcing information in English is putting dumplings in her mouth to sound more English - that's how I feel.

It's easy to understand what you're trying to say. So if you persevere in learning, the results will definitely be very good.

reading Polish is easy if you know the sounds you need to make. personaly i think reading Polish is the simplest part of the language...

Hi Rob, I see significant progress in learning Polish, a little more and next time maybe I will be able to write to you in Polish, congratulations

You getting better mate.

4:52 🤣🤣 I may be daft, but I laughed at this one 🙊

It's cute how you pronounce sz and s same way 😅

You did amazing! Gratulacje

Brawo, brawo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I want more....

You've been very brave! well done! / Byłeś bardzo dzielny! Dobra robota! ;-) Btw, this sentence is indeed crazy since it makes Polish sund like Serbo-croatian. Normally Polish sentences do not include so may of those sounds in such a close proximity. But this is how a proper sentence in a Serbo-croatian would look like.

Hey Rob. I've noticed that very often you read the letter "s" the same or similarly as the "sz". This is a common mistake. The Polish "s" is clean and distinct, like a snake hiss or something like that. I wish you perseverance in learning and getting to know the grammar (it will be a challenge) of the Polish language. Greetings from Gdansk

OMG it's both hilarious and surprisingly accurate. :D And your skills are getting better and better Rob. Dobra robota! :D

You did pretty well considering the hardness of Polish pronunciation. 8 out of 10. :-)

Pronunciation of "ch" and "h", "rz" and "ż" or "u" and "ó" varied in the distant past. Currently, it is only a remnant of the written form - it is an element of Polish orthography, which sometimes causes headaches for kids in primary schools. It is also worth noting that rich people, the nobility, until the 15th century, they used mainly Latin in Poland which had a big impact on our language (we still use Roman numerals for some purposes).

It's interesting about the word "wszyscy", only now I realized how intuitively we all read with F (fszyscy) and we don't read with W, it's actually like that😁

You did fantastic! Listen to this vid in peace, alone, and really soak it in and you'll speak almost as good as a native!

It might also be worth pointing out that the Polish word 'pszczoła'-'a bee' is about the only word to be an exception in that it is written 'psz' and not like all other Polish words written 'przy...'

Widzisz Rob jaki prosty jest ten język. Wystarczy tylko poznać wymowę i uruchomić niektóre mięśnie twarzy.

Indeed, the author of the video pointed out an important thing. In Polish you always read what is written. There are no such "linguistic situations" as "pacific ocean" - 3 x "c" and 3 different pronunciations of "c".

You are awesome. And you read it well.

Your Polish is getting better with every video I see! Keep it up, it's awesome! You are awesome! 😊

Great video to lern from! You did amazing 🎉

Rob, taka wskazówka :) Kiedy mamy dwie-trzy spółgłoski pod rząd i pierwsza jest dźwięczna, a druga jest bezdźwięczna (wsz-), to ta pierwsza zawsze traci dźwięczność. Podobnie jeśli to pierwsza jest bezdźwięczna, a ta druga jest dźwięczna (krz-), to ta druga staje się bezdźwięczna w wymowie. W początkach edukacji dzieci jesteśmy uczeni tego, jak rozróżniać dźwięczne i bezdźwięczne głoski - gdy przytkniesz dłoń do krtani, mówiąc głoskę dźwięczną czujesz wibracje, przy bezdźwięcznej nie czujesz wibracji.

HI Rob ^^ When you have a sound like "ń/ni" they are not quite the same. "ń" sounds tougher than "ni". And "ni" is slightly longer in pronunciation than "ń" eq. koń - konie (horse - horses) ń>ni (this rule also applies to "ś/si, ć/ci, dź/dzi, ź/zi") And polish "w" - sounds like "f" but only when it comes before a consonant. Wszyscy - there w sounds like "f", but in wyjątek - there w sounds like "w" (english v) The "w" before a consonant is softer than before a vowel. Greetings from Gdynia (Poland)

You did well

i really appreciate that u want to learn Polish. It's really hard even for me so.... :) ( Im Polish) Waiting for more

Bardzo, bardzo dobrze, gratuluje! i podziwiam

Great try :) Bravo Rob :)

Maybe one quick fix: try to pay attention to the distance between tongue and palate. Sz, cz, rz/ż - tongue low, maybe the tip touches a bit of front part of palate, s, c, z - medium distance, but You already know how to pronounce them and ś, ć, ź - tongue doesn't really touch the palate, maybe a bit on the sides (it definitely touches the upper molar teeth) but it's really close. Maybe try to exercise it in threes: sz->s->ś, cz->c->ć, rz/ż->z->ź. Each three without moving lips and jaw. You can try it on the word cześć :D

The fact that "wsz" becomes effectively pronounced as "fsz" is called in polish grammar backward devoicing. "W" becomes voiceless because it is followed by a voiceless consonant "sz".

You had excellent progress from start to finish, good job. Rzekłbym wręcz, zajebiście.

6:14 Smok-🐉(dragon) 😂

Doing better and better Mate 👍

Rob jestem pod wrażeniem . Pozdrowienia z Polski 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Here is one for training voiced/unvoiced endings of [e/ę]: " Jak mawiają Pigmeje: miejmy nadzieję, że na dzidę się dziś coś nadzieje "...

It is not impossible mission but very hard😂

Our language works in a way to deceive wild boars during hunting; they think it's just the wind rustling.

I'm proud of how you manage to speak more and more polish during the intro of every new video. Keep it up ❤

hahaha.... nice one Rob xD

Great video to watch what would happen if English letter had no dreams, and could not become whatever the hell they want -> "What If English Were Phonetically Consistent"

To be fair, I'd have trouble saying that as a native. How To Polish is a fun channel, not gonna lie...

Well done, especially on your last reading, after some practice.

Cześć Rob! Bardzo dobrze Ci idzie nauka języka polskiego! Jesteśmy pod wrażeniem :) After I sent you the link to that video my partner and I waited to see if you will be interested to make a reaction video. We have really enjoyed watching it! It's nice to see your progress in pronunciation! Good luck and keep it up! I hope my English accent will soon be as good as your Polish one ;)

I haven't watched your channel for a few weeks. I am impressed with the introduction. At the beginning, you struggled, but once slowed down, you are doing fine. As a little joke: "why is Polish so difficult? to tell friend from foe". We all know how many times Poland has been betrayed in her history.

That's the easy part of polish. The hard part is everything else

Very good intro, nice polish. Approved.

Actually, this sentence is quite easy for a genuine Polish man. "Wszyscy szczodrze głaszczą wstrzemięźliwe pszczoły".😊

you're doing quite good. keep it up. good luck. :)

Just one thing: rz and w in the end sound like sz and f, also before or after any unvoiced consonat 😅

Quite good english pronunciation from that "stick man" teacher. Even if he is a Pole which is obvious when he speak polish. :)

this will be more difficult . Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami 😂