Learning POLISH as fast as my brain can handle | Duolingo Speedrun #23 

as a polish person, i am a polish person

It's so funny to watch other people learn Polish

as a polish person, i love watching others try their best with polish and woah your pronunciation is amazing!!

The fact that a lot of the phrases he said sounded semi fluent is insane

8:31 woa that " Tygrys pije wodę" was amazing

Your prononciation is really good. It may be because of your experience with other slavic languages and French (nasal vowels) but you are completely understandable

Your Polish pronunciation is on very high level. You sound much like native.

1:42 You pronounced it better than 99% of english speakers

A short explanation :> Usually "ę" sounds like /e/ when it's at the end of a word or like /en/ when it's somewhere in the middle. Eg. "śpię" (I'm sleeping) is like /śpie/ and "ręka" (a hand) is like /renka/. Meanwhile "ą" usually sounds like English /ow/ when it's at the end of the word, or like /on/ when it's in the middle of a word. Eg. "są" (they are) is pretty similar to the English words "to sow"/"so" and the word "ląd" (a landmass) sounds like /lond/. Some people naturally say them in a more nasal way, but generally if someone is making "ę" and "ą" very prominent in their speach it feels like they're trying to sound smart. And the last little trivia. There are no words in Polish that start with either of these letters, however, we do have a very informal expression that is just "Ą-Ę" (said very nasally) and we use it to point out that someone or something is really fancy/pretentious - like an expensive restaurant or an annoying colleague. It's typically slightly pejorative, because it originated from people who tried to sound intelligent, by pronouncing the words in a hypercorrect way :D

Not me spending almost 20 minutes of my free Sunday and watching a random guy (no offense) learning my mother tongue. Also - your editing is gold. I was laughing my ass off. Most definitely are you linguistically gifted.

Fajnie jest oglądać kogoś, kto poznaje język, którego ty używasz na co dzień ;o

Mówisz pięknie po polsku - You speak beautiful Polish

this 8:32 "tygrys pije wodę" pronounciation was so correct, i was wondering am i actually watching polish or english video XD

As polish, I laughed so loud, when i heard: "Polish ppl just don't give f**k, just herbata" XD

The similarities between for example the 'kolacja' word and the italian word you compared it to, come from (as far as I know) the fact that we had an Italian queen at one point. She brought over a LOT of words and some vegetables we literally refer to as 'italian-ish' (not sure how to make an english equivalent but it implies being from Italy). There's a bunch of others though often a little misunderstood and in a very logical way. For example; 'kapelusz' is hat in Polish but if i remember correctly, it's HAIR in Italian. 'Skarpeta' is sock in Polish but actually SHOE in Italian. And so on.

Duolingo trolling with similar looking "je" and "jest" was the funniest part

Fun fact - polish 'herbata' comes from 'herba' from latin (herb) and 'ta' comes from chinese (I believe it's south china but don't remember the spelling) so basically it makes a lot of sense.

As a Ukrainian, I've always wondered why 1 cyrillic letter "Щ" stands for 4 Polish ones "szcz" 😅 It scares me

I do not regret picking this video as a way to relax after coding. I really enjoyed watching you struggle with learning my language xD

jestem naprawdę pod dużym wrażeniem że ci się udało

As a Polish person, I lost my shit at nie mówię movie and cheese or no cheese, I never think about my language like that so it's very funny to see it from a new perspective!

As a Polish person I have to say that you did very well and your pronunciation is also good and I think it's because you have already studied other Slavic languages for example Russian (there is a lot of similar sounds that both exist in Polish and Russian)

I just love the way you learn Polish and how fast you go through this. I'm blown by your knowledge of different languages and your great sense of humor. The animations are hilarious😂

i clicked on this randomly but your humour + editing + observations about my langauge that i never would have come to myself captivated me for the entire 20 minutes at 2 am on a working night, great job

As a Ukrainian, at the very beginning of Polish Duolingo course my brain felt majorly confused, because: 🇺🇦 "є"("je") = am/is/are, 🇵🇱 "je" = eats 🇺🇦 "їсть"("jist") = eats, 🇵🇱 "jest" = is, like, it's vice versa! But overall, knowing both English and Ukrainian makes for a solid base to study Polish, because some parts of it work like a slavic language, and some parts work like a roman language.

Fun fact: Every single european country names Italy similar, like: Italien, Italia, Italie and guess what, in Polish it's Włochy XDD. Also we have totally different word for Germany, it's called "Niemcy"

impressive how fast and how good you started talking all this Polish words the right way :)

A lot of comments say your pronunciation is great. Well, you do almost sound like a native. I think biggest giveaway is ć, but I know ppl who moved to Poland like 20 years ago and still pronounce ć as cz and ś as sz

vingardim leviosa scene made my day lol

As a person who used to speak Ukrainian for most part of my life, the time I lived in Poland I understood everything, but pronounciation is different, so I was just speaking Ukrainian with Polish accent and it worked.

I love your inserts from different movies 😄

Awesome video, made my day with memes and your humour in general =)

I expected watching a guy speedrunning Polish on Duolingo will be fun, but didn't expect that much! Btw your pronunciation is great!

Pająk looks like something French, like pajonc... Funny you would say that, my friend, Zając, was in the US and had to go to the doctor. He was poked by someone he came there with, because the nurse was calling for like five minutes... for Mr "Zazhak". It's Zayonts, btw.

That's pretty impressive, good job!

Your pronunciation is very good, you definitely managed with that better than majority of other non-Polish RU-vid creators

Holy shit I feel motivated to just pick up duolingo and learn some random language rn.

Man, this brought back a whole lot of memories. Polish is the only language I've done the whole Duolingo course for and I really pushed myself to finish by the end of the year. I made some of the same associations you did, like kolacja/colazione. Watching this video was a good vocabulary review as well.

your pronunciation is so good I’m amazed. If I didn’t knew I would say your polish for sure

thx bro polish people really enjoy when someone is learning polish

You explained breakfast as break fast, and Polish śniadanie also has its hidden meaning. It is a combination of the old prefix or preposition 'sn' (together) and 'jadanie' (eating), thus it is not allowed to eat śniadanie alone 😉.

To me, a native polish speaker, watching people break their tonque on our shit is just hilarious

Hilarious editing, very entertaining and your pronunciation of dzieci is so funny

Respect for both tackling this language of ours and for the editing!

I am not a dog, I am a pterodactyl

As a polish person i can confirm that you did polish pretty well.

Dobrze sobie poradziłeś. Dobra robota 👍

Woah, your pronunciation is very good for a first time! Some of these sound exactly as a native when you spell them!

Your pronunciation is really good and you figured out a lot of rules really fast. Btw Ę is pronounced almost like an E when it’s at the of the world (“dziękuję”, “mówię” etc).

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Omg, who could have thought that streaming duolingo could be so brilliant and hilarious 😂

Absolute banger, pięknie

You made my day :D Thanks a lot, that was really fun to watch, and at the same time a little disturbing because of your language skills, associations, and perfect self-corrections on pronunciation. Man, I want what you're having ;P Serdecznie Cię pozdrawiam. Good job!

I like to sometimes watch people struggle and learn Polish. You did pretty well

8:52 this is the best "herbata" I have ever heard. Greatings from Poland!

It's impressive! Thanks for taking the time to learn our not-so-easy language! :)

As a polish person i can confirm the language is indeed one of the languages ever

When it comes to Ó and U they are pronounced exactly the same nowadays. Basically the Ó sound got replaced with U sound. Ó used to sound like a very accented O (if that makes any sense. It's hard to descibe since I can't prononce that sound the way it used to be pronounced (even though I'm Polish haha). Note: There is a tiny minority of people who speak a specific dialect of Polish who can still differenciate these two, but their pronounciation is quite far from 'satandard' Polish.

YOUR PRONONCIATION IS SO GOOD FINISH THE COURSE

I liked it very much. As a Pole i could understand you very well!

watching English youtubers confused by Polish pronunciation and conjugation is the most beautiful thing in the world but i must say you are doing well ąęłńóśźż

ŚpiĘ, lubiĘ, pierniczĘ, opierniczam siĘ. Kocham ciĘ. To Ę jest w sumie wszĘdzie.

You speak polish very well, as pole I think lot of people who learning polish speak this language wrong, but you speak really well.

If that's your first approach to polish then I am amazed with your pronunciation. Really close to native. Impressed.

Man you rock!!! As polish I think it is impossible to learn our language this way - so many unknowns about word endings. This should be explained extensively in the grammar section.

06:00 Assimilation. There's a stop consonant right after it, so the tongue gets ready for pronouncing it. It makes "n" sound before "t" or "d", and "’ŋ" (ng) sound before "k" or "g". The last one is not followed by any consonant, so it just decays into silence. Some people even don't pronounce it as nasalized at the end, just as a regular "e".

Thank you for this 20 min of my office work entertainment

2:19 funniest thing I've seen in this month, perhaps even a year XD perfect meme

7:18 "Ó" used to bs a long "o", but through years it changed its sound and now it sounds the same as "u" (but the spelling hasn't been changed lol). A similar thing is with "h" and "ch": "ch" used to be a soft "h", but now the sound is the same for both. Unfortunately you'll have to remember when to put each of them. There are some rules for that which we learn in primary school, but there are many excpetions. Don't worry, natives often mess up with those, too.

8:45 the word for tea actually follows the logic of naming tea in other languages. Depending on whether the tea was imported by land from the north of China where the name for it was pronounced closer to chai or by water from south where it was called ta, the words for tea follow either one or the other pattern. Now in the olden days, especially with plants that were supposed to have healing properties, you would name not only the plant, but also the part that was used/being sold - and that was based I think on latin. So if you use: a root - it's radix a fruit - it's fructus bark - it's cortex the green stuff is herba. I say green stuff, because if you meant leaves specifically, you woud write, for example, "folia urtica dioica" in the recipe, which would mean "a leaf of a nettle". I think you see where I am going with this. Herbata is two words mashed together - herba ta, as in the green parts of the plant known as "ta". So it looks different because it's two words mashed together, but really isn't.

this is so fun to watch as a Polish person

Dobra robota/Good work🎉

I've never seen a foreigner speak polish so well 👏

You have summoned the polish council

I'm from Poland and I congratulate you on persistence. Also I am learning English for my whole free time :)

as a Polish gurl I want to explain why there’s a lot of us in comments: It’s easy to explain. We LOVE I mean we LOVE sm when someone who’s not Polish is paying attention to our country. We feel special and proud. 👇👇 you choose. I feel kinda stupid rn😭😭💀

Its really entertaining seeing someone try to learn your mother language

you're REALLY good at this!

11:27 He uttered ‚tygrysem’ with an English accent, then said 'GRRR' as it should sound in an expression 😂 ty-GR-ysem

Nieźle, powodzenia😆

Your pronunciation is actually pretty good. You can adjust it very quickly after just a couple of listens. Pretty impressive.

o kurwa, szczerze bardzo dobra wymowa, I just gotta sub to you

"nie mowie movie" got me in stiches.. well done mate

I've just discover your channel and is great!

One of the most enjoyable videos I've watched this year for some reason...

Polish is a pro drop language so you can lose any word in a sentence as long as it still makes sense in the context. "To [jest] duży pająk" stands for "It [is] a large spider". You just cannot drop the "is" in English. "One" is "they" feminine in plural, so the sentence "One są ludźmi tak samo jak my" means "They [women] are people same as we [men] are". Otherwise you did great!!!

MAANN YOUR PRONOUNCIATION IS FREAKING GOOD

language teachers should be like you... you are learning yourself so quickly and naturaly.... omg ;) pozdrawiam, polski u Ciebie wydaje się łatwy easy peasy ;)

Funnily enough English "tea" and Polish "herbata" come from the same arabic word that means "extract of leaves". Polish just took first part of it and English took second. It sounds something like "herbathea"

You got ą and ę right, many foreginers just say a and e without the ~ part. And you are right with those being very similar to french i think

Yeaaah, you're nit the first one to notice the colusion between "movie" and our "mówię". Good job:)

Love to watch it :D

I am from Poland and I can't stop laugh

i like watching you and other ppl learning polish. Im from Poland btw

I'm from Poland and im pround of you and its satysfying to watch you learn Poland lmao. Polska Gurom!!

Nieźle ci idzie xD Umarłem oglądając to xDdddd

Im Polish and everytime when you are reading in Polish my mind goes crazy because your pronunciation sounds so natural that I almost forget that you’re not Pole 🤯

As a Slav, I think I speak quite fluent English, but as you've said - just keep forgetting about articles, we don't need them in Czech, Slovak, etc.

You are doing fine, When I hear someone try to read Polish words for the first time it hurts my ears. Im impressed

Thank you from the mountain for this epizode