To be honest the Polish “NO” is more like English “YEAH”. This doesn’t pose any problems at all within Polish speaking people even if they speak a lot of English. Problem starts if you go to Italy where the Polish “NO” meaning YEAH sounds like Italian “NO” meaning NO.
No tak... no? Here in Czech "no" is used like "Well, .." "So?" No a co? is like "And so what?" I'm also learning Finnish where "No, .." is also "Well, .."
The Polish language is very structured. Although the word precise would be better when it comes to reproducing sounds. We have 32 letters of the alphabet because, unlike English, each letter precisely corresponds to the sounds of our language in literally every Polish word.
Generally, everyone uses "traditional" Polish on television or in public places. However, there are places, such as Silesia, where people still use their own dialect, which contains words that are incomprehensible to people from outside this region. As in the case of the UK, of course there are certain words that only the community of a given city uses. For example, the traditionally used word for potato is "ziemniak", but in Poznań it will be "pyra", and in Silesia it will be "kartofel".
More to that, traditional people living in the mountain region (zakopane area) can speak "weird". You can find more or less distinctive accents invarious parts of Poland (for example Podlasie- land in the east, the one "next to" belarusian border) or depends if youre in the big city or not (thothis one is not as different)
Przytoczone w filmie słowo "GRA" to nie są setki różnych sposobów wymowy tego samego słowa tylko wyrazy związane ze słowem GRA i ta sama analogia odnosi się do innych słów w j. polskim.
they are both really similar to Polish, but for me as a native Polish speaker Slovak is the most intelligible, more than Czech due to more similar phonology. For example most infinitives in Polish have -ć ending (robić, spać, jeść), and the Slovak ones have -ť ending (robiť, spať, jesť) which is pronounced almost the same. While in Czech they use the hard -t ending (dělat, spát, jíst).
@@craftah „what about belarusian or ukrainian?” I don't even know what Belarusian sounds like cause they forgot their own language, they speak Russian. Ukrainian is less similar to Polish than Slovak. It's a different family of languages, they use a different alphabet. Personally, I understand Russian much better than Ukrainian but that may be because I learned the language in elementary school for 4 years.
I am a Polish player who plays in a group of 20 players which 2 of them are Czech and 1 is Slovak if they talk slowly, we almost understand everything they say and they understand everything we say.
Yeah when i was in Slovakia we just talked to each other in our languages and understood most of what people were saying, same goes for croatia but understanding was harder here
Hmm, interesting. When I was in Praga I understood nothing, I don’t understand also Ukrainians. One Ucrainian told me that most of them who live in 🇵🇱 speak Russian and that’s why I don’t get it..
POLSKA w swojej historii była wielonarodowym krajem. I ta różnorodność językowo- kulturowa pokazuje jaki dzisiaj Polska ma język. Są takie wyrazy które mogą mieć 20 znaczeń czy można powiedzieć coś kilka razy inaczej ale to będzie znaczyło to samo. Np. słowa UPIĆ SIĘ i zaglądać na dno butelki znaczy podobnie to samo. Polskich słów jest tyle że można dowolnie się bawić w różnorodne słownictwo.
nie tyle wielonarodowym co zakompleksionym, i te kompleksy próbuje nadal leczyć używaniem obcych słów. stąd się wzięły makaronizmy (próba rusyfikowania i germanizacji języka też nie pomogła) niestety wszechobecna kultura anglojęzyczna powoduje że młodzież zapomina polskich słów używając obcych które są bardziej modne. (krótka historia: w sklepie z piwami próbowałem kupić piwo "rzemieślnicze"sprzedający stwierdził że nie ma takiego jest tylko " craftowe ")
No tak tylko my od na przykład Niemców i Rusków, a to było 123 lata okupacji, a to jest co innego niż tylko jakieś zapożyczenia, ale w tych czasach Polacy byli germanizowani, i Rusyfikowani
No, nie jestem pewien czy to jakaś różnica, bo chłop zwykły to miał podobnie, czy pan był prusem czy polakiem. Trzeba zawsze patrzeć na tekie rzeczy w dużmy kontekście, więc trzeba się dobrze znać na temacie by się konkretnie wypowiedzieć. Ja się znam tak sobie, ale wystarczająco by wiedzieć, że nie jest tak jak się nam często wydaje. @@jestemzpolandii
polish language has 2 problems. 1. you must learn alot of rules how to create a word. 2 every rule has exeptions from that rule and you must know where to use that exeption and how
This is how every language works. You have some rules and exceptions to the rules. In English, for example, you have "be-was\were-been" or "take-took-taken". "-ing", "-ed" also has rules. You have "looking" but you also have "stopping" not "stoping". You have "played" but you also have "cried" not "cryed"
@@SmoczeKaloszethat's true, but belive me, there is much more exceptions in Polish. Polish is one of languages that you still creating words, and even for Polish people sometimes it is a problem. It's common tu autocorrect because we say something and when we hear ourselves we get we say it wrong. Especially when we borrow words from English, what we are doing very often now.
Maybe someone has already said that but I'll also say it - most polish people speak official polish with official pronunciation and official vocabulary. You know it may be surprising for you because you're Scottish and it's like the whole UK would speak the same English the royal family does. There are dialects and within these dialects are also some subdialects which differ mostly by vocabulary - it's because of the partitions of Poland so the terrains that were occupied by Prussia use many words of German origin. Sometimes the grammar might be different. The pronunciation also differs - people in eastern Poland have some sounds in the pronunciation that sounds more like Russian, people from different parts of Poland may pronounce the nasal vowels differently, people from the mountains in the south have a very specific dialect and even if they speak the official Polish they still sound differently by stretching some vowels more than necessary. There's one minority language in Northern Poland and it's Kasshubian - it has a different alphabet, different grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation but it's still very closely related to Polish. Insight leisure region they speak a dialect which by its users is considered a different language and the current government promises to grant it a status of language separate from Polish. It's highly germanized when it comes to vocabulary. So Polish isn't as consistent as many people would think, but still as a person who lives in Northern Poland I may go to any corner of my country and have no problems communicating with people there, unless there's some elderly people who speak only their dialect or is their Polish highly influenced by it
To co piszesz to obowiązywało w latach 20-50. Dziś praktycznie nie używa się dialektów, co najwyżej górale trochę inaczej wymawiają słowa a reszta kraju i ich wymowa to zależy od wykształcenia. Czym gorsze wykształcenie tym mniej czysty polski w ich wykonaniu.
@@piniu1986 Gwara góralska jest na wymarciu. Tutaj masz góralkę, która musiała się uczyć swojej gwary z nagrań starszych członków rodziny. Trochę z domu wyniosła, ale reszta to ciężka praca. Piyrso górolka na Youtubie ;-) Ło gwarze Beskidu Żywieckigo ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CTyWGSERxeI.html
3:45 A complete nonsense! Till the beginning of the XVI century Latin was the language of the literature. But it doesn't mean it was the language of Polish upper classes. Many of the Polish noblemen knew Latin but they spoke Polish only.
Yeah, one would have to drink a bottle of vodka in a hurry to speak (or, mumble) like that. And that example about Polish 'no' was the most random thing I've heard for 2 years. I believe the dude that made this video is 15 years old. Not very logical feller.
the pronuncation of 'W' is pretty much the same as in German - which is why the Polish can speak 'BMW' more native than Americans. One has to keep in mind that Latin at Roman Times had no 'W'. And the 'V' was mostly used as an 'U' (like 'AVGVSTVS' = Augustus) or as 'V' like today in English but of minor significance. Later when most of Europe was overrun by different Germanic tribes and a kind of Germanized Medieval Latin was introduced, depending on that tribes/writers the old Germanic Rune vowel 'Wynn' was mostly written as 'UU' which later separated in the Old-AngloSaxon/Norman England to 'W' but keeping the 'Double-U' pronunciation while in Old-High-German on the continent it mostly turned to 'W' spoken as a 'V' - which also influenced Polish (but not Russian which still has no 'W' letter).
Nasz jezyk jest taki trudny, ponieważ niesie ze sobą ogromne możliwości, wiele znaczeń, ukrytych prawd, jest też najbardziej dzwiekonasladowczym językiem na świecie. Natomiast dzięki tak rozbudowanej składni oraz odmianie, Polak od razu zauwazy, że nie rozmawia z rodakiem. Wystarczy kilka zdań, widać to np. po zagranicznych botach, gdzie często używany jest tlumacz, który niestety niegdy nie przelyumaczy naszego języka poprawnie.
Polish NO can be explained as simply an emphasis of the positive or of the action suggested or requied, rather then "yes". There are many sayings with NO, in which NO cannot be translated as yes, but they do emphasise what is being said, like in English "whatsoever" emphasises the negative, e.g. Chodź no tu! - Just come here! No i co teraz? - And what now (you smart pants!).
Let me debunk some lies in the video you watched: 1. English has consonants clusters too. f.e. Strengths - 5 consonant letters. 2. There is no such thing as "versions" of word, it's declension and it's actually less confusing, because you actually know what you're saying, even without context. And this works exactly like in english but instead saying pronoun ALL THE FUCKING TIME, in polish ending is changed and it's like saying playyou, playshe, playthem etc. 3. No is cognate with czech ano = tak. Polish no is a coloquial just like english yeah, yay.
Hellow from Poland. I can hear how hard it was for that person to speak Eglish but he done nice work and now we can watch reactions of it and see how people from other places react to it.
Did you know that English word "spruce" is what the polish sailors were naming this wood but not exactly. Sailors were saying where it came from "z prus" (from Prussia) that's all
The way how I usually explain to foreigners how learning Polish goes is: The entry level is really high, but once you get grasp of it and become able to think in Polish the language becomes much easier simply because its a heavily "rules" based language. Obviously the fact that Polish is so heavy rules based makes really unpleasant to start learning, but after it becomes very easy to use, because you just apply the rules. In some way Polish is similar to Mandarin, because once you learn all the character-words (you overcome the high entry level) it becomes easy to use that language because you just combine the character-words into new words. Oh, and due to all the different sounds and because of how you can build differently sentences with the same meaning (you can for example reverse sentences with some tweaks etc) Polish is a very poetic language.
Maybe it is obvious but I will add that in casual text conversations we tend to completely omit ą ę ó ż ź ć ń ł and in most of the cases reader will understand all of it with no problem :D You just add it when it matters but you could skip them most of the time. Sometimes that might confuse you a lot when reading comments from Poles. BTW - I have been to Scotland few years ago, such a beautiful country! I'd love to visit it again! Maybe you could record video about what makes you proud about Scotland or spots someone from Poland must visit? :D
similar in German with the 'Umlaute' = ä, ö, ü ... those came into existence, because the Latin alphabet had not enough signs for every pronunciation of a letter which led at first to placing an 'e' over a, o, u (which one can also use till today as substitute like instead of ''Öl' (Oil) just 'Oel' (in Danish, Norwegian/Old Swedish 'Ö' = 'ϴ'). Those points above the Latin letters are just remains of the 'e' for laziness (or making it more efficient) over time. Funny enough: while it was the Standard till the 18. century to write it like in 'Goethe' it was later introduced to do that with points - but nowadays with modern media and for being a bit more compatible often the old way is re-used again. Now, I guess something similar happened in Polish (Pronunciations created new combination/markings of the Latin letters to find a better expression of the old native 'people sound') but similar to how Americans would just turn the Germans 'Ä' to 'A', 'Ö' to 'O' and 'Ü' to 'U' (and one can still associate usually what it means) its similar in Polish if omitting those special chars - one can still usually catch the meaning ...
@@publicminx Thanks, that's interesting! When writing in Polish, my small patriot inside makes me care and make an effort but I'd guess its just convenience/laziness most of the times I'd skip a my ę in 'się'. Most of modern day software autocorrects mistakes anyway if someone needs it (... i hate it, and off it everywhere lol). Letters like o/ó and a/ą have drastically different sound though and mistyping "sad" instead of "sąd" or 'wol' not 'wół' may make that hard to understand.
I hate when my friends skip out on Polish letters, it confuses the hell out of me. Personally, even though it's less efficient, I still put the Polish letters in Example: Idziemy na paczki? vs Idziemy na pączki? Those are two completely different sentences lol
Oh well... you can't say he's not Polish. Nationality is something you're born with.For example my daughter pure born after both polish parents, speeking from little one at home, passed GCSE A+ Polish as a foreign language. Still you can catch her on some silly mistakes like english suffix when uses common international words or flips order in a sentence so sound a bit like a Google translation 😅. No one is perfect.
"No" jako "yes" to takie kolokwialne, nawet prostackie wyrażenie, które w kulturalnej rozmowie nie powinno się używać. Dawniej, kiedy w tym kraju jeszcze dbano o kulturę języka (i nie tylko języka), rodzice i nauczyciele karcili za używanie "no" zamiast "tak".
As an iterestinf fact you can google "polish village in Brazil". There is a remote village in Brazil whre people of 5 generstions speak some level of Polish because their ancestors migrated there altough most of them haven't even been to Europe. But this also shows how much the language changed because those people have a very specific regional accent and their ancestors migrated from a very different country than todays Poland.
This needs more upvotes. I can add that there are some letters that always sound the same (they didn't in the old polish language), but may change the meaning of the word in the written laguage. u = ó ż = rz h = ch but this ones sound only very similar: drz - dż dzi - dź
we do have different accents in different regions! They more or less sound the same, they are not "heavy" on the language like scottish is on english, but I imagine it may be confusing for foreginers. Usually it's the melodfy of the sentence or prelonging the vowels or softening the harsh sounds. The most "heavy" are kaszubian and silesian accents, but it is rooted in the fact, that people in those regions speak regional language on the daily basic and usually use polish in public occasions. I come from Upper Silesia and moved out further into more polish region and I was utterly surprised ppl here did not understand some words I spoke :D
The part where he speaks in Polish does not make too much sense, he tries to squeeze as much typical Polish sounding words as possible and he makes quite a lot of weird mistakes indicating he doesn’t know Polish that well. Probably Polish kid brought up in a different country.
As for the conjugation by cases, Poles sometimes do not know how to conjugate a word correctly. Many men say "Przyszłem" instead of "Przyszedłem" because women say "Przyszłam", this is probably the most popular example. You don't need to know the conjugation well because people will understand what you mean anyway
Both of them should be considered correct, as they come from other dialects of Polish. In other Slavic languages the letter "D" is skipped in this word.
Polish "no" is slang way to say "yeah" and it's a shrot version of "no tak". Language is a live construct and all history and contacts with neighbours is visible in Polish language. Also Polish went trough something called standardisation where the language was "constructed" taking in to consideration the fact that country was divided for almost 120 years and regionalism are stil very strong
I think "no" comes from the old "ano" (which is still sometimes used, I guess). People used to say "Ano tak", which translates to something like "Oh, yes". Now we use "No tak", which means the same thing but as you said languages are constantly evolving, so it's only natural that the word changed.
The true is, that English is one of the easiest languages in the world with very simple grammar. That makes it difficult for an adult person to learn foreign languages. No mater if it's Polish, German, or Italian. And Slavic languages (all of them!) are heavily inflected with a lot of exceptions, which makes it even harder. But it is doable if you want it. And the process of learning can be fun, so.. why not?
I suppose it's worth reinforcing this idea : in polish, MOST sounds are MOST of the time written down the SAME way, and it's more of a rule than one full of exceptions, and the exceptions, while they exist, they are rare.
Ten głos brzmiał jak bot, nie należy tego słuchać. Np "sz" tylko w wymowie tej zbitki słyszy się jako "szy". W słowie "słyszałeś" nie słyszysz "słyszyałeś" bo "sz" jest tylko szelestem przed samogłoską "a." W słowie "słyszysz" dodano "y" aby je podnieść, a końcowe "sz" nie brzmi jak "szy". Proste nie??? ;) Podobnie "chrząszcz" nie mówimy przecież "chyszyołszyczy". Ale wymienianie liter alfabetu jest chyba wspólne dla wszystkich krajów. To co jest moim zdaniem najciekawsze w polskim, to dowolny szyk wyrazów w zdaniu i zawsze to samo to znaczy np: Wczoraj byłem z koleżanką w teatrze. Wczoraj z koleżanką byłem w teatrze. Wczoraj w teatrze z koleżanką byłem. Z koleżanką wczoraj byłem w teatrze. Z koleżanką byłem w teatrze wczoraj Byłem wczoraj z koleżanką w teatrze. Byłem w teatrze z koleżanką wczoraj. W teatrze wczoraj byłem z koleżanką. W teatrze byłem z koleżanką wczoraj. I jeszcze kilka wersji można by wymienić. Ale wniosek jest taki, że nasz język jest niezwykle komunikatywny i mimo, że niektóre zdania brzmią jakby mówił Yoda, to nie ma problemu z rozumieniem.
I would argu that polish "no" is more like "yea" than english yes - in case of polish 'no'being used as confirmation, and I will like to note that our parents teach us that it's rude to anserw like that when u speak to some1 older than You.
We can understand a little Czech words. Some words are similar. But Ukrainian? It is different language, similar to Russian language. They both have "cyrylica" what we do not have in Poland. And do not want it at all.
Polish nobility was speaking polish! Latin was language of Church and politics in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Latin was the common language for all educated people in Europe. Polish nobility ALSO spoke Latin in addition to Polish or Ruthenian in eastern parts of commonwealth, or Polish and German in western part or in cities. Italian was also quite popular in Renaissance cause higher nobility mainly studied on Italian universities.
Well if you want to hear standard polish you need to travel western and northern(expect kashubian) regions. The more east and south you get the more different words, dialects and accents you hear. Expect big cities of course where mijority speaks standard polish
@@Ntwadumela1 You're right but when you get for example to rural poland esecially at the south you can hear some funky weird little accents, and of course diffrent words will occure but not as much as it sounds like
Me, looking at about 40 sounds in English, half of them vowels, represented with 26 letters and plethora of digraphs (including split ones) that are not always pronounced the same way, as well as the pronounciations doubling between graphemes... Yea, Polish alphabet... sooo hard...
U nas to zawsze (dobra, prawie zawsze) jest tak samo. A to zawsze a, a nie jakieś"ae" czy jeszcze inne. B, D, C, T itd. wymawia się tak samo w każdym kontekście. Ale polski ma inne "problemy"...
No, no, no! It's not exactly as the author of the film says. He has an experiece of a bilingual family (English/Polish) and this experience is very interesting, but is not what experiences a Polish language learner who is a native English. The first problem is Polish pronunciation, which is as far from English pronunciation as French, If you a an English native and you know proper French pronunciation, the Polish one will go easier. As I noticed from Mert Pols' accent, his Scottish English is a bit closer to Polish mode of speaking, than standard American or British English. Unfortunately, only a bit. The second problem is Polish grammar. It is in a way logical, but not so much as German's. It is really complex, more complicated than the grammar of the German language and unfortunately a bit less logical. Good point is that if you make grammar mistakes, you are still understandable for Polish natives, unless the number and scale of those mistakes is limited (and wrong grammar doesn't go together with wrong pronunciation). The other points mentioned in the film are true, but of miner importance. Contemporary Polish has some borrowings from English (especially in colloquial speech), it may hepl a bit - but only a bit. For example: a bicycle is in Polish "rower" (pron.: ro-ver), but small number of people use the word "bicykl" (pron.: bee-tsi-kl). This word, borrowed from English, is raryly used, but exists (it is possible that you won't find it in the dictionaries). One can learn such words and use them, this way this can be a little help. Mert Pol asks for the conjugation of the verb " to play", which is "grać". Here it is for the present tens: (ja) gram (my) gramy (ty) grasz (wy) gracie (on/ona/ono) gra (oni/one) grają It is to an extand a kind od regular (but not fully). For the 1st person the ending is always either -am or -ę (for different verbs), for all other persons, if I remember correctly, it is always exactly like in the examples above (-asz/-a/-amy/-acie/ają for different verbs) The bigger problem is the declination of the noun. If you are a Scott, and you decide to learn Polish, first learn by heart some fixed expressions, which will serve for you brain as examples of Polish declination and conjugation (or better live in Poland, hear the language, and try and use a sample of it). After that you are ready to regular learning, if you do the opposite (first the regular learning by heart the rules of declination), you may experience the same problem as English natives who didn't cope with Polish grammar. It always good to have a good teacher.
Sorry to mislead you, all Scotts, but for all Scottish natives the Polish word ""rower" (pron.: ro-v-er) will be ten times easier to pronounce than raryly used "bicykl" (pron.: bee-tsi-kl). I had good intentions, but the example I have chosen is useless.
It's easy to remember the Polish letter ó if we compare it to the English double o, as in the word boobies. In my youth, I even changed the Polish spelling into English, if only to lighten the atmosphere, so that the person I was writing to knew that I had some distance towards a given topic. As for the word no, it probably comes from the command of cattle herders or horseman who wanted the animals to speed up and therefore walk more confidently. From here it's close to confirmation.
Pszenica, pszczoła, kształt, kszyk... nightmare of every kid in Polish school 😁 Those words are examples of exceptions from a very important orthographic rule and you need to learn them to pass classes.
I think the compound sounds are not that difficult to learn as they are kind of natural. For example, if you try to pronounce dz quite fast you will see where this spelling comes from - it does sound like dz and not d z as separate sounds.
Apparently our "c" is in language science just "ts" with one letter assigned to it. But also, English has th and sh and ch, why are they so surprised at compound sounds?
The author of the video being watched is probably not a native speaker, because he has a non-Polish accent and he doesn't usually speak this language because his sentences were a bit inconsistent and poorly constructed.
I think he is the child of Polish emigrants, probably lives in Denmark. His accent and pronunciation are very good, but he makes strange mistakes. I think he speaks Polish on a daily basis but only with his parents.
I would have thought that English and Polish have more in common than English and Malay. I would have thought that Cantonese Chinese is probably the hardest language to learn.
These languages you asked about are so similar that few people see the need to learn them. You always manage to come to an agreement on basic matters. 1000 years ago, all Slavs spoke one (or very similar) language. To this day, Slavic languages are 30-70(80)% or even more mutually intelligible. The name słowianie ("Slavics") comes from the word "słowo", i.e. word. In other words, Slavs are people of a common language.
@@michaelmckelvey5122 I can also add that the word "słowianie" sounds almost the same in every Slavic language. This can be seen even in the names of countries, e.g. Slovenia, Slovakia. And the language similarities... 2 examples from Polish and Slovenian: lynx - "ryś" (pol), "ris" (slo) milk - "mleko" (pol), "mleko" (slo) Now look at the map, where is Poland and where is Slovenia. :) Such similarities were often surprising to the native English speakers - English teachers I talked to. On the other hand, I see similarities between "Western" languages, for example between English and French. [Which the British are especially reluctant to admit, btw. ;) ] When I was first in France a long time ago, my very limited knowledge of English allowed me to understand many French signs and information.
Używa się zarówno 'tak' jak i 'no', chociaż 'no' ma nieco niższy rejestr w stosunku do obcych lepiej używać 'tak'. Chyba, że młodzież między sobą to nie ma znaczenia użycie jednego czy drugiego. Dobrzy znajomi i rodzina jedno i drugie słowo będzie ok.
Ive heard that the main difference between Polish and English is that Polish is hard at start and easy to master but English is easy at start but hard to master it.
@@damiansmolarek2289 they are pretty much the same. they're even called "serbo-croatian". look at this sentence: croatian: pitao sam se zašto nije u školi, ali sada znam, rekao mi je da ima temperaturu. serbian: pitao sam se zašto nije u školi, ali sad znam, rekao mi je da ima temperaturu. slovenian: spraševal sem se, zakaj ga ni v šoli, zdaj pa vem, rekel mi je, da ima vročino.
Majority of the country speaks ‘proper’ Polish, only southern part and northern may have a dialect, so you’re good to go to learn and be understood everywhere:)
Ale on mieszka w Polsce bardzo dlugo, oczywiscie, on mowi po polsku dobrze bo tam mieszka i pracuje, nawet zona jest polka. Ja, Anglik, ktory z drugiej strony, mieszka i pracuje w Anglii, musialem zamowic ksiazke z Ameryki na temat jezykia polskiego. Pozniej przeczytalem wszystko od deski do deski i przylecialem ku Polsce, do Warszawy aby jezyk polski B1 zdac. Kevin Aiston, dobrze, ze udalo mu sie przez tyla lat bycia w Polsce-niestety, takiej przewagi osobiscie nigdy nie mialem.
If you're interested to that, this is transcription and translation of what that guy said from 11:35 to 12:20: In Polish: Jeśli rozumiesz to, co mówię teraz, to masz szczęście, bo jesteś Polakiem i powinieneś być dumny, że jesteś Polakiem, bo Polska to jest bardzo fajny kraj. Bezwzględnie na to, co myślisz, Polska zdobyła dużo fajnych rzeczy. Pszczoła i chrząszcz to są owady leśne lub czasem też bywają być na łące. I to jest bardzo ciekawe. Jeśli wbijesz ołówek w pszczołę, to trzcina z niej wyleci, bezwzględnie na to, co myślisz. I może krew będzie wyglądała, jak taka żółć. Bardzo dziwne rzeczy tutaj do ciebie mówię, ale na szczęście oni nas nie rozumieją, bo tylko Polacy rozumieją Polaków. Do zobaczenia. Translation: If you can understand, what I'm saying now, you're lucky, because you're Polish and you should be proud that you're Polish, because Poland is a very nice country. Regardless of what you think, Poland got a lot of cool stuff. The bee and the beetle are forest insects or sometimes they frequent the meadow. And this is very interesting. If you stick a pencil into a bee, a reed will fall out of it, no matter what you think. And maybe the blood will look like bile. Very strange things I'm saying to you here, but luckily they don't understand us, because only Poles understand Poles. See you.
i saw it explained already in other comment, the NO being more like YEAH instead of yes, but i want to add to it: when speaking to a polish person remember, that poland has a word for "no" - "nie". And if you talk both polish and english, you can easily avoid confusion by turning polish no into nooooo
To be honest it's a bit more screwed up than to use to the structure. It's often too inconsistent to remember, for example multiplying: (Car) 1 auto; 4 auta, 7 aut (Bucket) 1 wiadro, 4 wiadra, 7 wiader (Plane) 1 samolot, 4 samoloty, 7 samolotów (Boat) 1 łódź, 4 łodzie, 7 łodzi (Small boat) 1 łódka, 4 łódki, 7 łódek (Connection) 1 więź, 4 więzi, 7 więzi It's not just "-s". I really don't have any explanation of why it's like that. I don't even know how I know it if I think about it. Might be pretty much demotivating, but I think correct forms comes more with feeling than with memorizing.
I am watchig this and cant stop thinking WHY SCOTTISH GUY HAVE FRENCH ACCENT SPEAKING ENGLISH. I dont want to be offensive. I just cant stop thinking, Its kinda funny
2:13 why does the word *"Czech republic"* sound the same in English as the word *"Check the public"?* in pronunciation it is almost impossible to distinguish... 🤨
I use English words "no problem" a lot, usually people understand, but once I replied to my colleague this way and he thought it's in Polish and that I meant: "well, it's a problem" 😄 ("problem" is the same in both languages).
About dialects: I think all Poland speak clearly polish. There are exceptions like region Kaszuby, they have almost their own language! On region Śląsk you can hear dialect śląski, but not all people speak śląski. In śląski some words are different and way of speaking is very characteristic - I can recognize they are usually using śląski even if they using "normal" polish word when they speak to me, because of way of speaking). Other part of country is Podlasie, where people speak polish language but in more eastern way. For me it's simillar to singing. And as I know not all people speak this way there. Thx for your movies ;-)
The reason why Polish has so many forms is because it's fusional language. It has base part of the word and then adds affixes, like suffixes for example. Gra + ć. Gra + m. Gra + sz and so on. So we just subsonsciously know that, because we were taught this when we were toddlers and kids. For a person who never had a different word parts to make suffixes and so on, it looks ridiculous, but it make sense.
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. Chat GPT translation: Professor of Polish philology during a lecture: - As you all know, in Slavic languages, there is not only single negation but also double negation. And even double negation can function as an affirmation. However, there is no such thing as double affirmation serving as a negation. At this point, a student from the back row chimes in: - Alright, alright.
I live and work in NL, no problems with talking and understanding Czechs and Slovaks. With Ukrainians and Russians is also possible, when you concentrate :-)
5:13 This is not quite true. In Polish, we have only one version - grać, meaning "to play". We just change it depending on the subject. So ja gram, but ty grasz etc. On this board there are also words words like "win", "lose", and negations of word "play". It';s not that confusing.
11:34 If you understand what I am talking now you are lucky becouse you are Pole. And you should be pride becouse Poland is a really cool country. No matter what you think, Poland won lot of cool things. The bee and the beetle are the forest insects and they sometimes are on the meadow and it's very interseting. If you stick the pencil to the bee cane will get fired from it, no matter what you think. And maybe blood will lock like bile. I tell really odd things to you but fortunately they don't understand us becouse only Poles undersand Poles. See you. Yes, this text is really odd and stupid (and has some mistakes) but these expressions in Polish have lot of Polish letters: Ą, Ę, Ż, Ł, Ć, Ń, Ś, Ź. For expample "BILE" in Polish is "ŻÓŁĆ". Only our letters. :P
I remember U.S. Department of State has published statistics on how difficult it is for a given ambassador to learn a specific language. Well, the Polish language wasn't even the most difficult in Europe. The Hungarian was much more difficult. And twice as complicated Arabic. All Asian languages were more complicated than Polish, especially Japanese. I don't know why Poles still think that Polish is the hardest to learn, the statistics don't lie.
12:06 this sounded polish but weird words were chosen. The sentence "jeśli wbijesz ołówek w pszczołę to trzcina z niej wyleci" :D:D:D which means "If you stick a pencil into a bee, a reed will fall out from her (bee)" never tried that xD
Looking from the perspective of a foreigner, especially from outside the Slavic language group, Polish grammar (especially declension and conjugation) is difficult. We are lucky, that we learn our language from the cradle. 😁
Jezyk polski jest dialektem jezykow staroslowianskich, czyli takiego ktory opiera sie na rdzeniach a nie na morfemach. Aby dany jezyk mogl wyksztalcic aie z rdzeni musi byc uzywanyna danym obszarze przez tysiace lat i tak jak ewoluowaly plemiona lowiecko do rolniczych tak tez ewoluowal jezyk polski...wg badan ta rodzina jezykow zachodnioslowianskich uksztaltowala sie wraz z naplywem ok. 8000 lat wstecz z terenow dzisiejszej Bosni i Serbii z chwila gdy w odrowislu wystapil boom na wyroby z brazu...co mozesz sprawdzic pod haslem bitwa o Dolężę.ciaglosc jezykowa od neolitu do kultury Vinca.
I heard it before that you can apparently learn much quicker to read Polish than to understand or communicate it. When you know how to pronounce it, then you just syllabus the words and it's understandable. I'm Polish so I wouldn't know but Interesting video.
In polish there is przypadki, część mowy (part of speech like) rzeczownik and a części zdania (part of a sentence there is) podmiot albo podmiot domyśny, orzeczenie
The fun begins in writing. You have "rz" and "ż", as well as "u" and "ó", which you read the same, they do not differ phonetically, but they are different in writing and have a lot of rules why you use this word in this word and that one in that word. If you somehow manage to master it, and even for me as a Pole it is difficult (I am an idiot), there is something as wonderful as "exceptions" where, despite the rules you have learned earlier, you write differently than they would say. Many people learning Polish make their skin crawl when they hear the word "exceptions"...
5:34 I need to stop here , because you are so serious, while this knowledgable gentelman is clearly having fun (with a little bit of stammer). Polish isn't difficult. It's nasty.
Well, let Henry Miller speak once more, (an excerpt from Chapter 4 of the novel Sexus). "There is one thing I like about the Poles - their language. Polish, when it is spoken by intelligent people, puts me in ecstasy. The sound of the language evokes strange images in which there is always a greensward of fine spiked grass in which hornets and snakes play a great part. I remember days long back when Stanley would invite me to visit his relatives; he used to make me carry a roll of music because he wanted to show me off to these rich relatives. I remember this atmosphere well because in the presence of these smooth-tongued, overly polite, pretentious and thoroughly false Poles I always felt miserably uncomfortable. But when they spoke to one another, sometimes in French, sometimes in Polish, I sat back and watched them fascinatedly. They made strange Polish grimaces, altogether unlike our relatives, who were stupid barbarians at bottom. The Poles were like standing snakes fitted up with collars of hornets. I never knew what they were talking about but it always seemed to me as if they were politely assassinating someone. They were all fitted up with sabers and broadswords which they held in their teeth or brandished fiercely in a thundering charge. They never swerved from the path but rode roughshod over women and children, spiking them with long spikes beribboned with blood-red pennants. All this, of course, in the drawing room over a glass of strong tea, the men in butter-colored gloves, the women dangling their silly lorgnettes. The women were always ravishingly beautiful, the blond houri type garnered centuries ago during the Crusades. They hissed their long polychromatic words through tiny, sensual mouths whose lips were soft as geraniums. These furious sorties with adders and rose petals made an intoxicating sort of music, a steel-gibber which could also register anomalous sounds like sobs and falling jets of water."
