Actually I'm Polish and starting to learn Chinese and I see many similarities. Like both languages have those 'sh/ch' sounds that are difficult for others to pronounce. Like in the world 'miłość' that appeared in this video. I wish you luck since Polish is really hard, but I think Chinese have it easier to learn than others :D
Yea that's true,: )But pronounce of 'R'is really hard for me.I always pronounce like'a er'.Ha but I thought Chinese is hard to learn.And are you learn by yourself ?: D
Yeah, well for now I don't have much free time, so I only learn from a mobile app I have, but I think it's really cool. I'm going to take a course on holidays next year. And it's not really that difficult. Well signs are kinda hard to remember sometimes, but pronouncing and grammar and stuff like that is kinda easy for me. And yeah, 'r' can be a little tricky for you, I understand that.
Then learn it by heart as much as possible. Do not waste your time for understanding grammar. And remember we don't say I, you, he, she, it, we, they. Fight this habit. Don't say "Ja jestem Nicole" just say "Jestem Nicole". Good luck.
omg ❤️ i think is so cute, that a lot of people are learning polish language ❤️ good luck everyone ❤️ polish is so tricky, so chill out ;) a lot of polish people can't speak polish ;) if you know what i mean.
I have to disagree, there are many languages with more cases, difficult grammar, crazy pronunciation, complicated writing systems, tones, the list goes on... The difficulty of a language is dependent of the learner's native tongue, and there is a lot of complex languages spoken out there.
I would have to disagree here. The rules are very clean and precise and the grammar is not complicated. The bulk of the problem just comes from adapting to flowing sounds differently from your native language.
+Xanthus Polish has a lot of varieties with many many exceptions where as english has 3 varieties of word + irregular verbs and few exceptions which aren't that hard
I've been learning Polish for about seven months now, I still can't hold a long conversation, but I can have a basic conversation. I already speak English as my native language and as a second language American Sign Language. I am actually hard-of-hearing, so I have some hearing loss, but that doesn't stop me from achieving my goal of learning other spoken languages. I love the Polish language because it's so different from other languages and I find it so beautiful.
+Billy Riedel That's so awesome! It's so different to any language I've ever studied so I was glad to have some help with this video! I do hope to study a Slavic language in more detail one day. :) Keep going with your Polish!
I remember this one swimming pool in a town of northern Iceland, where some instructions were written only in Icelandic and Polish, due to the relatively big Polish community over there. Icelandic and Polish, together on paper, are quite intimidating.
Kocham po polsku!!! :D Ja mówie troche po polsku. ;) I'm trying to learn polish since first time I was in Polska! (2013...very long time ago!!) But this year I said...LET'S REALLY DO IT! And this is my challenge for this year! :) I love the language, aswell as the country and the people! Such a lovely place with awesome people! I hope to come back soon! :) Kocham Polske!! :D I
That's great, good luck! Be patient though, it isn't easy, but you will get better in time. Learning Polish can be very satisfying. Also the proper phrase would be "Kocham Polskę!" - ę is pronounced like (-in) in French name Martin.
I just begin to learn polish... no idea why.. but Poland just seems nice, and also cause the language seems nice.. so why not?! Even though slavic languages are one of the hardest.
I guess if you say that you're learning Polish a lot of people will want to help you (like me if you're still trying :D don't get discouraged :)) + it's all because we just are nice :D xd
Your numbers are a bit wrong. There are about 10 million Polish people in USA, about a million in GB and probably some more in other countries. Only in Poland there are 38 million so more accurate number of Polish speaking people in the world would probably be above 50mln.
There's a difference between having Polish ancestry and speaking Polish as your native language. Children or grandchildren of many Polish immigrants, especially the ones who settled in the US or Germany, can't speak Polish even as their second language. So the number of ethnic Poles worldwide doesn't directly correspond to the number of actual fluent Polish speakers.
the 10 millionn polish people in the USA is BS... they count everyone with polish heritage as Polish-American even when they were born in America and cant speak any Polish... the actual number of Polish-born citizens in America is actually lower than in GB
I'm getting into learning Polish this year because it is the language my grandparents spoke and I just can't wait. This video made me really happy; I can't explain it. Thanks so much! Love from the US!
hi :) I like the USA :D And if You want to learn Polish, I can teach You. I really want to.. Just write to me. I will make individual lessons for You with records and explains :D
These are great reasons! I'm learning Polish since a while now cause someone from there stole my heart ;-). So I really didn't need more reasons but is good to know that I might be able to talk to so many people other than my new Polish family.. XD.
2:50 Spanish and your gazillion conjugations. Just like this post on tumblr: what studying languages is like LATIN: words like 'yes' and 'no' aren't important. memorize these 3000 different ways to talk about killing people though because you will use them GREEK: hello, naughty students. it's participle time EGYPTIAN: ancient pictionary FRENCH: pronouncing every letter is for chumps GERMAN: let's combine every other word together to create the U L T I M A T E F R A N K E N W O R D MANDARIN: lol whats a verb tense SPANISH: LOL WHAT ISN'T A VERB TENSE
I've also read Latin didn't have a word "yes", but it seems not to be true. In fact they had at least two words for yes! Namely sicut and ita. As a matter of fact theese words had few other meanings, but they means yes as well. Is seems romance "si" has evolved from the former, while the latter apears to be related to Polish tak=yes.
I want to learn Polish because it has a long history and retains some archaic features that other Slavic languages don't have (I'm looking at you, nasal vowels!). Also, it will help me with other Slavic languages as mentioned in your video. My plan is to learn Russian first because I know some Russian already and it's the easiest for me to read/pronounce, then Polish, then use my combined knowledge of both to learn Ukrainian and Belarusian.
Heh, you must be a real fun of slavic languages :) Yes, Polish is like French or Portugese among slavic languages. Its the last slavic language that has retained nasal voles. Moreover Polish has a huge number of latin loanwords while Russian has retained its indigenous slavic words, which is why Russian looks odd to us. Polish who have learned Russin claim they understand both Ukrainian and Belarusian (but they are unable to speak them of course).
I'm Polish native, fluent in Russian since early childhood and I can say there is easier to learn Russian for Polish speaker than vice versa. Despite the Cyrilic alphabet, which can be confusing (especially for a child learnig those simultanously 😨). Polish has Latin alphabet and more loanwords from Germanic and Romance languages. Pronounciation is "German", nasal vowels are "French", spelling is "Italian". Good luck! 😀
What about Czech? I’m fluent in 3 languages, English, Swedish, & French. I also have a basic understanding of Spanish, from working in the restaurant industry for about 7 years now, & I also a very small amount of German, that is the language I’m focusing on learning right now. I tried learning Japanese a few years ago, but took a break & never got back to it, but still know the very basics, as well some key important phrases. Lastly, my ex fiancée spoke Czech, as they were from Czech Republic, so I know a very small amount of it, but barely. Prague is a beautiful city, so I would definitely love to learn more of Czech. Unfortunately, Czech usually isn’t even considered when people wanting to learn a Slavic language, since most people would rather learn Russian, Polish, or Ukrainian.
Did you know that Chopin carried an urn of Polish soil with him wherever he went? After his death it was spread on his grave in Pere Lachaise cemetery.
Polish is simple! useful! practical and logical. In just 6 months I'm having conversations with people (a few mistakes but it's ok!) Relationships with Polish people in polish and living in Poland using polish will never be the same as in other lingua franca languages. Learn it! (My back ground is romance languages) Slavic people usually pick it up faster for obvious reasons...
I'm allways soooo happy when I learn that someone is at least trying to learn polish. It makes us proud of our country and who we are. Dziękuję bardzo i do zobaczenia w Polsce.
Could you please make a video about why you should learn Japanese or German?? I'm trying to decide which of them I should learn, and my parents aren't really sure about me learning this languages, so I started looking for some reasons on the internet and your videos popped out immediately! I'm IN LOVE with your channel, spanish is my native language but I also know how to speak english and italian, so seeing someone so passionate about languages like you are really inspirational. Please, I'm starting on march next year and I would love to know your opinion about it
+Micaela Cortes Hi Micaela! Thank you for such a lovely comment! :) 9 Reasons to Learn Japanese and German are both in the pipeline! I release one 9 Reasons video each month so I'm sure they'll both be out before March ;) I'm so glad you like the channel! There's also a blog, which has some posts about both German and Japanese to keep you busy in the meantime: www.lindsaydoeslanguages.com My advise would be that learning any language is never a waste of time so if you want to do it, do it! :D
A word of advice for pronunciation letters like "si" and "ci are read together as "ś" and "ć" :D Those are the same sounds but just different spelling due to ortography rules of Polish. Just like "u" and "ó" or "rz" and "ż" are all the same sounds as well but two different variants of spelling. Not easy, I know. We Polish people also hate it ;p
I totally agree with your first point. There are so many Polish speakers in Chicago that after Spanish, Polish is probably the next best language to learn here. I see many storefront signs that say that they speak Polish.
i'm from poland, and i couldn't stop laughing when you were tryi ng to say "miłość" (miłość=love), but you can be proud of yourself, because you said it correctly at the end C:
In my opinion if you're not from Poland there's no reason to learn Polish. Yes, I know every knowledge is valuable but Polish language is a bitch to learn so if you're completely unfamiliar with it I'd recommend spending time learning Spanish or something. Besides Polish people know English quite well so they would understand you with no problem. But anyway that was a good video! :D
Your Polish pronunciation is kida funny ;) Especially 3 "trzy" (something like t- "ge" in French - y, and 4 "cztery" (something like chtery, but with hard ch) "pieść" XD It's "pięć", with nasal sound "ę", like in French and "ć" without "ś" "sześć" is with "e", not "i/y". This should be in "trzy" and "cztery". "sjedem" instead of "siedem" is ok for foreigner, like "sziść/szyść", but it sound funny. The same with "osjem" for "osiem". "Dziewieć" was okay :D Tip for you - if you can pronunce "ą" use "om", if you can't pronunce "ę" use "em".Even some Poles use them ;) Yes, Poles learn English, but if you even try to speak Polish, they all will give you what you want ;) Thanks for advertising Poland! I don't lern Polish, because I already speak it ;) Dziękuję :D Greeting from Poland/Pozdrowienia z Polski
Reason number 1. I learn Polish because it's my ancestral language. Reason number 2 I am a Slav and I deeply love the Slavic languages. Reason number 3 My grandmother said that I should be learning Polish.
I'm polish too and I would like to add that after 12 years of learning english I have only slighty problems with understanding english/british dialects but in polish I can only understand silesian and Poznań-s(?) dialects ( because of my parents origin), what I want to say is that polish dialects are often so diffrent from original language that some specialists say they are totaly difflent languages :D ( but I can alvays be a strange UFO who don't understand polish dialects while still being polish :? )
I'm polish and I'm glad to watch films like that and listen to, for example, those (I think) best reasons to learn polish. Dziękuję you for that film :D
Been trying to learn Polish for donkey years now.. I guess I have been too harsh on my self. Time for me to slow down and start with the basic all over. Thanks to my friend, Polish, who sent me a link to your video. I guess I am more motivated now :-)
HI! I'm Eva and I'm from.Poland. It was a good fun to watch this video. I think if you will try to speak with polish people they will know what you thought about. And I know I made a lot of mistakes in my English but I'm learning English like you Polish. Sooo.... Have a good fun with making new videos with polish.
I absolutely love you for trying to learn polish! it truly is one of the hardest languages in the world so I'm impressed and I really appreciate you guys for doing it. it's hard even for people who come from Poland! trust me I know something about that :) good luck for all of you! and if you need some natives to talk with I'm super available and super happy to help.
The number Trzy is pronounced Tshi. The RZ represents the sound Zh (Russian Ж, French J) but when before certain letters it becomes Sh. In Slavic languages every consonant have Hard and Soft sound, so Zh is "softened" into Sh in certain situations. This softening of consonants is a common linguistic phenomenon in most languages that we sometimes don't notice. An example from my native language סבתא Savta means a grandma is pronounced Safta. The V turns into F in speech.
omg im so happy that people want to learn polish! I dont know if everyone knows that polish is one of the hardest languages. I wish you all good luck in learning! :3
Great video! I would just like to add that Polish may not have many tenses, but there are many exceptions within these tenses and many forms of different verbs. This means that one verb can have over 100 different forms, and for some, well over that depending on the tense (past, present, future), the gender of the person speaking or being spoken about, if it is fist, second, third, etc person, and many others. This is just for people who are a little more interested in the language. This was very enjoyable to watch though :)
Great job! It's fantastic how kindly you talk about Poland. And I really appreciate your motivation to learn polish! Wish you a big success with our 'hard' language and... dziękuję! ^^
I really enjoyed the video, even though the pronunciation of the number was, let's say more or less, but I know it's not easy and you tried which is the most important! Recently, in Poland you can buy shirts with a slogan - I speak Polish, what's your superpower? I just love it and fancy buying one when I visit my homeland again.
Hi Lindsay! This is a cool video :) One little thing: There's over 60 million of us worldwide, not 40 :) Poland alone has just under 40 million while there are over 10 million Poles in USA and another 10 million scattered around the world (Germany, UK, France). Have fun and keep at it!
This was too funny for me xD I am half Polish but wasn't taught as a child so I've been slowly learning it bit by bit my whole life. Your pronunciation was pretty good... for a beginner ;)
I've been learning Polish for a year now, and the hardest part is the numbers. Also cases, but for some reason I can only count to three. Jeden, dwa, trzy.
Polish is great if u love poetry/ literature/music lyrics. It have so many words mean the same xD but... if u want to visit Poland, don't worry. most people in PL can speak English and don't make a problem If you want to speak in that language. we know polish it's hard. even for polish people xD
I really want to learn Polish because of my Polish heritage. I don't know if my grandmother still remembers Polish, but I'd sure like to surprise her. Also, the language itself sounds beautiful!
There's never too late for learning language of your ancestors. You will learn not only how to talk, but you will also taste Polish culture, customs and past. It's like meeting new people and walking into their world :) Anyway I wish you good luck.
There is a lot of truth about reason number 7xD Really, always when I hear that somebody learns how to speak in polish I just want to hug him! I really admire you for your motivation!xD
I've wanted to learn Polish for a while because one half of my family are polish (I'm only an 8th Polish myself) Unfortunately I can't learn it till I'm done with my GCSEs as I already have 3 other languages I MUST learn
Hi :D I'm Polish and I can help you with your Polish but I need help with English haha :D so we can learn together ? :) Answer to me and we can speak ;p
thank you for all those reasons to learn Polish ,and showing it from a better perspective . dziękuję !! p.s. im from Poland Also i like your videos they are good
I'm having a battle between learning Polish or Hungarian. I find both of them alluring, although I must say the exotic nature of Hungarian is quite magnetic. But I'm also very keen on reading Polish books and also find the language beautiful. And I have many, many more Poles to practice and learn Polish from here in Canada, whereas not so many Hungarians here.
Our pronunciation is very, very hard for people who are not Polish. I thing she's a begginer so that's a good begining. Think about it: a lot of people who learn English in Poland pronounce this language really, really bad! A lot of people with high level of Enlish sometimes pronounce some word bad too like "usually"-->"jużuali" or "vegetable"--> "wedżetejbul" and 3, a number, --> "fri"- that's really big mistake, but when she tries you say that she butches words...
Zuza Wilk Well, I kind of wrote that without much thinking. And seriously, it's not that hard. Rz and ż are very easy sounds for English speakers, so is y, sz, cz, ś and ć are not so hard either, they're just hardened and softened sh and ch. Nasal vowels aren't really used. But the only think that really bugged me was tr-zy. Jeden, dwa, siedem, osiem and dziewięć were all fine, and sześć is really hard. Now that I look back at it, I'm not sure why I wrote that.
It's strange so many people have problems with perfective/imperfective aspects. It's a so natural and useful concept. It was also present in latin and worked in a very similar way! Jestem pod wrażeniem, że chcesz się uczyć polskiego! Daję plusik i życzę powodzenia w nauce :)
Ładnie ci wyszło "cześć" i "dziękuję". Resztę powinnaś poćwiczyć z kimś z polski. Pewnych polskich słów po angielsku zapisać się po prostu nie da, ale Polonii w UK jest sporo, więc jeśli rzeczywiście będziesz chciała się nauczyć, to nie powinno być problemu.
Oh, yeah, I'm learning Polish now. My native language is Ukrainian, I can also speak Russian, so Polish isn't so complicated for slavic people. But the grammar rules aren't acceptable and understandable even for slavic speakers
Oekanos We have changed it grammaticly :p, there are 3 tenses but in word we describe if it is made already ("czasowniki(verbs) dokonane") or it's not finished yet ("niedokonane"). For instance a verb 'doing' - robić. past: Robiłem, zrobiłem (I was doing, I did/has done etc.), present: Robię (only one form's there (its simple and continues at once), future: będę robić, zrobię (I will be doing, I'll do) yay ^^ Teraz pójdę do łóżka (I'm going to bed now)
In polish there are three tenses but each of them 1. Is perfect or imperfect 2. Has a genre (femininun, masculinum, neutrum) 3. Every person has a particular ending 4. Voice (passive, active) 5. There are also future in the past constructions.
Nice video, I have been studying Polish more or less active for something like four years now. It is pretty hard language to learn but worth it! And Michał Gracyk is my Polish name that I made up, first name of my own name translated and second name just by picking a random name... Pozdrowienia z Finlandii :D
1- jeden 2- dwa 3- trzy (but say "tszy") 4- cztery 5- pięć ( say Pienc, but this end "c" is blurred) 6- sześć ( say szesc or szejsc) 7- siedem 8- osiem 9-dziewięć (say dziewienc) 10- dziesięć (say dziesienc)
@Anna Elsa J. We DO NOT use "em" and "om" instead of ę and ą. They only become "em" and "om" before "p" and "b" because of assimilation. - You can check that in any Polish grammar book, if you don't believe me.
Wow! I am really surprised how you read those words, it was almost perfect and funny at the way :p Good luck with learning Polish, and if you will ever decide to travel there remember to taste original Pierogi.
I am an American of German/French descent but have been to Poland many times. Love their culture, people, food, resilience, history and food. But, yes their language is difficult.
Did you know that the word "czar" got its unusual spelling through the Polish language? ("Tsar" comes directly from Russian.) Like most people, the one Polish word I know is "solidarnosc"!
Personally I don't feel Polish people warm. I knew some of them in those apps for learning and I perceive most interest in learning my language to go for travel, I helped a lot and received little help, most didn't care about telling things about their country, which was the major reason I wanted to learn Polish. I do not have enough time to studing it because I don't study languages as career, I like study languages because I like knowing about places and Poland is so far and platonic for me. I don't have enough budget to go there, just watch videos, I know there are warm people disposed to help. Maybe it's because where I come from (a little town called Villapinzón) people use to be gentle, polite and warm (there are obviously exceptions), but as I said I had bad experiences in mobile apps, just selfish people. I'm not trying to get couple or something (actually I do not believe in romantic love or stuff like that) I just wanted to learn because I like Poland history and culture. I think sometimes people doesn't know how important might be for a person with low budget for travelling, to get to know the culture and language in the most sincere way, told by a Polish person. I left Polish. PDT: Excuse my English, i'm still learning it.
Am decide to learn Polish,my first language is Chinese,Obviously is two totally difference language,But am start to learn Polish.!
Actually I'm Polish and starting to learn Chinese and I see many similarities. Like both languages have those 'sh/ch' sounds that are difficult for others to pronounce. Like in the world 'miłość' that appeared in this video. I wish you luck since Polish is really hard, but I think Chinese have it easier to learn than others :D
Yea that's true,: )But pronounce of 'R'is really hard for me.I always pronounce like'a er'.Ha but I thought Chinese is hard to learn.And are you learn by yourself ?: D
Yeah, well for now I don't have much free time, so I only learn from a mobile app I have, but I think it's really cool. I'm going to take a course on holidays next year. And it's not really that difficult. Well signs are kinda hard to remember sometimes, but pronouncing and grammar and stuff like that is kinda easy for me. And yeah, 'r' can be a little tricky for you, I understand that.
Then learn it by heart as much as possible. Do not waste your time for understanding grammar. And remember we don't say I, you, he, she, it, we, they. Fight this habit. Don't say "Ja jestem Nicole" just say "Jestem Nicole". Good luck.
omg ❤️ i think is so cute, that a lot of people are learning polish language ❤️ good luck everyone ❤️ polish is so tricky, so chill out ;) a lot of polish people can't speak polish ;) if you know what i mean.
It is funny how she says stuff in polish
+1awesomebeauty Me haha! :D
Polish is one of hardest laguages. If you learn this, you can learn every language :D
I have to disagree, there are many languages with more cases, difficult grammar, crazy pronunciation, complicated writing systems, tones, the list goes on...
The difficulty of a language is dependent of the learner's native tongue, and there is a lot of complex languages spoken out there.
InToTheNetherMc That's why i wrote "one of"
I would have to disagree here. The rules are very clean and precise and the grammar is not complicated. The bulk of the problem just comes from adapting to flowing sounds differently from your native language.
+Xanthus Polish has a lot of varieties with many many exceptions where as english has 3 varieties of word + irregular verbs and few exceptions which aren't that hard
What do you mean by "varieties of word"? If you mean parts of speech, English has just as many as Polish.
I've been learning Polish for about seven months now, I still can't hold a long conversation, but I can have a basic conversation. I already speak English as my native language and as a second language American Sign Language. I am actually hard-of-hearing, so I have some hearing loss, but that doesn't stop me from achieving my goal of learning other spoken languages. I love the Polish language because it's so different from other languages and I find it so beautiful.
+Billy Riedel That's so awesome! It's so different to any language I've ever studied so I was glad to have some help with this video! I do hope to study a Slavic language in more detail one day. :) Keep going with your Polish!
+Billy Riedel I wish you good luck! Greetings from Poland!
Artur Czekalski Dziękuję bardzo, kocham polski język
Im actualy polish / XD i live in england and im learning polish obviously XD English obviously / swedish, spanish ,french ,....... XD
Hi.. If You still want to some advice or help. I will willingly help You in learnig. :)
I remember this one swimming pool in a town of northern Iceland, where some instructions were written only in Icelandic and Polish, due to the relatively big Polish community over there.
Icelandic and Polish, together on paper, are quite intimidating.
+Maxime Rioux haha! I love that last sentence! ;)
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Amazing 😄
Kocham po polsku!!! :D Ja mówie troche po polsku. ;)
I'm trying to learn polish since first time I was in Polska! (2013...very long time ago!!) But this year I said...LET'S REALLY DO IT! And this is my challenge for this year! :)
I love the language, aswell as the country and the people! Such a lovely place with awesome people! I hope to come back soon! :) Kocham Polske!! :D I
That's great, good luck! Be patient though, it isn't easy, but you will get better in time. Learning Polish can be very satisfying.
Also the proper phrase would be "Kocham Polskę!" - ę is pronounced like (-in) in French name Martin.
***** Czesc! :) Dziekuje bardzo!! :) Hope I can learn it soon!!! :D
how cute :3333
i'm sure you will speak perfectly polish really soon, it's not as hard as it may look C:
Wow, good luck! If you continue to learn Polish I would be happy to help you if you have any questions. :)
***** Dzieki!! :)
I just begin to learn polish... no idea why.. but Poland just seems nice, and also cause the language seems nice.. so why not?! Even though slavic languages are one of the hardest.
Esther and her Little World I can help you :)
+Kacper Patrzek Really?
I guess if you say that you're learning Polish a lot of people will want to help you (like me if you're still trying :D don't get discouraged :))
+ it's all because we just are nice :D xd
Same here! Would love to help you too! c:
Esther and her Little World thank you for saying we are nice 😊 (I'm polish)
Polish is hard even for polish people xD really
Mikami Ai Takada Polska język - trudna język 😂😂😂😂
Manielka Kowalska język polska trudna xD
Owszem, choć dotyczy to głównie osób, które naukę j. polskiego traktują niemal jak stratę czasu, a czytanie czegokolwiek jak istną katorgę.
+vojtasjedyny dokładnie
vojtasjedyny niekoniecznie
Your numbers are a bit wrong. There are about 10 million Polish people in USA, about a million in GB and probably some more in other countries. Only in Poland there are 38 million so more accurate number of Polish speaking people in the world would probably be above 50mln.
That's correct. Wikipedia estimates polish speaking population on 55 mln worldwide.
There's a difference between having Polish ancestry and speaking Polish as your native language. Children or grandchildren of many Polish immigrants, especially the ones who settled in the US or Germany, can't speak Polish even as their second language. So the number of ethnic Poles worldwide doesn't directly correspond to the number of actual fluent Polish speakers.
the 10 millionn polish people in the USA is BS... they count everyone with polish heritage as Polish-American even when they were born in America and cant speak any Polish... the actual number of Polish-born citizens in America is actually lower than in GB
It's nice to hear someone new who tries to speak polish :) "I have my fingers crossed" :)
+PolishTeacher yay! I tried! :D
I'm getting into learning Polish this year because it is the language my grandparents spoke and I just can't wait. This video made me really happy; I can't explain it. Thanks so much! Love from the US!
+Katy Bagniewski awesome! I'm glad you liked it! :D
hi :) I like the USA :D And if You want to learn Polish, I can teach You. I really want to.. Just write to me. I will make individual lessons for You with records and explains :D
Same!
These are great reasons! I'm learning Polish since a while now cause someone from there stole my heart ;-). So I really didn't need more reasons but is good to know that I might be able to talk to so many people other than my new Polish family.. XD.
cool! do you guys live in Warsaw perhaps? 😉
Hi, if u want to learn i can help! My native language is polish, so :D If u still want to learn, ofc. XD
It's cute when you trying speak polish. not bad, I understand. I'm polish girl and you are great 👍
Yeah because pronunciation was NOT correct :) I'm polish
Trzy haha pięknie to przeczytałaś
czemu miłość przeczytała jako "miłoszcz"? XDDDD
przecież powiedziała, że ktoś jej powiedział, że "ś" i "ć" można porównać do początku słowa "cheese" i końcówki słowa "fresh", więc tak jej to wyszło
albo 4, jako "czetry" B)
Moim zdaniem i tak poszło jej całkiem dobrze ;> zwłaszcza dziewięć xD
Tu super urocze ^^
2:50 Spanish and your gazillion conjugations. Just like this post on tumblr:
what studying languages is like
LATIN: words like 'yes' and 'no' aren't important. memorize these 3000 different ways to talk about killing people though because you will use them
GREEK: hello, naughty students. it's participle time
EGYPTIAN: ancient pictionary
FRENCH: pronouncing every letter is for chumps
GERMAN: let's combine every other word together to create the U L T I M A T E F R A N K E N W O R D
MANDARIN: lol whats a verb tense
SPANISH: LOL WHAT ISN'T A VERB TENSE
I've also read Latin didn't have a word "yes", but it seems not to be true. In fact they had at least two words for yes! Namely sicut and ita. As a matter of fact theese words had few other meanings, but they means yes as well. Is seems romance "si" has evolved from the former, while the latter apears to be related to Polish tak=yes.
There are more than 40M Polish speakers. 38.5M live in Poland. There are millions more around the world that can speak the language.
There is about 55M Polish speakers and ca. 80M people of Polish descent globally.
Bullshit, there are at least 100 million Polish speakers worlwide.
@@Lechoslaw8546 😂 yeah, right!
I speak polish. What's your superpower?
I want to learn Polish because it has a long history and retains some archaic features that other Slavic languages don't have (I'm looking at you, nasal vowels!). Also, it will help me with other Slavic languages as mentioned in your video. My plan is to learn Russian first because I know some Russian already and it's the easiest for me to read/pronounce, then Polish, then use my combined knowledge of both to learn Ukrainian and Belarusian.
Heh, you must be a real fun of slavic languages :) Yes, Polish is like French or Portugese among slavic languages. Its the last slavic language that has retained nasal voles. Moreover Polish has a huge number of latin loanwords while Russian has retained its indigenous slavic words, which is why Russian looks odd to us. Polish who have learned Russin claim they understand both Ukrainian and Belarusian (but they are unable to speak them of course).
I'm Polish native, fluent in Russian since early childhood and I can say there is easier to learn Russian for Polish speaker than vice versa. Despite the Cyrilic alphabet, which can be confusing (especially for a child learnig those simultanously 😨). Polish has Latin alphabet and more loanwords from Germanic and Romance languages. Pronounciation is "German", nasal vowels are "French", spelling is "Italian". Good luck! 😀
What about Czech? I’m fluent in 3 languages, English, Swedish, & French. I also have a basic understanding of Spanish, from working in the restaurant industry for about 7 years now, & I also a very small amount of German, that is the language I’m focusing on learning right now. I tried learning Japanese a few years ago, but took a break & never got back to it, but still know the very basics, as well some key important phrases.
Lastly, my ex fiancée spoke Czech, as they were from Czech Republic, so I know a very small amount of it, but barely. Prague is a beautiful city, so I would definitely love to learn more of Czech. Unfortunately, Czech usually isn’t even considered when people wanting to learn a Slavic language, since most people would rather learn Russian, Polish, or Ukrainian.
@@toxicperson8936 In the three years since I wrote this I've shifted more towards Czech lol
SHE SAID 'CHOPPIN' XD OMG ROFL poor Chopin ( pronounced Sho-pen for those who don't know)
Did you know that Chopin carried an urn of Polish soil with him wherever he went? After his death it was spread on his grave in Pere Lachaise cemetery.
I knowww haha as soon as I heard it I was like she did not just say choppin 😂😂
That one killed me. I literally paused the video to calm down xD
2:25 - damn right, we already did forget that, don't remind us.
Reason number dziesięć - If you wanna learn a Slavic language, but don’t wanna learn a new alphabet, Polish is a good language to go for.
Polish is one of the many languages I'd like to learn; I think it's beautiful.
This makes me glad my family is Polish. I can just learn from my relatives! Dear God the food there is amazing!
Polish is simple! useful! practical and logical. In just 6 months I'm having conversations with people (a few mistakes but it's ok!) Relationships with Polish people in polish and living in Poland using polish will never be the same as in other lingua franca languages. Learn it! (My back ground is romance languages) Slavic people usually pick it up faster for obvious reasons...
I'm allways soooo happy when I learn that someone is at least trying to learn polish. It makes us proud of our country and who we are. Dziękuję bardzo i do zobaczenia w Polsce.
Could you please make a video about why you should learn Japanese or German?? I'm trying to decide which of them I should learn, and my parents aren't really sure about me learning this languages, so I started looking for some reasons on the internet and your videos popped out immediately! I'm IN LOVE with your channel, spanish is my native language but I also know how to speak english and italian, so seeing someone so passionate about languages like you are really inspirational. Please, I'm starting on march next year and I would love to know your opinion about it
+Micaela Cortes Hi Micaela! Thank you for such a lovely comment! :) 9 Reasons to Learn Japanese and German are both in the pipeline! I release one 9 Reasons video each month so I'm sure they'll both be out before March ;)
I'm so glad you like the channel! There's also a blog, which has some posts about both German and Japanese to keep you busy in the meantime: www.lindsaydoeslanguages.com
My advise would be that learning any language is never a waste of time so if you want to do it, do it! :D
A word of advice for pronunciation letters like "si" and "ci are read together as "ś" and "ć" :D Those are the same sounds but just different spelling due to ortography rules of Polish. Just like "u" and "ó" or "rz" and "ż" are all the same sounds as well but two different variants of spelling. Not easy, I know. We Polish people also hate it ;p
We have large Polish communities here in Eastern England, very easy to see and hear the language, which is awesome!
I totally agree with your first point. There are so many Polish speakers in Chicago that after Spanish, Polish is probably the next best language to learn here. I see many storefront signs that say that they speak Polish.
+Narata ahh, interesting! Thanks for commenting! :)
wow, it's amazing to see how many of you guys want to learn polish :)
I won't even bother asking why, but thanks a lot from poland!
i'm from poland, and i couldn't stop laughing when you were tryi ng to say "miłość" (miłość=love), but you can be proud of yourself, because you said it correctly at the end C:
In my opinion if you're not from Poland there's no reason to learn Polish. Yes, I know every knowledge is valuable but Polish language is a bitch to learn so if you're completely unfamiliar with it I'd recommend spending time learning Spanish or something. Besides Polish people know English quite well so they would understand you with no problem. But anyway that was a good video! :D
Fajnie, że próbowałaś mówić po Polsku :D
Poland and Polish people are amazing!!! I love poland! I'm from Mexico :D
Your Polish pronunciation is kida funny ;) Especially 3 "trzy" (something like t- "ge" in French - y, and 4 "cztery" (something like chtery, but with hard ch) "pieść" XD It's "pięć", with nasal sound "ę", like in French and "ć" without "ś" "sześć" is with "e", not "i/y". This should be in "trzy" and "cztery". "sjedem" instead of "siedem" is ok for foreigner, like "sziść/szyść", but it sound funny. The same with "osjem" for "osiem". "Dziewieć" was okay :D
Tip for you - if you can pronunce "ą" use "om", if you can't pronunce "ę" use "em".Even some Poles use them ;)
Yes, Poles learn English, but if you even try to speak Polish, they all will give you what you want ;)
Thanks for advertising Poland!
I don't lern Polish, because I already speak it ;)
Dziękuję :D
Greeting from Poland/Pozdrowienia z Polski
polska biało czerwoni XD
Wow. This is very nice to hear that people in others country think that our language is beautiful. I was suprising that someone want to learn polish.
Polish sounds beautiful!
Reason number 1. I learn Polish because it's my ancestral language. Reason number 2 I am a Slav and I deeply love the Slavic languages. Reason number 3 My grandmother said that I should be learning Polish.
+Patchman123 awesome! Thanks for commenting! :)
hello :) If You want I can help You. I'm making lessons and records specially for my students. I will explain to you everything so accurate
just write to me ! :D
I'm polish too and I would like to add that after 12 years of learning english I have only slighty problems with understanding english/british dialects but in polish I can only understand silesian and Poznań-s(?) dialects ( because of my parents origin), what I want to say is that polish dialects are often so diffrent from original language that some specialists say they are totaly difflent languages :D
( but I can alvays be a strange UFO who don't understand polish dialects while still being polish :? )
I'm polish and I'm glad to watch films like that and listen to, for example, those (I think) best reasons to learn polish. Dziękuję you for that film :D
I am so impressed! I am from Poland and I have to tell you .. well done!
I would even say that total number of Polish native speakers around the world is about 55 million. That's quite a lot. :)
There are almost 40 million polish people just in Poland, 60 millions polish speakers worldwide ;)
according to wikipedia 45 - 55 million.
genialny filmik :D
I'm Polish and it's amazing to see people learning it :)
Been trying to learn Polish for donkey years now.. I guess I have been too harsh on my self. Time for me to slow down and start with the basic all over. Thanks to my friend, Polish, who sent me a link to your video. I guess I am more motivated now :-)
+Rye Awesome! You can do it! :D
HI! I'm Eva and I'm from.Poland. It was a good fun to watch this video. I think if you will try to speak with polish people they will know what you thought about. And I know I made a lot of mistakes in my English but I'm learning English like you Polish. Sooo.... Have a good fun with making new videos with polish.
I absolutely love you for trying to learn polish! it truly is one of the hardest languages in the world so I'm impressed and I really appreciate you guys for doing it. it's hard even for people who come from Poland! trust me I know something about that :) good luck for all of you! and if you need some natives to talk with I'm super available and super happy to help.
I love your english accent
Great video. ;) I'm Polish and I admire people who are learning my language. I couldn't learn Polish, if i wouldn't live in Poland. ;)
my mom is Polish and I've been to Poland and I love it there
The number Trzy is pronounced Tshi.
The RZ represents the sound Zh (Russian Ж, French J) but when before certain letters it becomes Sh.
In Slavic languages every consonant have Hard and Soft sound, so Zh is "softened" into Sh in certain situations.
This softening of consonants is a common linguistic phenomenon in most languages that we sometimes don't notice.
An example from my native language סבתא Savta means a grandma is pronounced Safta. The V turns into F in speech.
omg im so happy that people want to learn polish! I dont know if everyone knows that polish is one of the hardest languages.
I wish you all good luck in learning! :3
7. true :) I love to hear foreigners trying to speak Polish. They pronounce polish words in such cute & funny & heart melting way :D
Great video! I would just like to add that Polish may not have many tenses, but there are many exceptions within these tenses and many forms of different verbs. This means that one verb can have over 100 different forms, and for some, well over that depending on the tense (past, present, future), the gender of the person speaking or being spoken about, if it is fist, second, third, etc person, and many others. This is just for people who are a little more interested in the language. This was very enjoyable to watch though :)
Great job! It's fantastic how kindly you talk about Poland. And I really appreciate your motivation to learn polish! Wish you a big success with our 'hard' language and... dziękuję! ^^
I really enjoyed the video, even though the pronunciation of the number was, let's say more or less, but I know it's not easy and you tried which is the most important! Recently, in Poland you can buy shirts with a slogan - I speak Polish, what's your superpower? I just love it and fancy buying one when I visit my homeland again.
+Julia Miller Thank you! If I ever someone wearing one of those t-shirts I'll ask if it's you! ;)
Polish is very hard but is beautiful language
Hi Lindsay! This is a cool video :)
One little thing: There's over 60 million of us worldwide, not 40 :) Poland alone has just under 40 million while there are over 10 million Poles in USA and another 10 million scattered around the world (Germany, UK, France).
Have fun and keep at it!
This was too funny for me xD I am half Polish but wasn't taught as a child so I've been slowly learning it bit by bit my whole life. Your pronunciation was pretty good... for a beginner ;)
Hi! I'm polish and this will inspire a lot of people! Dziękuje za to!
+LailaVlogsAndGaming 2005 Awesome! Dziękuje :)
You're actually rlly good in pronouncing polish words, I'm proud bc usually I just cringe over people's pronunciation lol
I've been learning Polish for a year now, and the hardest part is the numbers. Also cases, but for some reason I can only count to three. Jeden, dwa, trzy.
You did a good goob pronouncing those words! Greetings from Slovenia! :)
I just bought an English / Polish Dictionary. I have a very faint idea that it might, just might come in handy.
+Paul Howlett Sounds like a good investment! :D
Polish is great if u love poetry/ literature/music lyrics. It have so many words mean the same xD but... if u want to visit Poland, don't worry. most people in PL can speak English and don't make a problem If you want to speak in that language. we know polish it's hard. even for polish people xD
I really want to learn Polish because of my Polish heritage. I don't know if my grandmother still remembers Polish, but I'd sure like to surprise her. Also, the language itself sounds beautiful!
There's never too late for learning language of your ancestors. You will learn not only how to talk, but you will also taste Polish culture, customs and past. It's like meeting new people and walking into their world :) Anyway I wish you good luck.
vojtasjedyny Thank you! (:
There is a lot of truth about reason number 7xD Really, always when I hear that somebody learns how to speak in polish I just want to hug him! I really admire you for your motivation!xD
I've wanted to learn Polish for a while because one half of my family are polish (I'm only an 8th Polish myself) Unfortunately I can't learn it till I'm done with my GCSEs as I already have 3 other languages I MUST learn
Hi :D
I'm Polish and I can help you with your Polish but I need help with English haha :D so we can learn together ? :) Answer to me and we can speak ;p
Yes I can help you with English. Do you have Twitter?
Ok you can add me on the facebook ;
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No,I don't have Twitter but I have account on the facebook and you can add me :
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thank you for all those reasons to learn Polish ,and showing it from a better perspective . dziękuję !! p.s. im from Poland
Also i like your videos they are good
You pronance it quite well ;) I'm polish it is so nce to see that another cultures talk good about mine Thank you ^_^
I'm having a battle between learning Polish or Hungarian. I find both of them alluring, although I must say the exotic nature of Hungarian is quite magnetic. But I'm also very keen on reading Polish books and also find the language beautiful. And I have many, many more Poles to practice and learn Polish from here in Canada, whereas not so many Hungarians here.
i speak polish whats your super power?
The numbers sound russian.
That's an understatement. She butchered them.
Our pronunciation is very, very hard for people who are not Polish. I thing she's a begginer so that's a good begining. Think about it: a lot of people who learn English in Poland pronounce this language really, really bad! A lot of people with high level of Enlish sometimes pronounce some word bad too like "usually"-->"jużuali" or "vegetable"--> "wedżetejbul" and 3, a number, --> "fri"- that's really big mistake, but when she tries you say that she butches words...
Zuza Wilk Well, I kind of wrote that without much thinking.
And seriously, it's not that hard. Rz and ż are very easy sounds for English speakers, so is y, sz, cz, ś and ć are not so hard either, they're just hardened and softened sh and ch. Nasal vowels aren't really used.
But the only think that really bugged me was tr-zy. Jeden, dwa, siedem, osiem and dziewięć were all fine, and sześć is really hard.
Now that I look back at it, I'm not sure why I wrote that.
Didn’t she pronounce numbers without reading digraphs properly on purpose as a joke?
It's strange so many people have problems with perfective/imperfective aspects. It's a so natural and useful concept. It was also present in latin and worked in a very similar way!
Jestem pod wrażeniem, że chcesz się uczyć polskiego! Daję plusik i życzę powodzenia w nauce :)
Ładnie ci wyszło "cześć" i "dziękuję". Resztę powinnaś poćwiczyć z kimś z polski. Pewnych polskich słów po angielsku zapisać się po prostu nie da, ale Polonii w UK jest sporo, więc jeśli rzeczywiście będziesz chciała się nauczyć, to nie powinno być problemu.
I swear Polish has more exceptions that words that follow rules lol
Oh, yeah, I'm learning Polish now.
My native language is Ukrainian, I can also speak Russian, so Polish isn't so complicated for slavic people.
But the grammar rules aren't acceptable and understandable even for slavic speakers
Your pronunciation is very good. I speak Czech as my native language.
That's very interesting! :-) Our students know a few more interesting reasons to learn Polish, too.
afaik polish has only three tenses: past, present and future
Oekanos We have changed it grammaticly :p, there are 3 tenses but in word we describe if it is made already ("czasowniki(verbs) dokonane") or it's not finished yet ("niedokonane"). For instance a verb 'doing' - robić.
past: Robiłem, zrobiłem (I was doing, I did/has done etc.),
present: Robię (only one form's there (its simple and continues at once),
future: będę robić, zrobię (I will be doing, I'll do)
yay ^^ Teraz pójdę do łóżka (I'm going to bed now)
I know you're Polish anyway, I hope my grammar will be good enough to read by the others :p
In polish there are three tenses but each of them
1. Is perfect or imperfect
2. Has a genre (femininun, masculinum, neutrum)
3. Every person has a particular ending
4. Voice (passive, active)
5. There are also future in the past constructions.
Nice! :) Each reason you provided is 100% true :)
omg i love you. you're polish is so good, seriously.
Your Polish is absolutely adorable
Nice video, I have been studying Polish more or less active for something like four years now. It is pretty hard language to learn but worth it! And Michał Gracyk is my Polish name that I made up, first name of my own name translated and second name just by picking a random name... Pozdrowienia z Finlandii :D
1- jeden
2- dwa
3- trzy (but say "tszy")
4- cztery
5- pięć ( say Pienc, but this end "c" is blurred)
6- sześć ( say szesc or szejsc)
7- siedem
8- osiem
9-dziewięć (say dziewienc)
10- dziesięć (say dziesienc)
I'm polish and I live in U.K btw that's 1 of the hardest languages to learn! and u said 9 right!
@Anna Elsa J. We DO NOT use "em" and "om" instead of ę and ą. They only become "em" and "om" before "p" and "b" because of assimilation. - You can check that in any Polish grammar book, if you don't believe me.
we all believe you
Polish is the second language spoken in Britan
Wow! I am really surprised how you read those words, it was almost perfect and funny at the way :p
Good luck with learning Polish,
and if you will ever decide to travel there remember to taste original Pierogi.
I’m trying to learn polish cause my best friend is polish and uno it’s something to do I’m British as well Dziękuję for this video 😂
Aww you're so cute! :D
Poland is souch a beautiful place to me
It's nice to hear kind words about my country :-) Pozdrawiam :-)
I love ppl who are trying to speak in my national language c:
You sound really funny when you say words in Polish, but it's really nice that you are trying! :) So keep going! Greetings from Poland :*
Great! CzeŚĆ - same ending in miłoŚĆ, szeŚĆ :-)
You did good with 'jeden (one)', and you decoded the word 'milosc' very well :)
I am an American of German/French descent but have been to Poland many times. Love their culture, people, food, resilience, history and food. But, yes their language is difficult.
Suppose you know russian. Does that help you to learn polish ?
Tak, да, yes!
Did you know that the word "czar" got its unusual spelling through the Polish language? ("Tsar" comes directly from Russian.)
Like most people, the one Polish word I know is "solidarnosc"!
Cz is a Polish digraph, but we spell it "car" not czar. But Czech is an apparent Polish loanword :)
Personally I don't feel Polish people warm. I knew some of them in those apps for learning and I perceive most interest in learning my language to go for travel, I helped a lot and received little help, most didn't care about telling things about their country, which was the major reason I wanted to learn Polish. I do not have enough time to studing it because I don't study languages as career, I like study languages because I like knowing about places and Poland is so far and platonic for me. I don't have enough budget to go there, just watch videos, I know there are warm people disposed to help. Maybe it's because where I come from (a little town called Villapinzón) people use to be gentle, polite and warm (there are obviously exceptions), but as I said I had bad experiences in mobile apps, just selfish people. I'm not trying to get couple or something (actually I do not believe in romantic love or stuff like that) I just wanted to learn because I like Poland history and culture. I think sometimes people doesn't know how important might be for a person with low budget for travelling, to get to know the culture and language in the most sincere way, told by a Polish person. I left Polish.
PDT: Excuse my English, i'm still learning it.
I love Polish because I've learned until a fluent level on Addq challenge!