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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

po obejrzeniu dziwie się, że potrafię mówić po polsku.

"Polska w tytule" Polacy: HI THERE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zawsze się zastanawiałem jak wyglądałaby lekcja polskiego w anglii

How difficult can a language be? Poland: yes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chciałem sobie poczytać komentarze z zagranicy a tu kurwa sami Polacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Polish scrabble, Z is worth only one point

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I Am a simple Hungarian, I see polish, I like “Lengyel magyar, két jó barát együtt harcol s issza borát”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everybody gangsta til' diner starts eating a man

A *cute* feature of Polish is diminution - the ability to make anything sound nice and cute by changing word endings. Kawa-kawka-kaweczka-kawunia - four degrees of diminution of "coffee", from regular coffee, to the cutest little cup of coffee you can think of. Diminutives are usually used with people's names: Piotr (Peter - a regular form) - Piotrek (a boy or an adult friend) - Piotruś (a little kid) - Piotrunio (a cute little baby). It's very common and sometimes annoying. A waitress in a cafe might say: "Kawka i ciasteczko, czy może herbatka i serniczek?" (A little coffee and a tiny cookie, or a little tea and a tiny cheesecake?) This doesn't translate well into English, where diminution is far less common.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of my childhood friends' moms was born and raised in Poland, and I remember hearing her speak it over the phone (and cursing in Polish) and I thought it was one of the most beautiful languages ever. Now I'm trying to learn it, and I'm just starting out and am little intimidated by it, but I'm really excited to learn this really beautiful language!

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

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

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

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

Really nice move. But I see a small mistake: the dative form of the word "matka" in polish is "matce". The word matke does not exist in Polish language, there is only "matkę". :-) But nevertheless great move, I appreciate your effort to deep dive into the Polish language! :-)

Ubielwiam ten język! Dziękuję bardzo! Pozdrawienia z Argentyny

80% ludzi którzy to oglądają są Polakami ktuży dostali ten filmik w rekomendacji. (w ten sposób znalazłem ten filmik)

Very interesting video! Thanks a lot!

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

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

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

Teraz wiem dlaczego byłem słaby z matematyki... Zwyczajnie brakowało miejsca w pamięci po lekcjach z j. Polskiego 😅 Geez! Respect to anyone learning our crazy language. Espacially people outside our slavic tribe. Fun fact. Poles quite easly can speak with Czech, Slovak, Croatian, and many more. It's kinda funny cause those are different languages but if we will speak slow and clear we will understand each other. I remeber when I was in Croatia and I was trying to comunicate in english (interantional language after all) and thay were like "cmon dude! Stop foolin and just speak Polish" 😅

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

It's funny how my father (who speaks Belarusian) can walk up to Polish and talk with them in Belarusian while they answer in Polish.

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

Very good job, Paul! Oh man, it reminded me of the grammar classes at primary school, the hammering away, the going through endless (so it seemed) examples, the diagrams, the dreaded grammar homework and classtests. We pupils should've shown more appreciation for those but we didn't, we could not.🙂

I always knew that Polish was complex, but never to this extend... I'm truly amased! Great video! One thing that I'd like to point out what may be unusual in Polish is the way of addressing casual or workplace acquaintaces. When you work with e.g. Mrs Katarzyna Nowak, if you work together you will call her Pani Kasia. This is Pani = Mrs and Kasia = diminutive of Katarzyna. The same if you were to work with Mr Sławomir Nowak, you would call him Pan Sławek. You then no longer use the surname (Nowak). In big corporations this starts to fade since employees are encouraged to use informal speach (just the name), but if you go to a school or a public office you will hear those kinds of addresses. The same goes for people who refer to their service providers: a car mechanic will be e.g. Pan Mietek (Mieczyław), an aestethician will be Pani Gosia (Małgorzata)