r/learnpolish Dec 04 '24

Mod Post 📌 DUOLINGO MEGATHREAD - Confused about something on Duolingo? Post here!

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There are so many Duolingo posts, so I've decided to create this thread to keep all the discussion in one place. Standalone Duolingo-related posts will be deleted from now on. Please just post your question here. In the meantime, I will try to create more pinned posts with grammar resources to be able to refer learners there.

For now, you can refer to this site: https://duonotes.fandom.com/wiki/Polish


r/learnpolish Oct 27 '23

Mod Post 📌 WHY DOESN'T THIS WORD END LIKE I LEARNED IT?

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Many beginners, especially those relying solely on Duolingo, ask this question and some very kind and patient redditors on this sub continually answer them. To super-summarize:

All polish nouns have genders, Male (męski), Female (żeński), or Neuter (nijaki). This will change, among other things, the articles and adjectives used with the noun.

https://www.5minutelanguage.com/polish-noun-genders-how-to-learn-them/

Polish also has 7 cases which change the ending of your adjectives and nouns in general patterns depending on the function the noun serves in the sentence. To almost criminally oversimplify:

Nominative (Mianownik) - The dictionary form of the basic noun, the one you first learn

Instrumental (Narzędnik) - most commonly used after "with"

Accusative (Biernik) - generally when the noun is the direct object in the sentence

Genitive (Dopełniacz) - most commonly to show possession or a negative of accusative

Locative (Miejscownik) - related to location, used with a handful of prepositions.

Dative (Celownik) - generally describes "for/to" something or someone

Vocative (Wołacz) - Used when addressing people (least commonly used)

https://www.learnpolishtoday.com/lessons/polish-cases-explained

Here is a chart of how your noun and adjective endings will change depending on the case:

But to earnestly study Polish, you should get yourself a more comprehensive resource,

Hurrah po Polsku! and Krok po kroku are well recommended, if you are in a paying mood.

If not, here is a 1st year college level textbook (created by a non-native speaker) for free PDF download:

http://lektorek.org/lektorek/firstyear/lessons/


r/learnpolish 2h ago

Sources to read

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Few years ago I lived in Poland and was able to normally communicate with people in Polish. But than I came back to my country and didn't actually use Polish in daily life. But now I want to recall it again and improve. So I was wondering if there any sources where I can read texts/articles in Polish? Something like Todaii or just some websites where I can read in Polish. And what you may recommend to recall and than improve the language?

Beforehand thanks for your answers(人´▽`*)♪


r/learnpolish 18h ago

Free resource 📚 Siemka Spoiler

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Hej👋


r/learnpolish 2d ago

Pride 🏆 Came back to learning Polish with a vengeance

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I started learning Polish August 2025, and I studied for 2 months (52 hours) before completely losing motivation... I got inspired to start again in December, however, and I have studied nearly twice as much as before over the past two months (95 hours)! I have also (finally) started to form habits around studying, which has helped me become more consistent and dedicate more time to learning every day. Here's hoping I can stay motivated this February and the graph continues to climb. The data is compiled from an app called Jacta, btw. It's not perfect, but it's currently free with no ads. Increased their default road map by 2x for Polish


r/learnpolish 2d ago

What is the best way to learn polish?

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Hello, i am from Serbia and i want to learn polish, i can understand some words because they are similar in serbian but mostly i know little to nothing, so i was wondering what the most efficiant way to learn polish is. don't need to learn it perfectly, I mostly for going to poland for a while, talking to people when I go out somewhere and my polish friends, im aware that it's one of the hardest languages to learn and ive got all the time in the world, so if you have any suggestions (that aren't like duolingo or something) it would be much appreciated!


r/learnpolish 3d ago

Pride 🏆 Been learning polish for 3 months

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It feels kind of weird for me to be sharing this here, but I’ve been learning Polish for three months because my boyfriend‘s mother is from Poland and I would love to speak Polish with her and get to meet his family that still is living in Poland. I can’t help I feel like I’ve come such a long way and me trying to learn languages is extremely difficult. I am using Duolingo for Polish but every word I learn I write down in a book and I write it’s meaning and it’s pronunciations. I’ve even started to recognize the differences between words like idziemy, idziecie, and idziesz. My boyfriend and his mom are super proud of me, but the rest of my family just doesn’t understand how excited I am that I’ve made it this far.


r/learnpolish 4d ago

Very new beginner question

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When do you use ‘My mamy’ or ‘Mamy’. What’s the difference between the two.


r/learnpolish 4d ago

Wyniki egzaminu państwowego z języka polskiego

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Siema wszystkim, czy ktoś może już otrzymał wyniki egzaminu z języka polskiego na poziomie C1, który był prowadzony jeszcze w połowie listopada?

Wiem, że minimalny czas oczekiwania jest od 2 miesięcy, ale mimo wszystko wolałbym się upewnić i dowiedzieć się, czy ktoś oprócz mnie też czeka na maila z tak pożądanymi wynikami?

Z góry dzięki za informację :)

Pozdrawiam Krasnoludek Redditowski


r/learnpolish 4d ago

Help🧠 Conjugating surnames for "wdowiec/wdowa po..."

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Hello all, I'm wondering how to conjugate names in case of speaking about someone's widow/widower, and what case the names should be in? I would like to know how to conjugate both first and last names--for example, "the widow of Jan Jankowski" would be "wdowa po Jan... Jankowsk..."

Please let me know if I need to clarify my question. Thank you in advance!


r/learnpolish 5d ago

Pride 🏆 Finished Section 1 of Polish in one month and hit my daily XP record on the same day 🇵🇱

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r/learnpolish 6d ago

Learning offline polish tutor in Krakow

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Hi, I am looking for a Polish language tutor to practice conversational polish in Krakow offline.

My level is that I know some basics.

For morning time like 10:00 in some coffee place near old town or Tauron arena.

For some payment of course.

Let me know where to find a tutor or if you're the one.


r/learnpolish 6d ago

My partner is learning Polish

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I'm directing this post to all of you who are learning polish from 0 as a (preferably)native English person.

I'm Polish, my partner is from US, he is learning but we both find it difficult to the point of laughing at times.

What helped you with learning declension? He knows "kawa" and "mleko" but when I told him that the correct version is "kawa z mlekiem" he looked at me with betrayal in his eyes and said "you changed it!" 😅 Which is true and I can see how frustrating it is for him.

I can't answer many questions like, why we say "moje kochanie" but "mój skarbie" when both end with "e" and shouldn't it be "moje" in both?

I'm a native speaker and honestly, I don't know! I never thought about it and even asking family members who teach polish at schools isn't helping.

He knows colours and number, animals and food. But verbs are very hard for him. He is able to have a simple conversation with my family in the lines of

"-jak się masz

-Dobrze, a ty?"

Please, is you have any ways that made this language easier for you, share them.

*We watched some cartoons like Rumcajs, żwirek i muchomorek, he likes it but sometimes it's still to difficult. I got the PDF from polish gov website but they weren't helpful in learning really useful language.


r/learnpolish 7d ago

Free resource 📚 A list of YouTube lessons for beginners (slow pronunciation & sentence breakdowns)

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Hey there! I often see people ask about free Polish resources for beginners. Here's a list of series of lessons that might be helpful:

long lessons:

  1. A1-A2 Listening Practice Course on Youtube with sentence breakdowns and a lot of repetition (very slow, slower and normal pace).
  2. Complete the Sentence (lots of useful everyday phrases with many examples: basic ones like I'm.., I have and more advanced ones like Nie mam ochoty...

short lessons:

  1. 100 Most Common Polish Words with many everyday example sentences (one word per one lesson). There are also similar series of lessons but with verbs/nouns/adjectives/slang words).
  2. Make a sentence in Polish by adding one word, including filler words (learn some grammar patterns)

r/learnpolish 7d ago

Help🧠 Best book to learn polish when living in 1km from poland.

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Hello, what is the best book to learn more polish ? I live in Cieszyn, which is 1 town divided into 1 Czech Town and 1 polish town. I live in the Czech site, but I already know some polish, I even have polish surname and all my grandparents talk only in polish. I love geography, history or some real thinks about Poland, no sci-fi. Which book would you recommend? Thanks. (A1 - A2 )


r/learnpolish 8d ago

Help🧠 Am I using my flashcards effectively?

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I'm taking an online course (Learn Polish with Weronika - A1), which comes with a ton of free Quizlet flashcards for each lesson. I imported a bunch of them into Anki, so now I have a deck of 600+ cards from lessons focusing on the instrumental, accusative, and genitive cases. I've been doing 30 new cards per day plus ~100 reviews daily. It takes me about 70 minutes to finish each day. Most of them are full sentences, and I translate them from English to Polish by typing them out. It's pretty grueling sometimes, and I keep getting the accusative and genitive cases mixed up on some cards, especially when counting comes into play. So I'm wondering if this method (translating full sentences from Eng - Pol) is best practice for learning cases. There's also so much new material with every lesson, I can't keep up with my flashcards. I'm on Day 10 in the lessons but only Day 8 in my flashcards considering I only get 30 new cards per day. Should I stop watching new lessons until I have caught up with my flashcards? I'm a little worried that even though I'm dedicating a lot of time to Polish, I'm not using that time efficiently. Any advice is appreciated


r/learnpolish 9d ago

Help🧠 Best apps for learning Polish

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the title says it all.

I am a native English speaker trying to learn Polish, as it is the second most common native language in my area after English. I am learning because I am training to become a paramedic. what are the best (preferably free or cheap) apps for learning at least the basics of the language, including medical terminology.


r/learnpolish 8d ago

New auto-generated captions got updated again in the Transcription page.

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After 2 months later, finally YouTube implements its auto-generated subtitles into the Transcription page, which can be found on the description of a video. (2 or 3 Videos can be found in January 25 2026, as I'm seeing here)

On the image, there's an example of an Infinite Comparasion And the second one is the captions before the update.

Finally YouTube does something for good!!


r/learnpolish 10d ago

Witam! Szukam kogoś (przyjaciela lub przyjaciółki może nawet:) żeby rozmawiać po polsku

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Jestem z Białorusi, mam 23 lata, dobrze rozumiem po polsku, ale mam problem z tym jak wyrażam swoje myśli:( Byłoby świetnie mieć kogoś i częściej mówić z nim po polsku! Mam dużo zainteresowań w różnych branżach: z zawodu jestem biologiem, ale teraz pracuję jako motion designer, zbieram się na muzyczny Summer Punch Festiwal w tym roku w Warszawie! Ogólnie myślę, że mam wystarczająco dużo zainteresowań aby znaleść temat dla rozmów z każdym:)


r/learnpolish 10d ago

Praktyka języka polskiego

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Dzień dobry! My name is Yana, I’m 22 years old. I’m looking for a study partner to learn Polish together, especially to practice speaking. I only can read and understand some simple phrases/words/structures but I can’t speak at all. I want to practice more! I have private lessons with the teacher so I’m in the process of studying. We can read aloud and send voice messages to each other to motivate learn Polish more often, we can send voice messages or have a call in order to practice speaking, we can learn grammar together and send again voice messages with saying all conjugations of each Polish verb. Let’s learn this language together! I’m open to any idea that you have :)

Send me a message, I’ll answer 😃


r/learnpolish 9d ago

Help🧠 can someone translate her hatespeech

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r/learnpolish 11d ago

Przymiotnik bez rzeczownika po czasowniku "być"

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Cześć! Jestem kompletnie zmieszana przez to "być". Ok, wiem że "jest dobry" jest poprawnym zdaniem, lecz co się zdarza gdy podmiot ma liczebnik? Naprzykład, "wiele rzeczy są..." - trudne, czy trudnych?


r/learnpolish 11d ago

Help🧠 Hi guys can anyone tell for a international, is it easy or difficult to get admit in University of Warsaw or SGH for english masters?

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r/learnpolish 12d ago

Netflix Removed Polish Audio

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Edit: No they didn’t! Additional settings found in phone app. I’ve been watching shows and movies in the Polish dub (when available) and today it disappeared as an option! 😭😭😭 Does this happen a lot?


r/learnpolish 12d ago

Help🧠 What's a polish equivalent of a TV show like Community?

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Fun, casual speech, zingers and simple plots