Polish school for non-Polish speakers

[sado1]

Inspired by Ben's English topic, I decided to make a similar one, about the second most used language in KaM TS community (or maybe even the most used one? ). Ask whatever questions you may have!

[Ben]

Believe it or not, I actually want to start learning Polish. No joke!
I'm not really sure where or how to start. I suppose that most of you guys took English as a class, huh?

[FeyBart]

In the Netherlands it's obligatory, because it's such much used language. I don't know about all the other European countries, though. I think they have obliged classes in Belgium and Germany as well.

[Omigoshe]

in England aswell

[Da Revolution]

Hey it's the polish school! not the what-countries-have-English-at-school topic

Well Sado maybe start with some basics, like "how are you?"

[Omigoshe]

Well Sado maybe start with some basics, like "how are you?"

And "you suck, noob" or "good job, friend"

[sado1]

in England aswell

hahahhaha

Same here with English, I think it's obligatory almost everwhere in Europe. I wish good luck anyone trying to learn Polish, I hope your motivation doesn't flow away when you try to learn some of the more annoying stuff (trying to pronounce these strange letters, or to learn the grammatical cases, which probably would be something new for an English native speaker, etc.). No idea how hard would that be to find a Polish teacher in America, although I guess there are always some do-it-yourself courses.

"how are you?" - Jak się masz? (pronounce it like /yak shie mash/)
"you suck, noob" - Ssiesz (noobie). /oh god... sshiesh noobye? xD/
"good job, friend" - Dobra robota, kolego. /no need to say how to pronounce it xD/

As you can see, in words "ssiesz" and "się" there is a vowel "si" (also written like "ś" in other words). It's hard to say how to pronounce it. The closest English equivalent would be "sh" ("shi"?), but it's incorrect although understandable. I advise anyone to hear a Polish guy saying "siema", to hear how the vowel sounds at the beginning of that word.

[Omigoshe]

Somehow I feel like trying to pronounce it, but when you look at polish people talking fluently it goes so stupidly fast to follow

[WollongongWolf]

Hey it's the polish school! not the what-countries-have-English-at-school topic

I was already like whut we get Polish at school. I only learned 1 word in Polish while working 3 years with them, I had no hope learning it, but let's give it a try! *sets kam language to polish* (why can't you set nationality and language seperately XD)

[Weekend]

I would like to know the polish translation of "go die sado"

[ChrisEggII]

Umrzyj sado ("umzhiy sado"), or more difficult:
Idź umrzeć sado (how can I explain how to say this? -.- maybe "ids umzets' sado"?)

Anyway there is something funny in this language: many people are learning this language only to know how to swear...

[pawel95]

Anyway there is something funny in this language: many people are learning this language only to know how to swear...

Don´t joke that hard. I don´t know one even one good example! Many of Germans for example wanna know some certain polish words, to swear, but dont say that people are LeArning the language only to swear-.-

[Ben]

I see this a lot in Rosetta: Adjectives, for example, seem to change their spelling a bit for reasons I'm having a hard time understanding. For example, "One Bike" is Jeden rower, right? Well why is it that the correct way of saying "One Magazine" is "Jedna Gazeta"? Is it like Spanish where adjectives/articles change depending on the spelling of the noun?

[Bence791]

I think it has to do with personal pronouns, but not sure.

[Litude]

Not knowing any Polish my guess would be it has to do with the grammatical gender of the word. I don't think there's such a thing at all in English, but from the languages I know at some level, German, Russian and Swedish make use of it.