Polish lesson & grammar

[katie386]

hello everybody i wonder is there any website where i can learn by myslef Polish language ? 4 years ago i started to learn but i gave up (coz of too hard grammar)

[Nena89]

hi Katie! mm.. You wrote you had given up learning so I guess you know some basic rules anyway, I hope this website will help you with learning http://free.of.pl/g/grzegorj/gram/gram00.html
just enjoy the grammar
by the way, in my opinon it's bloody difficult

[katie386]

thank You so much
yes i knw some basic words/phrases but Polish grammar damn so so hard to understand .. anyway ths time i wont give up so easily

[pippirrup]

Sorry, Nena89, but one could be bored to death trying to learn polish from the site to which you've posted a link. This http://grzegorj.w.interia.pl/kurs/0.html can be useful, although in this tutorial there are some extremely weird and useless words

[katie386]

so maybe You Pippirrup know any good website wth polish grammar and useful words etc ??

[patryszja]

Hi Katie, I tried to find some useful sites where you can learn a bit of Polish and I guess they might be quite useful I wish you luck 'cause grammar can drive you crazy, but don't give up

http://www.skwierzyna.net/learn_polish.htm

http://www.polishgrammar.com/ here you can test your grammar, I like the prepositions and verbs parts

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Polish.htm here you can learn words in interesting way, I thinks such games are better than lists of vocabulary

if you find a site with vocabulary it'll be better if you first post it here 'cause there a lot of sites full of stupid mistakes and I'm sure you don't want to learn words which simply don't exist

[anhp]

Hi!
I think this site will help you so much with your vocabulary http://www.internetpolyglot.com/

[sizr_sistr]

Hi. could someone quickly explain the way it is 'you' formal in polish. i can already speak macedonian which is helpful for some things but not this!
i understood its the same word for 'sir'/'madam'
so its like Jak ma sie Pan / Pani ?
but what do you do if its not the subject?... and then is there only one plural for masc and femin? = panstvo ?

I saw you? I gave you something? can i ask You a question... etc.

dziekuje!

[patryszja]

I'm quite lame at rules of Polish grammar so I'll translate only your questions

Pan - Sir, Pani - Madam, plural form - Państwo
Jak sie Pani/Pan ma?

you always use Pan/Pani or Państwo when you want to talk to someone older you don't know

I saw you should be I saw you Madam/Sir in polish: Widziałam/em Panią/Pana
I gave you sth Madam/Sir - Dałam/em coś Pani/ Panu
Can I ask a question - Czy mogę zadać Panu/Pani pytanie?

you don't have to use capital letters, you can write pan/pani and it will be formal
but remember it's just my native speaker's point of view ;P

[sizr_sistr]

thanks patryszja the other interesting thing i'm learning now is how polnoc/poludnie/wschod/zachod is north/south/east/west and also midnight/noon/sunrise/sunset... confusing but fun!

btw is it true that you can say 'czy widziales' or 'czys widzial'
do people speak like that or is it just in books?

[skr]

Originally Posted by sizr_sistr

btw is it true that you can say 'czy widziales' or 'czys widzial'
do people speak like that or is it just in books?

There's nothing incorrect in "czyś widział", but it would be quite odd to talk like that. But it sounds good in poems

[crazytofik]

Originally Posted by sizr_sistr

btw is it true that you can say 'czy widziales' or 'czys widzial' do people speak like that or is it just in books?

Yea, "czyś widział" is quite archeic, just like "czy żeś widział" ... "czy widziałeś" is in common use