Sunday, 3 May 2009
Polish to Polish: Lesson 13 (Przesądy)
Lesson 13 couldn't be on time obviously! So we talk today about superstitions in Polish culture.
Saturday, 11 April 2009
Polish to Begin with: Lesson 25 (past tense)
Here is a short explaination of past tense in Polish.
Wesołych Świąt, smacznego jajka i mokrego śmigusa-dyngusa!
Wesołych Świąt, smacznego jajka i mokrego śmigusa-dyngusa!
Thursday, 9 April 2009
A really funny way to learn some Polish
I know it's a bit strange but it's fun anyway: Misja Kraków.
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Polish cases in poetry :)
Here is the best (and the only) poem we have ever read about Polish cases:
In Case of Polish
The Polish language is quite curious.
Seven cases! Yes, they’re serious.
The Nominative Case is so exquisite.
Answers the question: who or what is it?
If there’s few or even many,
Or you tell me there’s not any,
Look for something that’s a possession.
Carefully listen for a preposition
Od, ze, do, dla, or koło
Genitive case does a solo.
Now I know it sounds amusing
To what, to whom – it’s just confusing!
But if you listen to the help I give,
I lend to you this case of Dative.
I see I need to get going soon
Of course, I’d like to fly to the moon
Just remember when passing through
That any old direct object will do
And action or motion to anyplace
Always results in the Accusative case.
Whether in front or behind, above, under or below
There’s one more thing that you need know
Transportation is fundamental
When the case is Instrumental
Although it may seem quite apparent
About “on”, “in”, “by”, or “after” it is inherent
That these are prepositions of locations.
(I thank you now, for your patience.)
We’ve arrived at the case called Locative
And all that’s left – hey you! Vocative!
By Polish learner
Frances Turner
We took it from here
In Case of Polish
The Polish language is quite curious.
Seven cases! Yes, they’re serious.
The Nominative Case is so exquisite.
Answers the question: who or what is it?
If there’s few or even many,
Or you tell me there’s not any,
Look for something that’s a possession.
Carefully listen for a preposition
Od, ze, do, dla, or koło
Genitive case does a solo.
Now I know it sounds amusing
To what, to whom – it’s just confusing!
But if you listen to the help I give,
I lend to you this case of Dative.
I see I need to get going soon
Of course, I’d like to fly to the moon
Just remember when passing through
That any old direct object will do
And action or motion to anyplace
Always results in the Accusative case.
Whether in front or behind, above, under or below
There’s one more thing that you need know
Transportation is fundamental
When the case is Instrumental
Although it may seem quite apparent
About “on”, “in”, “by”, or “after” it is inherent
That these are prepositions of locations.
(I thank you now, for your patience.)
We’ve arrived at the case called Locative
And all that’s left – hey you! Vocative!
By Polish learner
Frances Turner
We took it from here
Friday, 20 February 2009
Polish to Begin with: Lesson 24
Complain a bit about your health and get a nice sympathetic reaction from your Polish friends!
Listen how to do it.
Listen how to do it.
Monday, 19 January 2009
Polish to Begin with: Lesson 23 (New Year's resolutions)
As it's high time for New Year's resolutions we talk a little about future tense in Polish.
For imperfective verbs you need these forms to create future tense:
będę
będziesz
będzie
będziemy
będziecie
będą
(And we are thinking about some nice way to make the transcripts available - just give us some time!)
For imperfective verbs you need these forms to create future tense:
będę
będziesz
będzie
będziemy
będziecie
będą
(And we are thinking about some nice way to make the transcripts available - just give us some time!)
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