(part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases

Try saying jabłko whilst biting into an apple.

I always say japko but really its jabwko.

I always give the advice of fresh cheese, the transition between the two words. It's enough for foreigners starting out b4 getting into how hard the sound should be.

Hey I said this to my Polish classmate today, she understood!

yay

Just one thing: "Jabłko" should in fact be pronounced neither as
"japko" nor as "jabłko", but as: "JAP£KO" (with a very weak, slight "£") - this the formal language norm according to the Rada Języka Polskiego, led by prof. Markowski.

I have this newspaper article i would like to know how to pronounce :P

Only after a "p", I believe. Otherwise, it's kind of like the "s" in "pleasure", with a bit of an "r" at the same time. Swine of a sound for a non-native to pronounce properly!!

help!.....p-shy-tool or p-she-tool ?

thanks,

y is pronounced like the i in bid

say. expressivo. com/ jacek/ Przytul_mnie.

but you have to say it much much softly :)

very much :)

Merged: Pronunciation of the verb chciec

Could someone, please tell me how to pronounce these words phonetically...

chcę
chcesz
chce
chcemy
chcecie
chcą

Ch is like the ch in the scottish word loch.

Therefore we have chtse, chtsesh, chtse, chtsemee, chtseche and chtsaw.

Good posting Michał. I disagree only with chtsemee which should be chtseme. Chtsemee would be written chcemi in Polish were it to exist

thanks guys...the onlydown side is, I have always spelt and said" loch" as" lough " can someone confirm that these two words are pronunced the same:))

I would say so.

Ch has more of the Dutch hh if u know what I mean. The second option, lough, I haven't seen but it looks like it has a weaker sound, without the hh. Bear in mind that there are 7 ways of pronouncing 'ough' so I could be wrong

ivosoftware.com - did you use this? (some people complain it's speaking a little too quick, but you can try, choose both male and then female voice)

thanks krzysztof...i had forgotten about that site. It does seem that they speak fast, but by continually repeating the word , it becomes clear:)

I would say that the Dutch sound as in goede morgen, i.e. the hard 'g' is a hard sound and is not really like the Polish sound .ch'.

Maybe, but it's still chtseme and not chtsemee for chcemy

Yep, "loch" is Scottish spelling, "lough" Irish spelling but both usually pronounced the same :)

Merged:How to pronounce the letter W in Polish

I have just started learning Polish and was just curious. Is it a rule of thumb that in every word the W is pronounced phonetically as V (vee)? Eg Wisla (veesla) or piwo (peevo)? Thanks in advance for your help :)

It can also take on the "F" sound.

Thats the general rule. As lowfunk said, it can take on the 'f' sound, however it is the 'V' most of the time.

My name is Wojtek but it's pronounced Voytek :)

yes v unless it's in a cluster of other constinants then it may sound like an "f" although it still ought to be pronounced like a 'v' but isn't always done in everyday speak.

It's unvoiced (like an F) if it is followed by another unvoiced consonant, ie.
C, Ć, CZ, K, P, S, Ś, SZ, T.

That is why names ending in -owski are pronounced as if it is -ofski.

Or so says the donkey who risks trying to teach his grandmother to suck eggs.

that's correct, osiol but in reality it should still be pronounced -ovski

You're the only person I've ever seen saying that. Shall we go back to speaking some sort of proto Indo-European?

nah, just ingnore what i say.. everyone else does. :)