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Polish Pronuciation for Non-English Natives


freekarol 4 | 6  
27 Dec 2009 /  #1
I am a Czech so Polish is relatively close to my native language(Czech language). But Polish has some sounds I can't pronounce(I don't know what to do with my lips and tongue). For example how to pronounce 'rz' or nasal 'ą'. And I can't find any good book on Polish pronunciation. So how can I learn proper Polish pronunciation? Thanks a lot for your effort to help me...
McCoy 27 | 1,269  
27 Dec 2009 /  #2
the best person to answer the question will be Magdalena whos polish and czech and speaks both languages
ender 5 | 398  
27 Dec 2009 /  #3
did you try google?
Piorun - | 658  
27 Dec 2009 /  #4
Try this A Concise Polish Grammar It might help you.
Eurola 4 | 1,902  
27 Dec 2009 /  #5
freekarol, this might help you too. There are many youtube videos like this.


OP freekarol 4 | 6  
28 Dec 2009 /  #7
Thanks Piorun for the PDF. It is really helpful... :-D

To Ender: of course I did use Google. It is the first thing I do before asking a question. And I found out there are not much textbooks on Polish language and almost nothing helpful about polish pronunciation...

To Eurola: thanks for that video I will try to find more.

To SzwedwPolsce: it is helpful but for people who can hear differences between polish sounds. For example the difference between ś and sz. For me it is almost the same...

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