i would have said based on the thread title you pronunce it "lunch" but thats me having my funny with you moment ... sorry am on a sense of humour roll
in polish its pronounced lanch and is masculine form
Dzien dobry everyone. I have just started learning Polish and I'm really stuck on the pronunciation of this number trzy. It is just too hard to pick up the sound of this word. The phonetic spelling that I have got is "tshi" but, the spoken sound of this word is nothing like this spelling.
I can get by with all the numbers from 1 to 100 but, if any number has trzy in it then, I'm stuck. Has anyone got a simple way of teaching me this word? Another phonetic spelling of it? Sounds like another word similar to it? My thanks to anyone who could help.
The 't' is pronounced with the tongue flat on the palette just behind the front teeth. The 'rz' has the tongue further back in the mouth, more like where the English 'r' sound is. I think the 'rz' is also voiced (a 'zh' sound more than a 'sh' sound) The 'y' is like the English 'i' in the word 'bit'. Maybe slightly tending towards the 'e' in 'shed'.
there you go, I suck at recording sounds on the computer, so I decided to look for a famous song from the eighties (Trzy zapałki - Three matchsticks - by TSA), where you can here the word in the song's refrain (first - 1min32sec into the song, and then also at the end - 3min59sec)
it's a youtube style video clip
oops, I think the Admin edited my post and linked ANOTHER live version of the song (by some other singer, I think), which is unfortunate, because the sound is poorer and the pronounciation is a little worse (and you can forget about the exact moments I indicated with the word "trzy" - they don't match)
I'm far from perfect, but how I learned: I stumbled upon a group setting up for a concert or something like that in Warsaw. For the sound check it was: jeden, dwa, trzy. Now I carry that in my head.
1) Mauugawzhatta (Here the 'r' is NEVER trilled as itis normally)
2) Mauugawshya (The 's'/'sh' sound is tricky in Polish. It's NOT the 'sh' of English 'shut'; it's almost half way between an 's' and a 'sh'! Make sense??)
Merged: Pronunciation of Basic words: pióro, stół, krzesło, książka.
Czesc!, My name is Aniela and I only just this minute joined the group. I've made a promise to finally study Polish this year ( I always give up a few days in to it because I get so frustrated) and I am starting as basic as possible.
I was wondering if anyone here could tell me how I word pronounce the following words
