I NEED TO LEARN POLISH QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY!

So Im going to be visiting Poland soon, and meeting my boyfriends family, who speak zero English. A move to Poland is also very possible! I need to learn Polish ASAP! Any suggestions?!

ASAP is a very generic term.

Quickly is possible if you care to speak a few words without the ability to have a coherent conversation. Of course your mileage may vary but to speak somewhat OK it will take at least months.

I don't mean to discourage you but the language is among the hardest in the World.

For now I'd concentrate on a few canned phrases and expressions. I'm sure the effort will be appreciated but don't expect to understand their replies. Then take it from there.

Good luck.

me too... QUICK!

It's difficult to learn one of the most difficult languages in the world quickly.

But start with basic phrases and expressions. So you can greet the people you're going to visit in PL. Then sign up for a course, get a book+CD, and try to talk to Polish people more and more. Probably your BF can help you with that more and more as you progress. The best way to learn Polish is (of course) to be in Poland and interact with Poles.

I can guarantee that it's not impossible to learn, but it's a lot of hard work and it takes time.

Good Luck!

Apr 9, 10, 19:55 - Thread attached on merging:
I'm gonna learn Polish language

Hi there! I'm from Georgia,Tbilisi, I'm gonna learn polish language, probably i will move in Poland for living and i need to know language,to can work and live there normally.. i would like take information about how to learn Polish in internet,which books would help me...

it is really hard to learn without teacher, the best option for you is probably, going to " polish for foreigners" school.

Search around the forums, there were similar topics in the past.

how to learn? i'm searching special online books,or books which possible dowload,i'm gonna learn myself becouse study in special schools are expensive...

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Good luck!!!

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Find a Polish Home Association or so, you may want to look it up on the web. Find out what hours they are open and go for it! People are people they will be very happy to help you!!!

I am Polish and when I came to America American people were more than happy to help me, so it is with my nation. Good luck and be bold!

Wow
Good luck with that.

been learning for 3 years now it is a massive language to learn, honest answer teach family english... i love poland and the people just the language is not designed to learne lol

Just speak English, educate some of your family. I bet they will be willing to pay you for it too!!!

always take the easy way out

Ironically, the movie is not available for people in Poland :D

I need to learn british pronunciation and I can teach you Polish, anyone willing to do this?

I know many people like rosetta stone. You can find a bit torrent of it for free.

You can down load byki for free at their website byki.com.

Get a good phrase book.

Its not an easy language. I have been working on it for almost 3 years and it's just now starting to make sense.

The easy thing about Polish is that the pronunciation is much more consistant then English.

No you don't need to learn Polish. Just be yourself, Polish people are great, they will know if you are trying to be someone else. They want you to be just the way you are, nothing else.

You will not learn Polish here telling people that you need to learn Polish. :)

cest :)
ask your boyfriend to help if his family livees there he should no a bit

The best way is immerse yourself in Polish. Stop speaking in English and just go for it. Try to memorize a few phrases from phrase books, and I recommend getting "Polish in 4 weeks". Although it's likely impossible to really learn Polish in four weeks, it's the best book I've found for explaining grammar of Polish. Use this book, plus some phrase books and try to only speak Polish. You'll find people in Poland are generally willing to help you learn, as long as you're not holding up the line somewhere. :)

learnpolishfree.blogspot.com

This guy has recently started this blog. It suits my style of learning ( i.e, not via grammar ). I am sure it'll help you.

-Mark Wilson

Try this great site: realpolish.pl
Lots of easy content - free and premium.

You can learn it if you have got enough time.

Have you tried learning Polish with memrise? Here is a course on the site, but they have plenty more than just this one:

memrise.com/course/58709/beginner-polish/

An impossible task. Polish is one of the most difficult languages to learn because there are hardly any rules in the Polish grammar. If you persevere you might learn a few Polish phrases but not much more than that. I guess if you live there, study Polish while immersed among Polish speaking people, you will get there after a year or two...

Hardly.

There are plenty of rules in Polish - the fact that you didn't learn them is your failing, not the language.

Well, no chance you will learn the grammar, hard to believe but many natives have problems EVEN with writing the words correctly! It's pretty much obvious that learning English is way easier than learning Polish. The best solution is to tell your boyfriend to buff up his family's English skills (I don't believe they can't form a single sentence, English is just everywhere around nowadays). Actually it'd take AGES to get used to the spoken Polish as the way Poles talk is almost beyond comprehension for a foreigner. For example, lots of Poles distort the words so there is very little to no chance you will find them in the dictionary (not even mentioning the fact that each word can change it's meaning depending on the situation, dude's face expression etc). Hard to explain but don't even try, really, you will be confused and irritated ;d.

I don't agree and we have many proves here on PF that learning Polish is possible. It amazes me how many foreigners know Polish and they are great at it!

You can if you persevere. It's not easy to start with admittedly, but any language is hard if you don't understand how it works.

Half the battle is accepting you won't learn it overnight.

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Not true. There are plenty of rules. Maybe you didn't give it a fair go, or gave up too easily.