Language / From Turkey, learning Polish - any suggestions? [5]

acathexis

Hi Acathexis,
I have experience in teaching Polish to Turkish people.
If you are interested in my offer I can help you wherever you live.
Just email me: polish.language.tutor

Australia / Looking for Polish lessons in Perth, Australia [32]

Hi, if you are interested in learning Polish email me at polish.language.tutor@gmail
I am a porfessional Polish teacher. However I am not Anna, even not girl.
I hope it does not matter. I hope to talk to you soon.

USA, Canada / Polish language classes in Chicago or surrounding area? [44]

I can help you with your Polish. If you are interested just email me for more details:
polish.language.tutor@gmail

USA, Canada / Polish tutor needed in Virginia Beach [9]

I think I can help you with your Polish.
Please email me if you are still interested in learning Polish.
My e-mail: polish.language.tutor@gmail
You are welcome (-:

Language / Polish verbs are confusing/I get many results when I look them up in an online dictionary [54]

Do not perceive grammar as a number of abstract terms.
Grammar should be a kind of manual which tells you how to operate with words.

Learning vocabulary can be confusing and useless.
Knowing just word forms from a dictionary is not enough to produce Polish sentences.
To speak Polish you need to know how the Polish language works. The grammar explains it.

No grammar – no Polish. I got enough people to speak Polish to be sure that this is what the things look like (-:

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

Lyzko, I am really sorry to say, but you are wrong.
“Chodzić “as well as “iść” are both imperfective.
“chodzić” has no perfective equivalent
“iść” has “pójść” as an perfective equivalent.
But what is more important:
the point is that the theory of imperfective versus perfective verbs does not work for foreigners.
I have been teaching Polish for foreigners for over 10 year and I cannot understand why Polish teachers repeat these confusing clichés.
Anyway I wish you success in learning Polish.
Good night and good luck!

Language / How hard is it to learn Polish? [178]

blargh

Let me repeat:

Level of your superstition and prejudices in reference to the Polish Language.
Sometimes this factor makes learning Polish just impossible.

read posts above and you will understand what I mean.
5/6 years??
What are you talking about?

Polish girl/boyfriend doesn't help much.
Read posts on this forum about it.

The truth is, if you want to learn Polish you have to learn it. There is no other way (-:

Losers are never good advisers for a winner.

5/6 years??
Poor guys
Why not 25 years (-:

Language / How hard is it to learn Polish? [178]

It depends on:

Somebody’s Individual predispositions, talent,
and experience in learning foreign languages as an adult.

How good somebody’s Polish teacher is
or if a learner have a good learning method.
(Please notice that buying a course book or a CD cannot be considered as a method (-:)

Level of your superstition and prejudices in reference to the Polish Language.
Sometimes this factor makes learning Polish just impossible.

Learning any foreign language is hard work. You have to take it under consideration.
If somebody says that Polish is not to learn ask her or him
how many other foreign languages she or he had learnt as an adult.

Be realistic not pessimistic (-:

Good night and Good luck

Work / How to get to job at Krakow Business Park? [5]

The best would be the train from Kraków Główny (the main train station) to Zabierzów (train stop Business Park)

You have also other options:

kbp.pl/english

Language / Pronunciation of vowels at the end of a word [28]

Unfortunately when you start to learn a foreign language your brain ignores sounds which are not essential from its point of you.
In other words: it ignores sounds which do not belong to its native language. There are differences between individuals. Some people start to hear foreign sounds faster others slower. From my experience (as a teacher as well as learner) discussing sounds does not help much. )-:

You need to listen to a lot of examples. This is another (well known on this forum) great tool to do it: ivona.com
It is also good to have somebody who can present the correct pronunciation to you and CORRECT YOUR WRONG PRONUNCIATION.

BTW vowels in Polish have always the same pronunciation. Their pronunciation does not depend on the position in a word or sentence. Polish pronunciation is very regular and close to the way of writing! Good night and good luck!

Language / How can I tell which conjugation group a verb ending in ~eć belongs to? [18]

Lyzko,

My job is to find regularities in Polish to help people
to start to speak Polish as soon as possible.
And I can do it.

Polish Present Tense is regular and consistent if you know the system.
You can talk about it like about the same glass of water: that it is either half full or half empty. But I say that the glass is almost full. And it really is!

I speak German (as far as I remember you are German (-:) and I read a few Latin texts. These two languages are also quite regular.

I think the point is that your perspective is different. You know foreign languages and you enjoy learning them. I work with people who hate learning Polish. They do it to express respect to people they love or to work more efficiently in the Polish environment. They do not care about all details which may be interesting for you. They need Polish as a tool.

Polish as a tool - this is my focus.

There are people who first build their emotional attitude to a thing and then they start to understand the thing, and others who first want to understand what’s going on and then start to feel (-:

BTW this issue in scholastic philosophy was one of the biggest controversy between St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Thomas Aquinas

I like complicated issues but not when I teach Polish (-:
Good night and good luck!

Language / How can I tell which conjugation group a verb ending in ~eć belongs to? [18]

Let me not agree with Lyzko.

Shapeshifter,
if you are able to understand logical rules,
you do not need to use the parrot method.
I know that people on this forum usually do not need Polish teachers,
but I can help you (for free). If you are really interested, e-mail me at polish.language.tutor@gmail
and I will send you a chart with a system that is consistent and easy to use.
Thanks to this you will be able to use all Polish verbs in the Present Tense.

Polish works like an algorithm. I admit it is sometimes a bit complicated but almost always logical.
I would prefer to understand an algorithm than learn it by heart. But people say there are different learning styles (-:

Good night and good luck!

UK, Ireland / Interest in Polish language grows in Britain [19]

The Polish language is enjoying a growing popularity in England.

I am very surprised by this but I can confirm it.
During the last 6 months for the first time ever
I have taught more learners from the UK than from Germany.

And, what is even more surprising, English people are able to learn
and – you will not believe –
to SPEAK Polish (-:

Albion Bravo!!! Keep going!!!

Language / będzie potrafił? [34]

"potrafić" is an imperfective verb

"ja potrafię" is a present tense form

"ja będę potrafił" is a correct future tense form

Good night and good luck (-:

Language / 'much better' expression in Polish? [8]

Yes, my mistake, I meant "much" and "many".
Thank you for your correction cinek.
Sorry if I confused anybody.

Language / 'much better' expression in Polish? [8]

Basically “much” as well as “more” mean "dużo/wiele/sporo"
We have no difference between “more” and “much” because the difference countable versus uncountable is not so important in Polish. That is why we say:

Dużo/wiele/sporo wody
Dużo/wiele/sporo ludzi

Two comments
1.When we use “dużo/wiele/sporo” with a noun we express the noun in the Genetive form.
2. countable nouns we use in plural after “dużo” / wiele/sporo” and uncountable in singular.

We can use “dużo” and “sporo” with comparative of adjectives and adverbs forms.
If we use “wiele”in this situation
we have to change it a bit:
Not just “wiele” but “o wiele”

Polish is logical! I like it (-:

Study / Studia niestacjonarne? (in Polish universities) [8]

The Polish Constitution says that education also higher education has to be free. That is why high schools in Poland invented a trick to make possible to charge students for their studies. They offer “normal studies” ( studia dzienne) for free and other studies they call them “zaoczne” oder “niestacjonarne”. The form of these studies is sometimes different but sometimes the same. The point is to charge students (-:

The best example is medicine. The only one real difference between “studia dzienne” and “niestacjonarne” is money (-:

Study / Studia niestacjonarne? (in Polish universities) [8]

Not really at least not always for ex ample not AT medical universities SeanBM.
I will drop a line later to explain it. It is interesting (-:

Language / How many tenses can be used for "pojechac" [24]

Sorry but I do not agree with you SzwedwPolsce “pójść” is very important because it is very often used.

When Polish native speakers imperfective and perfectiveverbs?

In the present tense we use only imperfective verbs.

In the past tense and in the future tens we use rather perfective verbs. If you want to use an imperfective verbs in the future tense or in the past tense you have to justify it.

BTW I hate names imperfective and perfective.

It is much better to call imperfective verbs >>> process verbs
And perfective verbs >>> result verbs.

Official theory about imperfective vesus perfective verbs is fucked up in my humble opinion (-:

Genealogy / Rzeszów in 1864 [8]

I can confirm it. Rzeszów is, a very nice town. I live in Krakow but I consider moving there.

Language / How many tenses can be used for "pojechac" [24]

Sorry Lyzko you have made mistake:

jeździć

ja jeżdżę, ty jeździsz, on/ona/ono jeździ
my jeździmy wy jeździcie oni/one jeżdżą

All Polish verbs of motion build a very consitent system:

chodzić-iść
jeździć-jechać
latać-lecieć
pływać-płynąć

Do not mix it with imperfective versus perfective.
All verbs mentioned above are imperfective.

You need to know this system if you do not know you think is Polish verbs of motion are chaotic. But they of course are not (-:

Language / How many tenses can be used for "pojechac" [24]

The point is to explain it I have to spend 1 hour typing. Then you would have further question. (-:
I is to much to do it for free.
What is more I do not use perfective and imperfecive notions to explain this problem.
I thin it is too confusing.
If you have short question I can answer it for free no problem. But I teach Polish for living I invented my teaching method and I sell it not donate it (-:

If you order two 45-minute lessons you will know everything about imperfrctive-perfective verbs you need to speak Polish. If not I can help ypou a bit if it does not take to much time.

These are my rules my friend (-:

Language / How many tenses can be used for "pojechac" [24]

We use both perfective and imperfective to express the future and the past.
You have to understand the defference imperfective versus perfective.
It is not dificult but complex.
I do not now how to meet other Polish people but I know that I teach presently via Skype people from Europe, West America, South America and Australia. (-:

Language / How many tenses can be used for "pojechac" [24]

Ahmet I will be ohnest with you (-:
It souns like an advetisment but anyway.
I heard so stupid things about Polish from Polish people and anfortunately from Polish teacher too that I am not suprised that foreigners think that Polish is not to learn.

But do not give up! I taught Umit a guy from Stambul. He started to speak after three months. I lives in Krakow now.

Do not give up and remeber Polish is logical!

Language / How many tenses can be used for "pojechac" [24]

Adam jutro pojedzie do Warszawy.

it means:

Adam will go tomorrow to Warszawa. or Adam is going to go to Warszawa tomorrow.

Polish is logical do not forget it! If your course book or teacher say somthing different just do not trust them (-:

The difference between imperfective and perfective verbs is essential.
It is very logical but complex.

But do not forget Polish is logical!

Language / How many tenses can be used for "pojechac" [24]

What are you talking about Król?!

I am not surprised that you are confused Ahmed.
Let's make it clear and logical:

jechać (imperfective) pojechać (perfective)

imperfective verbs bulid the present tense, the future tense and the past tense.

the present tense:
jechać
ja jadę, ty jedziesz, on/ona/ono jedzie
my jedziemy, wy jedziecie, oni jadą

the future tense
jechać
ja będę jechać, ty będziesz jechać, on/ona/ono będzie jechać
my będziemy jechać, wy będziecie jechać, oni/one będą jechać

There is also another another the future tense form
jechać
ja będę jechał, ty będziesz jechał, on będzie jechał
ja będę jechała, ty będziesz jechała, ona będzie jechała
ono będzie jechało

my będziemy jechali, wy będziecie jechali, oni będą jechali
my będziemy jechały, wy będziecie jechały, one będziecie jechały

both future tense paterns for imperfective verbs mean exacly the same

the past tense
jechać
ja jechałem, ty jechałeś, on jechał
ja jechałam, ty jechałaś, ona jechała
ono jechało
my jechaliśmy, wy jechaliście, oni jechali
my jechałyśmy, wy jechałyście, one jechały

perfective verbs bulild only the future tense and the past tense

future tense
pojechać
ja pojadę, ty pojedziesz, on pojedzie
my pojedziemy, wy pojedziecie, oni pojadą

!!! To bulid the future tense of perfective verbs we use the same endings we use to build the present tense of imperfective verbs. It is dificult but logical. Pay attention and analyse

it!!!

the past tense
pojechać
ja pojechałem, ty pojechałeś, on pojechał
ja pojechałam, ty pojechałaś, ona pojechała
ono pojechało
my pojechaliśmy, wy pojechaliście, oni pojechali
my pojechałyśmy, wy pojechałyście, one pojechały

Everything should be clear and logical!

Food / What's your favorite Polish coffee? [73]

I am not reach person so I drink Lavazza.
Very good relationship of the price to the quality.
Unfortunately my wife dinks Nescafe – I cannot understand it.
Instant coffee is no coffee! (-:

Language / oparty o/na? [6]


„w oparciu o” is not confusing at all:
1. We cannot use “w oparciu” with “na”.
2. W “oparciu o” we use only in a formal language and only with abstract things
To sum up if you can see that “oparty” and “w oparciu” are not the same you have no problems with it (-:

Language / oparty o/na? [6]

Let’s make it easier (-:
Oparty o (something you can touch an object: stick, balustrade etc.)
Oparty na (an abstract idea law, faith, idea etc.)

My google is a different google than AdamKadmon’s google (-:
My google says “oparty na prawie” 70 100 hits
„oparty o prawo” 4560 hits (I would never say so)

I wrote Polish fazes in Polish google using “”

Work / Argentinian wants to study in Poland. What's the best place? [4]

I do not know what city is the best. But one thong is sure. We have more cities than Poznan and Krakow. I live in Krakow but I like very much Warszawa, Gdańsk and Wrocław too.

check old threads you are not the only person interested in this subject: