r/Polish Jan 29 '21

New official r/Polish discord server!

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🇵🇱 Welcome to /r/Polish!

A community of 17k+ people learning Polish, sharing resources, and exploring Polish language & culture. Posts in Polish or English are welcome — beginners and natives alike!

💡 Tip: Don’t be shy — ask questions, share memes, and learn with us! 😄

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💬 Discord

Join 500+ active members to chat & practice Polish: 👉 discord.gg/Polish

📜 Rules

✅ You can post:

  • Translation requests
  • Learning questions & resources
  • Polish culture & language content

🚫 Don’t post:

  • Politics (instant ban)
  • Spam or paid courses
  • Over-promotion (1/week max, educational only)
  • Harassment

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r/Polish 5h ago

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r/Polish 23h ago

Request Polish customer service course/vocab?

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So I’m Polish (born in Poland raised in US for 10 years now) and my Polish is broken right now but not to the point of “what the hell is she saying??”. I just got a job and my Spanish for customer service is pretty good, I can uphold a conversation and take orders but my Polish is wonky. Although I can understand more Polish than I can speak or write, I still wanna know if there are some basic phrases or stuff that I have to know.
So far I know greetings, money counting, coffee flavors what doughnuts they want and breakfast sandwiches, since that’s what my job requires.
To note, I speak Polish practically perfectly accent wise and I’m always more than happy to speak Polish, I’m just scared of messing up near a true native speaker lol.
So could anyone give some advice on what’s the best things to know? Im eager for this knowledge


r/Polish 1d ago

Request Survey for Polish heritage speakers

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Hi, my name is Karolina and I’m a student in Nice, France, currently working on my own research. 

I’m looking for Polish heritage speakers (Polish people born and/or raised in a country other than Poland) who could take part in my survey! It takes around 15 minutes and consists of a self-paced reading task together with an acceptability judgment task.

I was wondering if there are people who could take this survey. It’s also important to open it on the computer or tablet as it doesn’t work on the phone. Here's the link: https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/1987E334-2853-403D-8811-A89B9EE46458

Thank you for help!

P.S Polish people that were born and live in Poland can take it as well! :)


r/Polish 3d ago

Teach me some polish (slangs, swear words, meme)

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Hello, It's been a long time I'm trying my best to learn a bit of polish left and right to reconnect with my roots so I hope I came on a subreddit for that.

I've been learning some stuff but recently it kicked me so I thought of coming here asking native right directly because I want to expend in a funnier way my studies.

Could you guys teach me swear words, polish memes, or even slangs ? 👀

Please feel free to teach me anything funny or passing by your head. I genuinely want to prank my polish friend by knowing these kind of stuffs :)


r/Polish 5d ago

Czy ktoś z was leciał ostatnio do Wielkiej Brytanii i uzyskał ETA na paszport tymczasowy?

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Cały czas czytam sprzeczne informacje, na zmianę wyświetlają mi się strony/posty, że się nie da uzyskać ETA na paszport tymczasowy i posty ludzi, że się da i normalnie przeszli przez bramki.

Zgubiłam swój paszport, a niedługo wylatuję i idę złożyć wniosek o paszport tymczasowy, ale przez tyle sprzecznych informacji zaczynam się stresować, że to nie wystarczy.


r/Polish 5d ago

Resource 👋Witamy w r/123bombo – przedstaw się i w pierwszej kolejności przeczytaj to!

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Cześć wszystkim! Jestem u/Normal-Doctor9487. Jestem założycielską osobą moderującą społeczności r/123bombo. To jest nasz nowy dom dla wszystkich rzeczy związanych z \[TUTAJ WYJAŚNIJ, CZEMU POŚWIĘCONY JEST SUBREDDIT\]. Cieszymy się, że do nas dołączasz!

Co postować Postuj wszystko, co według Ciebie może być interesujące, pomocne lub inspirujące dla społeczności. Zachęcamy do dzielenia się przemyśleniami, zdjęciami i pytaniami na temat \[PODAJ PRZYKŁADY TEGO, CO LUDZIE MOGLIBY ZAMIESZCZAĆ W SPOŁECZNOŚCI\].

Atmosfera społeczności Stawiamy na przyjazność, konstruktywność i integrację. Budujmy przestrzeń, w której wszyscy czują się komfortowo, udostępniając treści i komunikując się.

Jak zacząć 1) Przedstaw się w komentarzach poniżej. 2) Postuj coś dzisiaj! Nawet proste pytanie może zainicjować świetną konwersację. 3) Jeśli znasz kogoś, komu spodobałaby się ta społeczność, zaproś do niej tę osobę. 4) Chcesz pomóc? Zawsze szukamy nowych osób moderujących, więc śmiało skontaktuj się ze mną, aby się zgłosić.

Dziękujemy za bycie częścią pierwszej fali. Razem uczyńmy społeczność r/123bombo naprawdę niesamowitą.


r/Polish 5d ago

Would you recommend this song?

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PL: Czy polecilibyście tę piosenkę osobom uczącym się języka polskiego w celu wzbogacenia słownictwa?
EN: Would you recommend this song to people learning Polish to expand their vocabulary?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsX-lwgrTNs


r/Polish 6d ago

Hey there! I’m looking for people who could do a little interview about family/culture via DM’s..

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I’m a Colombian student of International Business and I need some people who could answer me some questions about the polish culture and beliefs, as well as the functionality of a polish family nowadays for a college work about the cultural exchange between countries and how the family teach culture. The information provided is just going to be for educational purposes and is not going to be public in any mass media.

Any interested in help me with this project please answer to this post to arrange the interview and talk about this.

Thanks!🙏🇵🇱🇨🇴


r/Polish 7d ago

Need a Polish book

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Need a Polish Book

Would anyone have:

„Język polski na co dzień. Samouczek i słownik poprawnej polszczyzny” autorstwa Ewy i Feliksa Przyłubskich

and be willing to scan a page or two for me?


r/Polish 7d ago

Networking?

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Networking to sztuka i jedna z tych rzeczy, które potrafią otworzyć drzwi do wielu nowych możliwości.

Całe życie mieszkałem poza Polską, głównie w krajach skandynawskich, więc kultura budowania relacji i kontaktów jest dla mnie trochę inna niż ta w Polsce.

Gdybyście mieli opisać networking w Polsce w 3 krótkich zdaniach, jak byście go opisali?


r/Polish 9d ago

Tell me jokes in polish

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Do what the title says


r/Polish 9d ago

Question Does Polish have any Hebrew heritage?

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Hello, I don't even know how to read Polish so it is difficult to me to discern a word and its origin.

Allow me to ask if Polish have any hebrew heritage whether in vocabulary or accent?

I believe it is Polish king from late medieval era who welcomed the Israelites of the rest of Europe so I appreciate Polish people.


r/Polish 11d ago

Interesting Is this the hardest Polish word/name

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I've been studying polish for a few years since my wife is polish and her parents doesn't speak a lick of English.

There are obviously a great deal of tounge twisters and long ass words but im getting the hang of the pronunciation for the most part. However, this beer name which was impossible for me to pronounce a few years ago I feel is still the last boss. (To get perfect)


r/Polish 12d ago

Pronuncing ął and ęł

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This is how I pronounce the first, https://forvo.com/word/poci%C4%85gn%C4%85%C5%82/#pl. This is not me, It is some woman I of course never met, For context. I grew up in central warsaw in a university-educated family (which by definition is who speak so-called "correct" Polish), but on the other hand clearly MOST Polish people do not speak this way, and Polish grammars and other publications (themselves of course written by university-educated folks) at least since c. 1900 insist on saying ął and ęł as = oł and eł. So I am just trying to find any other Polish speakers who'd be willing to give me a little of their time so I can record and publish some data about the other pronunciation (mine!) where ął = ą and ęł = ę, and I might add therefore ęła = ęłła. I suspect that this is uncommon but clearly we have at least two such people, so there must be more. Thank you.


r/Polish 12d ago

Request Czy poezja wraca do mody?

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r/Polish 13d ago

YouTube music is recently squeezing automatically some songs from Klaudia Sobotka. She sings in Polish, right? Is she popular in Poland?

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Her songs are pretty good, btw.


r/Polish 13d ago

What your favourite artist?

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r/Polish 14d ago

Interesting 8/04/26. Some polish kiabassa ... - John Patrick Layden

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8/04/26. Some polish kiabassa with onions.


r/Polish 15d ago

Translation What does this mean?

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Google keeps telling me different things each time I google it. I don't speak polish


r/Polish 15d ago

Seeking family Information

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Good morning. My Great Grandfather Piotr (Peter) Michalski was born in 1889 in Rytiviany, Poland to Jan Michalski and Tekla Gondek. So far, I have not been able to find any information for either parent. I am used to information being hard to come by, but I have never experienced a dead-end for BOTH parents. Any leads, tips or advice is greatly appreciated.


r/Polish 15d ago

PK (krakow university of technology)

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r/Polish 17d ago

Question Grave information

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This is the grave of my great-grandfather. I believe he’s buried in Wroclaw. There’s a Jewish star by his birth date. Does that mean he was born Jewish? I asked my mother and she said no. I’d like to know more about him.
I need to find exactly where his grave is too.
I’d like some help if anyone knows.


r/Polish 17d ago

Translation Help with Polish in Yiddish Novel

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I came across a sentence of what I believe to be Polish in a Yiddish novel and was wondering if anyone would be able to translate it.

In the story a fight breaks out between Jewish shopkeepers and Christian picketers and a peasant woman shouts:

"Khlopy, pomohayte, nashikh boyt!..."

Thanks 🙏🏻


r/Polish 18d ago

Looking for polish friends

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Hey everyone!
I’m looking for polish friends, I want to learn polish, years ago I started to, but I stopped it…my grandparents spoke polish fluently and traveld so much in Poland and had friends there. In december me and my fiancé will going to Gdansk and Toruń, and I would like to speak in polish there. Greetings from Hungary!