Polish Lessons

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Beginner

· 16 lessons

Greetings & Formality

Polish splits 'you' into ty (informal) and Pan/Pani (formal) — a distinction English used to have and lost. Master this before any other vocabulary.

Lesson 2A1

Polish spelling looks intimidating at first — clusters like sz, cz, and a handful of accented letters — but each one maps to exactly one sound, so once you learn them, you can read almost any word correctly.

Lesson 3A1

Numbers 0–10

The first ten numbers show up constantly — ages, prices, phone numbers, quantities — and they set up the pattern the rest of the number system builds on.

Lesson 4A1

Family

Family words are some of the first nouns worth learning, and they set up a quirk of Polish gender you'll meet again and again: not every noun's gender matches what its ending suggests.

Lesson 5A1

Noun Gender

Polish has no word for 'a' or 'the' at all — nouns stand completely on their own. What it does have is three genders, and they quietly shape almost every adjective and pronoun you'll use.

Lesson 6A1

Pronouns, Być & Mieć

Być (to be) and mieć (to have) are the two most important verbs in the language — both irregular, both worth memorizing cold before anything else.

Lesson 7A1

Sentence Structure

Polish word order will feel familiar coming from English, including where it puts adjectives — one less thing to unlearn than you might expect.

Lesson 8A1

Plural Nouns

Polish plurals don't follow one simple rule like English -s — the ending you add depends on the noun's gender and its final sound, and a few common words change shape entirely.

Lesson 9A1

Numbers 11–100

Beyond ten, Polish numbers combine as separate words rather than fusing together, and they hide a distinctive Slavic quirk worth knowing about even before you learn the full rule.

Lesson 10A1

Present Tense Verbs

Regular Polish verbs fall into a handful of conjugation patterns by their infinitive ending, and — unlike English — the ending alone tells you who's doing the action.

Lesson 11A1

Modal Verbs

Móc (can), musieć (must), and chcieć (want) unlock a huge range of sentences on their own — each pairs directly with another verb's infinitive.

Lesson 12A1

Question Words

Polish question words work much like their English counterparts, and there's a handy little word that flags a yes/no question before you've even finished the sentence.

Lesson 13A1

Negation

Negating a sentence in Polish is simpler than in English, and double negatives — which English treats as an error — are actually required.

Lesson 14A1

Adjective Agreement

Polish adjectives change their ending to match the noun they describe — something English adjectives never do at all — and they sit right before the noun, same as in English.

Lesson 15A1