How to read Polish or something

Learning a new language can be fun, but who needs fun when you can read Polish instead? In this video I'm going to teach you how to read each Polish letter, so that even if you don't understand the meaning, you can at least make out the sounds. Consider it an oversimplified Polish pronunciation guide.

Wszyscy szczodrze głaszczą wstrzemięźliwe pszczoły!

0:00 start
0:55 wszyscy
2:54 szczodrze
4:58 głaszczą
6:00 wstrzemięźliwe
7:33 pszczoły
7:59 everything else

[HowtoPolish]

Correction about zi (7:05): There ARE cases where it can be pronounced 'zee' instead of 'ź'. Some words that start with 'i' (e.g. ignorować - to ignore) can have a form with a 'z' attached to the front (zignorować), which changes something barely significant I'm too incompetent to explain, but will be pronounced 'zee'. Or maybe even 'z-i' (z-ignorować). Unfortunately that might be an inconsistency in pronunciation you won't be able to decipher without knowing the meaning of what you're reading. Should be rare. I think.
If anyone actually knows what's up with 'zi' in more detail, feel free to reply and explain. I'm just some fucking guy.

[Anarqism]

polish sounds like it'd be better and more consistent than english on paper but in practice it's polish

[charlottel]

“Unlike in English, where letters have dreams and can be whatever the hell they want”
Lmfaooo I love this so much, painfully true 🥲

[dianaday]

Wow, I'm a linguist, and this was the very best lesson in letter pronunciation that I've ever seen. Clear, compact, funny, perfect.

[wojciechgajewski]

"It makes sense if you don't think about it" is my favourite sentence from now on...

[Venomox]

It's nice to know how to pronounce different languages so that you don't butcher them even if you don't understand them.

[paulinachlastakova]

The way you're attacking english is phenomenal. 😂 I'm Slovak, not Polish, but I learned to speak both english and polish fluently. And while there are some crazy things in poish language, english was waaaay more confusing when I was a child. It makes no sense. Btw thanks for making me laugh.😊

[larrydzemorsky]

Świetny tutorial, jeszcze 11 minut temu nie wiedziałem co to Polska, teraz władam waszym językiem na poziomie C2, a w portfelu pojawił się dowód i karta do biedry

[mickael]

From this video I understood that in english even the vowels have freedom of speech

[DMSBrian]

The W->F thing is called "devoicing" and it's way more common in Polish than you might realize. D can become a T and K can turn into G. The rules for this are quite complex and not worth remembering because it's extremely natural and simply comes out like that.

[bwphoenix_p-i-e]

For anyone curious, as a native Mandarin speaker, the Chinese sentence at 0:23 reads "everyone is generously caressing the self-restraining bee" (or "self-restraining bees, " since there's no distinction between singular and plural here in the Chinese) (I think this is the actual meaning of the Polish sentence too...)

[kitcutting]

I learned to become a fluent Polish speaker by listening to “Hej, Sokoły” for about 5 hours straight and I regret nothing

[steel-r_ua]

This is GREAT! I'm a Ukrainian and I can guess meaning of Polish words by their sound, but not if they are written, now I have ability to read! ✊
Thank you for the video!!!

[agusiek]

3:10
children, touch, chop
HMMMM
it is all connected

[TrollingWendigo]

I love the state of mind when you already know Polish but click on the video regardless to watch it cuz bored

[KaktusPlaysGames]

Dlaczego ja tu jestem? Nie potrzebowałem lekcji polskiego ale zostałem do końca. Czarna magia.

[seedzior]

Thank you very much for these Polish lessons, I am very grateful for this, you help a large part of people who do not speak Polish.

Greetings from Sosnowiec

[baronvonduddo]

I'm not even gonna lie, Artur, you've convinced me to learn Polish. Wish me luck boys.

[Ladadadada]

This was surprisingly educational. I have a Polish wife and I've been learning Polish for years from Duolingo, and yet you dropped some nuggets in this video that I have never picked up from either of those sources.

[AllTheHappySquirrels]

The accurate roasting of English made me immediately subscribe.