Polish

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The Polish language is a member of the Western Slavic group of the Indo-European family of languages. It is easiest to learn if one already knows some other related language.

The most closely related are other Western Slavic languages: Czech, Slovak, Kashubian and Sorbian. More distant are the Southern and Eastern Slavic languages like Russian, Ukrainian, Belorusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian.

Polish is spoken by a total of approximately 40 million people, making it the second most widely spoken Slavic language in the world, next to Russian. Speakers of related languages, especially the Bulgars (who consider Polish the most popular third language there) can pick it up with not much effort.

Someone who doesn't speak any Slavic language, but speaks some other Indo-European language, may still find many similarities between Polish grammar and the grammar of that language, as well as many similar words.

This Wikibook is designed for anyone who wants to learn the basics of the Polish language. It is suitable for beginners and those who've been learning the language for a few years.

II This is a Category II Language.



Contents

[edit] Table of contents

Market square of Kraków

[edit] Lesson 1

  1. Polish pronunciation
  2. Basic grammar
— Exercises - Introductory conjugation
— Exercises - Introductory declension
  1. Some useful expressions
— Exercises - Useful expressions
  1. Introducing yourself & Asking simple questions
— Exercises - Introducing yourself & Asking simple questions

[edit] Lesson 2

  1. More on nouns - genders
  2. Order of words in a sentence
  3. Plural
  4. Noun cases (declensions)
A — Hard and soft consonants
B — Feminine noun declension
C — Masculine noun declension
D — Neuter noun declension
E — Prepositions as hints to declensions

[edit] Lesson 3

  1. Conjugations of common verbs
— Exercises - Conjugations of common verbs
  1. Adjectives
A — More on adjectives
B — Comparative and Superlative
C — Possessive adjectives

[edit] Lesson 4

  1. Grouping expressions
  2. Questions
  3. Verbs
A — Usage of the infinitive

[edit] Lesson 5

  1. Conversation in Polish
  2. Vocabulary by Topic

[edit] Lesson 6

  1. Declension
A - Locative case (miejscownik)

[edit] Copyright

This document was originally copyright 2002 Tomasz Węgrzanowski <taw@users.sf.net> It may be distributed under terms of GNU Free Documentation Licence. Since its original writing, it has been edited and redistributed on Wiktionary and, currently, Wikibooks.

[edit] See also

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