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Learn Polish for free with 25 online lessons in Polish grammar and conversation. The course starts from zero and is written for people who study on their own: every rule is explained in plain English, every lesson comes with real example sentences, a vocabulary list and exercises with answers. You will start with the alphabet, learn to build sentences in all three tenses, make friends with the seven Polish cases, and finish with participles, the passive voice and the politeness system that Polish social life runs on. Go lesson by lesson, or jump straight to the topic you need.
Learn Polish with free online lessons
- Polish alphabet and pronunciation
- The verb BYĆ: to be
- Present tense
- Gender and plural
- Verb aspect and the past tense
- Future tense
- Numbers, telling time and dates
- Polish cases: nouns and pronouns
- Cases of adjectives and verbs of motion
- Prepositions
- The verb MIEĆ and “there is / there are”
- Modal verbs
- Possessive and demonstrative pronouns
- Reflexive verbs
- Adverbs
- Degrees of comparison
- Imperative mood
- Conditional mood
- Questions and negation
- How to say “I like”: lubić and podobać się
- Verbs of motion with prefixes
- Complex sentences: że, żeby, który
- Participles
- Passive voice and impersonal forms
- Politeness: Pan, Pani and everyday phrases
What should you know about the Polish language?
Polish is the second largest Slavic language after Russian, with about 40 million speakers in Poland and large communities in the UK, USA, Germany and Ireland. It’s written in the Latin alphabet, so you can start reading on day one; the famous consonant clusters (szcz, prz) look intimidating on paper but follow simple, regular reading rules, and the stress almost always falls on the same syllable. The real work is grammar: seven cases and the verb aspect system, which this course introduces step by step, with tables you can come back to and exercises after every lesson. And if you ever learn another Slavic language later, such as Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian or Russian, you’ll find that Polish has already done half the job for you.