Try to say aloud super difficult Polish words with me: Szczebrzeszyn or Szymankowszczyzna! :) Hello everyone! I am Katarzyna and I am from Poland. I am just freshly new here as a professional Polish t

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Try to say aloud super difficult Polish words with me: Szczebrzeszyn or Szymankowszczyzna! :)

Hello everyone! I am Katarzyna and I am from Poland. I am just freshly new here as a professional Polish tutor. I am very keen on learning my language because I think that Polish is one of the most demanding but connected with a lot laugh. This is the reason why people should learn it!

My first discussion I would like to start with a little bit of fun for you! Obviosuly, do not be scared of my words which I prepared today for you. I am going to show you 10 words which are tough and many of foreigners are not able to say any of this. However, if you try a little bit I can assure you that Polish is easy for you as a pie! :) So? Let's start your adventure!

1.ŻÓŁĆ

2.SZCZĘŚCIE

3.PSZCZYNA

4.NASTĘPSTW

5.ŹDŹBŁO

6.BEZWZGLĘDNY

7.GRZEGORZ

8.BRZĘCZYSZCZKIEWICZ

9.CHRZĄSZCZ

10.SZCZECIN - THIS IS THE NAME OF CITY WHERE I AM LIVING IN POLAND! :) SO I HAVE GOT HARD LIFE, HUH? :(

So, what do you think, huh? Did you do a big eyes and big mouth during trying to say this? Tell me about your experiences in comments :) I am super curious about your skills. Warning! It is level C2 in Polish (haha), so do not be scared :)

Sep 3, 2017 7:06 PM

Comments · 16

This "BRZĘCZYSZCZ" part of "BRZĘCZYSZCZKIEWICZ" was a knock-down for me :D I've been to Warsaw once, and I thought that Polish is more or less understandable for me even without any special training. HA!

October 31, 2017

Thanks, Ewa. I agree — Polish spelling is so much more logical than that of English, and the correspondence between the spelling and the pronunciation is nearly perfect. Furthermore, stress is not phonemic (unlike Russian), and there’s no vowel length (unlike Czech / Slovak) or pitch accent (unlike Serbo-Croatian).

The fun part for me was all the declensions, but I rarely run into Polish speakers, and the younger generation can usually communicate quite well in English anyhow.

Now “Wydrzyńska” that would be fun to pronounce. For one thing, after a D, the RZ actually sounds a bit different from the Z with a dot over it. And then there’s the yńs — such a cool combination!

October 31, 2017

I gladly would try but you should explain us how to read these combinations of roman letters.

I just know that SZ is pronounced like SH In English

September 3, 2017

Although I haven't studied much Polish (a long time ago), and those words look a bit challenging, I've given it a go. Hopefully I haven't butchered them too badly:

https://vocaroo.com/i/s0lkpEEreK82

October 31, 2017