A ą B C ć D E ę F G H I J K L ł M N ń O ó P R S ś T U W Y Z ź ż
In the Polish alphabet there are:
32 letters (LITERY), 9 vowels (SAMOGŁOSKI) and 23 consonants (SPÓŁGŁOSKI).
Remember that!
- Polish special characters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż
- there are no words starting with letters „ą”, „ę” i „ń”
- there are also two-letter combinations, each of them representing a single sound: ch, cz, dz, dź, dż, rz, sz
- Letters: ó =u , h = ch, ż = rz are pronunced the same way
- Letters q, v, x can be found only in the words taken from other languages, e.g., fax, xero
- Zmiękczenia/ To soften some of the letters we are adding „i” after the consonant: bi, chi, ci, dzi, fi, gi, hi, ki, mi, ni, pi, si, wi, zi
- You will need to practise how to write: ą, ę, ł, Ł
You might find many videos with Polish alphabet, although the 3 videos listed below are my favorite ones as they are focusing on different aspects.
- Polski alfabet wymowa/ Polish alphabet pronunciation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKa1XH09Bzo (published by PrologLanguageSchool ) In this video you can hear veary clearly the pronunciation of each single letter in the Polish alphabet. I would make only one small correction here, when they pronunce “ó” it should sound exactly the same as “u” (ó =u).
- Alfabet z przykładami wyrazów/ Alphabet with examples of the words:
That video is showing how the letters sounds in the words. Also, thanks to the picture we can guess what is the meaning of each word.
3. Alfabet + dwuznaki (ch, cz, dz, dź, dż, rz, sz) + zmiękczenia (bi, chi, ci, dzi, fi, gi, hi, ki, mi, ni, pi, si, wi, zi)/ Alphabet + two-letter combinations + words with “i” after the consonant
First of all, I really like that video because it is made in form of the song. Beside the alphabet letters we can hear how to pronunce two-combination letters (like “cz” or “sz”) and consonants with “i” (like “bi” or “si”). All the words are illustrated with pictures which is kind of helpful as well.
I know that it may seems a bit complicated but trust me it is possible to learn it!
To help you with that, my next post is going to give you some tips how to make your learning Polish alphabet much easier 🙂
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Thank you very much Sylwia!
That’s very helpful! I’m looking forward to seing your next posts. Xx
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Halo! Fajny jest ten alfabet spewany. Jako Polka znam go bardzo dobrze ale tym razem chce go nauczyc moich uczniow z klasy ULIS( zamiast angielskiego ktorym niestety nie wladam) i musez powiedziec ze ten bardzo im sie podoba. Moze mialby ktos inna propozycje co oprocz alfabetu mozna by ich bylo jeszcze nauczyc? Mysle o kolorach, dniach tygodnia etc. Z gory dziekuje
Maria
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