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Speaking Polish: Sentence by Sentence, a free language course on Tomo

Speaking Polish: Sentence by Sentence

Like Duolingo, but for Speaking Polish: Sentence by Sentence. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Assembling Your First Statements and Making Things Happen in the Real World. It starts from scratch.

12 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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Piotr the Porcupine, the guide who teaches the Speaking Polish: Sentence by Sentence course
Speaking Polish: Sentence by Sentence
with Piotr the Porcupine
12
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Speaking Polish: Sentence by Sentence

  • Polish verbs change their endings depending on who is performing the action
  • Subject pronouns like 'ja' (I) and 'ty' (you) are normally left out unless used for special emphasis
  • Saying 'ja' in every sentence sounds unnatural and repetitive to native Polish speakers
  • 'Jestem' signals 'I am' through the '-m' ending
  • 'Jesteś' addresses someone casually as 'you are' with the '-ś' ending
  • 'Jest' covers the third-person 'he, she, it is'
  • The base dictionary form is not used directly after 'jestem' for roles
  • Stating a job or nationality after 'być' changes the word ending (typically to '-em' for masculine nouns)
  • 'Nauczycielem' is the adjusted role form of 'nauczyciel'
  • Polite Polish address replaces informal 'ty' with 'Pan' for men and 'Pani' for women
  • Using informal 'jesteś' with an unfamiliar adult is considered impolite or overly familiar
  • 'Pan' and 'Pani' combine with the third-person verb form ('jest'), not the informal 'you' form ('jesteś')
  • 'Dzień dobry' is the universal daytime greeting used in shops, offices, and street encounters
  • 'Przepraszam' functions both as 'excuse me' to initiate contact and 'sorry' for an apology
  • 'Do widzenia' serves as the default formal farewell
  • Polish verb endings signal who performs the action, often making subject pronouns optional
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Speaking Polish: Sentence by Sentence the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Dropping the Word for I

When speaking everyday Polish, what usually happens to words like 'ja' (I) and 'ty' (you)?

Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.

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Where Speaking Polish: Sentence by Sentence takes you

Start speaking Polish by understanding how words fit together naturally. Learn why verb endings do the heavy lifting, how nouns shift when they receive action, and how to build clear sentences without getting lost in grammar charts.

  1. 1

    Assembling Your First Statements

    • Saying Who You Are Without Saying 'I'
    • Expressing Actions and Asking Questions
  2. 2

    Making Things Happen in the Real World

    • Direct Objects: Changing the Noun
    • Everyday Requests and Spatial Navigation

2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

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