Polish for life in Poland is not a grammar course. It is about the conversations waiting for you after the move: PESEL, the urząd, ZUS, the przychodnia, przedszkole and school, the paczkomat, your landlord. Polish has sounds that trip up English speakers: hissing consonants such as sz, cz and rz, nasal vowels and long strings of consonants, so every phrase comes with a pronunciation guide that shows the real sound.
With officials and strangers people say Pan and Pani, and the course teaches exactly that polite register. It is split into 16 categories, from the doctor and paperwork to cafés, school and neighbours. Every situation has a tip on how things are done in Poland and the phrases you will say and hear in reply. On the website the first dialogue of the course, all emergency situations, the rescue phrases and the “Basics” section are open; the whole course, 416 situations, is in the app.
The order in which situations usually come up after a move. You can open the categories in any order.
Nothing starts without these: documents, bank, public services. It is best to know the emergency number in advance.
Flat, shops, post, transport, neighbours.
Where a wrong word costs the most.
Once the basics are in place.
Each is named after a situation you recognise from daily life. Under each name are the words from the signs you will see on the spot.
Each has its own page: a tip on how things are done there and the first phrase with audio.
What the place is, what to say there and what to bring.
Open to everyone on the website: the things that are hardest to catch by ear, with a pronunciation guide and audio.
21 rescue phrases are open to everyone and work full screen: “Slower, please”, “Can you write it down?”
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