POLISH ACCENT | How Poles speak English

[@emmawitter8148]

now my roommates and i are just saying random words back and forth comparing our accents.

[@richamxrx6x]

Nah that’s funny asf😂😂😂

[@goobner420]

Nice

[@shereemirabito7001]

This was really helpful, thank you! I needed to learn a Polish accent and this made it much easier to break down and understand so I could do so.

[@kristen3715]

Are you learning polish

[@dangervontango1565]

My grandmother is first generation American in a Polish family and didn’t learn English until she started school. She’s lost her knowledge of Polish but she still has the accent very faintly. Its very interesting watching this and hearing some of her linguistic idiosyncrasies featured here.

[@arturhirsch729]

It's interesting. I'm Polish, and I assume that if you grew up mostly in the U.S., then you shouldn't be having problem with country-born language accent, even if it would be first one you've learned. For me (person that still learns english) it kinda sounds like "don't even try to perfect your pronunciation, you'll never achieve perfection :/

[@JellyBelly9323]

I’ve moved to uk at the age of 12 and my Polish accent is still there very faint though some don’t know where it’s from just sounds different to native English speakers

[@aim-is-away4088]

I have a Polish oc who moved to America around his fifteen-sixteens, but he tried to get rid of the accent as much as possible(not because he hated it or felt ashamed, simply to better his job opportunities). He has a noticable accent still, though it does not bother during conversations.

[@camilomauricio736]

I´m so greatful to you because now I understad why my uncle spoke English a little different and it helps me to learn polish accent. You are a very good teacher. Thanks a lot.

[@TheHilltopPillbox]

Thank you! Very helpful information for an audition I just got...I have to speak English with a strong Polish accent, and also about 6 sentences in actual Polish. Toughest audition ever.

[@PolishwithMonika]

Good luck with the audition!!

[@TheHilltopPillbox]

@@PolishwithMonika Dziękuję bardzo!

[@lugh.i]

I live in a Spanish speaking country and I'm playing a tabletop roleplaying game called 7th Sea, which is set on a fictional Europe-like continent. When I direct the game, I use different accents according to the nationality of the characters. One of the nations is similar to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and I needed to learn this accent! Excellent video, thanks for the upload!

[@RaxeOnYT]

We have a Polish exchange student coming this fall, and I have extreme trouble with accents, so I really needed this, thanks!

[@The_Petrichor]

The phonetics of "th" is interesting because most Slavic speakers' muscle memory (due to the nature of the language) have their tongues flat when at rest. Where English speakers have the tip of their tongue touch the roof of their mouth when at rest, which happens to be the position for the appropriate "th" sound.

[@PolishwithMonika]

Thanks for sharing your insight on this topic!

[@wtos9153]

Reading this comment somehow made it easier for me to pronounce “ń”

[@Howdy._.82]

Im learning this so i can gaslight people, i am 50% polish but didn't grow up with the accent. But i want to learn it so i can gaslight people into thinking my American accent isnt my real one lol. Your a very good teacher by the way❤

[@Kait_Mills]

😂😂😂 wtf ariakaminski8972 thanks for the laugh!

[@SingleSpaceMedia]

You mean to trick people right, you sociopath 😂

[@N8Nefarious]

Thanks for this. I am working on a Polish accent for my first voice acting gig!

[@AyyashAhmad]

Also, words with a "ch" in it tend to be pronounced as "h" even when it's supposed to be pronounced with a "k" sound. For example, my Polish friend sometimes pronounces the word "character" as "haracter" or "chemist" as "hemist". Must be due to the Polish orthography, I think.

[@amatama66]

Yeah, you're right. "Ch" is pronounced like a "h" in Polish language. I have the problem to read it correctly when I read some polish words. Because of usual English pronounciation)

[@kukunase1686]

True

[@KainEnigma]

Yes, we have two kinds of "h" which are pronounced the same - "h" and "ch".

[@raularcos1779]

Dzień dobry Miss Monika Yes , interesting observations We do almost the same thing with Spanish. so good video!

[@DamonDesade]

Very cool video, Monika! Thank you for all of the insight :) I never thought about any of these, but listening back to my polish friends talk, especially with the "r's" it's spot on!

[@caroldrewes8358]

This was a really useful video. Thank you for such clear, precise information! It made a very quick-turnaround audition possible.

[@WhitRose97]

Thanks for the video. It could be nice to be able to recognize someone's accent and therefore find some small moments to be able to practice a little Polish as I am just learning.

[@NickyMitchell85]

Polska to jest pięknym krajem a język polski to jest również bardzo piękny.

[@P3rrineLover]

język*

[@thamus510]

This is very good to have, cause I'm putting together a polish WW2 ranger for reenacting.

[@m0n1ca909]

im fully polish with 100% polish blood, but i was born in the UK and grew up with an english accent, im still trying to learn polish haha

[@pitamul8095]

Great video! I talked to some of my British friends asking about the “Polish accent” and nobody was really able to pinpoint it - too many of us speaking the lingo and everyone doing it his/her unique way

[@gokhanfiliz74]

perfect tutor. super clever madam. thank you very much for helpful lessons. dziekuje bardzo.

[@zelilee5312]

You sound like you studied linguistics, I was an English as a Second Language teacher. This is also very helpful in recognizing the words that nonnative speakers are trying to pronounce. Most of the time I can understand European language accents, it's Asian people speaking English that I cannot understand, especially thick accents from India/Middle East.

[@mauuvillani]

best teacher ever

[@GoldieHoffmanComedian]

Thanks so much! Need this for an audition, and this was such a great resource!

[@hussar843]

that's because we use tongue differently for Pronunciation. In English, the letter ‘A’ has seven possible sounds; in Polish, just the one! ‘Y’ in English is a versatile character. From ‘apply’ to ‘youthful’ to ‘fishy’, this chameleon shifts sounds based on the word. In Polish, however - much like the other vowels - it has one sound that never changes. In English, the ‘R’ sound is made with the tongue pulled back, in the middle of the mouth. The rolling ‘R’ is instead made by tapping the roof of your mouth. In English, the ‘th’ sound (not including examples such as the word ‘Thailand’) can be either voiced or unvoiced, though tongue and jaw placement doesn’t change between words such as ‘think’ or ‘that’ - it’s simply about the amount of air expulsion. utilising a hard ‘D’ or ‘T’ sound (like in do or too). You may also hear the ‘F’ sound, such as in ‘foot’. The correct pronunciation, which involves extending the tip of your tongue between your front teeth, is not a natural position for Polish speakers. ONLY uneducated people have problems with how others pronounce words

[@thrandompug2254]

I love listening to how different people pronounce different words, even among native english speakers. It's just so fascinating to me

[@TheBestofActing]

tysm! this helped alot

[@gabrielaalcantara8217]

Hello! I am having an interview with a Polish speaker in English and I am pretty nervous about it, so this video helps me to try to catch the accent. THANK YOU :)

[@moomoo7158]

Thank you so much! I am doing a play and i need to doa polish accent for, this was so helpful

[@GaleoneOfficial]

your accent is way more better than polish folk i met during business meetings. I barely understood what they said and was blamed by my supervisor for that. This video really helps, thanks

[@forexmonsterprofit]

Move to Yorkshire and we will see how u can know what they are talking to you xD

[@itsmyaccount1153]

You are so right! Through my whole childhood my Lubliner father wished me "happy bersday"!

[@monikaborys8578]

😊

[@lucerious4203]

Excellent guide you made. This was easy to understand and follow, though, it will take a fair amount of practice to properly simulate. It also helps that you are incredibly pleasant to the eyes, but that is just icing on a well made cake.

[@teddyzeynu7300]

Thank you

[@LoveDrivingCar]

I can clearly recognize Polish user od English (except those who mastered foreign accent) because the way that person pronounces foreign word sounds "natural" to me, even without understanding the message.

[@markburckhard553]

My wife is a Polish national and would say the "th" sound as a "t", for instance "batroom." I liked in that she spoke English way better than I spoke Polish!

[@susannapais]

thanks, very useful to prepare an audiobook character!

[@erichamilton3373]

Another very typical one is pronouncing final "y" in English like Polish "y"...instead of happy "hæpi" it's "hepy"

[@PolishwithMonika]

Yes, that's true! Vowels are quite problematic as the letters look the same but the sound is often different.

[@aneraxxmusic2343]

The æ sound is really hard for Poles, they usually just say "e"

[@calincucuietu8220]

The e in happy is not y 😂

[@NickyMitchell85]

Bardzo miło mi panią poznać, Monika.

[@tbg6nb]

I am a Polish native speaker living abroad and I am wondering if anyone had success in improving their English pronunciation to the level where you are not immediately recognized as non-native speaker ? I feel like there is something about our language that makes it somehow impossible, people can have great grammar, vocabulary etc. but the way we speak we still sound "Polish".

[@traumkultur]

Just got a casting where I need to speak English with a polish accent, thank you, really helps

[@rob4eva]

I came here because I'm about to go on a date with a polish lady who I've been enjoying many conversations with but still haven't met or heard her voice. This was helpful.

[@MuppetsSh0w]

I hope it went well!

[@rob4eva]

@@MuppetsSh0w It did, we are still together. About to go on a break away this weekend together.

[@mikezabo3134]

Ooh, ju ar so gut Monik, Aj kudynt stap lafing.

[@alzaw_sgtaw]

im 4th gen polish-american but some of my family members have a slight polish accent despite not speaking the language, its only a few words though, it gets quite interesting since its also mixed with a southern/slight appalachian accent lol

[@curiousobserver6077]

It is an excellent overview. I'm trying to soften my Ukrainian accent and most of these things you described are very relatable to me.

[@DavidKozinski]

I have experienced this here and a little more pronounced with the older generation.

[@grzekozak]

You nailed it! Bravo

[@amazingmoments5834]

Really interesting! Thank you for the video!

[@MaryMurrayIrishActress]

Excellent lesson, thank you 🙏

[@chr_isx1953]

I was reading a book that said one of the characters had a polish accent and I kept doing a British one, so thank you

[@DonquixoteDoflamingo6969]

Someone at school thought I was Polish because they said I have a Polish accent so I had to search it up and I have got to say that I do pronounce the words that way even when I am not actually Polish.. 😃

[@alexapuerta]

If you are in the US in the Great Lakes region then that's where that accent comes from: Polish and Eastern European immigrants.

[@DonquixoteDoflamingo6969]

@@alexapuerta I am in California… not even close 😅

[@alexapuerta]

@@DonquixoteDoflamingo6969 Ha!

[@monikaborys8578]

Where are you from originally? I'm Polish by birth but have lived in the UK since my childhood years and I have an English accent with very faint traces of the Polish accent..

[@raraszek]

The devoicing of the consonants is typical all Slavic immigrants abroad :D Main difference is that we Poles can pronounce proper "w" sound in English, while Russians, Ukrainian or Serbian immigrants can't. I moved to America from Poland in 1991 and even today I still pronounce TH or PH as just "f"

[@wtos9153]

Everyone pronounces “Ph” as “F”. That’s correct for English.

[@giuliagiacintucci5890]

@@wtos9153yeah thank you I was going to say it right now, I even started to question my ability to speak lol

[@Reggaebeatman]

I like the accent keep it up

[@samrodrigues3199]

Thank you for this so much! I'm currently recording an audiobook where the main character is half-Polish, so this helps a ton with getting his accent right

[@PolishwithMonika]

Glad that this video helped!

[@svpiter78]

Thank you Monika for your interesting Video. 😊🎉

[@ayiehmagbagay9590]

I already followed you for more content to know polish language thanks host

[@charleyweinhardt]

Wow in-depth 👍

[@j3zproductions]

Thank you so much!!!!!

[@SNU_Medicine_top_patient]

I lived in Poland when I was kid and you just realized why my English accent is like this

[@matildawolfram4687]

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[@jasper_the_ghost]

I just love accents, it’s such a cool thing that even though I only speak the milk toast language, all the other languages bring so much zest to English. lol

[@kevinak823]

I wish I could bring home more mahney

[@dauphin15]

This was beautifully helpful! What about “w?” Is it pronounced as “v?”

[@PolishwithMonika]

Yes, in Polish "w" is pronounced as [v]

[@eyerusm721]

U exactly mentioned... tks

[@karinless]

Wybacz, ale mimo wszystko, słychać wiele akcentu w Twojej wymowie. Wszystko brzmi poprawnie, ale szukałam tutaj porad jak poprawić własną wymowę aby być jak najbliżej tej brytyjskiej. Może taki sam odcinek ale dla osób bardziej zaawansowanych?

[@PolishwithMonika]

Celem mojego filmiku nie była nauka poprawnej wymowy, a wskazanie niektórych cech charakterystycznych w wymowie Polaków mówiących po angielsku. Taki akcent, nie przeczę, także słychać w moich wypowiedziach :)

[@monikaborys8578]

Czesc - mozesz sie skontaktowac ze mna. Mam akcent Brytyjski i moze troszke Polskiegoa ale prawie wogole nie slychac go kiedy mowie po Ang.

[@monikaborys8578]

Moim zdniem, masz fajny akcent. Nie jest on taki typowy mocny Polski akcent ( kiedy rozmawiasz po Ang) ale i tez nie jest do konca np BBC radio English accent. Nie powiem ze nie jest on Brytyjski czy Angieslki bo w UK sa rozne akcenty. Znam Polakow w UK ktorzy maja rozne akcenty. Wlasnie, nie ktorzy bardzo mocne Polskie.@@PolishwithMonika

[@Lilmisscostumedrama]

My mate Aggie (Agniezska) needs to hear this!

[@barbaravivas6117]

Just watching this video because a customer told me I sound polish (I’m Venezuelan) Do I sound European then???

[@GlennHa]

I am part Polish from several generations ago. One thing I've discovered about Europeans is that they usually learn English from the British, so they speak with a "British English" accent on top of their regional accent.

[@wewjoj]

Co jest mazurzenie w dialekt małopolski?

[@oldowl4290]

I would assume that hearing both polish and russians speaking english would be difficult to know the difference (for english / americans) is that correct?

[@PolishwithMonika]

There are many similarities between the Polish and Russian accent. But there are differences as well. Russians have a different "L" sound (the tip of the tongue touches the top front teeth and the the throat is more open). Polish pronounce "L" by touching the hard palate. Russians usually roll the "R" stronger than Poles when speaking English. And I would say that Russians say vowels "deeper", more to the back, with a lower voice.

[@Mafioso629]

This is awesome thank you so much

[@rhiannonwhitehead6728]

my boyfriend’s mom is from poland and it is so funny to me that he cannot hear her accent at all when it’s so distinct to me

[@olganesterowicz2112]

I noticed that a lot of Poles when they speak English and try putting on the American accent, they end up sounding Canadian (about, around, house pronounced with OU).

[@Ensbfgnerfer-rn5ck]

Got to learn this 😎

[@pann.bartooo]

2:48 is a weird sound

[@KiddieStranglerV3]

I had to do a double take on that one to make sure I was hearing it right 💀

[@yukiomishima33]

You sound the same as my babcia who passed away last year. Jin kooyeh (sp?)

[@PolishwithMonika]

Jin kooyeh would be spelled as "dziękuję" :)

[@arthurjohnson9982]

IPA: [d͡ʑɛŋˈku.jɛ]

[@susanpereyeibo7576]

Polish language sounds polished

[@bibekdas7449]

Reminds me of Project Nightfall!

[@jackjohnston1298]

Danny from the great escape is polish

[@zenos.5315]

Yuz guys……one two tree…… that’s my Polish grandfather. ❤️❤️

[@HSBsoulsurfer]

Love it! How they would pluralize the word "you" in English. Dutch does this too.

[@czarnywilkgaming8255]

As Pole about three things, I kinda mix it and come out with tree fings

[@sanaa5851]

ahahha someone asked me are you from eastern europe. they kept insisting i was from europe from how i sound. Now i see why would they ask like that i pretty much did everything that is shown in the video. Well I am from Mongolia I do speak Russian as second language and english is my third language . so strong t, l, g, k. but stress on words and long vowels are fine for me. Yeah literally the word exmaples on the video i almost did all of em in polish accent.

[@brothajack1993]

Narizrovye!! My Dzadzu died recently, so I wish to learn Polski

[@parziiich]

What you are saying is the polish accents by older people (born before 1983) or beginners- for intermediate advanced speakers these are the characteristics: First of all polish tend to speak very hard ch sh dż (joke) but english sounds are between polish cz and ć, sz and ś, another thing is we are using short vowels only, whereas in british we have long and short, another thing - we pronounce i like e (in polish it should by pronounced as our yt, millenials don’t have problems with pronouncing r, and another thing is we are mixing american and british pronounciation and words, last thing coming to my mind is Nobody ever taught us this in schools (sadly, our teachers don’t have good pronunciation as well) of is pronounced in polish as “ow”, as - “az” because - “bikoz”, was- “łoz” so we pronounce this: “of as bikos łos”

[@parziiich]

I’m more curious about British than American but what I have observed is also polish is a language where you need to operate much more with your tongue, everything in the mouth focus in the front whereas in British it is more in the back of our mouths - with vowels - polish don’t open their mouths that much while speaking

[@jesiraekesler8642]

So, the 'ng' in English would not become "Enklish"? This is just the ng at the end of words?

[@PolishwithMonika]

'ng' would be often pronounced as 'nk' at the end of the word or before a voiceless consonant, like 't', 'p', 's'. But 'l' is a voiced consonant, so it would rather remain 'ng'.

[@kartikeymishra5398]

What I've noticed that they tend to say 'i' as 'e'

[@AnthemsOfEurope]

Because Polish is a very phonetic language. Letters represent one and ONLY one sound (digraphs and trigraphs also exist, Like "sh" in english) The letter E always resembles the sound in "mEdic" or "mAd" in some accents While the letter I always mąkę the sound as in "happY" or "clEAn" The sound that vowels mąkę in English are just very unintuitive. Every vowel in English mąkę at least 2 sounds

[@AnthemsOfEurope]

It autocorrected make to mąkę 3 times 😂

[@kartikeymishra5398]

@@AnthemsOfEurope thankyou!! for the explination.

[@Anna-nj7co]

I feel called out 😭

[@guacamoleman3253]

I have polish accent and all the English accents

[@DakodaParker]

My brother can just pull an accent off tv and any shoe voice, im so jealous so im watching accent videos to be better

[@calincucuietu8220]

There are no long vowels in English

[@HelloPoland96]

I need someone to speak polish so it will be exercise for speaking nicely

[@user-cs7nz3pl3w]

Wyszukalam ten film, aby uswiadomic sobie, nas co zwracać uwage, mowiac po angielsku. Moj akcent jest bardzo polski i nie brzmi to profesjonalnie. Wiekszosc wymienionych przykladow znajduje zastosowanie w moim przypadku.

[@slow-poradnikiirozrywka4518]

Jak poznać polskiego rozmówcę, zapytać?

[@PolishwithMonika]

To prawda, można :)

[@karasheybruh]

I’m mostly just here to compare to see if one of my coworkers is polish without asking him directly.

[@Kathadenough]

Robert lewandowskis interviews be like:

[@Niloc600]

I'm pretty sure I have a polish accent

[@Mix-qg6tv]

masz typowy polski akcent nie krytykuję :)

[@Zehnstern]

FYL GUT instead of feel good 😂❤

[@AlexanderHammer-gv1gw]

yeah, I'm American but my dad is German and I'm pretty sure that my mom is Polish. weird history there…

[@tangdibarayohanis9476]

It is not only the flag but accents also quit similar with Indonesian 😂

[@DerpCookie157]

you sound like killjoy from valorant, keep it up

[@ameliaweeb8235]

No! juz widać rze mówisz po polsku! Well, i can alwready tell you can speak polish! Yes i am polish. bravo. That is a correct accent XD

[@kriest5572]

XD fakt że popełniłeś błąd po polsku i po angielsku jest komiczny Jakby weś się pierw polskiego naucz czy coś

[@Magdamk777]

​@@kriest5572 poganial kociol garnkowi😂😂😂

[@jasbindersingh2441]

It's fking easy.....they all speak exactly like you're speaking!!!!!!!

[@dannyvalencia5224]

Louis CK should watch this.