Polish alphabet: Names of the letters

In this video you will learn how to:
- read the letters of the Polish alphabet
- spell names
- read acronyms
You will also find out what are the most common Polish first and last names.
Check out also my video focusing on the Polish sounds pronunciation: • POLISH PRONUNCIATION |...
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[@rafal2622]

For everybody learning the best way to catch diffrence between "Ż" ad "Ź" is in words: źrebak, źródło, żart, żaba. Write it in google translate and hear the difference.

[@xiesie_xiesie]

It's actually źrebak and źródło, but yup, they sound different.

[@rafal2622]

@@xiesie_xiesie My mistake :) low screen resolution and weak eyes :/

[@patolol3091]

zjet or zjyet

[@amyl5250]

@Raf Al Wow thank you for this!!

[@JolajnaLoja]

And some of the ways to pronounce it is: To say Ź smile while spelling or make second face 😁😬 To say Ż make your lips in the 'O' shape but with closed teeth.

[@kels2129]

Ó bro what

[@pawelmlynarz3221]

She said "o" with line Rewrite this to google translator

[@marsh346]

O with some kind of symbol over it

[@cyianisyt2467]

Ó is the same as U , but you cant write ó in some verbs , because it can be a linguistic mistake Ex. -Żóbr- = Żubr

[@garorade]

Oslysrobro

[@pyrofromtf2236]

Ó-u

[@Thaumatin5TFKC]

Im literally that german officer trying to pronounce/spell Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz. *Gzzziieeeerrrpppggggkkkzzzzrrrreeeeiiizzzzooo...*

[@Nicole-kt5qf]

If I hadn't studied French, Spanish and Russian this would be impossible. Right now I'm studying polish and Scottish Gaelic so this they don't clash. Really good video, thank you. Please do more. You are a great teacher

[@henbane2247]

I know some Friench and I've found it useful for Polish.

[@j.mattlakes7792]

Monika, I'm surprised your channel isn't verified yet. You're a great Polish teacher.

[@Geschichte994]

It can only be verified if it has 100.000 subs😢

[@markragnathsingh6615]

My kids now reside in poland and I'm also learning along with them ...thank u for this video .

[@paulbarham1038]

I very much enjoyed this introduction to the Polish alphabet! I understand it is one of the more difficult languages to learn (?).

[@bociek4463]

Yeah, ist is in thr Top 5 List of the difficultes Languages in the world

[@quevenelemino1437]

I am here learning Polish because I will move in Poland 2 years from now.

[@extzyy8903]

Hey it’s been one year now just wanted to know how much u learned !

[@anoopbhatt5641]

One of the best video for learning the polish alphabet...Thank you Monika

[@ethankirk8244]

Dkiękuję barzdo. I am trying my best to learn Polish as I believe it is a brilliant language to Express. Plus I love their food and would love to know the ingredients. Love from England! FIXED SPELLING

[@ethankirk8244]

@@someone5547 Not sure what to ask.

[@cyianisyt2467]

@@ethankirk8244 Dziękuję bardzo* ❤ or Bardzo Dziękuję

[@carlosgaribay3789]

TRUE

[@jameslong672]

Great language to learn if you live in England as polish is the second language before english and welsh

[@aniadominczak4863]

love from poland :>

[@TheLearningLounge]

Thank you so much. Teaching myself Polish and it's challenging. I know mostly Latin languages which are much easier to pronounce, so this was really helpful.

[@ronalbars]

The letters ą and ę sound like ã and ê in Portuguese. For Brazilian and Portuguese speakers, it is quite easy to pronounce the Polish alphabet.

[@Whereyoureyesdontgo]

ń sounds like ñ from spanish to me

[@archduchyofaustria2021]

​@@Whereyoureyesdontgo Because it's the same :p

[@gary-pv8vz]

Thank you so much. Very clear and understandable.

[@lidiaberkes2402]

Thank you so much! I moved here from Hungary and had a hard time learning from different sources. I just found you and now it makes more sense and it is so similar to Hungarian. I am grateful for your videos

[@mmneander1316]

Very nice and helpful video! Thanks for creating and uploading.

[@marenwill22]

Thank you very much for sharing your videos. I have been thinking of learning Polish for a while now. Your lessons make it less intimidating.

[@marsh346]

6:41 BMW 6:54 WUWUWU

[@tanxyrogue847]

Braaaa

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

I'm going to change my last name to: Pięćdziesięciogroszówka!

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@muted spark "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" What kind of a name is that? Honestly I love composite worlds but this is too long half the legth is max.

[@stickofbutter4144]

Baltu Lielkungs Gunārs Miezis it’s the name of a town in England

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@stickofbutter4144 I thought it was in Wales.

[@Noname-ye1vg]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 yes it is in Wales

[@gailpippin9761]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 it's a Welsh town name.

[@jasoncomely]

That was amazingly clear and comprehensive. Many thanks :)

[@alveebabu]

I am trying my best to learn 😢 Thank you so much for the video.❤

[@naimatkamal1991]

quiet difficult but intreing and I trying learn polish thanks from Pakistan

[@Indischersumit]

Thanks a lot Monika.

[@curtpiazza1688]

Great intro lesson!

[@Biobele]

Thank you for the help 🎉

[@guineabunnymama]

This is so helpful!

[@ibrahimali5402]

Thank you so much Monika.

[@thememeking994]

Some of those letters are similar to Spanish. Like R for instance. In Spanish you role your R’s

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

In all europians languages but english you roll your r.

[@rhiannamr]

Similar to French, too

[@EzequielMartin55vf]

Yes true

[@andii-]

@You can eat in class!! yeah french and german rolled rs are the only ones i can do rnsbsbsbddb

[@aabout5981]

And tap in spanish

[@varfla99]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you very much.

[@shaunhunterit342]

Good video thank you

[@user-cr3sz2bq5j]

You’re superb. Amazing

[@mdal9741]

Thanks

[@Premtheartist369]

Thank you so much

[@gangasenani6857]

THANK YOU 👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@hebreophone]

Great video 🔥 dziękuję

[@helenmuriuki954]

Thank you

[@MrHoxkuldur]

Brilliant

[@Lisa-du8ey]

Ktoś z Polski? ;-;

[@dot5687]

ja ;P

[@filizankaherbaty]

Ja

[@banan_6561]

Tak.

[@user-xw6tk3ws5z]

Z Rosji

[@whereamI-gx5sk]

Oczywiście, pozdrawiam mnie oglądającą to zamiast spać lmao. Potem się dziwię czemu zawsze idę spać po 2 nad ranem

[@star_ags]

I came here after learning myself how to spell in English. You know... To make myself feel better. (it works)

[@novagaming8948]

I learned this is very easy alphabet

[@antomj1981]

Dziękuję

[@88Shinto]

I really like your format I just subscribed, I think I'm going to be talking to all the European Delicatessen ladies soon. I live in Ontario Canada. And the Polish marketplaces are amongst the best.

[@BGDMusic]

i already know the polish alphabet but this video is cool

[@paulczarnecki8580]

Love da alfabet

[@mariyarybak6109]

Basically I’m ukranian and I know English and Ukrainian but man needs to know more

[@canter1ter]

this aged well

[@FirstnameLastname-cl4op]

I learned german also it was easy ,but damm polish is at another level 🤯 as an indian I already know 7 languages , excluding german and polish

[@user-je1ns9nt7t]

What are the languages you speak?

[@lolithakthomasthomas5025]

അടിപൊളി verigoood

[@Cloudyd4yx]

I can't pronounce "Ń", “Ź", and "Ż". :'I.

[@piktas.pienas1]

i dont want to flex on you but i can pronounce Ń and Ź yeah i know i am that great

[@nexftw6959]

Neither can i.

[@RedStarMapping]

And what about 'Ř' ? :))))))

[@samsungnote569]

@@RedStarMapping it is Czech or Slovak not Polish

[@RedStarMapping]

@@samsungnote569 Yeah it is czech. I only writed for him that there can be more difficult letters.

[@55Klat]

Czyżby polski alfabet zawierał "q" i "x" ? Nie znam polskich słów zaczynających sie od tych liter. Chodziłem do szkoły dosc dawno, ale ich nie było.

[@carnylaw5872]

Have you done a video on borrowed Yiddish words or words borrowed from foreigners?

[@dovygoodguy1296]

Hi, Monika. How do Polish children learn to spell and distinguish between the use of dź and ź since they are pronounced the same? Or between dż and ż? Thanks.

[@PolishwithMonika]

Hi. Dź and ź, or dż and ż, are pronounced differently. Check out my videos where I focus on these sounds, you might hear the difference. Children learn to distinguish dż and dź as a pair of letters that produce one sound, not as two separate letters. Similarly as in English "ch" - two letters that produce one sound.

[@dovygoodguy1296]

@@PolishwithMonika Thank you. I have difficulty hearing the differences between those sets of sounds so far.

[@Schody_lol]

Nigdy nie słyszałem, by ktoś mówił na Ć "cie".

[@PolishwithMonika]

"Ć" jako nazwa litery to zwykle "cie". Tak przynajmniej uczą w szkole podstawowej alfabetu: a, ą, be, ce, cie, de... Ale może są inne warianty nazwy tej litery (podobnie jak z Ó, Y, Ż). W praktyce rzadko używa się nazw liter, chyba że w akronimach.

[@Pidalin]

c češtině to tak máme "a, bé, cé, čé, dé, ďé....

[@b3ckiii3]

Is really interesting bc almost all the letters of the polish alphabet sounds like the spanish alphabet....

[@PolishwithMonika]

If you'd like to listen to the sounds the letters represent, not to the names of letters, you can watch my other video on the Polish pronunciation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqiuapKNns-nhac

[@theentertainmant4747]

Wow

[@alejandroto3094]

Hi Monika💜😘😘😘 Could you show me how you put your mouth to pronounce the vowel "y"?, and how do you put your tongue to pronounce the letters ć,ś,ź,ż? , Postalveolars,palatals? Thanks 😘😘😘

[@PolishwithMonika]

Hi, You can check my other videos to see the details how to pronounce the sounds: S Ś SZ sounds: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYS3eIhmabuffsU Z Ź Ż sounds: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJnFmGqLZ7B5oKc Videos focusing on the Ć and Y sounds will follow later.

[@alejandroto3094]

💜Monika

[@Easiven]

You pronounce the letter "y" in polish pretty much the same as you say "i" in the words like: milk, mill or did

[@shafiplays22]

Óh, now ï see!

[@Layres78]

Czesc

[@najme3212]

I planned on learning German first but I really love Poland and not Germany! Any advise please...

[@nexftw6959]

I think you'll have a easier time learning german than polish, the sounds are easy to learn and you only need to learn four different letters in german like ä ö ü ß but the rest of the alphabet is the same as english.

[@multifandom2462]

I as a German who is learning Polish would advise you to learn German first. German is easier to pronounce than Polish and I think you could learn it faster than Polish. It would also be better because then you can speak two more languages

[@serenity9926]

@@multifandom2462 same as someone who speaks german, learn german first i tried to learn polish but it was too hard for me.

[@lnln8774]

@@serenity9926 I’m learning German, it’s not that hard, I can speak it well and understand better, I’m enjoying the process. I’m thinking about start Polish.

[@Nowak2]

I’m doing this because I never got to learn how to write in polish

[@antomj1981]

Dzien dobry

[@khaliltimochenko654]

ممتاز جدا very nice

[@acfern6862]

at this point I'm convinced Finnish is easier

[@godemperormeow8591]

I Finnish

[@xiesie_xiesie]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Propably?

[@burzumimmortal5667]

This shіt is the hardest language of EU ..

[@user-je1ns9nt7t]

@@burzumimmortal5667 all hail Varg

[@Biobele]

Wait a minute Kowalski from the Penguins🐧 of Madagascar in Africa is Polish???

[@3digits13letters]

Kowalski and Nowak are the most common polish surnames, like the american Smith

[@suprixgamer69]

yess. I Watch it everyday. This is my favourite cartoon in TV

[@Ntwadumela1]

@@suprixgamer69 The main character of the famous movie "Vanishing Point" from 1971 was named Kowalski. He was played by actor Barry Newman, who recently passed away. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6rWh4p9btuCZ7c

[@petrov19_I]

Yeah 😮

[@aleksandramika6575]

Ja jestem z Polski

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

6:52 Every language should say "wo" (or wa or something like that; as long as it's one syllable) for W! It's ridiculous that we pronounce "www" as /dobeljudobeljudobelju/ in English. In Norwegian we should say /dobeltvedobeltvedobeltve/ but usually we cheat and pronounce it /veveve/ (as if it was "vvv"), but that only really works if you're reading an address to someone who know the jargon.

[@igorix-uy4kh]

Make more 👨🏼‍💻👩‍💻

[@tomaszfalkowski7508]

In the Middle ages Polish Cyrillic was developed and many don't know that Polish Cyrillic is similar to Mongolian Cyrillic. Here's an example of Polish Cyrillic: Вшўсцў лудьѣ родщѫ сьѩ волњи и рувњи в своѣй годносьчьи и правах. Сѫ обдажењи рощумем и сумѣњѣм и повинњи постѧповачь вобец сьѣбѣ в духу братерства. Translation: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

[@dominika354]

I'm polish but i still need to watch this😭

[@muhammadahsan9842]

hy send your email address

[@canter1ter]

rip

[@t.r.everstone7]

Have a new polish friend, so I'm just trying to learn basic pronunciation to say her name and some other things correctly. Her name is Alicja, so what would be correct pronunciation?

[@PolishwithMonika]

Here you can check the pronunciation of Polish female names, including Alicja: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJbIcpSvdpt9faM

[@t.r.everstone7]

@@PolishwithMonika Appreciate it!

[@bartomiejbonski6791]

Try this: Aliitsya.

[@t.r.everstone7]

@@bartomiejbonski6791 Thanks! That's how I started saying it, and she said it was good! Good to know I was at least close to correct

[@bartomiejbonski6791]

Polish is in 95-99% phonetic. If you know, how to pronounce each vowel, consonant and digraph, you can correctly pronounce any word or letters cluster (even imaginary, random). For exapmple i like ii, c like ts, j+a like ya. But fact: some sounds like ź, dź, ż, dż, ś.. can't be easy compare to English sounds.

[@Biobele]

35 forking alphabets wow just wow I'm going to be learning this language forever 😭

[@Whereyoureyesdontgo]

try chinese lol

[@kemancikara399]

O my lord very diffucult

[@user-kz6wp4it1j]

I am from south africa and my home language is Afrikaans but i am realy trying hard to learn polosh

[@user-su7qs1tz5o]

Why?

[@mcdonaldsjapan904]

Polska premiera współpracy

[@carnylaw5872]

What’s the difference between the 3 last Z’s? I have a Polish surname that’s starts with Z, so?

[@PolishwithMonika]

Z, Ź, Ż are three different letters and sounds. Z is the same sound as in the English "zoo". Ź is a soft sound that is close (but not the same) to the sound in the word "aubergine". Ż is a hard sound close (but not the same) to the sound in the English word "pleasure".

[@mohammadzasim3767]

I can read

[@user-ni4fu3pn3h]

Ok

[@PolishwithMonika]

Learn the Polish pronunciation with me with my course "Polish Pronunciation Masterclass" available on my website polishwithmonika.com/

[@carlosgaribay3789]

im confused with zhet AND zhret?

[@bartomiejbonski6791]

Ź in 75% like g in word: aubergine. Ż in 75% like s in word: pleasure.

[@Zehnstern]

I know the name Kowalski from the Ren and Stimpy series. Really funny. Lol

[@martina21953]

There was always a Kowalski in WWII movies.

[@Ntwadumela1]

The main character of the famous movie "Vanishing Point" from 1971 was named Kowalski. He was played by actor Barry Newman, who recently passed away. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6rWh4p9btuCZ7c

[@zecoansu]

Jako Polak nie rozumiem sensu dwuznaków . Powinni zrobić jakąs reforme , bo powinno być podobnie jak w Czechach : cz=č , dz=à , dź=á , dż=â , sz=š , ę=ē , ą=ā , ż=ž . (ó,rz,ch pochodzi z dawnego "akcentu" , dialektu , i powinno już nie istnieć , ( lecz jest potrzebne : ( może i morze ) . Jakby usuneli "rz" to by niektóre słowa musiałyby zmielić formę ) . I co z tego , że "ó" się wymienia na inne litery : "o" . Przecież "ż" wymienia się na : g a o b n i ... ( a na : ł e ) . "ó powinno zniknąć z alfabetu . "ch" też bo nie słychać "c"

[@nadzwyczajny_]

O z kreską XD Dlaczego nie hylo to przeczytane, jako "u"

[@sapphiraph5121]

Mam znajomego, który jest Polakiem. więc chcę też nauczyć się mówić po polsku, abyśmy mogli się rozumieć, używając jego słów. ponieważ jestem Filipińczykiem. rozmawiamy tylko po angielsku.

[@mr.muhamadrafi]

Almost same like Bahasa Indonesia Alphabet

[@roo8077]

Cześć

[@trane1423]

6:57

[@gyanendrasubba7468]

this is very useful for me but some letters pronounce did not understood so would you revise it again sir

[@Johnemmanueal]

she is madam// not Sir

[@gabrielepesacane5430]

Are 'o' and 'u' pronounced the same in the alphabet?

[@PolishwithMonika]

'ó' and 'u' are pronounced the same as sounds in words, only the names of letters are different. 'o' is a different sound.

[@janczy9206]

Bróh

[@pycceln4344]

Ja polska

[@goldenbloodburns5727]

Poland

[@user-my7rv3lu2j]

Mątkóże

[@samsungnote569]

Mantkoozheh in english reading zh in english polish rz ź ż

[@hatjeehat]

i came here for polish cow

[@Stephanie-zf4yk]

1:58

[@beatakop9743]

Im polish I know it

[@tomaszmuza1957]

Dude imagine eC

[@pinderbupinder1598]

Who else's girlfriends name was on the list of girls names

[@aparicioj03]

Monika, May I use this? How do I contact you? Find me on Facebook

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Jē, polish is very far down on languages I would like to learn. The list that I might learn some day is russkij, deuche, lietuviski and spanish.

[@adhamhmacconchobhair7565]

What is the difference between ż and ź

[@JackiieOutaar]

ź = shEd ; ż = shAd hope this helps!

[@windsoul4223]

@@JackiieOutaar ???

[@Schody_lol]

Lol, you don't hear that?

[@sharavy6851]

Ż is harsher and Ź is softer??? I'm sorry but I can't comprehend you not hearing the difference.

[@bartomiejbonski6791]

Ź in 75% like g in word: aubergine. Ż in 75% like s in word: pleasure.

[@mr.mayhem3655]

Why is alphabet same as germans except the crazy ones?

[@kvxpe0]

*facepalm* srlsy?!

[@SomeOne-vf1rs]

They both use the latin alphabet, which is fairly popular.

[@galupoerickajhane4131]

Because poland is part of germany in 1700's to 1800's

[@tomskc123]

@@galupoerickajhane4131 Are you serious?

[@galupoerickajhane4131]

@wilku123 yes i'm serious I know ww1/ww2