About Polish - Introduction To The Language

Polish is a West Slavic language related to Czech, Slovak, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian. It is used by over 55 milion people, where 38 million live in Poland. Large groups of Poles live outside mainly in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine.

Polish has been gaining popularity as a foreign language taught at language schools across Poland and globally. In UK it is one of the most spoken languages after English and Welsh. Polish courses and studies are offered by leading English universities like Oxford University, University College London or University of Cambrigde. Mixed marriages and new opportunity of work cause that the group of foreigners, willing to learn this not so easy language, is constantly growing.

Polish can be challenging languages to learn because of its gender system, demanding pronunciations and complex grammar categories. However, English speakers (but not only!) taking a Polish lessons will love the fact that it contains many loanwords and that the verb conjugation is something they know already from their previous education. Polish contains a great number of words borrowed from Latin, Czech, German as well as from Italian, French, and English.

Most of learners are not discouraged by the fact that some nouns in Polish may have as many as fourteen different forms and enjoy Polish tongue twisters. For them learning the language is a challenge worth to take. A challange which gives incredible satisfaction of being able to understand and use one of the most difficult languages in Europe.