Bloggy Polish

W tym podcaście rozmawiamy o języku i piosenkach Strajku Kobiet.  Jeżeli chcecie szybko zrozumieć aktualną sytuację polityczną w Polsce i idee Strajku Kobiet, polecamy metariały w języku angielskim: VOX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSXB7ukH4M Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/dec/03/three-women-on-their-fight-for-abortion-rights-in-poland-podcast A na naszym blogu https://bloggypolish.co.uk znajdziecie linki do piosenek oraz teksty.  Wesołych Świąt! 

Have you ever seen any "bad words" in a Polish language textbook?  No. Trust me, no chance for that. Yet, so called 'bad words' are also part of the language and you don't know Polish if you don't know the word 'kurwa'.  So in this podcast you can learn some of these words that we all need when we get very angry. And if you would like to know why women in Poland got really angry, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSXB7ukH4M Go to https://bloggypolish.co.uk to find the lyrics of this amazing song and make sure you listen to it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjWM3I6VRs&has_verified=1 Wesołych Świąt!

So what you can do when in lockdown... learn languages obviously! In this corona-chaotic podcast we try to talk about some things you can and can't do in lockdown. And as it happens in lockdown, the plan was great - revise your verbs, practise present tense, see how 'można', 'trzeba' and 'wolno' verbs work - but it all ended in chaos and giggles.  They say Shakespeare wrote King Lear in lockdown. I bet he didn't have a 6 years old daughter at the time.  Oh, and our special guest is...

It's Autumn and the weather gives us an excellemnt excuse to complain a bit. For some Autumn weather vocabulary go to https://bloggypolish.co.uk

Autumn has started so we talk a bit about the weather - a great chance to improve your complaing skills in Polish (crucial). We might loose our pessimistic approach somewhere towards the end of the episode when we read one of Tuwim's poems.  To work a bit more on the poem, go to https://bloggypolish.co.uk. 

Here are some more exercises to practise what you have learned from the last lesson. For some grammar commentary in English, go to our previous lesson at: https://bloggypolish.co.uk/polish-to-begin-with-lesson-26-old-family-picture

This is our first piece of materials for advanced learners (C1). For more information about the book it was read from and for exercises you can do to understand this text better, go to https://bloggypolish.co.uk/

In this podcast we are talking about some old photos and once more we discover that you should always write dates on your family pictures because no, you wil not remember where it was taken, how old the child was and even who it was (I swear, all babies in our family look the same on pictures). For some grammar commentary on this episode go to https://bloggypolish.co.uk

In this  podcast we are trying to tell you about everything that has happened in last 10  years. We obviously fail but hey, at least we do it in Polish so see  how much you can understand. For more language podcasts and easy readings for Polish learners go to our website: https://bloggypolish.co.uk/