Learn Polish - Websites and IKEA

In this lesson you'll learn how to say the domain names of websites, refer to the internet and reverse translate a box of tea!

Thinking Brain

We saw in the last lesson that Polish uses 'w' to express the English 'v'. It's pronounced 'v' as in 'voodoo'

  • Thinking about the internet how would you say 'www'? - www

Listen out for this because it is how many Poles refer to the internet in slang.

Transfer

Polish is spoken as it is written. Have a listen to the Polish for 'Google'.

  • Google

So whenever you see a Polish word, you can be confident how to say it as long as you know how to pronounce the individual letters.

Letter pronunciation

How do you say 'i' in Polish?

Select the correct answer from the following:

Letter pronunciation

How would IKEA sound when said in Polish

Select the correct answer from the following:

Refresher

Click/Tap to match the English and Polish pairs

Make sure your sound is turned on to hear the audio during this exercise

Normalny
Uniwersalny
Legal
www
Google
Google
IKEA
Normal
www
Ideal
Universal
Legalny
Formalny
Idealny
Formal
IKEA

Letter pronunciation

Which Polish letter or letters gives us a soft 'v' sound?

Select the correct answer from the following:

Have a look at this text on the side of a box of tea and then see the question below.

Polish box of tea

Thinking out a word from it's context

In the image above the text is 'BOGATY NATURALNY SMAK' .We already know that 'naturalny' means 'natural'. 'Bogaty' means 'rich' but can you take a guess at what 'smak' means. A clue is to think about what you do with your lips when you are thinking about good food!

Select the correct answer from the following: