I know the apps (babbel, duolingo), but was wondering if there are any good graphic novels, kids books, or other good reads online that I could go through.
Also: there is just sooooo much great Polish cinema. I have a lot of classic movies, but for some the subtitles are pretty rough or just cut-out part-way through the movie. Any links to movies with good subs (in English) would be appreciated!
Dziękuję!
I've also really struggled on finding reading material with simple language that is still somewhat interesting. You can use chomikuj.pl to find tons of graphic novels and ebooks in Polish (it's a weird file-sharing website where you have to pay to download files. sounds sketchy and weird paying money for pirated content but it's popular in Poland and has the most content I've found. Although if you know any good Polish torrent sites lmk.) Edit: Oh and the anarchist library also has a decent collection, so you can find short articles that have been translated into Polish and then read them in English.
I'm still behind on Polish cinema, but I'd recommend Boże Ciało which you can probably find online. You can also watch Tylko Nie Mów Nikomu on YT although it's about catholic priests and pedophilia in Poland so it's a hard watch.
Powodzenia comrade. Polski jest naprawdę dużo pracy, więc uczmy się razem!
these resources (and in your other comment too) are so great!! Dziękuję bardzo for sharing, I really appreciate it! I'm desperate to get past the ordering food stage and start being able to build my own sentences.
Nie ma problemu! Yea building my own sentences was intimidating at first because of all the grammatical cases. I don't know how you feel about studying grammar during language learning. But for me, learning some grammar was really helpful because I had a hard time trying to pick it up naturally. Check out the YT channel Polish With Ania. It was super helpful for me.
Sounds like we had/are having a similar experience. I think I need to just bite the bullet and start memorizing cases to get off the ground. I've been working at it for over a year now, trying to pick it up naturally and have gotten quite a lot of vocab stored away at this point, but damn if i can't say more than the example sentences in apps/tutorials and "survival" polish like gdzie jest dworzec? and poproszę cappuccino z mlekiem sojowym haha
It's been a while since I checked for resources on youtube, I will def check out polish with ania!
Yea, I know exactly what you mean. Not being able to combine simple sentences after studying for a long time because the fucking word endings change constantly is super frustrating.
I'm trying the mass immersion approach now (linked in the how to learn a language thread). They really destress the importance of speaking and language output. If you take in a lot of comprehensible input, combined with some grammar lessons every now and then, I think the speaking and sentence formation will come over time.