Learning to Read Polish, Lesson 1

In this lesson, you will learn the letters that are pronounced the same as in English. You will learn to read complete Polish words made up of these letters.

A – [a] like in “father”
B – [b] like in “bed”
C – [ts] like in “cats”
D – [d] like in “dog”
E – [ɛ] like in “bed”
F – [f] like in “fish”
G – [g] like in “go”
H – [x] like in Scottish “loch”
I – [i] like in “meet”
K – [k] like in “key”
L – [l] like in “light”
M – [m] like in “mom”
N – [n] like in “no”
O – [ɔ] like in “more”
P – [p] like in “pen”
R – [r] rolled/trilled r
S – [s] like in “sun”
T – [t] like in “top”
U – [u] like in “boot”
W – [v] like in “very”

pole, dom, mama, tata, sen, pan, woda, mapa, rano, film, brat, kot, pies, nos, rok, las, dom, stol, noga, usta

mak, sok, ser, dwa, tam, ten, ona, oni, most, park, port, list, stan, kran, mur, wiek, kawa, lato, mewa, rosa

koc, cena, noc, owoc, plac, cebula