teach polish

Free App and Dozens of Online Polish Games

Internet Polyglot offers fun and free games for learning basic Polish vocabulary online. They also offer free Polish apps for Android and iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch).

There are currently over forty lessons available in tutorial, guessing, typing, matching and mix formats. These Polish educational games are similar to learning with flashcards, with the added benefit of audio for pronunciation along with the fun of being able to mix and match the game experience.

Current Events & Culture Reading Material in many Languages

Global Voices is a worldwide community with independent news in many languages, all available for free. This community was started in order to open people's doors and expand horizons through access to multilingual news from international volunteers and part-time editors from countries all over the globe.

Each language represented has volunteer translators as part of Global Voice's Lingua project. This means that a given article in a given language may be translated into many other languages, providing both the original source language and the translations for language learners to work with in their studies.

Learn Basic to Advanced Vocabulary & Travel Phrases in Nine Languages for Free

Language Course, S.L. has developed and released a free online tool for learning and practicing basic vocabulary in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. The tool includes audio for pronunciation practice, and plays like a game.

The material covered includes vocabulary for the following levels (by European standard): Beginner A1, Elementary A2, Lower Intermediate B1, Upper Intermediate B2 and Advanced C1.

Outstanding Language Resource Localized in 20 Languages

Bab.la offers free dictionaries, vocabulary sets, flash cards, quizzes, games, conjugation tables, phrases, travel survival guides, a forum and, yes, even more.

The website is localized in Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto (!), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish and Turkish. Wow!

What does "localized" mean?

Polish Language Facts, Key Phrases, Alphabet and Cartoon Mini-Soap

BBC Languages Polish offers the key ingredients to get started learning Polish. Covering the basics, this free service from the BBC takes you through general facts about Polish, key phrases, the Polish alphabet and offers a mini-soap opera cartoon for fun and additional practice.

Additionally, this resource provides easy links to Polish radio, an English-Polish dictionary and the archives of BBC Polish, a discontinued service containing past programs and reports.

If you're interested in learning the key phrases for traveling in Poland, have a look at the Free Polish Phrasebook and Polish Essential Travel Phrases.

A Hidden Gem for Language Lovers and Learners

This article presents a unique approach for intermediate to advanced (and beyond) learners of many languages to gain exposure to interesting material in their target language(s). It has to do with a very popular website that features short (usually less than ten minutes) presentations by some of the world's greatest and most famous minds (not always both ;) on their specific areas of expertise. It's called, simply, TED, and the presentations are called "TED Talks".

Language Learning Tips on Using Free Wikimedia Resources

This article points out six useful ways to use Wikimedia content from Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikinews, Wiktionary and Wikiquotes for learning languages free.

What's highlighted here is also great for teachers because it is licensed via Creative Commons and available to use for free.

Spanish is used as an example here, but the same ideas are applicable to all languages for which content is available.

1) Know General Info about Your Target Language

Watch, Listen and Learn the Polish Alphabet

A free video series for learning the Polish alphabet has been created by the good folks at SolarNet and distributed via YouTube.

This series is an excellent introduction to the Polish writing and pronunciation systems. It's also a chance to learn some vocabulary. Words used to demostrate the sounds of Polish have translations on the upper right of the videos.

This resource is great for learners and teachers.

SolarNet.tv has created additional instructional language videos for Polish and other languages including Turkish, Russian and German.

Free Multilingual Dictionary and Word-Related Apps

TheFreeDictionary.com is a great free dictionary available in over a dozen languages.

The English dictionaries are exceptionally broad-reaching and include Financial and Legal dictionaries.

Also of use to the language learner are their website features, including drag-and-drop rearranging of the interface and double-clicking of any word on the site to see its definition. Word of the day, news, quotations, horoscopes, daily articles and history tidbits provide a flow of updated content to work with.

Also available are word games and the ability to track a personal vocabulary list.

If you are language mobile, they maintain numerous dictionary and word-related apps.

Daily Front Pages from 89 Countries

Thanks to Newseum.org, you can catch a glimpse of today's front page from hundreds of the world's newspapers - in nearly two dozen languages - for free. A great way to gain exposure to news in a language you are learning, the website and iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app created by Newseum.org are truly outstanding.

Browse the website or use the app to immediately gain access to the front page of hundreds of newspapers around the world, complete with a downloadable, readable PDF version. This is quite useful for language instruction based on lessons from today's world news.

Learn Survival Polish

Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Polish phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Polish is spoken.

Wikitravel phrasebooks are available in many languages and each one varies in depth and detail. Most of the phrasebooks include a pronunciation guide, a general phrase list, information about dates and numbers, a color list, transportation-related phrases, vocabulary for shopping and phrases for eating and drinking. Some are even more in depth, and all are free!

Free Audio Books for 40 Languages

book2 is an outstanding resource for learning the basics of many languages.

This project sticks out by offering around 1600 combinations of languages, such as Japanese to English, Chinese to Arabic, etc, to use for exposure.

The method involves learning a series of short audio sequences to become comfortable in specific situations (introductions, meeting people, getting around, etc) common in daily life.

It's interesting that this specific book will become familiar to you in itself, so recalling the same material in new languages might be accelerated. Once you've memorized the whole audio sequence in one language, why not move on to another?

Google's Free Translation Engine

Google has an amazing machine translation engine which is also available via their mobile translation website and now available as an android app.

Available in over fifty languages, Google Translate is able to handle words, sentences, paragraphs, websites and documents. Their mobile website is fast and easy to use, and the Android App makes it all available natively on your Android Phone.

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Listen to Words in Dozens of Languages

Forvo is an interesting project which accumulates recordings of existing words in all languages. A lofty and, indeed, ongoing goal!

Language learners interested in finding out just how a word is actually pronounced by a native speaker of a given language will love this website!

Have a look at the languages page and you can quickly see which languages have the most words. There is a handy tag cloud on the side of the page which will show you in a visual way which languages have more words already pronounced.

And if you're interested, feel free to contribute to this collective pronunciation effort!