American Polish lessons

It’s amazing that an American girl gives Polish language lessons. She’s good. Her lessons are well structured and her explanations are clear. And she seems to be saying everything from the top of her head! Impressive! She says that she’s extremely busy but hopefully she will put more recordings on YouTube in the near future. Maybe the quality of the video is quite rough but I actually find it rather cuteJ

Emily's pronunciation is near perfect. It is very difficult to pronounce Polish sounds such as ‘ś’ and ‘ć’. Therefore I always show my students where they have to put their tongues to say it correctly. It really helps but it still takes time to get used to the ‘weird’ tongue positions. You have no choice but to listen and practise endlessly. And don’t worry if you feel it is still not right. I’ve been an English language user for over three years now and I'm reconciled to the idea that it will take years and years, if not forever, to sound like a native speaker.

My lovely drawings present tongue positions while pronouncing ‘sz’, ‘ś’, ‘cz’ and ‘ć’. Remember that your tongue must be close to the middle of the palate when you pronounce letters with the [‘ ] sign above. They are supposed to be soft and it will soften them! Try!

Hope that was of some use.