Czy czytasz polskie strony internetowe? / Do you read Polish websites?

Cześć!

Zastanawiam się, czy studenci języka polskiego czytają internet po polsku. Jeżeli tak, jakie strony? Czy masz swój ulubiony polski portal?

I wonder if students of Polish read the Polish Internet. If they do what websites? Do you have your own favorite Polish website?

Jaki jest twój ulubiony przypadek? / What is your favorite Polish case?

Czy macie swój ulubiony przypadek? Ja najbardziej lubię dopełniacz, bo ma bardzo dużo funkcji i fajne końcówki. A jaki przypadek Wy najbardziej lubicie? Oto 7 polskich przypadków:

Mianownik

Dopełniacz

Celownik

Biernik

Narzędnik

Miejscownik

Wołacz

Do you have your one favorite Polish case? My personal favorite is Dopełniacz (Genetive), because it has so many functions and some cool endings. And you? What's your favorite one? Here's the list of all 7 Polish cases:

Mianownik (Nominative)

Dopełniacz (Genetive)

Celownik (Dative)

Biernik (Accustive)

Narzędnik (Instrumental)

Miejscownik (Locative)

Wołacz (Vocative)

About me Thank you in advance for helping me to fix my bio on my Italki profile :-) Hello! My name is Łukasz (yep, with this strange Polish letter in the beginning!). In 2012 I did with the highest marks the postgraduate studies ‘Teaching Polish as Foreign Language’ of Faculty of Polish Studies in University of Warsaw and since then I spent fours years teaching individually a lot of great people from all over the world. On my everyday life I work as an editor in popular-science magazine. After hours I work with foreigners teaching them my language and the culture of my country. I also train my students how to survive in my home city – beautiful Warsaw. Among my past and current students are four Romanians (including one cheerful 11-year-old boy), German, Brazilian, Latvian, Japanese, Greek, Hungarian, Swiss, Indian, Canadian, French and Italian. I became very interested in working with foreigners. I am fascinated by linguistics in general. The structure of the language, grammar and etymology were always my points of interests. Knowing how does my own language work I feel like being able to explain it easily to the others. I also understand how important is to treat each student individually. That is why I prepare a lot of exercises dedicated to my students’ needs. I love meeting people. I’m always curious about their culture and customs. All I heard from my students about their countries I exchange for a knowledge about Poland. My interest in linguistics leads me to learning new languages. Actually I’m a language geek! Besides English and Latin I have been learning French and Spanish for years. In middle school I learnt German but I have never gone on with it. I even learnt Turkish for few months. This language really fascinates me – it’s regularity is almost unreal. I graduated from University of Warsaw with a Master of International Relations in 2005. I defended my thesis on ‘Argentine Republic role in international relations from 1981 to 2001’. In my free time I like to play tennis and sweating in a CrossFit box.

„Artificial" words

I wonder if in any of your languages appear words that are created by ordinary people and became popular. 

I have an interesting example from Polish language and it's a word PODOMKA.

This word means 'a housecoat' and was created right after WW2. Untill then Polish people used to use a word SZLAFROK which had been borrowed from German word 'der Schlafrock'. Well, It wasn't very popular to use German words after WW2, so one of the most popular Polish weekly magazines 'Przekrój' organized a contest for its readers. The task was to invent a new word for szlafrok. Podomka won and somehow the word settled in the language for longer. 

BTW: Podomka comes from the expression 'po domu' – at home and it gives a pretty cosy associations for Polish speakers. 

How about your language?

Polish twister tongues

Cześć, jakie są Wasze ulubione polskie łamańce językowe? What are your favorite (or rather the most challenging!) twister tongues?

Oto moje / Here are some of mine:

We szwy płaszcza się zaszywszy w szyku marsza trzy wszy weszły.

Wyrewolwerowany rewolwerowiec.

To cóż, że ze Szwecji!

Wyindywidualizowaliśmy się z rozentuzjazmowanego tłumu. 

Czy tata czyta cytaty Tacyta?

What is your favorite Polish word?

I wonder if there are any universally known Polish words that you find interesting or just nice... 
Or, if you are learning Polish, what is your favorite Polish word or expression?

I'v just realised that I very like pleasant words starting with 'pod-', f.e.:

poduszka – a pillow

podwieczorek – a light meal that you can have in Poland between a dinner and a supper, similar to the English '5 o'clock'

I just like the sound of these words and their cosy meaning ;)