Clear before clever
Plain-English explanations and examples come before terminology, so every new rule has a reason.
The story behind Speak Polski
A Polish course built for curious adults
One structured place to understand why Polish works the way it does, practise it actively, and keep moving—from your first sound to confident intermediate grammar.
Why it exists
Structure without a paywall
Speak Polski started from a simple frustration: learning Polish as an adult is genuinely hard, and most free material online is either a scattered list of words with no structure or a slick app that locks the useful half behind a paywall after a week. I wanted one place where a complete beginner could open lesson one, understand why Polish works the way it does, and keep going all the way to a confident intermediate level—without paying, without making an account, and without hitting a wall.
That is what this site is: a path of twenty-eight lessons from absolute zero through upper-intermediate grammar, built and maintained independently by Deniz Eren from the perspective of an adult learner. The explanations focus on the places learners actually get stuck rather than on grammar for its own sake. An optional account can sync progress and join public game leaderboards, but no account is required for any lesson, game or tool.
Practice you control
Active drills save missed words in your personal vocabulary until you mark them as learned.
Honest about limits
No fake promises, hidden premium tier or misleading audio when a Polish voice is unavailable.
Language data
Real Polish forms, not guesses
The word forms on this site are not guessed and not scraped. Every inflection—around 300,000 of them across roughly 10,000 base words—is generated with Morfeusz 2 and the Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego (SGJP), built at the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences by Marcin Woliński, Zygmunt Saloni, Robert Wołosz, Włodzimierz Gruszczyński and Danuta Skowrońska.
Morfeusz 2 and its dictionary are released under the 2-clause BSD licence, which asks that the authorship of both the program and dictionary be preserved. It is serious work and this site would be much worse without it. Learn more at morfeusz.sgjp.pl.
SGJP guarantees that a form is a real Polish form. It does not guarantee that the English translation is right or that a sentence is natural—those are mine, and no native Polish speaker has reviewed them yet. If you are a native speaker and spot something wrong, please tell me.
The learning method
Explain, hear, produce, review
Every lesson follows the same rhythm on purpose: a short, plain-English explanation of one idea, examples you can hear, and then a drill where you produce the form yourself rather than merely recognise it. Anything you get wrong goes into My Vocabulary. It stays there until you mark it as learned, and comes back automatically if you miss it again later.
The Polish itself is written and checked carefully. Audio uses whichever Polish voice your device has; there is no recorded audio here. If no Polish voice is installed, the speaker buttons switch off and explain how to add one. Silence is the honest answer when the browser cannot provide the right voice; a wrong accent is not. The method combines clear input, active practice and learner-controlled review so patterns can stick.
More than lessons
A complete Polish toolbox
Use everything in order, or jump straight to the skill you need today.
PlayTopic-based word games→CheckGrammar placement quiz→ReferenceCases and conjugation tables→SpeakPronunciation practice→UseSituational phrasebook→ReadReading practice→
Alongside these are a verb conjugator and quick-reference guides for everyday vocabulary such as animals, food, weather, time, colours and family.
Why it stays free
No premium tier. No expiring trial.
Speak Polski is free and intended to stay that way. It is supported by readers who choose to leave a small tip, and that is the whole business model. No feature is deliberately crippled to push you toward paying. Keeping it free means more people finish what they start, which was the point from the beginning.
How support works →Help it improve
Language courses are never finished
A one-person project makes mistakes. If you spot an error in a translation, audio example or explanation—or want a topic that does not yet exist—I genuinely want to hear about it. Real learner feedback is what shapes this site and keeps making it better.
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