5 steps to Polish culture

Do you learn Polish or are you going to start? As long as you are not familiar with elements of Polish culture in the original, but if you know English, we have for you some interesting suggestions:

1. Read the book, preferably bilingual, in which the text is on the same page in Polish and in English. Alternatively, you can read Polish books in English.

2. Come to the theater. None of those students interviewed by me was in any theatre in Warsaw. Students think that there is no point going there, since they are beginners, and the play is in Polish. But that's not true! In some Warsaw theaters are contemporary art in Polish with English subtitles displayed over the stage.

3. Listen to Polish music:

a) first listen to the selected song by yourself without looking at the video or text.

b) then listen to the song while watching the video.

c) then listen to, looking at the Polish text (without video).

d) In the end, listen to music, watching on the Polish text and its English translation. If the last step is for you too fast, stop the music. My advice: replace listening to Polish songs in play. Before you switch on the English translation, try to guess what the vocalist sings.

 4. Watch Polish films, tv series, movies, advertising on Youtube with English subtitles. Also some Warsaw cinema have in their programme Polish films with English subtitles.

5. For people who are already a little familiar with Polish: listen to audio books (short stories, poems). A great idea is a combination of listening to the audiobook in Polish while looking at a Polish text.