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  • Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025

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  • @Sewpack
    @Sewpack 2 года назад +2276

    Dobra Polacy wiem, że tu jesteście 👊🇵🇱🙃
    V

  • @klaudiasoliwoda7503
    @klaudiasoliwoda7503 2 года назад +1229

    We appreciate the effort when foreigners try to speak our language even if it's just cześć, cause we know it's hard. You're sweet :D Greetings from Warsaw

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +96

      Thanks so much!

    • @ДжоБайден911
      @ДжоБайден911 2 года назад +57

      włóczykijem waćpan się jawisz

    • @user-jj2on8jy1e
      @user-jj2on8jy1e 2 года назад +8

      @@SarahAchleithner Polish is the source language. unfortunately it was modified by the RCC occupier.
      Włochy in the Polish language comes from the name of the peoples inhabiting these areas at one time.
      you must also remember that nation states were created artificially by the occupiers of these nations about 200 years ago.

    • @user-jj2on8jy1e
      @user-jj2on8jy1e 2 года назад

      @@SarahAchleithner many Poles do not understand and do not know the true history of Poland, because it was distorted by the occupiers. the Polish nation is now very stupid. but its root is indestructible. remember that since the end of WW2, Poland has not been ruled by Poles.

    • @user-jj2on8jy1e
      @user-jj2on8jy1e 2 года назад +6

      @@SarahAchleithner JPII was from Poland, he spoke Polish but was not Polish. hardly anyone knows about it.
      Most popes are Italian. JPII was put on the Pauline throne to confuse the Poles when they tried to get out of the Soviet occupation.

  • @CainAbaddon
    @CainAbaddon 2 года назад +1224

    I moved to Poland from the UK, and I really love it here. I've been here just over a year now, and I don't plan on leaving.

  • @januszlepionko
    @januszlepionko 2 года назад +345

    The meme about “dwa - two” is wrong. The Polish part covers only what in English is “two”. The Polish counterpart for “second” is not included in the meme.

    • @bezirochepolska1295
      @bezirochepolska1295 2 года назад +47

      They actually enught feared. Don't make them yet more. 😂

    • @feandil1713
      @feandil1713 2 года назад +87

      Good point! Moreover, two (haha) are missing: "dwu", "dwóm". And you can also create a diminutive, like "dwójeczka". Dwójeczce, dwójeczki, dwójeczkę, dwójeczką, dwójeczko. Once I've mentioned the diminutive, I cannot omit the augmentative. Dwója, dwói, dwóję, dwóją, dwójo. That would make a list of 30 words for just one english "two". So, in the meme you have barely more than a half of the possible examples.

    • @ja-nozeveryman5865
      @ja-nozeveryman5865 2 года назад +6

      Yes.

    • @mrau83
      @mrau83 2 года назад +15

      @@feandil1713 I never could have comprehended why the eskimos have over 20 different names for snow. Now after all those years I finally get it thanks to the meme about our "dwa".

    • @mateuszwasielewski3404
      @mateuszwasielewski3404 2 года назад +9

      Hey Hey Hey. It's not that bad... There's missing "both" on English side

  • @Kimir_a-a
    @Kimir_a-a 2 года назад +64

    Poland: has 17 words to describe number 2
    Also Poland: doesn't has its own word for "weekend"

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +6

      hahahaha I feel this!

    • @zofiazajdel
      @zofiazajdel Год назад

      God, for a second I thought we actually have one and the idea was MINDBLOWING 😂 like WHAT IS THE WORD, why don't I know it?! But then, luckily I've realized there was "not" in the sentence. Almost died here by mistake 😂😂

    • @freeminds9980
      @freeminds9980 Год назад +3

      yes it is in polish weekend but is easier to say in English
      Polish - koniec tygodnia , świętówka or sobota i niedziela

    • @zofiazajdel
      @zofiazajdel Год назад +1

      @@freeminds9980 świętówka! ❤️❤️❤️

    • @gism87
      @gism87 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@freeminds9980 "świętówka" jako weekend? Pierwsze słyszę :P

  • @zuzolekw164
    @zuzolekw164 2 года назад +427

    I'm Polish
    Pozdrawiam wszystkich Polaków!!!

  • @ania7667
    @ania7667 2 года назад +333

    When it comes to pierogis, in Poland we have the opposite situation with the word chips. One we call "chips" and two or many we call "chipsy" 😊

    • @11kimczi
      @11kimczi 2 года назад +33

      also with crackers , crackersy

    • @pawelzielinski1398
      @pawelzielinski1398 2 года назад +29

      @@11kimczi also drops - dropsy

    • @ania7667
      @ania7667 2 года назад +4

      @@11kimczi hahaha yes

    • @dr.shuppet5452
      @dr.shuppet5452 2 года назад +15

      Here in Czechia it's the same.

    • @olawitko72
      @olawitko72 2 года назад +14

      Ty nawet nie zauważyłam XD

  • @lenka.luciferian
    @lenka.luciferian 2 года назад +89

    this is so incredible, even tho i'm not polish, i'm from slovakia but i slavs always appreciate when foreigners are learning slavic languages. i personally wouldn't want to be in that position of learning a slavic language without being slavic, so huge hats off to you for learning polish, it's difficult i know, keep going❤

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +6

      Ahhh thank you! 🙏

    • @szymonbaranowski8184
      @szymonbaranowski8184 Год назад +3

      All Slovaks should get polish passports by default and for free. No foreigners for us. And ofc no Pole
      should get voting rights in Slovakia, actually every polish region should have only voting rights in it
      and only then be governed by representatives of the regions together, unified big country is a place of
      strangers
      city-states were a much better idea
      and slavic way of confederations of tribes
      while keeping organic variety of tribal traditions in each
      mixing everyone in one unified mass was crippling
      so much, loosing regional identity is like being homeless in a big big building not seeing any walls
      or roof,
      if everyone is brother than nobody is brother
      and anybody can pretend to be brother to exploit you

  • @michaldlugosz1965
    @michaldlugosz1965 2 года назад +23

    "Poland: exist"
    It is actually pretty interesting, because IT WAS good goal. Poland was first attacked by Germany and then Russia, we were occupied and slaughtered during most of the war, but besides that, Poland had whole underground govarnement and army, we call it "państwo podziemne", which means underground country. There was also polish governament in Great Britian and polish soldiers had big impact on WWII: we were fighting in Italy (or Włochy ;) ) and captured Monte Cassino, in the battle of England polish pilots had biggest scores, our panzer divisions were smashing Germans after Normandy, polish commandos "cichociemni", partisans etc. etc. etc. So yeah, we were not on the map, but we EXISTED and Germans were very unhappy about it. Sadly, after the war, we have not been thanked, but sold to the soviets :|

  • @notorak3
    @notorak3 2 года назад +106

    I'm from Poland, im very proud of my country, and all the memes we created. We already made so many people laugh... Poland without memes would be a dead country.

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +10

      😅😅😅

    • @cbabaint
      @cbabaint 2 года назад +1

      wouldnt be the first time

    • @weird_kido728
      @weird_kido728 2 года назад +2

      Też jestem z polski😋🇵🇱

    • @TaMara-jd6xm
      @TaMara-jd6xm 2 года назад

      @@cbabaint Poland will be always the last Eu bastion of normality, wouldnt be the 1st time kido. We love WHITE chocolate.

    • @penguinsfan251
      @penguinsfan251 2 года назад +2

      Poland is awesome.

  • @WerterPC
    @WerterPC 2 года назад +32

    Italy🇮🇹: Okay, it's hard for us, but we accept that there are people in the world who like pizza with pineapple.
    Poland a day later🇵🇱: Hi Italy. Do you want to try pasta with strawberries?

    • @Wojtek1250XD
      @Wojtek1250XD 2 года назад +1

      Ktoś je makaron z truskawkami? Jezu, toć to jest grzech przeciwko ludzkości

    • @Wepolin
      @Wepolin Год назад +6

      W stołówce szkolnej kiedyś podawali, pamiętam jedno z nielicznych smacznych dań.

    • @KrzysztofTomecki
      @KrzysztofTomecki 6 месяцев назад

      No.
      Taglialle au funghi.
      Delicious🙏😋❤️
      Molto grazie🙌

    • @walterweiss7124
      @walterweiss7124 Месяц назад

      what's wrong avout Pizza Hawaii ?

    • @grash4435
      @grash4435 20 дней назад

      ​@@Wojtek1250XDnie to lo ludzkość jest przeciw makaronowi z truskawkami

  • @akyzowy
    @akyzowy 2 года назад +60

    Polska jest wśród nielicznych nacji której udało sie zachować swój język i kulturę przez setki lat ...i potrafimy sié uśmiechnąć z żartów o Nas ..mamy dystans ale też wielką historię ..balans robi robote pozdro dobre video

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +7

      Dziękuję!

    • @ameliakasia
      @ameliakasia Год назад +1

      Zachować język? Wątpię

    • @AlabamaAndrew
      @AlabamaAndrew Год назад

      Mogliśmy jednak poddać się Niemcom, bo jedyne co dziś mamy, to bieda, bezrobocie i wybory na niby

  • @MichaLipek
    @MichaLipek 2 года назад +27

    Regarding the meme about word two and second in Polish language - all those Polish words are just variants of the word "two". This meme skipped all versions of the word "second". So, there is more. ;)

  • @benwars9524
    @benwars9524 2 года назад +97

    Historically, Poland has never been an easy piece of cake. ;) In 1573, the French prince Henri Valois was elected King of Poland by the nobility. He arrived, looked around and promptly escaped back to France. :) Upon his death in 1733, the Saxon-Polish King Augustus II said that accepting the Polish throne was his biggest mistake. :) In 1807, Napoleon said that he couldn't possibly understand how people could call "fatherland" a country with a climate as horrible as Poland's. :) In 1945, Stalin declared that to impose communism on the Poles was like saddling a cow. 😉

    • @paulinarapicka
      @paulinarapicka 2 года назад +21

      Escaped and TOOK our best falconers and the birds...

    • @53Megan
      @53Megan 2 года назад +9

      Liberum veto 🤣

    • @walterweiss7124
      @walterweiss7124 Месяц назад +1

      @@paulinarapicka after all there was sth he liked about PL :)

  • @paulinarapicka
    @paulinarapicka 2 года назад +162

    8:25 that brings to my mind- there is a movie "Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową" and the main character is forced by SS officer to tell him his name. He makes it as hard as he can and tells the officer: Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewić (his real name is Franek Dolas). And the answer to the question of where is he from is- Szczebrzeszyn. Pretty hilarious, the reaction of that german officer :DDD

    • @januszlepionko
      @januszlepionko 2 года назад +80

      It was „Chrząszczyżewoszyce, powiat Łękołody”, not „Szczebrzeszyn”!

    • @paulinarapicka
      @paulinarapicka 2 года назад +16

      @@januszlepionko uuups, my bad, it totally was, how could I forget... Thanks for reminding me!

    • @Ysckemia
      @Ysckemia 2 года назад +10

      i'm curious, what's the value of the letters "W", "Y" and "Z" in the polish scrabble? in france they worth 10 points each because they're so hard to use 😂

    • @paulinarapicka
      @paulinarapicka 2 года назад +11

      @@Ysckemia According to Wikipedia:
      1pkt W x4
      1pkt Z x5
      2pkt Y x4
      Polish Scrabble have 100 plates

    • @Ysckemia
      @Ysckemia 2 года назад +5

      ​@@paulinarapicka this is like the exact opposite from french version, so funny! 🤣 thank you 😄

  • @nicku1
    @nicku1 2 года назад +39

    Nice to have you here, we don't mind another cute girl in Poland! As far as "babcias" replacing surveillance cameras are concerned - funny thing, literally few minutes ago I saw a content on youtube in which a (Polish) forester told a story about a man who got lost in a forest where he went to pick mushrooms (our national sport btw). Nobody knew, where he went and he was basically saved by a disabled babcia, who spent her time in front of her house and was able to indicate to the search team, where he went :)

  • @bruh-yy7of
    @bruh-yy7of 2 года назад +11

    You just created Polish people spawner

  • @20110A
    @20110A 2 года назад +162

    Babcia sees everything 🤣

    • @swetoniuszkorda5737
      @swetoniuszkorda5737 2 года назад +4

      So called "osiadacz", here: feminine gender.

    • @HatsuneSakuraMiku
      @HatsuneSakuraMiku 2 года назад +3

      czasami nie więc no

    • @Rajd_is
      @Rajd_is 2 года назад +2

      Yes, and if babcia sees that police is to get information from her neighbours, they will get most info rom her xd

    • @klarateresa4937
      @klarateresa4937 2 года назад +9

      We sometimes call them osiedlowy monitoring

    • @EdytaSalek
      @EdytaSalek 2 года назад

      EVERYTHING😌

  • @paxdex8722
    @paxdex8722 2 года назад +43

    I hope you like Poland, because your attitude and personality are awesome. I wish you luck! Your videos make me proud of my country.

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +19

      Yes, we love Poland! Such a wonderful country in so many ways!

    • @doiz3849
      @doiz3849 2 года назад +1

      Why Sarah answer WE on that qestion?? Multiple personality?

  • @aruraru6644
    @aruraru6644 2 года назад +19

    4:20 By the way, we have in the Polish language the word "eskimos" which means "eskimo", so we had to create the word "eskimosi" to have a plural form.

    • @sylwiatime
      @sylwiatime 2 года назад +3

      And "dżinsy" which means a pair of jeans.

    • @ewasz5701
      @ewasz5701 Год назад

      Już się nie mówi eskimos. Poprawnie: Innuita

    • @ak5659
      @ak5659 10 месяцев назад

      It could've been worse. It could've been Eskimosowie.

  • @Blane...
    @Blane... 2 года назад +21

    5:03 It's funny that the meme only shows the different versions of the word "Two" ... the word "Second" would have similar amount of versions

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +12

      there would be no room on the screen for all of the variations 🤣

    • @tuurma
      @tuurma 7 месяцев назад

      Actually, second would have more due to grammatical gender ( three in singular, and two in plural). Cardinal numbers don't have that.

  • @Galacik
    @Galacik 2 года назад +54

    I love how you pronounce the words in polish. And it's jeden pieróg

  • @kuchci
    @kuchci 2 года назад +13

    As Polish I am proud of my country.

    • @walsjell
      @walsjell 2 года назад

      z czegos dumna? z pustych hasel i filmikow ktore lechca ci ego a s arobione dla naiwnych by robili wyswietlenia? polska to skansen i zaplecze niemieckiej gospodarki i smietnik!

  • @maksymilie4857
    @maksymilie4857 2 года назад +5

    Funfuct. Did you know that Poles have a very developed speech apparatus, thanks to which they are able to pronounce most sounds.

    • @ak5659
      @ak5659 10 месяцев назад

      There's a channel here by an Asian guy who grew up in Poland. In one vid he mentions that Hindi (Sanskrit?) is not a challenge for Poles.
      But to your point, most languages have unwritten rules about which sounds can't go together. Like in English a word can't begin with 'tl'. I don't think that concept even exists in Polish, lol. Also many language tend not to have one phoneme at the very front of your mouth and then next phoneme is at the very back. But Polish seems to do this all the time.

  • @bubblebsp5721
    @bubblebsp5721 2 года назад +13

    whenever I see my country somewhere, I feel proud

  • @MiraculousTheHamster
    @MiraculousTheHamster Год назад +11

    I like that you respect Poland ❤

  • @diavolonelcorpo
    @diavolonelcorpo 2 года назад +7

    All those CCTV gannies in the windows, we call them "air-cushion vehicles" or "hovercrafts" - "poduszkowiec" in Polish, 'cause they usually rest on the cushions in the window, surveilling the neighbourhood.

  • @Jacob90
    @Jacob90 2 года назад +7

    The longest word in Poland is Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +1

      😭😭😭😭

    • @khatagi3090
      @khatagi3090 Год назад +1

      Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczkami 😉

    • @piotrsikorski4617
      @piotrsikorski4617 16 дней назад

      Rozrewolwerowany rewolwerowiec 😎 even my polish family have problem with this words

  • @snooty9349
    @snooty9349 2 года назад +6

    unless you plan on working in a profession where your polish is required to be well-developed, you don't even need most of the stuff the language involves
    it's difficult to learn, yes, but it's also very intuitive
    in everyday life, you can literally use the basic forms of words only, and most of us will still get what you mean with ease
    it's also often "multifunctional" when it comes to word order
    in everyday speech, you can have them switch in a sentence in many various combinations and it will still mean the same:
    "dalem ci wczoraj notatki"
    "dalem ci notatki wczoraj"
    "notatki ci dalem wczoraj"
    "notatki ci wczoraj dalem"
    "notatki wczoraj ci dalem"
    "wczoraj dalem ci notatki"
    "wczoraj ci dalem notatki"
    "wczoraj ci notatki dalem"
    these sentences all make perfect sense

  • @datamek
    @datamek Год назад +1

    1.Nie ma za co- Its usually answer to " thank You"- It means "there is nothing ( to thank) for"
    2. mamy Tak- " we have it that way" Word TAK its not only " Yes" but also " That way "
    3. Jako tako- Its more like "How-ish That way-ish"
    4 This one is just not making sense.
    5 See above
    6 A steak in sauce tasting just right... Steak without sauce not so much....So being not dipped in sauce means that you feel not right.

  • @Paulina-bj1pi
    @Paulina-bj1pi 2 года назад +27

    Nice video! Also - you pronounce polish words very well ^-^ Have a nice day :D

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +5

      Thank you! 😃 I'm trying, but still have a ways to go haha

    • @alberiarelax
      @alberiarelax Год назад +1

      Pewnie, szczegolnie imię Wojciech :)

  • @michamichalski3417
    @michamichalski3417 2 года назад +25

    I've suggest you to watch a great polish comedy "Jak rozpętałem Drugą Wojnę Światową" - "How i've started Second WW". You will see many funny adventures with main character Franek Dolas (our Jack Sparrow representative). This is story about survaving when nobody understand what main hero is saing but this not a problem for Franek. I think that film is a one big compilation of mems about Polish nation at II WW and far so. Definitly must see! I'm interested your reaction when you heard and try repeat name of Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz Have fun ;)

    • @sylwiatime
      @sylwiatime 2 года назад +2

      That's a great suggestion!

  • @forgorn3608
    @forgorn3608 2 года назад +15

    I am from Poland and I think all this memes is funny. If you think that too you can laught, this is not offensive.

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +1

      I agree! Memes are not meant to be taken too seriously 😅

  • @pawelzielinski1398
    @pawelzielinski1398 2 года назад +8

    I don't think that WW2 can be a laughing matter. Maybe it is to you, but hardly to anyone in Poland. Please, remember that Poland lost 6 mln of its citizens during WW2 as a consequence of that war. Approximately half of them were Jewish, the other half Christians (some small percentage also of other faiths and non-believers). There was almost no family who hasn't suffer loss of a loved one during WW2. It was indeed a battle of survival and of existence. I think this is why we do understand the struggle of Ukraine now so well. We have been through that 80 years ago.

    • @craftah
      @craftah 2 года назад +1

      what about Poles killing Jews and Ukrainians

    • @mil3k
      @mil3k 2 года назад

      Wtf... You must be sensitive "gimbus" rised under glass dome if you never heard any WW2 joke. I don't believe you never heard any Auschwitz.

    • @pawelzielinski1398
      @pawelzielinski1398 2 года назад

      @@craftah would you mind elaborating?

    • @craftah
      @craftah 2 года назад

      @@pawelzielinski1398 you have propaganda in Poland that says Poles didn't do anything bad

    • @pawelzielinski1398
      @pawelzielinski1398 2 года назад

      @@craftah please, don't make me responsible for what some nutjobs say in Polish tv a.k.a. TVPiS.
      FOXNews also tells you that Americans are the best in the world and they never ever committed any violence against others, or if they did that was for a good reason.
      So, to clarify my position:
      Poles are not worse or not better than any other nation. And yes, absolutely, some Poles were responsible for murdering Jews during WW2, however on a significantly smaller scale than Germans i.e. thousands vs. millions.
      Pretty much in any nation you would find nationalist scumbags, who would find any opportunity to cleanse their nation from "impure immigrants" or whoever else they perceive as an existential threat.
      That was also the case of Polish-Ukrainian
      conflict 1941-47, when UPA decided to do ethnic cleansing in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia and remove every Pole from those areas. Poles fought back and their victims were not always members of UPA but also some Ukrainian civilians. Altogether there were more Poles murdered by Ukrainian nationalists than Ukrainians murdered by Polish resistance and nationalists.
      That is a very sad chapter in history for sure.
      Of course all minorities living in pre-war Poland were treated as second class citizens to say the least, but that has to be taken within historic framework. Jews and black people were not exactly treated as equal in the US back then either.

  • @MrWrgh
    @MrWrgh 2 года назад +4

    Problem of to be or not to be doesn't exist really , if you try to erase a nation having 1000 years of history by removing it from map, it's simply stupid ... If you know history of Poland you know that it's opposite , our oppressors needed 100 years to learn Poland can't be conquered , no matter of military power you have... Russia and Germany are bad students , never learned it , but we are always ready to help them understand ....

  • @KingaKucyk
    @KingaKucyk 2 года назад +1

    Heeey, I love it, really enjoyed it. Some memes I've seen 4 the 1st time, I guess it's time to do my meme homework and learn more LOL

  • @CO84trucker
    @CO84trucker 2 года назад +11

    A Polish immigrant when to renew his driver's license which included a vision exam. The optician showed a card with the letters:
    C Z W I X N O S T A C Z
    "Can you read this"
    "Read it" the Polish guy replied, "I know the guy"!

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +2

      hahahahha this is great!!!

    • @dziewieciogoniasty8050
      @dziewieciogoniasty8050 2 года назад +2

      Funny, but we don't have "X" in alphabet :D

    • @Wojtek1250XD
      @Wojtek1250XD 2 года назад

      @@dziewieciogoniasty8050 Nie do końca, po prostu nie używamy ich w słowach ojczystych, tylko jeśli coś podkradamy z innego języka, ma x, które nie wygląda lepiej jako ks

    • @TomTom-pp6uj
      @TomTom-pp6uj 2 года назад

      that is not a polish word, but string of letters to test if u see correctly random letters.(from biggest to very small one) At first line is the biggest

    • @TomTom-pp6uj
      @TomTom-pp6uj 2 года назад

      @@dziewieciogoniasty8050 yes, we have W X Y Z Ź Ż

  • @karolczapko4790
    @karolczapko4790 2 года назад +1

    in the face of being opressed by many nations (even Osman Empire), Polish people had also many moments of glory throughout its History. For example two battles, where Polish people defended Western Europe from Eastern invasions. First, Battle of Vienna in 1683. Army led by King John III Sobieski crushed over 7 times larger Osman army. Second, equally important, Battle of Warsaw during Polish-Soviet war in 1920. Forces led by Józef Piłsudski defeated the Red Army led by Mikhail Tukhachewsky. weight of this defeat totally crippled the Red Army and stopped it from moving forward. If I messed something in grammar, then please forgive me.
    And, as all Polish, I appreciate that you are trying to speak anything in our language, because we realise how hard it is to learn it.

  • @Jump3RPictur3s
    @Jump3RPictur3s Год назад +3

    Hi Sarah, 4 things from me:
    1) This is my first time watching any of your videos (literally stumbled on you by accident on home page) and you are a delight to watch, so best of luck on your adventures with Poland and Polish language in the future. Haven't laughed so hard at random memes in months, so thanks :)
    2) Most memes of Poland are Polish-made, so don't feel sorry for laughing at even the seemingly cruelest of jokes - we already made them to laugh at, dark or not.
    3) I want to point out that the difference in many places and things having their names weird in Polish and in some other European (and sometimes outside-Europe) countries variations, like with Italy, is the origin of the language and the words themselves - if, for example, the word is derived from Latin in a Latin-derived language of a Latin-descended country, of course it's gonna be similar to other such places (most of south & western EU). We share some similarities with words with number of our neighbours (most of which has at one point been part of our Kingdom when the words were formed or adapted and that's why, but who looks back 300 years for minor details like that anymore)
    4) About the "two" in English vs Polish: English language is in majority contextual. It means same words can have different meaning depending on the context, and it doesn't just mean individual nouns or adjectives - it means the entire phrases depend on that additional context to have expected reception.
    Polish, however, is case-specific, meaning we have specific variations of the same word to use for particular case of usage to be independent from the outside context and to instead give the context with that specific word kind of by default. For example "There're two" on its own in English is abundantly vague, gives you no clues and can mean so many things, but in Polish "Są dwa/Są dwie/Są dwójką/Są dwoma" etc. specifies in the wording already if the context is e.g. male, female or neutral in nature (because we have language gender-specific words as well, gender-specific variations of numbers to associate them with the words can easier clarify what you talk about, especially in complex subjects and situations) without the need of adding extra context or risking being misunderstood out of context by accident.
    Pardon my word salad, but you seem like a type of person that wants to learn cool stuff. "Cool" being sort of subjective, yes, but I find linguistics fascinating.
    Off to watch some more of your videos now :)

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  Год назад +1

      Thanks for stopping by! And loved your "word salad"--very interesting tidbits!

  • @jellybomb7394
    @jellybomb7394 2 года назад +1

    2:40 You're right, Being gone from the map for 123 years straight-

  • @gregman6687
    @gregman6687 2 года назад +19

    Not only the word two ( „dwa” in Polish - pronounce „dva”) has its versions. Actually almost all nouns adjectives verbs numbers and numerals have their versions because they inflect. That goes for other Slavic languages

    • @sylwiatime
      @sylwiatime 2 года назад +1

      Yes, but "dwa" has many more versions than others.

    • @Amulinka
      @Amulinka Год назад

      @@sylwiatime exactly, as there are also different forms for numerals in the basic form (denominator).

  • @X-tR3j
    @X-tR3j 2 года назад +2

    Ive proud you share lyrics on this video. Your saying is so faster sometimes, i can't understand your words. But video have quality. Good job! :D

  • @gancarzpl
    @gancarzpl 2 года назад +4

    Why do Poles call Italy WŁOCHY? (English subtitles) ruclips.net/video/hgov-FdPdeU/видео.html

  • @madrianzorroonio85
    @madrianzorroonio85 Год назад +1

    1:38 - Literally it's means "Hairs". :)

  • @borovik8714
    @borovik8714 2 года назад +6

    You are very nice person, I hope you'll do good in Poland, good luck with your RUclips channel ;-)

  • @sayamizuno8920
    @sayamizuno8920 2 года назад +1

    4:56
    You can eat one pieróg actually in some parts of Poland. But like normally we cut circle in the dough by glass for regular pierogi size, for this one circle is size of plate. But I saw it in only two restaurants for my whole life available.

  • @zbyszanna
    @zbyszanna 2 года назад +3

    The last meme doesn't make much sense because Poland is not running away from anyone. To the contrary, we have a long history of taking head on enemies that we had no chance of defeating and most historical events that we celebrate are related to failed insurections.

    • @michamichalski3417
      @michamichalski3417 2 года назад

      Yeah but Jack Sparrow has funny but a clever personality. Did you know that we have polish film with hero who is very similiar with Jack Sparrow? Ofcourse in his diffirent way ;) I recommand to watch a war comedy "Jak rozpętałem Drugą Wojnę Światową" ("How I've started Second WW - word of today mem example :D). In that film you can see in funny way of adventures of polish soldier who is a real troblemaker even for his teammates but in very positive and funny way. You must watch it :)
      Our history have many different histories. Don't forget that we have many talented generals, kings, soldiers, presidents, politics with great minds in lead at the battlegrounds or making politic but don't forget of many normal simple people who must live below occupation to and making hard decizions about survaving. It means running, hiding himselfs or hiding someones under threat of death or just avoiding problems or sacrifise herself for good of his family. Survive at war or between under occupation was very hard and warth of remind. That is spirit of our patriotism which we must take care and celebrate. It is our duty ;)
      Sorry for grammar mistakes ;)

    • @idepowas3329
      @idepowas3329 2 года назад

      Jak naprzyklad Cale dowodztwo podczas 2WS?

    • @michamichalski3417
      @michamichalski3417 2 года назад

      @@idepowas3329 Generałowie jak i prezydenci na uchodźctwie też odegrali swoją rolę. Dzięki nim mieliśmy jakiś tam głos w trakcie trwania wojny. Z jakiegoś rozkazu formowało się polskie wojsku u aliantów.

    • @idepowas3329
      @idepowas3329 2 года назад

      @@michamichalski3417 Chyba Nie rozumiesz. Rydz- smigly (naczelny wojska)uciekł do Rumunii juz w drugim tygodniu wojny.

  • @mistyisacat8012
    @mistyisacat8012 2 года назад +2

    I sure hope the yt algorithm brings me more of such content, it was very satisfying (greetings from Cracow)

  • @janx2609
    @janx2609 2 года назад +18

    hi, I am from Poland and these memes are just so accurate that i can't stop crying from laughter

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +1

      😅😅😅😅😅

    • @alberiarelax
      @alberiarelax Год назад

      I dont get what is so funny about the word ,,Exist,, . Yes, we were attacked, so our goal was to survive. Its a fact not a joke

  • @hajkaczuwajka9234
    @hajkaczuwajka9234 2 года назад +2

    5:12 a gdzie "drugi"

  • @lalka555
    @lalka555 Год назад +5

    Such a cool video!and you are so knowledgeable about Poland! Everything what you said is so accurate and you really understand the nuances and know a lot about the Polish culture code. Serdecznie pozdrawiam!

  • @Just_Nixis
    @Just_Nixis 9 месяцев назад +2

    Heya! You are doing great in speaking Polish! You even sound like a polish person!

  • @Aelin0613
    @Aelin0613 2 года назад +7

    In the past, I did not think about the construction in Polish. It was very simple. Past, present, or future tense - robił-robi-będzie robił ( did. do. will do). And in English there were too many times for me too many rules when to use what form. Only later did I realize that if someone learns Polish there are rules -when and what ending in a word. For me, it was a natural matching of what sounds right/what sounds good. Maybe that's why many people (including me) often have a problem with some words which form is correct and need to check in the dictionary. Because the language changes and people often create their own words, or a certain mistake in pronouncing or spelling was so popular that it was considered correct in the dictionsry. 😂😂😂

  • @Jacek_videos
    @Jacek_videos Год назад +1

    It was the friendship and cooperation between US president R.Regan and the Polish pope Jonh Paul II that contributed and led to the downfall of communism (the social and political system behind the Iron Curtain in the 80's). Thanks Sarah for making me laugh once again :)

  • @jerzy7118
    @jerzy7118 2 года назад +4

    All old civilizations have Western civilization's complicated grammar of cases and inflection. Have you noticed the maps from the period of the Roman Empire, a black spot to the east of the Roman Empire. What they did not try to conquer these areas, they tried but failed. - in Rome there is an epitaph about it, but due to the Germanization of Poland, the memory of the old history of Poles was cleared. We had our own writing - runes yes runes are an invention of the Slavs, not the Scandinavians, only they survived longer, we switched to Latin. Our language comes from from Sanskrit, Hindus are surprised how many of our words are similar to Polish. We used to be the Lehia empire uniting the Slavic tribes. There is a lot of forgotten history about which Poles themselves have no idea, and the Germans and the Catholic Church contributed to its oblivion.

    • @hubi2986
      @hubi2986 2 года назад

      Im really curious, never heard about it before. Could you give me any example of similarity between Polish and Hindi?

    • @jerzy7118
      @jerzy7118 2 года назад +2

      @@hubi2986 There are many of them. On the Internet, enter the similarities of Polish words with Sanskrit. I will add, if you are interested, that the Slavic tribes came to the present area from the far east before our era. Scientists are wondering if the oldest language in the world does not come from the Slavs and the Hindu tribes adapted from the Slavs. The Slavs had their Vedas similar to the Hindu ones. that the highest caste of law-givers and religious law-givers Brahmins differed in their fair complexion and European facial features from the rest of the Hindus. And it is puzzling that the oldest wall of China has sealing holes opposite to the one built later, i.e. who defended himself against whom and put the first wall? . Of the artifacts, little is said that the world's oldest image of a wheeled cart was found in Poland, little remains of the buildings from before our era because the approach to houses was different than, for example, in ancient Greece where they were built of stone and this resulted from the fact that houses were built and cities made of wood, where life was healthier and more plentiful due to the harsh climate. When the owner of the old house died, his house was burned and his successors put a new one in its place, it was a Slavic custom and for health reasons - old houses could have mold. Western culture knows nothing about the Slavs and no one cares about this topic and they would be surprised what influence they had on Europe and they had an influence, e.g. they founded cities in Europe: Berlin, Venice were present in England, many names of cities, mountains, rivers have origins even the princes were Slavs with adapted names of the local language. It is amazing how the world is interested in Poland, but I know why, it is related to what role Poland is to play in the future, I know who currently lives among us, but few know about it.😀

  • @grzesiekhallomoto5920
    @grzesiekhallomoto5920 Год назад +1

    I like your content. Don't give up. Well done. :P

  • @korneliaprusinowska7876
    @korneliaprusinowska7876 2 года назад +5

    I am from Poland and all of those memes are popular in here.🇵🇱 I love your videos!!

  • @agata3958
    @agata3958 2 года назад +1

    Funny episode, I smiled a lot. I've seen some of them on Reddit before but not all :)

  • @mrqchicken5296
    @mrqchicken5296 2 года назад +5

    "Don't mess with babcia" :D hahaha 1000% hahaha

  • @4hoovesmore410
    @4hoovesmore410 2 года назад +1

    The last one is just plain offensive. We don't run from the aggressor. We dive head first against the enemy, more pissed off than anything else that someone is disturbing our business as usual (arguing with eachother and hating on our politicians). This should look more like a 'come at me, bruh!' meme than this abomination

  • @lemonxofcc
    @lemonxofcc 2 года назад +4

    As a polish girl, all I can say is: Wow, that's actually real.. 😭

  • @Aelin0613
    @Aelin0613 2 года назад +2

    One pieróg -
    Two pierogi-
    Mianownik - What is it? - pieróg/ pierogi
    Dopełniacz - What is not left -? Pieroga/pierogów
    Celownik - To whom do I bow down? Pierogu/pierogom
    Biernik - To whom does it belong? To Pieroga /pierogów
    Narzędnik- I'm going to the ball with.. - pierogiem /pierogami
    Miejscownik - Where is it located? In pierogu / pierogach
    Wołacz - o! Pieróg! /pierogi
    Sory if I wrote something wrong but I'm dying of laughter writing this 😂😂😂

  • @TymekGarlicki
    @TymekGarlicki 2 года назад +5

    I am from poland and honestly, it's really hard to learn polish even if you are a pole.

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +1

      yes, it's a challenging language for sure!

    • @marek9081
      @marek9081 2 года назад +2

      Then maybe you have some kind of learning disability? Because it shouldn't be so hard for a Pole...

  • @creativenickname
    @creativenickname 2 года назад +2

    Nice video ^^ , I'm from Poland 👋☺

  • @AndrewBozo
    @AndrewBozo 2 года назад +16

    W polsce słowo Italia też jest zamienne i używane 🙂

    • @Faleino
      @Faleino 2 года назад +2

      nie słyszałam

    • @AndrewBozo
      @AndrewBozo 2 года назад +1

      @@Faleino Bo nie jest często stosowane w relacji i jest obcym słowem w naszym języku czyli zapożyczonym, ale już dawno zaakceptowanym. 🙂

    • @HatsuneSakuraMiku
      @HatsuneSakuraMiku 2 года назад

      @@AndrewBozo prawda ja nawet mówię Italia a nie Włochy bo dla mnie Italia lepiej brzmi

    • @Swinty_Pjotr
      @Swinty_Pjotr 2 года назад +3

      @@HatsuneSakuraMiku tak, tak!
      Szczególnie "jadę do Italii", albo "italskie jedzenie". To brzmi po polsku prawie tak dobrze jak "germański (deutschlandzki🤣) samochód"😂

    • @waldek2303
      @waldek2303 2 года назад +1

      Nigdy nie słyszałem żeby ktoś używał słowa "Italia". Chyba tylko jako hasło w prognozie pogody np. "słoneczna Italia".

  • @Lola_in_the_Black
    @Lola_in_the_Black Год назад

    5:14 - all those forms are just for two though :D Second would be all forms of drugi, drudzy, drugiej and so on :D
    (I love your videos :) )

  • @jammerc64
    @jammerc64 2 года назад +6

    Well, Poles say chipsy, nuggetsy. Same thing with acquiring plural :D

  • @Moloxer
    @Moloxer 7 месяцев назад

    At 5:05 it actually only shows the translations for "two" in different cases.

  • @mojrevshare6738
    @mojrevshare6738 2 года назад +10

    Miło się słuchało, szczególnie historyjki o babciach. Have a nice day.

  • @moseq
    @moseq Год назад +1

    Hard polish names in a nutshell:
    Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

  • @Desperado9064
    @Desperado9064 2 года назад +3

    Whenever and however I hear that someone from outside of Poland tries to say anything in our language, I'm like blown away by it. Even for me Polish is hard to speak sometimes, when there is a lot of harder words in one sentence :D
    Example: "W czasie suszy szosa sucha" or "I cóż że ze Szwecji" and even "Wyindywidualizowałem się z rozentuzjazmowanego tłumu" :)

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад

      yes, Polish is quite the tongue twister!

    • @wojciechbogusawski9163
      @wojciechbogusawski9163 Год назад

      @@SarahAchleithner yeah... She sells seashells on the seashore, The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure... po angielsku też czasem niezbyt łatwo :P

  • @andrewkrawczyk9476
    @andrewkrawczyk9476 2 года назад +1

    It's nice to see you getting further into Polish culture and references! One of us!

  • @catlover-wg6tn
    @catlover-wg6tn 2 года назад +3

    the babcia's one is perfect..the way you say it hahahah

  • @Smok.Wawelski
    @Smok.Wawelski 2 года назад +1

    7:39 Surveillance Grandma system are really funny, but why are there Russian grandmothers in the photo?

  • @wiktoriapytel3620
    @wiktoriapytel3620 2 года назад +5

    Wlochy in Polish is a non-informal form of the word "hair" xd

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад

      Good to know!

    • @zurugar1530
      @zurugar1530 2 года назад +2

      @@SarahAchleithner Also, the name Włosi derives from the name of the tribe - the Vlachs which in Polish is Wołosi.

  • @malgorzatamakowska9910
    @malgorzatamakowska9910 Год назад +1

    Wiele wyrazów w angielskim a w polskim tylko :proszę? Ale to "proszę ma każde inną intonacje, którą trzeba też znać!

  • @Rafcio90
    @Rafcio90 2 года назад +5

    It is a pleasure to see American actually giving in and trying to learn our language. I hope you are doing well with it, and I wish you all the best on this journey.
    Also, I get the 7:33 meme, however it is totally wrong at the same time. Poland Flag is 'White and Red', not 'Red and White'. Red and White would be Monaco or Indonesia I think. Nice try though 😁🙃
    Take it easy!

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +4

      thanks for watching!

    • @HoscoFelix
      @HoscoFelix Год назад

      I think it's a countryball meme, where Poland's flag is always shown upside down (Poland is actually the protagonist of the countryball meme family, which is sometimes called Polandball as a result)

  • @krolewski
    @krolewski Год назад +1

    Your polish is pretty good! And memes make me laugh 😊

  • @monikaskwara7605
    @monikaskwara7605 2 года назад +10

    I'm Polish and honestly we make memes about ourselves a lot 😅 about mem with "babcia": this mem is so true. Really my neighbor (Old lady) is a better monitoring than the one I have at home

    • @livek100
      @livek100 Год назад +1

      to fakt, ale wystawanie w oknie przez starszych ludzi wiąże się też z nudą i samotnością, mąż umarł, dzieci poszły na swoje , widze to po mojej 80 letniej Mamie jak ją odwiedzam by pomóc, zakupy itd ..Lubi patrzeć przez okno na żywych ludzi bardziej niż na programy w tv, a jak idzie wycieczka szkolna słychać z daleka dzieciaczki (bo tu szkoła podstawowa blisko) , to mimo że Mame staw kolanowy boli prawie nie wychodzi z domu bo szybko się męczy , to specjalnie wstaje z łóżka idzie o kuli do okna by te dzieci zobaczyć.

  • @ankabanka5515
    @ankabanka5515 2 года назад +1

    haha loved this video, greeting from the middle Poland

  • @totallynoobgaming7311
    @totallynoobgaming7311 2 года назад +3

    ta babcie to najlepszy monitoring na jaki nas stać w tym kraju the one who will write this in english big respect

  • @bartex77
    @bartex77 Год назад +1

    Here you have this "Włochy thing" explained :) Unfortunately without English subtitles.
    ruclips.net/video/hgov-FdPdeU/видео.html

  • @luxuryheat3023
    @luxuryheat3023 2 года назад +6

    Daj pieroga :)! Good Luck.

  • @cielakovsky
    @cielakovsky Год назад +1

    More funny thing is that if you eat five pieces, you eat pierogi. If you eat just one, you eat pieróg (pronunced as pieroog) :) Greetings from Poland! Remember, we find foreigner's atttempts as cute. And if you're fluent, it's sooo impressive, at least for me.

  • @UuwU2137
    @UuwU2137 2 года назад +3

    😂 jest super nagrywaj więcej ❤

  • @123pik1
    @123pik1 2 года назад +2

    Plural form of "babcia" isn't "babcias" it is "babcie" (Maybe I have heard wrong), yeah it could be hard
    Poland had problems not for last 100 years, by more like 200, becauese it was divided between Prussia, Russia and Austria (1795-1918)
    Poland was great last time in XVII century then because of gentry, it lost independence and still it is hard to bounce back after this piece of history

  • @leadmagnet5309
    @leadmagnet5309 2 года назад +3

    You should try watching "how I started world war II" with subtitles. The best way to learn polish and have fun during it

  • @xFelix4ever
    @xFelix4ever 2 года назад +1

    Ciekawy filmik^^ Nigdy nie wiedziałam czegoś podobnego haha
    Interesting video^^ I've never seen something similar haha

  • @banankoks
    @banankoks 2 года назад +4

    Fajny film o tematyce polski:)

    • @HatsuneSakuraMiku
      @HatsuneSakuraMiku 2 года назад +2

      o znalazł się jednak polak myślałam że nie ma xd

    • @Wojtek1250XD
      @Wojtek1250XD 2 года назад +4

      @@HatsuneSakuraMiku Jeżeli filmik na YT ma w miniaturce lub tytule cokolwiek związanego z Polską to od razu spodziewaj się samych Polaków. RUclips bardzo dobrze wychwytuje takie filmy

  • @kewlo3057
    @kewlo3057 2 года назад +1

    6:07 We have the same problem in Poland

  • @gordian2939
    @gordian2939 2 года назад +4

    I'm really curious if anyone who watches you is not from Poland, because I can see only explaining comments by Poles 😂😂

    • @SarahAchleithner
      @SarahAchleithner  2 года назад +1

      haha it certainly seems that way 🤣

    • @gordian2939
      @gordian2939 2 года назад +3

      @@SarahAchleithner don't worry, a lot of Polish people speak English very well and we also like our ego to be stroked, so we watch that kinda channels 😂😂

    • @garys.7846
      @garys.7846 2 года назад +1

      I'm from U.S.

  • @pawelkleban7289
    @pawelkleban7289 Год назад

    5:30 actually here are not polish translations of 'second' , just of 'two' .

  • @synnwolfwalker3482
    @synnwolfwalker3482 2 года назад +5

    I APPRECIATE YOU TRY TO SPEAK CORRECTLY IN OUR LANGUAGE :] ~ Greetings from Gdańsk

  • @krysrej
    @krysrej 2 года назад +2

    I'm from poland and that was funny to watch this video.

  • @Neexienous
    @Neexienous 2 года назад +4

    We are not eastern europe. We are central europe.

    • @pawelzielinski1398
      @pawelzielinski1398 2 года назад +1

      I think it all depends whom you talk to. Everything is relative.

    • @Neexienous
      @Neexienous Год назад

      @@pawelzielinski1398 No it's not.

    • @pawelzielinski1398
      @pawelzielinski1398 Год назад

      @@Neexienous So, what is "The Western Empire" for the Japanese?
      What is the "Eastern Empire"??

  • @-.-chris-.-
    @-.-chris-.- 2 года назад +2

    U deserve more subscribers Pozdrawiam z Wrocławia

  • @zscorporation
    @zscorporation 2 года назад +4

    Pozdrowienia z Polski ! :D Mam uśmiech dzięki Tobie ;) :D

  • @chrupkisernik
    @chrupkisernik 2 года назад +2

    Regarding Prosze, it is more into intonation of the spoken word to say what you want to say.

  • @anna_w
    @anna_w 2 года назад +5

    My Mum name is Mieczysława - this means sword (miecz) & glory (sława). Everyone calls her Miecia :)

  • @JezElectro13
    @JezElectro13 2 года назад +2

    hello. i'm native Polish.