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Wonderful Polish Language

Preamble (Wstęp - Preambuła)

Hello, I am Dominik 'Domcio' (The diminutive of the name Dominik) Karol [Wolfgang] (From the Catholic Sacrament Of Confirmation, so it probably doesn't really count, but it is still worth to mention this powerful name) Rajchel and I am currently 19 years old. I go to IT high school (technikum informatyczne). I have created for you this wonderful (I chose this adjective - "wonderful" as a reference to Louis Armstrong's song "What A Wonderful World") list - document of resources for learning - getting more experience with Polish language - I mainly dedicate it to foreigners who are looking for [re]sources to learn the Polish language, but also to my compatriots and aliens [and parrots] and not only for beginners or advanced people, this list is also useful for natives who are looking for new sources of education and entertainment in their language. I think this [POWERFUL] Polish is a really great language. Thanks to its flexibility you can create great compositions - poems etc. That's why I would like to really help promote it. Personally, I am constantly expanding the number of known words for me, because it is a very useful thing in my life [of creator]. I learn English from the first grade of elementary school (Szkoła podstawowa) and German from the first grade of middle school (Gimnazjum), but I give less priority to German because it would only be useful for me to read Grimms' Fairy Tales in the original language. At home, I learn mainly Japanese. In the future I am also going to learn other Slavic languages a bit more. The order of the links is mostly random. I add clean links, without any extra and referral code in URLs. Currently, I'm focusing on adding free and legal sources or those that also offer free legal content, so if something comes up here contrary to what I wrote a few words ago, report it to me, because I wouldn't do such a thing on purpose, but just by accident (it doesn't happen to me very often, I check the operation of the pages especially for you, I don't put links here blindly). Maybe in the future I'll also add categories with paid (also legal xD) services, but fortunately we live in such times that, thanks to the dedication of many people, we are able to learn from some awesome materials for 100% free. I hope that this version of my list is satisfactory. More than half a month has passed since its first publication and is now several times bigger. If you know any other good [free :D] websites related to Polish, feel free to let me know when a website has stopped distributing content fairly, please report it to me, also in case the website end its activity or changes the URL or project name or the page I added is now "really uncool". I can often joke about some things - speak about them in a very chill way, but please do not take anything personally, because I do not do this to offend someone, I just want to add variety - more colors to that content. Have fun with this Polish language adventure. Surely you can become a language champion - wield the most powerful weapons, that is the words.

Łubudubu, łubudubu, niech żyje nam ten projekt jednoosobowego klubu, niech żyje nam! To śpiewałem ja - Domcio.

Pozdrawiam was bardzo serdecznie i życzę miłej doby.

Contents (Spis treści)

(I offered the hamsters that destroyed the cables from the teleports to cooperate in searching for bugs in the text code. After that I repaired the teleport connections, so in this version all should work. By the way, this text file was, is and will be resistant to viruses, here you can check scan).

-0. (What? How?! It shouldn't be possible!) Preamble (Wstęp - Preambuła)

  1. Contents (Spis treści)
  2. Texts (Teksty)
  3. Videos (Filmy)

  1. Audio

  2. Games (Gry)

  3. Tools and apps (Narzędzia i aplikacje)

  4. Services (Serwisy)

  5. Culinary (Kulinaria)

  6. History (Historia)

  7. Math (Matematyka)

  8. Polish law (Polskie prawo)

  1. Various websites (Różne strony internetowe)
  1. Email providers (Dostarczyciele email)
  2. Social networks (Sieci społecznościowe)
  3. My nice tips (Moje świetne wskazówki)
  4. Others (Inne)
  5. Contact (Kontakt)
  6. Support (Wsparcie)
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. My other projects (Moje inne projekty)
  9. Mirror and standalone version (Mirror oraz samodzielna wersja)
  10. Lorem ipsum

Texts (Teksty)

Free books (Darmowe książki)

Fantasy (Fantastyka)

Here you will find many available magazines, anthologies and individual stories, it is worth giving them a chance, because they are all prepared with passion and great efforts and most look really professional. I am sorry that I have described most of them so briefly. They really deserve to this subsubcategory, so that fans of this kind of literature can access it even more easily, it is really worth giving chances to a large part of them.

Programming (Programowanie)

  • Python na luzie - "Python on chillout" it's a very nice and big guide to learning the Python programming language in Polish. This is a direct link to download the latest version (as of 22.09.2020). If you want to start your adventure with the world of programming and you don't know which language to choose for the start, I personally recommend Python, because you can start this adventure in a very simple and quite relaxed way, but it is also worth trying to get to know other languages later, to have a kind of contrast and to be sure if this choice was fantastic, you can also know many programming languages and a lot of people do, but it is worth knowing one very well first, because then it is easier with others.
  • Free Programming Books Repository - The GitHub repository, which has been created by EbookFoundation, contains links to a huge number of 1000‰ free books - tutorials to learn programming in many languages and of course also in Polish. There are such programming languages as for example: Python, Java, C, C++, C# and also HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and many more. There are many links to WikiBooks, for example to the great "Zanurkuj w Pythonie" course or C++.
  • Polish Learn Python - Polish version of learnpython.org service, where you will find some cool Python basics lessons and some advanced ones.
  • Kurs HTML - A great free course in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you will also find some XHTML, it complies with W3C standards and of course with the latest versions, such as HTML5.
  • how2html - Another noteworthy HTML (+ some CSS) course, which also has a very cool HTML dictionary. It - course contains 23 grouped lessons and the expected time to complete it is 30 hours (unfortunately, there are no major updates for a long time, for such a dictionary, for example).
  • Mozilla's MDN Documentation and tutorials - Polish version of a great documentation created by Mozilla. It is extremely useful when you want to learn HTML, CSS or JavaScript (and more). It complements well with W3Schools, which has no official Polish language version (only, unfortunately, offers translation via Google Translate).
  • KursJS - Kurs JavaScript dla superbohaterów - Interesting "JavaScript course for superheroes". It is quite extensive and certainly worth checking.
  • Mirosław Zelent's Blog - An IT blog, where you will find very extensive tutorials to learn different languages programming and more. You can learn C++, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and Boostrap from there. I also recommend to check the "Pasja Informatyki" channel, for which videos are being created by Mirosław Zelent, among others, I described it in more detail in this category.
  • Polish Code.org Courses - On this page you will find many cool coding courses - the basics of programming (after choosing Polish) in Polish, which were created to teach children coding.
  • Baltie 3 - A free Baltie 3 course, which is a software to help children learn programming. Baltie 4 is designed for secondarys schools. You can download the programs here.
  • List of guides to Scratch in Polish - A really cool list of guides to learning the block-based visual programming language Scratch, which, like the above, was created for children.

Free books in paid internet bookstores (Darmowe książki w płatnych księgarniach internetowych)

(Almost always registration is required for download)

The Bible translations - online and for download (Przekłady Bibli - online i do pobrania)

I will mention that currently the most popular polish translation of the Bible is "Biblia Tysiąclecia". I dedicate the list of these biblical links to people who are interested in theology or bibliology, or simply like the thinking about religious topics. I personally like these religious topics very much, I used to read a lot of books about the beliefs of ancient peoples and, of course, various mythologies (I mainly remember the Greek and Nordic ones, because I often come across characters from these myths in various literary works, the faith of the old Slavs is also very interesting thing), I think that from this religious work you can also deduce a lot of good values - morals and a warnings, and also Polish culture is strongly connected with the Catholic religion, so it is worthwhile to take an interest in culture from the religious point of view, if someone is also interested in culture apart from Polish linguistics.

Indexes and virtual bookcases (Indeksy i wirtualne biblioteczki)

  • Lubimyczytać - Probably the most active Polish online virtual bookcase and book index. Very useful when we want to save what we have read. You can read reviews of others yourself or read other reviews, check ranking and more (My profile).
  • Biblionetka - good alternative and very similar to Lubimyczytać.
  • w.bibliotece.pl - Has less social functions, more old-school, but still cool.

Dictionaries etc. (Słowniki itp.)

  • Słownik języka polskiego - very good Polish dictionary, contains a lot of definitions.
  • Wielki słownik języka polskiego - a [great - huge] Polish dictionary, also contains a lot of definitions. It contains different varieties, phraseologies, etc.
  • Słownik języka polskiego PWN - Another noteworthy dictionary, which also contains interesting features, such as Puzzle, where you can test your knowledge of words and have some fun.
  • Encyklopedia PWN - Quite a big and cool encyclopedia.
  • Wikisłownik - Polish version of the Wiktionary. This allows you to immediately compare a given word with its translations in other languages, and you are also able to see what synonyms, anonyms, etymologies etc. it has.
  • Diki - Very nice English-Polish dictionary. Often there are also pictures of nouns. There is of course also support for IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).
  • Korpusowy Polskiego Słownik Języka Migowego - Polish Sign Language Dictionary. If you are a deaf person or want to communicate with such, this is something for you. (Some people might consider deaf to be a politically incorrect term but it's actually not - that's what the community itself calls themselves and polish explanation of use).
  • Słownik slangu oraz mowy potocznej - A dictionary of slang and colloquial speech - street speech - If you would like to become head of many secret city organizations, this will surely be useful.
  • Synonim.NET - Online dictionary of Polish language synonyms.
  • Synonimy.pl - similar to above.
  • Zakończone.pl - On this page you can check the words with the selected ending. For example: -ówka.
  • Stopniowanie.net - Gradation of adjectives and adverbs.
  • Ortograf - A cool site where you can see common spelling mistakes, it also has a subpage with a spell checker (main link). Here you can read about the rules of spelling of the Polish language, at this link about "language doubts", you will also find there, for example, dictations and abbreviations.
  • Reverso Context - A Polish version of a very useful multilingual website where you can look up translations in context of words, groups of words and idioms.
  • Cooljugator - Cool Polish Verb Conjugator - A [very] cool conjugator containing a large number of verbs.
  • Tiengos - An interesting website (In the link there is a setting that sets the default to show articles in Polish) where you can read various articles (There are many articles available for free), e.g. in Polish, and there is an main option to switch between languages (Vietnamese, Spanish and Russian are available now, including English of course), you can also listen to the text in audio form and the words read by the lector at a specific moment will be spotlighted, you can also listen to the word you clicked on and much more. The site also has its official application for Android.
  • Declinator - A very cool online tool for noun declination. The page is affiliated to the above website.
  • Linguee - A good alternative to the above page. It is related to DeepL - it comes from the same authors.
  • LanguageTool - Great multilingual spelling and grammar checker. Useful if you are still not very good at using the comma character in Polish, but it is not perfect, sometimes it may find the necessary comma unnecessary and vice versa (also, this tool does not always handle dialects and archaisms well).
  • Youglish - brilliant website for improving pronunciation and more. As the authors write, there are millions of entries with tracks in the index, after entering a word that interests us, the search engine tries to find a video on YouTube (based on subtitles) in which it is used. (Word "pingwin" for example).
  • Lekarski Poradnik Językowy (LPJ) - The online medical language guide has been in existence for over 22 years. You will find a lot of cool articles on it - subpages, for example with a certain grammatical rule with a comma. It is an interesting old-school source of linguistic knowledge.
  • Słownik neologizmów poetyckich - An online dictionary, in which you will find many Polish poetry [master]pieces, and in them you will have the neologisms highlighted. Here you will find all available neologisms on the website sorted by alphabetical order and by epochs and parts of speech.
  • Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego - A very interesting website where you can type a word or part of a word into the search engine and the search results are scanned works where the words you are looking for will be highlighted - cool if you want to know an example of using a word or part of it. Here is an example: "ciasto".
  • Słownik terminów anatomicznych - Polish-English and Polish-Latin (and various combinations of these) dictionary of anatomical terms. There is also a mobile version for Android.
  • Elektroniczny słownik języka polskiego XVII i XVIII wieku - Fantastic online dictionary of Polish language of the 17th and 18th century.
  • Słownik polszczyzny XVI wieku - A dictionary of Polish language from the XVI century. If you would like to sound like a great nobleman, then thanks to knowing these words you will be closer to achieving this.
  • Słownik staropolski - The Old Polish dictionary, a lot of archaic words, will come in handy if you are going to travel in time and communicate with older Polish people.
  • Słownik staropolski IJP PAN - Here you can download many volumes of the Old Polish dictionary and other documents related to the project. The site belongs to the Cracow Old Polish language studio.
  • Słownik polsko – potocznoludowy niektórych roślin i chwastów - [Small] dictionary of Polish - colloquials of some plants and weeds.
  • Gwara góralska - Polish highlander dialect. It may be useful if you are going to Zakopane (Here you will find more regional dialects).
  • Gwara więzienna - A set of words used in prison colloquial speech. It certainly won't come in handy, but it's a cool curiosity and after getting to know these words you can show people that you are able to get along with every layer of society.

Translators (Tłumacze)

  • DeepL - Very cool neural machine translator. It is becoming increasingly popular (according to Alexa Rank). Currently, it supports such languages as: Polish, English (UK), English (US), German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese and Chinese. The CEO - dr. Jarosław Kutyłowski is probably from Poland and the company is located in Germany. Some time ago there was also an update that introduced languages such as: Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Greek, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovak, Slovenian and Swedish.

  • Translatica - Language translator. Currently, it is able to translate from Polish into English [British], German and Russian.

  • PONS Translator - The PONS Dictionary also has its own translator.

  • Google Translate - Who would have expected that?! It certainly has the largest number of languages available, so sometimes it can be a last resort.

Learning other languages or dialects etc. in Polish (Nauka innych języków lub dialektów itp. po polsku)

(About learning other languages through Polish and also briefly about archiving websites)

Hello world! I also thought that some of you will want to learn other languages through Polish or just my countrymen looking for cool sources may find something they missed earlier. Of course, I will try not to list here again the multilingual pages that are already lower on this list, because there is no need to make too many duplicates, but sometimes I can make an exception. Unfortunately, not for every language someone has published some sets of learning materials for free, so sometimes there may just be a lot of dictionaries here, I try to do research (on different search engines), but I often come across multilingual services, not focused mainly on a particular language or paid courses. I want share here a great amount of free and legal downloadable materials - for offline learning, because we live in the Internet times, but it is always worth having learning materials on disk to be able to look at them at any time - also many years later, and unfortunately, many websites are often run as hobby sites and may stop functioning with time, and there are for example The Wayback Machine from Archive.org, but sometimes there are some larger files attached to the sites, which unfortunately are not always archived and are simply lost. By the way, here you have a link to Github with links to download a excellent addon - "Save to the Wayback Machine", which allows you to easily save pages to the web archive. If you would like to create a mirror of a website, then I also recommend a very simple HTTrack program or WGET for more advanced users. It is also possible to download from The Wayback Machine using this script - gem (Installation is really easy, just have Ruby installed and enter some commands in CMD according to the instructions) for Ruby programming language (Ruby installer for Windows). So if you have ever created a website in the past, but you don't have its backup files, maybe some good person once made a backup copy of your website and you will be able to download it using this script and continue working on it because this script is downloading clean files, as if you were trying to download it directly through a copy from the archive, then e.g. such .html file will have a lot of additional links and redirections to the archive pages, not the original ones.

Ah, maybe one of you has done or is doing something like my "Wonderful Polish Language" project, but in Polish and for another language, then I would be happy to add something like that here - below, if it would be in an fair form and consistent with my beliefs.

Multilingual (Wielojęzyczne)

Sometimes under some subcategory here you will not find enough material for some languages, but in this subcategory, on linked websites, there is often a choice of Polish as the first language to learn from.

  • Duolingo - The world's best known platform for learning different languages.
  • Ba Ba Dum - A very interesting word game, which currently supports over 1000 words in more than 20 languages, including of course Polish. There are various game modes available. It may come in handy, for example, during more boring or your [really not] favorite subjects at school.
  • Digital Dialects - Polish - On this multilingual website you can learn for example Polish numbers, clothes, names of fruits, vegetables, animals and colors, etc. It is possible to set the speed of reading words.
  • 50LANGUAGES - Free lessons for beginners in different languages. From what I have noticed, there are 100 lessons available in each language. You can have the words in MP3 format compressed into a .zip archive. There is a very interesting option where you can choose from which language you want to learn, I set the link from English to Polish and then there are e.g. MP3 with English words with Polish translation.
  • loecsen - A website similar to the above, also offers a huge number of languages.
  • aztekium - Another webpage where you can choose which language you want to learn from is the translation of words from the second language into the first.
  • LinGo Play - Yes, the site is also similar to the above, very nice visually.
  • LingoHut - A page similar to the above. Here you will find many interesting quizzes and mini-games.

Chinese (Chiński)

Czech (Czeski)

English (Angielski)

(Information - Informacja)

Cześć! Jeżeli jesteś osobą, która nadal nie umie języka angielskiego na naprawdę komunikatywnym poziomie lub taką, zwyczajnie lubiącą szlifować swoje umiejętności lingwistyczne, to mam nadzieję, że poniższe linki będą dla was przydatne. Na edukację zawsze jest dobry czas i nie ma się czego wstydzić, a angielski jest kluczem do zdobywania wszelakiej wiedzy z różnych zakątków świata. Sam bardzo lubię się uczyć w języku ojczystym, gdyż jest to dla mnie oczywiście bardziej wydajne i przyjemne, ale języki łączą ludzi, więc warto znać ich, jak najwięcej, przynajmniej wszystkie, oprócz niektórych z nich. Angielski jest naprawdę wszędobylski, więc sprawia to, iż jego nauka jest znacznie prostsza, gdyż nie trzeba szukać go specjalnie, gdyż sam się zjawia w praktycznie każdej części życia. Warto również sprawdzić w tym celu resztę linków na tej liście, również serwisy wielojęzykowe, do których potężne łącza są dostępne tutaj.

ENG: Welcome! If you are a person who still doesn't speak English at a really communicative level or one who simply likes to polish his or her linguistic skills, I hope the following links will be useful for you. There is always a good time for education and there is nothing to be ashamed of and English is the key to gaining all kinds of knowledge from all over the world. I like to learn in my mother tongue very much myself, because it's obviously more efficient and nice for me, but languages bring people together, so it's worth knowing as many of them as possible, at least all of them, except some of them. English is really ubiquitous, so it makes learning it much easier, because you don't have to look for it especially, as it appears in practically every part of life. It is also worth checking the rest of the links in this list, including multilingual services, to which powerful links are available here.

  • E-angielski.com - Free English language learning. Here you will find classes of grammar, vocabulary, complete basics, tests and quizzes, English reading, courses, idioms, collocation, free ebooks, exams and phrasal verbs and much more (Strona internetowa oferująca bezpłatną naukę języka angielskiego. Znajdziesz tu gramatykę, słownictwo, "podstawy podstaw", testy i quizy, czytania po angielsku, kursy, idiomy, kolokacje, darmowe książeczki, egzaminy oraz czasowniki frazowe i wiele więcej).
  • Przewodnik po angielskim by Education First Polska - On this website you will find learning materials, among other, there are famous quotes, tests, most frequently used words and more (Na tej stronie znajdują się materiały edukacyjne, m.in. słynne cytaty, testy, najczęściej używane słowa i inne).
  • Platforma do bezpłatnej nauki języka angielskiego online engly.pl - Another interesting website for learning English with a lot of various things, also a bank of PDF materials available for free download (Kolejna interesująca strona do nauki języka angielskiego zawierająca sporo wszelakich rzeczy, również bank materiałów PDF dostępnych bezpłatnie do pobrania).
  • Darmowy kurs języka angielskiego by Ebrio - You will find course with over 20 English lessons here (Znajdziecie tutaj kurs zawierający ponad 20 lekcji języka angielskiego).
  • Diki.pl - One of the best existing Polish-English dictionaries online (Jeden z najlepszych istniejących polsko - angielskich słowników online).
  • My ClassRoom - Free[bies] English language learning printable materials for children (Darmowe materiały do druku do nauki języka angielskiego - dla dzieci).

Finnish (Fiński)

French (Francuski)

  • Podstawy francuskiego - a page with basic French lessons. There are currently a minimum of 14 lessons available.
  • E-francuski - Free learning of French - "everything about the French language - word ~ grammar ~ fun facts". Here you will also find a download section where you can get learning materials in the form of RTF documents.
  • Mówimy po francusku - Here you can learn words, watch movies, read cartoons and learn about the culture of France. Lessons and exercises are available.
  • Szlifuj swój francuski - On this website you can polish your French language.
  • Rozmówki francuskie by Tomszon - French phrasebook, from this page you can download a PDF with basic vocabulary, which can be very useful for those who want to go to France one day for tourism and more. There is also Polish pronunciation.
  • Matura z języka francuskiego - Tests - the official French language Polish matura exams are available for free download, also with transcription and answers. Here is the rest of the matura sheets.

German (Niemiecki)

Hungarian (Węgierski)

Lengyel, magyar – két jó barát, együtt harcol, s issza borát - Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki (English translation). I hope that our nations will always be friends. Poland Can Into Space.

  • e-Bratanki - słownik polsko-węgierski - Nice old-school dictionary with a few additional settings. There is also an option to translate from Hungarian into Polish and the English version is also available here and here are some tips on how to use the dictionary (Mobile version). There are 20505 pairs of words available, but it seems that the dictionary has not been updated for 4 years (since 21 October 2016), but it's still worth checking it out. They are also available: Ragozások - Odmiany.
  • wegierski.slowka.pl - Free Hungarian language course - articles, grammar, phrases and much more.
  • Słownik polsko-węgierski by Glosbe - Another cool Polish-Hungarian Dictionary containing over 103 thousand phrases.

Interslavic (Międzysłowiański)

Why did I add it here? It is an constructed language, which is called, among other "Medžuslovjanski", which uses both the Latin alphabet and the Cyrillic script. I add it as an interesting fact for people who know very well some language with Slavic roots. In short, it is simply a "Slavic auxlang (international auxiliary language), which is something similar to Esperanto" (By the way, Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof is a Pole who created Esperanto).

Italian (Włoski)

Japanese (Japoński)

Kashubian (Kaszubski)

I want to praise here the promoters of the Kashubian language, you are doing a good job by providing - sharing so many free and legal materials to learn your language.

Norwegian (Norweski)

  • LearnNoW - NTNU - An interesting collection of free materials for learning Norwegian. You will find here e.g. textbook, vocabulary tables, basic words and much more. Also, there are available lessons in audio form and text with comparisons - sound differences between languages.
  • Darmowy kurs norweskiego - Over 45 free Norwegian lessons. Also, for each lesson you have a quiz from it, for example from first lesson.
  • Słownik Polsko-Norweski - Polish-Norwegian dictionary with pronunciation (still under construction). A mobile version for Android is also available.

Polish (Polski)

Portuguese (Portugalski)

Romanian (Rumuński)

Russian (Rosyjski)

Silesian (Śląski)

  • Słownik Śląśki - Here you will find a dictionary, thanks to which you will be able to learn a lot of Silesian words (Here is the Polish-Silesian version). If you would like to read some short stories - Silesian fairy tales, you will find them here. On this subpage you will find, among others, Silesian versions of names. The website, of course, also offers a lot of information about Silesia itself.
  • Słowniczek gwarowy - A small dictionary of the Silesian language. Here - on this subpage you will find words that are not included in it, and users have suggested [to add] them.
  • Etnolekt Śląski - Quite a good article on Wikipedia about the Silesian language. Also the short one about the Silesian alphabet - slabikŏrzowy szrajbōnek. There is also an official Silesian version of Wikipedia. If you like to play Minecraft, you will also find the Silesian language version there. You can also browse Facebook in this language.

Slovak (Słowacki)

Spanish (Hiszpański)

Swedish (Szwedzki)

Videos (Filmy)

Pingwin Mroźny

Pingwin Mroźny (Penguin Frosty) - This is a character created by me (Pingwin - first name and Mroźny - surname). The mascot of my main channel and artistic activity. I created a whole Universe around him. Each "typical" episode is intended to introduce the viewer to some kind of profession (the core of the Penguin's movements themselves refers to the video Wonsz żeczny (humorous record of correct form "wąż rzeczny"), which is still present in Poland or was present in the old times - "extinct professions" and sometimes there were references to historical characters, I also invented some of my own professions. Here is guide, in which I described "how to get to know this universe so as not to get lost in it", i.e. I presented the chronology, because I created a lot of movies, as well as a [short] computer game and [also] a short story, so the viewer could get lost in my universe without it. A lot of people will ask "Why?", at that time my head was like a locomotive from which the steam flew all the time, so I wanted to find my way to "express myself artistically" and eventually I did it in this form, but I tried very hard, so these are not the kind of movies you would think if you look at them out of context. I also started to promote this kind of "pseudo-animation", which I personally called "dead animation". In other movies forms, a revolution began to take place, just like in Antic Theater - more [voice] actors (synthesizer voices) began to arrive. I am most pleased with the series "Przygody Pingwinbada Żeglarza" (The name refers to: "Przygody Sindbada Żeglarza" by Bolesław Leśmian and it's wordplay) "Pingwinia Komedia" (The name refers to: "Boska Komedia" - Polish translation of "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri). and from the first episode of the "Danse Pingvinabre" (The name refers to the medieval Danse Macabre) series. I wanted to include this long description (and I created a separate subcategory) in this list as "the main reward of my work", because I want to leave some remembrance and awareness in people to remember my works and also to open the door to potential cooperation and job.

YouTube

I like to add those channels that do not have exaggerate with the absurdity of thumbnails and titles - clickbaits. I want to make it as easy as possible to retrieve information from the videos on this site without wasting your time on "one million fillers" included in today's typical YouTube videos focused on massive marketing. Of course, it is not always possible to "escape" from this, so sometimes people who want to reach a larger audience want to adapt to the "standards of popularization of content" in this way. In the future I will add more categories and channels here, but first I want to focus on those already created, so as not to create categories with a small number of recommended channels. Forgive me for describing some great channels so short, because most of them deserve a few times more description. Here you have quite a large list of some Polish YouTubers with profiles created for them with descriptions.

Linguistics and related (Lingwistyka i powiązane)

  • The Polish Language by Langfocus - Great video showing Polish language from many different sides. Its history is shown, including of course the structure of the language structure and much more.
  • Ecolinguist - "Connecting people through languages" - One of the best linguistic channels on the whole YouTube. The main content creator is Polish Norbert Wierzbicki. There are often videos where there is a meeting through video conversation of people from different countries who try to understand each other using their native language with a similar origin - the same roots to the language used by other guests. Slavic language appears very often. Here for example, there is a very popular video in which a Pole, Bulgarian and Croatian try to understand the Interslavic language used by their friend (Here an Norbert's interview with the main creator of the Interslavic language itself). A very cool option if you want to learn between languages, your language will probably be on the channel. For those who like English, here is a video in which an Englishman speaks Old English and a Pole - Norbert, Australian and American try to understand it.
  • Wiedza z wami - A great channel dedicated to learning for the Polish language matura exam. Here you will find many detailed studies of the school readings, as well as all sorts of guides related to the correct writing of various exam assignments. There is also a special YouTube channel for elementary school: Wiedza z wami podstawówka.
  • Course of Polish - There are a lot of "words of the day" here, and then the speaker shows the sentences in which these words can be used - context.
  • SAY IT IN POLISH - Nice channel about "saying it" (some more complex message) in Polish. And not only that, it is also worthwhile to look through older videos.
  • Playlist of Polish alphabet and pronunciation video series in English by Tiengos - If you still have problems pronouncing - reading many Polish diacritics and more - then this playlist probably can help you. A Spanish version is also available.
  • Easy Polish - Very nice channel for learning Polish (Polish version of Easy Languages), you will find here many interesting videos on individual topics, for example about the meaning of the word "no" in Polish. There are also videos with street interviews (Like that) - On the banner on "mother channel" of the project is written "Learn languages from the streets!" and here a lot of videos under this principle are created. The channel was created not long ago, but there is already a lot of interesting material on it, so it's really worth checking.
  • Polish Flower - Polish Language with Maggie - The Maggie YouTube channel, where she publishes a video about learning Polish through various methods, is really a lot of valuable information there.
  • AnAnglo Polish for foreigners - The channel is aimed at beginner Polish language students. The creator of the channel has over twenty years of experience in teaching this language.
  • Język w rok - An interesting YouTube channel about language learning, so also of course about polyglotism.
  • One Minute Polish - Playlist with short - briefly videos - lessons of Polish language by the creators of the multilingual channel "Coffe Break Languages".
  • ItsEwelina - Ewlina's YouTube channel, where you can find her many interesting and useful Polish language lessons.
  • your. polish - Michalina's cool YouTube channel (She has a very good English accent) about the Polish language. Among other, there is the topic of words used in slang and she explains them. There is also often language advice - here, for example, a video in which she talks about mistakes' sometime made by foreigners talking to Poles (Especially to those older Poles who remember those very hard times for Poland, because there is big a chance that they lived in them).
  • Polski z Anią - Good channel about parts of speech, conjugation and times and much more. Currently, the project has been [maybe temporarily] paused (Explanation).
  • LEARN POLISH WITH DAREK - Another [also paused :/] interesting channel about Polish. Very cool option for people who want to learn words while listening, because there are a lot of such materials.
  • PolishPod101 - Very active and professional channel. There is a huge number of videos and 24/7 livestreaming for learning.
  • LEARN POLISH with Maria Christou - YouTube channel of a Polish language teacher, translator and blogger.
  • Polish For You - YouTube channel of two friends - Justyna and Karolina, who have been teaching Polish for over 15 years. The videos are often really long, so you can learn a lot from them.
  • Learn Polish with films and songs - Magda's YouTube channel - a professional English teacher. She shares her knowledge about the language there, recently a lot of podcasts have appeared.
  • Learn Polish [Fun Kids Learn] - The Playlist for learning Polish is mainly for children, but is also ideal for beginners. It will certainly be useful in learning the basics.
  • Teach me Polish - On this YouTube channel you will find some videos about learning the language, mainly it is a basic level of difficulty.
  • Niklaus Pieron - The channel of Mikołaj, who often talks about things related to the Silesian language and culture (On the subject of the ślůnsko godka, I recommend listening to the Silesian version of "Grosza daj Wieźminowi" - "Toss A Coin To Your Witcher").
  • Mówiąc Inaczej - great and very popular YouTube channel about "How to speak Polish correctly".
  • Arlena Witt - A channel to learn English, but of course you can also use a magic trick and learn Polish from it.
  • Fifty na Pol - Kasia Mecinski's YouTube channel, where she talks about Polish and American topics - she is an American of Polish origin. She is a close friend of Krzysztof Gonciarz and also lives in Japan. In the past they together used to create (now inactive) YouTube channel "TheUwagaPies".
  • Dave z Ameryki - A very well-known Polish-American channel, where Dave often talks about various subjects concerning Poland and the Polish language itself, as well as frequent mistakes made by Poles learning Polish.
  • Trev - Trevor's - Tadeusz's (Polish-American) YouTube channel, which also talking about cultural differences and more.

Scientific (Naukowe)

Culinary (Kulinarne)

  • Kocham Gotować - One of the first most popular YouTube channels about cooking in Poland. He is very famous for its welcome: "Siemanko! Witam w mojej kuchni" and also from showing how to recreate a very well-known product at home, e.g. fries from a well-known fast food restaurant etc. then it is worth to check out his older videos.
  • Uwaga Babcia Gotuje - YouTube channel, where the titular grandmother cooks. In Poland the so-called "grandma cuisine" is very respected.
  • Ola Nguyen - An interesting culinary channel. She - cook person won one of the Polish MasterChef editions. Recently, for example, she has shown how to cook some well-known dishes for cartoons and animated movies (Ratatuille from Disney's Ratatuille).
  • Robert Makłowicz - The official YouTube channel of the very famous Polish chef Robert Makłowicz, also known as "Bezwzględny Gonzales" (hehe). His program was aired on TV and was very popular. He probably likes bathing in cold water very much.
  • [Pascal Brodnicki - A very famous French chef of Polish origin, once very often appeared on TV (like some other famous chefs), now runs his own YouTube channel.
  • Kuchnia Kwasiora KK - You can find a lot of different recipes here. For example, a guide to making zakwas buraczany (very useful for people who, like me, do not drink alcohol, but are actors and would like to play a scene of drinking ancient wine).
  • Tomasz Strzelczyk ODDASZFARTUCHA - A very popular Polish culinary channel. You can see that the author has a great passion for cooking.
  • The Food Emperor - This is a very interesting culinary channel, but beware, this cook very often speaks Polish vulgar language. Of course this is combined with dynamic music and tone - the expression of the chef's voice, so it gives a high style and of course it is also a comedy element. He also publishes versions of videos in Italian. This is a unique channel.
  • Czajnikowy.pl - dobra herbata! - Very good channel about tea, but also about coffee created by experts.
  • Menu Dorotki - Another interesting culinary YouTube channel, where you will find many recipes.
  • Tomasz Lach - Tomek's YouTube Channel, where he has many guides for preparing baked goods from the oven, such as breads, rolls and of course pizzas.
  • KuchniaLidla.pl - Polish YouTube channel dedicated to cooking created by German Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG. The videos feature famous cooks such as for example Karol Okrasa.
  • Crazy Home Production - The best Polish YouTube channel about testing [really, really] spicy sauces and other things related to capsaicin and much more, so this is a super channel for chiliheads. This channel can be very very useful for people who want to buy some sauce, because the world of spicy sauces is quite large. The guys in the series "Wyzwanie Ostrości" regularly create a ranking of sauces, which you can download from the link in the video description of this series, which is in the form of an XLSX file.

Historical (Historyczne)

  • History Hiking - The presenter in this program in a very reliable and professional way tells the viewers about various historical events in a very interesting and accessible way. The quality of materials is excellent and they are created with visible care. So it is really worth giving this channel a chance.

  • Historia bez cenzury - The historical channel, where the main anchorman - Wojciech Drewniak presents history in a cool, eccentric and humorous way. There is also an English version, but after three videos this project has been stopped.

  • Historia w 5 minut - The historical channel, which is called "History in 5 minutes", but videos don't always have the title five minutes, because the main purpose of the channel is to convey historical knowledge briefly, but without omitting important facts.

  • IrytującyHistoryk - "Irritating Historian", a historical channel focusing very frequently on topics that do not appear too often.

  • ThrashingMadPL - A historical channel, where knowledge is taught by means of cool visualization - maps with dynamic changes - with moving hand-drawn historical units etc.

Cultural (Kulturalne)

  • mietczynski - The person who recording videos for this YouTube channel is mainly known among Polish youth for humorous and simple summary of the various required school readings. He talks about them by adding more of his colorful metaphors and opinions, so he simply talks about the plot in an unconventional and accessible way, so it helps many people to remember the course of these books, which is often useful on all school "smaller" and "main" exams (I personally am neutral to this, but I add this channel objectively, because I know that many people like it for different reasons). He also reviews movies similarly and he also often tries to cook something - he verifies his culinary skills based on trying to cook dishes from popular recipes.
  • Polimaty - Very interesting channel about nice life topics (yes, it's worth to check it). It is also one of the best Polish podcasts. Actually, these are now "Polimaty 2.0", because the form of the program had a huge transformation some time ago and is not the same as at the beginning of the channel, it's worth to compare the current one with the previous one (both are cool in my opinion).
  • Krzysztof Gonciarz - YouTube channel of the Polish traveler Krzysztof Gonciarz, he lived in Japan for many years. He also worked as a journalist in the game industry (GRY-OnLine] a long time ago and he wrote several books. He had many "metamorphoses of his public characters". - At this link you can find sample video from the TVGRYpl channel, in the creation of which, among other, he participated. You may notice that also Marcin Łukański from a cool channel about movies, that is "Na gałęzi" appears on this video.
  • MaturaToBzdura.TV - Translating literally: "Matura is nonsense". The main concept of this YouTube program is to ask people (those who will agree to appear in the video, of course) about the things that are the "basics of basics" in Polish school education and simply such knowledge necessary for conscious life in our world - planet (for now, hehe, wait for us, Cosmos!). Often the questions are tricky and unfortunately people fall for them and it is possible that under the influence of stress their critical thinking temporarily decreases. An example of such a question is: "How is it said correctly: Slovakia (Słowacja) or Slovenia (Słowenia)?", and people hear more often about Slovakia (because it is closer to Poland, among other) and they wrongly think that since the question was asked, either of the two options is incorrect, obviously not everyone answers incorrectly. Another example is another such question as clear as day: "'On whose side did the Americans fight in the Battle of Grunwald?" - this battle happened on July 15, 1410 (Poland vs State of the Teutonic Order and we KO'ed them - here you can find all participants), so it is [practically] impossible for Americans to take part in it in any way, but it is precisely the people who too often think about two variants (terribly 0 or 1 thinking when both can still be right or none or another variant). Of course, here I don't make fun of these people, because as I say, among other, the stress that they appear in front of the camera and probably their friends will watch this video makes their thoughts a bit confused in a lot of cases. Here, you can watch, for example, a video about the knowledge of school readings by Poles.

Music (Muzyczne)

  • Live Act - One of the best Polish sources of knowledge about music production and theory. There are a few podcasts, which are a mine of knowledge for [not only new] music producers. Piotrek - the creator of the channel, he also touched upon psychological issues related to the creation of music, such as how to deal with creative blockades and which DAW is "the best for start" (I personally recommend FL Studio to start with or Audacity or MuseScore and LMMS). So if you want to learn more about music (techniques, many cool tricks, world of producers and schemes and free plugins - VSTs etc.), then I really recommend it.
  • GOSIA SACAŁA TRENER GŁOSU - YouTube channel of voice trainer Gosia Sacała. In the videos she likes to evaluate in great detail the performances of various artists.
  • Studio Accantus - A project associating brilliant vocalists, who together perform e.g. covers of great famous Polish songs, often from animated fairy tales. It is worth to watch - listen to those performances, because they are in really good quality.
  • CeZik - Currently, unfortunately, already inactive CeZik's YouTube channel. He really created a lot of very creative music videos. In 2018, he released his album entitled "Ambiwalnięty" (This is neologism: a combination of words: "ambiwalentny" and "walnięty", which you can listen to on his channel (this is of course the full version of the album). It is really worthwhile to listen to the song entitled "Jestem specem" which tells the story in music form that a lot of Poles usually think that "they know everything - they know every profession" (this is often true and a great plus for Poles that they want to know "about everything"). He also created the second, also in the past (and now often people return with nostalgia to the video from the old days) very popular YouTube channel "KlejNuty", on which he "glued notes together" (the name of the channel is literally "GlueNotes" and sounds similar to the Polish word "klejnoty" (jewels), it is often said that "something is a jewel", which means something brilliant - worth a lot, but not from this material side), i.e. he simply created songs (not exactly such remixes, only more songs, but it could also be called remixes nowadays) from words - discussion - statements of famous people. He is also known to have published on the aforementioned channel the video "A Pole in the Britain’s Got Talent", which is simply a adaptation - parody and the unoriginal soundtrack was combined - mixed with the original video track which made many people think that this video is entirely original and that this man was Pole (maybe he really was - some Polish roots, but the performance itself was in English). Recently he has been more involved in the "NutkoSfera" YouTube channel with lots of different songs for children.
  • Jacek Tomkowicz - YouTube channel mainly about songs from various generations. On his channel you will find, among others, the series "Tego się słuchało", which is a video series about the songs listened (in Poland) to in specific years - for example in the 1980. There are also episodes of EXTRA (for example, again this year 1980) from this series and there are songs that the viewers have suggested that were missing in the main episode. Another interesting series that you can find on this channel is the series "Gdzieś to już słyszałem" in which are presented such songs (or parts of them) that are very similar to those songs that were created a long (or a little) time ago.

Books (Książki)

  • Strefa Czytacza - Really cool YouTube channel about books and reviews of them. I found him a long time ago, but I haven't looked there for a long time, it's a pity, fortunately by creating this list, my memory on channel has returned.
  • Book Reviews by Anita - Anita's channel, where she reviews books.
  • Doktor Book - Nikola's channel, who is passionate about reading books and also enjoys reviewing them.
  • Zaksiążkowane - On this channel you can meet "Zaksiążkowane" who love to collect books and share updates of these collections.
  • Bestselerki - The channel of successive book lovers, that is Marta Gajewska and Anna Bartłomiejczyk. They actively run the title series "Bestsellers", in which video reviews of various books appear.

Cryminology and criminalistics (Kryminologia i kryminalistyka)

Social and philosophical (Społeczne i filozoficzne)

  • Wojna Idei - A channel about psychological, philosophical, sociological and cultural issues - ideas. Author - Szymon talks in a very accessible way about various problems of today's world, as well as about the political system, etc. There is also an English version. He also runs a second channel: Szymon mówi, for example, he has long conversations with people with different political orientations, which is very interesting and rare, because it allows us to learn the views of different people, because often people close themselves in so-called "filter bubble" and do not want to learn new information from "these other sites" - to give a chance to convince themselves of some things (I do not mainly mean political views - politics in general).
  • Nie wiem, ale się dowiem - "I don't know, but I'll find out.", that YouTube channel also raises a lot of problems of today's world. This channel also has videos created in a very accessible form, so it helps with the main purpose - education - to make people understand certain things better. Projects such as this one and others deal with topics that sometimes do not have [mainly] a place or time in the Polish education system or are presented in a very "empty" way - too poor to be remembered and above all understood by [mainly young] students.
  • Menroth - A very interesting YouTube channel about computer games sociological and theological issues. Currently, there are published videos related to the world (lore) of Gothic game series. For example: Sociological analysis of factions in Gothic 1 | The Old Camp (An English version of this video is also available). There is also an analysis of the camps of the other two factions, so The New Camp and The Sect Camp. I really recommend to watch the video entitled "Metaphysics and Theology of the Gothic World | Philosophical Analysis of the Gods".
  • Człowiek Absurdalny - "important questions about life, philosophy, psychology, literature". Here, also, we can learn interesting things and again have reflections on various topics.
  • Klocuch - Mr. Cuch's YouTube channel. This is one of the legends of Polish YouTube, which shares its opinions on various topics in a very unconventional way, and you should not take things that he says personally, because all these words are said in a joke or some philosophical aspect (he often refers to things related to the childhood of many Poles). I also add it here because he speaks a very diverse language - he uses words from many dialects and loan words (a lot of German origin).

Comedy (Komediowe)

  • Zapytaj Beczkę - A stricte comedy Krzysztof Gonciarz's YouTube Channel. He laughs (in caricatured - cartoonish way) at various specific social phenomena and human behavior in his videos.

  • Z Dvpy - Maciej Dąbrowski's YouTube Channel. He among others: creates quite specific videos about various cultural works, he reviews cities, he creates parodic dubbings and song covers and he also refers to recent events in Poland and in the world and he comments "the Polish YouTube scene". (there is a noticeable policy here and he sometimes likes to share his point of view, but does not do so in a very intrusive way, I think that it is worth having your opinion own and have a calm mind - think clear-headedly).

  • Lekko Stronniczy - The YouTube channel, which is created by Włodek Markowicz and Karol Paciorek (The order of the names was taken from the YouTube channel description, as if someone would like to ask about it), they have been publishing videos (there's a new video every day) about current affairs since 2011 (there was a few year break, which ended over a year ago). They often talk about it in a humorous way, but they also know how to maintain the seriousness of the situation if it requires it. Karol Paciorek has his podcast channel which is called "Imponderabilia", where he invites many very famous Polish people. Podcasts are known for the fact that some of them last really many hours and there are no unnecessary cuts (mainly in general, the assembly consists of changing the camera and colors). It is also worth adding in the subject of this channel that Karol had interviews with the candidates for the Polish President in Presidential Election [2020]. Here you have a playlist in which you can watch all the interviews with [almost all] candidates, including the current and previous Polish President. Włodek Markowicz also has his own YouTube channel and is very famous for his movie "Dots" (Polish, English, Spanish, Russian and German subtitles are available).

  • Pawelandbajer - YouTube channel, where its creator every day publishes a video with a kind of joke called [in slang] "suchar" (literally: rusk), but in the sense of a [positive] synonym for "żart" and "dowcip" and "kawał". So if you like this type of humor and you really like it when you have [like to listen simple] jokes in your life, then it is worth checking this channel.

Games (Gry)

  • TVGRYpl -The most popular Polish YouTube channel dedicated to computer games. They have already created videos on many game-related topics (On the subchannel TVGRYplus there is news etc.). Some of their team also run a very interesting Gospoda RPG channel, where they play "classic Role-playing games (RPG)", i.e. those without electricity - using dices and those with the game master (GM).
  • Staszek iGRAszkowski - Very cool channel with gameplays of various games with nice commentary. So if you are looking for someone who records games and adds his cool commentary and doesn't without a lot of unnecessary things, this is a good choice because his videos are in nice quality.
  • quaz9 - The biggest Polish dinosaur of computer game reviews. He has been running his channel for over 10 years and his reviews still hold a huge level - he shares his opinions in a very interesting form.
  • Broda ty - Second Polish "dinosaur of computer games reviews". His videos are really qualitative. He describes his experiences with the game - reviews in a very interesting way, he is not afraid to criticize them constructively and speaks brief and to the point.
  • arhn.eu - Great channel dedicated to gaming enthusiasts, especially for those who like the theme of retro games, because it often appears here, game reviews appearing on the channel are also cool. The creators of the channel also made a very good documentary film about the creation of the computer version of Wiedźmin (The Witcher) - Biały Wilk: Historia komputerowego Wiedźmina (White Wolf: The History of the Computer Witcher).It is also worth to look at the subchannel arhn2eu - arhn.eu po godzinach.
  • NRGeek - Another interesting channel related to the subject of computer games. He publishes an interesting and funny video series entitled "Zagrajmy w crapa (Najgorsze gry wg NRGeeka)".
  • ZagrajnikTV - The channel presenting computer games in a very cool form - editing and the atmosphere of the videos are very interesting.
Chess (Szachy)
  • Marianczello Dominoni - A wonderful YouTube channel from a chess enthusiast for chess enthusiasts. The videos are created in a really cool and interesting way, which is able to interest people who may not be very familiar with chess at all (this is probably the best Polish YouTube channel about chess in my opinion).
  • DawidCzerwTV - FM (Fide Master) Dawid Czerw's YouTube channel. You will find a lot of cool chess tutorials. He is also the man who took part in preparing the Polish version of chess tutorials on Chess.com (lessons about the most important game basics are available for free and I highly recommend them).
  • Pan Szachuś - Chess player Krzysztof 'Szachuś' Budrewicz's YouTube channel where you can watch many interesting movies about chess, often with analysis of chess games.
  • Szachowo - Unfortunately for many years there is an inactive YouTube channel where you can find many cool chess lessons in Polish language.
  • Szkoła szachowa Szach Mistrz Maciej Sroczyński - The YouTube channel of the Szach chess school, which is run by FM (Fide Master) Maciej Srończyński.
  • Polski Związek Szachowy - The official channel of the Polish Chess Union.

Movies (Filmy)

  • Grupa Filmowa Darwin (G.F. Darwin) - A film group making really great movies. With its latest movies it refers to the problems affecting today's [especially Polish] society. The main popularity of this YouTube channel has been brought by movies from the "Wielkie Konflikty" series, as well as a parody of the song "Will You Be There" by Michael Jackson entitled "Orki z Majorki" (About [oceanic] orcas (killer whale) from Mallorca).
  • Martin Stankiewicz - The channel of a movie director, who has been dealing with it since childhood and was already successful at that time - a certain youth newspaper wrote about it. His channel has undergone a huge metamorphosis, he once recorded films in a different style. If you are interested in how he sees his work, you can see two interviews with him: the first and second.
  • Skazany na film - A great channel about film, where the author describes things from this world in a very inspiring way. It's really, really worth checking out.
  • Cezary Pazura - The YouTube channel of the famous Polish actor Cezary Pazura, the channel's subject are of course movies and things related to them, often "Wujek Czarek", as the actor wants it to be called, talks about the backstage of some famous movies and also tells anecdotes from his life as actor, also from his school days.
  • SztywnyPatyk - A channel with interesting movie reviews, its creator also contributes sometimes to the TvFilmy.
  • Na Gałęzi - Another channel dedicated to movies, there is a lot of humor here.
  • Artur Kinomaniak Pietras - A channel created by an expert with huge experience in film reviews.
  • Brody z Kosmosu - Channel with very interesting movie reviews.
  • Sfilmowani - Next channel about reviewing films.
  • Galeria Horroru - YouTube channel about [reviewing] horror movies and other things related to the horror subject.
  • TvFilmy - An interesting channel about movies. It is created by part of the team from TVGRYpl.

Japanese Culture and Popculture (Japońska kultura oraz popkultura)

  • Ignacy z Japonii - Very cool channel of a Japanese man named Kohei, who records videos under the pseudonym "Ignacy" (Explanation). The channel might be useful for people from Japan who would like to learn Polish and more, because "Ignacy" was a free listener in Polish studies at the Uniwersytet Śląski in Katowice, as he himself wrote in the description of the channel. He explains very interesting issues, refutes myths and stereotypes related to Japan or Japanese, which people spread unconsciously in Poland (and not only here).
  • Janusz z Japonii [Kotaro Hisada] - The channel of another Japanese man who speaks Polish really well (He lived in Poland for 4 years in total). Recently he has been publishing a lot of videos from his expeditions - he has the soul of a traveler, on which he talks about things there, for example Kinkakuji temple. He also talks about language issues, of course, and often talks about what he was doing in Polish, and made an interesting video about one of the frequent mistakes made by beginner Japanese people learning Polish.
  • Aiko & Emil - The channel of a very nice marriage - Japanese woman Aiko and the Polish man Emil. They form a very powerful duo and their videos are very interesting. We can learn from them many of their opinions about Japan and Poland, as well as video about unique topics, for example video about Ainu people and really cool video about their traditional Japanese wedding. There is also a video about "mythical Japanese square watermelon". It is also worthwhile to have a look at the separate Emil channel - Podcast Po Japonii and as the name says it is a podcast about Japanese things, often here are further conversations of those shown on Aiko & Emil channel. Emil also has another channel about North Korea, to which he often went on tours in the past and it's called Pozdro z KRLD.
  • Enma Official - YouTube channel of Polish woman who has lived in Japan since 2015, she is also a Graduate of Japanese Philology. She really likes do cosplay also. She very often refutes the false information and myths about Japan that are really often spread in popular media.
  • NanoKarrin - A Polish group creating covers of well-known songs. They are also created short parodies of some anime productions.
  • Spychu91 Anime - Announcements of new anime production and information from "that world". So if someone has already watched many productions and doesn't know what to watch, then maybe something of the [hypothetical] promising new series will interest him.

Mathematical and Information Technology (Matematyczne i informatyczne)

  • Tomasz Gwiazda - Very well known online math teacher. He has several hundred videos published on his channel. It is mainly mathematics at elementary school level and no longer existing gymnasium (gimnazjum) in Poland. When I went to school, it was 6 primary classes (and a sixth-grade graduation exam) and it was three years of middle school (and a gymnasium exam), even before the first grade of the elementary school, that I went to "zerówka" (0 class) - Here you can read more about stages of education in Poland - in English or preferably in Polish (also worth checking out here).
  • MATMAG.pl - The YouTube channel for learning mathematics - mainly targeted to parents who would like to teach their children mathematics in a quite accessible [more] graphic way. Here you can find the project website.
  • Matemaks - Next very cool channel to improve mathematical skills. Here you will learn mathematical knowledge at secondary school level - the knowledge necessary to pass the Polish Matura exam in mathematics. Website of this math course.
  • Pasja Informatyki - Marvelous YouTube channel about computer science and related things. From here you can learn, among others, the basics of C++ programming language ("Programming in C++. A course from scratch, for everyone") in a very cool way and also you can see what knowledge is needed to pass exams for the Polish occupational title "IT Technician" ("Technik Informatyk"). I am in the last class and already I passed one exam splited into theoretical part and practical part - EE.08 and in a few months, I'll be passing also splited into theoretical part and practical part - EE.09 - after passing all parts of both exams you can finish school with this title. Here is the official Mirosław Zelent website, where you can find videos from this nice channel, course materials, recommended [paid] books, link to the Pasja Informatyki forum and much more.

Technological (Technologiczne)

Electronical (Elektroniczne)

  • De-Kompozytor - Very cool YouTube channel, where the channel creator deals with decomposition of electronic equipment and its repair (there is a series in which he repairs his viewers' electronic equipment).
  • Adam Śmiałek - On this channel you will learn a lot about technological equipment from the past. Audiophiles and musicology learners will find here a lot of videos about music equipment (the author shows in detail how the equipment works in terms of sound quality - among others, he shows the spectrum and analyzes it).
  • RedaktorSzumu - A channel combining the features of the above YouTube channels, worth checking out if you are, among other, interested in repairing music equipment.

For children and youth (Dla dzieci i młodzieży)

Of course it is such a simplification and many of the contents of the links below will probably interest people of different ages.

VOD

  • Teatr Wielki VOD - Official VOD website of the Teatr Wielki. There you can watch archival versions of theatrical performances.
  • Kino Świat VOD - YouTube channel of the Polish distribution company Kino Świat. Many of movies are available here.
  • VOD.pl - The link leads to a free list of films shared - streamed by this service.
  • TVP's VOD - Official VOD of Polish Television - Telewizja Polska (TVP). There are a lot of film/serial recordings that were broadcast on the main channels.
  • Ipla - It's a VOD associated mainly with Polsat TV. There are a lot of films and series available for free. Of course there are also movies for pay-per-view option.
  • TVN's Player - VOD associated with TVN television, on which the content is broadcast on channels associated with it.
  • Netflixowe darmówki - (Darmówki in colloquial speech = freebies) Here you can watch several movies, some episodes of series and programs for free on the Netflix platform with Polish subtitles (probably in some regions they are unavailable), which Netflix allows you to watch to give you the free opportunity to test that service.

Television (Telewizja)

Subtitles (Napisy)

  • AnimeSub.info - Subtitles to the anime you bought.
  • Napisy24 - Subtitles to movies and series you bought.
  • OpenSubtitles - Another biggest library of subtitles to movies and series you bought.
  • NapiProjekt - This is a program that tries to download the best possible subtitles for the selected [purchased] movie.

Movies databases and social networks (Bazy filmowe oraz sieci społecznościowe)

  • Filmweb - the most popular film social network in Poland with a huge database of films and a number of reviews (My profile).

  • Filmaster - A page similar to the above, also pretty cool.

  • FDB - Internet film base. Another page of the type above.

  • Filmy.pl - "Open movie portal" - movie catalog.

Audio

  • My Youtube playlist entilted "The best Polish songs - The core of Polish music" - I have created a playlist of songs that are memorable, also a part of the Polish culture, conversations of Poles include often many jokes - references to them. I update it from time to time as soon as I have a "marathon of listening to music". So that's the playlist of "core songs of Poland" (But there's not much Disco Polo here anyway, I keep it to a minimum because it's still a subjective playlist, and I'm already bored with this genre and I think then that it's mostly "homogenous"). I'm also interested in Polish music from different times, so you'll find some older songs there, I'm also trying to add the best quality versions (official uploads) to the playlist, not uploaded by "a third party uploader" in very poor and even more compressed quality.
  • Lista przebojów TOP 30 - TOP 30 of Polish music hits by Kino Polska Muzyka. The vote is repeated every week, so the ranking is often refreshed (Many Polish hits are so good that they always appear on the rankings, so it's usually just about a place on the list).
  • Polski Top Wszech Czasów - The list of TOP 100 best Polish music works of all time, updated every year and created by Polskie Radio Program III.
  • WIDZĘ GŁOSY - A channel where the most famous Polish voice actors are interviewed. Often you can learn from them many interesting stories from the realization of a given project and observations of the actors themselves. Often the actors sing songs that they have sung in a polish versions of movies productions. Of course, these are usually songs from the old days, so you can observe the voice changes of such people.
  • Polskie Podcasty - A catalog of polish podcasts.
  • Katalog Biblioteki Polskiej - A catalog of polish songs.
  • Filharmonia Narodowa and this - official website of the Polish National Philharmonic and its YouTube channel. You can find there a lot of great symphonic concerts and much more.
  • Polskie Nagrania - official channel of the Polish record company "Polskie Nagrania". They also have playlist with the best Polish music (Top 100).
  • Pomaton - official YouTube channel of another Polish record company "Pomaton".
  • MTJ Wytwórnia Muzyczna - official channel of the Polish music label MTJ Wytwórnia Muzyczna.
  • Real Polish and Here is the official Archive.org profile with free podcasts, because some of them require a VIP account, and here you have free podcasts right away.
  • Great78 - Polish collections from The Great 78 Project, where the local community make preservation, research and discovery 78 rpm records, which are very old vinyl records, so it's a great source to listen to old Polish songs and see what the language and style of the melody sounded like at the time, a really cool thing, I'd like more projects of this kind to be on this list, not just websites that aren't eternal, here you can download these songs (they're in FLAC format) and listen them on your favorite device. There are usually several versions available in one archive file, i.e. versions with extra settings and the original version without any additional settings.

Audiobooks

  • Wolne Lektury - I mentioned Wolne Lektury earlier in the list, but it's worth mentioning here that they have a huge collection of audiobooks.

  • Radiobook - Project of Polish Radio Music Agency, thanks to which you can listen to many well-known books, for example "Przedwiośnie", via YouTube.

  • Audioteka - The official YouTube channel of Audioteka, you will find a lot of audiobooks to listen here, of course, as you can guess, often only parts of the books are available to encourage you to buy them, but it is in very fair form - the videos have many minutes.

  • Polska-poezja.pl - An interesting website where you can find Polish poems and listen to them in a audio form.

  • Kocham czytać - "I love to read," that is Jacek Kozłowski's YouTube channel, where he has been reading poems for over three years and also he reads a book entitled "Pan Tadeusz" and "Anhelli" and also the Bible - Gospel of Matthew from the New Testament - translation made by Polish Jesuit Jakub Wujek - The Wujek Bible.

  • Darmowe audiobooki - A YouTube channel where a certain mister reads books that are available in the public domain. If anyone would like to listen to something less studio-ish - more natural, it's definitely worth checking out, such as the [full] Pinocchio audiobook.

  • Bajkowy tata - Audiobooks for children, which "can be downloaded and listened to for free, without restrictions".

Song lyrics (Teksty piosenek)

  • Tekstowo - one of the currently most popular Polish websites offering lyrics to songs. Transcriptions are created by users. You will need it if you want to learn a language by listening to songs, because you will be able, for example, to listen and read at the same time or you can try to write down what you heard and then check the lyrics of the song to see if it is correct, it is certainly a nice method and quite mind friendly and not boring in my opinion.
  • Groove - Another option, there are a lot of song interpretations and, of course, the subtitles themselves, so this will come in handy if we want to understand the deeper meaning of the tracks. Sometimes you have to do some research anyway to find out what song had the true message, especially in case of old Polish songs, like those from the 80s. If you haven't found the meaning of a song, write to me, then I'll try to help you interpret it by helping you know the history of those times and knowing the people who lived then, because I'm from 2001, so hehehe, but I still have a lot of knowledge in that topic and I also got to know (my parents told me a lot about it) a part of the biographies of the local music artists, which can be useful in this regard.
  • Teksty - service very similar to the above. It has a slightly more old-school look.
  • Tekściory - Another alternative.

Music sheets and tabs (Nuty oraz taby)

  • Biblioteka nut - Stare melodie - A really huge and wonderful library of notes of old Polish melodies, which you can download as a PDF file. I really like the animations on the site and its style. Well done, author. More about the website - project.
  • Śpiewnik Wywroty - lyrics of Polish and foreign songs and "the biggest Polish Wiki-Songbook created by guitarists for guitarists!", so of course you will find here the guitar tabs.
  • Taby na harmonijkę - list of many taboos for the harmonica. A really cool website, I learned on it e.g. intro song from "Pat a Mat".
  • Forum Harmoszka (Archive version) - A very cool forum with tabs for the harmonica. I, for example, used this forum to learn how to play "Hejnał mariacki". I gave a link to the archive version of the forum, because it did not work for me personally, maybe some technical work is in progress. As far as the choice of instrument to play is concerned, I recommend the piano [keyboard] (king of instruments), but if you want something even simpler and very mobile, the harmonica and kazoo (a totally easy to play instrument) will also be cool.
  • Musicscore - A great collection of music sheets, in which you can also find Polish songs. You can also download their official free and professional software to: "create, play and print sheet music"- I personally really recommend it.
  • Nuty za free - Website with Polish as well as other notes, which in total are over 450 available.

Karaoke online

  • iSing - The most popular Polish karaoke service. You can listen many song covers here.

  • Letsing - similar to the above.

Internet Radio (Radio internetowe)

Games (Gry)

  • Helltaker - (Available on the Steam platform) A very [globally] popular and free fantastic Polish adventure and logic game [+ some dating elements] with very interesting graphics and unique characters. Not only Japanese pop culture fans will like it. The creator of the game has also created a separate official Polish translation, which you can download here and here are the installation instructions. It is also possible to find several other translations created by the community, such as Spanish translation.
  • Janosik - Very cool Polish computer game available for download for free on the Steam platform (Three languages are currently available: Polish, English and Slovak). The game contains elements known from games of "metroidvania" type. The main goal of the game's plot is to save Janosik's comrades who have been kidnapped and imprisoned. The title of the game and the main character itself refers to Juraj Jánošík, who was a famous Slovak highwayman. A long time ago in Poland a famous TV series with the same name as the game was created. According to the author, it takes about 2 hours to complete the game. It is worth to look for hidden places with treasure.
  • Otchłań - Poland's largest online text-based SUD (RPG) game. "The beginnings of the Otchłań date back to 1998, when two teenagers, interested in MUDs, decided to write something "like MUD, but for one person", as the authors write at the beginning of the description (There is a version for Windows, Linux and DOS). Here is the official project forum. It is really worth testing this game. There is also quite an interesting interview with one of the game developers.
  • GRY-OnLine - The largest Polish portal dedicated to games. It has a fairly active community and a database of games with ratings. So if you are looking for some Polish game, you should find a page with it here.
  • Bractwo Spolszczenia - A web portal dedicated to polishing modifications and translations to Gothic, recently a very good dubbing for production is being created. Gothic is a cult game for many Poles, so it is worthwhile to get to know the sites associated with it. Recently, many great Polish professional moderation projects have been created, e.g. "History of Khorinis". This will be the unofficial prequel of the Gothic I game. The voices of the characters are from very popular voice actors, and documentary films about these actors have been made as part of the project, so it is worth watching them on the project's official YouTube channel. Another big project worth mentioning is the still being created mod "Myrtana Chronicles" (A lot of great Gothic mods have been created for many years, so when they come out, there will be a lot of them to play).
  • theModders -A web portal dedicated to creating and modifying games (currently mainly Gothic series).
  • Spine Mod Manager - I will also mention a German program - a mod manager named Spine, which also supports Polish language and mods for Gothic and Gothic II (With "Night of the Raven" extension of course, so Gold Edition).
  • Graj Po Polsku - A nice website with great quality Polish translations for many computer games.

Browser games (Gry przeglądarkowe)

Tools and apps (Narzędzia i aplikacje)

  • Anki - Powerful flashcards' tool. A great way to learn a language. It requires regularity, as is usually the case with learning something, but in a more simple and accessible way. The great inter-universal science committee found this to be one of the very good ideas.
  • Balabolka - A free software (text-to-speech engine) for reading out text with a speech synthesizer. It can be useful to someone (FAQ. Many years ago a very good [paid] Polish IVONA's speech synthesizer was very popular, a few years ago Amazon bought this company.
  • Duolingo (Android) and for iOS. If someone is curious, then the version on Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Mobile 10 still works, only this version on Windows 8.1 has fewer courses available, but still an interesting thing, but e.g. there is no Japanese course there, I personally use it to improve my English skill, it will always come in handy, especially many people can be surprised seeing the descriptions from this list, but calmly, I will improve it in the future and the future will come soon.
  • Słownik angielskiego Diki - Application of the authors of the website diki.pl. It is a great Polish-English dictionary. Of course, an iOS version is also available.
  • Clozemaster - Mobile version of Clozemaster for Android and iOS.
  • Drops: Polish (Android) - Drop your fears. Start learning.
  • Quizlet (Android) and for iOS.

Services (Serwisy)

  • Clozemaster - Also a very nice service for learning Polish [in context]. Currently there is support to learning Polish via: English, French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese and Russian. The free version has a few limitations, but it's still okay and very useful, Pro version [among others] has more statistics, unlimited listening practice and downloadable content for mobile.
  • Duolingo - Practically everyone knows this wonderful service, which mascot is a green bird named Duo (just be careful and do regular lessons, then he doesn't get upset, it's very important, don't forget about your course, hehe). A Polish language course for English speakers is supported there (US, but people who know the UK version and others will understand as well). I have rewritten every English language course out of curiosity, but I mainly learn Japanese and Czech there (You can follow my profile, if you want to watch my progress on the platform, I recently returned to more active use of it). I used to be in the top league in the ranking, but now I've fallen by the lack of activity. Also, recently there was an option to learn Finnish, which I was interested in, and probably in 2020 there will be another available language to learn, this is a nice thing for people interested in other languages.
  • 10fastfingers - On this website you can practice the speed of typing on your keyboard, also with [200 most popular] Polish words (or 1000 most popular words version), so if you want to practice the use of diacritics, you should definitely use something like that. You can also participate in typing competitions on time. My personal best record, I think I can do this ~120 WPM for the moment with my actual keyboard.
  • VerbCards - A new, but promising, completely free service that helps you learn a language using cards (currently only English - Polish option available).
  • Quizlet - something like Anki, but online and much more, so it's worth checking it out.
  • Quzizz - A page with quizzes. There are a lot of quizzes created by teachers for their [mostly young] students, so it's a good option to repeat different things for example from the basics of grammar and so on.

Culinary (Kulinaria)

  • "Kucharz doskonały" - A wonderful collection of books, prints and manuscripts created by the Polish National Library. There are over 140 books by famous authors (in those days). They are mostly written in a language very similar to today's, and often also include words less commonly used today (but not archaisms), a lot of interesting recipes can be found there and of course you can download it all for free and probably without any major limits (maybe there is a limit, but with an attempt to download a huge amount). If you have a large amount of potatoes, it will probably be worthwhile to check the recipes from the book "200 potraw z ziemniaków" (200 dishes from potatoes). Such a number of dishes should make you not be hungry for a long time.
  • Cookbooks (And more books) by Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa - This author has written many cool books about cooking, on Polona you will find several of them in many editions. They are written in a pretty cool language. In the above link you will of course also find her works.
  • Lista przepisów kulinarnych Mateusza Koniecznego - Here you will find the GitHub repository, where for many years now, really different recipes of this user appear. The author gives their sources in text files with recipes, many of them come from him and his family. He also actively improves and updates (among others, makes corrections) some of them.
  • 33 proven uses of chocolate in dishes - If you like chocolate, this is something for you.
  • Jadłonomia - A very cool website with "vegan recipes not only for vegans" (don't be afraid, I am a vegetarian myself, but I don't want to force convert you to vegetarianism, but often thanks to the dishes associated with this diet - vegan and vegetarian, you can discover a lot of new taste sensations).
  • Olga Smile - Very interesting culinary blog. Here you will find dishes from various diets, for carnivores, vegetarians, vegans and gluten-free for people with coeliac disease (Or for people who just don't like gluten).
  • Kulinarne Szaleństwa Margarytki - A very cool blog about cooking. Here you can find many interesting and unique recipes.
  • Moje Wypieki - "the sweetest recipe blog on the web". If you love sweet and beautiful looking cakes, then the recipes from this site can be very useful for you.
  • Whiteplate - An interesting page where you can find a lot of recipes for baking rolls and bread. If you are a baker, it is worth to be inspired by such baked goods to make yourself better and better, because good bread is never bad.
  • IleWazy.pl - A large base of products and their calorific value, fat, protein, etc. There is no need to be paranoid, but if you exercise, for example, it is worth knowing how much any food contains protein.
  • Czytamy Etykiety - website with analysis of food labels. There are also food rankings, so if you live in Poland (and not only because there are a lot of products in Poland, which are also abroad, it sometimes happens that the composition is different, of course), and you try to eat valuable and relatively healthy food, it may come in handy. Of course, there are also descriptions of the ingredients from which food is made, e.g. here is about high-fructose corn syrup.

Recipes for holidays and festivities (Przepisy na święta i uroczystości)

  • These are the main ones, in some regions of Poland may appear additional. Very useful if you want to learn the names of the most important Polish holidays and festivities. Calendar for 2020 and 2021. Polish holiday and festivities names in English.

    • Shrove Tuesday - It is definitely worth trying Polish pączki (filled with rose marmalade) and faworki (chrust), also racuchy I like to eat a lot of French fries this day (Because literally it means "Fat Thursday" in Poland). Often people bring pączki to work and school and share them with others, in general, it is all about eating as much fat food as possible, it may be a slightly unhealthy holiday - "The largest cheat meal day in the year" xD.

    • Valentine's Day - (The same can happen in the days of a girl[friend] and a boy[friend]). On the occasion of that day, people give themselves handmade cakes, self-made cards or anonymous letters (in some schools, students go with such a box, where you can anonymously throw a letter to someone and then it is delivered to the addressee, it is such a way of secretly professing your feelings. At least it was possible in my early youth - a few years ago xD). I personally consider this holiday to be purely commercial ("holidays" of this kind can turn true feelings into a "product"), I think that if you really love someone, you can more often do such "private Valentine's Day", but I already think that doing something like that by yourself is more valuable than spending large sums of money on some mascots, which can also be a lovely gift, but would be even greater if there was an attempt to sew them yourself. This also increases the inner emptiness of loneliness of some people when they see an idealized image of couples buying each other's gifts, and some forget that they can also give gifts to their best friends or family on that day, because love is not only reserved for humans in very close relationships - in the end, it all comes down to spending time together, so just enjoy the moments with those you have at that moment, and don't regret the lack of moments with people you don't have at that moment (I know these are such truistic words and this is a heavy and complex subject).

    • Easter - (In Poland it is not customary to invite ostriches for Easter, it is the ostriches themselves who have to ask for the invitation, vampires do the same). This holiday is recognized as the most important Christian holiday (Not bad explanation). I like winter, but this holiday is more fun for me because I like eating armoracia rusticana (I look forward to the moment when I can try the true and fresh wasabi).It is also believed in some regions that at that time, "Zajączek" brings gifts, just like "Święty Mikołaj" on the Christmas time (Main Polish Easter Traditions and this is very useful also). This holiday may be a bit terrible for vegans, but here, too, it is mainly about symbolism - metaphors, so you can simply prepare alternative dishes and spend the time in the same way, because it is not really about food, which is often mentioned in this category. Religious (and not just them) people go to church in the morning with a basket (about święconka) of food to be consecrated by the priest. On the occasion of Easter in Poland, eggs are decorated to make "pisanki". (When it comes to such preparation of ornamental things, this holiday contains a lot of this, because seven days before Easter, that is, on Palm Sunday, the so-called Easter Palms, there are often competitions for which palm is the largest).

      Here is a nice book about Easter cakes by Mrs. Elżbieta Kiewnarska.

    • Christmas - During this period, personally, I like to eat the łazanki z makiem very much. A lot of carols are also sung. It is a religious holiday, like most people, but it is worth being aware that it is a part of Polish culture and it is not only reserved for Catholics and Christmas Eve can be attended by anyone. A lot of carols are also sung (Here you have an excellent list). It is a religious holiday, like most other holidays in Poland, but it is worth being aware that it is part of Polish culture and it is not only reserved for Catholics and Christmas Eve can be attended by anyone, traditions are important for this country and the organizers are open to other nice people. It is mainly about family and friendly atmosphere, so you might as well spend time with your friends eating something good, not necessarily traditional food, but it would be great if you could. I will also mention that it is important to wait for the [first] star in the sky and many people go to a special night mass which is called Pasterka.

    • New Year's Eve - During this period, you usually invite your friends home or you come to their house. You eat a lot of fast food/snacks, watch different movies together, play board games like Eurobusiness, remember past years, plan things for the future. When the clock points 0:00, children drink non-alcoholic champagne (I also drink it because I like to be sober and not try to flood problems with alcohol) and adults often forget about their limits - It's often just divided into groups that older people with their friends, children with their friends, it's probably also common to spend the new year only with the whole family, but I think it's nice to spend this time with best friends too.

(There is also a pumpkin holiday that is celebrated in the USA and some people want to celebrate in Poland, but it is really rated very 50/50 in Poland, some people think it's nothing bad - just fun, other Poles think that this holiday does not fit into our Polish - Slavic culture and has been forcibly brought from abroad for commercial purposes, I personally don't mind this holiday, but I also think that the latter opinion is really reasonable and it's just "some kind of event" and those who play it shouldn't require the Poles to take part in it too. The day after 31 is quite a sad day, that is All Saints' Day for us such a Halloween once was an event called "Dziady" (Here you can read more about it).

History (Historia)

(Here on my list are YouTube channels about history)

  • Przystanek Historia by Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (IPN) - Digital library from which you can download many free publications about history (PDF format). Here on the website you can read articles in English. If you are interested in the history of Poland, you will surely find a lot of interesting materials on this website.
  • Tytus.Edu.PL - "Your guide to history". An interesting historical site containing a large number of articles describing various historical events.
  • Histmag.org - Another noteworthy Polish history portal.
  • Ciekawostki historyczne - "The most popular magazine about history in Poland". The articles are written in the form of trivia.
  • Historia.org.pl - Nice Polish history portal. You will find there a lot of articles, reviews and more.
  • Imperium Romanum - If you are interested in the history of ancient civilizations, especially the history of ancient Rome, this is probably worth checking out.

Math (Matematyka)

(Here on my list are the math YouTube channels)

  • Matemaks - One of the best Polish sites for learning math in a simple way. It contains everything you need to pass school exams in the mathematics part (like matura for example) in Poland.
  • Polish Khan Academy - An excellent service for learning math. Includes lots of fully free courses to choose from. It is mainly math at the elementary school level. There are also courses available in other sciences, such as physics, chemistry and biology, also you will find humanities and computer science and much, much more.
  • Batmat - A fully free service for learning math in an interactive way. Assignments are at the secondary school level.
  • Matmag - A service similar to the above, but in this case unfortunately the service is not fully free, but there is a free trial version without the need to register, so you can try all the lessons to some extent for free. The assignments are at the elementary school level (grade 1 - 8).
  • Matematyczne ZOO - Matzoo - Service very similar to the above. It was created mainly for elementary school students. It is completely free, the only paid option is to disable advertising on the site.
  • Matematyka szkolna - A website designed to teach high school math. You will find here almost 4000 assignments with complete solutions.
  • Free math textbooks - Epodreczniki.pl - The main link takes you to free math textbooks at the elementary school level. Secondary school textbooks can be found here.
  • Szalone Liczby - A cool website where you can find a lot of math assignments, as well as solutions to math assignments with full solutions.

Polish law (Polskie prawo)

Law is a very important thing in society, the following links will be useful for people who want to learn about Polish law and Polish legal terms - names and their style of writing.

Road traffic regulations (Przepisy prawa ruchu drogowego)

  • Prawo o ruchu drogowym - Here I add a link to Google (Choose this link with isap.sejm.gov.pl), because that law is often being updated, so I would not want to give a direct link to a version that might turn out to be older in a while.
  • Teoria - Here you can take free driving theory tests, these tests only contain official driving licence questions. If you are a driving instructor in your own country, this information may turn out to be interesting, e.g. if one of your pupils wants to go to Poland one day, you will be able to tell him about the differences.
  • Here is a film explaining how to react to the signals of a police officer who is manually driving the traffic (Similar but shorter video)
  • Panie Jacku - Here is a very interesting channel of Mr. Jacek, where he talks about things connected with exams and the drive itself.
  • Szkoła Kierowców Turbo - On this YouTube channel you can see the maneuvers and preparation for driving, such as checking the lights, setting the seat and mirrors and, of course, fastening your seat belt correctly.
  • LTesty - On this channel, driving tests are solved and the person answering the questions explains why the chosen answer is correct.

Various websites (Różne strony internetowe)

Please verify the truthfulness of the information you read and be careful, politics likes to create walls between people.

Charity (Charytatywne)

  • Krwiod@wcy.org (Honorowe krwiodawstwo i krwiolecznictwo) - A page with information on how to prepare for the blood donation process in Poland. There is also a survey which must be completed before each donation (Now, during coronavirus, an additional questionnaire must also be filled in before entering the waiting room etc.). This is a really helpful thing about the subject, and it is also a wonderful action, which is voluntary blood donation.

  • Fundacja DKMS - On this page you can learn about the bone marrow donation process and you can register as a donor or give dotation (this also applies to people from other countries, because the foundation has many branches).

  • [Poomoc.pl](Same as above) - This is a "charity clicker aggregator and much more", on which you can click on many charity actions also on an action called "Balonik", available only through this page, which aims at dream come true of sick children. Here you can read more about charity actions and there you can find out "who you help".

    ​ On this website you can find these charity actions among others:

    • Pajacyk - A website where by clicking on Jumping Jack every day you can help provide meals to malnourished children. "How to help" and "A short movie about clicking".
    • Okruszek - Another "charity clicker" similar to Pajacyk, where you can also help by clicking, but this time help is for the homeless and the poor people.
    • Dobry klik - There you can click on the "bricks" (Polish "cegiełka", that means its part in helping something, for example: "Chciałbym dołożyć swoją cegiełkę w tej akcji [charytatywnej]" - "I would like to add my contribution to this [charity] action", without this context it is simply a "little brick", diminutive of a brick) in the picture every day and each of your "bricks" is equal to 0,1 PLN, which will be donated to a given charity.
    • Psi klik - Similar action as Dobry klik , but charity is for dogs and every click is equal to 0.05 PLN.
    • Koci klik - Same as above, but charity is for cats and every click is also equal to 0.05 PLN.
    • Pusta Miska - Here you can help cats and dogs by clicking every day.
    • Karmimy psiaki - On this website you can click once a day on the button under the dog you can help (you can click on any available button under the dog).

Typical news sites (Typowe strony informacyjne)

I emphasize that I add here the most popular sites, there are a lot of them, so I can forget about one and I do not identify with any of these sites here, I do not represent the views of any of the sites here, I do not glorify any site here and I do not condemn any site here. I have my own opinion, but I want to keep it private, but I still try to be objective and give people the right to choose and not to give them links to sites that I consider "the only right".

Agregators (Agregatory)

(You can also take a look at the list of Polish subreddits here)

  • Wykop - The largest Polish news aggregator. The male user in the local dialect is called "Mirek" and the female "Mirabelka". You can choose to browse the homepage and also choose the tags you are interested in or create your own. You can also add post tags to the blacklist and then these posts with these blocked tags will not appear. The community is very diverse. I like the blood donation action under the name "Baryłka Krwi" (Barrel of Blood) and it is under the tag #barylkakrwi.
  • Lurker - The alternative to the above page.
  • Karab.in - A page similar to the above.

Email providers (Dostarczyciele email)

Social networks (Sieci społecznościowe)

  • HiNative - A multilingual platform for asking and answering questions (Q&A). Here you can ask questions about Poland and Polish language issues.
  • Conlanger - Polskie Forum Językowe - Polish language forum, at this link you can find a section for talking about Polish language.
  • e-polish.eu - Discussion forum about Polish language learning.
  • Nasza Klasa (NK) - One of Poland's cult social networking sites, before the popularization of Facebook in Poland, was very often used by Poles, offered a lot of online games, I personally switched from NK to Facebook 8 years ago because I wanted to play the latest version of Shadow Fight, and this Polish version had fewer updates. This site can be very useful to you, for example if you once lived in Poland and attended a Polish school, and you've really liked a lot of people and forgotten their names, there's a chance that you'll find some pictures and details of these people there (These are also worth mentioning: Gadu-Gadu or Grono.net - which lost its popularity when popularity of NK grew).

Reddit:

  • /r/learnpolish - Very nice subreddit about learning Polish. If you have any questions, doubts or interesting information about things related to the Polish language, feel free to write there. Poland is generally a nation willing to help others, there is a huge hospitality culture here since the beginning of the country, so for over 1000 years. In every society, there are stupid, silly and fanatic people, and Poland is no exception, so we should not generalize, because we have a lot of intelligent, nice and tolerant people here. Poland often lost out on such an attitude, because for other countries, as it be in Politics, only interests mattered.

  • /r/Polska - Official Polish subreddit in Polish.

  • /r/Poland - Subreddit about Poland in English.

  • /r/Polish - Subreddit about "Polish culture and language".

  • /r/PolskaNaLuzie - Poland on chillout - "without politics and other heavy topics".

  • /r/TVGRYpl - Unofficial subreddit about the TVGRYpl.

  • /r/Zagranicznicy - Subreddit bringing together all those who have emigrated.

  • /r/filozofia - Polish subreddit about philosophy.

  • /r/muzyka - Polish subreddit about music.

Discord:

My nice tips (Moje świetne wskazówki)

  • In Polish, there is such a thing that some sentences can be shortened. For example, instead of saying: "Jesteś mądry" [masculinum -y] or "Jesteś mądra" [in femininum "a" instead of "y"] (You are smart), you can tell: "Mądryś" or "Mądraś" (Yes, -ś from jesteś) or "Jesteś odważny" or "Jesteś odważna" (You are brave) = "Odważnyś" or "Odważnaś" or "Jesteś miły" or "Jesteś miła" (You are nice) = "Miłyś" or "Miłaś". If you want to become a knight or lady, it may come in handy to you, because it sounds a bit archaic, but I always remember that it's a cool thing, so I created this category to share such cool things with you.
  • The word "spoko" (comes from the word: "spokojnie" - calmly) is a very useful and universal word. You can use it instead of "Nie ma za co" (You're welcome) and also "Nie ma problemu" (No problem), so when, for example, a neighbor apologizes to you that his piano fell out of his window into your garden, you can tell him: "Spoko". You can say that you like something, e.g. "Ten film jest spoko" ("This movie is cool"). It is from many years a very popular word, so even the older ones will understand. Of course, it can be used to, for example, soothe someone nervous - "Spoko, wszystko będzie w porządku" (Chill, everything will be fine). Or you can confirm something with this word e.g. someone asks you if you want to go to the cinema, then if you want to, you say "Spoko" ("Yes" in this case). So, if you are afraid to use the word "w porządku" and you still use "okay/okey(/okej)", then "spoko" can be a cool alternative for you. Of course, it's a slang word, so if you use it during a "serious conversation", someone might get the impression that you're a "relaxed kind of human", although that's good, because at least they will know you're an honest man.
  • If you want to sound more like noble or just poetic (elevated/high style of speech), for example you can change the words (pronouns) "moim" (moje) to "mym" (me) and "twoim" (twoje) to "twym" (twe) and more (Also check here and HIER). So if you're wearing daily a monocle and a cylinder, it's something absolutely necessary for you, don't forget also to take your own tea set [and also you should have a large stock of [matricaria chamomilla in your inventory] with a gilded cup (In general, this can sound a bit old-fashioned, but it's one of the cool ways to "color" your speech in Polish - sometimes one snowman from a certain cartoon talked in this style, so if you've watched this cartoon about a helpful green dragon, you'll know who was it).
  • If you want to call (define) a person who likes something with a simple noun, you can do so by adding the ending (yes, yes - sufiks) -olub (or -olubka in femininum). For example a person who likes pasta = makaronolub or, for example, a person who likes locomotives = lokomotywolub and yet a person who likes images = "obrazolub". It is a bit "synthetic" and may sound funny, so use it rather for such "chill conversations", then implement it in your everyday language, because, there are already [more "professional"] dictionary terms for people who like something like "audiofil" (audiophile) and its synonym: meloman (music lover and the suffix -man itself, that is from the word "mania", so it means a person who has a mania at some point, so a person who's maniacally eating broccoli (brokuł - Brassica oleracea L. var. italica Plenck) is "brokułoman" or "brokułomaniak" with -maniak). I would just add that you can also do the same with the ending -fil, but there are also a lot of words to describe people with very bad tendencies (with various disorders) and you know what I mean. That is why the creation of words with this ending would be badly associated with some bad things. By the way, I would also like to take this opportunity to say that if, for example, we would like to define a human-like creatures, then we can do it by adding the ending -lud, e.g. a frog (żaba) with legs and hands and behaving like a human - żabolud or also you can use the ending -człek, then żaboczłek or another example of "human + elephant (słoń)" - słoniolud/słonioczłek (There is a very popular word in Polish - "ufolud" and the diminutive of this word - "ufoludek" and it means "alien"). I will add, finally, that if we want to define a person who eats (she or he or it has a lot of this food in diet) something, for example watermelons (arbuzy - Citrullus vulgaris), then we can add the ending -jad and then such a person will be called arubozojad or with sufiks -żerca, then "arbuzożerca" or jabłkojad/jabłkożerca (apple-eating creature). Creatures with a plant-based diet = roślinożercy and those with a diet in which there is meat = mięsożercy, then for example, "dinozaury roślinożerne" (herbivorous dinosaurs) and dinozaury mięsożerne (carnivorous dinosaurs). So you can say in joke that vegetarians and vegans are: "roślinożerni/roślinożercami".
  • I mentioned to you earlier the use of the word "spoko". I will now tell you about another very useful and universal word (it comes from colloquial speech), the word "lipa" (Literally means "lipa" - Tilia - Linden or Lime tree). It is a word that means something not entirely cool or just a failure to do something etc. For example, someone may ask: "Byłeś już w tej kręgielni, która została niedawno otwarta?" (Have you been to this bowling alley that was recently opened?) and someone can answer: "Tak, totalna lipa" (Yes, totally uncool). So, as you can see, this is the complete opposite of the [positive] word "spoko". Another example: "Czy udało ci się przejść ten poziom w tej nowej grze?" (Have you managed to pass this level in this new game?) and answer: "Nie, nadal lipa" (No, still not successful). You can also use this as a "statement - shout of sad" - "Co za lipa!" (Such a shame!) or alternative "Ale lipa!" (For example, when you lack a small amount of money to buy something or when just a small moment before you arrived at the bus stop, the bus you wanted to go with, drove off right before your eyes and now you have to wait 30 minutes for another one). One more example to conclude: "Jak smakuje ci ten dziwny owoc?" (How does this strange fruit taste to you?) and answer: "Lipnie" (Poorly - It's an adverb of this specific use "lipa", normally, it would be correct to say "lipowe", for example "lipowa herbata" - linden tea). If you want to use this example in the plural, it would be, for example "Lipne jedzenie" (Poor food). That is the next word kind of: everyone, regardless of their age, will understand the word, because it is quite often used by people from different parts of the country (Wooden people will probably never use it in their entire lives, although Pinocchio would be happy to use it, but it is not about him).
  • Ahoy, Mateys! If you're bored of being a landlubber (szczur lądowy) and you want to become a seadog (wilk morski) or just would like to talk like a buccaneer during International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which takes place on September 19 each yearrr, or something like that, these tips will help you, yo ho ho. Before I really begin, remember that an eye patch will add authenticity and allow you to get more into character, if you don't have one you can also try to squint one of your eyes, then ye'll look very menacing. Example sentence in the normal way: "O nie! Zapomniałem o nastawieniu budzika i zaspałem." ("Oh no! I forgot to set my alarm clock and overslept."), and now in a pirate way: "Do kroćset! Zapomniałem o nastawieniu budzika, niech to dunder świśnie!" ("Hell! I forgot to set my alarm clock and overslept, blast it!"). As you can see, it's a good idea to add more pirate exclamations, I added one at the end because there was already one at the beginning. Ye should also add "arrr" (or with more "r" added or less amount) wherever you can, such as at the beginning of a sentence: "Arrrr! Jaki piękny mamy dzisiaj dzień, do kroćset!" ("Arrrr! What a fabulously beautiful day we have today!"), here is an example with a pirate "r" accent: "Pewna papuga arrra miała mieszkanie o wielkości jednego arrra" ("One arrra parrrot had an apartment the size of one arre"). This is how you should greet your [not only Czech] friends: "Ahoj! Jak się masz, kamracie? Arrr!" ("Ahoy! How are you, hearty? Arrr!"). Avast, If you are a pirate abstainer, you can drink tea with lemon (or powerful Polish kompot) instead of grog and rum. When you want to nod, say out loud: "Aj, aj" ("Aye, aye!"), but if you say it too quietly, that's when you give a sign that something hurts. An example of being surprised: "Niech mnie kule biją! Przecież to ten słynny wannolot!" ("Holy buckets! This is the famous bathfly!"). If you want to offend someone in a pirate way (but only in jest, be nice to your fellow man), you can say: "Arrr! Idź do czorta, psubracie!" ("Arrr! Go to the deuce, scoundrel!"). The important thing is to have many buried trunks with huge treasure, necessarily marked with an "X" as the famous Captain Greg did.

Others (Inne)

  • 6obcy - Website for talking to strangers from different regions of Poland and abroad. You can meet many interesting people here, but you can also find a lot of "suspicious people", so be careful. (M - mężczyzna - male, K - kobieta - female, so at the beginning of the conversation, when someone writes "K", it means that she says she is a woman, it's a pattern that often occurs, or e.g. M20 = a man who is 20 years old, for some people it's just something like a dating chat.
  • Nonsensopedia - A parody of Wikipedia in Polish and as the name itself says, it is full of nonsense (The equivalent of English Uncyclopedia). Sometimes you can find hilarious articles (So stupid, applause for the creativity of their author, then it could make you laugh) here, especially in those areas that we are very interested in and familiar with. There is certainly a lot of 'difficult humor' here, so it is rather for people with a specific sense of humor.

Resources lists (Listy zasobów)

Operating systems (Systemy operacyjne)

(Linux distributions created by Polish humans - Source)

Contact (Kontakt)

Feel free to ask, if you have any doubts or would you simply like to propose adding/changing something.

Support (Wsparcie)

If you want to support the project, just send people in need a link to this list, surely many people will be happy and the popularity of the project will increase. I also hope that you will help me to improve - expand this list via feedback. The Internet is huge, so I'm sure I overlooked something. Pingwin Mroźny will be happy if you don't forget him. If you would like to create subtitles for an episode (or for multiple episodes) with Pingwin Mroźny, let me know, I will probably send you a file with subtitles to translate and I will gladly add them if they were in good quality, because unfortunately, YouTube recently disabled the possibility for propose to subtitles by community - "Contribute translated content". You can also create your own GitHub fork (Or write in pull requests) of this list - repositorium or just create your own lists on another websites, if they are cool, I will also be happy to include link to your version or list, because of course this - my list is intended to help people learn and get to know the Polish language and culture, not for commercial or advertising purposes. You can of course also download this list (Direct link for Code > Download ZIP) - archive it, keep it on local disk or in the cloud.

Acknowledgements (Podziękowania)

  • Thank you to everyone who helps to promote this project and is interested in it - your feedback motivates me to work.

  • Thank you Mother Nature for the bees honey.

  • Thank you Polish education system for the fact that I did not have to buy tickets for the circus so often, because I had it at my fingertips.

  • Thank you szew for helping with grammar proofreading [of this list] and for few suggestions for extending the list with various elements (She also helped with chasing away unnecessary butterflies - pleonasms etc.).

My others projects (Moje inne projekty)

  • My YouTube Channel - On which channel I mainly focus on making movies with Pingwin Mroźny. Nowadays, due to technical problems - weak hardware, which often has problems with video rendering (it just really takes away my motivation, I will have to go back to some older film editing software or some other free alternative), I rarely upload movies, there was a year when practically every day a video appeared, so it is a huge decrease in activity.

  • My Wattpad - On which I write from time to time some poems on various topics, you can also find here my short story "Pingwin Mroźny: Preludium" and "Baśnie dla każdego stworzenia i nie tylko" (Fairy tales for every creature and not only) which is a collection of my various fairy tales, there are not many of them there yet, but I already have a lot of ideas for more in my notes, so it is only a matter of finding time and writing it.

  • The best PC software list (Or something like this) - Coming soon. This will be a great software list, for example: The best music player for Windows: Foobar2000 etc.

  • My text-based computer game that I am writing, while learning another programming language, will probably want to publish it as a GitHub repository, but I don't know if I have enough time to continue this programming adventure with this particular language - Python. I'm already learning several languages at school, and soon - at the end of the school semester - I'll have the last two exams (before the final high school graduation exam), so when I'm done with them, I'll probably come back to this topic, I'd also like to learn how to create music (I'm planning to take some piano lessons in the future, when I have some money, because I could use this ability to create melodies from nothing). I would also like to write some poems etc. and make more movies with Pingwin Mroźny, so the queue of what I want to do is colossal and I often change these "creative sides of life" ((from video to writing, from writing to music, from music to programming and this loop is repeated infinity times ∞) when it comes to working on something.

Mirror and standalone version (Mirror oraz samodzielna wersja)

Lorem ipsum

Lorem ipsum. To jest taka ciekawostka. Nie chciałem, żeby w dniu publikacji ostatnią kategorią była „pechowa trzynasta kategoria”, więc dodałem tę - wtedy jako czternastą. Oczywiście to takie nawiązanie do [m.in.] polskich zabobonów, może też i jakiś czarny kot się tutaj kiedyś pojawi.

Birthday - publication of the project is: 18.09.2020, and its first non-public version was created two weeks earlier, so in the first days of September.

Matura is coming soon, so that's why there hasn't been an update for so long, after this exam, I'll try to update the list more often like I used to.

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