At last!

I know you’ve been asking about pronunciation, and I know you’ve been requesting phonetic equivalents for all the Polish words I’m introducing in each post.

The problem with phonetic approximations is that if we use English sounds, then for those readers who are not native English speakers, such examples will not make much sense. Also, how would we transcribe such gems as ś ń ć or ę and ą? Those sounds simply don’t exist in the English language.

The only other option would be to use those real phonetic symbols. You know, those you see in foreign dictionaries. The little scribbles in square brackets that require an advanced degree in linguistics to pronounce them correctly. Yeah, those! I don’t know about you, but I just tend to zone out when I see them.

So I thought the easiest would be to simply give you the correct pronunciation, you can listen to it, and then transcribe it any way you want. Sounds good? I hope so!

Here is how it works:
All multi-word phrases are said twice. First I do it slowly, saying each word separately, and then follow by a normal speed version.

All single words are only said once.

And please, no laughing at my robotic voice!

So, here we go. These are the greetings from the previous post:

If it works well for you, please let me know, and I will start attaching voice files to all posts!

PS. OK, so it seems you guys like it, and I started going back and adding audio to all the previous posts, too. But please, give me some time to do them all. Thanks!