Free Polish Lessons and Courses

Free Polish Lessons and Courses
We have gathered together here a number of free Polish language lessons and language courses for those learning Polish, along with some other Polish language resources, such as Polish online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets, dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.

  Courses and Exercises

Bab.la Language Portal
"The bab.la language portal offers you dictionary translations, language quizzes and games, vocabulary lessons for learning and much more. bab.la is interactive: You can enter your own translation, create your own language test or your own vocabulary flashcard set. babla - Loving Languages!". Quizzes, games, vocabulary learning and dictionary aids for English, Chinese, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
A Course of the Polish Language
Ten lessons in Polish.
English-Polish Phrase Guide
English-Polish phrasebooks in PDF format, plus Minimal Lexicon, Polish songbook, and short stories.
A Grammar of the Polish Language
Grammar text for Polish in both English and Polish versions.
Internet Polyglot - Polish
Listing of 46 lessons in Polish.
Labyrinth of Life Video Drills
Video drills in Polish in Quicktime format (.MOV).
Phrasebase Polish Language Learning Resources
The Phrasebase website is the ultimate environment allowing you to read an Polish Alphabet based phonetic spelling of common and useful everyday phrases in effort to memorize it and it's meaning. Phrases are accompanyed by sound files allowing you to listen repetatively and repeat out loud to practice pronunciation. And lastly, there are thousands of other members who can help you with your target language. Simply connect with them in the Phrasebase Audio/Video chatroom and echange language information and assistance.
Polish Language Course
The course is divided into three main parts: Introduction, Basic information about the language, and Lessons. In the first part there is some information about Poland, geographical and statistical data etc., a few words about Polish people and where the language is spoken. Origin and relations with other languages are also explained there. The second part contains some basic grammar of Polish including alphabet and pronunciation. The lessons consist of grammar and vocabulary presented in such a way that you will memorize it while reading the lessons.
Polish Language Website
Course materials for first year in Polish from the University of Pittsburgh in PDF format, plus a grammar book and dictionary.
Polish Lessons for Beginners in Learning Polish
These Polish lessons are for people who want to learn Polish from a beginner's level. Each lesson contains Polish sentences with English translation plus audio files recorded by Polish native speakers. For each lesson there is a handy one-page transcript. The audio files for each lesson contain the same sentences as the lesson. Each lesson has about two minutes of listening material. Every sentence is read out clearly with a perfect Polish accent.
Polish Phrase, Words, and the Polish Alphabet
Useful Polish phrases and Polish words, translation samples, and articles on Polish.

  Language Communities

Polyglot
Polyglot is a non-profit community dedicated to language exchange. Polyglot allows you to find the right person ready to exchange languages with you. You will search for penpals according to age, gender, location, hobbies, etc. Polyglot is fully customizable. You will choose your own icons, styles or post your own Polyglot translations, so that more people speaking your language can become a member.
Speak Any Language Online Community
Speak-Any-Language.com is a web-based, global community dedicated to making the world a smaller place through understanding of languages and cultures. Our Forums area gives each of our users the opportunity to communicate with each other. Our Chat area gives everyone the opportunity practice speaking in the languages of their choice. Best of all, the services on these pages are free.
UniLang Community
The main purpose of the UniLang Community is to provide an online site where people interested in languages can unite, openly discuss, and find resources related to language(s), linguistics and translations. We are an open non-profit organization, meaning that everything on our site is publicly accessible at no cost, and membership is also free and open for everybody. All data, unless otherwise stated, is licensed under an open licence, the UniLang Public License, as opposed to a restrictive copyright.

  Other Polish Resources

Polish Dictionaries Online
Links to online dictionaries in Polish from all over the world, including monolingual online dictionaries, bilingual online dictionaries, online technical and specialty dictionaries, and online translation engines and hyper-dictionaries.
Polish Internet Radio and Online News Radio
Large directory of internet radio programs with conversation and music in a number of different audio formats.
Polish Newspapers Online
Directory of online Polish newspapers.