Poland has a lot to offer those on business and holiday. I have already seen Chopin's monument in Warsaw. The grave of the inventor of Esperanto language in Warsaw - on my wishlist is his museum in another city. The pretty southern former capital and trips to salt mines - and Auschwitz. The amusing ankle height dwarfs in Wroclaw are on my wishlist. Amber and Polish milk caramel sweets, I loved. I have written about these in my other posts.
Over here in London we have Polish supermarkets catering to a lot of Polish people.
We have a Polish plumber. We have trouble saying his surname.
I looked at the written explanations of the Polish language. It seemed that the z sound is like an h so that sz is sh and cz is ch. Easy-peasy.
So, a name ending czyk is more or less chick.
Then I looked at some videos. Type in speak or pronounce Polish and Youtube will show you a choice of half a dozen.
You have to add two more sounds which are not like English. The w is pronounced v like in German.
The j is pronounced y like in many other languages.
And three letters?There are a few more. Add a diacritic or a little tail and you change a c to a ch. Or is there a ts? And - Enough for one day. I shall come back to this tomorrow. At least I get a rough idea.
Try it yourself.
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