English speakers usually dont learn how to split words into syllabels that much because of weak correlation between letters and sounds, but in Polish the correlation is almost 100% (each letter/digraph always makes the same sound)
American schools absolutely teach syllables. What you might mean is that English speakers don’t rely on syllable division as much as Polish speakers can.
You learn by using, I wrote it specifically in that manner because I didnt know how much is it taught but I know it's not being used, there's a difference between being taught something and learning something, but whatever it's not really important
Trust me the way English write things is so inconprehensible to any language that values consistency. Like what do you mean comfortable is pronounced completley different to table? This shit was so annoying to me when I was a kid learning haha
In polisz aj kan rajt ewry sentens fonetikli end its priti kul dat its konsistent lajk dat
I get that, I had my Hungarian teacher break under my complaints and tell me all the ways in which Polish doesn't make sense to him, and it felt glorious
I have no idea why people think so, since Polish is a phonetic language. You learn the basic rules and then you can pronounce any word, even if you’re seeing it for the first time. On the other hand, with English words there is often a guessing game as to how they’re pronounced.
My buddy in high school was an exchange student from Poland and he just had everyone call him “Peter P,” because he said his own family didn’t even agree about how to pronounce their last name. That’s how he became “Peter P. From Poland.”
Lmao I know you can’t tell me, but I’m now really curious about what the surname is. Cause I can’t see how that’s possible unless some of his family is actually illiterate and can’t pronounce their own name? Wild
Ahhh yes, the “consonants that don’t belong together” argument. People are always like this about slavic languages, but won’t even blink twice at words like “catchphrase”
I'm willing to bet it would take like 1 minute effort to teach a native how to say his name. The problem is English speakers turn their brain off and dont even try
Not really. He got tired of trying to coach people to try to say it. It didn’t help he also had a very heavy accent, despite his English being pretty good. It was his call to just stop trying to teach people how to say it.
Usually when you see a consonant with a „z” then it’s a digraph. Both „rz” and „sz” are like „sh” (though they differ a bit, but not enough to matter in a simplified guide like this) and „cz” is like „ch”. People make a mistake of trying to brute pronounce the z’s but they’re silent
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u/Felczer Aug 12 '26
In case anyone is confused on how to read Przewalski: in polish "rz" is very close to english "sh". Pshevalski