Polish alphabet is a little bit different from English one. There're few characters that do not belong to English one.
Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ó, Ż, Ź
Before we even start you need to know that in Polish alphabet (it doesn't have any name like Korean alphabet which is called Hangul or Russian one- Cyrillic) has it's own pronuncination which is a little bit difficult to describe. So the best way to learn how it sounds is to play this video and repeat after the person:
The Polish alphabet itself has 32 characters (23 consonants 9 vowels). A good rule to remember is that with the most Polish words, the stress lies on the second last syllable.
A [a] like in' naah'
Ą [ɔ̃]
B [b] 'boom'
C [t͡s]
Ć [t̠͡ɕ]
D [d] /dumb/
E [ɛ] (you pronounce it like in /desk/)
Ę [ɛ̃]
F [f] /flute/
G [g] /gloomy/
H [x] /hha/
I [i] /ee/
J [j] / yak/
K [k] /crack/
L [l] /llama/
Ł [w]
M [m] /mom/
N [n] /nope/
Ń [ɲ]
O [o] /lock/
Ó [u]
P [p] /pick/
R [r] /rocket/ it's a really hard 'r'
S [ɔ] /ss/
Ś [ɕ]
T [t] /tall/
U [u] /oo/
W [v] /v/
Y [ɨ] /ygh/
Z [z] /zip/
Ż [ʑ]
Ź [ʐ]
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emember that Polish is not as flawless as English or Spanish. It's hard in sound.
I know these phonetics don't tell you much about how to say additional characters but sometimes is better to hear it and try to say it multiple times so that's why I added the video. Try to pronounce it as many times you want.
Let's go to the next one!
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