Polish History

This Learn Polish Podcast an interesting comprehension exercise for you. I’ll talk about the medieval knight Zawisza the Black (Zawisza Czarny).

This podcast is for Polish students. In every episode I want to give you something interesting to listen to. This time I’m talking about the Chernobyl accident. I was in my 20s when the accident happened. Every subscriber of any program has a transcript of the podcast, so you can listen and read at the same time.

This episode of Learn Polish Podcast is about Esperanto. This widely spoken constructed language was created by Ludwik Zanenhof, who was born in the multi-ethnic city of Białystok, now in Poland. I’m sure that this interesting story will help you to focus on understanding in Polish. My goal is to help you learn the Polish […]

This episode of Learn Polish Podcast is about Stephen Báthory. He was Voivode of Transylvania then King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. I tell the story about him and Countess Elizabeth Báthory. She was has been labeled as the most prolific female murder. I hope listening to this story will help you to level up your Polish listening skills.

This episode of Learn Polish Podcast is about the Enigma Machine, a german cypher machine. The code done on the Enigma were first broken by Polish mathematicians. Then was added more complexity to the Enigma machine and decryption was more difficult. Please listen to the whole history in Polish, this way you will practise understanding spoken Polish.