Learn Polish A0 → B2
Ogon — the little tail under ą and ę, the mark that makes a letter Polish — walks you across eight islands of real Polish, from your first cześć to confident B2. Every word arrives with its gender, its case and a sentence, and you practise choosing the ending that fits.
Progress saves to your account, so it follows you from phone to laptop.
My family lives in Poland.
Moja rodzin mieszka w Polsce.
Choose the ending for rodzina
Tap the form that fits the sentence. Each wrong one tells you where it would belong.
The route
When you sign up, you choose the island to start on. Each island is a path of topic stops (family, food, travel) and each stop holds short lessons of up to six words. The next stop opens when you finish the one before, so there is always one clear next step. The further you sail, the wilder the water gets. Tap an island to sail there.
Island of First Words
Spokojna laguna · a calm lagoon
Brand new to Polish. Greetings, numbers, time and the little words that hold sentences together.
Starting further along? The islands before yours stay open for revision; they just aren't required.
A lesson
Lessons teach up to six words at a time. When you finish, those words join your reviews, which bring each one back just before you would forget it.
Two at a time, read aloud, with an example sentence, the gender and the case each word takes.
A quick pick straight after, while the words are still fresh.
Tap each Polish word to its English partner, all in one go.
Hear it and choose, fill the gap in a real sentence, or write the word yourself.
Miss one and it comes back at the end. You finish every lesson with everything right, and get up to three stars for how cleanly you did it.
Try the Polish keys: fill in Zażółć gęślą jaźń, a nonsense sentence that holds every letter an English keyboard lacks.
Za gl ja
Tap the missing letters in order, or type them.
New
The islands teach you the words. Zamglin is where you spend them: a foggy river city, twenty places to walk into, eighteen people with their own day to get on with — and a story none of them will simply tell you.
Chleb będzie za dziesięć minut, jak pan poczeka.
The bread will be ten minutes, if you want to wait.
Feliks WronaBaker at the Crow · mornings at the bakery
Everyone keeps their own hours — the librarian works late, the tram driver is only at the depot. Come back at a different time of day and you meet different people.
Ask too early and you get a shrug. What somebody will say depends on how well they know you — seven levels, stranger to confidant — and on what you have already worked out.
Three things to manage in every conversation, then a card: what you said, how a Pole would have said it, and why. Speaking aloud opens at B1; before that you write, and the city answers in Polish either way.
Notices, small ads, a diary page, a newspaper with a hole cut in it. Real Polish where you find it, with the words worth keeping underneath. Some of it turns out to be evidence.
Talking to somebody costs coins from your daily allowance. Looking around, reading and taking notes are free.
The name
Siedem przypadków means “seven cases”: the seven forms a Polish noun can take. Here they line up as the creatures they feel like, from the friendly one you already know to the one that bites. Each keeps its colour everywhere in the app, so the pattern sticks.
Tap a creature to see how kot (cat) changes in its case.
The dictionary form: every word you learn starts here.
The object of most verbs. Feminine -a turns into -ę; plenty of words stay the same.
For “with” and “by means of”, with tidy endings: -em, -ą, -ami.
For calling someone. Rare, but Marek becomes Marku.
For “to whom”. Letters start to shift: siostra → siostrze.
Only after prepositions, and it shifts letters: ręka → ręce, miasto → mieście.
The boss: after nie ma, numbers and dozens of prepositions, with masculine -a or -u to memorise.
Grammars number the cases 1 to 7, starting with the nominative; this line-up ranks them instead by how much trouble they tend to give learners. The case drill asks one thing, well: which case does this verb or preposition take?
Also on board
The islands give you the order. These are the tools you will use along the way.
Spaced repetition brings each word back just before you would forget it, so a few minutes a day keeps everything fresh.
On every island, put real sentences in order and pick their endings, using only the words you have learned there.
Hundreds of verbs and prepositions, each asking which of the seven cases it takes.
Words and example sentences are read aloud using your device’s Polish voice.
Sign in on your phone and your laptop, and your path, stars and reviews stay in step.
Look up any of the 3,200 entries by Polish, English, level, topic or the case it takes.
One cave per case, under a fantasy Kraków. Poke around the chambers for the endings, then face what is waiting at the bottom.
Short texts written at your level — a story, a news report, a conversation — with every sentence there to take apart.
Where are we sailing?
Pick your starting island when you sign up: A0 if you are brand new, up to B2 if you are already confident.
Tap an island to see what it covers.
