PoPolsku! · Polish for Spanish speakers
Polish for living in Poland, designed for Spanish speakers
On day one in Poland you need to buy bread, understand your landlord and book a doctor, yet courses start with the alphabet and declensions. PoPolsku! solves everyday life in Polish and, for those who want it, teaches you the language.
Free · no sign-up · installs on your phone · The app is in Spanish
The idea
The unit of learning is not the lesson, it is the situation.
Nobody needs "the genitive plural": they need to say "two kilos of apples" at the market and understand the reply. PoPolsku! is not a language course with useful examples bolted on; it is a tool for getting through everyday life, with an understanding of the language added for anyone who wants it.
500 situations
What will happen to you in Poland, sorted by urgency
500 real-life situations in 50 topics. They are ordered not by grammatical difficulty, but by what is pressing today.
The urgent stuff
Arriving in the country, finding your way, medical emergencies, police, fires, theft, assaults and emotional crises.
Your day-to-day
Housing and renting, repairs, supermarkets, restaurants, transport, cars, post, phone, banks and taxes.
Your life here
Work, starting a business, doctors, pharmacies, pregnancy and paediatrics, schools, university, social life and immigration paperwork.
Every situation is a complete card
- 1Direct answer. The phrase that solves it, how it sounds and what it means, in two lines, for when you are in a hurry.
- 2Three levels of the same phrase. Survival (two to five words that work), functional (complete and polite, with the "pan/pani" Poland expects) and conversational (natural, to clarify or negotiate).
- 3"They might say…" What Poles usually answer in that situation and how to react to each reply.
- 4Vocabulary with audio, word by word.
- 5"Watch out, Spanish speaker". The specific trap in that situation, such as a word that looks Spanish but isn't.
- 6Grammar and culture, only what helps here: how that errand, shop or appointment works in Poland.
- Solve it nowthe phrase, that's it
- Practiselevels, voice and check
- Understandgrammar and culture
Pronunciation
Pronunciation built for Spanish speakers
Polish is read as it is written, but with an alphabet of sounds that looks scary. PoPolsku! breaks it into pieces you already know.
- Spelled the Spanish way. "Dziękuję" is shown as dj'enkúye, with the stressed syllable marked with an accent, just as a Spanish speaker would mark it.
- 45 sound patterns. Any word is split into coloured pieces: tap each one to see how it is made, which Spanish sound it resembles and what not to confuse it with.
- Real Polish voice, at normal speed and slowly, for phrases, replies and vocabulary.
- Read or Say. The Polish word first, or how it sounds first, in large type, to repeat it on the spot.
- Practise with your voice. Your phone compares what you say with the correct phrase and flags the word you missed; with an account, AI gives you sound-by-sound tips.
- Show. If you can't speak, the screen becomes a sign with the phrase in big letters to show the person in front of you.
Artificial intelligence
When what you need isn't on the list
What do I say? (¿Qué digo?)
You type in Spanish what you want to say and the AI returns a card with the three levels, the pronunciation, the likely replies and the warnings for Spanish speakers.
One answer for everyone
Every useful question joins a community corpus with its own page: the next person with the same need gets the answer instantly. Anything with personal data is answered but never stored.
Rehearse
A conversation with the AI playing the pharmacist, landlord, clerk or doctor, answering like a Pole, surprises included, and telling you at the end whether you solved the situation.
The course
Ten tools, not a hundred lessons
For those who want to understand as well as get by: the ten pieces of Polish that explain almost everything said in the 500 situations, with exercises to recognise, complete and say out loud.
- 1Reading Polish: the sounds and reading rules
- 2Counting and paying: numbers, prices, times and dates
- 3The 30 verbs that solve almost everything
- 4Asking politely: proszę, czy mogę, pan and pani
- 5Why words change: the cases, from what you already say
- 6Asking, saying no and reacting
- 7Describing: adjectives, gender and agreement
- 8Telling what happened: the past without fear
- 9What comes next: future, plans and conditions
- 10Talking like people do: what you really hear on the street
Know what you know
PoPolsku! tells apart what you looked up, what you practised and what you really know. You never see a "fail".
Check
Five questions at the end of each situation, drawn from its own phrases, marked instantly with the audio alongside.
Review
What you pass comes back after 3, 10, 30 and 90 days. When it is due, the home screen shows "Today's review": half a minute.
Your progress
Situations solved in real life, practised and known, stamps by topic and a map of your strong and weak sounds.
Emergencies
The SOS button is always there
Every screen has a red button with fifteen emergencies: the phrase to say, the steps, what you will be asked and 112 at a tap.
- No account
- No AI
- Works offline
- Ambulance
- Injured
- Not breathing
- Allergy
- Police
- Being followed
- Assault
- Domestic violence
- Theft
- Fire or gas
- Road accident
- Lost child
- Discrimination
- Emotional crisis
- I'm lost
The app stores the texts and audio on your phone. With an account, you also get a personal emergency card with your allergies, medication and contact, ready to show.
See the PoPolsku! SOS
Built for your phone, free and respectful
Installs like an app
On Android and iPhone, from the browser. The essentials work offline and it follows your light or dark theme.
No sign-up
Almost everything works without an account. With a free, password-less account, your progress follows you to any device and the full course unlocks.
Privacy by design
Analytics stay off until you accept them, and you can export or delete your data, or your device's, in one click.
Reviewed content
Every card goes through an automatic language review by a stronger model than the one that wrote it, and you can report a mistake right from the phrase.
Why it exists
Nobody should be left speechless at a pharmacy, a police station or their children's school because they couldn't pay for a course.
PoPolsku! is part of HolaPolska! and was created to help curious people, visitors and Spanish-speaking immigrants communicate in Poland from day one: handle everyday life, ask for help when needed and, little by little, make the language their own.
Learning Polish costs; starting to speak it, with PoPolsku!, doesn't.
Frequently asked questions
What people ask us most
PoPolsku! is free and in Spanish. If you still have a question, open it and try it: no account needed.
Yes. The 500 situations, the pronunciation, the SOS and the course are free. The account, also free, only saves your progress across devices and unlocks the full course.
Not for almost anything: your progress is saved on your device. If you create one, there is no password: you sign in with a code sent by email or with Google.
No. PoPolsku! is designed for Spanish speakers: explanations, pronunciation and examples are in Spanish. That is precisely what makes it work for them.
The essentials do, and so does the full SOS: the app stores the emergency texts and audio on your phone.
A course starts with the alphabet and grammar. PoPolsku! starts with what you need to say today and only explains the grammar that helps in that situation. If you want to understand more, the ten-tool course is there.
Start speaking Polish today
Free, in Spanish and with no sign-up. Open it on your phone and add it to your home screen.