Polish language courses

Since our first lesson Anna built open and friendly environment which allowed to dive in a new language without a fear. In the beginning we started with face-to-face lessons and afterwards we switch to on-line sessions. Based on my experience I can tell that both formats worked well for me and I managed to achieve noticeable progress during those 1,5 years learning with Anna’s support. I can understand and speak Polish on the basic level, which helps me communicate with other people here in Poland.

I appreciate a lot Annas’ dedication to her work and flexible approach. She always knows how to motivate her students when they must deal with difficult for understanding topics. She keeps the interest in learning by combining practice tasks in different books steadily developing student’s verbal skills, enlarging the vocabulary and gaining knowledge in grammar.

I am grateful for all her efforts and would definitely recommend her classes to my friends and colleagues.

Anastasiya Gubanova

Enclosed is a Letter of Recommendation.

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Taking private Polish language lessons with Anna Wojtasiak was a good experience for me.

Anna is very methodical, organized and at the same time flexible and accommodating to the language needs of her students. Her personality is very pleasant and personable. Her experience working with clients from different cultures is admirable. During our sessions she has always created a comfortable atmosphere which aids in the process of learning a new language. I appreciate her professionalism and her attention to detail.

Through these past few months, my grasp of the Polish language has improved due to the language lessons with Anna. Her systematic and clear approach has helped me learn Polish in a more thorough way, with better understanding and clarity.

Ujjal H., Stress-management and meditation coach

Enclosed is a Letter of Recommendation.

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Con Ania me siento cómodo aprendiendo un idioma tan difícil como es el Polaco. A pesar de que no soy la persona más talentosa aprendiendo idiomas, Ania me da confianza, me siento seguro y tranquilo al momento de aprender Polaco. Es una persona agradable y constante, las clases siempre están cada semana siguiendo un método y además siempre hay momentos para "hablar". Esto me ayudó a quitar muchos bloqueos y empezar a hablar en Polaco.

Z Anią czuję się bardzo swobodnie ucząc się tak trudnego języka, jakim jest polski. Pomimo że nie jestem osobą, której przychodzi z łatwością nauka języków, Ani ufam i czuję się bezpiecznie i spokojnie podczas nauki polskiego. Jest osobą miłą i profesjonalną, lekcje odbywają się co tydzień, zgodnie z jej metodą nauki, oraz zawsze jest moment na konwersacje. To najbardziej pomogło mi pozbyć się blokady, żeby zacząć mówić po polsku.

Juan Felipe Alvarado, musician

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The course of Polish by Mrs. Anna Wojtasiak overcame my expectation. Besides upgrading my Polish spoken freedom and highlighting my grammar gaps, Mrs. Anna told me lots of curiosities about Poland and its people, patiently listening to my irresolute sentences about the country I came from.

Always having at her disposal a variety of entertaining tasks, she was pretty flexible while conducting the lesson, ready to elaborate any subject. Moreover, she was able to guess the subject interesting to me. The lessons directed this way were like a casual conversation with an old friend — so swiftly the time ran by. Fascinated by our chat, I didn’t even manage to drink a cup of tea, graciously offered by the hostess, during the 3 hours of classes.

During the course I realized the problems I have to work on, got a significant inspiration to overcome them, along with even more passion for this rich and beautiful language. For this valuable result, I’d like to express to Mrs. Anna Wojtasiak my deep respect and high appreciation.

Svyatoslav Moshegov

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Being Czech native speaker, I am facing specific issues with learning Polish as these languages are quite similar. Anna perfectly assessed my skills and was able to tailor the lessons to the topics and grammar I need. Her lessons are interactive, variable, I never get bored. She is always prepared for the lesson and I feel that I get a high quality service. Anna helped me also to understand better Poland and Polish people.

Petra Zemanová

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I have been studying Polish for one year at Polish4You!. My teacher, Ania Wojtasiak, is enthusiastic, well prepared, thorough and patient with a real love of teaching and the Polish language. We are told that this is the second most difficult language in the world after Chinese but in spite of having no prior knowledge of Polish, I am very surprised and pleased with the significant progress I have made so far. For all nationalities wanting to learn this beautiful language in a pleasant and positive environment I would highly recommend Polish4You!.

Rosemary Jurkowski

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Quando son arrivato qui in Polonia per la prima volta, ormai circa un anno fa, di polacco non capivo assolutamente nulla. Sapevo che con l’inglese sarei sopravvissuto, ma mi son reso conto rapidamente che senza parlare la lingua del posto avrei avuto grosse difficoltà ad integrarmi veramente. Così ho iniziato a cercare il modo migliore per risolvere tale ”prolema”, e son capitato proprio su questo sito web. Preso contatto, ho iniziato il corso. Ed in Ania ho trovato una validissima insegnante, al tempo stesso esigente e disponibile, professionale e simpatica. Le sue son veramente lezioni di polacco, e giustamente le tiene esclusivamente in polacco. Superato il primo impatto, mi son reso conto, che è un metodo che rende, anche se sicuramente è impegnativo tanto per chi insegna quanto per chi impara. Ma se si evita di metter in mezzo l’inglese, salvo in caso di assoluta necessità, i progressi son sicuramente molto più rapidi. Ed ora ho la soddisfazione di parlare con la gente di qui, e vedere che loro mi capiscono! Bella e complessa è la cultura polacca, come bella e molto complessa è questa lingua, e difficilmente si posso imparare in un solo anno. Ma se si segue la strada giusta, si potrebbe anche scoprire che non son poi così ostiche come appaiono all’inizio… A qualcuno che stesse cercando un modo per avvicinarvi ad entrambe, io non esiteri a consigliare la quida di Ania.

When I came to Poland for the first time, about one year ago, I couldn’t speak any single word in Polish. I knew I could survive with my English, but soon I realized that without a bit of knowledge of the local language it’d have been highly difficult to really become part of this reality. So, trying to find out the best way to solve this problem, I came across this very website. After the preliminary contacts, I started the course. And I found out that Ania is a very good teacher, at the same time exacting and available, professional and nice. And hers are really polish lessons, held almost entirely in Polish. When I overcame the first impact, I realized that her method is really effective, though quite requiring both for teacher and for student. But without the continuous support of the English language (but when absolutely necessary) the progress in the Polish language are surprisingly fast. And now I have the big satisfaction of speaking with local people and realizing that I’m being understood! Polish culture is nice and complex, as well as nice and really complex is Polish language, which you could hardly really learn in just one year time. But following the correct way, you could eventually find out that they’re also not as irksome as they might look like at the very beginning… If you’re looking for a path to get closer to real Poland, I’d suggest Ania’s guide with no hesitation at all.

Federico Forti, Food Engineer

Enclosed is a Letter of Recommendation.

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When I came to Poland, I knew some basics of the language, but it was Anna, who helped me to break the ice and start talking Polish.

She is both good in explaining grammar rules and teaching new vocabulary. In addition she is great in tailoring her lessons to students' need.

I am very thankful to Anna for a friendly and inspiring atmosphere of her classes, which helped me within few months to achieve a significant progress in learning Polish.

Nina Sorokopud

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Pod koniec sierpnia 2007 r. przyjechałem wraz z rodziną do Polski, by rozpocząć pracę w Ambasadzie Republiki Bułgarii w Warszawie. Musiałem szybko wejść w rytm pracy, początkowo jako konsula, a po miesiącu jako attache prasowego. Jednocześnie córka moja pragnęła rozpocząć 1 października studia na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, nie chcąc tracić całego roku na naukę języka polskiego w Lublinie. Przed przyjazdem ukończyliśmy kurs języka polskiego przy Uniwersytecie Sofijskim, w wymiarze 60 godzin. Przeprowadziliśmy również rozeznanie odnośnie możliwości szybkiego przyswojenia sobie języka polskiego. Koledzy w Ambasadzie wskazali nam prywatną szkołę językową, w której wówczas pracowała Pani Anna Wojtasiak i która prowadziła ich zajęcia z języka polskiego. Bardzo wysoko oceniali umiejętności przekazywania wiedzy Pani Anny Wojtasiak. Istotnym argumentem była również informacja, że biegle włada ona językiem angielskim i rosyjskim. Zgodnie z rekomendacjami moich kolegów wybraliśmy wskazanego nam wykładowcę i ukończyliśmy miesięczny, intensywny kurs języka polskiego, który okazał się wystarczający, by moja córka rozpoczęła naukę na Uniwersytecie, a jako attache prasowy w Ambasadzie. Kontynuowaliśmy naukę do końca roku szkolnego i przez miesiące letnie. Jesteśmy wyjątkowo zadowoleni z metody nauczania i bardzo wdzięczni Pani Annie Wojtasiak za wiedzę, którą nam przekazała.

Kurs języka polskiego ukończyła również moja małżonka Tsanka Milanova, która równie wysoko ocenia naukę języka polskiego pod kierunkiem Pani Anny Wojtasiak.

Emil Milanov, Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Warsaw

Enclosed is a Letter of Recommendation.

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I can confirm that I took intensive Polish lessons with Anna Wojtasiak during my first year in Poland. Anna is a friendly, highly-enthusiastic, well-prepared and professional teacher, and from taking lessons with her I quickly gained the confidence, vocabulary and skills necessary to communicate in a wide range of day-to-day situations in Polish.

I would have no hesitation in recommending Anna to anyone wishing to learn Polish in the future.

Stephen Nunn, Language Inspiration

Enclosed is a Letter of Recommendation.