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added by jankes Aug 3 '11 at 22:40

This question can be actually crucial for people trying to learn Polish, because it is really difficult to find such books. – jankes Aug 7 '11 at 18:44

<comments removed> Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. Thank you. – Robert Cartaino♦ Mar 18 at 13:44

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added by hippietrail Sep 22 '11 at 0:09

Off topic?? Because it mentions another language instead of using the technical linguistics name for the sound? – hippietrail Sep 23 '11 at 21:51

Admittedly the technical linguistics name for the sound is pretty obscure and in dispute; but calling it the Czech "ř" is clear and unambiguous. If this is off-topic here I don't know where it would be on-topic! – Mark Beadles Jan 30 '12 at 17:16

@hippietrail - oh, don't worry, this is not offtopic. just because one not using strict linguistic terms does not make a question offtopic. This is a perfect and 100% valid question. – shabunc Sep 28 '12 at 8:15

@Xitcod13 Oh, thanks for the tip! Well, I haven't answered the question very properly. I'm not sure that not a single dialect continues this pronunciation. Mańczak’s book only describes the literary standard. Perhaps in some far away village hidden in the mountains? ;) – Kamil S. Oct 16 '12 at 18:30

It is possible nobody knows what language they're speaking. :P – Xitcod13 Oct 16 '12 at 18:47

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added by hippietrail Nov 7 '11 at 21:08

I know there are many "False Friends" in the Slavic languages, so this might be a good one. – Mark Beadles Jan 30 '12 at 17:14

Oh, yes. Some perfectly innocent common words from other slavic countries happen to be obscene in Polish. – SF. Dec 7 '12 at 18:14

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added by mikeyP Dec 20 '11 at 14:43

	Well, the Stephanie Meyer novel is translated as "Zmierzch". :) But seriously this is a very good question. My native-Polish speaking spouse is not even sure if there is any difference.... – Mark Beadles Jan 31 '12 at 2:40
	Oh my, I've just realised how complicated that is! – jankes Feb 23 '12 at 21:23
	Thanks guys, I guess context would be the key here. – mikeyP Feb 27 '12 at 22:26
	Very good point about the timespan covered by the two words, @Kamil. Seems obvious now that you've written it. (On the other hand, the metaphorical meanings almost always go with only one synonym, so I wouldn't give zmierzch czegoś as an example here.) – jankes May 18 '12 at 8:13
	<comments removed> Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. Thank you. – Robert Cartaino♦ Mar 18 at 13:45

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added by Anonymous Apr 14 '12 at 19:38

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added by Brendan Apr 25 '12 at 20:09

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added by Xitcod13 Sep 1 '12 at 2:33

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added by shabunc Sep 27 '12 at 19:00

Another compare is the Cervantes Institute in Spain – NewAlexandria Oct 10 '12 at 12:37

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added by Pavel Nov 22 '12 at 0:36

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added by SF. Dec 7 '12 at 22:00

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added by shabunc Sep 27 '12 at 18:58

Good question! We need etymology questions. (It's not accidental by the way.) – ymar Nov 24 '12 at 17:40

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added by bytebuster Aug 14 '12 at 22:36

relevant discussion on Ling.SE: linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/1340/… – bytebuster Aug 14 '12 at 22:38

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added by ymar Nov 24 '12 at 17:36

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added by Łukasz Lech Dec 27 '12 at 22:47

It's from "usiąść" – Voitcus Mar 24 at 19:12

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added by zefciu May 28 '12 at 13:40

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added by standgale May 30 '12 at 5:09

	Try IVONA. It's very popular amont teenagers adding their own dialogs on youtube. – Łukasz Lech Jun 19 '12 at 20:34
	Note while the pronunciation is mostly correct, the intonation in IVONA is more often wrong than not. – SF. Dec 7 '12 at 18:26

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added by SF. Dec 11 '12 at 16:51

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added by Łukasz Lech Dec 27 '12 at 22:43

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added by ymar Nov 27 '12 at 20:04

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added by SF. Dec 11 '12 at 16:36

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added by SF. Dec 30 '12 at 18:55

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added by bytebuster Jan 19 at 6:57

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added by standgale May 30 '12 at 4:55

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added by shabunc Oct 1 '12 at 21:51

I think this is a better way to ask this question: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/34139/… – ymar Nov 24 '12 at 17:37

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added by NewAlexandria Oct 8 '12 at 2:55

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added by ymar Nov 24 '12 at 17:48

<comments removed> @Matt N. Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. Thank you. – Robert Cartaino♦ Mar 18 at 13:48

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added by ymar Nov 27 '12 at 19:59

Is Bruckner's dictionary trustworthy by the modern standards? – ymar Nov 27 '12 at 20:02

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added by SF. Dec 24 '12 at 15:06

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added by Łukasz Lech Dec 27 '12 at 22:41

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added by Matt N. Mar 13 at 11:46

I ran out of characters. What I really wanted to ask is the following: "I just started to learn Polish and I'm trying to get the pronunciation right. I have the following question: the "dzień" in the greeting "dzień dobry" sounds like "gin" in English (as in gin tonic) to me. But I can see there is an "e". Hence my question: do I not hear it correctly or is it really not pronounced?" – Matt N. Mar 13 at 12:50