Free lessons and exercises for learning the Polish language

From now on, Ukrainians in Poland, as well as schoolchildren and students of Ukrainian educational institutions, will be able to learn Polish for free, or improve their knowledge online thanks to the innovative Lingva Polska system. The program received the appropriate seal of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, which allows the use of this system in the educational process.

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According to a sociological survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, only 22% of Ukrainians with refugee status in Poland have learned the Polish language, and most of them only superficially. Only 10% of Ukrainians can communicate in Polish fluently. At the same time, Ukrainians identified the following as the main barriers preventing them from mastering a foreign language: lack of time (38%) and lack of finances (33%).

In Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Education and Science, almost 90 students now study Polish. This is the 000th place among all foreign languages ​​studied in schools.

With the mission of helping Ukrainians who want to master Polish, the Association of Innovative and Digital Education has developed a system for learning the Polish language, Lingva Polska. The training program consists of 30 modules of 5 lessons and contains 10 exercises at each level (A000 and A1). Each lesson has its own thematic dialogue and 2-50 tasks for mastering the material. Training takes place on realistic dialogues (cases) voiced by native speakers. In addition, the principle of gamification is included in the process, thanks to which the student competes with himself on the speed and correctness of the exercise. The program as a whole is aimed at developing language intuition, which allows you to construct sentences as native speakers do. In addition, the system interface includes a special virtual keyboard with letters of the Polish alphabet, which are not found on ordinary computer keyboards.

In the first week alone, more than 10 users have already registered on the project portal. Anyone can register link⇒

For your convenience, the project team has created a short training video that will help you quickly start training.

"The Lingva Polska program contains all of our positive, multi-year experience of training Ukrainians in foreign languages. Users go through a large number of different exercises and learn more than 10 phrases that they can freely use during communication. We approached the creation of this product very carefully, so every element of the system was worked out: it includes author's visualizations for educational content, dialogues voiced by native speakers - professional announcers, and the like. The most popular levels A1 and A2 are now available"- Maria Boguslav, Executive Director of the Association of Innovative and Digital Education, coordinator of the Network of Ukrainian Educational Habov, says.

"Considering that Poland is a strategic partner of Ukraine and many Ukrainians now need to communicate freely in Polish, the MES welcomes the creation of the Lingva Polska program. We are glad that Ukrainians have free opportunities to learn foreign languages, because this promotes personality development and opens up many new opportunities. And now all Ukrainians abroad and in Ukraine can learn Polish for free, and teachers can use this program in schools to make learning more interesting and useful." — says Andrey Stashkiv, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.

The famous psycholinguist and polyglot Vitaly Zubkov, who has helped thousands of people master 20 foreign languages ​​in 5 years and is the author of the Lingva Polska methodology, explained:

"There is a misconception that to be fluent in a foreign language, you need to know a lot of words and use them according to the rules. But no native speaker of any language in the world does that. Thanks to our program, the user learns Polish as a native language and gains confidence that he can understand and speak Polish. The program makes the user fall in love with his own ability to communicate in Polish from the very first lessons, when learning becomes not a difficult routine, but an interesting adventure."

The project attracted the attention of Deloitte Poland Foundation, which became its partner and offered its financial support.

"We are very happy to have contributed to the creation of such an innovative and useful tool. We hope that Lingva Polska will help many Ukrainians overcome the language barrier. Learning the Polish language is one of the ways to help Ukrainians adapt to a new country for themselves, and the young generation of Ukrainians and Poles to better understand each other." — says Adam Maryuk, president of the Deloitte Foundation Poland board.

Earlier, the Association of Innovative and Digital Education together with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine launched Ecosystems for studying and testing the level of Ukrainian and English language proficiency. The Association is also the author of the English and German language learning system Lingva.Skills, which last year entered the National Register of Records as the largest mass educational online project in Ukraine, and in 2019 was included by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in the TOP-10 social startups of Eastern Europe. Now in this project, users have already completed more than 200 million exercises.