One to one, adults
The whole lesson is yours, and so is the pace. We build it around what you actually need Polish for.
Online Polish for Ukrainians
The Polish you will actually speak
One-to-one and small-group lessons with Valentyna: from the first word to a confident conversation, ready for the certificate, for work, and for the queue at the office.
The trial is a conversation: we find your level and agree a plan.
Since 2002
teaching Polish - 17 years in a classroom, 6 of them online
4000
lessons given to Ukrainian students
A1 to C1
from the first word to the certificate
3 to 6
people in a group, so everyone keeps talking
Lessons
Choose how you want to learn
Every format has its own plan and its own materials in your personal cabinet. You can change format whenever you like.
Children, 6 to 10
Shorter, because that is how long a child listens well. Games, pictures and speaking from the first lesson.
Small group
Long enough for everybody to speak, small enough that nobody hides. You learn from the others' mistakes as well as your own.
How it works
Four steps from the first hello to a real conversation
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A trial lesson
We meet, talk, and find out where your Polish actually is - not where a test says it is.
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A plan you agree to
Your goal decides the programme: the certificate, work, the office, or simply being understood.
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Lessons where you speak
You talk for most of the lesson. Rules arrive when they explain something you have just said.
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Practice between them
Homework and word cards live in your personal cabinet, so the language does not disappear between lessons.
About me
I teach Polish to people who live their life in it
I have taught Polish since 2002 - seventeen years in a classroom and six online - and for years now mostly to Ukrainians who already live in Poland or are about to move.
I know what is hardest: the false friends that make a sentence mean something you did not intend, the pronunciation, the official letter, the conversation at the counter. So the lessons are built around real situations rather than abstract exercises.
You speak for most of the lesson. Materials, homework and word cards stay in your personal cabinet, and everything we do is somewhere you can find it again.
Trial lesson
Let us start by meeting
Write to me on Telegram and we will agree a time. Tell me your level if you know it, and what you need Polish for - that is enough to start.
Message on TelegramI answer the same day.
Questions
What people usually ask
I am starting from nothing. Is that a problem?
No. A1 is where most of my students begin, and we speak in Polish from the first lesson - a few words is already speaking.
Can you prepare me for the certificate?
Yes, up to C1. We work on the exam's own tasks as well as the language, because knowing Polish and passing that paper are two different skills.
How long is a lesson?
Sixty minutes one to one, forty-five for children between six and ten, ninety in a group - a group needs the time so that everybody speaks.
What do I need for an online lesson?
A phone or a laptop and headphones. Everything else - board, materials, homework, word cards - is in your personal cabinet.
Can I change format later?
Yes, whenever you like. People often start one to one and move to a group once speaking stops being frightening.