{"id":1326,"date":"2025-05-25T21:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2025-06-04T19:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:36:32","slug":"polish-ekstraliga-prep-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/polish-ekstraliga-prep-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish for the next chess trip? Maybe to the Polish Ekstraliga?A new article is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Was-that-a-draw-offer-1-700x366.png\" alt=\"One chess piece says in Polish: &quot;Poddaj\u0119 si\u0119, nie mog\u0119 tego zrobi\u0107.&quot; and another chess piece says in English: &quot;Was that a draw offer?&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-1327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Was-that-a-draw-offer-1-700x366.png 700w, https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Was-that-a-draw-offer-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Was-that-a-draw-offer-1-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Was-that-a-draw-offer-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by Grandmaster Rasmus Svane talking about his (and his brother GM Frederik Svane&#8217;s) upcoming chess trip to the Polish Ekstraliga, I&#8217;ve written an article about the language preparation for a trip like that. I&#8217;ve also discussed a few particularities of the pronunciation of the Polish language and why you can&#8217;t trust English written lists with Polish names about the correct writing. There is some geeking about phonology, links to Polish pronunciation resources and links to more info about the Polish Ekstraliga! GM Monika So\u0107ko takes the stage in English and Polish as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the article: <a href=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/@\/MartinaGe\/blog\/preparing-for-the-polish-league-ekstraliga-dipping-into-language-learning\/QsYubKj8\">Preparing for the Polish league Ekstraliga: Dipping into language learning<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article builds on the content of a former Lichess article around language preparation for a chess event abroad. Last year, I wrote an article as preparation for a tournament in the Czech Republic: <a href=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/@\/MartinaGe\/blog\/how-to-prepare-for-a-chess-tournament-abroad--language-wise\/XkMRYexb\">How to prepare for a chess tournament abroad &#8230; language-wise<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Grandmaster Rasmus Svane talking about his (and his brother GM Frederik Svane&#8217;s) upcoming chess trip to the Polish Ekstraliga, I&#8217;ve written an article about the language preparation for a trip like that. I&#8217;ve also discussed a few particularities of the pronunciation of the Polish language and why you can&#8217;t trust English written lists &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/polish-ekstraliga-prep-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polish for the next chess trip? Maybe to the Polish Ekstraliga?A new article is out!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,110,55,98,62,5],"tags":[21,196,190,193,194,192,66,188,20,195,200,189,65,25],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-lernmethoden","category-reisen","category-schach","category-sprachenlernen","category-termine","tag-aktuelles","tag-czech-republic","tag-ekstraliga","tag-gm-frederik-svane","tag-gm-monika-socko","tag-gm-rasmus-svane","tag-language-learning","tag-lichess","tag-news","tag-poland","tag-polish","tag-polish-ekstraliga","tag-sprachen","tag-sprachenlernen"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en","pt"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"pt":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martina-gerdts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}