As a Polish-American interested in genealogy, I quickly learned
that pronunciation is the key to everything. How can you
properly research a family if you can’t say the language
correctly? I realized that there are American English
pronunciations of Polish surnames and place names, and then
there is the real way it is pronounced in Polish. Over the years
I’ve learned a few things about the Polish language with its
“different” letters and consonant combinations, and I can
usually figure out how a word is pronounced. But sometimes…I get
stumped. Just the other day I learned that my great-grandmother
was born in a town near Warsaw called Przybyszew. Przybyszew?
Where do I begin? I’d like to buy a vowel, Pat! Fortunately, I
discovered an awesome website thanks to Zenon Znamirowski from
PolishOrigins.com that allows you to hear Polish words
pronounced by Polish speakers! So, how do you say Przybyszew?
Click on this link to hear it! The site, Expressivo, is a text
to speech program. To test it out, you can enter up