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Why Learn Polish?

Polish is close—geographically, historically, and socially. Learning the language means consciously drawing on and deepening this closeness.

Whether in your studies, your career, or your personal life, Polish opens doors to international careers, cross-border collaboration, and genuine encounters on equal footing. 

Polish is a challenge—but that’s exactly what makes it exciting.

 
This is what Polish sounds like:
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"It was a beautiful day. The sun was pouring out gentle warmth and a glow that was still bright, though already fading behind the ninth hill and the tenth river. The row of trees along the avenue, whose sight evoked so many memories, was already covered in a blackening rust. In the distance, from between the still-rounded crowns, leafless branches jutted out like some kind of sad signpost.

The doctor passed through the gate and walked slowly deeper into the park. Huge maple leaves drifted from the trees and flitted before his eyes above the ground, here and there, like golden birds."

""The Homeless" (1900), Stefan Żeromski

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Course Offerings

Winter Semester 2026/27

Course Offerings

Summer Semester 2026

Registration and Deregistration

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Registration for our Polish course in the 2026/27 winter semester takes place via unisono and is open during the first and second registration periods:

Registration Phase 1: August 17 – September 6, 2026
Registration Phase 2: September 21 – October 4, 2026

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If you are unable to attend a course after all, you can drop the course via unisono from September 7 through September 20, 2026. After this date, please send an email to sprachenzentrum@spz.uni-siegen.de
to drop the course.

Our Polish teacher

Ewa Darmstätter teaches Polish with great enthusiasm for her native language and Polish culture. She has lived in Siegen since 2007 and shares her love of the language in her classes. She studied foreign languages in adult education and guides learners as they discover Polish step by step.

In her classes, she’ll show you that Polish isn’t nearly as difficult as many people think—words like “cyrkiel,” “gitara,” “majster,” “ryzyko,” or “szynka” might even sound familiar to you. In addition to the language, you’ll also learn about Polish culture, literature, and traditions. She looks forward to welcoming you to the course.

Ewa Darmstätter

Language Learning Links

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Polish as a foreign language is offered at more than 20 universities in Germany—including the University of Siegen.

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Polish authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four times to date: Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905), Władysław Reymont (1924), Czesław Miłosz (1980), and Olga Tokarczuk (2018, awarded in 2019).

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It is estimated that about 13 billion pierogi— stuffed dumplings—are eaten in Poland every year.

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The Polish language has seven grammatical cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative.

Do you have any questions? Feel free to contact us:

Language Center at the Student Services Center (Building F-S)

Sandstraße 16-18,
, 57072 Siegen

Andrea Süßmann
Office

Andrea Süßmann
Room: F-S 304
Tel.: +49 271 / 740 3002
sprachenzentrum@spz.uni-siegen.de

 

 

Come visit us on the 3rd floor—we’d be happy to assist you.

 

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