🇵🇱 Best Polish podcasts for beginners

Every episode is labelled with its CEFR level and streams free from the site, including a run of episodes on preparing for the state certification exam at B1. The explicit level tagging makes it unusually easy to find material that fits you, and the archive is large enough to last months. It stopped producing new episodes around 2023, so treat it as a finished library rather than a live show.

Mihalis Eleftheriou records real lessons with a real student and walks you through constructing the language yourself using cognates and logic — Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Swahili are covered. Completely free, no ads, no sign-up, funded by donations. The Spanish course in particular is one of the most recommended free resources anywhere; the trade-off is small vocabulary and no reading or writing practice.

Mark Pentleton teaches a genuine student while you listen in, across French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Japanese and Gaelic. The podcast seasons are free on any podcast app and are structured as a real curriculum rather than scattered episodes; the Academy sells premium lesson notes, video and bonus audio. Ideal commuting material for beginners through B1, and the Spanish and French series are the strongest.

Anna, a certified teacher of Polish as a foreign language who speaks a stack of languages herself, records short thematic episodes in Polish for learners settling into life in Poland or with Polish family. Uploads have continued steadily through 2026 and the level is well judged for A2–B2. The podcast and videos are free; courses and one-to-one lessons are paid.

Dialogue lessons with transcripts, line-by-line breakdowns, vocabulary lists and a spaced-repetition trainer, arranged into beginner-to-intermediate pathways — reliable scaffolding for the first year of Polish. The free podcast feed is a decent standalone resource. As with the whole PodX01 family, expect constant upselling, patchy older lessons and little content above B1.

Paulina Lipiec, trained in teaching Polish as a second language, started the podcast in 2016 out of frustration at how dull the available listening material was; two hundred-plus episodes later it covers language, culture and life in Poland with worksheets and transcripts. Her explanations of things Poles do and say make it as much cultural onboarding as language practice. The podcast and YouTube clips are free; worksheets, courses and the members' club are paid.