Polish for employees in your industry

Why an industry programme rather than a general course

An industry programme teaches first the words and sentences the employee will use at work – a general course gets to them after many months, or never. A warehouse worker does not need restaurant vocabulary at the start, and a cook does not need the names of forklift trucks. The grammar is the same; the examples and the order of topics differ. We build every course for companies on this principle.

Six industries – situations and examples

For each industry we have chosen the situations that most often cause trouble for employees from abroad in the first months.

What we emphasise in each industry

In each industry a different skill decides whether the employee can manage on their own – and that is where we start the programme.

Warehouse and logistics

Numbers, locations and product names matter most – a mistake in one digit means an incorrectly picked order. We practise numerals with nouns (dwie palety, pięć palet) and instructions with a place (na górną półkę, do strefy wysyłek).

Production and welding

In production, what counts is reporting faults and understanding instructions, and in a welding shop also the markings on a technical drawing. We practise describing a problem in the past tense (maszyna stanęła, lampka się nie zapaliła) and quality control vocabulary.

Construction

On a construction site most instructions are given on the move and colloquially, often amid noise. We teach the names of tools and materials, a foreman's short instructions and warning phrases (uważaj, odsuń się, nie wchodź).

Transport and drivers

A driver talks mainly on the phone – with a dispatcher, a warehouse, a client – so we practise listening comprehension without gestures or images. Transport documents and phrases needed at a roadside check are added.

IT and office

In an office, Polish is needed in meetings, in emails and in conversations with a client. We practise polite forms (czy mógłby pan, uprzejmie proszę), writing short messages and taking part in a team meeting.

Catering and hospitality

In serving guests, courtesy and quick reactions matter, and in the kitchen – product names, quantities and allergens. We practise phrases for guests (czy mogę już podać rachunek?) and communication in the kitchen at peak times.

Words that mean something different at work

In every industry there are words that the employee knows from a dictionary but that at work mean something more or something different. We discuss such words separately, because they lead to misunderstandings.

A tip for the manager: if your company has abbreviations and internal names (names of zones, machines, forms), pass them on to the teacher. The employee will learn them in the lesson instead of guessing on the shop floor.

How we tailor the programme to the company

We tailor the industry programme in three steps, and the company takes part only in the first.

1. Materials from the company – workstation instructions, health and safety signs, model documents, a list of the most common instructions.
2. Workstation glossary – the teacher selects words and sentences for the first weeks from the materials.
3. Practice in situations – employees role-play conversations from their shift: reporting a fault, a shift handover, a conversation with a client.

The first step is a language audit – we will check your employees’ level and propose a programme for their job roles.