Vocabulary

• Dzień dobry - Good morning | This can be used in the monring or afternoon
• Dzień - Day
• Dobry - Good
• Wieczór - Evening
• Dobry wieczór - Good evening
• Cześć - Hi | This is an informal greeting. It can also be used to say "bye". It can be used any time of day.
• Jak się masz? - How are you? | This is an informal term.
• Co słychać? - How are things?
• Co nowego? - What's new?
• Nic - Nothing
• Nic nowego - Nothing new
• Dziękuję - Thank you
• Dzięki - Thanks
• Proszę - Please / Here you go

Questions

I'm still getting a handle of the pronunciations. I wonder what changes how the "o" sound is pronounced. I read that it is usually like o in "pot", but in the word "nowego", the o's are pronounced as "oh". I assumed it needed a sort of accent to show that, but the word has no accent. I assume it has to do with the combination of letters, like the difference between ć and ci.

I also wonder what "co" literally means. It seems to be a question word, but it has been translated to "how" and "what" in different expressions. I'm tentatively leaning towards it being the question word for "what", though I'll have to look it up to be sure. But I get the feeling that "How are things" is not the literal meaning of "Co słychać?"