jradetzky Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom geocities.com/jradet Joined 7208 days ago 521 posts - 485 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1
| Message 1 of 35 04 March 2005 at 12:06pm | IP Logged |
I've already completed the first 10 lessons of Pimsleur Polish. The language turned out to be easier than expected but now I need more material to go on. I have the "Polonais sans peine" book by Assimil, but I don't have the tapes, and I fear that if I buy them they're not good enough (and very expensive). Does anyone know other good Polish language course (beyond mere phrasebooks)?
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Seth Diglot Changed to RedKingsDream Senior Member United States Joined 7225 days ago 240 posts - 252 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Persian
| Message 2 of 35 04 March 2005 at 12:34pm | IP Logged |
www.learn-how-to-speak.com
That's the largest Polish course I've come across...and it's FSI no less.
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jradetzky Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom geocities.com/jradet Joined 7208 days ago 521 posts - 485 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1
| Message 3 of 35 04 March 2005 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
Have you completed it? Do you still have it? Any chance of a trade?
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Seth Diglot Changed to RedKingsDream Senior Member United States Joined 7225 days ago 240 posts - 252 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Persian
| Message 4 of 35 04 March 2005 at 3:57pm | IP Logged |
No, I don't...nor do I no a single word of Polish. I'm intrigued because I speak half-way decent Russian for a foreigner and like slavic languages.
However, FSI is as good as it gets in my opinion.
I would risk it if you're really into Polish.
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jradetzky Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom geocities.com/jradet Joined 7208 days ago 521 posts - 485 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1
| Message 5 of 35 04 March 2005 at 4:34pm | IP Logged |
I've reviewed the FSI site and the Polish course they have is labeled FAST, meaning that it only covers survival aspects of the language.
I decided to start my approach to slavic languages via Polish because I have friends from Poland and because in writing it looks really challenging, even more than Russian (after knowing the Russian alphabet the language becomes very transparent).
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ProfArguelles Moderator United States foreignlanguageexper Joined 7257 days ago 609 posts - 2102 votes
| Message 6 of 35 04 March 2005 at 8:32pm | IP Logged |
Assimil's Polish tapes are quite good, you can purchase them without fear. However, I find that to get the best use out of Assimil tapes, you generally have to rerecord them, editing out the pauses and gaps between the sentences in the exercises and elsewhere, and the Polish ones are no exception. Content wise, they are impeccable. Another excellent Polish course, both book and tapes, is "Mowimy po polsku," published by Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa, 1979. I do not know if it is still in print, but you can probably find a used copy of it or get in from a language library.
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blackr00t Diglot Groupie United States Joined 7203 days ago 40 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, French
| Message 7 of 35 08 March 2005 at 9:55pm | IP Logged |
Haven't tried either of my following suggestions, however, you may want to try the Linguaphone polish course. Also, AudioForum seems to have a variety of tapes and comprehension programs you could use.
Edited by blackr00t on 29 May 2006 at 11:59am
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ProfArguelles Moderator United States foreignlanguageexper Joined 7257 days ago 609 posts - 2102 votes
| Message 8 of 35 20 March 2005 at 11:18am | IP Logged |
Indeed, I forgot this: I have the Linguaphone Polish course tapes, and they are absolutely excellent, even without the text, so anyone embarking on this might well want to consider investing in the whole course.
Edited by administrator on 20 March 2005 at 11:28am
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