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AaronK
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28 October 2009 at 12:49pm | IP Logged 
I'm looking to learn Polish. I realize the difficulty involved in it as others have said but I have chosen not to really keep that in mind because the more difficult you perceive it to be, the more difficult it is.

I was wondering if anyone here could point me into Polish resources. Specifically, I want to use L-R methods. Also, wanted to know whats the best products to invest money into. Anyone who is studying Polish please direct me into the right way.
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Gusutafu
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28 October 2009 at 1:27pm | IP Logged 
Poles seem to be very prolific in posting subtitled foreign movies on torrent sites (i have all of Monty Python with Polish subs), and I believe the situation is similar for domestic films. I personally think that approach is brilliant, polish film with polish subs, but you'd need to be intermediate of course.

Assimil Polish seems good so far, you can use it as L-R.
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ewomahony
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28 October 2009 at 6:08pm | IP Logged 
This is a good grammar site:

http://free.of.pl/g/grzegorj/gram/gram00.html
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Chung
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 Message 4 of 9
28 October 2009 at 7:54pm | IP Logged 
AaronK wrote:
I'm looking to learn Polish. I realize the difficulty involved in it as others have said but I have chosen not to really keep that in mind because the more difficult you perceive it to be, the more difficult it is.

I was wondering if anyone here could point me into Polish resources. Specifically, I want to use L-R methods. Also, wanted to know whats the best products to invest money into. Anyone who is studying Polish please direct me into the right way.


This site at the University of Pittsburgh is pretty good too.

http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/

For your purposes with L-R, you may find the following link on this website to be suitable.

http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/other/KPR.pdf

This .pdf is a collection of short stories for beginners but if you click on the title of each short story, you will get a link to a recording in .mp3 of someone reading the story. In other words it's a free audiobook in Polish for beginners.

Really all that you still need as a beginner is a decent English-Polish/Polish English dictionary (I assume that you're just starting out with your Polish studies). The dictionary "Collins English-Polish Polski-Angielski Dictionary - Compact Edition" by Jacek Fisiak is quite good yet cheap (the paperback edition shouldn't cost more than $15)

If you still want to spend money, then consider:
1) "Polish - An Essential Grammar" by Dana Bielec
2) The textbooks from the series that's published by "Universitas" at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
3) The courses in the series "Hurra po polsku!" that's published by Prolog.

As I said earlier that website at the University of Pittsburgh should have more than enough to keep you going for a while. It even has Polish grammar manuals in .pdf which would be cost-less alternatives to Bielec's book.
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ALS
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29 October 2009 at 11:34pm | IP Logged 
Gusutafu wrote:
Poles seem to be very prolific in posting subtitled foreign movies on torrent sites (i have all of Monty Python with Polish subs), and I believe the situation is similar for domestic films. I personally think that approach is brilliant, polish film with polish subs, but you'd need to be intermediate of course.

Assimil Polish seems good so far, you can use it as L-R.


Does Assimil have Polish in English? I only saw it in their French speaker's version.
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Gusutafu
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30 October 2009 at 9:53am | IP Logged 
ALS wrote:
Gusutafu wrote:
Poles seem to be very prolific in posting subtitled foreign movies on torrent sites (i have all of Monty Python with Polish subs), and I believe the situation is similar for domestic films. I personally think that approach is brilliant, polish film with polish subs, but you'd need to be intermediate of course.

Assimil Polish seems good so far, you can use it as L-R.


Does Assimil have Polish in English? I only saw it in their French speaker's version.


I don't know, I have it in French and I think it's availible in German, but it's not too difficult to understand, if you know at least some French. Check their website!

You can perhaps get the grammar explanations from a book, but you'd need to know some French or German.
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Meadowmeal
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30 October 2009 at 5:03pm | IP Logged 
Gusutafu wrote:
ALS wrote:
Gusutafu wrote:
Poles seem to be very prolific in posting subtitled foreign movies on torrent sites (i have all of Monty Python with Polish subs), and I believe the situation is similar for domestic films. I personally think that approach is brilliant, polish film with polish subs, but you'd need to be intermediate of course.

Assimil Polish seems good so far, you can use it as L-R.


Does Assimil have Polish in English? I only saw it in their French speaker's version.


I don't know, I have it in French and I think it's availible in German, but it's not too difficult to understand, if you know at least some French. Check their website!

You can perhaps get the grammar explanations from a book, but you'd need to know some French or German.

or Dutch :)
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Zetko86
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17 March 2015 at 5:59pm | IP Logged 
There is a quite comprehensive (15 volumes, 3178 pages!) Polish Basic Course, prepared for use in the Defense Language Institute's intensive language program, which is available for free download on this website: http://eric.ed.gov/?q=polish+basic+course&id=ED033357


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