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| Nieng Zhonghan Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Antarctica Joined 3669 days ago 108 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Japanese*, Spanish, Galician Studies: Finnish, Icelandic, Armenian, Mongolian Studies: Old English, Russian, English, German, Korean, Mandarin | Message 9 of 9 19 March 2015 at 3:01pm | IP Logged |
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Are you going to study by yourself or with a tutor?
As for L-R, I would recommend you Assimil and Pittsburgh's university Polish course. However, the link is not working now (at least here). 1.Assimil Polish If you know Dutch, French, German or Italian, you can use Assimil With Ease serie. It contains at least 2000 words and it can take you to A2 level depending on how much you spend and how you study. There are some reasons I tend to start with Assimil when the course is available for my target language: I can adapt myself to the way I learn languages. It provides bilingual texts; the audio is in the target language only, some phonetic explanations, useful grammar notes and some exercises you can do from L2 to L1 and vice-verse, and the some of the dialogues are weird (this is a matter of perception…), not to say entertaining. If this option doesn’t work for you because they unfortunately haven’t produced Assimil Polish for English speakers, then, let me write about other resources I have used. 2.Polski, Krok Po Kroku series (A1/A2) (2010) I honestly haven’t heard about the publisher (polish-courses.com), but at the time I was interested in Polish, I got their third edition. This is a good introductory Polish book. It contains a wide variety of sentences that I actually heard while speaking to Polish people in Poland. Cons + Although the textbook contains many audio with natural recordings, I realized that not all dialogues were recorded; + It is not designed for self-study. + If you consider using this book with a tutor, it is desirable to use together with either the workbook or the grammar book. 3. Pimsleur Polish (This is not for your L-R purposes) It was helpful, but I would not spend money on this method. I found it for US 5,00, so I gave it a try. I can say that Pimsleur Polish consists on a phase of 30 lessons teaching about 500 words, when an Assimil book from with Ease series will give you 100 lessons, which contain 2000 up to perhaps 2500 words. It hasn’t also grammar instructions. 4.Teach Yourself Polish (2011) Not bad for the money. I bought a used book containing CDs. You can use it for your L- R purposes, though I personally would have written other dialogues for some units. Differently from Assimil with Ease (Polish), TY format isn’t clear in certain points. I personally think that all TY I have tried before (17 languages), there were too much English in the recording. While the amount of time on the audio was about 2 hours, at least half of it is a waste as they give you the instructions all in English. It could start with English in the first lessons, but it should be switched to the target language. I also would make a separate recording for the native speakers’ dialogues only. If it doesn’t bother you at all, then, you can try your L-R using TY. I particularly disliked TY Polish. 5.Beginning Polish: Revised edition, Volume 1 (Yale Language Series) This was one of the best resources I have tried so far. It contains audio, though many people believe that they don’t exist. Here it is: https://archive.cls.yale.edu/polish/ Cons: + From the linguistics point of view, I would not suggest you using this book as it were designed in the 70’s, unless you would like to speak with older people. Some of the words and grammar structures are probably not used at all these days, especially in the big cities. +It doesn’t make sense to use this book without the audio (self-study). 6. Hurra po polsku If I am not wrong, I have the 2010’s version. I am not sure whether they have updated its contents, but I am going to write about the only version I have. The textbook doesn’t provide any explanation. It is a common foreign textbook with entirely the target language. I have just taken a look quickly and it seems that they have published in November (2010) the grammar edition. Perhaps with the grammar edition you would be able to use the textbook. There is also a workbook which I haven’t purchased by that time as I was told that it also doesn’t contain any English explanation. It should be a great course for someone who is willing to study with a tutor. Other than that, I would definitely not recommend you start with this book. It will be a waste of time and money. 7. Czesc, jak sie masz? Spotykamy sie w Polsce “Hurra po polsku” series are slightly better than “Czesc, jak sie masz? Spotykamy sie w Polsce”, but this is just my personal taste when it comes to the dialogues selected, audio recordings and book design. This book explains the essentials accordingly to the A1 level (CEFR) and it also written in both Polish and English which is desirable for self-study learners’. 8. Polishpod101 It is an interesting resource, but it unfortunately doesn’t provide a full course. I mean, there are some beginner and advanced level courses, but they were still incomplete. As for the beginner levels: “All About”: 15 lessons. Basic bootcamp: 6 lessons Beginner season 1: 25 lessons Absolute beginner season 1: 6 lessons Survival phrases season 1: 60 lessons You can make good use of the dialogues provided in any of the courses above. But I think it is overpriced for the contents offered. As a matter of comparison, in other courses such as Germanpod101, I have more seasons for each level. For instance, I have here Absolute Beginner season 1 and 2; Beginner season 1 and 2; Upper Beginner season 1 and 2 and so on. On Grammar 1. A Grammar of Contemporary Polish 2. Polish an Essential Grammar 3. (In German) Grammatik des Polnischen 4. (In Spanish) Gramatica Polaca Fernando González On dictionary Depending on how you use a visual dictionary, I will recommend you: Polish-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Bilingual Dictionaries) I did a good use of this dictionary. It was really helpful. At the moment I cannot recommend you any other dictionary as I didn't like any in Polish-English. Polish is an interesting language and Poland is one of the nicest countries I have ever been to. Good luck in your studies! Edited by Nieng Zhonghan on 19 March 2015 at 3:03pm 7 persons have voted this message useful |
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