I am trying to learn Polish and I am having trouble with it. Any ideas on how to learn more effectively?
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at
11:51 am
I have tried the Pimsler Polish CDs and they are okay however I can not find a CD that teaches the basics. i.e. numbers, days, colors... If anyone knows of a better way of learning Polish please let me know. Thank you!
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Polish is a tough language to learn because of some massive lexical restructuring that has occurred since its origin in Proto-Western Slavic. Pimsleur is a good start on conversational Polish, but Polish is a language that you must take slowly if you are a native speaker of English. I’ve found that combining Pimsleur with the book and CDs of "Teach Yourself Polish" and a good Polish grammar (I use "Polish: An Essential Grammar" and "301 Polish Verbs") makes a good combination of resources. Oh, and fork over the $150 for the Oxford Polish-English English-Polish dictionary set. It is worth every single penny because it is filled with examples of usage for every single word. I really use it a whole lot.
Sorry, cannot help you in that department. Although I do know a lot of Polish jokes…nah, never mind.
Go to your local bookstore and buy a Polish/English dictionary, as well as a Polish grammar book. Probably they’ll have other useful materials there you can use to advance your knowlege of Polish.
Rosetta Stone sells a bunch of language learning systems for your PC. I’ve never used their products but they are supposed to be pretty good. They use the immersion approach. It is a pretty expensive system though.
Berlitz books…they sell them at barnes and nobel….they are in every language…i learned a lot og german out of them they are easy and break everything down
study really hard that was I’m doing i moved to a new country a month ago and its working
For things like Numbers, Days, Colors, there’s a site that I came across a while ago randomly, here it is. Good luck with studying it, I myself speak Bosnian, a little bit similar to Polish, a slavic language.
http://www.travlang.com/languages/
Just look for Polish.
http://www.slovio.com/
Check this out as well, an artificial slavic language that is mutually understandable by all slavic language speakers.