Teach Yourself Polish Conversation (Teach Yourself Conversations) |
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Joanna Michalak-Gray
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Pages: 48 (Audio CD)
ISBN: 0340913940
Pub: Teach Yourself
Pub date: 2006-02-24
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 77407
Reader Reviews:
Polish made easier (0/0 people found this helpful)
Bought this item after enjoying Polish in a Day, thought it would make my visit to Poland easier. Would have liked a bit more about using a car in Poland as we drove around. I found the music between each section really irritating after the first few times of going back over a section. Would have prefered another way to distinguish each section.
My Polish friend thought my accent was good and was very impressed.
i would like to do some written Polish to help with reading menu's signs etc.
Good introduction (38/39 people found this helpful)
Having dabbled with various languages I thought I would learn some basic Polish as I have the opportunity to practice on various people I encounter on a daily basis. I have been very impressed with Teach Yourself Polish Conversation - it has kept my interest (the first failing point for many language courses), covered some useful vocabulary organised into various scenarios, and repeated things enough times for me to pick them up. The only downsides are that the vocabulary never goes quite far enough and that some words that I am very unlikely to use have been included at the expense of space that could have been used for something else (e.g. port cutlets do not appear high in my list of items that I ask for). Teach Yourself Polish Conversation is good for getting you started, getting you hooked and building some confidence, but it won't make you fluent and won't give you enough vocabulary to survive in Polish alone. Start here, but expect to buy other courses afterwards.
Note added June 2008 - having just returned from a holiday travelling around north east Poland, I have discovered that knowing about pork cutlets is actually very useful. Have also discovered that Teach Yourself Polish Conversation is even more useful than I expected. Although I have worked through other courses and taken classes since using TYPC, my wife had only had time to work through half of TYPC and had done no other Polish studies. Even so, what she had learnt from TYPC gave her the confidence to order food, buy stamps and postcards in the Post Office etc. She was very surprised at how useful even the first half of TYPC turned out to be.
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