[trevorku]

my wife is polish too, we just married one month

[WooPeeA]

Congrats!

[Ewelina_8]

Hi All,
I am a native Polish speaker and qualified University Polish Language teacher. I have been teaching for 3 years at UCD. All levels, exam preparation, conversations. Drop me an email if you are interested in grinds.
Ewelina

[NiaDublin]

Hi All,
Some time has passed since this thread was open but I checked the three schools you suggested, and wrote to them. Two out of three replied, which is Marino and Languagewise. Are you still attending classes in those schools?
Can you give more information about the teacher, the programme, the type of method used and how many people are in the class on a average?

Are you subscribing next term?

Thanks,

Annamaria

[Jay D]

I would advise on picking up a language program out of the library and learning to "speak" like that. Courses are a total waste imo. Pilmsleur one really broke down pronunciation and everything for me, very good.

[katarzyna]

Hi Everyone,

You can also join Polish classes at Working English Language School in Dublin City Centrehttp://workingenglish.ie or contact Kasia on 086 8258 703.

Best of Luck

[Szarik102]

Polish is a challenge. It is about the same difficulty as Irish to learn from scratch.
This might help to get you started.

There is a free to download first year university Polish language course here on the University of Pittsburg website:
http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/polish/
It includes a large grammar book!

Their dictionary resource is also very good:
http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/polish/
Here is another good dictionary:
http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/tlumacz....on&tr=ang-auto

Google translate, though rather inaccurate can be a useful tool in checking sentence constructions.

Also, if you can find one, an old Linguaphone Polish course (1984era) is an excellent resource, though the lessons may be a bit quaint. I would suggest checking periodically on bay for one.

[reverselogic]

I have the following book and have found it to be quite good "Cześć, jak się masz" [I got mine from Amazon]. It has plenty of illustrations and reminds me of the French / German books from school

[spurious]

Originally Posted by reverselogic

I have the following book and have found it to be quite good "Cześć, jak się masz" [I got mine from Amazon]. It has plenty of illustrations and reminds me of the French / German books from school

That's the one we used as a basis for the first year in Trinity.
The teacher also used her own resources and bits and pieces from a book called 'Hurra!'.

[patru]

Working English language school in Liffey Str does Polish as well

[MagliaRosa]

As others said more expensive than other schools but the quality for money is excellent. Courses start next week so it is best to register as soon as you can.
http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/evening-courses/

[NiaDublin]

Hello, yes I also thought that the quality at Trinity college was mostalikely to be beter than in prvate schools and subscribed last Friday. Are you attending too? I'll be in the beginners class.

[spurious]

I did four years of the Trinity evening classes and enjoyed every minute of it.
Once you get to a reasonable standard, I highly recommend that you take the opportunity (if you can) to go on one of the Polish Government sponsored free summer school places, in Lublin, Warsaw or (sometimes) Krakow.

I'm still good friends with a number of our class.

[NiaDublin]

Sounds great, but I don't I'll be able to leave the work to go to a Summer School. Anyway I'll manage to practice, I'm sure
Thanks for your feedback! I hope I'll enjoy and make friends there too!

[spurious]

They also have a monthly Russian/Polish pub evening where you get to chat with more experienced students and extremely patient Polish people.