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Learning Polish

Collumbo · 2005-08-16 11:35:23

I have almost completed the 16-CD Pimsleur Polish Course. I decided to buy it as I knew I'd be living with 2 Poles for a few months... so far so good, but, there is no Comprehensive Pimsleur course for Polish as it's definitely not one of the most learned languages by English speakers. So where is the best place to go from…

16-08-2005 11:35am

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I have almost completed the 16-CD Pimsleur Polish Course. I decided to buy it as I knew I'd be living with 2 Poles for a few months... so far so good, but, there is no Comprehensive Pimsleur course for Polish as it's definitely not one of the most learned languages by English speakers. So where is the best place to go from here? I have a good grasp of pronunciation, basic sentence construction, and how to ask for the basic things... I don't have a big vocabulary, but I believe you develop that passively over time.

Has anybody done one of these Pimsleur courses? What's the next logical step?

For anyone thinking of buying one of these Pimsleur courses, they are "Just OK". The learning style is repetitive and mechanical... so whatever you hear, you tend not to forget with these courses - that's the good point. The bad point is that it is nowhere near Michel Thomas in terms of how much you learn in a given time. You find yourselve not learning a whole lot of new things in the first 10 lessons.

Unfortunately Michel Thomas was not available in Polish (again, probably because there would be no demand for it), but for anyong wanting to learn Italian, Spanish, French or German in record time, go for the 8-CD Michel Thomas course. I did the Italian one and I learned more Italian in about 4 weeks than I did French in 5 years of school (no exaggerating)... While it doesn't cover the informal "You", once you hear a native speaker correcting you a few times for being too polite, you then automatically know the informal for pretty much every verb.

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