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Summary: Practical, positve, popular Polish
Review: Paul Pimsleur provides an excellent template for learning Polish in 10 lessons. You will be able to easily carry on conversations with natives and because of the Pimsleur language system , you will be confident in developing and expanding your vocabulary. The Pimsleur system uses backwards buildup and recognition by repetion to reinforce each lesson. I have used the Pimsleur system to learn Spainish, French and Polish and have become very comfortable in using these languages and this remarkable system.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: Pimsleur has quite a unique method of teaching. This method has really worked for me so far. I still wish there was a book with the conversations written down, also not available on CD only tape. Still an excellent buy!
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Summary: A Great Launchpad to Further Study
Review: Pimsleur's Polish 1 provides the student with a graduated series of Polish conversations. While the content is composed mostly of words and phrases useful to tourists and business travelers (and a lot of stuff that would be helpful for a guy trying to score a date in Poland!), the covert introduction to grammar is universally helpful. These lessons are convenient and enjoyable and can be listened to many times, always offering an opportunity for improvement. However, I don't prescribe to the pie-in-the-sky notion of purely inuitive, drill and memorization-free language learning. This is a great place to start, but the next step should be a more grammer intensive program.
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Summary: Tak! This is the one.
Review: This is definitely the way to start learning Polish on your own. Like all Pimsleur programs its expensive and is not geared towards building a large vocabulary but it is unsurpassed in helping you develop a good speaking proficiency and you will remember what you've learned for a longer period of time compared to other methods of instruction. Use this course as a starter and follow it up with Boleslaw Mazur's Colloquial Polish (with cassette accompaniment) to further develop your vocabulary, reading, and grammar skills.If you've used Pimsleur tapes before the format will be familiar to you. Among other things you'll learn some key words (please, thank you, etc), how to ask for directions, and how to set up a lunch or dinner date. Its not much but you'll learn it well. Polish is full of awkward consonant combinations and none of the other courses is better than Pimsleur in helping you deal with these. This is only a 10-lesson course (about 30 minutes per lesson) which is far too brief. Hopefully the Pimsleur folks will put out a Comprehensive Program (30 lessons) for Polish as they have for other languages. Do not purchase this program if you are going to Poland soon and just want to know a few key phrases for the trip. There is little provided in this regard and youll be better off with a travel-oriented phrasebook. If you already know some Russian you should also skip this one and start with Mazur. But if you are keen on developing a speaking proficiency that, with some follow-up work, will impress a Pole, this is the place to start.
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