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Published: 26/09/2008

Extent: 8 Hrs

 

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Summary:

Learn another language the way you learnt your own

You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Polish in the same way.

You'll stick with it because you'll love it

Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas.

This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Polish in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.

You learn through listening and speaking without the pressure of writing or memorising.

You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.

The NEW Polish Foundation Course

• Learn another language the way you learnt your own

• Effective method - the Michel Thomas Method of language teaching works with the brain

• Motivating - live classroom situation with two students encourages you to learn with the students on the recording
• All-audio - the way you want to learn

• Pronunciation is gently - but effectively - corrected

• Reference booklet - accompanying booklet lists key phrases in English and Polish

• Suite of progressive and complementary course components: Introductory, Foundation, Advanced, and Vocabulary

• Sales record - the hugely successful Michel Thomas Method is applied to Polish

Table of Contents:
Introduction. How to use this course. Similarities between English and Polish.
To jest opera = 'this (is) (an / the) opera' - no word for 'is', 'a' or 'the' in Polish
Explanation of stress in Polish
Form a question by inflexion: raising intonation
Saying 'yes', 'no', 'not'
'Czy' – question word to which the expected answer is yes / no
Question words 'what?', 'who?'
Pan/pani = formal 'you'
'I have' – mam; 'I don't have' – nie mam
Making words plural (more than one)
'Here' = tutaj, 'there' – tam
'I am' = jestem
Adjectives: ciekawy 'interesting'
Jestem ciekawy/ciekawa – 'I wonder'
-cja in Polish is '-tion' in English
Question word gdzie = 'where?'
Adverbs: blisko 'close'; daleko 'far'
Mozna = 'possible' so 'I / you / he/ one etc. can / may'; saying 'please' and 'thank you'
Using infinitives (the 'to' form of the verb) after mozna = 'possible': mozna kupic? = 'Possible to buy?'
Nie mozna = 'not possible' so 'I / you / he/ one etc. shouldn't, I / you / he/ one etc. am / are / is not allowed'
Using infinitives after nie mozna = 'not possible': nie mozna kupic = 'not allowed to buy'
Wiedziec = 'to know'; rozumiec = 'to understand'; umiec='can, be able to'; dowiedziec sie= 'to find out';
Soft consonants in Polish
'I' form of verbs
'Nothing' and double negatives
Chciec = 'to want'; lubic = 'to like'; musiec = 'must'; móc = 'can, be able to, may'; mówic = 'to speak'; myslec = 'to think'
'To be' = byc;
'To have' = miec
(Ja) (nie) chce = I (don't) want (it); jesc = 'to eat', pic = 'to drink'; robic = 'to do'
'You', 's/he', 'it', form of verbs
Asking politely
'Me', 'you' as object of verb ('I understand you')
Question word 'how?'
Pracowac = 'to work' (-e track of -owac verbs – approx. 25 % of all Polish verbs)
Trzeba = 'necessary', 'one needs'
Using infinitives (the 'to' form of the verb) after trzeba = 'necessary', 'one needs': trzeba pracowac = 'one needs to work'
Czytac = 'to work' (-m track of verbs - approx. 25 % of all Polish verbs)
Masculine, feminine, neuter and plural endings for adjectives (adjectives used before the word they describe)
Mówic = 'to speak'; chciec = 'to want'; powiedziec = 'to, say, tell'
(Ja) bede = 'I will (be)'; (ja) bede jesc = 'I will eat'; Pan/pani bedzi = 'you will (be)'
Question word kiedy? 'when?'
'He / she, it' and form of verbs; 'we' and form of verbs
Reflexive verbs e.g. uczyc sie = 'to learn'; explanation of 'sie'
Question word dlaczego = 'why?'
Possessive adjective 'my' in masculine, feminine, plural and neuter forms
Past tense of verbs: 'I / he / she / we / you / they knew / thought'
Past tense of 'to be' ('was, were'); past tense of 'have'('had);
Zapomniec = 'to forget'
Verb forms for 'they'

About the Author(s):

Jolanta Cecula taught Polish at Kings College London and is an Affiliate of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

Readership:
Self-access course for adult beginners

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