Polish For Dummies

I spoke some simple polish as a child and wanted to enhance my ability to speak as well as write in Polish. I have living relatives in Poland which i would like to communicate with possibly by phone as well as writing. I found the book to be very helpful in doing just that. I also can see why it would be difficult for someone without a polish background to pick up a new language such as Polish. It is a difficult language to learn. The book does an excellent job despite the difficulty of the language.

Great book, bought for a friend but ended up reading it myself. Love the additions about the culture and language quirks. It’s worth buying. Warto kupic!

I think "Dummies" books are good, because they cover material as if we are dummies. Having said that, I bought this book and got through to a point where I needed to supplement my learning and turned to the CD. The first lesson was an advanced conversation between two people where I could not hear the words, nor spell them, nor even recognize the words. This is a barrier to my learning. I will have to look elsewhere for other books.

This book is not for dummies, but it is excellent as an introduction to the language. It was a fabulous help as I prepared for travel to Poland. The book includes a CD that presents all-aural examples and a text that explained all the basic grammar, with essential vocabulary lists and sample sentences. I was exceedingly well-prepared for travel, having used this in conjunction with other media. Does not say the sentence in English, only Polish, but gives the situation or context. I used it for several months of listening to train my ear whenever I drove anywhere, before beginning to take notes from the book. The notebook that resulted was most helpful, even after I was in the country. Ms. Gabryanczyk has done an outstanding job of presenting practice in initial aural immersion and written practice.

I was using a highly rated app for my trips to Poland. All my studing practicing to find out I was using "nonsense style language" .So I started over with Polish for dummies. The CD is a big plus!

This is a good book and a great deal of effort has gone into it. Of course to learn Polish, you will need more than one book. I also like the Teach Yourself Book: "Polish - A Complete Course for Beginners," by Nigel Gotteri and Joanna Michalak-Gray There are a few editions of this book. The one I prefer is an older version, available used. The ISBN number (which you can type in under Books) is: 0-8442-3704-3. It's available used for around $6 (as of May 2017). One of the reasons I like this book is because most of the translations are quite literal, which I think is important if one is trying to learn the language.

My daughter is learning Polish on her own and requested this. It came with a CD. She is very happy with the book and CD.

This is useful, but limited. It would be much more helpful to have more CDs to enhance learning how to speak the language. The instruction here is more sight oriented so it cannot be used in a car. The suggested pronunciations are more limited than a standard phrase book which made it less useful to me, a novice in learning Polish.

As trying to relearn the language of the Old Country. This book certainly helps. Such depth to the polish language and this product gives you bite sized amounts to assimilate and not get overwhelmed. Thanks again!

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I'm learning so much with this book, I knew just a few words in Polish before this. of course I also have the help of a native, but this is really good and well explained even for those who have no other help at all :)

El Libro esta muy bien y es muy util mas sin embargo el CD no venia en el paquete. El paquete estaba bien pero el libro no venia envuelto en plastico como cualquier libro nuevo. Book is quite useful but unfortunately I received it without the CD. Packing from AMAZON was perfectly fine but the book camr without the plastic that normally wraps all new books

esta bastante bien antes de comprarlo ten en cuenta tener una base de polaco antes de empezar