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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This book has very useful information and is well laid out.
I brought it home to my family during the holidays and my polish grandparents loved it. Alot of the proverbs were ones they remember from when they were little.
Published on December 30, 1997
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not unique, at least for non-Polish speakers
If you are looking for uniquely Polish ways of putting things or uniquely Polish proverbs, this isn't the book you want. The book is a collection of proverbs that translate into English, specifically with English equivalents. Some of them are simply the Polish translations of biblical proverbs and Latin tags; some others are Polish ways of expressing the standard...
Published on February 2, 1999
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not unique, at least for non-Polish speakers,
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This review is from: Dictionary of 1000 Polish Proverbs: With English Equivalents (Hippocrene Bilingual Proverbs) (English and Polish Edition) (Paperback)
If you are looking for uniquely Polish ways of putting things or uniquely Polish proverbs, this isn't the book you want. The book is a collection of proverbs that translate into English, specifically with English equivalents. Some of them are simply the Polish translations of biblical proverbs and Latin tags; some others are Polish ways of expressing the standard proverbs but are translated as the English version of the proverb. I'm still looking for a book of uniquely Polish idiomatic phrases I ran across a while back; this isn't it.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This book has very useful information and is well laid out.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dictionary of 1000 Polish Proverbs: With English Equivalents (Hippocrene Bilingual Proverbs) (English and Polish Edition) (Paperback)
I brought it home to my family during the holidays and my polish grandparents loved it. Alot of the proverbs were ones they remember from when they were little.
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Dictionary of 1000 Polish Proverbs: With English Equivalents (Hippocrene Bilingual Proverbs) (English and Polish Edition) by Miroslaw Lipinski (Paperback - Oct. 1997)
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