First Year Polish [Paperback]

Oscar E. Swan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 354 pages
• Publisher: Slavica Pub; 2 Sub edition (July 1, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893571083
• ISBN-13: 978-0893571085
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #813,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #52 in Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Instruction > Polish
  • #62 in Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Polish

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended, February 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: First Year Polish (Paperback)

I worked through this book from cover to cover before a trip to Poland several years ago. The vocabulary is colloquial and current. The book turned out to be an excellent preparation for my trip. I found that I could make myself understood in most everyday situations.

I found First Year Polish to be so useful, that I bought Intermediate Polish...also and excellent book.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The updated version is available FREE online., August 30, 2004

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donbiskayrd - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Year Polish (Paperback)

I had the pleasure of studying under Dr. Swan, the author of this book. He has a new version of this book for every single semester of classes, but they aren't officially published versions. He used to have the print center make course guides, but now (for the first year book) he has put the book online at http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/. It's always his most up-to-date version. Also, instead of doing the drills at the end of the chapter on paper, he has a free computer program called Lektorek. It tells you when you are wrong so that you don't learn something incorrectly. It's sort of buggy sometimes, but for the most part it's much easier to learn Polish with this program. Another advantage to the online version of the book is that you can click on the drills that you'll have to do in the Lektorek, and it will pronounce it for you. The conversations border on the surreal, but all in all, I did learn a lot from the Lektorek and online pronounciation.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Year Polish, July 12, 2002

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leslie (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Year Polish (Paperback)

This was a very useful book for learning Polish. I lived in Poland for a year and a half. This book was one of the things that helped me become fairly fluent in this hard language. I also reccomend the the Intermidiate Polish by Swan.