Hippocrene Polish Children's Picture Dictionary: English-Polish/Polish-English [Paperback]

Robert Stanley Martin (Editor), Nicholas Voltaggio (Illustrator), Krystyna Idziak (Translator)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up

This book is for ages 5 to 10 years. It is designed to be a child's very first foreign language dictionary. It features 625 entries, each accompanied by a large illustration.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781811279
• ISBN-13: 978-0781811279
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,354,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #86 in Books > Education & Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Polish

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Good basic book, December 31, 2011

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Pete "decodex" (NY, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hippocrene Polish Children's Picture Dictionary: English-Polish/Polish-English (Paperback)

Nice idea that utilizes visualization as a tool to learn Polish words. The book contains decent amount of images with their correponding Polish words, and a pronunciation guide. Great for learning individual words, but not a tool to learn a language.

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Source for Teaching Basic Polish Vocabulary, August 17, 2009

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Jana (Chicago, IL, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hippocrene Polish Children's Picture Dictionary: English-Polish/Polish-English (Paperback)

This is the first children's book I found that includs all sounds found in the Polish Language. See the page titled Polish Pronunciation, which covers the complete alphabet plus digraphs-combination sounds like rz, cz, dz, etc.

This book is a collection of 500 flash cards, if you will. (If the 500 words were available as deck of cards, I would buy the deck instead of the book for sure.) If you present the vocabulary to your young child in terms of few words at a time, you will build not only Polish but also English vocabulary.

My child just turned 3 years old. He reads English and now I am using this source, among others, as a way to reinforce English and to teach the basic Polish vocabulary.

I paid $14.95 for the book, not the strange pricing presented above $500.

I also recommend Usborne Everyday Words Polish Flashcards (50 words), which I got on E-bay for around $12 from UK. It has one mistake though: T-shirt is not T-shirt in Polish but rather "koszulka".