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Hippocrene Polish Children's Picture Dictionary: English-Polish/Polish-English

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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.

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".