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Talk Now! Learn Polish - Beginning Level [OLD VERSION]

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This program will teach you to read, write, and correctly speak some very basic Polish words and sentences. It's a great way to get excited about learning Polish. It is however quite basic. You will only learn about 300 words. But you will learn them very, very well. And you will speak them very, very well. The program allows users to listen as two native polish speakers say the same words and phrases. You can repeat these as often as you like. And you can record your own speach and replay it until your pronounciation is correct. You will learn basic words, colors, food items, phrases, numbers, how to tell time, names of body parts, names of things you may shop for, and polish names of various countries. As a bonus you can print out a very nice polish picture dictionary. To help reinforce your learning, there are many games that give you the opportunity to be challenged. These too are rather simple...but they are indeed fun. And finally...you do not need to understand english to use this program as a polish instructional tool, you can choose from 72 different host languages. In my opinion, Talk Now will teach you quicker and better than Pimsluer. When you are ready get the intermediate version of Euro Talk Polish called World Talk Polish. And forget Pimsluer, which is overpriced and over-rated. Same goes for Rosetta Stone and a few others. When you are ready for intermediate/advanced learning, then consider courses such as Colloquial Polish..etc.

Ok, I bought about 4 CDS for polish an dthis was the best o all.....this CD was great because unlike "teach yourself Polish"...ALL the talk was in Polish with pictures and English written translation...so you could play it 500 times with NO WASTE at all since you'll keep hearing POlish so much much better than ';teach yourself polish " cd. it was also much better than polish immersion which was an insult.
I highly reccomend this CD

This CDROM is indepth and will you give a taste of the polish language. Learn the accent before traveling to Poland along with basic phrases and numbers. It took awhile for me to pick up on the language but will be a valuable tool for anyone looking into learning some Polish.

You won't become a fluent speaker of Polish by using this CD ROM, but you will receive a terrific introduction to the language. The format is easy to follow, you can skip around as you see fit, and it's actually fun to use. I bought this several months before my trip to Poland, and I definitely had a much easier time knowing what I learned from it.

My daughter really loves this CD and she is only 6 years old! She intuitively knows how to switch to another topic (since every topic and every option has its own unique symbol). I agree with other customers that this is probably the best one CD that EuroTalks offers for people who wants to learn Polish.
This CD has a great selection of topics: food, colors, first words, body, countries and more... it teaches a good pronunciations and also how to write the words.
Her favorite is "Body" since it offers a Zombi game - after guessing properly all the body parts - the terrified Zombi is awaken.
I really recommend it to all - adults and kids!

This is a very fun product, thats also very effective. This product features two actual native polish speakers one male one female. You learn by seeing pictures of the word your learning accompanied by how you'd say it in polish. The course is divided into different sub-categories of study, "Food, Numbers, Body Parts, Phrases, Etc.." and within each of these areas of study you begin buy learning the word by associating it to its picture. Once you learned the words you can play easy & hard games designed to test your memory. There's also a feature that allows you to hook up a mic and test your pronunciation, which i guess is then compared against the correct pronunciation. I haven't tried using this feature yet. Overall this is a good BEGINNERS product.

I just received the CD-ROM and made a general tour. Indeed that's nice software with nice features. I just expected to have a little more lessons, as there are 9 sets of words to learn, each corresponds to a lesson. And there is also a memory game with all words learned.

For sure you won't be able to understand more than a few words and basic phrases but that's a very good starting point.
One think is you got to listen Polish in order to learn the pronunciation. At least for a complete beginner as me, you've got use a CD, just a book won't help a lot.