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moonsongs2007
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 Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: Polish Chat Rooms??? |
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are there any websites anyone can recommend where you can chat with other poles, to practice your polish? My Polish is weak, but I am a visual learner and I know I could really benefit by speaking to a polish speaker through IM with a dictionary at my side......through IM I am able to atleast have a very basic conversation. any websites any of you are using for this purpose?
i found mylanguageexchange.com, but it appears to require payment for their services. |
It's not quite the same thing but I guess you could try making Polish friends on MySpace using only Polish language to communicate.
Also, if there's some obscure area of Polish culture you're into (for me, underground music) perhaps a Polish forum has the answers you're looking for while also offering useful reading (and potentially writing) practice at the same time.
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moonsongs2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject: Re: Polish Chat Rooms??? |
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| Tumteetum wrote: |
| Personally I spend much of my Internet time ducking and diving to dodge such Polish stalkers. |
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dynow
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I just found "Hurrah Po Polsku" (as mentioned above) in Warsaw, in Plac Bankowy (91zl for the coursebook, workbook and CD) As Dynow says, it's very much grammatical exercises, but unlike older manuals like "Czesc jak sie masz" (20 years old now) and "Learn Polish in 4 Weeks" it's intelligently structured and thematically organised, as well as being rigorous in the grammar areas that Polish demands.
It looks a lot like elementary English File. |
piece of advice: the first couple chapters, assuming you're not starting from absolute 0 beginner, will appear easy to move through. after a few chapters, assuming you are doing all the exercises, all the sentence writing assignments, will take you a couple weeks to work through. also, all the instructions for the exercises are in Polish, there's absolutely no English in that book, and there are days where i spend more time sifting through the Slownik than actually doing exercises. i usually do what i can, but routinely need to consult my girlfriend when working on the book to help me out with a few translations, so studying as you get to the more advanced chapters will start to get very slow and deliberate.
as i said, it is very grammar intensive which is what I was looking for, but even so, not enough. the activity book gives you practice sentences, but it won't be enough for you to memorize it. you gotta write sentences on your own, or simply stare at the declension tables for an hour a day till you memorize it, whereas then you won't leave yourself any time to learn new material and you'll get bored.
in my experience with this book so far, in order to learn/memorize a reasonable amount of material and keep up with the grammar, you need to dedicate 12 hours a week to studying with this book, otherwise, you will continually be going back over and over again trying to learn the grammar. |
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