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Basic Polish presents concise explanations of grammar with related exercises, to build confidence in using the modern language.
Assuming no previous knowledge of Polish, its step-by-step approach guarantees the reader a thorough grounding in the basics of its grammar. Each of the forty units introduces a particular grammar point and provides a variety of exercises to enable the student to practice what they have learnt.
Features include:
* notes on the Polish alphabet, pronunciation and stress
* full answer key to all exercises
* Polish-English glossary.
Dana Bielec is the author of the popular Polish: An Essential Grammar, also published by Routledge.
- Sales Rank: #828361 in Books
- Published on: 2001-12-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .55" h x 6.26" w x 9.42" l, .84 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 248 pages
Review
'This useful book displays the same methodical, systematic, and jargon-free approach to Polish grammar as the author's earlier Polish: An Essential Grammar ... Basic Polish will be a welcome addition to the Polish language market, in which Routledge is gradually establishing itself as a major player.' - John Michael Bates
About the Author
Dana Bialec teaches at Clarendon College, Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Polish: An Essential Grammar, also part of the Routledge Grammars.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Good for those who already have a background in the language
By andrzej92
As a U.S. born Polak, I have always wanted to learn the language and did not want to spend the money on a product like Rosetta Stone so naturally books would be something to try. This book is excellent with teaching the grammar of the language and allowing you to fully understand how Polish works. There are plenty of exercises to practice, more than enough in fact. The only downside to this workbook is that there are a large amount of undefined words used in the later chapters.
This book works wonderfully, but if you do not know the definitions of some everyday words already, or some non-everyday words. Do yourself the favor and have a Polish-English dictionary handy because you will need it.
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
poorly designed and not for beginners
By A. J. Christian
Although this book claims to "assume no previous knowledge of Polish," this is quite incorrect. The book begins logically with noun genders and adjectives, but it assumes you already have learned a decent level of Polish vocab, or else you'll be searching (as I was) for nearly every word in the dictionary, instead of concentrating on the grammar rule at hand. To illustrate my point, exercise 3 of unit 2 asks for the following phrases to be translated into Polish: "1. big hats, 2. Polish palaces, 3. colourful umbrellas, 4. comfortable hotels, 5. pretty countries, etc." Up to this point however, very few of these words are translated into Polish, and those few that were, only in passing. This might be permissable in a vocab-builder (provided it asks for translations of words it's already defined for you earlier), but in what is supposed to be a grammar book, it distracts and detracts greatly from my learning the grammar lesson, as I waste so much time finding the words. Had the book provided the translations (or even just the gender!), but un-declinated, etc., next to each entry, it would've helped greatly--the student would see the Polish words next to their English equivalents, while allowing him to stay focused on the grammar lesson at hand.
This book would be much better if it allowed the student to focus more on the grammar. Right from the beginning, it foists large numbers of Polish words on the student without defining them, which detracts from the learning of the grammar rules. A good grammar workbook should actually have very little vocabulary (or should provide a translation and gender for every new word right on the same page the first time it's mentioned), allowing the student to focus on the grammar rules and not definitions.
I would also like to correct the earlier reviewer. After looking at the entry on the page, I believe it's not really an error per se, just a poorly written sentence. In discussing the adjective endings modifying plural "men" nouns, the author writes that the default adjective ending in this case is "i" (trudny -> trudni), but becomes "'y' after k and g." This implies that you would see "gy" or "ky" at the end of these adjectives, right? But he says earlier that "y" never comes after a "k" or "g" in Polish. Is it a misprint? Well, what I think he means is that when you have an adjective whose last consonant is a "k" or "g," you change its final syllable, which ends in a "y." ie. drogi -> drogie -> drodzy. Here we have an adjective whose last consonant is a "g" and when modifying a plural "men" noun, it ends in "y," so what the author means to say is correct, but he states it very poorly--to the point of appearing contradictory to something he wrote just five pages earlier.
All in all, I don't believe this book is worth the expense. This is my first Polish grammar workbook (although I did see many grammar workbooks when I learned German, so I know what's effective, regardless of language), and I haven't seen what else is on the market, but the faults it has (pointless distractions from the grammar lesson at hand; poorly written or confusing explanations) mar its effectiveness greatly. I did learn the grammar lesson for each unit, but not without undo frustration caused by poor writing and superfluous vocabulary. However, with what appears to be a dearth of anything comparable on the market, you might just have to get this book and suffer through its frustrations in order to learn the grammar.
The author would've done well to have sat back, decided exactly what grammar point he wanted to get across to the student in each unit, and given exercises that kept driving at that point (or built upon the points from the earlier units), without forcing the student to learn huge amounts of new vocab at the same time.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Exactly what I wanted but not for everyone ...
By David Snopek
I agree very much with the previous poster's complaints about vocabulary and clearity. You have to memorize a good 300 words to get through all of the books exercises comfortably even though vocabulary is not its goal. Also, the choice of vocabulary tends to side with the obscure. The author is attempting to explain *all* the rules including the regular but not very high frequency exceptions. She includes a handful of examples for each pattern, easily out numbering the common case. This also takes a lot away from clearity, making the language seem much more complicated than it actually is. A better introduction would have focused on drilling all the high frequency rules and simply introducing the exceptions.
All of that said, this book was exactly what I wanted. I have been studying Russian for a number of years with only a little experience with Polish, and this book was better for me than any beginner's language textbook. I just wanted to quickly memorize the rules, and start experimenting with the language. As a person who is familiar with highly inflected languages (and Russian in particular which has very similar grammar), I really actually wanted all of the rules and not just the common case.
Its a great book, but if you are starting from nothing, it cannot be your only text. This is a much better book for the slightly more advanced Polish learner.
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