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Intermediate Polish is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language. Each unit combines clear, concise grammar explanations with examples and exercises to help build confidence and fluency.
Features include:
* focus on areas of particular confusion such as verbs that are difficult to translate and nouns made from numbers
* comprehensive glossary of grammatical terms
* reference list of over 250 Polish verbs
* full key to all exercises.
Suitable for independent learners and students on taught courses, Intermediate Polish, together with its sister volume, Basic Polish, forms a structured course in the essentials of Polish.
Dana Bielec is the author of the popular Polish: An Essential Grammar, as well as Basic Polish: A Grammar and Workbook, both published by Routledge.
Features include:
* focus on areas of particular confusion such as verbs that are difficult to translate and nouns made from numbers
* comprehensive glossary of grammatical terms
* reference list of over 250 Polish verbs
* full key to all exercises.
Suitable for independent learners and students on taught courses, Intermediate Polish, together with its sister volume, Basic Polish, forms a structured course in the essentials of Polish.
Dana Bielec is the author of the popular Polish: An Essential Grammar, as well as Basic Polish: A Grammar and Workbook, both published by Routledge.
About the Author
Dana Bielec is the author of the popular Polish: An Essential Grammar, as well as Basic Polish: A Grammar and Workbook, both published by Routledge.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having already bought and been thoroughly impressed with Routledge's Polish: An Essential Grammar (also by Dana Bielec) I had no hesitations about coughing up more cash for another textbook from the same author and publisher.
The Essential Grammar is more of a handbook to Polish, a reference book, whereas this Intermediate Polish is a workbook. It is split into 40 brief units, each of which starts with some material covering the grammar, which includes plenty of examples to get meaning across sufficiently (and provides useful notes on nouns linked to certain verbs - ie, from the same root). Each unit then has a number of exercises designed to test the specific area of grammar taught in that unit.
There is a key at the back for all exercises (although I have found a couple of errors, 99.9% of the key is correct), and useful appendixes covering pronouns, prepositions and other common areas of difficulty for foreign learners of Polish, all of which are clearly laid out and explained.
The introduction to the book recommends studying units 1-4, then revising units 1 and 2; then studying units 5 and 6 and revising units 3 and 4; and so on. I've found this a useful method and have followed it. A lot of the units complement each other, and grammar used in earlier units reappears in later units. The whole book also provides a useful revision of case endings, which are tested incidentally alongside other grammatical material, but not actually explicitly taught. If you haven't learnt case endings yet, and basic past and future tenses, you would probably be better off getting Routledge's (and Bielec's) Basic Polish.
With a language like Polish, with its stacks of exceptions to rules and fairly complex grammar, it is of paramount importance to explain things extremely clearly and provide learners with plenty of opportunity to practice. This book does both of those things excellently. Here's hoping an Advanced Polish book is to follow.
The Essential Grammar is more of a handbook to Polish, a reference book, whereas this Intermediate Polish is a workbook. It is split into 40 brief units, each of which starts with some material covering the grammar, which includes plenty of examples to get meaning across sufficiently (and provides useful notes on nouns linked to certain verbs - ie, from the same root). Each unit then has a number of exercises designed to test the specific area of grammar taught in that unit.
There is a key at the back for all exercises (although I have found a couple of errors, 99.9% of the key is correct), and useful appendixes covering pronouns, prepositions and other common areas of difficulty for foreign learners of Polish, all of which are clearly laid out and explained.
The introduction to the book recommends studying units 1-4, then revising units 1 and 2; then studying units 5 and 6 and revising units 3 and 4; and so on. I've found this a useful method and have followed it. A lot of the units complement each other, and grammar used in earlier units reappears in later units. The whole book also provides a useful revision of case endings, which are tested incidentally alongside other grammatical material, but not actually explicitly taught. If you haven't learnt case endings yet, and basic past and future tenses, you would probably be better off getting Routledge's (and Bielec's) Basic Polish.
With a language like Polish, with its stacks of exceptions to rules and fairly complex grammar, it is of paramount importance to explain things extremely clearly and provide learners with plenty of opportunity to practice. This book does both of those things excellently. Here's hoping an Advanced Polish book is to follow.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With the amount of material for English learners of Polish still somewhat limited, this book certainly has its strong points. The existing review does a good job of describing the ways this book is useful and successful.
My review is based on the fact that the book is so horribly over-priced. For 20 quid, I expect a definitive work that can be trusted and relied upon. Sadly, this book is full of errors: on average we found about one glaring error every three or four pages! Some of them are merely typing errors (again I refer you to the price - I would expect better). Some of them are worse. I will present two examples from memory. The verb 'reparowac' is repeated consistently through the book; any Pole or Polish dictionary will tell you that the correct verb is 'reperowac'. This is the kind of needless extra confusion that learners of the language do not need. The second example shows the use of the word 'dyrektor' to translate a film director. The correct word for a film director is 'rezyser'. There is no leeway here: a 'dyrektor' is a headmaster of a school, or a director of a company. This is the kind of mistake that a student of Polish can make a hundred times a day, but the student should be able to expect better from their premium priced teacher!
Also unforgiveable are the various errors even in the *declension tables* !!
Why does the author insist on saying 'the he/she/it part, or the they part' instead of referring to the '3rd person'? Why does the author keep talking about 'special men forms', when the accepted and economical term is 'virile forms'?
If this was another ten-quid text I would not have bothered writing this, but for the money they are charging, they really need to fine-tune the product and get rid of all the mistakes and typing errors.
I will end on a positive note: the book is full of exercises, which are varied and at times challenging, without ever seeming too repetitive.
(diacritics dont work with Amazon reviews, so forgive the enforced mis-spellings above).
My review is based on the fact that the book is so horribly over-priced. For 20 quid, I expect a definitive work that can be trusted and relied upon. Sadly, this book is full of errors: on average we found about one glaring error every three or four pages! Some of them are merely typing errors (again I refer you to the price - I would expect better). Some of them are worse. I will present two examples from memory. The verb 'reparowac' is repeated consistently through the book; any Pole or Polish dictionary will tell you that the correct verb is 'reperowac'. This is the kind of needless extra confusion that learners of the language do not need. The second example shows the use of the word 'dyrektor' to translate a film director. The correct word for a film director is 'rezyser'. There is no leeway here: a 'dyrektor' is a headmaster of a school, or a director of a company. This is the kind of mistake that a student of Polish can make a hundred times a day, but the student should be able to expect better from their premium priced teacher!
Also unforgiveable are the various errors even in the *declension tables* !!
Why does the author insist on saying 'the he/she/it part, or the they part' instead of referring to the '3rd person'? Why does the author keep talking about 'special men forms', when the accepted and economical term is 'virile forms'?
If this was another ten-quid text I would not have bothered writing this, but for the money they are charging, they really need to fine-tune the product and get rid of all the mistakes and typing errors.
I will end on a positive note: the book is full of exercises, which are varied and at times challenging, without ever seeming too repetitive.
(diacritics dont work with Amazon reviews, so forgive the enforced mis-spellings above).
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