Michel Thomas Method: Polish Foundation Course [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

If you've used Michel Thomas to learn another language then the format of these CD's will be very familiar (although the teacher is much more positive and confidence-building than Michel). If you are new to this method, you may think some of the phrases seem very clumsy and contrived at first. However, stay with the course and you will learn to think-out phrases and express yourself in a huge number of situations. Polish is hard to learn, but this is a very useful course for logically minded people. I would have liked a booklet with the CD's so I could see how the words are spelled, but a dictionary will suffice.

Polish is a difficult language. Initially I started with a conventional textbook and CDs and was totally confused for the first few days. I borrowed the introductory course from the library and began to make progress so I bought the foundation course on the strength of this. The course gives a solid foundation in Polish. I am appreciating it as the grammer gets really more difficult in the advanced course. The teacher is excellent altough her mnenomics, which she thinks are funny, are awful and you have to get used to her saying "ok" "right" etc when the students give a wrong answer.
MT courses in general don't cover days, numbers etc and should be used in conjunction with a conventional textbook and CD for maximum benefit.

CHEL THOMAS POLISH FOUNDATION COURSE.

As a serial linguist and avid follower of The Michel Thomas Language Courses I would like to give you some insight into the Michel Thomas POLISH Foundation course which I have just recently
completed.

This course I can now add to the growing list of MT courses I have completed. These are French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Portuguese. As a fluent Dutch speaker, I have not reviewed Dutch in detail but I may do it later on next year. There are two more left that I will have to do Greek and Japanese. Hopefully, a Hindi might appear next year.

POLISH is probably the greatest challenge that a Michel Thomas student will face. The language
has quite complex grammar (due to having seven cases) and the "Full Monty" of sounds available
to the human voice box. I wonder if there is another language with such an array of sounds?

Anyone who thinks that Polish is going to be easy (even using the Michel Thomas Method) might be in for a surprise, The Michel Thomas course tackles the challenge of Polish very well, although sometimes the students and teacher go through it a little bit fast. That is not a problem as you can use the pause button and rewind to hear what is being said over again until you feel comfortable.

I found several pitfalls in learning Polish, but that was not the fault of the course, rather the complexity of the language itself. You really have to acclimatize yourself to the sounds of Polish.
Being able to hear it as many times as you like will help a lot. TO JEST BARDZO DOBZE.
(it is very good) This course follows the honoured M.T. Tradition and Strengths of , Fast Progress, Continuous Reward and hence MOTIVATION.

If there is a down side to all of this, it was not the method of learning. (what else is there on the Market that comes vaguely close to this course) rather the language itself. You need to have a dogged and determined motivation to learn POLISH. Mine was to find our family origins and family from World War II in Poland. I have a determined 96 year old Polish father-in-law who keeps going and NEVER GIVES UP. He an is an inspiration to our family and to my determination to speak Polish....CZY PAN MOWIE PO POLSKU? (do you speak Polish)

Pieter Bergman 17th July 2009.

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