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The Polish LanguagePolish (jezyk polski, polszczyzna) is the official language of Poland. It is the most spoken West Slavic language. Polish is mainly spoken in Poland. Poland is one of the most homogeneous European countries with regard to its mother tongue; nearly 97% of Poland's citizens declare Polish as their mother tongue, due to WWII, after which Poland was forced to change its borders, what resulted in various migrations (German expulsions). After the Second World War the previously Polish territories annexed by the USSR retained a large amount of the Polish population that was unwilling or unable to migrate toward the post-1945 Poland and even today ethnic Poles in Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine constitute large minorities. Polish is by far the most widely used minority language in Lithuania's Vilnius County (26% of the population, according to the 2001 census results), but it is also present in other counties. In Ukraine, Polish is most often used in the Lviv and Lutsk regions. Western Belarus has an important Polish minority, especially in the Brest and Grodno regions. There are also significant numbers of Polish speakers in Argentina, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Peru, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, UAE, the UK, Uruguay and the United States. Polish People in the USA:In the U.S. the number of people of Polish descent is over 11 million, but most of them cannot speak Polish. According to the United States 2000 Census, 667,414 Americans of age 5 years and over reported Polish as language spoken at home, which is about 1.4% of people who speak languages other than English or 0.25% of the U.S. population. Source: Wikipedia
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What satisfied customers say about the Pimsleur POLISH audios:
This has to be the easiest way I've ever come across for learning another language. There's no book, it's purely audio based with each lesson being about 30 minutes. As Polish contains many sounds that we simply do not use in English, I had to listen to most lessons twice before being able to remember and pronounce all the words correctly.
New words are introduced
syllable by syllable and every phrase you learn is repeated
numerous times in conversations in later lessons. My only minor
quibble would be that as this is an American series, there's no
provision for those of us in the UK in the sections that focus
on how to say your nationality and monetary units. Hardly a
major issue!
By the end of this 16 lesson
course you can expect to be able to give common greetings, ask
for and understand basic directions, arrange a meeting, count
to 49, buy drinks in shops and a fair bit more.
My Polish wife found some of the
pronunciation grated a little but that it was more than
passable and probably easier for a non-polish speaker to learn
from than a native Polish speaker would be. -- T.
Morey,Cambridge, UK
I purchased this comprehensive
Pimsleur after having little to no success with Teach yourself
Polish book and CD and Colloquial Polish book, cd and
cassettes. I found that the later two, while inexpensive, were
too difficult for an absolute beginner, such as myself, with no
idea of Polish pronunciation or how to read and say the written
words.
The Pimsleur, while very
expensive, will definately have you speaking and understanding
the language. Each lesson consists of thirty minutes of audio
to listen and repeat. By the end of the series of 30 lessons, I
am able to communicate simple needs in Polish, such as where to
find places, simple directions, paying for items; and to engage
in simple conversations such as how many children do you have,
where do you live, where do you work, what to eat, drink, etc.
I'm also able to to communicate what time it is, and how to
communicate when I don't understand what someone is saying in
Polish.
The main thing missing from the
Pimsleur program, in my opinion, is the lack of written
materials. There is a small book included with the alphabet and
pronunciation guide, but that is not enough to make the leap to
actually reading or even recognizing the written form of the
words you are speaking in Polish. The other drawback is that
once you finish the Comprehensive Polish, there is no next
level to go on to with Pimsleur. I am left at this place where
I can converse somewhat, but I cannot read or write any
Polish.
Overall, I would rate Pimsleur
Comprehensive Polish I as excellent for developing basic
pronunciation and conversation skills. --
Stephanie Lovell,
Elmwood Park, IL, USA