Customer Reviews
Polish made easier - By: G. Freeburn, 29 Jul 2008 
Bought this item after enjoying Polish in a Day, thought it would make my visit to Poland easier. Would have liked a bit more about using a car in Poland as we drove around. I found the music between each section reallly irritating after the first few times of going back over a section. Would have prefered another way to distinguish each section.
My Polish friend thought my accent was good & was very impressed.
i would like to do some written Polish to help with reading menu's signs etc.
Good introduction - By: J. S. Hardman, 22 Nov 2006 Having dabbled with various languages I thought I would learn some basic Polish as I have the opportunity to practice on various people I encounter on a daily basis. I have been very impressed with Teach Yourself Polish Conversation - it has kept my interest (the first failing point for many language courses), covered some useful vocabulary organised into various scenarios, & repeated things enough times for me to pick them up. The only downsides are that the vocabulary never goes quite far enough & that some words that I am very unlikely to use have been included at the expense of space that could have been used for something else (e.g. port cutlets do not appear high in my list of items that I ask for). Teach Yourself Polish Conversation is good for getting you started, getting you hooked & building some confidence, but it won't make you fluent & won't give you enough vocabulary to survive in Polish alone. Start here, but expect to buy other courses afterwards.
Note added June 2008 - having just returned from a holiday travelling around north east Poland, I have discovered that knowing about pork cutlets is actuallly very useful. Have also discovered that Teach Yourself Polish Conversation is even more useful than I expected. Although I have worked through other courses & taken classes since using TYPC, my wife had only had time to work through half of TYPC & had done no other Polish studies. Even so, what she had learnt from TYPC gave her the confidence to order food, buy stamps & postcards in the Post Office etc. She was very surprised at how useful even the first half of TYPC turned out to be.
