Comments on: Which Grammar Book?

By: Barb Rolek

Barb Rolek — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:24:42 +0000

Hi Anna! I have a Web site on Eastern European food for About.com, a New York Times company. I am 100% Polish but sometimes my Polish language skills are a little muddy. I speak French better than Polish and English better than French! Anyway, can you recommend a good Polish-English dictionary and maybe even a Polish-English culinary dictionary? Thank you.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:23:54 +0000

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I’ve been trying to get the Dana Bielec book but Amazon and I are at odds right now, they say they had sent the book, I say I ain’t got no book. And so it goes…
The Oscar Swan grammar is not all that bad, but it’s poorly organized and very user unfriendly – the author assumes that the reader knows what “morphophonemic abstraction” means and personally I don’t like teachers and authors who feel the need to use words longer than three syllables. And what we need instead is Polish Grammar for Dummies…
I’ve ordered the “Concise Grammar…” by Magdalena what’s-her-face and will tell you about it as soon as I get it.

By: Marge

Marge — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:04:24 +0000

I also use the Polish: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammar) by Dana Bielec and the Basic Polish: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge Grammars) by Dana Bielec as references. I got both of these through Amazon.com. I live in the U.S.

By: DeeAnn

DeeAnn — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:33:45 +0000

BTW – Beth’s class got your postcard! Thanks! She told me in great detail how the teacher said they had gotten a very special postcard and they needed to pull out the WORLD map to locate where it came from. She was excited.

By: DeeAnn

DeeAnn — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:32:47 +0000

Anna,
I have an extra copy of Part 1 of “Wsrod Polakow, Polish for foreign students” published by Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski and written by Brygida Rudzka and Zofia Goczolowa. Email me your address and I will send it to you. It’s much better than Swan’s grammer book, but I can’t really say if it’s great. I really like it.