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Zhilong
Newbie ![]() Joined: 01 September 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 12 |
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This FSI Polish mini-course may make a nice addition. http://www.foreignserviceinstitute.com/languages/polish/fsi-polish-fast-course.pdf
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glossika
Newbie ![]() Joined: 20 August 2007 Location: China Online Status: Offline Posts: 5 |
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I'm interested in learning Polish and Czech, so thanks for this link. But the download from the server is incredibly slow. I have a 4Mbps capacity and it's coming in at 13Kbps. By the way, do you have anything for Baltic languages or other Slavic languages?
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tucosasogni
Newbie ![]() Joined: 25 September 2007 Location: Brazil Online Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
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Glossika, I made the download. If you want i send for you. ![]() ![]() Edited by tucosasogni - 25 September 2007 at 8:38pm |
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cvicvi
Newbie ![]() Joined: 13 December 2007 Location: Poland Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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As Polish native, born, living in Poland and also learner of other languages :) I must say this course lacks one chapter: PRONUNCIATION.
I still don't know what is more difficult for foreigners learning Polish - our pronuciation of our grammar :) Although Polish is not tonal language, you must hear i.e. nasal vowels ą, ę because you won't find them except Native American languages (Indigenous languages of the Americas) (navajo?) and Lithuanian. But i.e. ą (a with ogonek [a with hook]) is also in Lithuanian but not as nasal vowel. :) |
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Chung
Contributor ![]() Joined: 23 May 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 143 |
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Are you sure that Lithuanian has nasal vowels? From what little I remember of my Lithuanian, the vowels ą, į, ų are no longer nasal vowels and haven't been that way for at least a few centuries.
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cvicvi
Newbie ![]() Joined: 13 December 2007 Location: Poland Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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I wrote that ą is no longer nasal in Lithuanian :)
Polish Wikipedia states that ą (a with ogonek) is no longer nasal in Lithuanian, and states nothing about ę as nasal in Lithuanian. I don't know Lithuanian - they are too far from me ;) |
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