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Zhilong
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Quote Zhilong Replybullet Topic: Polish
    Posted: 02 September 2007 at 11:40am
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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Quote glossika Replybullet Posted: 04 September 2007 at 1:47pm
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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Quote tucosasogni Replybullet Posted: 25 September 2007 at 8:38pm
Originally posted by glossika

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?




Glossika, I made the download. If you want i send for you. SmileWink

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Quote cvicvi Replybullet Posted: 13 December 2007 at 12:31am
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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Quote Chung Replybullet Posted: 13 December 2007 at 11:22am
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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Quote cvicvi Replybullet Posted: 14 December 2007 at 6:41am
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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