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Interests: From the UK, now living in Poland

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JPW   
7 Feb 2022
Language / Best books to self-study Polish? [30]

I'd be interested to know if there is a good, clear grammar book out there. I've just started digging into my books again to try to fill in all the holes in my grammar. I've got a few, but none is quite right.

In terms of spoken Polish, I'd recommend getting to grips with all the sounds of the letters and letter combinations. If you'll excuse the shameless plug, I've just put a book out on this very subject: grijben.com/alphabet/pl/
JPW   
7 Feb 2022
Language / About usage of the special Polish letters: ą ć ę ł ń ó ś ż ź [28]

One thing to note is dictionary order. As noted on p.11 of The Polish Alphabet (ahem, by me, out now: grijben.com/alphabet/pl/), in terms of alphabetical order, the 'accented' letters are treated as separate letters. So for example, if you look for 'dąb' in the dictionary, it'll come WAY after 'dach' (in the dictionary on my desk, 'dąb' comes just after 'dawny'), because 'ą' comes after 'a' alphabetically.