Language / Pimsleur's Polish Lessons [38]

I'm starting to learn Polish with Pimsleur and I think it's great.

I already speak and use professionally six languages, and from my experience I reckon this method is the best way to learn, even if it is annoyingly repetitive! The trick is not to try to learn a language too fast, but to get several phrases completely under your skin, without worrying about how they are written down initially, so you can use them automatically without thinking. Each language has its own particular music and cadence, and getting really familiar with that is the key to speaking and understanding it confidently, helping you to avoid translating literally from your own mother tongue.

From knowing Russian I can tell you that "polski" becomes "po polsku", because the "po" causes a different ending (case) to be applied to the following word. though I don't know what the cases are called in Polish yet; Russian has six of the buggers and I'm hoping Polish doesn't have any more.

Michael Thomas is also good, if you don't mind picking up his accent, though he doesn't do Polish as far as I know.