One good learning resource for those who want short audio blurbs with written narrative is Real Polish. Though the narrative is only in Polish, it is easy to use what I call the Wikipedia Method--one opens the Polish narrative in two tabs in Google Chrome, and translates one into English. You can also purchase materials from the site that include more material...I haven't personally purchased the materials, so I'm not quite sure what value is added from the premium stuff.
But the free material on there is pretty decent. There are a lot of short blurbs with audio, which is an important part of learning a new language. Audio with accompanying transcription is hard to come by sometimes.
I have gone through some of the narratives, and found them interesting and valuable educationally. This is not one of my main sources of learning only because I have become reliant on other things. But I do rotate it in occasionally and can see how it is helpful. Perhaps at some point I might possibly utilize it more.
Way cool. Having a lot of Polish read clearly, with the exact text on screen, is very helpful for my pronunciation and word recognition. I find that a combination of visual and auditory is the best way for me to learn words. I have to be able to recognize them before I can use them.
ReplyDeleteYeah, there is some really useful material here. I have some other narratives that I have been working with for now so this is not my main source of learning, but like I said in the blog post, it's good stuff.
DeleteThank you for this review. I hope my materials can help you learn Polish. Your blog is pretty interesting for me as a language learner, not Polish learner of course, but some of your advices can be generally used for learning languages.
ReplyDeleteThank you Stuart!
-Piotr
Thank YOU for providing this learning resource. Obviously you work very hard on putting out these narratives and hopefully you will get lots of web traffic for your efforts. I am glad to spread the word about your site to send people your way.
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