Calleo.School of Polish for foreigners

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If you want to learn Polish and you don't know which school you
should choose among of many, I recommend Calleo. School of Polish
Basztowa 3/8 street in Krakow. Its young, enthusiastic staff makes
you speak soon.You can come for the first exemplary lesson which is
for FREE and check if you like the way they teach. If you need more
information this is their website: www.calleo.pl or mail
[e-mail] You won't regret!

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... Or better still look up the free goldlist method on YouTube and
use that on the Teach Yourself Polish book. Learning a language
without a school is not only doable, it is preferable.

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[ally-t]

Hi, I accidentally found this forum some time ago and read this
post. I watched the video on YouTube where you give a lecture on
Gold List method. I must say, at first i was a bit sceptical, but as
your lecture went on it started to make sense So - having tried
to learn a language (Albanian) for the past two years, I decided to
use your method to speed up the process (I actually already speak
Albanian, but my vocabulary is not as good as i'd like it to be). So
far I have done only two weeks - and so far it works! Now my mum and
my sis learn English this way (we are Polish) and my husband learns
Polish (well, he's about to start today!).
Sorry for - maybe unnecessary - post, but just wanted to say thanks!
And if it really works i will have a great bunch of flowers sent to
you
All the best!

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Many thanks for that.

The number of letters I got on youtube saying that the goldlist
method works has now gone over three hundred.

If you are not sure about anything after watching the various
goldlist films around, do let me know. I am writing the book and any
queries and feedback will help me to help more people.

many thanks, again.

[ally-t]

Indeed, there are quite a few films on Youtube. I haven't watched
all of them

I have one suggestion - it might have been covered on one of the
films, but I haven't come accross that. You say that 20 mins should
be dedicated to writing down 25 words and reading them. I found that
this is enough provided you know what words / phrases you want to
learn. When i sat down with a dictionary once and started to wonder
which words do i want to write down it took me ages! So, what I do
is - I write down in Polish the words /phrases that I want to learn
(I make a loooong list that will last me for a few times) and when
my 20 mins start, i can just translate them and write them down.

I suppose though everyone will have to find their own best way that
suits them.

Just to say - I still use your method and learned LOADS! Although i
think learning only words or phrases is not enough and people should
still read up on grammar, etc. - All that combined and you can
really teach yourself - amazing!

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Perhaps the following video will be of help to you

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwOhS3e2iL4
In this I talk a bit about the problem with using dictionaries as
the source. The biggest issue is that you have common or already
known words alongside words which a native might go through life
needing to use only a handful of times.
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There are frequentative dictionaries available which get around that
problem, and I show one of them for Russian language in the film.
Otherwise you can find frequency ordered word lists on the net for
many languages. You might also find glossaries showing wordlists for
specific needs, such as financial terms, medical terms, or whatever
work you have. These books are usually good-ish tools, although they
suffer from some inaccuracies as people working in finance or
medicine don't usually have the time to sit and write dictionaries.
maybe now, in the recession, some will.
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In any event the beginner should always use the hold list with his
course. In the first case he might read the grammar explanations,
and goldlist the vocab as well as the standard sentences given. Or
even place explanations as gold list lines.

Example: "If a word ends in a vowel, an s or an n, it's final
syllable should not be stressed unless there is an accent". (Can
anyone tell me what language that is for, btw?) That's a rule you
can learn, and therefore can be included as a line item on a
goldlist. The first time you write it, it might take more than one
line to write it, whereas the the second time you might just
write "vowel/s/n rule of stress" and that would be an easy thing to
fit on a line.

The beginner can use the one goldlist even if using more than one
course, to link together the two sources. It is "clunky", as one of
my critics calls it, at first, but then it pays back, as you are
walking around while distilling with only one book, not a bunch of
books.


After one has worked a couple of course levels, at basic and at
intermediate levels, into the goldlist, you usually find that
courses are no longer available for many languages at advanced
level. Then you can progress to covering readers, or even
literature, and in the film I talk about using gold list with the
technique of reading original literature with a good translation,
whereby you read the original and list into the gold list the words
you didn't understand, and then take them from the translation,
rather than waste inordinate amounts of time with a dictionary,
which will also give less common meanings of words along with the
necessary one.<br />

Please keep me informed of progress. My book on the gold list method
is developing gradually.