Anna Lisowska
ISBN: 978-83-8061-138-2
Pages: 428
Format: A4
Year: 2015
Languages: Polish, English 

The handbook "Porozmawiajmy..." is addressed to students who would like to master the Polish language as a foreign language in a relatively short time and to achieve the ability to use it while studying or working in Poland as well as to continue the self-study of the language.

The objective of the handbook is to develop language skills and help the correct and confident use of the Polish language, going far beyond the limited range of situations. The objective has mainly been reached by means of:
1. A description of the grammatical structure, first of all, of a full sentence (simple and developed) as the main unit of the language communication,
2. Introduction into the basic themes and situations of the language.

The abovementioned assumptions imposed the use of the syntactic method to fulfil the main objective, i.e. assuring the effective interpersonal language communication. Thus, special  emphasis has been placed on the inflectional and syntactic aspects of the language, as they are crucial for the formation of sentences. The consequence of such approach is a presentation of predominantly the issues of declension, conjugation, aspect and case government of verbs.

The dialogue as the basic form of communication, highlighted in the handbook, accounts for the use of the two main types of a sentence: interrogative and affirmative. They constitute the core of the handbook and are developed in "Ćwiczenia" (Part 3 of "Porozmawiajmy..."). Apart from the basic form of question – answer, a short dialogue, basic functional units, substitution, addition and transformation exercises have been used.

An overall synthetic approach to the basis of the Polish grammar imposed also maximum transparency in the division of the material presented - one teaching unit (lesson) comprises a complete grammatical issue (with just two exceptions, due to their extensiveness). Each teaching unit (lesson) comprises:
1. A brief, concise lecture on the rules of the Polish grammar in English,
2. A longer text which illustrates the use of the rules described,
3. Exercises which are connected with the given text and the discussed grammatical issues, often developing the subject.

"Porozmawiajmy..." part 1 contains:
1. Introduction
2. Units 1-16 (including 209 exercises)
3. Syntactical Dictionary
4. Key

It is recommended that "Porozmawiajmy..." Part 1, for the development of the material and  widening the range of topics, should be supplemented with Part 3 - Ćwiczenia. Similarly, Part 4 - Zagadki i żarty, in its humorous fashion, can also serve as a useful supplement to the basic teaching course.   


CONTENTS

1. From the editor - Od wydawcy

2. Wstęp - Foreword

3. Symbols and abbreviations

4. Colour symbols

5. Topics

6. Units (Basic rules of Polish grammar)

Unit I
1. NOMINATIVE SINGULAR
1.1. Nouns
Masculine
Feminine
Neuter
1.2. Interrogative Sentences
Interrogative Sentences with pronouns KTO?, CO?, TO
Interrogative Sentences with the verb BYĆ & the particle CZY
1.3. Adjectives
1.4. Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns JAKI?, JAKA?, JAKIE?
Interrogative Pronouns KTÓRY?, KTÓRA?, KTÓRE?
Demonstrative Pronouns TEN, TA, TO & TAMTEN
Interrogative Pronouns CZYJ?, CZYJA?, CZYJE?
Possessive Pronouns MÓJ, TWÓJ
1.5. Uses of the Nominative case

Unit II
1. LOCATIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
1.1. List of Verbs governing the Locative case
1.2. Preposition + the Locative case
2. LOCATIVE SINGULAR
2.1. Nouns
3. CONJUGATION OF THE VERB BYĆ
Present Tense
Past Tense
Future Tense

Unit III
List nr 1 - ćwiczenie
1. PRESENT TENSE
1.1. The Infinitive
1.2. Personal Pronoun
1.3. Conjugation
The -am/-asz conjugation
The -em/-esz conjugation
The -ę/-isz and -ę/-ysz conjugation
The -ę/-esz conjugation
2. LOCATIVE SINGULAR
2.1. Adjectives
2.2. Pronouns
3. LOCATIVE PLURAL
3.1. Nouns
3.2. Adjectives
3.3. Pronouns
4. LOCATIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
4.1. Personal Pronouns
4.2. Uses of the Locative case

Unit IV
List nr 2 - ćwiczenie
1. INSTRUMENTAL SINGULAR & PLURAL
1.1. List of Verbs governing the Instrumental case
1.2. Uses of the Instrumental case
2. INSTRUMENTAL SINGULAR
2.1. Nouns
2.2. Adjectives
3. VERBS OF MOTION IŚĆ, JECHAĆ, BIEC/BIEGNĄĆ; STAĆ
4. INSTRUMENTAL SINGULAR & PLURAL
4.1. Prepositions + the Instrumental case
5. INSTRUMENTAL SINGULAR
5.1. Pronouns
6. INSTRUMENTAL PLURAL
6.1. Nouns
6.2. Adjective
6.3. Pronouns
7. INSTRUMENTAL SINGULAR & PLURAL
7.1. Personal Pronouns 122
8. VERBS ZNAĆ, UMIEĆ, WIEDZIEĆ
9. INFINITIVAL COMPLEMENTS
10. FUTURE TENSE

Unit V
1. ACCUSATIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
1.1. List of Verbs governing the Accusative case
1.2. Uses of the Accusative case
2. ACCUSATIVE SINGULAR
2.1. Nouns
2.2. Adjectives
2.3. Pronouns
3. ACCUSATIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
3.1. Prepositions + the Accusative case
4. ACCUSATIVE PLURAL
4.1. Nouns
4.2. Adjectives
4.3. Pronouns

Unit VI
List nr 3 - ćwiczenie
1. ADVERBS
2. VERBS OF MOTION UNIDIRECTIONAL & MULTIDIRECTIONAL
3. ACCUSATIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
3.1. Personal Pronouns

Unit VII
Postcard - ćwiczenie
1. GENITIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
1.1. List of Verbs governing the Genitive case
2. GENITIVE SINGULAR
2.1. Nouns
2.2. Adjectives
2.3. Pronouns
3. GENITIVE PLURAL
3.1. Nouns
3.2. Adjectives
3.3. Pronouns
4. GENITIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
4.1. Uses of the Genitive case
4.2. JEST - NIE MA Expression
4.3. Prepositions + the Genitive case

Unit VIII
1. CARDINAL NUMBERS
1.1. The Cardinal Number JEDEN
1.2. Cardinal Numbers DWA, TRZY, CZTERY
Declension of numbers dwa, trzy, cztery
1.3. Cardinal Numbers from 5 onwards
Declension of numbers from 5 onwards
2. COMPARISON OF ADVERBS

Unit IX
List nr 4 - ćwiczenie
1. THE GENITIVE PLURAL AFTER ADVERBS OF QUANTITY (INDEFINITE NUMERALS)
2. THE GENITIVE SINGULAR AFTER WORDS DENOTING QUANTITY
3. THE GENITIVE AS MODIFIER
3.1. The Genitive used possessively
3.2. Genitive Nouns with a classifying function
4. VERBAL ASPECT
4.1. Double-Verb Constructions
5. FUTURE TENSE
5.1. The Imperfective Future (Compound Future
5.2. The Perfective Future (Simple Future)
6. GENITIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
6.1. Personal Pronouns
"Pieśni". "Pieśń III" (Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński) - ćwiczenie

Unit X
"Okulary" (Julian Tuwim) - ćwiczenie
1. PAST TENSE
1.1. Movable Personal Endings in the Past Tense
Newspaper cuttings - ćwiczenie

Unit XI
List nr 5 - ćwiczenie
1. DATIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
1.1. List of Verbs governing the Dative case
1.2. Prepositions + Dative case
1.3. Uses of the Dative case
2. DATIVE SINGULAR
2.1. Nouns
2.2. Adjectives
2.3. Pronouns
3. DATIVE PLURAL
3.1. Nouns
3.2. Adjectives
3.3. Pronouns
4. DATIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
4.1. Personal Pronouns
5. VOCATIVE SINGULAR & PLURAL
5.1. Nouns
5.2. Adjectives
5.3. Uses of the Vocative Case

Unit XII
Mój kraj - ćwiczenie
1. COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES
1.1. The construction of Adjectives in the Comparative and Superlative
1.2. The use of Adjectives in the Comparative and Superlative

Unit XIII
List nr 6 - ćwiczenie
1. THE COMPARATIVE & SUPERLATIVE FORMS OF ADVERBS & ADJECTIVES USED TO INTENSIFITY MEANING
2. ORDINAL NUMBERS

Unit XIV
List nr 7 - ćwiczenie
1. IRREGULAR NOUNS DZIEŃ, TYDZIEŃ, ROK, CZŁOWIEK, BRAT, PRZYJACIEL, DZIECKO
2. NOMINATIVE PLURAL
2.1. Nouns
Masculine
Feminine
Neuter

Unit XV
"Matka Boska z Or-Ota" (Jan Twardowski) - ćwiczenie
Ulubione miejsce - ćwiczenie
Z czego są zrobione te rzeczy? - ćwiczenie
1. IMPERATIVE MOOD
1.1. Imperative Mood: commands, requests, suggestions, advices, wishes
2. THE REFLEXIVE POSSESSIVE PRONOUN SWÓJ SING. AND PLURAL
3. DIMINUTIVE NOUNS

Unit XVI
List nr 8 - ćwiczenie
1. NOMINATIVE PLURAL
1.1. Adjectives
2. VERBS WITH THE SUFFIX -ną/-nę. PAST TENSE
3. CONSTRUCTION WITHOUT A SUBJECT
4. NOMINATIVE PLURAL
4.1. Pronouns
5. IRREGULAR VERBS
5.1. The Verb POWINIEN

7. SYNTACTICAL DICTIONARY
7.1. Some common rules regarding the usage of Polish verbs
7.2. List of verbs

8. KEY