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Resources For Studying Slavic Languages

Studying foreign languages familiarizes one with the history, geography, culture, and traditions of another country. It helps to better understand and interact with people from different countries. This guide recommends sources available at the UO & more.

Polish

Polish Language Textbooks and Dictionaries

Print and Electronic Books

Bastgen, Zofia. Let’s Learn Polish. Wyd. 4. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 1978.

Bielec, Dana. Polish: An Essential Grammar. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2012.

Bielec, Dana. Intermediate Polish. New Edition. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.

Birkenmayer, Sigmund S., and Zbigniew Folejewski. Introduction to the Polish Language. [2d ed., rev. and enl.]. New York: Kościuszko Foundation, 1967.

Brooks, Maria Zagórska. Polish Reference Grammar. The Hague: Mouton, 1975.

B.W. Mazur. Colloquial Polish. Taylor and Francis, 2013.

Fisiak, Jacek., Maria Lipińska-Grzegorek, and Tadeusz Zabrocki. An Introductory English-Polish Contrastive Grammar. Warszawa: Państ. Wydaw. Naukowe, 1978.

Kozłowska, Christian Douglas. Difficult Words in Polish-English Translation = Wyrazy i Wyrażenia Trudne Do Przetłumaczenia Na Język Angielski. Warszawa: Wydawn. Naukowe PWN, 1998.

Stone, Gerald. An introduction to Polish. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.

Swan, Oscar E. Polish verbs & essentials of grammar. 1st ed. Chicago: McGraw-Hill, 2009.

Swan, Oscar E. Intermediate Polish. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1986.

Swan, Oscar E. First Year Polish. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1983.

Swan, Oscar E. A Grammar of Contemporary Polish. Bloomington, Ind: Slavica, 2002.

Szwedek, A. J. Word Order, Sentence Stress and Reference in English and Polish. Edmonton, Alta: Linguistic Research, 1976.

Cambridge Klett Concise Polish-English Dictionary : Angielsko-Polski, Polsko-Angielski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Linde-Usiekniewicz, Jadwiga. Oxford-PWN English-Polish Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Online Resource

A Concise Polish Grammar by Ron F. Feldstein. From the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) at Duke University.

Phrasebooks and Phrases

Phrasebooks

Czajkowski, Piotr and Lonely Planet Publications (Firm). Polish : Phrasebook & Dictionary. 3rd ed. Lonely Planet 2013.

Mayhew, Anila. Eastern Europe Phrasebook & Dictionary. 6th ed. Lonely Planet 2019.

Mediterranean Europe Phrasebook & Dictionary. 3rd ed. Lonely Planet 2013.

Zaczek, Monika and others. Harrap's Polish Phrasebook. McGraw Hill 2006.

Phrases

Online Access to Useful Polish Phrases via Omniglot