Preface

PART ONE INTRODUCTION

Pronunciation - The alphabet - Vowels - Consonants - Stress - Spelling - Word order - Survival Polish - Abbreviations

PART TWO LESSONS

Gender of nouns - Absence of article - Simple questions and answers - Present tense: byc `to be' - Forms of address - Introductions and personal identification - Conjuctions

Nouns: case - Nominative case - Adjectives - Demonstrative and interrogative adjectives (ten, jaki, ktory) - Possessive adjectives - `It' in Polish

Verbs: present tense (-am, -asz) - Miec `to have' - Accusative case - Use of pan, pani - Polite requests - Clauses with ze - Interrogatives - Dom/mieszkanie (House/flat)

Genitive case - Verbs with the genitive - Partitive genitive - Who? What? Of whom? Of what? - There is, are/There isn't, aren't - Verbs: present tense (-e, -isz/ysz) - More prepositional phrases - More clauses with ze - Travel

Modal verbs - Adverbs - How much? - How often? - How long? - Already, still, no more, not yet - Speaking a language - Telephone

The verbs `to go' (isc, jechac) - Negatives - Family relations - Days of the week - Expressions of time - Verbs: present tense (-e, -esz) - Going places

Plural (N./A.) of nouns - Nominative plural of nouns referring to `men' - Plural of adjectives - Countries and nationalities

Plural (A./G.) of nouns referring to `men' - Genitive plural of other masculine nouns and of feminine and neuter nouns - The genitive plural of adjectives - Numbers 1-10 - Indefinite numbers - Someone, something, all, everyone, everything

Past tense - Personal pronouns - Dative case - The body - How do you feel?

Instrumental case - Byc and the Instrumental - Byc and the Nominative - Czy and albo - Zawod (occupations and professions)

Locative case - Prepositions of movement - Accusative of motion v. location - Prepositions of location - Being in a country - Expressions of time - Directions in town - Street names, proper names - Addresses

Aspects - Aspects and tenses - Formation of the perfective aspect - Verb families - Prefixed verbs of motion - Why aspects?

Future tense of byc - Future tense of imperfective verbs - Future tense of perfective verbs - Tenses of imperfective and perfective verbs - Infinitive with future meaning - Present, past, future - When, as soon as, if - Do you think that? - Do you know? I'm curious/I wonder - Interrogatives and conjunctions - Alone, oneself, together - Swoj (`one's own') - Clothing-

Cardinal numbers - Numbers and nouns - Numbers and verbs - Collective numbers and `both' - Age - Telephone numbers - Fractions - Distance, measurement, weight - Nouns derived from numbers - Prognoza pogody (Weather forecast)

Comparison of adjectives - Comparison of adverbs - Comparatives and superlatives in use - More or less, (no) more/less (than) - When, how soon/fast - Everyone, including, excluding, even, the rest - Barely, hardly, completely, not at all - How to express an opinion - Doubt, certainty - What does it matter? - Hotel

Imperatives - Should, ought to (have) - Money - To need, to be short of - Shops - Food

Ordinal numbers - The clock - The railway - Months, seasons - Dates - Klimat polski (The Polish climate)

The conditional (would/should) - Jesli `if' - Although, provided that, in so far as, in spite of - Who/whatever, whichever, where/whenever - Reflexive pronouns (siebie, sobie, soba) - People, friends - Post office - Letter writing - Vocative case

Participles - Adverbial participles - Verbs old and new - Verbs with the prefix po- - Nouns related to verbs - Word order

Adjectival participles - Adverbial and adjectival participles contrasted - Relative clauses with ktory - Passive voice - It's becoming, getting - To happen - Verbs ending in -nac - Government/administration - Points of the compass

PART THREE READING PASSAGES, GRAMMAR REFERENCE AND VOCABULARY

Reading passages and translations

Proverbs - Idioms - Slang

Grammar reference Nouns - Interrogative and indefinite pronouns - Adjectives - Personal pronouns - Verbs - Prepositions - Simple sentences - Simple sentences linked by conjunction - Compound sentences - Complex sentences

Subject index of grammatical material

Key to exercises

Vocabulary