Michel Thomas Beginner Polish Lesson 7

What is the Michel Thomas Method?

Lessons 1-8, the Beginner course: This course makes no assumption of knowledge of any language other than English and gives the beginner practical and functional use of the spoken language. It is also appropriate for anyone who has studied Polish before, but has forgotten much of it or does not have confidence in speaking. The Beginner course is designed to take you from complete beginner to intermediate level.

Lessons 9-12, the Intermediate course: This course is for those with an intermediate-level foundation in Polish, or those who have completed lessons 1-8 and want to take their learning to an advanced level and speak Polish proficiently and easily.

How does it work?

Unlike most language courses that focus around topics or grammar forms, the Michel Thomas Method works by breaking a language down into its component parts, enabling you to reconstruct the language yourself - to form your own sentences, to say what you want, when you want. Within the first 10 minutes of the course, you will be generating complete sentences on your own. It is important that you complete the lessons in order. The Method is successful because it builds on the language you learn in each lesson and 'recycles' language taught in earlier lessons, allowing you to build ever-more complicated sentences. Because the Method is based on understanding, not memorisation, there is no set limit to the length of time that you should study each lesson. Once you feel you have a good grasp of the language taught in one lesson, you can move on to the next.

In lesson 7 of the Polish Beginner course, you’ll be able to use reflexive verbs and speak about the past with…- nouns: 'visa', 'reservation', 'observation', 'operation', 'organisation', 'son'- pronouns: 'your' (formal, singular), 'his', 'her' (sense 'her coffee'), 'oneself', 'your' (informal, singular), 'each other', 'her' (sense 'for her'), 'him' (sense 'for him')- verbs: 'to feel' (= 'to have oneself'), 'to be called' (= 'to call oneself'), 'to learn' (= 'to teach oneself'), 'to get ready' (= 'to prepare oneself'), 'to start (itself)', 'to find out' (= 'to make oneself know'), 'to get/become' (= 'to make itself'), 'to know (somebody/something)'- social communications: 'how are you?' (= 'how do you have yourself?'), 'how does one say it?' (= 'how does it speak itself?'), 'I am cold' (= 'to me it is cold'; 'it is' can be omitted) - adverbs: 'cold, colder', 'warm, warmer', 'yesterday'- adjective: 'busy/engaged/occupied'- how to use the possessive pronouns 'your' (formal), 'his', 'her'- forming verbs from nouns ending in ation ( acja in Polish)- verb endings for 'they' and 'you' (formal, plural) form- commands in the plural- using reflexive verbs- the past tense: formation; endings affected by gender; usage (translates English 'I bought' and 'I have bought')- past-tense endings for 'I', 'he/she/it', 'you' (singular, formal) - past tense of impersonal expressions (e.g. 'to me it was cold' = 'I was cold').

In the next lesson you’ll learn more about the past tense, including detachable past-tense endings and tense in reported speech.

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