Paula Wojcik

First Polish Reader

For beginners
Bilingual for speakers of English

Language Practice Publishing

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Narrator Paula Wojcik
Editor-in-chief Vadim Zubakhin

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 Zawartość
Table of contents
First Polish ReaderElementary ...................................................................................7
Chapter 1.....................................................................................................................8
Mike has a dog.........................................................................................................9
Chapter 2...................................................................................................................11
They live in Gdynia ...............................................................................................11
Chapter 3...................................................................................................................13
Are they Polish?.....................................................................................................14
Chapter 4...................................................................................................................16
Can you help, please? ............................................................................................16
Chapter 5...................................................................................................................19
Mike lives in Poland now ......................................................................................20
Chapter 6...................................................................................................................22
Mike has many friends...........................................................................................23
Chapter 7...................................................................................................................25
Marcin buys a bike.................................................................................................26
Chapter 8...................................................................................................................27
Linda wants to buy a new DVD ............................................................................28
Chapter 9...................................................................................................................29
Alexandr listens to American songs ......................................................................30
Chapter 10.................................................................................................................32
Alexandr buys textbooks on design.......................................................................33
Chapter 11.................................................................................................................35
Mike wants to earn some money (part 1) .............................................................36
Chapter 12.................................................................................................................38
Mike wants to earn some money (part 2) ..............................................................39
It is time to go to college .......................................................................................40
First Polish Reader Pre-Intermediate ........................................................................41
Rozdział 13 ...............................................................................................................42
Nazwa hotelu .........................................................................................................42
Rozdział 14 ...............................................................................................................44
Aspiryna.................................................................................................................45
Rozdział 15 ...............................................................................................................47
Ania i kangur .........................................................................................................48
Rozdział 16 ...............................................................................................................50
Spadochroniarze.....................................................................................................51
Rozdział 17 ...............................................................................................................54

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 Wyłącz gaz!........................................................................................................... 55
Rozdział 18............................................................................................................... 57
Urząd pracy ........................................................................................................... 58
Rozdział 19............................................................................................................... 61
Marcin i Mike myją ciężarówkę (część 1) ............................................................ 62
Rozdział 20............................................................................................................... 64
Marcin i Mike myją ciężarówkę (część 2) ............................................................ 65
Rozdział 21............................................................................................................... 68
Lekcja .................................................................................................................... 69
Rozdział 22............................................................................................................... 71
Alexandr pracuje w wydawnictwie ....................................................................... 72
Rozdział 23............................................................................................................... 75
Zasady dla kotów .................................................................................................. 76
Rozdział 24............................................................................................................... 78
Praca zespołowa .................................................................................................... 79
Rozdział 25............................................................................................................... 82
Mike i Marcin szukają nowej pracy ...................................................................... 83
Rozdział 26............................................................................................................... 88
Ubiegać się o pracę w Wiadomości Gdyni ........................................................... 89
Rozdział 27............................................................................................................... 93
Patrol policyjny (część 1)...................................................................................... 94
Rozdział 28............................................................................................................... 98
Patrol policyjny (część 2)...................................................................................... 99
Rozdział 29............................................................................................................. 103
Szkoła dla studentów z zagranicy (SSZ) i Au-pair ............................................. 104
Polish-English dictionary ....................................................................................... 107
English-Polish dictionary ....................................................................................... 121

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 Polski alphabet - Polish alphabet

Polish Alphabet contains 32 letters.

Specific for polish language are letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż.

A a like a in Madrid
Ą ą nasal a, like chanson (French)
B b like b in big
C c like ts in cats
Ć ć like ts in pots
D d like d in do
E e like e in devil
Ę ę nasal e, like in engineer
F f like f in fit
G g like g in begin
H h like h in hamburger
I i like e in bee, ea in eagle
J j like u in duty
K k like c and k in coke
L l like l in love
Ł ł like w in water
M m like m in meet
N n like n in need
Ń ń like ñ in señor (Spanish)
O o like o in rock
Ó ó like oo in book
P p like p in pour
R r like r in korrida (Spanish)
S s like s in seed

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Ś ś like ch in ich - [ɕ] (German)
T t like t in tip
U u like oo in school
W w like v in vaseline
Y y like i in disc
Ź ź soft z
Ż ż similar to s in pleasure - [ʐ]
Z z like z in zoo

Dwuznaki (double-marks, diagraphs)

CH, CZ, RZ, SZ, DZ, DŻ, DŹ are pronounced as a single letter:

CH – sounds like h in heat

CZ – sounds like ch in chocolate
RZ – sounds like Polish Ż
SZ – sounds like sh in bush
DZ – sounds like ds in reads
DŻ – sounds like g in German
DŹ – sometimes dzi (before vowel), /d͡ʑ/

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First Polish Reader
Elementary

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 Rozdział 1
Chapter 1

Mike ma psa
Mike has a dog

Słówka
Words

1. czarny - black 14. ładny- nice

2. cztery - four 15. łóżka - beds
3. dużo, wiele - many, much 16. łóżko- bed
4. duży - big 17. mały - little
5. gwiazda, gwiazdka 18. mieć - to have
(diminutive, used with on, ona, ono ma - he/she/it has;
hotel***) - star On ma książkę. - He has a
6. hotel - hotel book.
7. hotele- hotels 19. mój, moja, moje - my
8. i - and 20. nie- not
9. ja - I 21. niebieski - blue
10. jeden - one 22. nos - nose
11. jego - his; 23. notes - notebook
jego łóżko - his bed 24. notesy - notebooks
12. kot - cat 25. nowy - new
13. książka - book

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 26. oczy - eyes 42. sklepy - shops
27. okna - windows 43. słowa, słówka - words
28. okno - window 44. słowo - word
29. oko - eye 45. stół - table
30. on - he 46. stoły - tables
31. oni, one - they 47. studenci - students
32. park - park 48. student - student
33. parki - parks 49. te, ci, tamte,tamci - these, those
34. pies - dog 50. tekst - text
35. pióra - pens 51. ten, ta, te - that
36. pióro - pen 52. ten, ta, te - this;
37. pokój - room ta książka - this book
38. pokoje - rooms 53. też - too
39. rower - bike 54. ulica - street
40. sen, marzenie - dream 55. ulice - streets
41. sklep - shop 56. zielony - green

Mike ma psa Mike has a dog

1. Ten student ma książkę. 2. On ma też pióro. 1. This student has a book. 2. He

3. Gdynia ma dużo/wiele ulic i parków. 4. Ta ulica
ma nowe hotele i sklepy. 5. Ten hotel ma cztery
gwiazdki 6. Ten hotel ma dużo/wiele ładnych
pokoi.
7. Tamten pokój ma wiele okien. 8. A te pokoje
nie mają wielu okien. 9. Te pokoje mają cztery
łóżka. 10. A te pokoje mają jedno łóżko. 11. Ten
pokój nie ma wielu stołów. 12. A te pokoje mają
wiele dużych stołów.
13. Na tej ulicy nie ma hoteli. 14. Ten duży sklep 13. This street does not have
ma wiele okien.
15. Ci studenci mają notesy. 16. Oni mają też
has a pen too.
3. Gdynia has many streets and
parks. 4. This street has new
hotels and shops. 5. This hotel
has four stars. 6. This hotel has
many nice big rooms.
7. That room has many windows.
8. And these rooms do not have
many windows. 9. These rooms
have four beds. 10. And those
rooms have one bed. 11. That
room does not have many tables.
12. And those rooms have many
big tables.
hotels. 14. That big shop has
many windows.
15. These students have

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pióra.
17. Mike ma mały czarny notes. 18. Alexandr ma
cztery nowe zielone notesy.
19. Ten student ma rower. 20. On ma nowy
niebieski rower. 21. Marcin też ma rower. 22. On
ma ładny czarny rower.
23. Alexandr ma marzenie. 24. Ja też mam
marzenie.
25. Nie mam psa. 26. Ja mam kota. 27. Mój kot
ma zielone oczy. 28. Mike nie ma kota. 29. On
ma psa. 30. Jego pies ma mały czarny nos.
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notebooks. 16. They have pens
too.
17. Mike has one little black
notebook. 18. Alexandr has four
new green notebooks.
19. This student has a bike.
20. He has a new blue bike.
21. Marcin has a bike too. 22. He
has a nice black bike.
23. Alexandr has a dream. 24. I
have a dream too.
25. I do not have a dog. 26. I
have a cat. 27. My cat has nice
green eyes. 28. Mike does not
have a cat. 29. He has a dog.
30. His dog has a little black
nose.