Polish Language Classes
Pasadena Language Center offers Polish lessons for adults at all levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced and conversation. Learn Polish in a comfortable, casual environment and make it a fun, enriching experience! We serve the areas of Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Marino, Arcadia, Alhambra, San Gabriel, South Arroyo, Altadena, Monrovia, Sierra Madre, Glendale, Burbank, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, La Cañada, Montrose, La Crescenta & Sun Valley.
About the Polish Language
Polish (język polski, polszczyzna) belongs to the West-Slavic group of the Indo-European languages together with Czech and Slovak. It is the official language of Poland and it is also used as a second language in some parts of Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. It is the second most widely spoken Slavic language, after Russian. The total number of speakers worldwide is about 50 million. The Polish language emerged from the Proto-Slavic language and used as the mother tongue of all Slavic tribes in the past. Its written standard is the Polish alphabet which corresponds basically to the Latin alphabet with a few additions. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner throughout most of Poland.
Curriculum and Structure
The Polish weekly classes are structured into three levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced. Each level is divided into four sub-levels: A, B, C, and D.
For the Beginner levels we use "Colloquial Polish" by Routledge.
Beginner A (lessons 1-4)
Topics: greetings and introductions, asking for and giving directions, leisure interests, at the hotel
Grammar and usage: letters and sounds of Polish, the verb "to be", present tense of verbs, formal and familiar forms of address, simple questions and answers, nouns and their gender, adjectives, possessives, the accusative case, the verb "to have", polite requests, the genitive case, expressions of quantity, "there is/there isn't", etc.
Beginner B (lessons 5-8)
Topics: about foreign languages, at the cinema, likes and dislikes, shopping and money, in town
Grammar and usage: adverbs, verbs of "knowing", expressing possibility and obligation, saying "already" and "not yet", verbs ending in -(i)eć, verbs of motion, making and responding to invitations, clauses with że "that", the days of the week, verbs with present tense endings-ę, -esz, plural of nouns and adjectives, numbers 1-100, countries and nationalities, money and prices, the locative case, ordinal numbers, telling the time, months and seasons, etc.
Beginner C (lessons 9-13)
Topics: dinner at home, future plans, asking for directions, a telephone conversation, asking for help
Grammar and usage: imperatives, the genitive plural of nouns and adjectives, numbers and quantities, uses of mieć, the instrumental case, the future tense of "to be", saying what you are and what you do, saying how old someone is, traveling by car, bus, train, verb aspects, the perfective past, verb families, prefixed verbs of motion, nouns derived from numbers, saying what you will do, the accusative and genitive of personal pronouns, "whether...or" and "either...or", the dative case, asking and saying "why", parts of the body, writing letters, the vocative case, numbers from 100, dates, etc.
Beginner D (lessons 14-18)
Topics: giving orders, clothes and shoes, daydreaming, friends and acquaintances, small problems, tasks
Grammar and usage: expressing polite wishes and requests, the use of żeby, comparison of adjectives and adverbs, saying you need something, saying "should, ought to (have)", the conditional, the reflexive pronoun, "none, no, not any one", points of the compass, other ways of expressing likes and dislikes, adverbial participles, adjectival participles, nouns formed from verbs, the passive voice, going places by train, etc.
For Intermediate and Advanced levels, please contact us.
We also offer private Polish classes at our center. For more information, please contact us.
For the Beginner levels we use "Colloquial Polish" by Routledge.
Beginner A (lessons 1-4)
Topics: greetings and introductions, asking for and giving directions, leisure interests, at the hotel
Grammar and usage: letters and sounds of Polish, the verb "to be", present tense of verbs, formal and familiar forms of address, simple questions and answers, nouns and their gender, adjectives, possessives, the accusative case, the verb "to have", polite requests, the genitive case, expressions of quantity, "there is/there isn't", etc.
Beginner B (lessons 5-8)
Topics: about foreign languages, at the cinema, likes and dislikes, shopping and money, in town
Grammar and usage: adverbs, verbs of "knowing", expressing possibility and obligation, saying "already" and "not yet", verbs ending in -(i)eć, verbs of motion, making and responding to invitations, clauses with że "that", the days of the week, verbs with present tense endings-ę, -esz, plural of nouns and adjectives, numbers 1-100, countries and nationalities, money and prices, the locative case, ordinal numbers, telling the time, months and seasons, etc.
Beginner C (lessons 9-13)
Topics: dinner at home, future plans, asking for directions, a telephone conversation, asking for help
Grammar and usage: imperatives, the genitive plural of nouns and adjectives, numbers and quantities, uses of mieć, the instrumental case, the future tense of "to be", saying what you are and what you do, saying how old someone is, traveling by car, bus, train, verb aspects, the perfective past, verb families, prefixed verbs of motion, nouns derived from numbers, saying what you will do, the accusative and genitive of personal pronouns, "whether...or" and "either...or", the dative case, asking and saying "why", parts of the body, writing letters, the vocative case, numbers from 100, dates, etc.
Beginner D (lessons 14-18)
Topics: giving orders, clothes and shoes, daydreaming, friends and acquaintances, small problems, tasks
Grammar and usage: expressing polite wishes and requests, the use of żeby, comparison of adjectives and adverbs, saying you need something, saying "should, ought to (have)", the conditional, the reflexive pronoun, "none, no, not any one", points of the compass, other ways of expressing likes and dislikes, adverbial participles, adjectival participles, nouns formed from verbs, the passive voice, going places by train, etc.
For Intermediate and Advanced levels, please contact us.
We also offer private Polish classes at our center. For more information, please contact us.