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That's good advice. There is a Polish girl in my office who I could approach in that regard but I think I'd be more comfortable with that once I had the fundamentals down. Otherwise I'd just feel the pressure of someone measuring my progress which I don't particularly enjoy.

The Pimsleur trial was quite engaging and interesting. I assume the full course is the same, but the first lesson was a short conversation entirely in Polish which it then broke down piece by piece, asking you to repeat back the individual phrases before tying them back together, and then occasionally getting you to recall the earlier phrases as the conversation progressed.

There was a positive and a negative to the purely-audio format: on the positive it felt like a very natural way of learning, rather than rote memorization of nouns and adjectives and rules. The negative is that I could not for the life of me write down anything that I said. I spoke a few of the phrases in to Google Translate and I was just like "....that's what I was saying?!"

I have, at least, learned how to say "I don't understand Polish", so that's something!
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