Hi Alea, I definitely recommend conversations + language exchange but there are some tools that are automated and can help as well. Some of them: • https://www.duolingo.com/ (Course of Polish for English learners - I took course of Spanish and it was good) • https://babadum.com/ (vocabulary learning) • Install application for to download podcasts on your mobile. There is a plenty of them for Android/IPhone. You can then download whatever is interesting for you in the language selected. And you start to listen. You don't need to understand much from the start (you will not be able) , but anyway it works very well. Of course if you just do not give up and listen as much as you can - traveling, running, whatever. • Watch polish movies / videos on YouTube – there are thousands about everything  • Regarding books – drop me a word what is interesting for you and I may look for something. The good think about methods mentioned above is that they are free. There are also paid systems for automated / computer assisted learning but would start with free staff :-) Keeping fingers crossed for your Polish, Bartek

I'm a native Polish speaker and I live in Poland and I've spent a lot of time looking for decent materials for foreign learners of Polish available free on the Internet. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything in particular yet. For sure you may forget you can find something similar to sites dedicated for learners of English. There are some paid materials or mixed (partly paid) like http://www.apronus.com/learnpolish/index.htm but it might take you a lot more time to find and complete them than you'll get profits. I recommend you find someone for language exchange. If you find someone really decent they may help you complete materials for everyday self-learning sessions. Permanent contact with Polish native speaker is necessary anyway.

Duolingo has a very new Polish course (about three months old), but the grammar explanations are still under construction. It is still very useful, even as is. There is also a 15-part video course I found on YouTube called "Uczmy się Polskiego." There is even a link to the text/workbook as a PDF in the video description. The acting is quite dated and sometimes even painful to watch, but if you can sit through, you will learn a lot about the Polish language. Good luck with your studies!

We can talk sometimes if you want to exchange Polish - English :)

Hi Alea At first try to find a video podcast on youtube for polish language learner, something like this one: https://www.youtube.com/user/PolishPod101/ I watch https://www.youtube.com/user/engvidenglish for english learners. These videos are very helpful to improve language skills. Some of teachers are from Canada. For me this is the best way to learn rather than study boring textbook. I really enjoy it. And of course, practice. Practice as much as you can and have a lot of fun. There you go an interesting video about polish history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stEuQamTLXw All the best Wojciech