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Certain type of Polish dictionary.



kemstewaThreads: 1
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I'm looking for a polish dictionary that included English pronunciation that is easy for English speakers to use to pronounce polish words. I have this small polish phrase book and it works like this:

Bacon - bo-chek - boczek
Butter - ma-swo - masło
Coffee - ka-va - kawa

As you can see it allows English speakers to use the English alphabet to sound out polish words as close as it can. This is nice so I can make sure I pronouncing polish words correctly. Unfortunately, this book is very limited and I'm looking for a dictionary that works in the same manner, does anyone know of one that works like this?

PolsonThreads: 15
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  Sep 21, 09, 00:21 /  #
Usually, dictionnaries give a phonetic transcriptions, is it not enough?

You can also ask us here, on PF ;) Good luck in your 'quest'.
niejestemcapitaThreads: 3
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  Sep 21, 09, 00:23 /  #
kemstewa:
I'm looking for a dictionary that works in the same manner, does anyone know of one that works like this?

You could just study the phrasebook and learn which letters make which sounds....? It's not like English with thousands of variables..what u see written is what u say..
VincentThreads: 15
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  Sep 21, 09, 00:24 /  #
You could try this one

Hippocrene Standard Dictionary: Polish-English English-Polish : With Complete Phonetics Menu Terms Business Terms (Paperback)

here
WroclawThreads: 77
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  Sep 21, 09, 00:26 /  #
Certain type of Polish dictionary.

try searching similar threads. there are a few possibilities
kemstewaThreads: 1
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  Sep 21, 09, 01:04 /  #
Vincent
That is perfect, I just looked at the online sample of the book and it does exactly what I want. I just ordered it. Thanks!
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  Sep 21, 09, 01:17 /  #
Glad to help :) Good luck with learning Polish.
LeopejoThreads: 6
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  Sep 21, 09, 19:47 /  #
My dream online dictionary would be a "learner's grammatical dictionary", like the Russian Dictionary Tree at russian.dmll.cornell.edu/rdt/index.htm (*)

This Russian dictionary gives for most words complete declinations or conjugations and often example sentences to show what prepositions and cases to use.

I guess there is nothing like this for Polish, is there?

(*) sorry for the link not working, it seems I am not trusted yet here (no 2 useful messages yet).
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  Sep 23, 09, 19:51 /  #
Leopejo
I guess there is nothing like this for Polish, is there?

Oh, the dictionary at polish.slavic.pitt.edu does exactly this. You get declination tables for nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and conjugation tables for verbs.

The dictionary is found here: polish.slavic.pitt.edu/~swan/beta/
SzwedwPolsceThreads: 13
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  Sep 23, 09, 23:14 /  #
Leopejo:
This Russian dictionary gives for most words complete declinations or conjugations

Try Wikitionary.

And 301 Polish Verbs by Janecki.
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  Sep 24, 09, 09:36 /  #
niejestemcapita:
what u see written is what u say..

roughly ;)

there are certain rules of pronounciation
niejestemcapitaThreads: 3
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  Sep 24, 09, 12:19 /  #
gumishu:
there are certain rules of pronounciation

well.......yeh obviously...:) my point was that they don't change all the time like English.

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