JAK UCZYĆ CUDZOZIEMCA GRAMATYKI JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO
How to teach Polish grammar to a foreigner

Summary/Abstract: The present paper is addressed to the learners of Polish as a foreign language both at the elementary and advanced levels; it is intended to serve as a mini vade mecum. As early as at the elementary level, when introducing the basic verbs and forming simple sentences (syntactic relationships in a sentence) noun declension occurs, e.g. Jestem nauczycielem (Nom. sing.) [I am a teacher], Widzę nauczyciela (Acc. sing.) [I can see a teacher], Nie mam czasu (Gen. sing.) [I do not have time] etc. I would like to emphasise that I do not use terms such as soft and hard stem nouns or verbs since these types of phenomena do not occur in German and would not be understandable to a foreigner. In the practical teaching of Polish it is necessary to introduce paradigms (popular declension and conjugation models/patterns), e.g. with respect to the noun and verb – type 1 at the elementary level and subsequently, depending on the advancement level of the learner, that is their practical command of the language, the remaining types, the adjective and pronoun inflection, the prepositional government, and the future and past verb tenses (Präteritum – the designation for both aspects).

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