Today I wanted to share with you some of to books and games I use to teach my daughter Polish.

I talk to her in Polish all the time. So it is not really specifically teaching as much as just living your everyday life and doing what you normally would do with your kids, except you do it in Polish.

My husband learns a lot while he listens to us or when he plays with us…so these books are really not only for kids, but also for adults.

Take a look at the video  with books and games I describe.

Simple “dictionary type” books are probably the easiest to buy and there is usually a big choice of them. I have two books that were given to me by someone from Poland. They have simple words in both Polish and English:

“Słownik obrazkowy angielski” Anna Wiśniewska, Joanna Myjak

“Dzieci uczą się angielskiego” Centrum Edukacji Dziecięcej

I found a really nice book here in the States as well:

“Open Sesame”. It has Sesame Street characters and it is like a dictionary as well. It gives you every day life words in both Polish and English.

I use a lot of board books to make them “my own bilingual books”. They usually have big pictures with simple words. I just write the name of the word in Polish as well. I usually use a different color pen, so it’s not confusing. I do it with books, puzzles and games. Really easy and fun:)

Two bilingual books that I mentioned in the video are:

“Bezpieczne miejsce małej małpki” (Little monkey’s one safe place) Richard Edwards, Susan Winter

“Wars i Sawa” Katarzyna Małkowska

I also mentioned 3 books that are in Polish only, but I thought they were great.

These 2 come with the music cd and rymes are great for teaching games and exercising with kids:

“Rymowane zabawianki, masażyki i kołysanki” by different authors

“Rymowana gimnastyka dla smyka” by different authors as well

And the last one is “Książeczka – wycieczka po miastach i miasteczkach” Eliza Piotrowska.

This one has short rhymes about different cities in Poland and next to each rhyme there is a picture with map of Poland and it shows where the  particular city is situated.

If you have different ideas and different books you like, please share it with us in comments below.

Do następnego razu… (Till next time…)