Daria Gabryanczyk - Polish For Dummies

Polish For Dummies

by Daria Gabryanczyk

Polish For Dummies

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About the Author

Daria Gabryanczyk has been teaching Polish literature and Polish as a foreign language for almost a decade. She holds an MA in Polish Language and Literature from the University of d. Daria is a teacher and an examiner for the Ministry of Defence Language Examinations Board and the University of Westminster. She has worked as a language teacher for the European High Commission, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom Environmental Law Association and University College, London. Daria provides Polish Business Etiquette and Culture Training for Businesses. She is also an author of the Polish Easy Readers series and runs a school of Polish in London.

Authors Acknowledgements

Id like to thank my husband, Piotr, for hanging in there through the ups and downs of a first-time author, and to my parents for cheering me up and making food for me when I was well and truly lost in writing the book. Im very grateful to my friends who pre-ordered the book when not a single word had even been written.

Many thanks to all the people at Wiley for making this book possible, especially to my commissioning editor, Kerry Laundon, for finding and selecting me for the Polish job; to Rachael Chilvers, for her coordination, supervision and invaluable help in developing this book; to Kathleen Dobie for her insight, thorough and much-appreciated editing (she made this book a better one!); and to my technical editors, Izabela Mayne and Iwona Dembowska-Wosik, for ensuring that I didnt miss anything.

I owe much gratitude to my student and friend, Simon Williams, for so many scribbling-on-a-napkin conversations about pronunciation and grammar and to Matthew Culver for his help in taking me through the legal aspects of this project.

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