The vocabulary is current and relevant to Polish life. These contain two sections each, a section on Reading Comprehension assessed by a set of questions, a dictation, a section that tests grammar and a list of idiomatic expressions. The reading passages in Polish are followed by translations into English. Some words contain somewhat cryptic superscribed numbers. This book is oriented toward self-study.
Tapes are available.
While a strong point of the book is its contemporary setting, it could have been made more vivid by the inclusion of photographs, maps or grammatical tables. Inclusion of the genitive forms for the nouns and some way of marking the grammatical classes of the verbs would make the dictionary more user-friendly. The book has some typographical errors. Danuta Z. Hutchins is in charge of Slavic Languages at Teikyo Westmar University, LeMars, Iowa.