What is Bravo Polish?

Bravo Polish is our school’s new project specifically aimed at foreigners living in Poland. Five years teaching Romance languages has given us a solid educational basis to create an effective Polish language training program with elements of Polish culture and habits. Daily contact with native speakers working in our school, has helped us understand their major problems with Polish grammar and vocabulary, how they struggle with it and has led us to create Bravo Polish.

The method

What distinguishes us from the other language schools is our method that consists of teaching our students using their native language. For that reason, the knowledge of English is not a necessary condition for establishing communication between student and teacher anymore. Due to our romance language school profile, our offer is especially directed to Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian speakers. For all other cases English is used.

We are aware learning Polish isn't easy. In most of cases complicated grammar and correct pronunciation is the hardest thing and this represents a linguistic barrier foreigners have to face. To enable communication between teacher and student in his native language is particularly helpful in the basic stage of learning, although in Bravo Polish courses we try to speak mainly in Polish from the first classes. For this purpose we use theatrical techniques in which the classroom can become a shop, a restaurant, a cinema, a doctor's office or a street. In role-playing with simple everyday life, the student feels more encouraged to test his language skills also outside the classroom. This method in natural way promotes remembering typical phrases and expressions, which helps to break down all the barriers of speaking a foreign language and ensures a quick learning pace.


The teachers

- Teach Polish using Romance languages or English, what greatly supports and enhances the education process on the basic stage

- Are competent, experienced and creative, moreover they are characterized by their patience and friendly attitude towards the students

- Completed the required cycle of training, which has prepared them to use the Bravo method

- Use approved and tested textbooks, that support the teacher's self-made materials.


Levels

A1
Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the fulfillment of needs of a concrete type. Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has. Can interact in a simple way, provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.


A2
Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate Basic need.
B1
Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered at work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst traveling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
B2
Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either part. Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and independent disadvantages of various options.
C1
Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning. Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
C2
Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read. Can summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.