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Series of course books , including student's books, workbooks and CDs for teaching Polish as a foreign language. The project was made possible with the help of EU funds, SOCRATES, LINGUA 2 (nr 103360-CP-1-2002-1-PL-Lingua-L2)

The authors of the series are experienced teachers of Polish as a foreign language, who work with PROLOG language school and the Jagellonion University Polish language and culture summer school. They are qualified teachers and graduates in Modern Languages (Polish, French, German and English). Their extensive experience in working with foreigners learning Polish (in Poland and abroad) is an asset to the quality of the materials, as all students using the books can soon discover for themselves.

Agnieszka Burkat
Graduate of the Pedagogical Academy, Krakow, in French and Italian. She has been involved with the Jagellonian University Polish Language and Culture Summer School and Prolog Language School since 1996, and is a French teacher and translator as well as a teacher of Polish as a foreign language. Her interests include literature and painting, and she spends her free time in the countryside. She has a 5 year-old son, Jedrek.

Agnieszka Jasinska
Born in 1971, she is a graduate of the Higher State College, Krakow, in French and Italian. She has worked as a French, Italian and Polish as a foreign language teacher since 1995, and teaches teenage and adult groups at private language schools in Krakow she worked with the Jagellonian University Polish Language and Culture Summer School from 1995 - 1997, at the Catholic Culture Center from 1999 - 2001, at the Stewardess School (1998 - 2000) and also at a private high school in Krakow (1996 - 2000). She has experience in teaching individual and group courses for companies and public institutions (Valeo, Phillip Morris, Delphi, Donnely, PAN). She is a translator of Italian and French.

Languages: French, Italian, English, basic German.

Interests: music, literature, film, travel.

Dr Liliana Madelska
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/liliana.madelska/
The author of the Polish grammar book in the German language version and the co-author of the Polish grammar book in the English and Polish language versions. She is a lecturer of Polish as a foreign language with 25 years of experience, the author of numerous publications. She works in the Institute of Slavic Studies of the University of Vienna. She likes water sports and skiing.

Malgorzata Malolepsza
Born in 1974, a graduate of Jagellonian University in Polish philology (1998; master's thesis in the field of psycholinguistics); she has taught Polish as a foreign language since 1994; she completed the Jagellonian University course for Polish teachers in 1997 in Krakow, and has taught Polish at institutions such as the Jagellonian University Polish Language and Culture Summer School, Prolog Language School, GFPS Polska (for diplomatic workers in Poland, foreign correspondents in Poland, managers of foreign companies in Poland among others); she has taught Polish at the Georg-Augusta University in Gottingen since 2004.

Languages: German, English, Russian, French.

Interests: foreign languages, psychology, music, dance, swimming, film

Dr Waldemar Martyniuk
The author of the sample test at the PL-B1 level, the internal expert of the project; linguist, Assistant Professor (Adiunkt) at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and a teacher of Polish as a foreign language, the author of course books, curricula and testing materials. The Secretary of the State Certification Commission for Polish as a Foreign Language (2003-2004), visiting professor and lecturer (Polish language and culture) at universities in Germany, Switzerland and the USA; the Director of the Polish language and Culture School at the Jagiellonian University (2001-2004). Currently seconded to the Council of Europe, Language Policy Division (Strasbourg, France) as Language Project Coordinator.

Dr Geoffrey Schwartz
received a Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2000. He has over 10 years' experience as a language instructor, and has taught four different languages, including Polish, Russian, English as a Foreign Language, and Croatian-Serbian. Since 2002 he has been employed as a visiting professor in the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, where he teaches seminars on phonetics and phonology. His research focuses on the applications of acoustic phonetics in teaching foreign languages.

Aneta Szymkiewicz
Born in 1973, graduate of Jagellonian University in Polish philology (1997), of the Pedagogical Academy Journalism School, Krakow (1997), and the Economics Academy School of Business and Management, Krakow (2003); as a journalist, she has worked with "Przekroj", "Dziennik Polski" and "Gazeta Wyborcza" (Krakow section); she has worked with the Literary Publishing House (Wydawnictwo Literackie) as a proofreader and as a promotions and marketing specialist and has taught Polish as a foreign language at all levels in private language schools in Krakow and at the Jagellonian University Polish Language and Culture Summer School since 1998 (including specialist courses such as economics and literature).

Languages: English, Russian, German.

Interests: literature, music, foreign languages, photography and travels.

Dr Małgorzata Warchoł-Schlottmann
Graduated from the Polish and Romances philology at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow as well as German Philology at the Heidelberg University. She works in the Institute of Slavic Studies of the University of Vienna. She has taught Polish at German universities in Heidelberg, Manheim, Getyng, Munich, Regensburg and the Ohio State University in Columbus, USA. She is interested in the functional variations and sociolects of modern Polish and in bilingualism.