A 5 Day Rote Memory System

[Udut, Kenneth]

You could try http://www.slavica.com

I know they have a couple of newer Russian root lists
(which I'll get when I finish this old text) - they
might have similar item for Polish roots.

I can tell ya, I'm in love with this little root list book!
Even just flipping through and getting a 'handle' on one
of the roots, 'rounds the corners' for me in such a way
that I can better guess at the meaning of a word
when I'm not sure of it, when I'm reading (or rather,
struggling through!) regular Russian texts.

[I'm currently, on and off, going through a Russian
translation of The Hobbit that I came across online.
Sure, it's not authentic Russian literature, but I know
the Hobbit story well enough to be able to figure out
certain things that otherwise would have me stumped)

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-- Kenneth.Udut at SPCORP.COM
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: David Kaiser [mailto:dwkaiser at midway.uchicago.edu]
|Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 11:41 PM
|To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
|Subject: Re: A 5 Day Rote Memory System
|
|
|>
|>I'm using a Russian Root list for the source,
|>although it's an old text (1959), and undoubtedly
|>some of the words are more literary than spoken.
|>
|
|Does anyone know if there is such a beast as a Polish Root List? I know
|there is a great deal of overlap with Russian, but there are
|also a lot of
|roots which are either not common or sufficiently different
|that knowledge
|of Russian is not helpful. Any other vocabulary builders for
|Polish would
|be appreciated as well.
|
|Thanks
|
|Dave Kaiser
|PhD Candidate, University of Chicago