A couple of notes on the Polish FAST Course.
The book has a 1992 date and has 450 instructional pages.
Both of the authors are listed US State Department FSI employees in the winter 1991 employee directory as well as in later directories. As such, the work is in the US public domain per 17 U.S.C. § 105 as a work created by US government employees in the course of their duties. A copy of the directory pages was sent to Vagabond Pilgrim for his records.
Unfortunately the work included images that were not created by US employees, and might have been copyrighted. To be safe, I replaced all the images with Creative Commons and public domain equivalents. I tried to use the same image subject whenever possible, otherwise I picked images that matched the nearby text. In cases where I couldn't find a good image I left the spot blank.
Due to the paucity of audio available for this book, only 4 tapes, it probably isn't all that useful for a self-learner except as a reference. I don't have the tapes. Some other sources for the Polish learner from major university sites include:
Teach Yourself Polish made available by Indiana University
Audio:
http://www.iu.edu/~celtie/polish_archive.htmlBook:
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000082138789Beginning Polish by Alexander Schenker
The Yale University Press books are copyrighted but available in both new and used forms for a low price. The audio is available on line at Yale University. I'm not sure of the status of the audio, but it has been at this location for at least a couple of years:
http://www.cls.yale.edu/polish/