Borrowings from Romance languages and their presence in educational materials for teaching and learning Polish as a foreign language

The article presents borrowings adopted from Romance languages wich can be found in educational aids for teaching Polish as a foreing language. The text focuses on the percentage share of borrowings in dictionnaries and beginners’ course books. It also concentrates on lists of words and topics in which those borrowings occur. The author emphasises the fact that in course books for teaching and learning Polish as a foreign language there are actually only proper loanwords while non assimilated and calques are missing. Besides neither metaphors nor foreign prefixes are not represented