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Speaking is the primary productive language skill. In the article the core of the communicative process and the Communicative Language Teaching are presented. Talking – being the result of CTL is considered as one of three aspects of the speaking skill. A dialogue with its features of a spoken language, is a suggested technique to introduce, exercise and to emulate talking. A sample of dialogues from chosen textbooks for teaching Polish as a foreign language were analysed to identify how and to what extent foreigners are taught talking.