Full Description
Colloquial Slovene: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Slovene as it is written and spoken today. This third edition includes updated content, language, and texts, additional exercises, and new audio.
Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Slovene in a broad range of situations. Each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice.
Key features include:
A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar
An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises
Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations
Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Slovenia
An overview of the sounds of Slovene
Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Slovene is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Slovene. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and symbols
Pronunciation guide
1. Welcome to Slovenia
2. Family and language
3. What do you do?
4. The city and errands
5. May I help you?
6. Schedules
7. Bon appétit!
8. More about relatives
9. By car or by train?
10. Houses and apartments
11. Weekend plans
12. Around Ljubljana
13. Culture and entertainment
14. Clothes make the man
15. Body and health
16. To Upper Carniola or towards the coast?
Grammar summary
Key to exercises
Slovene-English glossary
English-Slovene glossary
