Colloquial Slovak

Colloquial Slovak: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Slovak as it is written and spoken today.

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 Slovak in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Colloquial Slovak is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout.

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 Slovakia
• An overview of the sounds of Slovak

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Slovak is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Slovak.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from 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.

COLLOQUIAL SLOVAK is easy to use and completely up to date!

Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Slovak. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

What makes this new edition of COLLOQUIAL SLOVAK your best choice in personal language learning?

• Interactive - lots of exercises for regular practice
• Clear - concise grammar notes
• Practical - useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide
• Complete - including answer key and reference section

Whether you're a business traveller, or about to take up a daring challenge in adventure tourism; you may be studying to teach or even looking forward to a holiday - if you'd like to get up and running with Slovak, this rewarding course will take you from complete beginner to confidently putting your language skills to use in a wide range of everyday situations.

Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on two CDs or in MP3 format, or comes included in the great value COLLOQUIAL SLOVAK paperback and CDs complete course. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material complements the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

Introduction; Pronunciation Guide; 1. How are you? 2. What are you doing? 3. Are you lazy? 4. I'm going to town 5. I want to go to the cinema 6. That's a lovely village! 7. Breakfast, lunch, supper 8. She wanted to write an email 9. I've lost my passport 10. Can I come in? 11. Shopping 12. What time is it? 13. Like a cat with a mouse 14. A sweater, the Tatras and L'udovit Stur 15. What If? 16. Do You Have a Free Table? 16. Do you have a free table? Grammar summary; Key to exercises; Slovak-English glossary; English-Slovak glossary; Index of language points