This new edition of Colloquial Latvian has been completely rewritten to make learning Latvian easier and more enjoyable than ever before!
Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Latvian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
What makes Colloquial Latvian 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.
By the end of this rewarding course, you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Latvian in a broad range of everyday situations.
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.
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"I also found this book very useful. It is criticized on another side as not being tailored to the linguistic neophyte, and that is to some extent true, but how many of those are there out there wanting to learn Latvian? I personally valued the storyline and cultural elements of the dialogues as adding interest and the lack of transactional drills and colorless situational dialogies was more a relief than anything else. An hour a day for a month and it's under your belt - I think that's hard to beat in its genre, and textbooks for much more widely spoken languages often fall far short of this standard. Amazon customer Review of the previous edition:
'An hour a day for a month and it's under your belt - I think that's hard to beat in its genre, and textbooks for much more widely spoken languages often fall far short of this standard.' Amazon customer
Acknowledgements Introduction How To Use This Book The Sounds of Latvian
Abbreviations
1. Hello!
2. Please drive to!
3. I Have a Reservation
4.
Travelling by Train
5. At the Restaurant
6. Family
7. What Do You Do In Your
Free Time?
8. Lets Go Shopping!
9. Lets Go To The Market!
10. How Do You
Spend Your Days?
11. Where Did You Go On Holiday?
12. Whats Wrong With You?
13. The New Flat
14. What Will The Weather Be Like Today?
15. Communications
and Mass Media Grammar Summary Key to Exercises LatvianEnglish Glossary
EnglishLatvian Glossary Bibliography Index
Chris Moseley teaches Latvian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London and is also the editor of two other volumes for Routledge: the Atlas of the Worlds Languages and the Encyclopedia of the Worlds Endangered Languages.
Dace Praulin started teaching Latvian History, Culture, Society and Language at the University of Glasgow in 2006 following three decades in language teaching. She has taught English to speakers of other languages in the UK, Germany and Latvia. She has also taught German and French.
