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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.
List of contents
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. Let's Go Shopping! 9. Let's Go To The Market! 10. How Do You Spend Your Days? 11. Where Did You Go On Holiday? 12. What's 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 Latvian-English Glossary English-Latvian Glossary Bibliography Index
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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.
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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
