Colloquial Serbian: The Complete Course for Beginners - Hardcover

Hawkesworth, Celia

9780415454018: Colloquial Serbian: The Complete Course for Beginners

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415454018 ISBN 13: 9780415454018

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

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Colloquial Serbian provides a step-by-step course in Serbian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Serbian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills

• structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar

• an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises

• realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios

• useful vocabulary lists throughout the text

• additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Serbian will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Serbian.

Course components:

The complete course comprises the book and audio materials. These are available to purchase separately in paperback, ebook, CD and MP3 format. The paperback and CDs can also be purchased together in the great-value Colloquials pack.

Paperback: 978-0-415-34892-8 (please note this does not include the audio)

CDs: 978-0-415-34891-1

eBook: 978-0-203-64113-2 (please note this does not include the audio, available to purchase from http://ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/audio_viewbooks.aspx)

MP3s: 978-0-415-47052-0 (available to purchase from http://ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/audio_viewbooks.aspx)P

ack : 978-0-415-45401-8 (paperback and CDs)

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Synopsis

Easy to use and completely up-to-date, "Colloquial Serbian" has been specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use. Providing a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Serbian, this interactive course will enable students to communicate confidently and effectively across a broad range of everyday situations. Requiring no prior knowledge of the language, key features include: a range of exercises to build confidence; clear and concise grammar notes; a progressive introduction of the Cyrillic alphabet; and, Serbian-English and English-Serbian glossaries, grammar summary and translations of main texts. Helping to develop effective listening and pronunciation skills, two sixty-minute CDs recorded by native speakers are also available to complement the book.

About the Author

Taught Serbian and Croatian, language and literature, at the University of London (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London), 1971-2002, where my research was on literature with a particular focus on contemporary women's writing. Now working freelance as translator and language consultant.

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