Colloquial Slovene

The Complete Course for Beginners
3. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-79670-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Colloquial Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pirnat-Greenberg, Marta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Marta Pirnat-Greenberg is Lecturer Emerita at the University of Kansas, USA. A native of Slovenia, she has taught Slovene to American students for most of her career, including more than 20 years at the University of Kansas.