Description
Colloquial Estonian (2nd Ed.)
The Complete Course for Beginners
Colloquial Series
Author: Moseley Christopher
Language: EnglishSubjects for Colloquial Estonian:
Keywords
Kas Sa; Ei Ole; Genitive Stem; Kãia; Inessive Case; Follow; Kus Ta; Ordinal Numbers; Wo; Laps; Illative Case; Consonant Grades; Partitive Case; Mina; Ja Ma; Past Active Participle; Noun Cases; Prep; Ma Olen; Kui Ma; Ilma; Adessive Case; Arst; Kord; Loeb
Publication date: 07-2015
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Paperback
Approximative price 22.91 €
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Add to cart the book of Moseley ChristopherPublication date: 06-2008
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This new edition of Colloquial Estonian 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 Estonian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
What makes Colloquial Estonian your best choice in personal language learning?
- interactive ? lots of dialogues and exercises for regular practice
- clear ? concise grammar notes
- practical ? useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide
- complete ? including answer key and special reference section.
By the end of this rewarding course you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Estonian in a broad range of everyday situations.
Audio material to accompany the course is available to download freely 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.
Introduction The Sounds of Estonian 1 Kaks vana sopra – Two old Friends 2 Telefon – The telephone 3 Kohvikus – In a café 4 Tartus – In Tartu 5 Pireti juures – Visiting Piret 6 Nädala päevad – Days of the week 7 Sünnipäev – A birthday 8 Riided – Clothing 9 Piret ostab riideid – Piret buys clothes 10 Ilm ja aastaajad – Weather and the seasons 11 Kauplustes – Shopping 12 Tööolu – Working life 13 Perekonna elu – Family life 14 Meresõit – Sailing 15 Küllakutse – An invitation 16 Eesti kirjandus – Estonian literature 17 Kaubamajas – At a department store 18 Eesti novell – An Estonian short story 19 Rongisõit – A train journey 20 Jõulud – Christmas Key to exercises Ready-reference grammar Glossary of grammatical terms Estonian – English glossary English – Estonian glossary Grammatical index
Christopher Moseley worked for two decades for the BBC World Service, specialising in Baltic affairs, and is now a freelance translator and editor, as well as Latvian teaching fellow at SSEES. He has a particular interest in endangered and minority languages. He is the author of Colloquial Estonian (1994) and Colloquial Latvian (1996) and the general editor of the Routledge/Curzon Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages (2007) and the general editor (with R.E. Asher) of the Atlas of the World’s Languages (2007).