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‘Routledge’s Colloquial series is the best place you could start.’ Rough Guide to Europe
COLLOQUIAL ROMANIAN 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 Romanian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
What makes COLLOQUIAL ROMANIAN 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 Romanian in a broad range of everyday situations.
This pack contains the book and two 60-minute CDs. Recorded by native speakers, these will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
About the Author
Dennis Deletant is Professor of Romanian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London. Ramona Gönczöl-Davies is a native speaker of Romanian and Lector in Romanian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. _ _ _ _
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It is not often that, when a new edition of language course is published, it is actually much worse than the previous one. Unfortunately, this course is one of those exceptions. I'll briefly outline why you'd be much better off with the earlier edition of Colloquial Romanian by the same author.
1. Help with pronunciation. In Romanian, any syllable of a word can be stressed. In almost all Romanian courses I've seen, this syllable is marked to help the learner get the pronunciation right. It was marked in the earlier edition of Colloquial Romanian but for some strange reason it has been dropped in this edition.
2. Vocabulary lists. In any good language course, each new chapter contains a vocabulary lists of all the new words in that chapter. That was the case in the previous edition, but not so in this one. There are still vocabulary lists in each chapter, but they are very short and arbitary.
3. Grammar. In the earlier edition of Colloquial Romanian, the Romanian grammar was described in a detailed yet very user-friendly way. In the new edition, there aren't many explanations and they are likely to be confusing for the beginner.
In short, this book is more mysterious than any detective story. I have no idea why the author decided to downgrade his own book to this extent. The one improvement made is that the conversations are more up to date and relevant in this course. If the author would have made those changes but kept the pronunciation help, stuck to complete vocabulary lists and maintained the same grammar explanations, this would have been the best Romanian course on the market. Now, it's not only a rather useless course, it's a course that's much worse than its own previous edition.
1. Help with pronunciation. In Romanian, any syllable of a word can be stressed. In almost all Romanian courses I've seen, this syllable is marked to help the learner get the pronunciation right. It was marked in the earlier edition of Colloquial Romanian but for some strange reason it has been dropped in this edition.
2. Vocabulary lists. In any good language course, each new chapter contains a vocabulary lists of all the new words in that chapter. That was the case in the previous edition, but not so in this one. There are still vocabulary lists in each chapter, but they are very short and arbitary.
3. Grammar. In the earlier edition of Colloquial Romanian, the Romanian grammar was described in a detailed yet very user-friendly way. In the new edition, there aren't many explanations and they are likely to be confusing for the beginner.
In short, this book is more mysterious than any detective story. I have no idea why the author decided to downgrade his own book to this extent. The one improvement made is that the conversations are more up to date and relevant in this course. If the author would have made those changes but kept the pronunciation help, stuck to complete vocabulary lists and maintained the same grammar explanations, this would have been the best Romanian course on the market. Now, it's not only a rather useless course, it's a course that's much worse than its own previous edition.
31 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In many ways this is a well laid-out package. The lesson plans are reasonably well thought-out and the accompanying CDs are great for pronunciation. However, the actual content is rather sloppily put together. One of the exercises contains a street plan designed to help you with directions, but it's so badly drawn that you can't work out what is what, making the exercise impossible to do. Also, there are grammatical points (plurals, adjectives, definite articles) that are only half-explained or not explained at all, which leaves you confused as to how the language works. The package is probably ok for picking up a basic grasp of the language, but if you want to understand the grammar and to be able to speak any way properly, I'd look elsewhere, personally speaking.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is by far the best course available for beginners. I found the dialogues to be ver relevant, genuine and helpful for everyday conversation purposes. I appreciated the authors carefully provided a very balanced grammar review. Most coursebooks available abound in grammar details that are rarely useful, but mostly discouraging, for a beginner. The CDs are extremely helpful and essential to work on pronunciation. I hope the authors will write a follow up course as well.
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A very comprehensive and interesting book
This book is good in many ways! It makes the grammar very clear to the reader and have many nice dialoges which is somehow easy to read and understand - Even for beginners! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Michael Sinan Thomsen
Where is the item I paid for???
I have been asked to write a review about a product I still haven't received after all these weeks!!!! Maybe an explanation could be given. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jonny
review of colloquial romanian
The cd is a necessary accompaniament to the book .This is described as a complete language course for beginners but I felt that sentences were too complex too early in chapters... Read more
Published on 27 April 2009 by D. M. Hatch
very helpful
I found this book excellent for a begginer. It has very practical lessons on everyday topics and the grammar is well explained without much jargon. Read more
Published on 20 Dec 2005
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