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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
* Serbian-English and English-Serbian glossaries, grammar summary and translations of main texts.
These two CDs, recorded by native speakers, are an invaluable component of the Colloquial course. While reinforcing material from the book, the CDs also contain a variety of additional exercises, including role-playing, designed to perfect your speaking and listening skills.
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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had a limited time in which to find out the essential structure and basis of the language. I like the tone of this book and its examples but there are features which make it very difficult to use.
1. I would like clear lists and tables of things like the first person and infinitive of verbs. I have created my own but had to guess some of the words because they did not appear in the vocabulary: a pity when the book says that it is important to know both parts of verbs.
2. If I were not a language teacher I would not have understood some technical terms like the partitive genitive.
3. It is a nightmare trying to work out which of the passages are recorded and which are translated so that I can listen to a series of them as revision. They need to be labelled more clearly, with page numbers and titles which correspond with each other and translations positioned where they can be found quickly.
4. There are a few little mistakes, like conversations attributed to the wrong person in the recording, but they are not too misleading.
5. It is very difficult trying to work in both a modified Roman alphabet and the Serbian version of the Cyrillic alphabet from the beginning. Grammar notes should be displayed in the Roman alphabet so that essential points can be grasped without the additional problem of making possible mistakes with the actual letters.
All in all, I was rather disappointed that the course was so hard to use. i could only face opening it when I had a lot of time and energy to spare. I expected to find the language a challenge and I was looking forward to that, but the layout and design of the course did not help me.
I have taken the time to write this review because I think it is basically a good course and if these problems were ironed out it would be superb.
1. I would like clear lists and tables of things like the first person and infinitive of verbs. I have created my own but had to guess some of the words because they did not appear in the vocabulary: a pity when the book says that it is important to know both parts of verbs.
2. If I were not a language teacher I would not have understood some technical terms like the partitive genitive.
3. It is a nightmare trying to work out which of the passages are recorded and which are translated so that I can listen to a series of them as revision. They need to be labelled more clearly, with page numbers and titles which correspond with each other and translations positioned where they can be found quickly.
4. There are a few little mistakes, like conversations attributed to the wrong person in the recording, but they are not too misleading.
5. It is very difficult trying to work in both a modified Roman alphabet and the Serbian version of the Cyrillic alphabet from the beginning. Grammar notes should be displayed in the Roman alphabet so that essential points can be grasped without the additional problem of making possible mistakes with the actual letters.
All in all, I was rather disappointed that the course was so hard to use. i could only face opening it when I had a lot of time and energy to spare. I expected to find the language a challenge and I was looking forward to that, but the layout and design of the course did not help me.
I have taken the time to write this review because I think it is basically a good course and if these problems were ironed out it would be superb.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having read the other reviews, I feel I must defend what is a pretty good course. For a start, show some gumption and get a dictionary. No beginner should rely totally on one textbook. Secondly, as a beginner do you just want to order in a cafe or do you want to equip yourself to explore more widely ? Either is fine, but this course caters for the latter option, and it is not fair to criticise it for its ambition. There is plenty of audio, varied texts ( you could ignore those at the close of each chapter, returning to them later ), and it is interesting. Too many courses are dull, pitch at pondlife level, and assume we are pond creatures. I know I'm taking a stern line, but one other review just whinged.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Talk about in at the deep end. Very good but hard work and not for beginners. Much of the serbian heard is never explained, spelled nor translated. It is a pity that the slightly patronising englishman cannot intonate the serbian names correctly. His voice tends to teach learners the wrong way to say words, e.g. Knez Mihailova.
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Serbian CDs
The Amazon site called it 'the complete course' when it is only the CDs. On their own the CDs are useless. Read more
Published 18 months ago by J. V. Williams
Be warned!!
This course is actually pretty good in most respects. But be warned! Of the 20 lessons, 8 of them do not have the lead dialogue on the recording. Read more
Published on 25 April 2010 by Barry
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