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by Ramona Gonczol-Davies (Author), Dennis Deletant (Author)

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Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 3 edition (3 Oct 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0415237831
ISBN-13: 978-0415237833
Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 2 cm

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The third edition of this popular course in Romanian for beginners has been completely revised and updated to make learning Romanian easier and more enjoyable than ever before.

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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.

Two 60-minute CDs are available to complement the book. Recorded by native speakers, these will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 13 May 2004

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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.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Worse than the previous edition, 22 Feb 2009

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This review is from: Colloquial Romanian: A Complete Language Course (Colloquial) (Colloquial Series) (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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent course, 21 Jan 2006

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This review is from: Colloquial Romanian: A Complete Language Course (PB + CD) (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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2.0 out of 5 stars 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 6 months ago by D. M. Hatch

2.0 out of 5 stars A very good course, with one huge drawback
This is a very good course. There is one huge drawback. The way the CDs are packaged is absolutely useless. Read more

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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

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