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by Ramona Gonczol-Davies (Author), Dennis Deletant (Author) "Mike Foster, a businessman from Scotland, has recently arrived in Bucharest and is looking for a place to sit down in his hotel lobby ..." (more)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Routledge; 3rd edition (10 Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415237858
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415237857
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 17.8 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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The third edition of this course in Romanian for beginners has been completely revised and updated with the aim of making learning Romanian easier and more enjoyable. For self-study or class use, this text written by experienced teachers of Romanian offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Romanian, covering a variety of modern everyday situations, both formal and informal.
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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 13 May 2004
This review is from: Colloquial Romanian: A Complete Language Course (Colloquial Series) (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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Worse than the previous edition, 22 Feb 2009
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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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent course, 21 Jan 2006
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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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