Colloquial Estonian: Complete Course For Beginners, The+free O

Description: 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.



Contents: Introduction The Sounds of Estonian 1 Kaks vana sopra - Two old Friends 2 Telefon - The telephone 3 Kohvikus - In a cafe 4 Tartus - In Tartu 5 Pireti juures - Visiting Piret 6 Nadala paevad - Days of the week 7 Sunnipaev - A birthday 8 Riided - Clothing 9 Piret ostab riideid - Piret buys clothes 10 Ilm ja aastaajad - Weather and the seasons 11 Kauplustes - Shopping 12 Toeoeolu - Working life 13 Perekonna elu - Family life 14 Meresoit - Sailing 15 Kullakutse - An invitation 16 Eesti kirjandus - Estonian literature 17 Kaubamajas - At a department store 18 Eesti novell - An Estonian short story 19 Rongisoit - A train journey 20 Joulud - Christmas Key to exercises Ready-reference grammar Glossary of grammatical terms Estonian - English glossary English - Estonian glossary Grammatical index



Author Biography: 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).