Colloquial Panjabi: The Complete Course for Beginners

By Bhardwaj Mangat and Mangat Rai Bhardwaj

Book Overview

Colloquial Panjabi: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Panjabi as it is written and spoken today.

Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Panjabi in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Colloquial Panjabi is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout.

Key features include:

A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills

Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar

An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises

Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations

Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Panjabi-speaking areas.

An overview of the sounds of Panjabi

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Panjabi is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Panjabi.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free 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. A wealth of additional text material is also provided on the website. This supplementary material builds on the foundation provided in the Colloquial Panjabi course and will develop your language skills beyond the beginner level into intermediate study.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138371890
• ISBN13: 9781138371897
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Colloquial Panjabi: some thoughts

I like this book very much. The author is someone who enjoys using grammatical terminology and so a first-time language learner might find the book heavy going. My advice is very strongly not to buy the book without buying the cassettes as well- that holds true for most languages but is particulary true for this one- since Panjabi is tonal and because there are many sounds that are do not have equivalents in English. Two small things: First, the lessons on Panjabi script are in a separate section at the back of the book. I have studied other Indian languages and feel like it is certainly possible to learn the script as one learns to speak- it's not an unphonetic language by any means. Also, there isn't much about what to do next, once one has completed this course. It is certainly a fascinating language and culture, but now I'm all dressed up with no place to go.