Colloquial Slovene: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series)

By Andrea Albretti

Colloquial Slovene is easy to use and no prior knowledge of the language is required. COLLOQUIAL SLOVENE is easy to use and completely up to date Specially written by experienced teachers for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415089468
• ISBN13: 9780415089463
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

i'm a native Slovenian

And I didn't buy the book (KEEP READING), I just want to help some of you to understand that stressing vowels differently is really not important..as written in few other reviews (low stars ones). it's very easy to attack someone not doing they're job adequately and be blind at the same time. Now... where am I getting at? OK, let's base our stressing for example. Slovenia has 4 main accents within the language.. word kako means how..the central and NW Slo would read it that way, pronouncing o, NE would leave o cmpletely, coming to kak' si kaj(means How are you?), SE would say KUKO, o is pronounced, and the SW or seaside part (we border with Italy) would read KAKO in Italian pronouncing both a and o ..And.. what does this actually mean? Means that however stupid anyone will pronounce their words, letters etc, we will understand him/her.. Because I can't show it to you any other way..how to properly pronounce a word just depends on the region you live in, or are moving to.It's a complex language, but let's leave it that way, don't overcomplicate it. I HOPE MY REVIEW HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE BASICS OF MY LANGUAGE ! ! !

As Spoken in Slovenia

I was born and raised in Los Angeles California, but my wife was born and raised in Slovenia (Andol and Ljubljana). For years my in-laws have been trying to teach me Slovene; my accent was just too much for my wife. We traveled to Slovenia and I made a major leap forward (immersion) and now my wife can tolerate my accent. After the trip to Slovenia, I found this audio cassette course and decided to try it. My wife and in-laws are very impressed with the differing styles of speech and the accurate phasing that one would normally hear in and around Ljubljana. Although the course might move a little too fast for someone without any exposure to the language, it is the right pace and style for a serious student. My diction has greatly improved. I converted the tapes to audio-CD and spend time mimicking the exact style of the different persons speaking in each lesson. This has greatly reduced my accent. This is not a dry classroom lecture series. It is everyday people talking and having fun -- it reminds me of the relatives in Slovenia.

Great course

This language course is the best for the Slovene language that I know. The dialogues depict everyday situations and sound very natural. The only little drawback is that there are no indications of pronounciation (accent). Therefor for correct pronouncion the cassettes are a must.

simply fantastic

I started learning Slovene 3 years ago ( when I was 13)as self-taught girl and I have a lot of slovene books ( I mean grammar books)but I think this is the best one I own. Here there are 13 chapters and the book talk about an English man,Robert, who goes to Slovenia to work there for a year. Each chapter is about a different situation in Robert's life and at the end of each chapter there is the vocabulary, language points, civilization and grammar notes with a lot of examples and exercises.At the end of the book there are the translations of the dialogs, the solutions of the exercises and a 22-pages glossary. The cassettes are great too:they are very very useful for the pronounciation. The only problem (but it's only for the students who are not english)is that this book is written only in English so quite difficult. However this book is better done than any other Italian or German one.