Colloquial Serbian: The Complete Course for Beginners

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Routledge, Aug 14, 2015 - Foreign Language Study - 384 pages

Colloquial Serbian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Serbian 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 Serbian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Serbian 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 about life in Serbia
  • An overview of the sounds of Serbian

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

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.

 

Contents

Putnici idu u hotel
23
Dolazak u hotel
37
Odlazak u grad
51
U Beogradu
64
Razgovor o stanu
77
U pošti
90
U restoranu
103
U turističkoj agenciji
118
Pakovanje
190
Polazak
205
U kupovini
229
Dolazak u Kotor
246
U Kotoru
263
Kraj
280
Grammar summary
298
Key to exercises
313

Putovanje autobusom
132
Porodični odnosi
146
Seoski život
163
Muzika
177
Translations of main texts
326
SerbianEnglish glossary
345
EnglishSerbian glossary
368
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About the author (2015)

Celis Hawkesworth is Lecturer in Serbo-Croat Language and Literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.