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

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 491.9282421
EAN: 9780415121033
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0415121035
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 383
Publication Date: October 31, 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge

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Colloquial Lithuanian is a practical course in everyday written and spoken Lithuanian requiring no prior knowledge of the language. This book is ideal for study independently or with a teacher. Cassettes recorded by native Lithuanian speakers are also available. This paperback in the Colloquial Language Learning Series is available individually here or as part of a cassette pack. To purchase the book and the cassettes, please refer to the cassette pack listing for this language.

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- Colloguial Lithuanian: The Complete Course for Beginners
Owned and tried to use this book to learn enough Lithuanian to "get by" when we visted this fall. It certainly is NOT a Berlitz type program and is not a good book or tape to use alone. It is almost impossible to learn to say, Hello, my name is.... using this program.

My husband speaks "child" Lithuanian learned at his Grandmothers knee and he could not use this program.

I did not find basic get-you-by Lithuanian that hard once I got in the country. Travelers can get ... Read More

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- A well written course!
This book is an excellent course. The book and audio guide are inseparable! However, be warned that the lithuanian language is not for the inexperienced in the world of linguistics.

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- Not ideal, but then it's a difficult language
I would be lying if I were to say that this book will make learning Lithuanian very easy. It cannot possibly do that.
Lithuanian language is very archaic, very peculiar and very complex. What's more, there are too few paralels with modern European languages: unless you have some kind of linguistic background, the task will probably seem overwhelming. It is not like learning French or Spanish if you are an English-speaker.
The book comes in Colloquial series (this is your first clue for ... Read More

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- A nice way to learn Lithuanian
This book gives a fairly deep introduction to the oldest living Indo-European language, Lithuanian. Spoken in the Baltic state of Lithuania it has remained almost unaffected by the changes that have occured in other Indo-European languagea over the last 3.000 years. For a linguist, this makes Lithuanian a very interesting language indeed and this book is a good introduction to it. At times the grammar explanations could be somewhat more far-reaching, but most aspects of grammar are dealt with in ... Read More

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- Not for the beginner, not for self-study.
I have been studying Lithuanian twice a week with a professional instructor now for 3 months. I own this text, as well as the Beginner's Lithuanian text by Dambriunas. The Colloquial Lithuanian has very useful exercises, and emphasizes the conversational forms and expressions over the tradional academic style employed in Beginner's Lithuanian. However, be forewarned. This Colloquial Lithuanian text is absolutely inaccessable for beginners -- it does not lay out the fundamentals, but instead stresses ... Read More

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