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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6149 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 12 24 November 2010 at 11:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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What are the best single language publications for different languages ? By this, I mean publishers who've focused on a single language, and don't produce a series of courses across a number of languages. I've excluded websites from the list, as there are more appropriate threads for collating this.
Here's the list so far. Russian Modern Russian 1 New Princeton Russian Course Hungarian Hallo, Itt Magyarorszag BCS/Serbo-Croatian Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian: A Textbook with Exercises and Basic Grammar (Ronelle Alexander, Ellen Elias-Bursac. University of Michigan Press) Bulgarian Intensive Bulgarian Vols. 1-2 (Ronelle Alexander. University of Wisconsin Press) Macedonian Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students (Christina Kramer. University of Toronto Press) Polish Cześć, jak się masz? vols. 1-2 (Władysław Miodunka) Z polskim na ty (Ewa Lipińska) Kiedyś wrócisz tu (vols. 1-2) (Ewa Lipińska, Elżbieta Grażyna Dąmbska) All of the above are published by Universitas at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) Romanian Discover Romanian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture (Rodica Boţoman. Ohio State University Press) Slovak Slovenčina ako cudzí jazyk "A" (Angela Zebegneyová, Anna Puzderová, Beáta Baková) Slovenčina ako cudzí jazyk "B" (Alica Bortlíková, Eva Maierová, Jana Navrátilová) Slovenčina ako cudzí jazyk "C" (forthcoming?) The first two are published by Comenius University (Bratislava, Slovakia) Ukrainian Modern Ukrainian (Assya Humesky. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press) For Estonian and Finnish, it's debatable whether these otherwise high-quality courses below should count since their respective publishers (sometimes with foreign partners such as Berlitz) have all begun producing series of learning materials in other target languages although these are still designed for native speakers of Estonian or Finnish. Estonian E nagu Eesti (Mall Pesti and Helve Ahi) T nagu Tallinn (Mall Pesti and Helve Ahi) Saame tuttavaks! (Silva Tomingas) Naljaga pooleks (Mare Kitsnik and Leelo Kingisepp) Avatud uksed (Mare Kitsnik and Leelo Kingisepp) All of the above are published by TEA Kirjastus. Finnish Finnish for Foreigners 1-3 (Maija-Hellikki Aaltio. Otava) Hyvin menee! 1 (Satu Heikkilä & Pirkko Majakangas. Otava) Hyvin menee! 2 (Kristiina Kuparinen & Terhi Tapaninen. Otava) Kuulosta hyvältä - Sounds good (Lili Ahonen, SKS) Sounds good - Kuulosta hyvältä (Lili Ahonen, SKS) Suomen kielen alkeisoppikirja (Anna-Liisa Lepäsmaa & Leena Silfverberg. Finn Lectura) Suomen kielen jatko-oppikirja (Leena Silfverberg. Finn Lectura) [EDIT - Including Chungs brilliant post] Edited by DaraghM on 02 December 2010 at 10:24am 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 12 24 November 2010 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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So far I can only think of publishers subordinated to universities or cultural institutions since their kits reflect specific needs of classes or their communities. They're definitely not in the mold of publishing houses designing courses that appeal more to independent learners and use a "cookie-cutter"-like approach by producing a series of comparable courses.
BCS/Serbo-Croatian Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian: A Textbook with Exercises and Basic Grammar (Ronelle Alexander, Ellen Elias-Bursac. University of Michigan Press) Bulgarian Intensive Bulgarian Vols. 1-2 (Ronelle Alexander. University of Wisconsin Press) Macedonian Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students (Christina Kramer. University of Toronto Press) Polish Cześć, jak się masz? vols. 1-2 (Władysław Miodunka) Z polskim na ty (Ewa Lipińska) Kiedyś wrócisz tu (vols. 1-2) (Ewa Lipińska, Elżbieta Grażyna Dąmbska) All of the above are published by Universitas at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) Romanian Discover Romanian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture (Rodica Boţoman. Ohio State University Press) Slovak Slovenčina ako cudzí jazyk "A" (Angela Zebegneyová, Anna Puzderová, Beáta Baková) Slovenčina ako cudzí jazyk "B" (Alica Bortlíková, Eva Maierová, Jana Navrátilová) Slovenčina ako cudzí jazyk "C" (forthcoming?) The first two are published by Comenius University (Bratislava, Slovakia) Ukrainian Modern Ukrainian (Assya Humesky. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press) For Estonian and Finnish, it's debatable whether these otherwise high-quality courses below should count since their respective publishers (sometimes with foreign partners such as Berlitz) have all begun producing series of learning materials in other target languages although these are still designed for native speakers of Estonian or Finnish. Estonian E nagu Eesti (Mall Pesti and Helve Ahi) T nagu Tallinn (Mall Pesti and Helve Ahi) Saame tuttavaks! (Silva Tomingas) Naljaga pooleks (Mare Kitsnik and Leelo Kingisepp) Avatud uksed (Mare Kitsnik and Leelo Kingisepp) All of the above are published by TEA Kirjastus. Finnish Finnish for Foreigners 1-3 (Maija-Hellikki Aaltio. Otava) Hyvin menee! 1 (Satu Heikkilä & Pirkko Majakangas. Otava) Hyvin menee! 2 (Kristiina Kuparinen & Terhi Tapaninen. Otava) Kuulosta hyvältä - Sounds good (Lili Ahonen, SKS) Sounds good - Kuulosta hyvältä (Lili Ahonen, SKS) Suomen kielen alkeisoppikirja (Anna-Liisa Lepäsmaa & Leena Silfverberg. Finn Lectura) Suomen kielen jatko-oppikirja (Leena Silfverberg. Finn Lectura) 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6524 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 3 of 12 26 November 2010 at 12:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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Chung, you seem to know your eastern european study materials well. What books would you recommend someone with a good background in Russian for studying Polish and Serbo-croat on their own? For audiolingual courses, I know there's the FSI course for S/C, and 'Beginning Polish.'
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| Monte Cristo Newbie United States Joined 5179 days ago 26 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 12 26 November 2010 at 4:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 5 of 12 26 November 2010 at 4:43am | IP Logged | |||||
It depends on how much money you want/are able to spend as well as your preferred method of teaching yourself. In a certain way, it'd be better not to make too much of your background in Russian and to approach each successive Slavonic language with a mind that is as open as possible. Otherwise you run the risk of falling back on Russian tendencies or norms when running across what are or appear to be similar structures or words in Polish or BCMS/Serbo-Croatian. This kind of "falling-back" might not be fatal in the end but it may hinder you from learning Polish or BCMS/Serbo-Croatian "properly" and you could end up speaking these languages with a detectable Russian accent or "bias". I think that Thomas Magner's comments in his textbook "Introduction to the Croatian and Serbian Language" may be instructive before I go further:
As I mentioned at the beginning, good materials to get started in either language will depend on how much money you want or are able to spend as well as your learning style. See the sections for "Books" and "Links" in the Collaborative Profiles of both BCMS/Serbo-Croatian and Polish for detailed information. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lance Newbie United States Joined 6996 days ago 17 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 12 02 December 2010 at 3:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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For Spanish I like the materials from bilingualamerica.com and their new website speakspanish.com
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| NuclearX2 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5106 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 7 of 12 03 December 2010 at 2:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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The Case Book for Russian by Laura A. Janda and Steven J. Clancy
I've only begun to go through it but looking through the contents and skimming it, it seems to have a wealth of information on the case system, as well as exercises at the end. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5691 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 8 of 12 08 January 2011 at 1:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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Maybe we should add this book to the list for Arabic. I haven't used it myself, but in the thread about it people seemed very enthusiastic.
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