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| mSiNi Newbie United States Joined 4628 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Slovak | Message 1 of 9 17 March 2012 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hello fellow language enthusiasts. I have a question about books for the Slovak language.
Does anyone have references to a book similar to Russian For Beginners for the Slovak language? Or any other book reference for learning Slovak that has helped you would be helpful. Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7147 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 9 17 March 2012 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Check out the following:
Help learning Slovak Slovak materials? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mSiNi Newbie United States Joined 4628 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Slovak | Message 3 of 9 17 March 2012 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Thanks for the links, but which one(s) do you recommend the most ? and are there any that
have short stories or dialogues for reading? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7147 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 4 of 9 18 March 2012 at 12:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
All of these have dialogues for you to read or follow along with the CDs. There are also short passages in each of them that will give some reading practice. "Colloquial Slovak" which isn't mentioned above is also an option. Look under "BOOKS" and "LINKS" in the Slovak Profile for more information on what you can use to learn Slovak. If you want somewhat simple stuff to practice your understanding, check out the following: Kubko a Maťko (cartoons of two Slovak peasants) Rozprávky | KLASICI (folk or fairy tales in Slovak original or translated to Slovak. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mSiNi Newbie United States Joined 4628 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Slovak | Message 5 of 9 18 March 2012 at 12:17am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| mSiNi Newbie United States Joined 4628 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Slovak | Message 6 of 9 18 March 2012 at 1:57am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Sorry for another question, but would it still be worth it to buy this without the CD's
because there's now way i can get the money for the other. http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Slovak-Individual-Classroom- Learner/dp/0893572144/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7147 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 7 of 9 18 March 2012 at 8:56am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It depends. If you're forced to choose one or the other, then get the textbook. HOWEVER, the course's effectiveness is much lower when you got only one part. The beauty of that course is that it has LOTS of exercises with the CDs containing the dialogues and short narratives as well as between a third and half of each chapter's exercises (i.e. they're substitution or transformation drills). As I posted earlier, I got the most out of this course compared to the others that I used. If you do get Swan's book without the audio, then you could still use the book and treat all of the exercises as ones to be written down. However you'll still need to train your brain to recognize Slovak in speech and produce Slovak sounds (be it spontaneously or by reading things aloud (or even "playing" Swan's dialogues in your mind). For the audio-visual exposure, you could use Langmedia's set of videos and the transcripts in Slovak in Slovakia as a supplement to Swan's book. Another approach could be to start studying with just the online course ">Slovake and turn to Swan's course after having completed Slovake.eu 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7147 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 8 of 9 19 March 2012 at 6:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I forgot to include that the International Children's Digital Library has material too. In this case it has 8 children's books translated into Slovak and you can set up an onscreen dual-language reader by opening each of the English and Slovak versions of a book in its own browser window.
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