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Colloquial Lithuanian: The Complete Course for Beginners

Title: Colloquial Lithuanian: The Complete Course for Beginners

Author: Meilute Ramoniene, Routledge
Format: Book + Audio Cassette
List Price: $64.95
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Colloquial Lithuanian: The Complete Course for Beginners


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Colloquial Lithuanian is easy to use and completely up-to-date. Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Lithuanian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

What makes Colloquial Lithuanian your best choice in personal language learning?
* interactive - lots of exercises for regular practice
* clear - concise grammar notes
* practical - useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide
* complete - including answer key and special reference section.

Cassettes accompany the course to help you with listening and pronunciation skills. By the end of this rewarding course you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in a broad range of situations.


Product Details
  • Audio Cassette: 383 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; Bk&Cassett edition (August 1, 1996)
  • ISBN: 0415121051
  • Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.4 x 2.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds.
  • Average Customer Review: based on 6 reviews.



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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Not ideal, but then it's a difficult language, February 2, 2003

Reviewer: Andrius Uzkalnis (Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom)

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 not expecting too much); it has been reasonably well written and edited, especially considering relatively undeveloped tradition of Western-quality textbook writing in the Baltics.

Frankly, one can do much worse than buying this.


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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

A nice way to learn Lithuanian, January 22, 2002

Reviewer: Mike Wilson (Cumbria, UK)

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 a constructive way and the book gives a quite extensice vocabulary.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

Not for the beginner, not for self-study., March 20, 2001

Reviewer: "exit16w" (Garfield, NJ USA)

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 memorization and modelling. This is good in a way, but not at all useful unless you know some fundamentals already. Similarly, the audio tapes of C.L. move at an advanced speed. As my professor says, C.L. is a "second-year" coursebook. We use it sometimes for exercises, but the B.L. text is much better.

By the way, the first reviewer should say "Vilniaus Universitetas" in the nominative, or "Vilniaus Universitete" in the locative. "Vilno Univeriteto" is simply wrong -- Beginner's Lithuanian can cure that mistake, Colloquial Lithuanian cannot.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

The best Lithuanian language course currently available, July 15, 1998
Reviewer: A software user
This is the best guide (book plus tape) currently available for learning Lithuanian. My brother, who studied at Vilno Universiteto in 1994 - 1995 strongly recommended it to me, and wished he had had it available then. I had previously tried to learn using the Easy Way to Lithuanian book and tapes, and found this much better.

Of course, learning Lithuanian without living there or with a Lithuanian family member is basically impossible, but such is life.

Su Diev!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Well organized and the beginner will benefit., June 14, 1998
Reviewer: A software user
My mother, born in Lithuania, does not agree with some usage of words and phrasing, and basic pronunciations. Overall, a very useful book and cassette package.

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