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title: Colloquial Slovak : The Complete Course for Beginners
Colloquial Series
author: Naughton, J. D.
publisher: Taylor & Francis Routledge
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13: 9780203295458
ebook isbn13: 9780203429150
language: English
subject Slovak language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--
English.
publication date: 1997
lcc: PG5239.3.E54N38 1997eb
ddc: 491.8/682421
subject: Slovak language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--
English.
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Colloquial Slovak
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The Colloquial Series
Series adviser: Gary King
The following languages are available in the Colloquial series:
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic (Levantine)
Arabic of Egypt
Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia
Basque
Bulgarian
*Cambodian
*Cantonese
*Chinese
Croatian and Serbian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay
Mongolian
Norwegian
Panjabi
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese of Brazil
Romanian
*Russian
Slovak
Slovene
Somali
*Spanish
Spanish of Latin America
Swedish
*Thai
Turkish
Urdu
Ukrainian
*Vietnamese
Welsh
Accompanying cassette(s) (*and CDs) are available for all the above titles. They can be ordered through
your bookseller, or send payment with order to Taylor & Francis/Routledge Ltd, ITPS, Cheriton House,
North Way, Andover, Hants SP10 5BE, UK, or to Routledge Inc, 29 West 35th Street, New York NY
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10001, USA.
COLLOQUIAL CD-ROMs
Multimedia Language Courses
Available in: Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish
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Colloquial Slovak
The Complete Course for Beginners
James Naughton
London and New York
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First published 1997
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
© 1997 James Naughton
Maps of Slovakia (p. 8) and the High Tatras (p. 171) by Kristoffer Blegvad
Map of Bratislava (p. 192) by Matthew Crabbe
The author has asserted his moral rights in accordance with Section 77 of
the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced
or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means,
now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,
or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Naughton, James, 1950–
Colloquial Slovak: The Complete Course for Beginners.
1. Slovak language—Textbooks for foreign speakers—English.
PG5239.3.E54C65 1996
491.8′682421–dc20 95–26195
ISBN 0-203-42915-X Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-29545-5 (OEB Format)
ISBN 0-415-11540-X (Print Edition) (book)
ISBN 0-415-11541-8 (Print Edition) (cassettes)
ISBN 0-415-11542-6 (Print Edition) (book and cassettes course)
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Contents
Abbreviations used vii
Introduction 1
Pronunciation guide 4
1 Ako sa máte? How are you? 10
2 Čo robíte? What are you doing? 22
3 Si lenivá? Are you lazy? 32
4 Idem do mesta I’m going to town 42
5 Chcem ísť do kina I want to go to the cinema 54
6 To je krásna dedina! That’s a lovely village! 66
7 Raňajky, obed, večera Breakfast, lunch, supper 81
8 Chcela napísať list She wanted to write a letter 93
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9 Stratila som cestovný pas I’ve lost my passport 106
10 Môžem ísť ďalej? Can I come in? 119
11 Nakupovanie Shopping 131
12 Koľko je hodín? What time is it? 143
13 Ako mačka s myšou Like a cat with a mouse 153
14 Sveter, Tatry a Ľudovít Štúr A sweater, the Tatras and Ľudovít Štúr 164
15 Čo keby? What if? 180
16 Máte voľný stôl? Do you have a table free? 195
Grammar summary 214
Key to exercises 228
Slovak-English glossary 246
English-Slovak glossary 276
Index of language points 285
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Abbreviations used
acc. accusative
adj. adjective
dat. dative
f. feminine
freq. frequentative
gen. genitive
impf imperfective
ins. instrumental
loc. locative
m. masculine
n. neuter
nom. nominative
pf perfective
pl. plural
sg singular
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