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Title: Teach Yourself Serbo-Croat Complete Course by Teach Yourself ISBN: 0-8442-3872-4 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 11 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.94 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book for beginners in Serbo-Croat
Comment: This is a good first step for a beginner wanting to learn more Serbo-Croat than you'd find in a "phrasebook for travellers". The complicated grammatical structure is attacked in a very simple, approachable way. The book contains enough vocabulary for a wide variety of situations.
It would be impossible, I think, for a text like this to give equal consideration to all the varieties of Serbo-Croat. Much better to learn one dialect, as it's not too difficult to switch to another. This book teaches a Croatian dialect, and this is clearly explained at the beginning. I wanted to learn Bosnian, but this book was more than adequate for learning the rudiments of the language, despite the focus on a different dialect.
I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to start learning any dialect of Serbo-Croat. Having worked my way through it, I hope the author decides to write an "advanced Serbo-Croat" book to follow on from this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent one volume starter course for an absolute beginner
Comment: This is the place to start for a person who knows nothing about the language and learns best by studying grammer, vocabulary, verb and noun forms and everyday statements you will need all at once. I got the Barron's book on Croatian, and it is best for someone who does not really want to learn to converse with Croatians, but wishes to navigate through everyday situations a business man or tourist might encounter. It is not a grammatical approach, just useful words and sentences grouped by situational headings, ie: dining, hotel, travel, etc. The "Teach Yourself Serbo-Croat" is best for getting a real working understanding of the language. I have used their books for Italian and French and they worked great. I have studied 5 other languages, both in school and on my own, and these guides I have found very satisfying for the beginner who learns best by acquiring an understanding the structure of a language over "listen and learn" rote memory approaches. Hope this helps. Hvala!
Rating: 3
Summary: stress/accent mystery
Comment: As a student of Russian and SC, I have to say that as to grammar etc., this book is quite good. I do have a problem with calling the book "TY Serbo-Croation" when it's mainly Croation with a few notes on Serbian. Prof. Magner's book covers the differences MUCH better. He also covers the accent/stress system much better. The TY book has no indications whatsoever as to which syllable to stress. In a language where stress is mobile (can be any syllable) this kind of lack of information is almost criminal.
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Title: Langenscheidt's Universal Dictionary Croatian by Langenscheidt Staff, Langenscheidt Publishers ISBN: 088729183X Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishing Group Pub. Date: July, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Just Enough Serbo-Croat by Passport Books ISBN: 0844295086 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 11 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Colloquial Croatian and Serbian: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series (Multimedia)) by Celia Hawkesworth ISBN: 0415161339 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.95 |
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Title: Introduction to the Croatian and Serbian Language by Thomas F. Magner ISBN: 0271015365 Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Teach Yourself Croatian Complete Course by David Norris, Vladislava Ribnikar ISBN: 0071420215 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 25 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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