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Title: Colloquial Gujarati: A Complete Language Course (Colloquial Series) by Jagdish Chandra Dave ISBN: 0-415-09196-9 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The best I've tried--audio tapes are great too!
Comment: This book is organized the way American high school French and Spanish books are organized, so it will be familiar to anyone who was raised here. In each concise chapter, you learn to conjugate a verb or two (and nothing is backwards--it all makes sense--I, You, He/she, etc...), you learn some key words about a topic, you get a grammar lesson, and you read a phoenetic conversation between two people on the topic while listening to it on the tape. The topics are important: weather, food, rooms of a house, and so on. The book is really geared to quickly get you over your initial fear of speaking and to make it as simple as possible without diluting the material. It is good for absolute beginners as well as people who have been around Gujarati speakers for some time. I've tried other books that were no help. This one is different because it is "colloquial." It teaches you practical things you need to know, and it's fun and easy--even for novices like me. At the end you learn about writing in Gujarati. There's a lot more too--but the main thing is that it's fun, and in five or ten minutes you can learn a few phrases that will take you a long way. Then you're hooked, and you want to come back the next day to learn more.

Rating: 4
Summary: A straightforward modern introduction to the language
Comment: A good basic book for beginners. The first few lessons use romanized transcriptions after which the book relies on the Gujarati script. Note that the book is available with or without accompanying cassette tapes. The first printing was marred by a number of typos which could be confusing to complete beginners; I hear they were corrected in later printings.

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