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Title: Beginner's Slovak (Hippocrene Beginner's Series) by Elena Letnanova ISBN: 0-7818-0815-4 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Worst book for language learning ever
Comment: This is a terrible book for learning any language, much less Slovak. Many of the vocabulary words are actually Czech, not Slovak, or haven't been used in Slovakia for years (the word for parking lot, for example). In some cases, the vocabulary is just plain wrong. In the very first lesson, for example, a person says to another on an airplane "did you drop your glasses?" but for glasses uses the work "pohare" (glasses you drink from) rather than okuliare (glasses you wear on your face). OK, the context never makes clear which one the speaker is talking about, but please, would you ever say to your seatmate "Are these your drinking glasses on the floor"? And every gramatical element of Slovak is present in the first dialogues, rather than introducing them gradually, and many of them are never explained. This is a disaster for beginners because Slovak has many complex gramatical structures that might seem obvious to a speaker of a Slavic language but are mysteries to native speakers of English. Frankly, there are no really really good books on learning Slovak, but some are better than acceptable and the book by Naughton is probably the best there is and can be recommended. The Letnanova book, on the other hand, is a disaster.
Rating: 2
Summary: Buy Naughton instead
Comment: This book is built around a series of dialogues and vocabulary. It doesn't have much of the other things you need for learning a language such as grammar points and exercises. Though it's more extensive (with the cassettes), you're much better off with Naughton's book. Even so, I use Letnanova's dialogues as refreshers that give me some variation. Letnanova would probably be OK if you were working with a teacher, but you can't learn Slovak by yourself from this book.
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Title: Slovak-English, English-Slovak Dictionary & Phrasebook by Sylvia Lorinc, John M. Lorinc ISBN: 0781806631 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum ISBN: 0312161255 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title:Talk Now! Slovak ASIN: B0000899QX Publisher: EuroTalk Pub. Date: 31 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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Title: Colloquial Slovak: The Complete Course for Beginners (The Colloquial Series) by J. D. Naughton ISBN: 041511540X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Slovak Handy Dictionary by Joseph P. Malatinsky, Jarmila Bacilukova, Jamila Baculikova ISBN: 078180101X Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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