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Colloquial Estonian [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Christopher Moseley (Author)
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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Publication Date: Nov 27 2002 | Series: Colloquial Series (Book 10)
Colloquial Estonian is easy to use and completely up-to-date. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Estonian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

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

By the end of this rewarding course you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in a broad range of situations.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Nonsense July 9 2004
By Tiina
Format:Audio Cassette
I am very upset with this book and especially with the cassettes, these are not even native estonian speakers!!! I was listening to some dialogues and they make stupid grammatical mistakes in very simple sentences.
If anybody can study from this book, I admire these people a lot!!!

Any estonian national would be offended by the image that this book gives to the beautiful estonian language.
My Greek boyfriend says: olete jobud!!!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Well.... it's a start! Jun 9 2002
By N. J. Fauvel
Format:Audio Cassette
Not a full enough introduction to the grammar of this beautiful and interesting Finno-Ugric language, nor a sufficiently extensive source of excercises to consolidate one's new-found skills, but, well....it's a start! The opening chapters on pronunciation are frustrating because the cassettes and text do not correspond precisely: material in the text is left out of the audio, and the description of length and palatalization is poor. The grammar is covered, but a little more depth would make the book much better (for instance more on partial and complete objects, and the cases they govern). The vocabulary and the context of the dialogue that runs through the chapters were the best part for me: good, basic and nearly all relevant to modern daily needs. The vocabulary list at the end of the book would be enhanced by giving a fuller list of declension endings for nouns: in addition to the nominative, genitive and partitive singulars which Moseley gives, the difficult partitive plural would allow the learner to construct all the other endings. Similarly, more sample verb conjugations would be helpful in the vocabulary list since so many are irregular. More positively, I did find Moseley's book a helpful tool when I used it with other learning materials, such as Tuldava's grammar book (ISBN 0-933070-34-9)and the excellent "E nagu Eesti" (ISBN 9985-71-053-3) with its cassette (ISBN 9985-71-089-4)(n.b. designed for use with a teacher).
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1.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating - and not just because it's a tough language Jan 28 2002
By eggyknap
Format:Audio Cassette
A very frustrating book. No, there's not much in the way of English language Estonian textbooks to compare to, but as compared to textbooks for other languages, this doesn't stack up. The explanations are inadequate, and most passages are only partially translated. The tapes are very nice to have - similar resources on the internet are spoken much more quickly. On the whole, however, this book makes learning Estonian much more difficult and frustrating than it needs to be.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Colloquial Estonian: A Complete Language Course by Moseley
This book with accompanying cassettes is engaging fare for the casual linguist, but it is not the complete language course that it claims to be. Read more
Published on Dec 10 2001 by John-Allen Payne
4.0 out of 5 stars What a wonderful tool
Tere (Thats Estonian for Hello)
I have to say I am very happy with my purchase. I am now able to speak some Estonian, and The longer I study the more I learn and am able to... Read more
Published on Aug 30 2001 by Dawn Hadfield
3.0 out of 5 stars Easy Estonian...
Not a bad book. There are very few Estonian textbooks available, so if you want to learn the language then this is probably a good place to start. Read more
Published on July 9 2001
3.0 out of 5 stars Not the first!
Ignore the stars, I have not seen the book, but want to point out that it is not the first resource in English on Estonian, as the editorial review claims. Read more
Published on Sep 29 2000 by ROGER E BLAINE
4.0 out of 5 stars A helpful, intense coverage of the basics.
This book, and the cassettes are a good way to begin a serious study of the language. The reader is immediately introduced to useful phrases and along the way some interesting... Read more
Published on April 23 1999 by Alex Janums
4.0 out of 5 stars First Experiences with Estonian
YEEEOWWW!!!! Can we say complicated, kids?! For my first visit to Estonia, I purchased this book with an intention to acquire a "get-by" knowledge of her language, and... Read more
Published on April 12 1999
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful new textbook of little-known language
I've used this book to teach Estonian at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. It's not bad, but it doesn't explain the essential aspects of the fiendishly difficult... Read more
Published on Nov 28 1997
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