Colloquial Slovak: The Complete Course for Beginners (The Colloquial Series)

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Summary: Dobry Den
Review: This is a great course for adult learners! It was very easy to follow and to understand. I enjoyed it very much.

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Summary: Not just a phrase book - Finally some real help.
Review: This set of tapes and the book was just what I was looking for. I wasn't just looking for another phrase book telling me how to say, "Where is the train station?" This set actually teaches you the basics of how to speak the language. Finally some real help. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: There are better books for beginers
Review: When I first began to learn Slovak this was the first and only book I found. I was able to learn a lot from the book, but what makes the book a little difficult to understand is that it jumps around from subject to subject. You might learn how to congicate verbs one way, and then it won't teach you the other forms until chapters later leaving gaps in between. I had to keep going back and forth between chapters. I searched for a while and found a book: Slovak Language Laboratory Course. This is a much better book written by a native Slovak who was a language proffesor here in the US in the 1950's. I have found that if you can find older Slovak books that were used as original text books they are much more accurate and easy to use. This book breaks down all congicated forms of verbs, adjectives everthing with easy to read text and tables that are also very helpful with both slovak and translated english dialouge. Make sure you also purchase a good dictionary. Beware the dictionary written by Nina Trnka. As this dictionary actually has a lot of Czech words that are not used in the slovak language. Get a good dictionary and paraphrase book. Good luck this is a very difficult laguage to learn with out a teacher.

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Summary: An Easy Way to Learn Slovak
Review: With the help of this book I was able to communicate in Slovakia with ease. It starts off really slowly for true beginners.