A beginner's guide to Tajiki / Azim Baizoyev and John Hayward.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Baizoyev, Azim, 1959-

Contributor:

• Hayward, John, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Tajik language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.
• Tajik language.

Genre:

• Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.
• Textbooks.

Physical Description:

x, 371 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

Summary:

This textbook has been written for English-speakers learning Tajiki. Each lesson contains the following sections: - A short commentary in English on the subject around which the lesson has been prepared; - A key vocabulary list on the lesson's theme; - Dialogues focussed around the theme of the lesson; - A grammar section introducing one or more points of grammar - Exercises providing opportunities for controlled practice of new vocabulary and grammar presented in that lesson; - Many lessons also include proverbs and short texts followed by discussion questions - A quiz, to promote free language practice or encourage thinking about how to ask and answer questions. There are also appendices containing useful information, e.g. examples of formal/informal letters, invitations, congratulation/condolence speeches, etc.

Contents:

• The Tajiki alphabet
• Forms of address
• Personal pronouns
• The inflectional suffix "Izofat"
• Possessive determiners
• Pronominal suffixes
• The copula
• Family
• Present-future tense
• The conjunction
• Education professions
• Plural forms of nouns
• House, courtyard, garden
• Prepositions
• The direct object marker
• Imperatives
• Indefinite nouns
• Infinitives
• Simple past tense
• Time, seasons, weather
• Numbers
• Countries, nationalities, languages
• Descriptive past
• Comparatives and superlatives
• Derivational suffixes
• Parts of the body
• Compound verbs
• Active and passive verbs
• Absolute future tense
• The city, the street
• The past participle
• Present continuous tense
• Modal verbs
• Market
• The conditional mood use
• At the shop
• Narrative past tense
• Past perfect tense
• At the restaurant, cafe, and tea-house
• More compound verbs
• Pronouns
• In the hotel
• Complex sentences : conjunctions
• "Fundamental" and "causal" verbs
• At the office, on the telephone
• Exclamations and words of emotion
• Free time, visiting as a guest
• Subordinate clauses of time
• The past continuous tense
• At the doctor's
• Folk medicine
• Subordinate clauses of cause
• Subordinate clauses of purpose
• Subordinate clauses of condition
• Animals
• Subordinate clauses of quantity and degree
• Subordinate clauses of concession
• Holidays, celebrations, ceremonies
• Subordinate clauses of location
• Multiple complex sentences
• Law politics
• International relations
• Verbal adverb
• Direct and indirect speech
• Tourism nature
• Word construction
• Descriptive use of present-future tense.

ISBN:

• 0415315972
• 0415315980

OCLC:

52458884