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A beginner's guide to Tajiki / Azim Baizoyev and John Hayward.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baizoyev, Azim, 1959-
- 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
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