Simply Slovak Introduction and Bibliography

I was browsing in Half Price books when I found “Beginner's Slovak” by Elena Letnanova. Immediately I thought it would great fun to learn a little Slovak since it has similarities to Polish. (Probably about the same as Spanish to French to Italian). Plus I thought my husband's family would enjoy it.

Currently I own the following books:

• Hippocrene Beginner's Series, Beginner's Slovak by Elena Letnanova, ISBN: 0-7818-08154
• Slovak-English/ English-Slovak Dictionary by Hippocrene Books by Nina Trnka, ISBN: 0-87052-115-2
• Colloquial Slovak by James Naughton ISBN: 0-415-11540-X

Then I checked out the following books from the library:

• Beginning Slovak by Oscar E. Swan and Sylvia Gálová-Lorinc, ISBN: 0-89357-214-4
• Slovak Phrase Book by Sylvia Gálová-Lorinc and Stephen R Hoferka, Jr., no ISBN ©1991 Lorhof
• Slovak Language Laboratory Course by Rev. Bonaventure S. Buc, O.F.M., Ph.D., no ISBN, Jednota Printery 1968
• Slovak Beginner by Štefan Blaško 1964 printed by author
• Slovak for you by Ada Böhmerová, ISBN: 0-86516-331-6

I also found the following sites on the internet

• http://www.slovak.com/language/
• http://www.heartofeurope.co.uk/dictionary.htm
• http://www.omniglot.com/writing/slovak.htm
• http://www.slovensko.com/about/is-slovak-difficult
• http://www.lonweb.org/link-slovak.htm
• http://www.answers.com/topic/slovak-language
• http://travel.spectator.sk/ss2006/01_lenguage.html
• http://www.slovakiatravels.com/slovaklanguage/learnSlovak-en.php
• http://www.infomobil.org/slovakia/country-profile/i/3397/7458/language
• http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Search.asp?selCountry=103&selX13=true

Slovak like Polish is pretty much pronounced the way it it spelled although typing is slow going due to having to insert special characters. Also some of the words are the same and the grammar appears similar so far. (I haven't figured out how to add a foreign keyboard to the open office text document program like I used to be able to with Microsoft. Also I had to save the Open Office Document as a Microsoft .doc document to be able to copy & paste it into this blog.)

The whole objective of this blog is to help learn a lot of words quickly, along with a little pronunciation and grammar. So tomorrow we'll start with some words and I hope everyone has fun! If you notice any errors, feel free let me know so I can correct them.

© y1htak 2008

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