Colloquial Latvian

Chris Moseley teaches Latvian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London and is also the editor of two other volumes for Routledge: the Atlas of the World’s Languages and the Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages. Dace Praulinš started teaching Latvian History, Culture, Society and Language at the University of Glasgow in 2006 following three decades in language teaching. She has taught English to speakers of other languages in the UK, Germany and Latvia. She has also taught German and French.

"I also found this book very useful. It is criticized on another side as not being tailored to the linguistic neophyte, and that is to some extent true, but how many of those are there out there wanting to learn Latvian? I personally valued the storyline and cultural elements of the dialogues as adding interest and the lack of transactional drills and colorless situational dialogies was more a relief than anything else. An hour a day for a month and it's under your belt - I think that's hard to beat in its genre, and textbooks for much more widely spoken languages often fall far short of this standard.“ Amazon customer

• Acknowledgements Introduction How To Use This Book The Sounds of Latvian Abbreviations 1. Hello! 2. Please drive to…! 3. I Have a Reservation 4. Travelling by Train 5. At the Restaurant 6. Family 7. What Do You Do In Your Free Time? 8. Let’s Go Shopping! 9. Let’s Go To The Market! 10. How Do You Spend Your Days? 11. Where Did You Go On Holiday? 12. What’s Wrong With You? 13. The New Flat 14. What Will The Weather Be Like Today? 15. Communications and Mass Media Grammar Summary Key to Exercises Latvian–English Glossary English–Latvian Glossary Bibliography Index