Colloquial Slovak ─ The Complete Course for Beginners

COLLOQUIAL SLOVAK is easy to use and completely up to date!

Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Slovak. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

What makes this new edition of COLLOQUIAL SLOVAK your best choice in personal language learning?



Interactive – lots of exercises for regular practice


Clear – concise grammar notes


Practical – useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide


Complete – including answer key and reference section


Whether you’re a business traveller, or about to take up a daring challenge in adventure tourism; you may be studying to teach or even looking forward to a holiday – if you’d like to get up and running with Slovak, this rewarding course will take you from complete beginner to confidently putting your language skills to use in a wide range of everyday situations.
Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on two CDs or in MP3 format, or comes included in the great value COLLOQUIAL SLOVAK paperback and CDs complete course. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material complements the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

Introduction; Pronunciation Guide; 1. How are you? 2. What are you doing? 3. Are you lazy? 4. I’m going to town 5. I want to go to the cinema 6. That’s a lovely village! 7. Breakfast, lunch, supper 8. She wanted to write an email 9. I’ve lost my passport 10. Can I come in? 11. Shopping 12. What time is it? 13. Like a cat with a mouse 14. A sweater, the Tatras and L’udovit Stur 15. What If? 16. Do You Have a Free Table? 16. Do you have a free table? Grammar summary; Key to exercises; Slovak-English glossary; English-Slovak glossary; Index of language points