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Learn Czech with this complete course, now with free audio download! Spoken by over 14 million people worldwide, Czech is an official language of the Czech Republic. It is a West Slavic language that is closely related and often mutually intelligible with Slovak. Ideal for those new to Czech, learning at home or in the classroom, Beginner's Czech with Online Audio includes:A brief introduction to Czech history and culture10 carefully-paced and practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, and...

The book intends to render available to a wide range of students of Slavic languages, and particularly of Ukrainian, an outline of Ukrainian dialectology. The author presents the fascinating world of geographical variation of contemporary Ukrainian to all students of Slavic languages. A basic knowledge of Ukrainian dialects is likewise important to complete the theoretical and practical background of a Slavist, especially if focusing on Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian. It is also a valuable ai...

Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe is a collection of articles discussing authors whose homelands range from the former Soviet Union to the former Yugoslavia. For the purposes of this book, East and Central Europe comprise Russia, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Romania, and former Yugoslavia. These writers were exiled as a result of unbearable political climates - be it nations of the Communist block, including former Yugoslavia torn by its civil wars, or in the case of Poland, it...

Completely portable, each pack includes a best-selling Berlitz Phrase Book and audiocassette or CD. Audio components are designed to interact with the Phrase Book, or can be used on their own, in a car or on the go.Berlitz Cassette/CD Packs feature: -- One 90-minute cassette or one 75-minute compact disc-- A corresponding 192- or 224-page, color-coded Berlitz Phrase Book to reinforce skills-- Audio recordings with native speakers-- Over 400 recorded essential expressions-- Up-to-date language, c...

Knowing about 9000 words will give you the ability to read with minimal use of dictionaries. You will be able not only to express your thoughts while conversing, but also to choose exactly the right expressions. With a little practice, and by viewing Polish films, you will be proud of yourself because your level of Polish will improve to the point where you can say, "Polish? Of course, I know it." Helps you learn and memorize Polish words. Perfect for self-study and reviewing. The vocabulary has...

The Slovenian dramatist, poet, literary critic and essayist Ivan Cankar (1876-1918) was one of the greatest Slovenian writers and stylists, as well as the pioneer of modern Slovenian literature. This book, a follow-up to the author's study Mirror of Reality and Dreams: Stories and Confessions of Ivan Cankar, is the second English-language monograph on Cankar's literary oeuvre. Whereas the first study focused on Cankar's social and moral criticism, this monograph sheds light on the mother and wom...

Die Festschrift fur Bodo Zelinsky versammelt 13 Beitrage zu Maskenkonstellationen in Literatur, Theater und Film: vom fruhen Mittelalter bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, von Byzanz bis Hollywood. Die Maske wird in Fallbeispielen als Kernproblem der anthropologischen Reflexion in Kunst und Literatur greifbar gemacht. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet die russische Literatur: von Gogol' uber Dostoevskij, Tolstoj und Cechov bis zu losif Brodskij. Die philosophisch-anthropologische Ausrichtung der literarischen Mask...

The poems in Smugglers move through rapid historical shifts and meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans. Ultimately, Ales Debeljak's urban imagination creates a mosaic-intimate and historical-of a vanished people and their country. Every poem in Smugglers is sixteen lines long-four quatrains, a common form for Debeljak. This structural regularity is reinforced by a commitment to visual balance, with each...

The identity and relevance of literary studies require a conceptual and institutional reconstruction in response to the global reshaping and commodification of knowledge. The author thus proposes a theory of literary discourse and literary history that take into account literariness as an important socio-cultural phenomenon and revisits several critical concepts, such as world literature, literary text, genre, style, fiction, literary space, and cultural memory.

Part of the 'Fast Talk' series, this book includes pronunciation tips and a mini dictionary. It is packed witk key phrases that are perfect for short trips and features useful sightseeing, shopping and food vocabulary.

Contains all the essential languages for the independent traveller, including Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovene. There is also a special focus on local dishes, holidays and festivals.

Diplomat DeWitt Clinton Poole arrived for a new job at the United States consulate office in Moscow in September 1917, just two months before the Bolshevik Revolution. In the final year of World War I, as Russians were withdrawing and Americans were joining the war, Poole found himself in the midst of political turmoil in Russia. U.S. relations with the newly declared Soviet Union rapidly deteriorated as civil war erupted and as Allied forces intervened in northern Russia and Siberia. Thirty-fiv...

Ivan N. Petrov's The Development of the Bulgarian Literary Language: From Incunabula to First Grammars, Late Fifteenth - Early Seventeenth Century examines the history of the first printed Cyrillic books and their role in the development of the Bulgarian literary language. In the literary culture of the Southern Slavs, especially the Bulgarians, the period that began at the end of the fifteenth century and covered the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is often seen as a foreshadowing of the pr...