Evening Courses - Textbooks

The only books mentioned are those that are currently used or recommended.
In all cases, our teachers also create their own bespoke teaching materials.

Albanian

The Beginners and Lower Intermediate Albanian Courses are taught using Gjovalin Shkurtaj and Enver Hysa, Gjuha shqipe për të huajt dhe shqiptarët jashtë atdheut. (ISBN 13: 99927-1-454-9) , Zyberi, Colloquial Albanian. (ISBN: ISBN-10: 0415056632. ISBN-13: 978-0415056632) and Mesoni shqip (ISBN: 1881901602)

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Belarusian

Bespoke course materials provided by the teacher.

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Bulgarian

Bespoke course materials provided by the teacher, who also recommends that Beginners Bulgarian students also consult Teach Yourself Bulgarian by Michael Holman (ISBN: 0844237531 / 978-0844237534)

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Croatian

The Beginners Croatian Course is taught using a range of material drawn from: Serbo-Croatian for Foreigners by Slavna Babic (Hippocrene Books). (ISBN: 0870528750 / 978-0870528750)
Colloquial Croatian and Serbian: A Complete Course for Beginners by Celia Hawkesworth. (Colloquial Series) (London and New York: Routledge (ISBN: 0415161312 / 978-0415161312)

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Czech

Lida Hola, New Czech Step By Step: A Basic Course in the Czech Language for English-Speaking Foreigners. (ISBN: 8072004026 or 978-8072004027).

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Estonian

The Beginners Estonian Course is taught using Colloquial Estonian: The Complete Course for Beginners by Chris Moseley (London & New York: Routledge, 2008). (ISBN: 0415087457 / 978-0415087452)

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Finnish

Beginners Finnish Course:
Suomen mestari 1. Helsinki: Finn Lectura (2010) by Gehring, Sonja & Heinzmann, Sanni

Lower and Upper Intermediate Finnish:
Suomen mestari 1. (2010) by Gehring, Sonja & Heinzmann, Sanni, Helsinki: Finn Lectura
Suomen kielen alkeisoppikirja(2007) by Lepäsmaa, Anna-Liisa & Silfverberg, Leena, Helsinki: Finn Lectura.

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Hungarian

A variety of course materials are used, but for revision and self-study students on the Beginners and Lower Intermediate Hungarian Courses are advised to consult Colloquial Hungarian by Carol Rounds and Erika Solyom (London and New York: Routledge, 2002). ISBN: 0415288290 / 0-415-28829-0.

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Latvian

The Beginners Latvian Course is taught using Colloquial Latvian, by C.Moseley. (Book and CD.) (London & New York: Routledge 2007). ISBN 0-415-11799-2.

The Lower and Upper Intermediate Latvian Courses are taught using Pali'ga' Level 3 Workbook. (Riga: LVAVA 2008). ISBN 9984-680-57-6

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Lithuanian

Bespoke course materials provided by the teacher.

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Macedonian

Bespoke course materials provided by the teacher.

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Polish

The Beginners and Lower Intermediate Polish Courses are taught using Hurra! Po polsku 1: Polish Course for Beginners 1 by by M. Maolepsza and A. Szymkiewicz. Coursebook and Workbook. (ISBN: 8360229155 / 978-8360229156).

The Lower and Upper Intermediate Polish Courses are taught using Hurra! Po polsku 2 by M. Maolepsza and A. Szymkiewicz. Coursebook and Workbook. (ISBN: 978-83-6022-918-7)

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Romanian

The Beginners Romanian Course is taught using Colloquial Romanian: A Complete Language Course by Denis Deletant and Ramona Gönczöl-Davies. (Book & CD). Routledge, 2007. (ISBN: 0415434491/ 978-0415434492). Also recommended is Romanian: An Essential Grammar by Ramona Gönczöl-Davies. Routledge, 2007. (ISBN: 0415338255 / 978-0415338257).

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Russian

The Beginners Russian Course is taught using RUSLAN Russian-1 by John Langran and Natalya Veshneyeva (Ruslan). Coursebook and Workbook (ISBN 1-899785-20-5 and 1-889785-22-1)

The Lower Intermediate Russian Course is taught using RUSLAN Russian-2 by John Langran and Natalya Veshneyeva. Coursebook and Workbook. (ISBN 1-889785-523 and 1-889785-23-X)

The Upper Intermediate Russian Course is taught using Chernyshova, Alla, and Chernyshov, Stanislav, Poekhali! Let's Go! 2.1. Russian for Adults. A Course for Low-Intermediate (ISBN: 978-5-86547-435-7) and Chernyshov Stanislav, Poekhali! 2.2 Let's Go! Russian for Adults. A Course for Low-Intermediate (ISBN: 978-5-86547-437-1)

The Advanced Russian Course is taught using Rossia: den segodniashni (Present-Day Russia) by A.Rodimkina & N.Landsman (St Petersburg: Zlatoust, 2005). (ISBN 5-86547-352-2)

The Advanced Plus Russian Course is taught using: Starovoitova, I vashe mnenie (2006), published by Flinta-Nauka (ISBN: 9785893496765 or 5893496760)

Russian Grammar

The following book is useful for all levels of our Russian courses:
Ruslan Russian Grammar (2010), by John Langran, published by Ruslan Limited,
(ISBN 9781899785742)
Discounts available to SSEES Evening Course students.

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Serbian

The Beginners Serbian Course is taught using a range of material drawn from: Serbo-Croatian for Foreigners by Slavna Babic (Hippocrene Books). (ISBN: 0870528750 / 978-0870528750) Colloquial Croatian and Serbian: A Complete Course for Beginners by Celia Hawkesworth. (Colloquial Series) (London and New York: Routledge (ISBN: 0415161312 / 978-0415161312)

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Slovak

Beginners and Intermediate Slovak Courses are taught using a range of material drawn from:
Slovak for you by Ada Bohmerová (Book and CD). (ISBN 978-0-86516-655-4)
Colloquial Slovak by James Naughton (Book and CD). (ISBN 0-415-11540-X)
Krížom - krážom, Slovenčina A1, kolektív (Book and CD). (ISBN 978-80-223-2441-0)
Slovenčina pre cudzincov by Tomáš Dratva. (ISBN 80-08-02221-3)
Basic Slovak by Jozef Mistrík
Learn Slovak EuroTalk (CD-ROM). (ISBN 1-843520-24-0)

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Slovene

The Beginners and Lower Intermediate Slovene Courses is taught using A, B, C ... 1, 2, 3, GREMO, by Nataša Pirih Svetina and Andreja Ponikvar. (Center za slovenščino kot drugi/tuji jezik)., (ISBN 978-961-237-229-3).
(Available from www.centerslo.net.)

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Ukrainian

The Beginners Ukrainian Course is taught using Bekh, O., Dingley, J., Teach Yourself Ukrainian: A Complete Course for Beginners, Hodder & Stoughton, 1997 and Press, I., Pugh, S., Colloquial Ukrainian: A Complete Language Course, Routledge, 1994.

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This page last modified Wednesday 7 December 2011.