Evening Courses - Textbooks

This list of textbooks is provided purely for information purposes.
Changes to course materials may be made without notice, and so please check with your teacher before making a purchase.

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

Beginners Albanian:
Discovering Albanian ISBN 0299250843; Linda Menyku, Colloquial Albanian ISBN 978 0 415597968; Shqip Ska prob ISBN 99943 745 0 8; Beginner's Albanian ISBN 139780781872801

Lower Intermediate Albanian:
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); Mesoni shqip (ISBN: 1881901602); Gramatika e gjuhes shqipe ISBN 9992776161

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Belarusian

Bespoke course materials provided by the teacher.

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Bulgarian

Beginners:
Uchete bulgarski ezik - Level 1 (Учете български език - 1 ниво) by Stefka Petrova et al.
Publisher - "Dr Ivan Bogorov", Sofia, 2004, ISBN: 9548166976

Lower Intermediate:
Uchete bulgarski ezik - Level 2A (Учете български език - 2A ниво) by Stefka Petrova et al.
Publisher - "Dr Ivan Bogorov", Sofia, 2009. ISBN: 954316004X

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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:
Gehring, Sonja & Heinzman, Sanni (2010, or later) Suomen mestari 1. Helsinki: Finn Lectura. ISBN: 978-951-792-436-8

Lower Intermediate Finnish:
Gehring, Sonja & Heinzman, Sanni (2010 or later) Suomen mestari 1. Helsinki: Finn Lectura. ISBN: 978-951-792-436-8
Gehring, Sonja (2012) Suomen mestari 2. Helsinki: Finn Lectura. 978-951-792-477-1

Upper Intermediate Finnish:
Gehring, Sonja (2012) Suomen mestari 2. Helsinki: Finn Lectura. 978-951-792-477-1
Teacher's own materials & handouts

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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

The textbook for both Beginners and Lower Intermediate is Nė dienos be lietuvių kalbos by Virginija Stumbrienė and Aurelija Kaškelevičienė. Publisher: Gimtasis žodis (2004) ISBN: 9789986453987, (9986453984).

This is available from http://www.grantandcutler.com/book/9493
or
http://www.balticbooks.lt/en/Lithuanian-titles/Lithuanian-language/Grammars-and-Courses/Ne-dienos-be-lietuviu-kalbos-Vadovelis.html

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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 M. Malolepsza 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 A. Burkat and A. Jasinska. 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. (ISBN: 978-5-86547-435-7) and Chernyshov Stanislav, Poekhali! 2.2 Let's Go! Russian for Adults. (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 Monday 4 February 2013.