This book provides instruction and drill in the grammatical structures of Hindi-Urdu; it does not include dialogues or conversational stimuli, readings, or cultural notes. The lessons are arranged into sections that can be covered in 50 minutes of class time; structures and vocabulary are reused at regular intervals, and more difficult topics are…

This course for a third year of study of Bengali at the university level is divided into three parts. Part I consists of a review grammar and reading texts and is divided into eight chapters, which present a review of the script; grammatical discussions with examples, exercises, and readings with notes and questions for oral discussion; and a key…

This book presents 20 lessons in Hindi-Urdu conversation intended for a systematic learner of the language in the latter part of the first year or the second year of study. Throughout the book, there is an emphasis on intonation. The conversations are close to natural conversations, although they are not recorded from real situations. Each…

This book contains the core of the Dari language instructional program developed by the Foreign Service Institute. Most of the sentences and exercises in the lessons are presented in the Persian script; the spelling represents the actual pronunciation of colloquial Dari. Each lesson includes a set of basic sentences and drills, vocabulary lists,…

This text- and workbook serves as an introduction to French, German, and Spanish as second languages. An introductory chapter discusses the relatedness of languages and the interrelationships of the Indo-European language families. The relationships of French, German, and Spanish to English are demonstrated in cognate exercises. In the second…