Anonymous
Posted July 2, 2010
As the title implies, this is more of a textbook for a class course than anything else. The reading level increases at a reasonable pace throughout the macedonian passages, but the english descriptions tend to stay below the level of a college textbook. I've had this book for two years now, and am about halfway through - if I had more time, I might have reached the next volume by now.
I got this book as a study aid, to help me learn the Macedonian language alone. In that respect, it works well: every topic, whether on the plural forms of nouns, the order of clitic pronouns before verbs, or the future-in-the-past, comes with at least a page of description and numerous examples. Practice exercises, simulated dialogues, and cultural notes fill much of the rest of the book. Every chapter starts with slightly advanced readings, but makes sure I understand it by the time I reach the vocabulary list and notes on usage at its end.
A two-way dictionary/index of all the terms in the book (including the 'advanced' ones from additional readings) comes at the back of the book, which is always a nice touch. In addition, their mostly-complete website includes audio files - not the best, surely, but potentially invaluable.
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Overview
* emphasizes learning language and culture together
* all the basics of Macedonian grammar and common vocabulary
* lively continuing dialogues of a Macedonian family in Toronto, Canada, and Skopje, Macedonia
* readings from Macedonian literature, folklore, poetry, and history
Product Details
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Meet the Author
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Macedonian Pronunciation and the Macedonian Alphabet
1.1: The Macedonian alphabet
1.2: Notes on the alphabet and pronunciation
1.3: Stress
1.4: Cognates
1.5: Alphabetical order
1.6: Writing Macedonian
2: Introductions; Occupations
2.1: Subject pronouns
2.2: The present tense of verbs, introduction
2.3: The present tense of the verb 'to be'
2.4: Gender of nouns
2.5: Interrogatives
2.6: Conjunctions
3: Actions and Attributes
3.1: Plural of masculine and feminine nouns
3.2: Adjectives
3.3: Plural of adjectives
3.4: Present tense of verbs
3.5: Negation of verbs
3.6: ???/????
3.7: Numbers 1-20
4: Daily Routines
4.1: Adverbs, introduction
4.2: Plural of neuter nouns
4.3: Quantitative plural
4.4: Demonstrative adjectives
4.5: Definite articles
4.6: Definite direct objects and clitics
4.7: Possession
4.8: Conjunctions
5: Food
5.1: Definiteness of adjective plus noun phrases
5.2: Direct object pronouns, continued
5.3: Prepositions with personal pronouns
5.4: Introduction to ?? constructions
5.5: The invariant verb ???? in ?? -constructions seeking permission
5.6: ?? vs. ??
5.7: Forms of 'whose'
5.8: Conjunctions ? . . . ?, ??? . . . ???, ?? . . . ??
6: Music
6.1: Indirect objects
6.2: Indirect and direct object clitics
6.3: Uses of ??
6.4: Verbal aspect
6.5: Future constructions
6.6: Future tense of ???
6.7: Subordination with ????
6.8: Relative clauses, introduction
7: Cities, Giving directions, Skopje, Free time
7.1: Comparatives and superlatives
7.2: Possessive pronominal adjectives
7.3: Embedded questions and indirect questions
7.4: Imperatives
7.5: Auxiliary verb ?????
7.6: Numbers from 0-100
7.7: Telling time, introduction
8.: Education, invitations
8.1: Aorist, introduction
8.2: Days of the week
8.3: Telling time, continued
8.4: Review of subordinate clauses
8.5: Relative clauses, continued
8.6: Intransitive verbs with ??
9: Vacations, birthdays, and other celebrations
9.1: Aorist, continued
9.2: Introduction to verbal nouns
9.3: Hundreds, thousands, millions, billions
9.4: Numbers designating male human beings and mixed gender groups
9.5: Months of the year
9.6: Ordinal numbers
9.7: Dates
9.8: Verb of liking
9.9: Order of clitics, review
9.10: Diminutives, introduction
9.11: Vocative, introduction
10: Weather
10.1: Imperfect, introduction
10.2: Proximate and distance forms of the definite article
10.3: Interrogatives, pronominal adjectives, and adverbs of quantity and quality
10.4: Impersonal constructions, introduction
10.5: Imperatives continued: ???? and ?? constructions
11: Appearance, character
11.1: Colors, clothing, relatives
11.2: Expectative conditionals
11.3: Perfective imperfect and future-in-the-past
11.4: Indirect speech, introduction
11.5: Verbal nouns, continued
11.6: Verbal adverbs
11.7: Word Formation
12.: Health
12.1: Verbal 1-forms and formation of the 1-past
12.2: Approximate numbers
12.3: The emphatic verb ?????
12.4: Compound conjunctions: ??? ??, ?? ??, ???? ??
12.5: The conjunction ????
12.6: Verbal prefix ??- and the verbs of lying, sitting, standing
12.7: Aorist, continued
12.8: Reflexive verbs, continued
13: Housing
13.1: Comparisons continued and the prefix ???-
13.2: Hypothetical constructions with ??
13.3: Overview of conditionals
13.4: Admirative and dubitative: other uss of the verbal 1-forms
13.5: Indirect speech, continued
13.6: Suppositional or reported forms of perfective imperfect constructions
13.7: The use of ????? with nominal subject
13.8: Optatives
14: Geography of Macedonia, Travel
14.1: Verbal adjectives
14.2: Word order
14.3: Passive constructions with ??
14.4: Conjunctions ???? (??, ??), ?????? (??, ??)
15: Wedding customs; Sports; Arts
15.1: ??? perfects, introduction
15.2: Dependent form of masculine personal names
15.3: Aspect distinctions and imperfective derivation
15.4: Introduction to verbal prefixes
15.5: Prefixes for 'some', 'no-'; 'every-', e.g. 'someone, no one, everyone'
15.6: Indefinite pronouns meaning 'any-', e.g. 'anyone, anywhere'
15.7: The conjunction ???? ??, 'as if'
16: Cultural sites in Macedonia
16.1: Pluperfects
16.2: Constructions with ???? plus verbal adjective
16.3: Diminutives, continued
16.4: Review of prepositions
16.5: Collective plurals
16.6: Suffixes in word formation, cont.
Glossary of Basic Grammatical Terminology
Appendix—Grammatical Summaries
Introduction to the Glossary
Macedonian-English Glossary
English-Macedonian Glossary
Index