Colloquial Panjabi
eBook - ePub

Colloquial Panjabi

The Complete Course for Beginners

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Colloquial Panjabi

The Complete Course for Beginners

About this book

Colloquial Panjabi: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Panjabi as it is written and spoken today.

Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Panjabi in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Colloquial Panjabi is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout.

Key features include:

A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills

Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar

An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises

Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations

Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Panjabi-speaking areas.

An overview of the sounds of Panjabi

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Panjabi is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Panjabi.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills. A wealth of additional text material is also provided on the website. This supplementary material builds on the foundation provided in the Colloquial Panjabi course and will develop your language skills beyond the beginner level into intermediate study.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781317305132
Part B
Conversation Units
Unit One
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How are you?
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In this unit you will learn to:
• Use simple greetings
• Use expressions for leave-taking
• Ask simple questions
• Make simple requests
• Use personal pronouns (e.g., ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘we’, ‘he’ etc.)
• Use some adjectives with nouns
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Dialogue 1: Sikh greetings
(Audio 1:39)
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Panjabi greetings vary according to the religion of the speakers, not according to the time of the day.
Darshan Singh and Sohan Singh know each other well but are not close friends. They meet in a Sikh temple in Birmingham, England.
SOHAN
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DARSHAN
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SOHAN
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DARSHAN
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(The conversation continues for some time)
DARSHAN
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SOHAN
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SOHAN
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DARSHAN
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SOHAN
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DARSHAN
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(The conversation continues for some time)
DARSHAN
acchā jī. sat srī akāl.
SOHAN
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SOHAN
Greetings.
DARSHAN
Greetings. How are you? (Lit.: What is (your) condition?)
SOHAN
Fine. How are you? (Lit.: You please say.)
DARSHAN
Fine.
(The conversation continues for some time)
DARSHAN
Okay. Goodbye.
SOHAN
Goodbye.
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Language points
Colloquial pronunciation
Colloquial pronunciation of the Panjabi
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haˡ differs from region to region. But we recommend the pronunciation [aˡ], which we have recorded on the a...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the second edition
  7. How to use this course
  8. Part A: Script Units
  9. Part B: Conversation Units
  10. Brief reference grammar
  11. Word groups
  12. Key to exercises
  13. Grammar index

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