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Talk Now! CD-ROM Course for Somali The Talk Now! series is for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, such as colors, numbers, food, shopping, and time. We have been selling this European-produced CD-ROM for a few years and find that it is highly praised by people from all over the world. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with native speakers. Interactive and fun, it is ideal for beginners and travelers. Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes and play a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress: keep your total score and print your own awards. You can also print your own picture dictionary for handy reference. On-screen help is available at all times in over 50 languages. Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Shipping weight 1 lb. $45 More about the Talk Now! series...
EuroTalk Network Editions Now you can run Vocabulary Builder, Talk Now!, World Talk, and Movie Talk through your school or college CD server or CD tower for simultaneous use of these titles on your network! You'll have access to permanent reports for all the activities done by each student in the class for such things as time and sessions spent on each activity, scores in the quizzes and games. These network discs operate on most networks that are in common use in schools and colleges, such as NT, Novell, and Macintosh networks. Students can select their names from classes, and run the program currently assigned to that class, and students may optionally also be allowed to join classes. Teachers can see at a glance which students are currently logged on and what they are doing, and they can add students to classes, remove them, or move them around. A reports facility allows you to display or print reports for entire classes, or for individual students. Student reports show the number of sessions, the time spent on each activity, and scores in the quizzes and games, and times and scores can also be displayed in chart form. The prices are highly competitive, and the price per unit goes down dramatically as one goes up in the number of users and units. With a configuration of 100 users and 100 units, which goes for $9,995, you pay less than $1 per unit per person! More about EuroTalk Network...
Colloquial Somali The Routledge Colloquial courses cover all the basics of the language including grammar and speech. The Colloquial series is our most popular series of language courses, due to its excellent quality, low cost, and amazing range of available languages. These are beginning to intermediate level courses, perfect for travellers, brushing up on skills, or supplementary use. Two CDs and a book are included. $79.95 More about Colloquial Language...
Somali Textbook R. David Zorc, Abdullahi A. Issa Fifty lessons in this course bring a student to a practical proficiency in Somali grammar and Somali-English translation techniques. Actual texts (thirty folktales) are emphasized from Chapter 21 onwards. Comprehensive grammatical notes (cross-referenced to the Somali Reference Grammar) and exercises are found in each chapter. Oral fluency is covered in an appendix of survival dialogues, and a glossary of over 6,000 word-forms and a detailed grammatical index are included. 1990, 681 pages, hardbound. $168
Somali Reference Grammar (Second Revised Edition) John I. Saeed This text covers all major parts of speech and most major sentence constructions including simple noun phrases, adjective expressions, simple sentences, declaratives, questions, subordinate clauses, and coordination. It includes a chapter on time expressions, a detailed bibliography, and an index of grammatical terms cross-referenced to the pages on which they are discussed. 1993, 336 pages, hardbound. $128
Somali Newspaper Reader Abdullahi A. Issa, John D. Murphy This text includes fifty-one articles from Somali newspapers, each with a vocabulary, translations of the selections, and a cumulative glossary. With four 90 min. audio cassette recordings of the articles read by a native speaker. 1984, 186 pages, hardbound. Book and 4 cassettes $145
Somali Common Expressions Abdullahi A. Issa This book consists of 600 common expressions divided into sixteen lessons oriented around everyday situations (such as greetings, shopping, ordering meals, making telephone calls, visiting the doctor, sightseeing, etc.). With three 90 min. audio cassette recordings of the articles read by a native speaker. 1987, 70 pages, hardbound. Book and 3 cassettes $124
Somali - English Dictionary with English Index (Third Edition) R. David Zorc, Madina Osman This volume contains over 26,000 Somali entries and includes a full English to Somali index. This edition has been revised from the 1987 and 1991 editions. Students and translators will find English definitions of the basic word stock of standard Somali, along with cross-references to synonyms, antonyms, and related words. While the English Index is not an English to Somali dictionary, it will assist the user in finding equivalents for over 12,000 English words. 1993, 612 pages, hardbound. $158
Somali-English/English-Somali Dictionary and Phrasebook N. Awde, C. Qaadir, M. Orwin This book is a helpful guide for travelers to Somali, an African language. Included in the book are vocabulary sections, a phrasebook, pronunciation tips, a brief outline of the language's grammar rules and tips about local culture. 176pp, 3 3/4 x 7 paperback, 1,400 entries; published 1998. $19.95
Somali Handbook Madina Osman, R. David Zorc This phrasebook was designed for emergency and relief workers in Somalia. General, military, medical, relief, and time expressions are covered. It includes a pronunciation guide and an English-Somali and Somali-English index, each of which is cross-referenced to the 345 expressions. 1992, 84 pages, softcover. $10 2 Cassettes (90 min. each) $38