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Beginner's Georgian with Online Audio

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Spoken by over 3.5 million people worldwide, Georgian is an official language of the country Georgia, located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. It is an Kartvelian language that is written in its own script, the Georgian script.

Ideal for those new to Georgian, learning at home or in the classroom, Beginner’s Georgian with Online Audio includes:

  • An introductory section on Georgian language, culture and history
  • Thirteen carefully-paced units, each one opening with a dialogue about an everyday topic followed by grammar lessons, exercises and vocabulary
  • Answer key to the exercises
  • Georgian-English and English-Georgian glossaries
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    Hippocrene Books
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    June 8, 2021
  5. Language
    English
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    5.43 x 0.71 x 8.35 inches
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Dodona Kiziria, a native of Tbilisi, Georgia, received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Indiana University. Now Professor Emerita, she taught Georgian language and culture, Russian literature, and Russian and East European cinema at Indiana University for more than thirty years. She has also taught Georgian at the University of Chicago and Duke University. In 2004, Kiziria was awarded honorary Georgian citizenship.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hippocrene Books (June 8, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 290 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0781814197
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0781814195
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.43 x 0.71 x 8.35 inches
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GardenMonkey
5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2023
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This is a good book for people wanting to learn more than just tourist Georgian. It's not going to help much for a holiday in Georgia but that's due to the language having a steep learning curve not due to the material in the book. The dialogues are helpful and the format of the book is easy to study from. Good for basics of verb conjugation and some daily life stuff if you live in Georgia.
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Richard T. Cummings
5.0 out of 5 stars Effective Learning Tool for a Largely Overlooked Language
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2022
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This book is not a language survival tool but a basis for attaining a foundation in Georgian that would support more advanced study. In addition, it is suitable for self-study with answer keys provided for the exercises. Two audio CDs cover the text. This is especially important for listening to the dialogs.

I visited Tbilisi in May 2019 and vowed that I would not return without substantial language skills in Georgian. While one can get by with Russian in Azerbaijan and Armenia, that is not the case with Georgia, where especially younger people regard the Russian as the language of the enemy. Speaking Russian sometimes elicited anger and hostility. I found that Turkish was more useful given all the Turks around in the restaurant sector in Tbilisi.

While I have only worked through the first four chapters up to p. 94, I am impressed with this book as an effective learning tool for assimilating the Georgian language. However, several admittedly minor critical comments come to mind:

1. Glossaries are not at the end but come before the appendices on grammar. This is annoying when you need to look up a word. Not all the words in the text appear in the glossary.

2. The author does not show the reader how to write the letters of the alphabet in terms of strokes and lines. You will need to go to an alternate source for this.

3. There are five Georgian consonants that are unaspirated with another five corresponding consonants that are aspirated. The unaspirated consonants are romanized with an apostrophe. I find the apostrophe quite annoying when trying to memorize words; the apostrophes create breaks in syllables. I would have preferred using capital letters for the romanization of these unaspirated Georgian consonants. In memorizing vocabulary orally, I prefer to use romanization. For that reason, I would have preferred that romanization be kept for the terms designated as "Idiomatic Expressions." In long or unusual consonant cluster strings, from the audio CDs, it is apparent that certain consonants get muted or assimilated or at least deemphasized so that a speaker can articulate words smoothly; the romanization might have reflected that by having muted, assimilated or deemphasized consonants italicized.

4. It would be even better if the "Cultural Notes" appeared not only in English but in Georgian for supplemental reading purposes. More Georgian language content would have been a plus given the brevity of the text.

5. There is no index. I learned how to count from 1-10 from the pre-dialog phase of the text. However, I would want to learn to count from 11-99 immediately. However, I cannot find on which page I can do that or even whether that is included in the text.

6. Even more effort placed on distinguishing unaspirated from aspirated consonants would have been useful. I would recommend finding words that have both consonants contained therein like "sapirparesho," in which the first "p" is unaspirated and the second "p" is aspirated. [Regrettably, Google Translate does not have audio for Georgian.] In a single word, it would have been easier to distinguish the difference in sound.

The actual text consists of 13 chapters over 217 pages. I shall give myself 4-6 months to thoroughly assimilate the material. There is a substantial amount of vocabulary to memorize.
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ksiezycowy
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book and cd combo
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2009
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Georgian has been a very overlooked language. Though there are a few textbooks out there that are easy enough to find, they tend to be either inaccessible in someway or expensive. And there are even fewer textbooks that come with audio. In fact, only Aronson's Georgian Reading Grammar comes with audio (aside from this book). And audio is VERY important to learning this language.

Now, to the actual text it self. The lessons are written in clear, conversational language. Whereas Aronson's text is for reading comprehension, this text it for speaking/listening comprehension. This is a much needed textbook and breath of fresh air to Georgian linguistics. The grammar sections are easy to understand and not bogged down with a lot of linguistic jargon. And the exercises have an answer key in the back of the book.

Now, the audio. The audio is great. You can hear the speakers very well and clearly. The dialogues are repeated twice. Once at normal speed and then at a slower speed for you to repeat after. Even the vocabulary lists are spoken on the cd's. The only thing that is a shame is that there are no speaking/listening exercises on the cd's (thus a 4 out of 5 instead of 5 out of 5).

Overall this is a great textbook though.
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Shelley Ashfield
5.0 out of 5 stars bravo, kalbat'ono dodona! This is THE book to start with!
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2009
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I am a reviewer who is neither linguist nor scholar, but nevertheless has a need to learn conversational Georgian. Since January 2009, I purchased whatever I could find available, and have these texts and tools for comparison: 1) Aronson's Georgian: A Reading Grammar (only available without CDs at the time); 2) book2 English-Georgian for beginners from Goethe-Verlag; 3) Talk Now! Georgian; 4) Byki Express and Byki Deluxe.
Dodona Kiziria's Beginner's Georgian is far and away the BEST book to start with. Her introduction is easily readable, comprehensive, and incorporates current events, an absolute necessity for those learning at the high school level. Her system of pronunciation, unlike Aronson's, is simple, allowing learners to write transliterated Georgian on a standard English querty keyboard. I especially appreciated the lessons in polite behavior displayed in the conversational lessons and Culture Notes in each chapter.
A teacher's true genius lies in order and pacing: Ms. Dodona's book is such a masterpiece. A difficulty I had, differentiating aspirated and unaspirated consonant sounds, was dealt with simply and at the very beginning. Useful words and expressions, including numbers, how to tell time and date, and how to address family members are up front in a separate chapter, allowing one to practice these on a daily basis as a language warmup.
The other books, CDs, and programs I have all have something valuable to offer. But take my advice: start HERE!
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Benno
5.0 out of 5 stars I'd have loved this on first visiting Georgia in 2007
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018
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I'd have loved this on first visiting Georgia in 2007 . There was little beyond heavy academic texts at a heavy price then . This gives you a way in to the everyday experience of being in Georgia . The language is prevalent ( school Russian was a help but it was a surprise how little any other language appeared in signs etc ; I'd assumed Russian would have made great inroads ) and though the script is simple in fact ( no capitals , close correspondence between sound and letter ) , it's daunting trying to read place names on a passing bus , for example . This course gives you practice reading and the stuff of daily life ( I liked the bread units ! ) .
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mvonwyl
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best language learning book I have seen.
Reviewed in France on August 9, 2021
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This book is very well structured, with progressive lessons and a complete appendix (for beginner lever) on the language grammar at the end. Contrarily, to other methods I have encountered, the grammar ramps up fast, which allows you to build your own sentences quickly, and you can decide on your side which vocabulary you want to study. I definitely recommend this book, and will check the publisher whenever there is another language I want to start studying.
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JUAN REYES PONS
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy buen libro de iniciación al georgiano
Reviewed in Spain on December 11, 2019
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Muy buen libro para una primera aproximación al georgiano. Lástima que no existan libros así.
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Andrea M.
5.0 out of 5 stars It delivers
Reviewed in Italy on July 3, 2019
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Being the only book that really tries hard to teach you colloquial Georgian, this book really delivers. Georgian is by no means an easy language, but Kiziria succeeds in making it look as such. The CDs, just like in the other books of the Hippochrene Beginner's series, are a godsend.
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A.S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Gut gemachtes Buch
Reviewed in Germany on May 20, 2018
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Noch angenehmer wär's natürlich auf Deutsch, aber auch auf dem Umweg übers Englische kann man Georgisch lernen :-)
Das Buch ist sinnvoll aufgebaut und eigent sich auch zum Selbstlernen! (jedenfalls, wenn einem das autodidaktische Erlernen von Sprachen liegt)
Gutes Georgisch-Buch!
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Liam J. Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Georgian Learner's Book Available By Far
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2012
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There are scarce resources available if you want to learn Georgian on your own. In my search, I found "Parlons Géorgien" by I. Assatiani, which might be useful if you speak French but actually it's a total mess. It is completely lacking in structure, is devoid of explanation, and has no exercises and few examples. Its only saving grace is an interesting cultural section which includes some fun proverbs and slang.

Next is "Georgian (A Learner's Grammar)" by G. Hewitt. It is overly complicated, explanations are awkward and some of the background/cultural text feels inappropriately biased (a language guide is not the place for political preaching). It is however a substantial text that offers a seemingly complete study of Georgian but some of it just seems incorrect. I could be wrong of course since I am myself new to Georgian, but it just feels a bit unedited.

So you're left with D. Kiziria's "Beginner's Georgian"... it puts the others to shame. Of course Georgian is a difficult language and you will need some experience of foreign language study to be able to follow the grammar. There is a strong emphasis on practical language and essential vocabulary. This is complemented by a CD including dialogue which is given once at normal speed and once slowed down so you can repeat. Grammar is presented bit by bit to accompany the vocabulary themes and is truncated to prevent one's mind from exploding! I fully support this choice to simplify - a serious student will be able look further for greater depth while a casual student will learn the basics without debilitating frustration.

My only criticism is that the book is two or three chapters too short. For example, indirect objects are never introduced, not enough postpositions are presented, two cases are not illustrated (although they do appear in the appendix), and having two entire chapters themed on bread vocabulary is maybe a bit much. There are also some discrepancies between the CD dialogues and their transcripts. Still, I found this title easier to use and more effective than other guides such as "Teach Yourself" or "Colloquial". Even with its mere thirteen chapters I felt absolutely equipped to write basic letters, translate simple texts, to communicate, and to take my learning further on my own. Next stop Tbilisi!
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