Uzbek: An Elementary Textbook

Good product

This book is perfect for someone with no prior knowledge of Uzbek. The organization of the book and the multimedia activities on the enclosed CD ate both fun and helpful. I strongly recommend this book. There are just two things I wish were different. First, I hope future editions have MP3 files instead of a CD as only my office computer can play CDs. Second, their should be more care taken in editing. There are a few errors that would be easy to fix . (eg: The table at the top of page 86 has a mistake in one of the examples)

I'm a pretty good student, and I'm a pretty good teacher, but I have a hard time teaching myself. But despite my shortcomings, the book has plenty of its own. I was hoping this book could help me to communicate with my husband's family but so far I'm still a little at a loss.Like many elementary language books, the lessons are structured more around conversation than on grammar. This leaves the learner at a disadvantage when entering real life situations. There is opportunity to practice grammar but it works best in a classroom setting. As an individual trying to teach herself, it's not a great help. Also, the grammar does not build on itself as well as I've seen in other language books. Conversations are introduced with grammar structures that aren't explained until two, three, or even four chapters later.There are also a handful of editing errors in the book that can frustrate the reader. For example, in the picture that is supposed to be a visual aid for "write," the girl isn't even holding a pencil!The supplementary CD is helpful for vocabulary review but the recorded conversations are of no help to an absolute beginner. In some videos you can't even hear dialogue due to background noise or everyone talking at the same time. While this is said to help the learner get used to "natural speech," it does a learner no good when she can't hear what is being said! Conversations NEED to be enunciated and slowed down for beginners.In conclusion, it has some issues I think need to be address even for use in a classroom setting but seems like it would still be moderately effective there. On your own however, you will need to be seriously dedicated (and maybe have a conversation partner available for practice) to learn on your own from this.

Basically the only good textbook for all those UZ students out there. Comes with a CD which in some cases is bout usable.

The CD would have been very helpful in learning pronunciation. It does not work in any device I tried.

This review is going to sound a lot like my review of , but as the two texts are the same format it shouldn't come as a surprise.This is a great textbook for Uzbek. It like a textbook + workbook in one. That is, there are many exercises dispersed through-out the lessons. There are Dialogues, texts for reading, listening/speaking/watching exercises and vocabularies for every lessons. The dialogues and reading passages are usually used as exercises having you figure out words that are blank and the like. The grammar sections are short, but very well written and easy to understand. There are usually more then one grammar section per chapter. The vocabulary is displayed at the end of each chapter. The audio/visual cd is very helpful to learn pronunciation and it also gives you additional exercises.[I should note that I'm working off of the pre-Georgetown printing, I'm not sure if there are any changes that were made in the process of Georgetown U. taking over the printing of this CeLCAR textbook]

For those interested in Turkic languages, this book is a must-have. It explains Uzbek grammar in a way that terminology is kept at a minimum while vocabulary sections abound. That is a great way of building a textbook, I think. Since it doesn't assume that the reader has any previous knowledge on Uzbekistan, it deals with all the basics and takes you progressively into more advanced material. Along with Tajik (same series), the visual aids make the book enjoyable to read. I wish this collection of books included Armenian, Azeri and Kyrgyz.. maybe someone is working on that already.Thumbs up!P.s. Geogetown: seriously, for less comonly taught languages, this collection would improve a lot if there were similar books for all Turkic languages.

I like the book. Not too much was written in it and it was a good condition. Would have liked to have a CD with it.

本の中身が英語対応なのはわかるのですが、付属のCD-ROMがMac対応なので我が家のwindowsでは使えない。CDはアプリケーションソフトの様な使用の様で、起動した後デスクトップに出てくるアイコンをクリックして作業を行ったのちに利用できるようで、我が家のパソコンでは展開しないので、改めてソフトや本を見直して初めて気が付き途方に暮れてます。言語の本で音源のCDは重要なので、CDの使用環境等の詳しい説明も分かるようにしてあった方が良いと感じた。

This is the best textbook on elementary Uzbek.The explanation is clear , there was nothing I could not follow.However, the book is too long and heavy ,which prevents the reader to carry it anywhere(In my case I can use it only at home). It should be much shortened,deleting many pictures which do not essentially contribute to the reader's understanding.The answers to exercises might be better provided as a separate volüme .Lastly,the CD does not work on my computer .This is a serious defect ,especially in the initial stage of learning colloquial Uzbek.