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This reviewed, updated and extended new version of Slovak for You is designed as a university textbook for intensive or regular language courses, as well as for any other Slovak language classes for beginners and intermediate studies. It is designed to enable you to understand and speak the language of Slovakia - a modern country in the heart of Europe. *teaches you in a user-friendly way how to master the principal conversational and communicative skills in Slovak on the basis of realistic discourse models; *will enable you to read and understand (with the help of a dictionary) current Slovak texts texts in the media, correspondence and literature; *in texts and exercises presents the basic Slovak vocabulary; *is the first textbook that presents Slovak from the perspective of a native speaker of English, based on the findings of contemporary contrastive English-Slovak linguistics; *gives clear and systemic explanations of linguistics phenomena and structure, with highlighted basic data and patterns for better orientation and easier remembering; *each chapter is accompanied by a vocabulary listing the new words ocurring in it; *is complete with a Slovak-English dictionary summarizing the words ocurring in the textbook; *contains an abundance of well-designed exercises providing a variety of linguistic tasks; *in texts, dialogs and additional materials presents information about Slovakia, about contemporary life, culture, as well as some historical data; ...