A beginner's guide to Tajiki

This is a conversational approach to the teaching and learning of the Tajiki language. It uses authentic language material to help learners as they proceed through its topic-based lessons. Its emphasis on the spoken language promotes oral fluency alongside written skills. Both lessons and appendices present new vocabulary and grammar simply and recycle material to provide opportunities for both controlled and free language learning. The appendices include not only lists of useful information and samples of commonly needed letters and speeches but also an invaluable introduction to Tajiki gr.

The Tajiki alphabet -- Forms of address -- Personal pronouns -- The inflectional suffix "Izofat" -- Possessive determiners -- Pronominal suffixes -- The copula -- Family -- Present-future tense -- The conjunction -- Education professions -- Plural forms of nouns -- House, courtyard, garden -- Prepositions -- The direct object marker -- Imperatives -- Indefinite nouns -- Infinitives -- Simple past tense -- Time, seasons, weather -- Numbers -- Countries, nationalities, languages -- Descriptive past -- Comparatives and superlatives -- Derivational suffixes -- Parts of the body -- Compound verbs -- Active and passive verbs -- Absolute future tense -- The city, the street -- The past participle -- Present continuous tense -- Modal verbs -- Market -- The conditional mood use -- At the shop -- Narrative past tense -- Past perfect tense -- At the restaurant, cafe, and tea-house -- More compound verbs -- Pronouns -- In the hotel -- Complex sentences : conjunctions -- "Fundamental" and "causal" verbs -- At the office, on the telephone -- Exclamations and words of emotion -- Free time, visiting as a guest -- Subordinate clauses of time -- The past continuous tense -- At the doctor's -- Folk …