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Colloquial Languages

Routledge

Colloquial Languages

With over 70 languages to choose from, Routledge Colloquials offer the most comprehensive range of language courses. Whether you’re interested in a perennial classic such as French or German or something more exotic like Kazakh or Yiddish, the Colloquials series has the course for you!

Asia

Africa

Europe

South America

Key Features

User-Friendly Format

Clear Grammar Explanations

Supportive Exercises

Realistic Dialogues

Cultural Insights

Bilingual Glossaries

Free Audio

Languages

Language is more than just a means of communication; it is a reflection of culture, history, and identity. Here, we explore a variety of languages, each with its own unique characteristics and colloquial expressions.

Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Basque Bengali Breton Bulgarian Burmese Cambodian Cantonese Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kazakh Korean Latvian Lithuanian Malay Mongolian Norwegian Panjabi Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Scottish Gaelic Serbian Slovak Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Thai Tibetan Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Yoruba Zulu

Key Features

These features make the Colloquial series a comprehensive and effective resource for language learners.

User-Friendly Format

Designed to help learners progressively build their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

Clear Grammar Explanations

Jargon-free, succinct, and clearly structured explanations of grammar.

Supportive Exercises

An extensive range of focused and dynamic exercises to reinforce learning.

Realistic Dialogues

Engaging dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations.

Cultural Insights

Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in the target-language country.

Bilingual Glossaries

English translations of dialogues and useful vocabulary lists within each unit.

Free Audio

Available online in MP3 format, recorded by native speakers to complement the book and enhance listening, speaking, and pronunciation skills.

Popular Languages