Plan of the book
A detailed table showing the topics, the functions, and the grammar covered by each of the lesson units can be downloaded as a PDF by clicking on the link below:
azeri-book-plan.zip (140K zipped PDF)
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Elementary Azerbaijani
A Complete Course for Beginners (Revised Third Edition)
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About the author
Dr. Kurtuluş Öztopçu is currently retired from teaching. For many years, he taught various courses related to Turkic languages at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, UCLA and UC Berkeley. He is the author of several scholarly books and articles all relating to Turkic languages, including Dictionary of the Turkic Languages and Elementary Turkish.About the book
- Elementary Azerbaijani is a beginning level course for learners of Azerbaijani. The variety of Azerbaijani presented in this textbook corresponds to standard Azerbaijani, the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the language spoken by educated Azerbaijani speakers.
Main features
- • Elementary Azerbaijani has a multi-skills syllabus.
- • It is cyclical: materials presented in one unit recur in the same or expanded form, in the subsequent unit(s).
- • Materials chosen are comprised of high-frequency words, idioms, expressions, and grammatical structures.
- • The language used is natural, avoiding contrived expressions.
- • Grammar is graded, moving from simple to more complex elements.
- • Written exercises and audio drills after each unit.
- • Culture is treated as an integral part of the language and the language-learning process.
- • Review units after each three units.
- • At the end of the book, there is an Answer Key to the Audio Drills and to the Exercises.
- • Audio materials (in two CDs) contain the alphabet, all of the conversations and the audio drills.
- • An English translation is provided for each conversation and sample sentence.
- • A cumulative Azerbaijani-English glossary contains the most-frequently-used words.
- • A reverse English-Azerbaijani glossary is provided for convenience.