Colloquial Latvian

Christopher Moseley worked for two decades for the BBC World Service, specialising in Baltic affairs, and is now a freelance translator and editor. From September he will be taking up the post of Latvian teaching Fellow at SOAS. He has a particular interest in endangered and minority languages. He is the author of Colloquial Estonian (1994) and Colloquial Latvian (1996) and the general editor of the Routledge/Curzon Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages (2007) and the general editor (with R.E. Asher) of the Atlas of the World’s Languages (2007).

Acknowledgements Introduction How to use this book The sounds of Latvian Abbreviations 1 Hello! 2 Please drive to………! 3 I have a reservation 4 Travelling by train 5 At the restaurant 6 Family 7 What do you do in your free time? 8 Let’s go shopping! 9 Let’s go to the market! 10 How do you spend your days? 11 Where did you go on holiday? 12 What’s wrong with you? 13 The new flat 14 What will the weather be like today? 15 Communications and mass media Grammar summary Key to exercises Latvian–English glossary English–Latvian glossary Bibliography Index