The Burmese language made easy! Burmese for Beginners is designed for either self-study or classroom use. It teaches all four language skills - speaking, listening (when used in conjunction with the audio), reading and writing; and offers clear, easy, step-by-step instruction building on what has been previously learned. Lots of exercises and useful phrases. Very user-friendly and fun to use. There is an audio version that follows the book. Three CDs are available separately.
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Gene Mesher holds a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, a M.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan and a Master’s of Science in Engineering from the University of Washington. He is a former Fulbright scholar and retired professor of Information Systems at California State University. He has travelled to Southeast Asia for the last 15 years, studying telecommunications markets in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and other parts of Asia. Dr. Mesher has authored of more than 50 articles and reports on telecommunications and information technologies most of which have covered developments in Asian countries. His interest in language-learning is long-standing and he has studied many languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Malay, Persian and Thai.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This is *the* book to learn Burmese,
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Let's face it - Burmese isn't the easiest language to learn. But if, like me, you are serious about learning the language, this book, along with the accompanying language CD, will get you there. By the time you finish this book, you should have enough basic Burmese knowlege to puzzle your way through a newpaper, and order off a menu, as well as get around Yangon.
I've been working through the book for the last few months, and I feel that I'm finally making progress. The book is clearly written, with numerous examples, and pronunciation guides throughout. Also important for a book you'll be paging through for months at a time, the book is very sturdily constructed, and my copy is still in rather good shape. This isn't a perfect book by any means (I'd love to have seen far, far more pages on the alphabet, since though everything is covered, it's covered a little quickly), but this book is *so* far ahead of every other commonly available resource on the Burmese language, it easily earns the 5 stars I'm giving it. If you don't have ready access to a native Burmese speaker, I strongly recommend the Burmese for Beginners CDs as well.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good enough to begin with,
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This book is pretty good, although I do have some issues with it. It could cover grammatical points more thoroughly, and it would benefit from expanding its drills to include substitution drills. The CDs are truly needed to get the pronunciations and tones right; recorded drills would be beneficial. An index of vocabulary would also have been useful. That said, given the dearth of decent materials available, this is a very welcome foundation book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good intro book,
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It is a useful book - easy to follow and helpful. The author has a gift of making his explanations simple and easy to understand. There are some typos and the books presents a more colloquial way of Burmese speech, but I am glad I bought it. I must say that I am attending Burmese classes during the day and am using this book as a supplement. I do not know if I would have found it just as helpful if I were not given other instruction.
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Vocabulary Nouns, Match the English, Writing Exercise, Practice Writing Consonants Practice, Taxi Driver, Practice Writing Consonants Lesson Practice, Practice Writing the Following Words Practicing New!
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- Thai for Beginners by Benjawan Poomsan Becker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Lao for Beginners by Benjawan Poomsan Becker in Back Matter
- Cambodian for Beginners by Richard K. Gilbert in Back Matter
- Thai for Intermediate Learners by Benjawan Poomsan Becker in Back Matter
- Thailand Fever by Chris Pirazzi in Back Matter
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- Vietnamese for Beginners by Jake Catlett; Huong Nguyen in Back Matter
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