Tajiki

Designed to cover the beginning and lower-intermediate college levels of language instruction, each volume of Tajiki: An Elementary Textbook uses the latest pedagogical thinking to teach basic communication skills and linguistic forms in their cultural context. Tested in the classroom, Tajiki enhances students' exposure to the language by providing the only authentic video and audio available in Tajiki. Each volume contains one PC-only CD-ROM that includes authentic audio and video materials to accompany the text and extra exercises, all in Flash format and all of which are keyed to the textbook. Each book also includes an extensive glossary, maps of the world labeled in Tajiki, and four-color illustrations and photographs throughout.

Topics Covered
Volume One: Greetings, the Tajiki alphabet, the classroom, professions, introductions, nationalities and places of origin, weather, telling time, family, money, food

Volume Two: Sports, cooking and ordering meals, clothing, travel, months, seasons, holidays, body parts, medicine, university life, housing (city and village), regions and religions of Tajikistan

Minimum System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® II 450 MHz or faster processor (or equivalent); Mac OS 10.4 or higher
• 128 MB of RAM
• CD Drive
• Speakers or headphones

On a PC, files will load automatically.
On a Mac, double click on the disk icon. Then, double click on the program icon that looks like an "f" in a red square labeled, "TajikiVolumeOne."

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Nasrullo Khojayori is a software developer at Transparent Language, Inc. He received his PhD in 2000 from the Institute of Tajik Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan. He has taught Tajiki and Persian and has served as lead developer of Tajiki language materials at the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region at Indiana University.

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