SLOVAK REPUBLIC FAQ

Other Sources of Information

• Much more detailed info on many related subjects can be accessed via either of the following links:
• Slovak Document Store
• The Guide to Slovak Republic
• Slovakia Daily Surveyor
• Slovakia - Heart of Europe
• USENET news: bit.listserv.slovak-l
• Travel Guides:
• Fodor's travel guides
  (traditional) Publisher: 201 E. 50th St. N.Y. 10022
• Lonely Planet, Published by Lonely Planet, P.O. Box 617, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia
• Off the Beaten Track, Published by Moorland Pub. Co
• The Rough Guide by Rob Humphreys
  (good details on many sights) Publisher: Rough Guides, Ltd., 1 Mercer St. London, WC2H 9OJ0
• Czech & Slovak Republics Guide by Open Road Publishing
  "A simple but complete straight-ahead guide to both countries. Instead of glossy pictures you get opinions ('The Best Places' or 'How to Get Along') and instead of fancy fold-outs, you get valuable descriptions of hundreds of hotels and restaurants even outside of Prague."
• "Let's Go..." series
  (youth hostels & student accommodations) Publisher: 1 Story St., Cambridge, MA 02138
• Textbooks:
• "Beginning Slovak: A Course for the Individual or Classroom Learner." By Oscar E. Swan and Sylvia Galova-Lorinc.
  Audio-Forum, 96 Broad Street, Guilford, Connecticut 06437
  Phone: (203) 453-9794 Fax: (203) 453-9774.
  "An excellent Slovak language course. It includes a 522-page instruction manual and 8 audio cassette tapes. The downside is its price: $185.00. For the brave souls who want to attempt to learn Slovak without thetapes, the book is available at a lower price directly from the publisher:
  Slavica Publishers, Inc. PO Box 14388 Columbus, Ohio 43214"
  
• Colloquial Slovak, the complete course for beginners by James Naughton
  First published in 1997 by Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London
  USA and Canada: Routledge, 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
  ISBN: 0-415-11540-X (book)
  0-415-11541-8 (cassettes)
  0-415-11542-6 (book and cassettes)
• An individualized instruction course in Slovak by Louise B. Hammer is available from:
  The Ohio State University, Foreign Language Publications, 311N Legal Services Building, 33 West Eleventh Ave. Columbus, OH 43201-2013
  phone: (614) 292-3838
  Slovak Individualized Instruction assumes no previous knowledge of the language. It is individualized in the sense that you will be working individually and at your own pace (as opposed to a regular class). It is teacher- assisted if you sign up for credit through Ohio State (you need not do this however, it is possible to buy the materials and work on your own). If you sign up for credit, it is the instructor's responsibility to check your work and knowledge of the material and to give you any additional help you may need. It is mastery-based in the sense that you must pass all tests (if you sign up for credit) at a minimum 80% proficiency level. All four skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking) are taught in this course.
• Basic Slovak by Jozef Mistrik, (isbn: 80-08-01333-8)
  Slovenske Pedagogicke Nakladatelstvo, Sasinkova 5b 815 60 Bratislava, Slovakia.
  ('A bit dry, but one of the few things available, and for the princely sum of Sk 50. Other than the Slovak bits, it's in English.')
• Jozef Mistrik / SLOVAK LANGUAGE
  Vydali (Published by) Ucebne pomocky, n.p., Banska Bystrica, 1985.
• "Slovencina pre krajanov hovoriacich po anglicky" (A Slovak Textbook for English-Speaking Countrymen) published by Matica slovenska in Martin. Authors: Jan Oravec & Jozef Prokop.
  'We had borrowed this book from the Slovak embassy in Ottawa. It contains 356 pages.'
• 'I know of the existence of interactive dictionaries Slovak- English, Slovak-German, Slovak-Russian, Slovak-French, Slovak-Italian and Slovak- Spanish, distributed by: TEOS Trencin, Soltesovej 1/40, 911 01 Trencin, tel/ fax:(032) 36104'
• "TEOS Trencin" offers a free on-line Dictionary and a Pronunciation Guide.
• TRAVIGATOR Travel Search Engine and Directory is searching the Web since 1995.

You can also get information on the neighboring Czech Republic here.