A Beginners' Guide to Tajiki

Official Preface Translation of the Official Preface Editor's Preface 1. Lesson 1: The Tajiki Alphabet, Transcription, Stress 2. Lesson 2: Forms of Address, Getting Acquainted, Grammar Personal Pronouns, The Inflectional Suffix Izofat, Possessive Determiners, Pronominal Suffixes, The Copula 3. Lesson 3: Family, Grammar Present-Future Tense, Simple Questions, The Conjunction 4. Lesson 4: Education - Professions, Grammar More Present-Future Tense, Plural Forms of Nouns 5. Lesson 5: House - Courtyard - Garden, Grammar Prepositions, The Direct Object Marker, Question Particles, Imperatives 6. Lesson 6: House - Courtyard - Garden (continued), Grammar Indefinite Nouns, Infinitives, Present-Future Tense, Simple Past Tense, Reading 7. Lesson 7: Time - Seasons - Weather, Grammar Numbers, Reading 8. Lesson 8: Countries - Nationalities - Languages, Grammar Descriptive Past, Comparatives and Superlatives, Derivational Suffixes 9. Lesson 9: Parts of the Body, Grammar Compound Verbs, Active and Passive Verbs, Absolute Future Tense, Reading 10. Lesson 10: The City - The Street, Grammar The Past Participle, Present Continuous Tense, Modal Verbs 11. Lesson 11: Market, Grammar Derivational Affixes (continued), The conditional mood, Reading 12. Lesson 12: At the Shop, Grammar Narrative, Past Perfect Tense 13. Lesson 13: At the Restaurant, Cafe, and Tea-House, Grammar More Compound Verbs, More Pronouns, Reading 14. Lesson 14: In the Hotel, Grammar Complex Sentences: Conjunctions, Fundamental and Causal Verbs, Reading 15. Lesson 15: At the Office - On the Telephone, Grammar Exclamations and Words of Emotion, Reading 16. Lesson 16: Free Time - Visiting as a Guest, Grammar Subordinate Clauses, Subordinate Clauses of Time, The Past Continuous Tense, Reading 17. Lesson 17: At the Doctor's, Folk Medicine, Grammar Subordinate Clauses of Cause, Subordinate Clauses of Purpose, Subordinate Clauses of Condition, Reading 18. Lesson 18: Animals, Grammar Subordinate Clauses of Quantity and Degree, Subordinate Clauses of Concession, Reading 19. Lesson 19: Holidays - Celebrations - Ceremonies, Grammar Subordinate Clauses of Location, Multiple Complex Sentences, Reading 20. Lesson 20: Law - Politics, International Relations, Grammar Verbal adverb, Direct and Indirect Speech, Reading 21. Lesson 21: Tourism - Nature, Grammar Word Construction, Descriptive Use of Present-Future Tense, Reading Answers to Lesson 1 Exercises Appendices: Cities and Regions of Tajikistan, The Most Common Tajiki Names I. Model: official letters II. Model: informal letters III. Model: congratulations IV. Model: invitations V. Model: announcements VI. Model: condolences VII. Model: recommendations Tajiki Jokes, Poetry Selections, A Brief Introduction To Tajiki Grammar, Phonetics, Vowels, Consonants, Stress, Some Sound Changes, Morphology, Nouns, Singular and Plural Nouns, Arabic Plurals, Indefinite Article and Defining Suffix, Nominal Derivational Affixes, Adjectives, Adj