Colloquial Series: Multimedia Language Courses
About the Book Series
The Colloquial series provides beginner courses for a wide range of languages. The series presents the language as it is written and spoken today, accompanied with free audio by native speakers. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in a broad range of situations.
Key features include:
- progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
- structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar
- an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises
- realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios
- useful vocabulary lists throughout the text
- review chapters at intervals throughout the text providing motivational checklists of language points covered
- an overview of the sounds of the language
- A full answer key and glossary at the back of the book
No prior knowledge of the language is required, and the books are aimed at a wide audience and come with free audio at www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials.
Colloquial Spanish: The Complete Course for Beginners
3rd Edition
By Untza Otaola Alday
January 21, 2026
Colloquial Spanish: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Spanish as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it ...
Colloquial Albanian: The Complete Course for Beginners
3rd Edition
By Linda Mëniku, Héctor Campos
December 29, 2025
Colloquial Albanian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Albanian as it is written and spoken today. This third edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to reflect changes in culture, and also offers new ...
Colloquial Slovene: The Complete Course for Beginners
3rd Edition
By Marta Pirnat-Greenberg
November 28, 2025
Colloquial Slovene: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Slovene as it is written and spoken today. This third edition includes updated content, language, and texts, additional exercises, and new audio. ...
Colloquial Ukrainian: The Complete Course for Beginners
2nd Edition
By Ian Press, Olha Volosova, Stefan Pugh
June 26, 2025
Colloquial Ukrainian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by experienced teachers to provide a step-by-step course to learn the Ukrainian language as it is written and spoken today. This second edition offers updated vocabulary, additional exercises, cultural notes, ...
Colloquial Amharic: The Complete Course for Beginners
3rd Edition
By David Appleyard
February 28, 2025
Colloquial Amharic: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course in Amharic as it is written and spoken today. This third edition offers new and updated vocabulary and key revisions to the text to reflect changes in ...
Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners
4th Edition
By Abdi Rafiee
October 17, 2023
Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed to provide a step-by-step course to Persian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical, and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the ...
Colloquial Russian: The Complete Course For Beginners
5th Edition
By Svetlana le Fleming, Susan E. Kay, Mikhail Vodopyanov
March 08, 2023
Colloquial Russian provides a step-by-step course in Russian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Russian in a broad range of...
Colloquial Hebrew: The Complete Course for Beginners
2nd Edition
By Zippi Lyttleton
November 30, 2021
Colloquial Hebrew provides a step-by-step course in Hebrew as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Hebrew in a broad range of ...
Colloquial Zulu: The Complete Course for Beginners
1st Edition
By Sandra Sanneh, Mary Hammond-Bloem
May 28, 2021
Colloquial Zulu is an easy-to-use and up-to-date guide to the Zulu language. Specially written for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Zulu. No prior knowledge of the language is required. What makes Colloquial Zulu your best choice in ...
Colloquial Chinese: The Complete Course for Beginners
3rd Edition
By Qian Kan, Qian Kan
January 26, 2021
Colloquial Chinese: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by a leading academic in Chinese language teaching and course design. Based on feedback from learners and teachers who used its previous version, this new edition has been updated to reflect the language and ...
Colloquial Irish 2: The Next Step in Language Learning
1st Edition
By Tomás Ó hÍde, Máire Ní Neachtain, Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew, John Gillen
December 05, 2019
Colloquial Irish 2 is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and to extend your skills from the beginner level to advanced beginner. Structured to give you the opportunity to listen to and read plenty of modern, everyday Irish, Colloquial Irish 2 builds on the skills acquired in ...
Colloquial Russian 2: The Next Step in Language Learning
2nd Edition
By Olga Sobolev, Natasha Bershadski, Svetlana le Fleming, Susan E. Kay
September 04, 2018
Colloquial Russian 2 is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and to extend your skills. Structured to give you the opportunity to listen to and read lots of modern, everyday Russian, Colloquial Russian 2 has been developed to work systematically on reinforcing and extending your ...