Assyrian Speech Lessons Book 1 Foundation Level Student Manual

This book is the first of four foundation books to teach Assyrian speech to students who have already studied and learnt the Assyrian alphabet and vowel system in a beginners’ course and are able to read a little. The method adopted in this course is based on the fact that we learn our mother tongue by hearing and repeating what we have heard. Thus the exercises are focused on listening and repeating sentences formed by the present tense of the verb to be. The students who follow this course diligently will be able to describe themselves and other people by giving their name, place of birth, nationality, job or occupation, personality traits and physical appearance. The student manual came into existence thanks to suggestions and demands of students and it is intended to be used with the speech videos that are available online. Since the videos had already been prepared and it was difficult to change them, this book follows them closely with little modifications. In the second edition misspellings and other errors have been rectified, a few exercises have been extended, and the Mini Dictionary has been updated and enhanced with some additions.