| Teach
Yourself Panjabi has been designed for the absolute
beginner who may or may not have studied a language before.
This course will be useful to people who want to learn
Panjabi in order to speak with their Panjabi friends and
relatives, to communicate with Panjabi communities in
relation to their work, to learn about aspects of Panjabi
culture and society or to travel to the Panjab itself.
The course will also be useful to those who already know
a little Panjabi but who may not have the confidence to
speak, or to those who are fluent but need to learn to
read and write the Gurmukhi script. Overall,
the course introduces you to a wide range of vocabulary
and covers the basic grammar of Panjabi. By the end
of the course, you will be able to understand the spoken
language to communicate in a number of everyday situations
and also have a level of understanding of the written
language to begin to read newspapers and write letters.
The audio material which accompanies
this course is available separately on two audio cassettes
or in a pack with the book. |
| Surjit
Singh Kalra, co-author, is founder and director of
the Panjabi Language Development Board in the UK. He retired
in 1992 as Head of the Community Language Service for
Birmingham Education Authority. Navtej
Kaur Purewal, co-author, is a lecturer at the University
of Manchester, where she teaches South Asian Studies.
Sue Tyson-Ward, co-author, was
formerly Subject Officer for Community Language examinations
at Cambridge Examinations Board and is now a language
consultant and teacher in adult education. |
learn to speak, understand and write panjabi