tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12998320.post111956088568605843..comments2007-04-18T15:57:39.886+06:00MKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04783517418186078842noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12998320.post-1127583949580799812005-09-24T23:45:00.000+06:002005-09-24T23:45:00.000+06:00Sorry about taking it so long reply - I was out of the country on vacation. Then the school year started in August, and life has been crazy since then. <BR/><BR/>Thanks a lot for your valuable comments. I do speak some French, and it is nice to hear that there's now a Kyrgyz textbook in French. I am sure that other blog visitors will find this link helpful.<BR/><BR/>It is also good news that the Peace Corps book is now available online. I mentioned the book in one of my earlier posts (<A HREF="http://kyrgyzcha.blogspot.com/2005/05/books-kyrgyz-language-and-kyrgyzstan.html" REL="nofollow">Books</A>) and I use it extensively in my studies.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again and hope you come back to check out the new posts soon.MKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04783517418186078842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12998320.post-1122255903558082452005-07-25T07:45:00.000+06:002005-07-25T07:45:00.000+06:00Further to my earlier comment noting the book "Parlons Kirghiz", I've found another source: the manual the US Peace Corps uses/used for teaching Kyrgyz to Peace Corps Volunteers. It's available as a PDF file from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), and is written by expert Turkologist Ilse Laude Cirtautas.<BR/><BR/>You can just go to the ERIC site at http://www.eric.ed.gov/ and type "Kirghiz" into the search box. (They also have the Peace Corps manuals for Kazakh and Turkmen if you just search under those languages.) Hope you find my notes useful. Good luck!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12998320.post-1121970813820655122005-07-22T00:33:00.000+06:002005-07-22T00:33:00.000+06:00I just discovered your blog yesterday and, although I see no entries in about a month, I hope you'll keep it up.<BR/><BR/>I don't know what other languages you know, but since you described yourself as a translator, I assume that you may likely know at least some French. If so, there's a relatively recent book on Kyrgyz that may be of interest to you: "Parlons Kirghiz", for which there's an accompanying cassette, which can be ordered via the usual French online bookstores such as Amazon France, or Alapage.<BR/><BR/>Here's a webpage from the publisher describing it:<BR/><BR/>http://www.harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=17417Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com