Basic Slovak

This textbook of Slovak is for English-speaking students. It is a modern textbook and was elaborated on the basis of a statistical research of the word stock of the standard Slovak language. From texts containing 1 000 000 words the author chose only the 800 most frequent words, which represent about 80 per cent of any Slovak text. Besides, only those grammatical phenomena are employed which are the most important in communication and their methodical ordering follows their frequency.