Description: How to study Georgian -- Abbreviations -- The Georgian alphabet -- Borrowed words and personal names in Georgian -- Useful words & expressions: numerals; how to tell time; days of the week; parts of the day; names of the month; dates; family members; tongue twisters -- Lesson 1: Meeting in the street -- Lesson 2: On the phone -- Lesson 3: Visiting Tamazi -- Lesson 4: Kiln bread -- Lesson 5: The farmer's market -- Lesson 6: Renting an apartment -- Lesson 7: At the bookstore -- Lesson 8: At the bank -- Lesson 9: In the cafeteria -- Lesson 10: Transportation -- Lesson 11: Khachapuri -- Lesson 12: A birthday -- Lesson 13: Tbilisi, Vakhtang Gorgasali Square -- Key to exercises -- Georgian-English glossary -- English-Georgian glossary.
Brief description: Dodona Kiziria, a native of Tbilisi, Georgia, received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Indiana University. Now Professor Emerita, she taught Georgian language and culture, Russian literature, and Russian and East European cinema at Indiana University for more than thirty years. She has also taught Georgian at the University of Chicago and Duke University. In 2004, Kiziria was awarded honorary Georgian citizenship.