A service of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, the Global Language Online Support System offers hundreds of lessons at 4 different levels depending on the target language, with an emphasis on listening comprehension.
This website compiled by Brian Geco contains a number of pdfs of Uzbek textbooks and dictionaries, including Uzbek: An Elementary Textbook, Uzbek for Foreigners, Colloquial Uzbek: A Mini Course, and the Defense Language Institute's Uzbek Textbook.
A widely cited thematic glossary of Uzbek terms. Compiled by French data scientist Hervé Guérin and previously maintained on Guérin's now defunct website www.uzbek-glossary.com.
A useful explainer of the Uzbek grammar of more complex temporal and conditional expressions with numerous examples in English and Uzbek. Compiled by French data scientist Hervé Guérin and previously maintained on Guérin's widely cited but now defunct website www.uzbek-glossary.com.
Brief grammatical sketches of Uzbek, partnered with extensive oral and written exercises using authentic, contemporary Uzbek. Maintained by the Duke Slavic Centers.
An extensive online Uzbek-English dictionary including definitions in English for numerous converbial forms and verb compounds. The dictionary works best for searches from Uzbek to English and exclusively employs Uzbek written in Latin script.
Global Voices Comprehensive: Music and Culture of Kyrgyzstan
Global Voices Comprehensive: the Music and Culture of Kyrgyzstan, created by Munara Mailybekova and Aida Huseynova, is an interactive DVD-ROM highlighting the music and culture of Kyrgyzstan. Global Voices Comprehensive is produced by Mary Goetze and Jay Fern and funded by the Department of Education Title VI Grant from the Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center. Please fill out and submit this form to request Music & Culture of Kyrgyzstan.
Musical Treasures of the Bukharian Jewish Community
A seven CD box-set with book of music and lyrics. This remarkable collection represents a thorough overview of the religious and folk music of the Bukharian Jewish Community, once based in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and elsewhere in Central Asia. Collected by Ezra Malakov, an accomplished musician and performer from Uzbekistan, this box-set is a delightful way to introduce music lovers, both young and old, to the musical traditions of Central Asia. It is the perfect accompaniment to learning units on folk music, world music, the Silk Road, Central Asia, the successor states to the Soviet Union, and world religion. Listen, Learn, and Enjoy!
Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research in Russian and Uzbek archives, Stronski shows us how Soviet officials, planners, and architects strived to integrate local ethnic traditions and socialist ideology into a newly constructed urban space and propaganda showcase.
The Soviets planned to transform Tashkent from a “feudal city” of the tsarist era into a “flourishing garden,” replete with fountains, a lakeside resort, modern roadways, schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, and of course, factories. The city was intended to be a shining example to the world of the successful assimilation of a distinctly non-Russian city and its citizens through the catalyst of socialism. As Stronski reveals, the physical building of this Soviet city was not an end in itself, but rather a means to change the people and their society.
Stronski analyzes how the local population of Tashkent reacted to, resisted, and eventually acquiesced to the city’s socialist transformation. He records their experiences of the Great Terror, World War II, Stalin’s death, and the developments of the Krushchev and Brezhnev eras up until the earthquake of 1966, which leveled large parts of the city. Stronski finds that the Soviets established a legitimacy that transformed Tashkent and its people into one of the more stalwart supporters of the regime through years of political and cultural changes and finally during the upheavals of glasnost.
