Original and richly illustrated textbook and 2 CDs for the A1 level is composed in a communicative way without an intermediary language. The authors took into consideration communicational needs of foreigners upon their first contact with Slovakia. Krížom-krážom represents an attractive way how to deal with common communication situations and to acquire the basic knowledge of Slovak. Through the main characters of the textbook, you will find yourself studying, working, in the city or having fun. This purpose is followed also by a richly illustrated and didactically interpreted contents, which enables practice of individual communicational skills in accordance with the requirements of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) for the A1 level (Basic user – Breakthrough). New vocabulary and grammar are explained with a help of pictures, standard phonetic training and dialogues from individual chapters are recorded on a CD.