How does he manage the new language? Will he find work?Experience daily life in the German capital through the eyes of a newcomer, learn about the city and its people, and improve your German effortlessly and instantly.Learning German Doesn't Have To Be A ChoreJust got started learning the language of poets and thinkers? Memorized a few words but struggle with longer texts? This book is designed to help beginners make the leap from studying isolated words and phrases to reading (and enjoying!) German fiction.Using simplified sentence structures and a very basic vocabulary you can build upon, this German reader of 10 short stories for beginners is carefully crafted to allow even novice learners to fully immerse themselves in an authentic German learning experience.Each chapter comes with a complete German-English dictionary with special emphasis on collocative phrases (high frequency word combinations), short sentences and expressions designed for improved memorization.By working with these building blocks instead of just single words, learners can boost their active usage of new material instantly and make the language learning process more fluid and fun.What You'll Find In This Book 10 Berlin stories about life and culture in the capital a balance between cozy vocabulary and introduction of new words tons of phrases and expressions you will actually use in daily life fun facts about the city of Berlin, its quirks and cuisine a detailed German-English dictionary after every chapter enough support to make following along easy, without spoiling your own efforts fun short quizzes to check your text-comprehension (including answers) a relatable protagonist and other fun characters hand-drawn illustrations by the author the beginning of a grand German learning adventure ...Read, Learn & Collect Them AllYes! That's right. This is only the first episode of a whole series of exciting German short stories for beginners. Follow our protagonist to Frankfurt, Cologne, Munich, Zurich, Vienna and many other cities! Before you know it, you'll have travelled half of Europe and picked up more German than years' worth of expensive courses.Learning German has never been more fun.What You WON'T Find In This Book parallel translations that may seem convenient but don't teach you anything dull characters designed by academics and committees interspersed English sentences that take you out of the reading flow archaic German words and phrases nobody uses in real life a jumble of unrelated places, people and events wordy footnotes that only get in the way of immersion condescending storytelling that insults your intelligence a teaching approach which takes itself too seriously

    But here’s a secret: There’s a lot that’s quirky and intriguing about how human language works—and much of it is downright fun to learn about.Every day, linguists ponder and try to solve some of the most intriguing scientific, historical, and sociological puzzles behind the inner workings of language—how it emerged, how it evolved, how it’s used, and where it’s going in the future.What’s the deal with slang like “baby mama” and “LOL”— where does it come from and can it actually be OK to use?Why don’t English speakers use words like “thou” and “thee” anymore?What makes “mama” and “papa” the first words spoken by children in many languages?These and other curious questions (and their surprising answers) are all part of what makes linguistics a field of study that’s anything but dry and dull. But with so many languages and so many potential avenues of exploration, it can often seem daunting to try to understand it. Where does one even start?Look no further than Language A to Z, in which acclaimed linguist and celebrated Great Courses professor John McWhorter of Columbia University creates a delightful way to get accessible, bite-sized introductions to language. These twenty-four 15-minute lectures by one of the best-known popularizers of language use the English alphabet as a unique, offbeat way to let you hopscotch through some of the field’s major topics, hot-button issues, curious factoids, and more. Filled with humor, whimsy, and no shortage of insights, this course is a fast-paced tour of the same territory linguists tread each and every day.

    Their subjects: language and writing. The interviewee drove more than an hour, from Claremont to downtown Los Angeles. The interviewer flew from Dallas. They spoke on film for 67 minutes and then walked uphill to a nearby seafood restaurant, where they continued the running conversation they had started five years earlier. They liked each other, and they seemed to understand each other. The rest is history. This is the last long interview with David Foster Wallace.

    Developed by a certified teacher to help you review and retain what you ve learned in the TTMIK lessons, this workbook contains six main categories of review (vocabulary review, writing, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, fill in the chart, dictation) and thirteen types of exercises (matching, fill in the blank, multiple choice, dictation, draw a picture, translation, short answer, define and translate, conjugation, write your own sentence, Q&A, unscramble and write, and verbification)."

    His language and culture - those of Elizabethan England - are greatly different from our own, and his poetry, thick with metaphorical imagery and double meanings, can be hard to penetrate.Yet the keys to understanding Shakespeare are written into the plays themselves. If you can learn to recognize the playwright's own clues, you'll become able to engage meaningfully with his language, to follow the plot structures and themes that drive his plays, and to track the development of his characters.Over the course of 24 lectures, this innovative and penetrating exploration of Shakespeare's plays reveals how to enter Shakespeare's dramatic world, how to grasp what's happening in any of his plays, and how to enjoy them fully both on the page and the stage.Under Professor Conner's expert guidance, shaped by decades of studying and performing Shakespeare, you learn more than 40 interpretive tools, drawn from the texts themselves, that give you direct insight into the plays. These guiding principles allow you to follow the narratives of the plays as they unfold, with a clear understanding of how the plays function and fit together.The professor also reveals fascinating details of Shakespeare's era, which shed further light on the plays and the way his contemporary audiences perceived them.This course builds the skills that allow you to reach your own understanding of the plays - to deeply comprehend Shakespeare's transcendent poetic language, the spellbinding world of his great characters and stories, and his revelatory reflections on human experience.Disclaimer: Please note that this recording may include references to supplemental texts or print references that are not essential to the program and not supplied with your purchase.©2013 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2013 The Great Courses

    Each book uses characters, words, and grammar that a learner is most likely to know at each level based on in-depth analysis of textbooks, education programs, and natural Chinese language. Every story is written in a style that is easy for a learner to understand and enjoyable to read.Level 1 is intended for Chinese learners who have obtained a middle-elementary level of Chinese. Most students will be able to approach this book after one to two years of traditional formal study. The Secret Garden is written in simplified Chinese using approximately 300 unique characters, contains approximately 400 elementary words, and is 9,800 characters in length. Plot SummaryLi Ye grew up never knowing the love and affection of her parents. After an epidemic leaves her an orphan, Li Ye is sent off to live with her reclusive Uncle in his sprawling estate in Nanjing. She learns of a secret garden where no one has set foot in ten years. Li Ye finds the garden and slowly discovers the secrets of the manor. With the help of new friends, she brings the garden back to life, a decision that forever changes several lives.Visit www.MandarinCompanion.com for the latest updates on new titles.

    The 15 graded lessons include vocabulary and grammar exercises, 35 readings, pronunciation, 15 maps, 45 illustrations, and 180 exercises. Journey through Viking Age Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Britain, Russia, and Byzantium with original Old Norse readings of Vikings, Norse mythology, heroes, sacred kingship, blood feuds, and daily life.The Viking Language Series speeds learning by focusing on the most frequently used words in the sagas. It takes you to the heart of Icelandic literature, Viking runestones, legends, and Old Norse mythology that has preserved the early medieval history of Scandinavia.

    Schottenfreude is a unique, must-have dictionary, complete with newly coined words that explore the idiosyncrasies of life as only the German language can. In what other language but German could you construct le mot juste for a secret love of bad foods, the inability to remember jokes, Sunday-afternoon depression, the urge to yawn, the glee of gossip, reassuring your hairdresser, delight at the changing of the seasons, the urge to hoard, or the ineffable pleasure of a cold pillow? A beguiling, ideal gift book for the Gelehrte or anyone on your list—just beware of rapidly expanding (and potentially incomprehensible) vocabularies.

    The Student's Book with answers allows students to familiarise themselves with IELTS and to practise examination techniques using authentic test material. It contains four complete tests for Academic candidates, plus extra Reading and Writing modules for General Training candidates. An introduction to these different modules is included in each book, together with with an explanation of the scoring system used by Cambridge ESOL. A comprehensive section of answers and tapescripts makes the material ideal for students working partly or entirely on their own. Audio CDs containing the listening tests material are available separately, or as part of a self-study pack.

    Each book uses characters, words, and grammar that a learner is most likely to know at each level based on in-depth analysis of textbooks, education programs, and natural Chinese language. Every story is written in a style that is easy for a learner to understand and enjoyable to read. Level 1 is intended for Chinese learners who have obtained a middle-elementary level of Chinese. Most students will be able to approach this book after one to two years of traditional formal study. This story is written using approximately 300 characters and contains approximately 400 elementary words. Mr. Xie was recently hired by the Curly Haired Company. For a significant weekly allowance, he was required to sit in an office and copy articles from a book, in the meantime his assistant looked after his shop. He had answered an advertisement in the paper and although hundreds of people applied, he was the only one selected because of his very curly hair. When the company unexpectedly closed, Mr. Xie visited Gao Ming (Sherlock Holmes) with this strange story. Gao Ming is certain something is not right, but will he solve the mystery in time?

    It anchors a comprehensive kanji learning system, supported by the KLC Graded Reading Sets, the KLC Green Book, the KLC Wall Chart, and keystojapanese.com (a user-support website for forming study groups, exchanging tips, and tracking one's learning progress with points and level ranks). The KLC is also cross-referenced for convenient use with Kodansha's companion volume, the Kanji Learner's Dictionary. THE FOUR ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR KANJI LEARNINGThe 2,300 entries of this main textbook adeptly integrate the four essential elements for mastering kanji meanings:(1) Accurate keywords. Each character's core meaning is encapsulated in a concise, easily memorized keyword. The keywords for all 2,300 entries have been carefully chosen to be semantically accurate and to integrate the character's various senses into a core idea.(2) Vocabulary to illustrate the keywords. The concept captured in each keyword is illustrated with up to five sample vocabulary items, carefully selected to clarify how the kanji is used in building typical words and phrases. (3) Mnemonic aids for remembering the keywords. Each entry contains an original mnemonic aid that is carefully designed to help you remember the character's core meanings. Mnemonic aids pay special attention to helping you immediately recognize each kanji and distinguish it from lookalikes.(4) Rational learning sequence. The course's widely praised sequence represents a breakthrough in kanji pedagogy. It aids learning by introducing kanji components step by step, grouping related kanji together, and building vocabulary progressively - all while teaching the kanji in rough order of importance. A SELF-GUIDING, SELF-REINFORCING COURSEThe course arranges all the information needed to master 2,300 characters into a streamlined, self-guiding, and mnemonically self-reinforcing curriculum. Sample compounds include only such kanji as have previously been learned, ensuring that you are able to understand and use each compound, and giving you a built-in review of all the kanji already studied. THE ULTIMATE KANJI LEARNING RESOURCE• Provides a sophisticated, pedagogically sound method for remembering the core meaning of each kanji, conveniently summarized in concise keywords to facilitate memorization.• Introduces the meaning and usage of each grapheme the first time it appears, helping you seamlessly learn new kanji based on a sound understanding of their component parts.• Innovatively uses concrete imagery to simplify complex characters and make their meanings immediately recognizable in their graphical forms.• Teaches characters in a pedagogically effective sequence, presenting graphically related characters together to help you give significance to their contrastive features as you learn them, and thereby avoid having to re-learn them later.• Helps you actively apply each character's principal meanings and readings using key vocabulary words, carefully chosen to illustrate the character's uses and to help you employ it in everyday reading and written communication.• Helps you differentiate among graphically similar kanji by showing how to remember the characters in a mutually contrastive manner that connects their graphical distinctions to their underlying semantic differences. Along the way, the course introduces nearly 800 pairs of easily confused kanji.• Helps you learn to write kanji accurately, by indicating each kanji's stroke order and placing careful emphasis on distinctions among graphically similar characters.• Includes all the kanji needed for genuine literacy in Japanese, including all 196 characters added to the official Joyo Kanji List in 2010.

    This visual reference book takes you through all the different parts of the English language, leaving you ready to help your children tackle the trickiest of subjects.Carol Vorderman's unique study aid encourages parents and children to work together as a team to understand and use all aspects of the English language, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling. This latest title in the best-selling Help Your Kids series combines pictures, diagrams, instructions, and examples to cover the components of the school syllabus, while building knowledge, boosting confidence, and aiding understanding.With your support, children can overcome the challenges of English, leaving them calm, confident, and exam ready.

    But after creating a grammar, there's the 800-pound gorilla of the lexicon to deal with. This book gives you everything you need to know to create words. The first stop is etymology: it contains thousands of etymologies from a wide variety of languages. Borrow them or let them spark your own ideas! It's easy to let the lexicon be a coded version of your native language. The Lexipedia contains tips on how to avoid this, including plenty of fascinating examples from non-English languages. You want to know which words to create first. The Lexipedia includes the 1500 words most commonly found in fantasy and science fiction, sorted by frequency. Many parts of the lexicon require real-world knowledge to handle. The Lexipedia contains just enough information on biology, physics, and human cultures to help you out. Plus, there's a discussion of the basic tools of the word creator: categories, metaphors, and derivation. Though aimed at conlangers, the Lexipedia will be instructive and entertaining for anyone who's interested in words.

    Responding to advocates of the 'code-switching' approach, this book makes the case for 'code-meshing' - allowing students to use standard English, African American English, and other Englishes in formal academic writing and classroom discussions.

    Passionate Louis creates some hilarious situations with his beginners French and long suffering Melba (modestly fluent) steps in when necessary to sort out the mess and misunderstandings. This short novel is suitable for advanced beginners. No dictionary is necessary: French-English glossaries under each paragraph introduce you to the words and phrases you might not know.A large french-english dictionnary at the end of the book containing 1,500+ French words and expressions allow you to easily find any word from the story again, with its gender and its exact english translation.

     Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it’s two words (“Jesus wept.”) or William Faulkner’s 1,287-word sentence in Absalom! Absalom!, sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Yet, the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy. Building Great Sentences teaches you to write better sentences by luxuriating in the pleasures of language. Award-winning Professor Brooks Landon draws on examples from masters of long, elegant sentences—including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnson—to reveal the mechanics of how language works on thoughts and emotions, providing the tools to write powerful, more effective sentences.

    If you are just starting to learn Korean, going through all the verbs in the book one after another can be a good idea, but if you already know some Korean and want to enhance your grammar skills related to specific verbs, feel free to just look up those words and practice using them. In addition to the conjugation tables, you will see many sample sentences and quizzes to help you become more comfortable in using the verbs, so be sure to keep practicing and reviewing!

    It's a pleasant way of expanding one’s vocabulary, immersing in the French language and building confidence. There is no need for a dictionnary: key words are listed under each paragraph and translated out of the context. At the end of the book, all new words are summed up in a complete vocabulary section. Simple and easy to read, the short stories use a good mix of grammar constructs, with basic and useful vocabulary. The stories are written in tenses used in normal conversation : present tense, and just a little bit of future tense, passé composé and imparfait. With the MP3, you can practice your pronunciation and your listening (40 minutes/ read by the author). These stories are now available in the past tenses passé composé and imparfait [ASIN: B00PM4SO5M] Beginners : Level A0 - A1 About the author : Sylvie Lainé lives in Normandy where she teaches French to adults and teenagers. Her work with students of various nationalities and different ages allowed her to understand their difficulties and their challenges. Having looked for enjoyable reads to occasionnaly escape grammar and exercise books, but finding nothing simple enough for her beginners, she came up with the idea to write stories herself. She is passionate about writing and now publishes short stories tailored to the needs of English speakers.

    Both words and pictures reflect the rich culture and tradition of the Cree people.

    

    Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape recorder up to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk. The Baldwin family of Montana put labels all over their house marked with the Miami words for common objects and activities, to keep the vocabulary present and fresh. In Massachusetts, at the birth of their first daughter, Jesse Little Doe Baird and her husband convince the obstetrician and nurses to remain silent so that the first words their baby hears in this world are Wampanoag. Thirteen autobiographical accounts of language revitalization, ranging from Irish Gaelic to Mohawk, Kawaiisu to Maori, are brought together by Leanne Hinton, professor emerita of linguistics at UC Berkeley, who for decades has been leading efforts to preserve the rich linguistic heritage of the world.

    It confronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth;negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that fictional characters like Hamlet, or mythical kinds like bandersnatches, might have existed). In treating these questions, he makes a number of methodological observations that go beyond the framework of hisearlier book -- including the striking claim that fiction cannot provide a test for theories of reference and naming. In addition, these lectures provide a glimpse into the transition to the pragmatics of singular reference that dominated his influential paper, Speaker's Reference and SemanticReference -- a paper that helped reorient linguistic and philosophical semantics. Some of the themes have been worked out in later writings by other philosophers -- many influenced by typescripts of the lectures in circulation -- but none have approached the careful, systematic treatment providedhere. The virtuosity of Naming and Necessity -- the colloquial ease of the tone, the dazzling, on-the-spot formulations, the logical structure of the overall view gradually emerging over the course of the lectures -- is on display here as well.

    This fascinating guide will teach you all you need to know about the vocabulary of the Rogues of Georgian London and how to function in society at the lowest level. Along the way you will acquire some much-needed information and advice on how to make false dice; how to pick pockets; how best to rob a man on a horse; and where to find a good cup of coffee at 3:00am in the morning.

     At the core of Korean, Complete Edition is the Living Language Method™, based on linguistic science, proven techniques, and over 65 years of experience. Our method teaches you the whole language, so you can express yourself, not just recite memorized words or scripts. Millions have learned with Living Language®. Now it’s your turn.    • 4 Books: 46 lessons, additional review exercises, culture notes, and a grammar summary—plus a complete guide to reading and writing Korean   • 9 Audio CDs: Vocabulary, dialogues, audio exercises, and more—listen while using the books or use for review on the go    • Free Online Learning: Visit our Language Lab (www.livinglanguage.com/languagelab) for flashcards, games, and interactive quizzes for each lesson To learn more visit livinglanguage.com.  The Living Language Method™ Build a FoundationStart speaking Korean immediately using essential words and phrases. Progress with ConfidenceBuild on each lesson as you advance to full sentences, then actual conversations.  Retain what You’ve LearnedSpecial recall exercises move your new language from short-term to long-term memory. Achieve Your GoalsDon’t just mimic or memorize. Develop practical language skills to speak in any situation.

    This is the only guide to list all verb forms in both Japanese script and romanized form, while giving an accurate English translation for each conjugated form, making this book far more comprehensive than any other book on the subject.Compiled by Japanese language experts at The Hiro Japanese Center, more than 30 different verbal forms are given for each verb including all forms used in contemporary spoken, written, formal and conversational Japanese—making this the ideal reference when reading any sort of Japanese printed materials including manga, newspapers, magazines and books. 600 Basic Japanese Verbs places an expert resource at your fingertips, giving you the information you need to speak, read, and write Japanese sentences correctly.Key features of this book are:-Includes all the most useful verbs and Kanji (logographic Chinese characters) in Japanese, including less common ones-A wealth of example sentences are given to demonstrate correct verb usage-Over 30 forms are given for each verb including polite or formal, plain, negative, potential, conditional, passive, causative, and many more-Both Kana, Japanese script, and romanized forms are given for each entry-An ideal study guide for the standard Advanced Placement college test and the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam-Special sections are devoted to compound verbs and suru verbs such as -Kaimono suru (to shop), benkyo suru (to study), and much more

    Corinne McKay is also the author of "How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator," the original career how-to guide for freelance translators, with over 5,000 copies in print. Her practical, down-to-earth tips are based on her own experience launching and running a successful freelance translation business after a first career as a high school teacher.

    For four decades, he has worked for newspapers, from the Sun to the Financial Times, from local weeklies that sold a few thousand copies to the Guardian, with its global readership of nine million, turning the sow's ear of rough-and-ready reportage into a passable imitation of a silk purse.The chaos might be sloppy syntax, a disregard for grammar or a fundamental misunderstanding of what grammar is. It could be an adherence to "rules" that have no real basis and get in the way of fluent, unambiguous communication at the expense of ones that are actually useful. Clear, honest use of English has many enemies: politicians, business and marketing people, local authority and civil service jargonauts, rail companies, estate agents, academics ... and some journalists. This is the book to help defeat them.

    If you want to be reminded of those days, look inside. If you want to learn those brisk maxims, many of them are collected here. And if you aspire to become a crusty old editor, this is the handbook. About the Author: John McIntyre is the night content production manager at The Baltimore Sun and author of the blog You Don't Say at Baltimoresun.com. A former president of the American Copy Editors Society, he teaches editing at Loyola University Maryland.

    Includes a centre section containing thematic lists, for example of animals, games, and tools, designed to help you broaden your vocabulary, improve your general knowledge, and solve quizzes and puzzles. Discover more on oxforddictionaries.com, Oxford's hub for dictionaries and language reference.

    Faculties have been learning about how the mind works, and this book spreads the message to students, who need it just as much. More sophisticated and empirically grounded than any study skills manual, this book addresses all the major research findings on how the human brain learns. And it does so using language and examples that students can easily understand and immediately apply to enhance their attention, depth of processing, retention, retrieval, and far-transfer abilities. Plus, each chapter ends with excellent summaries and scholarly references. It deserves to be required reading for all college students—really, anyone interested in learning."?Linda B. Nilson, Director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson UniversityRecent advances in brain science show that most students’ learning strategies are highly inefficient, ineffective or just plain wrong. While all learning requires effort, better learning does not require more effort, but rather effectively aligning how the brain naturally learns with the demands of your studies. This book shows you what is involved in learning new material, how the human brain processes new information, and what it takes for that information to stick with you even after the test.Taking a small amount of time to read and act upon the material in this book will prove to be one of the best decisions you can make as a learner. What you discover will change the way you learn in college and will be helpful in your personal and professional life. You live in a world where you will have to be a lifelong learner, constantly updating your skills and changing jobs to compete in the global marketplace. Most college students today will have as many as 10-14 different jobs by age 38. Learning how to learn in harmony with your brain is crucial to your long-term success.This succinct book explains straightforward strategies for changing how you prepare to learn, engage with your course material, and set about improving recall of newly learned material whenever you need it. This is not another book about study skills and time management strategies, but instead an easy-to-read description of the research about how the human brain learns in a way that you can put into practice right away. [STY LOGO] [TXT LOGO]

    Written for Learners of English by Rachel Bladon.What is Japan? It is everything new and modern: the Tokyo Sky Tree, 634 metres high; amazing cameras and phones; karaoke and manga; trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everything ancient too: beautiful palaces; high mountains and hot springs; cherry blossom in the spring; quiet gardens with water and trees. Here the past meets the future all the time. From sumo wrestlers to robots, Japan has something amazing for everybody.

    Terrence Moore carefully examines both the claims made by the architects of the Common Core and the hidden agenda behind the so-called reforms that have been adopted by over forty states in the nation, with very few people understanding what is really going on. Moore not only challenges the illiberal aims of this educational regime, but actually analyzes lessons recommended in the Common Core English Standards and in the new textbooks bearing the Common Core logo. Such a thorough review exposes the absurdity, superficiality, and political bias that can only serve to dumb down the nation's schools. Worse, the means that the Common Core uses is a deliberate undermining of the great stories of our tradition, the stories that in former times trained the minds and ennobled the souls of young people. Those stories are now under attack, and the minds and souls of the nation's children are in peril.

    Chock-full of treasures of the English language, the diversity of terms collected here covers topics from plants and animals (a parade of elephants, an embarrassment of pandas) to people and things (a pomposity of professors, an exultation of fireworks) and range from the familiar (a pride of lions) to the downright obscure (an ooze of amoebas). Pronunciations, definitions, etymologies, and historical anecdotes make this beautiful book an entertaining read, a standout reference, and a visual treat. Language lovers and art appreciators alike will be captivated by this gem, rich in word and image.

    Undoing facile assumptions about Celan, Corona charts a more idiosyncratic and personal path through Celan's large oeuvre, choosing 103 poems from among the more than 900 Celan published. The bilingual selection includes work from all of Celan's periods and genres. Without ignoring the poet's well-known work of memory and memorialization, it seeks to open a space for new appreciation of Celan's love poems, as well as his poems on political events, painful reflections on his stays in mental hospitals, and quasi-burlesque verse. Susan H. Gillespie's translations are characterized by their ease of diction and their attention to the somatic and rhetorical aspects of Celan's lines-their sound, gait, tone, and gravity-as well as to their internal and external echoes. The latter, elucidated in notes to the poems, include references to other poets and to Celan's wide readings of everything from specialized dictionaries to other writers-what Roman Jakobson called their poetic etymology.

    Inside are nearly 100 “Pajama Diaries” comics featuring holidays like Passover and Hanukkah, as well as the long-running 2013 story line about the planning of Amy Kaplan’s Bat Mitzvah. Two page-long descriptions provide background for the cartoons, which are divided into holiday and Bat Mitzvah strips. Modern multitasking families of all faiths will certainly enjoy this book.

    Phonetics is a required course among students of speech pathology and linguistics, and it's a popular elective among students of telecommunications and forensics. The first popular guide to this fascinating discipline, "Phonetics For Dummies" is an excellent overview of the field for students enrolled in introductory phonetics courses and an ideal introduction for anyone with an interest in the field.Bonus instructional videos, video quizzes, and other content available online for download on the dummies.com product page for this book.

    Now, former Scotland Yard criminal intelligence officer Stevyn Colgan has designed a paper-based wireless device to do the same thing with facts – a kind of Six Degrees of Information.Called the Connectoscope, it will teach you, among many other things, what humans taste like to robots, why there were bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover, how a tree became the New York Stock Exchange, why Bob the Builder has more fingers In Japan than in the UK, who the patron saint of medical records is, and how to make Superman gay.Colgan sets out to prove that everything can be connected. As this dizzyingly fact-filled book shows, the fun lies in figuring out how.

    Leofwin and his family are your guides through six lively, entertaining, topic-based units. New vocabulary and grammar are presented in context, step by step, so that younger readers and non-language specialists can feel engaged rather than intimidated. The author has complemented the text with a wealth of illustrations throughout. This volume is the first part of the course."

    

    This book organizes material into themes and adds even more fascinating tips about Korean culture. The book also features easy and useful Korean expressions and charming illustrations that aid comprehension.

    And, now this bestselling brand offers you all of the tools you need to learn Spanish in one value-packed workbook. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish All-in-One covers all facets of a language to give you a solid foundation of verbs, vocabulary, grammar, and conversational structures. This one-stop resource features thorough explanations that are reinforced by hundreds of hands-on practice exercises that give you real confidence in your new language skills.

    This dictionary also includes (well marked) reconstructions.

    Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple, a site of struggle, and subject to change across time and place is highly productive for understanding language learning. Her sociological construct of investment is an important complement to psychological theories of motivation. The implications for language teaching and teacher education are profound. Now including a new, comprehensive Introduction as well as an Afterword by Claire Kramsch, this second edition addresses the following central questions:- Under what conditions do language learners speak, listen, read and write?- How are relations of power implicated in the negotiation of identity?- How can teachers address the investments and imagined identities of learners?The book integrates research, theory, and classroom practice, and is essential reading for students, teachers and researchers in the fields of language learning and teaching, TESOL, applied linguistics and literacy.

    If you are just starting to learn Korean, going through all the verbs in the book one after another can be a good idea, but if you already know some Korean and want to enhance your grammar skills related to specific verbs, feel free to just look up those words and practice using them. In addition to the conjugation tables, you will see many sample sentences and quizzes to help you become more comfortable in using the verbs, so be sure to keep practicing and reviewing!

    It's about Linguistics and Language, but it's not a textbook. Rather, it takes a sidelong look at all that is humorous about the field. Containing over 150 articles, poems, cartoons, humorous ads and book announcements--plus a generous sprinkling of quotes, proverbs and other witticisms--the book discovers things to laugh about in most major subfields of Linguistics. It pokes good-natured fun at linguists (famous or otherwise), linguistic theory, and many aspects of language. The authors and editors are linguists who love their field, but who at the same time love to celebrate the funny aspects of Linguistics. The book invites readers to laugh along.

    It has become so central to the way we communicate and live, however, that it often seems as if writing has always existed.But the question remains: Who invented writing, and why?In these 24 fascinating lectures, you'll trace the remarkable saga of the invention and evolution of "visible speech," from its earliest origins to its future in the digital age. Your guide is an accomplished professor and epigrapher who whisks you around the globe to explore how an array of sophisticated writing systems developed, then were adopted and adapted by surrounding cultures.Along the way, you'll visit the great early civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Japan, and the Americas, and you'll see how deciphering ancient scripts is a little like cracking secret codes - only far more difficult.You'll be spellbound as you hear accounts of the breathtaking moments when the decipherment of ancient scripts broke centuries of silence. And you'll marvel at fascinating objects once shrouded in mystery, including the iconic Rosetta stone.Writing and Civilization offers the chance to not only discover the history of ancient writing systems, but also the rare opportunity to actually hear those scripts read aloud and to learn the meaning of their messages hidden in plain sight.Please note a guidebook is included with the audiobook.

    Around the turn of the century, educator and author Eugene Moutoux's penchant for grammar led him to a thorough study of sentence diagramming, the rudiments of which he learned as a child from an elementary-school teacher.

    Between these covers, a Deaf couple fights over their son’s language use, an Australian woman joins the community as an adult, a Deaf woman’s body is fished out a dumpster, and a British Deaf poet wants to keep “zombies”—hearing people—out. The range of perspectives is astonishing, including opposing views. In one story, a hearing journalist tells us about the infamous Milan congress of educators who banned sign language in 1880, while in another story, a Deaf woman tells us what it’s like to have a hearing journalist interview her and her husband for a “human interest” story. Even in pieces that are about just one Deaf person, readers get a powerful sense of life in one of the most vibrant and least understood communities.Its 32 writers include Andria Alefhi, Allison L. Aubrecht, Veronica Bickle, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Amber Ceffalio, Karen Christie, Willy Conley, T. K. Dalton, Mark Drolsbaugh, Donald Grushkin, Frank Gallimore, K. C. Harmon, Christopher Jon Heuer, Paul Hostovsky, Karen Lloyd, Raymond Luczak, Dominic McGreal, Lauren Ridloff, Kristen Ringman, Curtis Robbins, Sarah Segal, Dean Sheridan, Robert Siebert, Eddie Swayze, Pia Taavila-Borsheim, Stephen Tendrich, Michael Uniacke, Clayton Valli, Michele Westfall, Donna Williams, Morgan Grayce Willow, and Pamela Wright.The book will be available as an ebook at Apple iBookstore and on the Kindle.

    A quarter of a century ago hardly anybody knew what a font was, let alone the difference between Times Roman and Palatino. But in the present era of blogs, social media, and even a feature film devoted entirely to Helvetica, choosing a typeface is as important as picking the right tie for a job interview, and identifying fonts has evolved into a 21st-century urbanite's version of bird-watching. Written for type fanatics of all stripes, award-winning designer Peter Dawson draws on his immense knowledge to help readers identify and understand the fonts that appear in our daily lives. Inspired by traditional field guides, each spread examines one typeface in depth, listing its designer, year of release, and a brief history that addresses its origins, common uses, and distinguishing characteristics. Hundreds of color photographs reveal typefaces at work in airports and train stations, on smartphones and book jackets, online and in signage. Also included are interviews with influential designers such as Freda Sack, Henrik Kubel, and Jason Smith, and tips for distinguishing between similar-looking fonts. Brimming with facts and photos, this helpful guide offers aspiring as well as proficient "font spotters" all the information they need to identify type in the real world.

    Playful and bold, this dynamic series will educate and entertain preschoolers, parents, and teachers alike.In addition to the English words presented, the French and Cree equivalents are also given, making these some of the most dynamic and useful board books on the market, perfectly suitable for the classroom, library, and nursery.Neepin Auger is a Cree artist, educator, and mother. Originally from the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, she has been painting for over ten years, having studied art under her father, Dale Auger, a renowned First Nations artist and author of the award-winning children's book Mwâkwa Talks to the Loon: A Cree Story for Children.A apple pomme picikwâsN night nuit tipiskâwB butterfly papillon mimikwâsO owl hibou ôhôr>C canoe canoë cîmânP paintbrush pinceau sisopêkahikanâhtikr>D drum tambour mistikwaskihkQ quilt courtepointe nanâtohkokwâtewr>E eggs oeufs wâwihR rainbow arc en ciel pîsimoyâpiyr>F fish poisson kinosêwS sweat lodge suerie matotisânr>G garden jardin ka kiscikesihkT teepee tipi mîkowâhpr>H hat chapeau astotinU up to jusqu'à ispimihkI insect nsecte manicôsV valley vallée ka tawatinakr>J jacket veste miskotâkayW water eau nîpîyr>K knife couteau môhkomânX x-ray radiographie sâpwâpahcikanr>L loon plongeon mwâkwaY yellow bird oiseau jaune osâwi-piyêsîsr>M moccasin mocassin maskisinZ zig zag zig zag wâwâkastewr>able>07Neepin Auger's alphabet board book uses the same bright, simple style of illustration as the companion Discovering Numbers. English, French and Cree words accompany each illustration. Only the English words, in fact, follow the alphabet while the French and Cree words are translations. The pictures will be familiar to Cree children and provide a useful introduction to the other languages.—Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools, 2014-20152014100107Each page of this small alphabet board book features an animal or object appealing to young readers. Many important aspects of Aboriginal cultures are featured. Sometimes this is in the choice of objects, such as canoe, drum, moccasins, sweat lodge, and teepee. Other times it is in the illustration itself such as Métis beading on a jacket or a woman’s long dark braid. Each picture is labeled in English, French, and Cree. The alphabetical order is based on the English words. A final page compiles all the pictures.—Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools20151028070372069781927330951.jpg2013040302Rocky Mountain BooksRMB | Rocky Mountain Books01RMB | Rocky Mountain Books042013092301CA GB016.5in026.5in03.625in08300grHeritage Group Distribution Ltd.02CA02Y21201309164801Standard02Standard discountStandard12.00CAD

    The book unearths this story for the first time and analyses the rejuvenating impact it had on the cultural revival in the nationalist community beyond the prison walls.Based on unprecedented interviews, Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh explores a key period in Irish history through the original and 'insider' accounts of key protagonists in the contemporary Irish language revival.

     At the core of Hebrew, Complete Edition is the Living Language Method™, based on linguistic science, proven techniques, and over 65 years of experience. Our method teaches you the whole language, so you can express yourself, not just recite memorized words or scripts. Millions have learned with Living Language®. Now it’s your turn.    • 3 Books: 46 lessons, additional review exercises, culture notes, and a grammar summary   • 9 Audio CDs: Vocabulary, dialogues, audio exercises, and more—listen while using the books or use for review on the go    • Free Online Learning: Visit our Language Lab (www.livinglanguage.com/languagelab) for additional practice and reinforcement of lesson materialTo learn more visit livinglanguage.com.  The Living Language Method™ Build a FoundationStart speaking Hebrew immediately using essential words and phrases. Progress with ConfidenceBuild on each lesson as you advance to full sentences, then actual conversations.  Retain what You’ve LearnedSpecial recall exercises move your new language from short-term to long-term memory. Achieve Your GoalsDon’t just mimic or memorize. Develop practical language skills to speak in any situation.

    You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into action. Why Pimsleur? • Quick + Easy – Only 30 minutes a day. • Portable + Flexible – Core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life. • Proven Method – Works when other methods fail. • Self-Paced – Go fast or go slow – it’s up to you. • Based in Science – Developed using proven research on memory and learning. • Cost-effective – Less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers. • Genius – Triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn. • Works for everyone – Recommended for ages 13 and above. What’s Included? • 30, 30-minute audio lessons • 60 minutes of reading instruction to provide you practice reading French • in total, 16 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers • A digital Reading Booklet What You’ll Learn Builds upon skills taught in Pimsleur’s French Levels 1-3. You’ll be speaking and understanding French with near-fluency and with considerable skill. In Level 4, the pace and conversation moves more rapidly, making way for even more substantial mastery of vocabulary and structures. Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, Pimsleur will help you learn French and expand your horizons and enrich your life.

    The Children's Voice includes an all-star cast of illustrators from Nathan Wyburn (Abergavenny, UK) jamming Y Broga Bach on toast, Anthony Richards of (Ammanford, UK) dripping Bwrw Glaw, and Siobhan Owen rendering Fuoch chi Rioed yn Morio?, and many more! Freeman is at his best revealing the origin and background of the Welsh rhymes, providing the reader with meaningful insight into Welsh family dynamics and how social and economic factors impacted the roots of the stories told. Participating artists: Nathan Wyburn, Anthony Richards, Siobhan Owen, Michele Witchipoo, Kimberly Wlassak, Rochelle Shelly Rosenkild, Brian Kenny, Nichola Hope, Sarah Hope, Rhys Jones, Kerry Evans, Jo Mazelis, Judy Adamson, Spine Stealer, Karen Richards, Laurent Castiau, Gaabriel Becket, Xavier Lopez Jr., Jason Shepherd, Adrien Burke, Danny Walden, Robert Karr, John Charles, Grasiela Rodriguez, Casey Ruic, Daniele Serra, and Lorin Morgan-Richards. (cover image by Robert Karr)

    Despite the persistence of unflattering stereotypes and cultural discrimination associated with their style of speech, Appalachians have organized to preserve regional dialects-complex forms of English peppered with words, phrases, and pronunciations unique to the area and its people. Talking Appalachian examines these distinctive speech

    This story contains approximately 800 Russian words from such topics as clothes, food, politics, office, sports and gym, transport and business that are required for everyday communication.The first five chapters (including audio and exercises) are now available for free on the website http: //russianinlondon.com/rasskaz-sensatsiy... Please visit to see for yourself what the textbook is about and whether you like it before purchasing. You may want to have a look at two other books of the same author.The story is completely fictional, with fictional characters and scenery, full of sarcasm and jokes with a mockery of stereo-types.Ignaty Dyakov, professional Russian teacher, wrote it as an aid to making the Russian language study process a little bit more bearable for adult learners. By no means can it be seen as a substitute for the classical language textbook but the author's humble hope is that it can become a useful and enjoyable supplement to the course materials for Elementary and Pre-Intermediate levels.'Rasskaz Sensatsiya' contains approximately 800 words that are required for everyday communication. Every word appears in the text several times so that the learner can become accustomed to its meaning in the context. The author tried to include words from such topics as clothes, food, politics, office, sports and gym, transport and business. He also tried to use some common Russian set expressions and proverbs and quotes from famous songs. There are many dialogues in the story. There are lists of new words in every chapter. No translation is provided so that the learner can make a note of the meanings in their own language. At the end of the book, one can find a concise Russian-English dictionary.The story is written in slightly simplified Russian. Thus, the learner will find it easier to recognise and memorise grammar structures. At the end of each chapter there are questions and/or grammar exercises.The book is published in association with Russia Local Ltd, Russo-British Chamber of Commerce and ctms Travel Agency.Illustrated by Gregg Ink.Praise for the book:"A brilliant debut! No doubts this textbook will be extremely useful to the learners of the Russian language who are also interested in the current state of Russia, its history, culture, and people." /Dr Alexander Zdanevich, Director, Russian Centre of Science and Culture, Tanzania/"This is a very unique and original approach to language learning, it gives the reader useful everyday words and phrases in the context of a compelling story that makes you want to read and learn more. A real change from the norm of formal boring language books." /Richard Royal, Chairman, Conservative Friends of Russia, UK/"An entertaining read. Gives a nice impression - easy to grasp, a thriller and a series of exercises." /Arthur Matikyan, Head of UK, Ireland, Iceland representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo/"Unconventional material... Specifics of the pedagogical technology suggested by the author are based on the text principle and oriented at active learning and development of the creative language personality... The work laudably impresses and can be used as a textbook for foreign learners." /Prof Lyudmila Verbitskaya, President of St Petersburg State University/SOME OF THE READERS'/LEARNERS' REVIEWS:The whole book is an amazing resource of current Russian vocabulary. Pushkin is a great author, but he won't teach you how to ask for an account opening in Russian language. /Stanislava via Amazon/A refreshing addition to every Russian language student's bookshelf /Pauline via Amazon/This simply is a great book as the other reviewers have said. But there is a bonus as well! If you also obtain the audiobook version (in MP3 format) it makes superb aural practice too /Brianaero via Amazon/Rasskaz-Senstsiya (book one) is so good that I am ordering book two and will soon be on to the new book three. /Anthony Arnold-Boakes via Amazon/An essential purchase for anyone looking to do business in Russian, no matter their language ability. /Michael J. via Amazon/As a Russian learner, this is the first book i've found that is full of light and developing stories... War And Peace next :) !! /Mr E Asta via Amazon/I'm looking forward to the rest of George's adventures! /leavesthataragreen via Amazon/Having almost finished this book I have ordered the other two in the series. /GeorgeM via Amazon/A refreshingly innovative approach to learning Russian by proposing a narrative full of humor and wit in clear and easy-to-understand contemporary language. /O. Sarah via Amazon/At last a book with modern conversational adult-oriented Russian and a welcome relief from fairy-tales with unusable vocabulary, excepts from Tolstoy with archaic words, and boring textbook stories that were the content of lessons up to when I started with these books. /GrantBT via Amazon/

    The dictionary also contains 25 thematically organised lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics such as food, weather, occupations and leisure. Numerous bar charts are also included to highlight the phonetic and spelling variants across register.A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese enables students of all levels to maximise their study of Japanese vocabulary in an efficient and engaging way. It is also an excellent resource for teachers of the language.

    The sixty-six stories found in Arabic Stories for Language Learners present the vocabulary and grammar used everyday in Arabic-speaking countries. Pulled from a wide variety of sources that have been edited and simplified for learning purposes, these stories are presented in parallel Arabic and English, facilitating language learning in the classroom and via self-study. Each story is followed by a series of questions in Arabic and English to test comprehension and encourage discussion.Arabic Stories for Language Learners brings Arab culture to life in a colorful and immediate way. Regardless of whether or not you have a working knowledge of Arabic, this book gives readers a tantalizing introduction to the wisdom and humor of these ancient desert-dwelling peoples. An audio CD in Arabic and English helps students of Arabic improve their pronunciation and inflection, and immerses non-students into the uniquely Arabic storytelling style.

    While WilliamTyndale employed it to describe one of two goats chosen by lot to escape the Day of Atonement sacrifices with its life, the expression was soon far more widely used to name victims of false accusation and unwarranted punishment. As such, the scapegoat figures prominently in contemporary theories of violence, from its elevation by Frazer to a ritual category in his ethnological opus The Golden Bough to its pivotal roles in projects as seemingly at odds as Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of Western metaphysics and René Girard’s theory of cultural origins. A copiously researched and groundbreaking investigation of the expression in such wide use today, Flesh Becomes Word follows the scapegoat from its origins in Mesopotamian ritual across centuries of typological reflection on the meaning of Jesus’ death, to its first informal uses in the pornographic and plague literature of the 1600s, and finally into the modern era, where the word takes recognizable shape in the context of the New English Quaker persecution and proto-feminist diatribe at the close of the seventeenth century. The historical circumstances of its lexical formation prove rich in implications for current theories of the scapegoat and the making of the modern world alike.

    Developed by renowned Greek teacher William Mounce, this revolutionary crash-course on “Greek for the rest of us” will acquaint you with the essentials of the language and deepen your understanding of God’s Word. You’ll gain a sound knowledge of Greek, and you’ll learn how to use tools that will add muscle to your Bible studies.This book is divided into three major sections (Foundational Greek, Church Greek, and Functional Greek), each of which builds on the previous section and takes you to the next level. Depending on which levels you take, the book will teach you how to:Read and pronounce Greek wordsLearn the fundamentals of the Greek noun and verb systemConduct effective Greek word studiesLearn the basics of Greek exegesis for biblical interpretationDecipher why translations are differentRead better commentariesBe comfortable using reverse and traditional interlinearsUnderstand the information displayed by biblical software

    But if you are interested in becoming fluent, you'll need to learn how these building blocks are used in everyday, natural language. That's where Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses comes in.You will, of course, get plenty of practice, practice, practice using your new verb selection and conjugation skills. Whether you are learning on your own or taking a beginning Italian class, Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses will help you master Italian in no time at all.Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses will help you: Learn when and why to use different verb tensesReinforce your knowledge with everyday examples covering a wide range of topicsBuild your verb skills using more than 300 engaging exercises

    to the people who make your life tremendously AWESOME.With full-color art and unique messages, this gift book contains 50 new ways to say "I love you," "I appreciate you" and "you amaze me.''Give the entire book to someone you adore - or tear out each perforated page, add a personalized note on the back and use it 50 times over.You'll never wonder how to say "thank you" again!Bland praise? Not here. You'll find lively wordplay & unforgettable compliments, including:- "BOOM! Brilliance strikes again." - "I want to clone you for nefarious purposes." - "You're a miracle machine." - "Your genius would be alarming, if it wasn't so darn consistent." - "Welcome to Awesometown, USA. Population: YOU." Each message is paired with a fill-in-the-blank script on the flip-side, for a personalized "thank you" note.The book also includes an inspiring introduction - "50 Ways To Use This Book" - packed with 50 simple ways to express your appreciation to the people who make your life better, every single day. Gratitude changes everything.Let your praises ring!

    Each of the eight chapters contain a variety of activities, such as games, finger plays, songs, and crafts, which help children develop language learning, improve communication and self-expression, and raise their self-esteem. All vocabulary comes from American Sign Language (ASL), a language with formalized grammatical conventions that stimulates language centers of the brain. Illustrations of the relevant signs are prominently featured throughout the book, and the activities have all been tested in the author's own "Little Hands Signing" classes since 2006. The practical guidance is perfect for adults new to signing as well as those familiar with ASL and wanting ideas to enhance learning and communication with their babies.

    Understand the fundamental system of pronunciation and pronounce initial consonants, medial vowels and final consonants correctly. Understand and apply fundamental rules of sentence structure and syntax. Have a good command of basic conversational Korean, including greetings, self-introduction, ordering food, purchasing goods, asking for directions, using public transportation, phone conversation, etc.

    It features all the essential Korean vocabulary appropriate for beginning to intermediate students. It's handy pocket format and user-friendly, two-color layout will make any future trip to Korea much easier. All entries are written in a Romanized form as well as Korean script (hangul) so that in the case of difficulties the book can simply be shown to the person the user is trying to communicate with. This dictionary includes the following key features:Over 18,000 words and expressions in the Korean language.Korea–English, and English–Korean sectionsFully updated with recent vocabulary and commonly used South Korean slang.Clear, user-friendly layout with headwords in blue.Romanized and Korean Script (hangul) for every entry.Other books from this bestselling series you might enjoy include: Pocket Japanese Dictionary, Pocket Mandarin Chinese Dictionary, and Pocket Cantonese Dictionary.

    Becoming a Bilingual Family gives English-speaking parents the tools to start speaking Spanish with their kids in their earliest years, when children are most receptive to learning languages. It teaches the vocabulary and idioms for speaking to children in Spanish and offers practical, proven ways to create a language-learning environment at home. The first part of the book introduces parents to many resources—books, audio books, music, television, computer programs, childcare workers, school, and friends—that can help you establish a home environment conducive to the acquisition of Spanish. The second part is a Spanish phrasebook that takes you through all the typical activities that parents and children share, from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night. Few, if any, other Spanish study aids provide this much vocabulary and guidance for talking to small children about common daily activities. The authors also include a quick course in Spanish pronunciation and enough grammar to get a parent started. Spanish-language resources, kids’ names in Spanish, and an easy-to-use index and glossary complete the book. Take the Markses’ advice and start talking to your kids in Spanish, even if it’s not perfect. You’ll learn the language together and share the excitement of discovering the peoples and cultures that make up the Spanish-speaking world.

    SUSIE DENT'S WEIRD WORDS takes children on a rip-roaring tour through some of the most astonishing and sometimes quite revolting origins of English words. As Susie Dent knows, even the most ordinary-sounding word can have the most extraordinary story behind it.

    For the large number of job seekers going to the Arab countries, some working knowledge of the language and its grammar has become a must. This book, designed as a simple course, includes phrases for everyday use and should prove invaluable for those sojourning Arab lands.

    It also serves as a resource for instructors and tutors. The text presents 1,425 words that allow a student to comprehend about 95 percent of all the vocabulary they will ever see in an actual Latin text. The terms found in the present book have been culled from statistical analyses of the works of more than two hundred authors in order to identify the core vocabulary. Were students to start out by learning the 25 most common words on this list, an astonishing 29 percent of all the vocabulary ever needed would be at their command. If a student masters the 300 most frequent words in this list, well over half of all the vocabulary necessary for fluent reading will be theirs. The goal of the book is to provide the student with the most efficient way to learn vocabulary. Chapters 1 and 2, in particular, are designed for drill, review, and study. The first chapter draws together all words that share the same grammatical classification. For example, all third declension neuter nouns are brought together in one place, with their definitions. By listing the vocabulary in grammatical groups, all the words that share a set of endings are assembled for the student: vocabulary and endings thus reinforce each other. Furthermore, each list of terms is broken down into groups of five words for ease in drawing up vocabulary lists to work with. Within the grammatical lists, each part of speech is preceded by an account of how the terms within are distributed. A student thus quickly learns that while there are 413 verbs that need to be mastered, well over one-third of these (157) are found in the third conjugation, while only about one per-cent (21) will be found in the fourth conjugation. With such information, independent students or instructors can prioritize their study and assignments more appropriately. In the second chapter, large parts of the vocabulary, with their attendant definitions, are regrouped by topics. A student who wishes, therefore, to focus on nature, human emotions, or military issues, will find such vocabulary conveniently grouped together. Chapter three lists the vocabulary terms from the most frequently occurring words to the least frequent. Students or instructors who wish to lean more heavily on the most (or least!) frequently occurring terms within their drills and studies can thus consult this frequency list. After the frequency list, the fourth chapter presents an alphabetical index of the terms. Two final chapters close the text. The first is a list of endings and paradigms for nouns, adjectives and verbs. Complete paradigms and endings are given for review. The final chapter provides the student with an additional one hundred words that are uniquely common in the Latin of the Middle Ages. These one hundred words, if added to the mix, would give the student a Mediaeval vocabulary that would match the efficiency of the Classical vocabulary that is the main focus of the book. For the effort of learning an additional one hundred words, another 1,000 years of Latin texts open up before the student. As a whole, then, this book offers the vocabulary that forms the core of one thousand seven hundred years of Latin literature. If the goal is to learn to read Latin with joy and ease, then the vocabulary terms in this book are one of the major keys to success. By learning these terms, a student's vocabulary should be ready to tackle the Latin of any era from the Classical period to the Renaissance.

    

    2201.Program contains 36 lectures; the length of each lecture is: approximately 30 min.Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.Performer(s): Lecturer: Professor Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Union College.Description: 6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (440 pages ; 19 cm) + 2 transcript books (462 pages, 437 pages ; 19 cm).Details: DVD.Contents: Disc 1: Pronouncing classic Latin --Introduction to third-conjugation verbs --Introduction to the subjunctive mood --The irregular verbs sum and possum --Introduction to third-declension nouns --Third-declension neuter nouns--disc 2: First- and second-declension adjectives --First- and second-declension nouns --Introduction to the passive voice --Third-io and fourth-conjugation verbs --First- and second-conjugation verbs --Reading a famous Latin love poem --disc 3: The present passive of all conjugations --Third-declension adjectives --Third-declension/ =stem nouns --The imperfect and future tenses --Building translation skills --disc 4: Using the subjunctive mood --Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns --The prefect tense active system --Forming and using participles --Using the infinitive --Reading a passage from Caesar --disc 5: The perfect tense passive system --Deponent verbs --Conditional sentences --Cum clauses and stipulations --Reading excerpts from Roman law --Interrogative adjectives and pronouns --disc 6: Fourth- and fifth-declension nouns --Gerunds and gerundives --Counting in Latin --More on irregular verbs --Comparison of adjectives and adverbs --Next steps in reading Latin.

    Part One discusses phonology, working backward from the vowels and consonants of Coptic to those that can be deduced for earlier stages of the language. Part Two is devoted to grammar, including both basic components such as nouns and the complex history of the verbal system. The book thus provides both a synchronic description of the five major historical stages of ancient Egyptian and a diachronic analysis of their development and relationship.

    We believe it is important that our work, including our work in Japanese education, proceeds in a way that encourages mutual understanding between people in situations where international cultural exchange takes place. This coursebook, Marugoto: Japanese Language and Culture, was developed for adult learners of Japanese as a foreign language, based on this way of thinking.Marugoto: Japanese Language and Culture is based on the JF Standard for Japanese Language Education, and was designed with an emphasis on using Japanese to communicate, and on understanding and respecting other cultures. In addition, the coursebook's contents and approach were devised so that students can enjoy studying language and culture for its own sake, even if they are not in Japan.Each topic in Marugoto: Japanese Language and Culture contains situations where people from a variety of cultural backgrounds interact in Japanese. You can experience various aspects of Japanese culture through photographs and illustrations while listening to a number of natural conversations taking place in each situation. We will be very happy if, through this book, people throughout the world feel completely familiar with the language and culture of Japan, and the people who actually live in this culture and speak this language.国際交流基金オフィシャル日本語コースブックこの1冊がまったく新しい授業をつくる!JF日本語教育スタンダード準拠入門(A1)相互理解の増進を目的とする「JF日本語教育スタンダード」に準拠した初のコースブック。日本語熟達度がCEFRに準じて客観的に把握できる。重点を置くべきCan-doが明確に示され、多様な学習目的に対応が可能。「かつどう」「りかい」の2分冊構成。4技能をしっかり伸ばす! 『まるごとサイト marugotonihongo.jp』にて各課の音声、ごいちょう、作文教材など配信。

    No other study tool is better equipped to handle this task other than flash cards, making this kit an ideal resource for practicing Chinese. These handy flash cards present the characters in the correct order, and the cards have a full range of features to help you master the 448 Upper Intermediate level characters, along with their associated 2,240+ words and sentences. All characters needed for the HSK Upper Intermediate Level exam are covered. The HSK is China's standard test of Chinese proficiency for non-native speakers, required of foreigners who wish to study or work at Chinese universities and firms. Whether at home or on the go, you can use these cards to learn several new characters every day and watch your knowledge develop rapidly over time. This kit features:448 hole-punched cards presenting the essential intermediate-level characters.Native-speaker audio recordings of 2,240+ example words and sentences.A 32-page study booklet with sorting indexes and practice tips.Radicals, compounds and idiomatic phrases, plus traditional forms where applicable.A handy organizing ring is included to hold the cards.Ideal as a study tool to prepare for China's official HSK exam.

    With wide-ranging coverage of contemporary Spanish and English, a wealth of examples and idioms, and a clear colour layout, this remains the ideal dictionary for advanced learners and professionals using Spanish.• Up-to-date, with thousands of the latest words from a wide range of areas• Thousands of examples and idioms, all based on evidence from a multimillion-word corpus of real Spanish and English• Extensive notes on language, grammar and culture, to help the user with typical translation issues• Coverage of European and Latin American Spanish• Clear and user-friendly colour layout – designed so that users find the correct translation quickly• Includes the acclaimed Language in Use supplement to help you communicate in natural, idomatic Spanish• With over 315,000 references, this is the largest Spanish dictionary on the marketOther titles in the Collins Spanish Dictionary range include Collins Spanish Dictionary & Grammar and Collins Concise Spanish Dictionary.To provide for full English and Spanish indexes on Kindle, Collins Unabridged Spanish dictionary is available as two separate English-Spanish and Spanish-English Kindle Books.

    Compiled by Egbert of Liege, it""was planned as a first reader for beginning students. This makes it one of the few surviving works from the Middle Ages written explicitly for schoolroom use. Most of the content derives from the Bible, especially the wisdom books, from the Church Fathers, and from the ancient poets, notably Vergil, Juvenal, and Horace; but, remarkably, Egbert also included Latin versions of much folklore from the spoken languages. It features early forms of nursery rhymes (for example, "Jack Sprat"), folktales (for instance, various tales connected with Reynard the Fox), and even fairytales (notably "Little Red Riding Hood"). The poem also contains medieval versions of many still popular sayings, such as "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth," "When the cat's away, the mice will play," and "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." "The Well-Laden Ship," which survives in a single medieval manuscript, has been edited previously only once (in 1889) and has never been translated. It will fascinate anyone interested in proverbial wisdom, folklore, medieval education, or medieval poetry.

    Whether used independently or as the ideal companion to the fifth edition of the widely acclaimed HAMMER'S GERMAN GRAMMAR AND USAGE, this third edition of PRACTISING GERMAN GRAMMAR provides you with the right tools to understand German successfully. Using lively, authentic texts from a wide range of original sources and offering a variety of new and updated exercises designed to stimulate even the most grammar-shy student, PRACTISING GERMAN GRAMMAR THIRD EDITION will help you to to expand your vocabulary and improve your ability to speak German.

    Instead of covering the entirety of the language, it hones in on those areas where you might have difficulty--areas such as der vs. die vs. das, capitalization and punctuation, subject-verb agreement, determiners and adverbs of degree, and phrasal verbs.Features:A variety of extensive exercises for practicePractical and high-frequency vocabularyAnswer key provided for reference and quick feedbackDon't sweat those troublesome grammar areas any more! Practice Makes Perfect: German Problem Solver is your perfect learning tool for ironing out your troubles.

    Sample materials available from the English File website.

    'Mimes John Key, I'm the Prime Minister of New Zealand.' 'Hi John, mimes Janine. Were you after a full cut and blow wave or just a trim?'Jinnoe 'Have you had the privilege of making the acquaintance of . . . ?' e.g. 'Jinnoe my sister Janine? She's a hairdresser.'Immfrimm 'I was born and raised in the locality of . . . ' e.g. 'Immfrimm the Hawke's Bay.' 'Really? Immfrimm the Hawke's Bay too! Jinnoe my sister Janine?'Visitors to New Zealand often find it difficult to understand what a Kiwi is saying – it's hard enough for us locals! That's because we don't speak English, we speak New Zenglish – a weird, wonderful, and slightly bewildering form of communication. Designed for both New Zealanders and people who want to talk to New Zealanders, How to Speak New Zenglish brings everyday Kiwi conversation to life with unnerving accuracy, and celebrates the mangled mess of a language we proudly call our own.Injoy!

    "A Frequency Dictionary of Russian" enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way. It is also a rich resource for language teaching, research, curriculum design, and materials development.A CD version is available to purchase separately. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research purposes.

    Author and teacher Annie Heminway is familiar with this situation and, more important, knows how her students--and now you--can overcome it. In Practice Makes Perfect: French Problem Solver, Heminway shares her arsenal of strategies on how to beat these obstacles to your French mastery.You will, of course, get plenty of practice, practice, practice to overcome any French-learning obstacles. With Practice Makes Perfect: French Problem Solver, you will master the language in no time at all.Practice Makes Perfect: French Problem Solver gives you:Expert advice and guidance on overcoming common problemsPractical examples with highfrequency vocabulary that clarify each pointHighly varied and extensive exercises to practice what you've learned

    It includes a CD in the back with Amish children's voices and beautiful pictures throughout the book. Twenty-five lessons with conversations about normal Amish life give you an authentic picture into their world. See http://www.speakingamish.com/speaking... for a sample lesson.

    In each double-spread, readers are invited to search for hidden objects, adding an extra level of fun to the biographies.

    And the car, more than any other single factor, has shaped our landscape and changed our maps. Busy, bustling, often creaking at the seams, most of us have a love-hate relationship with our roads. Like it or not, our modern lifestyles depend on them—not only for getting from A to B, but for the distribution of almost everything we buy. Yet once upon a time, the building of roads was seen as a glorious and heroic enterprise. Britain's motorways—"the cathedrals of the modern world"—are the ultimate expression of our modern age. From the old ways to the motorways, Mapping the Roads charts the ambitions and hopes of the nation through our maps.

    Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted "We want to see Chairman Mao," they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual metaphors, and political language convey time-honored meanings of which Chinese speakers themselves may not be consciously aware, and contributes to the ongoing debate over whether language shapes thought, or vice versa.Perry Link's inquiry into the workings of Chinese reveals convergences and divergences with English, most strikingly in the area of conceptual metaphor. Different spatial metaphors for consciousness, for instance, mean that English speakers wake up while speakers of Chinese wake across. Other underlying metaphors in the two languages are similar, lending support to theories that locate the origins of language in the brain. The distinction between daily-life language and official language has been unusually significant in contemporary China, and Link explores how ordinary citizens learn to play language games, artfully wielding officialese to advance their interests or defend themselves from others.Particularly provocative is Link's consideration of how Indo-European languages, with their preference for abstract nouns, generate philosophical puzzles that Chinese, with its preference for verbs, avoids. The mind-body problem that has plagued Western culture may be fundamentally less problematic for speakers of Chinese.

    British English from A to Zed contains more than 5,500 British terms and their American equivalents, each with a short explanation of the term’s history and an example of its use. The appendixes provide valuable supplemental material with differences between British and American pronunciation, grammar, and spelling as well as terms grouped in specific areas such as currency, weight, and numbers.This dictionary will help you unravel the meanings of:• Berk (idiot)• Bevvied up (drunk)• Crisps (potato chips)• Erk (rookie)• To judder (to shake)• Noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe)• And more!George Bernard Shaw famously said that the British and Americans were “two peoples separated by a common language.” This book bridges that gap.

    This book puts pedagogy first, with the content organised around areas of language learning rather than technology types. Chapters cover language skills and the language areas of grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary, as well as project work and assessment and evaluation. There are 150 activities for students ranging from beginner to advanced levels and these include a wide range of up-to-date technologies, such as mobile technologies and social networking.

    KEY TOPICS: Fundamentals--The Learner: Setting the State for Language; Planning--The Learning Experience: Language Learning Fundamentals, Focus on Communication; Strategies for Building Toward Proficiency; Building Toward Proficiency with Interactive Tasks; Building Toward Proficiency with Literacy; Connecting Language and Culture; Connecting Language and Content Performance and Feedback: Using Assessment to Help Learners and Programs Grow Environment: Managing the Learning Environment; Learning Tools: Bringing Language to Life with Effective Materials, Classroom Games and Activities, in a Digital World; Professionalism and Collaboration in Developing Professional Teachers; Programs: Planning and Implementing Effective Programs for Young Learners Focus on Immersion Rationale and Advocacy MARKET Written by practitioners, for practitioners. A practical guide for those preparing to teach languages, especially at the elementary and middle school levels; practitioners already involved with language teaching; and teachers, parents, and administrators engaged in the planning or evaluation process

    This Latin-to-English glossary includes all of the vocabulary contained in Familia Romana, Colloquia Personarum, Fabulae Syrae, Fabellae Latinae, and College Companion. Includes 2,435 words with their English equivalents.

    After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while many others have been ignored. Anita Norich traces historical and aesthetic shifts through versions of these canonical texts, and she argues that these works and their translations form an enlightening conversation about Jewish history and identity.

    Understand the fundamental system of pronunciation and pronounce initial consonants, medial vowels and final consonants correctly. Understand and apply fundamental rules of sentence structure and syntax. Have a good command of basic conversational Korean, including greetings, self-introduction, ordering food, purchasing goods, asking for directions, using public transportation, phone conversation, etc.

    Complete, compact and essential, this is the resource you need in order to use and master kanji. This new edition reflects the recent update by the Japanese government of the official Joyo kanji list. Joyo means daily use, and these 2,136 kanji are the ones that every Japanese person learns in public education. The kana and kanji are presented in an easy to understand format. A concise indexing section also allows the book to function as a Japanese dictionary and plenty of extra space is allowed for writing Kanji and writing Kana. All the characters are written clearly making reading kanji and reading kana effortless. This book features: All 2,136 official Joyo kanji with readings and meaningsUp to 5 useful compounds for each kanjiBrush & pen forms, too not only printed form19 convenient tables summarizing key info about the languageEasy access to all kanji via 3 indexes: by radical, stroke count, and readings"

    Thus this is a seminal work extending Harvey?s readings. The book has an introduction and conclusion and divides Beckett's English poems into the years of learning, the years of wandering and the blue celeste of poesy. Its main argument is that Beckett bridled his anguish at being unable to express due to language's imperfections and thus his work is in the best sense of the word metaphysical. ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Dr. A V Koshy is an established poet, critic, essayist and writer of fiction. He has published two books, one called Wrighteings: In Media Res with A. V. Varghese and A Treatise on Poetry for Beginners and three collections of poetry. His poems were chosen as editor's picks for the Camel Saloon and Destiny Poets UK and one was nominated for Pushcart Poetry Prize of 2012. His "Treatise" was chosen as one of the best Indian reads of 2012 by Butterfly and the Bee. His poems, articles and research papers have appeared in India and abroad. He is running an NGO for autism and teaching English Literature in Saudi Arabia presently and is a World Bank certificte holder. CONTENTS - Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Years of Learning; 3. The Years of Wandering; 4. The Blue Celeste of Poesy; 6. The Bridled Anguish of Non-Expression; A Select Bibliography; Index

    Old Chinese is the language of the earliest Chinese classical texts (1st millennium BCE) and the ancestor of later varieties of Chinese, including all modern Chinese dialects. William Baxter and Laurent Sagart's new reconstruction of Old Chinese moves beyond earlier reconstructions by taking into account important new evidence that has recently become available: better documentation of Chinese dialects that preserve archaic features, such as the Min and Waxiang dialects; better documentation of languages with very early loanwords from Chinese, such as the Hmong-Mien, Tai-Kadai and Vietnamese languages; and a flood of Chinese manuscripts from the first millennium BCE, excavated or discovered in the last several decades. Baxter and Sagart also incorporate recent advances in our understanding of the derivational processes that connect different words that have the same root. They expand our knowledge of Chinese etymology and identify, for the first time, phonological markers of pre-Han dialects, such as the development of *r to -j in a group of east coast dialects, but to -n elsewhere.The most up-to-date reconstruction available, Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction brings the methodology of Old Chinese reconstruction closer to that of comparative reconstructions that have been used successfully in other language families. It is critical reading for anyone seeking an advanced understanding of Old Chinese.

    Through comprehensive exercises, extensive explanatory notes, and an ancillary website with additional materials, this text gives students the skills they need to become comfortable with advanced second-year literary material.

    * An easy guide to learning Sanskrit on your own without attending any classes or going to a teacher. * Written by the renowned Sanskrit scholar, Shripad Damodar Satvalekar, complete with self-testing exercises, the book has proved popular both with students as well as educational institutions. Bi-lingual

    He explores the social and cultural impact of, among other stages, the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period; the perfecting of printing using moveable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy; the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution; the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century—and of the digital switchover at the century’s close. The Golden Thread also raises issues of urgent interest for a society living in an era of unprecedented change to the tools and technologies of written communication. Chief among these is the fundamental question: “What does it mean to be literate in the early twenty-first century?” The book belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who is inquisitive not just about the centrality of writing in the history of humanity, but also about its future; it is sure to appeal to lovers of language, books and cultural history.

    Except when it comes to a certain human male, Grant Crawford. Although she doesn’t understand why, each time she’s supposed to shoot her arrow into his heart, her stomach hurts, her chest hurts, and she feels….sad. Cupids are never sad.Humans who are not looking for love only get three chances to find it. And after Ivy sabotages Grant’s last chance, her boss, Aphrodite, sends her to earth to right her wrong. She has until Valentine’s Day to help him find his soul mate. But the more she’s around him, the more she wants him for herself, even though she knows that can never be. A Cupid and a human? Unheard of. As V-Day draws closer, can she sacrifice her own happiness to help the man she loves find his?

    Check out the fantastic customer reviews!*** Do you want to improve your Spanish reading comprehension, vocabulary AND grammar? Are you ready to take your Spanish to intermediate level and revise your existing skills? Do you enjoy reading interesting, fact-filled articles on wide-ranging topics? If the answer is yes to any of the above, then this bestselling series is for you! This eBook includes: ● 15 fascinating short articles on a variety of topics such as: history, religion, the natural world, science, travel, food and more (all written by Spanish native speakers). ● Language notes about each text, where key words, grammar points and phrases are explained. ● Questions about each text (with clickable links to the answers). ● A section on key grammatical terms, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. At the end of the eBook, there are also links to 50 free websites to help you learn Spanish. If you want to improve your reading comprehension AND enjoy the texts you read, download this eBook now!