Language Culture

Completed in 2012 at a height of 634 meters, Tokyo Skytree is the tallest building in Japan.

Kaiten-zushi is the term used for sushi on small plates that goes round on a conveyor belt.

Ameyoko is the name of a popular shopping street. It's about 400 meters long from JR Ueno Station to Okachimachi Station.

Maid cafés are cafés in which the waitresses dress in maid uniforms and treat the customers as if they were their "masters".

Don Quijote is probably the world’s only discount store that sells both Louis Vuitton bags and sex toys.

Food samples are the plastic models of food that you see in glass cases outside restaurants.

As the name suggests, "manga kissa" are cafes stocked with lots of manga.

Since ramen noodles came to Japan from China in the Meiji period, the Japanese have changed them very much.

In der Januarausgabe geht es um die Gründungsgeschichte des Centre Pompidou. Danach geht es auf die Insel Saint Barthélemy. In der Karibik gelegen, hat diese Antilleninsel nicht nur das ganze Jahr über ein angenehmes Klima, sondern auch feine Sandstrände: Kein Wunder, dass Stars und Reiche sich dort niederlassen. Die Franzosen bereiten sich auf die Präsidentschaftswahlen vor, die im Frühling 2017 stattfinden werden. Lernen Sie hier den Wortschatz zur Wahl! Allen Hörern ein schönes 2017!

A compendium of 100 words and phrases smart people use—even if they only kinda sorta (secretly don't) know what they mean—with pithy definitions and fascinating etymologies to solidify their meanings.

Sixteen historians, all members of the Society of Independent Southern Historians, have come together to write this truthful history of America specifically for home-schooled students. Herein is a history that is truthful, concise, yet comprehensive, written especially for students of middle school and high school age and for the parents who provide guidance through the home school educational approach. The 40 student lessons in this book present 278 years of our history.

America meant "freedom" to the immigrants of the early 1900s - but a freedom very different from what they expected. Cities were crowded and jobs were scare. Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops. In this touching book, Newberry Medalist Russell Freedman offers a rare glimpse of what it meant to be a young newcomer to America.

Business Japanese [1] with parallel text is the most rewarding and effective method to learn a language. Existing vocabulary is refreshed, while new vocabulary is instantly put into practice. Our stories evolve around business, making the terms and phrases easier to remember in the learning process. Recommended for beginners with a good basis of Japanese, intermediate-level learners, and as a refresher course, these stories keep the listeners' attention and are fun to listen to and learn through motivation.

On the African plains, for as long as anyone can remember, the honeyguide bird and the African honey badger have been partners when it comes to honey: Honeyguide finds the honeycomb, Badger breaks it open, and they share the sweetness inside. But this day, Badger keeps all the honey for himself. Foolish Badger! In no time, Honeyguide leads Badger on a fast chase. Badger thinks it's for honey; but Honeyguide has a surprise waiting for her greedy friend.

It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel with a single inclusive category. We have conflicting attitudes about the A-word, but considering how much the word does for us, and to us, it hasn't gotten nearly the attention it deserves - at least until now.

Many people came to America in the early 1900s looking for jobs, opportunity, and freedom, and a lot of them were kids. But what happened to all these immigrant children after they passed inspection at New York’s Ellis Island - that is, if they passed inspection? Life was not easy for immigrants. Large families lived in small, one-room tenement apartments with failing plumbing and few windows. Children had to go to school with kids from different countries and learn to read and write a new language.

Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens – and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden . . . which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Frances Hodgson Burnett original by Clare West.

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Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars, and finally butterflies.

How to Teach French Through Community, Games and Culture is a short booklet helping French teachers make their classes fun and explaining how their students can effectively learn and retain the language through a variety of factors. Factors like getting to identify your students' personalities, communication channels, psychological needs, or learning styles help you to establish a true community within your classroom. Knowing what types of games will make class interesting and entertaining to your students creates a positive learning environment.