Language Education

With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling. From the first words of an infant to the peculiar modern dialect of text messaging, A Little Book of Language ranges widely, revealing language's myriad intricacies and quirks.

Master the art of English grammar with this updated edition of the bestselling guide, The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need, featuring fresh examples and quizzes to test your knowledge, making it an invaluable resource for business professionals, students, and anyone looking to improve their English language proficiency.

Whether you’re a born storyteller or need a little assistance from spellcheck and the thesaurus, Lauren Bingham is here to help you make it the “write time” to make your author’s dreams a reality. How to Write a Book: A Book for Anyone Who Has Never Written a Book (But Wants To) is filled with insight into what makes writers tick and how to bring the passion out on paper.

Learn French: A Comprehensive Guide to Learning French for Beginners, Including Grammar and 2500 French Words in Context focuses on creating incremental progress and easy-to-use memos for you to learn and remember information that you can reuse anytime. You will be able to discuss interesting topics or interact with native speakers while getting your point across and making yourself understood.

Do you want to master grammar in order to speak and write in English without errors? Learn with the "English - Grammar Master" course, which gradually teaches you all the most important tenses and grammatical forms that are necessary for error-free communication in the English language. Why is it worth choosing the "English Grammar Master: Grammar Tenses + Grammar Practice - New Edition" course?

Souhaitez-vous maîtriser l'anglais? Aimez-vous les romances torrides et originales? En avez-vous assez de lire des manuels ennuyeux pour apprendre l'anglais? Si vous avez répondu oui à une ou plusieurs de ces questions, ce livre est peut-être fait pour vous. Nous proposons un outil d'apprentissage unique qui vous permettra de développer votre compréhension écrite et d'améliorer votre vocabulaire et votre grammaire de l'anglais.

Imagine being able to communicate effectively in Korean, understand others with ease, and convey your views, ideas, and experiences with confidence. Imagine having conversations with people from Korea, offering your opinions, and doing so without worrying about making a mistake.

The vocabulary words you'll find in Learn Italian - Word Power 101 were hand selected by our Italian language teachers as the top 101 most frequently used words in the Italian language. Hear the word to master the pronunciation. Then you'll see how the word is actually used in everyday speech with sample sentences and phrases. Learning Italian vocabulary has never been easier!

Four Books, One Unifying Vision: Spanish Acquisition... Begin your journey to fluency with a captivating collection of 80 Spanish Short Stories tailored to guide you through the beautiful landscape of the Spanish language. From Beginners to Advanced learners, each story is a step closer to mastering Spanish, making language learning not just easy but incredibly enjoyable.

What is the hardest challenge you’ve faced as a student of the Portuguese language? You can work hard on your grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, but being able to communicate naturally isn’t easy. In fact, the toughest part of learning Portuguese is knowing how to speak like a native.

Each lesson in Norwegian Level 1 Lessons 1-5 provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Each lesson contains practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons.

The Short Stories in English for Intermediate Level ESL/EFL Learners are designed to improve your English quickly and easily. Jackie Bolen has more than 15 years of experience teaching ESL/EFL to students in South Korea and Canada. She has written short stories in Canadian English about common experiences that people have living in Canada. Plus, each story has practice exercises to test your reading comprehension and vocabulary. Do the discussion questions with a friend, teacher or classmate. You'll improve your English vocabulary and reading skills in no time at all.

If you want to learn French fast and in a variety of fun ways that actually work then keep reading...Most people don't have a huge amount of extra time to spend learning a new language. Could you be one of them? You see, most people make the same mistakes when learning French and this is causing their progress to stagnate. The problem is that they are only sticking to one way of learning French. But now, you can maximize your chances of learning French in less time compared to reading boring textbooks.

Learn Japanese in a whole new way, based on up-to-date understanding of linguistics and learning psychology. Drawing on the best innovations in language instruction of the last 40 years, Dr. Blair's method integrates a variety of language-teaching approaches and activities into one breakthrough course.

Short Stories in Arabic for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when listening.

Learn Portuguese for Beginners Easily & in Your Car is perfect for people who have no other time to learn a new language! It contains over 2000 common Portuguese vocabulary phrases and words, that will help you in everyday life and travel! Each word is pronounced slowly and multiple times so that you can really learn the correct pronunciation! Each word's equivalent English translation is also provided!

Nous vous ferons parler l’espagnol en un rien de temps ! La méthode audio d'apprentissage des langues de Lingo Jump facilite l'apprentissage de l’espagnol à votre guise. Que vous vous détendiez ou que vous soyez en déplacement, nos leçons audio simples, claires et ludiques vous aident à apprendre en imitant nos conférenciers. Plongez-vous dans la langue espagnole en toute confiance - nous sommes là pour vous aider à parler espagnol en utilisant des phrases que vous apprendrez facilement grâce à l'audio en parallèle.

Learning Portuguese is a tough challenge, no doubt about it. The rich vocabulary and complex grammar can be discouraging when you are taking your first steps into the learning process. The goal of this book is to teach Portuguese in the most effective way possible. This audiobook adopts a semi-communicative method: the storytelling approach. Telling stories is an effective educational tool because learners become engaged with the narrative and, therefore, remember the story and vocabulary associated with it, effortlessly, as well as making it easier to recognize sentence patterns.

Êtes-vous un explorateur, quelqu’un qui cherche toujours à acquérir de nouvelles compétences, ou qui est en quête de découvertes ? Peut-être que l’apprentissage d’une nouvelle langue devrait être la prochaine étape à faire sur votre liste d’accomplissements !

Instead of just reading about Hindi, you learn through everyday conversations between native speakers. In each lesson, you hear a practical dialogue. Then, our teachers translate and explain every word — and you understand it all within minutes.