Language Study

When your words, conversations, prayers, vocabulary, and even karaoke performances are on the same page as your true desires, you will discover the missing gems in your life that were essentially there all along. Our words are actually the golden key that unlocks the sought-after treasure. The way I hear it, many of us need to make some language and mindset improvements. Some major and some minor. You will come to know what those are for you as you listen and apply the lessons learned inside this book.

The multi award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. This is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Universally accepted as Shakespeare's finest play, we peel back the layers of Hamlet to discover how and why it deserves such a place of honour in world literature.

Learn hundreds of English idioms to help you get a band 7/8 on the IELTS speaking exam. Sound like a native speaker with these common phrases and idioms that are used in the USA and around the world.

In a hurry? Save time on the go with this compact and concise summary of Eragon from The Inheritance Cycle. Explore key quotations from the book.

Find out how people speak English in real life. That’s where The Big Book of Phrasal Verbs in Use comes in. First, you’ll see each phrasal verb used in a dialogue and then you’ll find out what each one means. Finally, it’s time for some practice! It’s everything you need to bone up on your English vocabulary!

Why is it important to learn collocations and idioms? An appreciation of collocations and idioms will help you to use the words you know more accurately. In other words, you’ll make (not do) fewer mistakes. Mastering collocations, idioms, and phrases means no more struggle, pausing, or confusion while dealing with any of the major skills of the language (writing, reading, speaking, and listening). This is the most effective method to use English words in a correct but natural way.

Jackie Bolen has 20 years of experience teaching ESL/EFL to students in South Korea and Canada. She has written these dialogues filled with helpful sentences, expressions, and phrases in American English for business people, plus each section has some practice opportunities to make what you've learned more memorable. Business English Vocabulary Builder by Jackie Bolen will help you stay motivated while consistently improving your business English skills.

Jump-start your reading skills! Speed reading used to require months of training. Now you can rev up your reading in just a few minutes a day. With quizzes to determine your present reading level and exercises to introduce new skills quickly, 10 Days to Faster Reading will improve your reading comprehension and speed.

Do you want to improve your English conversation? This audiobook is designed to help intermediate learners understand and speak informal, colloquial English, as spoken by native speakers. The audiobook includes 50 dialogues, covering a huge variety of everyday topics.

Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your English classes focused on teaching grammar. If you're tired of wasting time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help in a big way! These are the activities that she uses in her own classes.

To help you concentrate on the vocabulary that counts most, this audiobook presents a carefully selected list of the 5,000 most commonly occurring words on the GMAT. Every word in the audiobook has an example sentence next to it to help you understand and remember what it means. But the inclusion of entertaining and captivating anecdotes that combine several GMAT terms is what really makes this audiobook stand out.

Reveals the hidden current of symbolic meanings and connections between the twenty-two major cards; a must-have for any serious tarot reader that is written in accessible language for the novice as well.

This audiobook is designed to help non-native speakers of English to master the pronunciation of the English language. The type of accent we will learn in this book is American English. This audiobook is written by Nanhee Byrnes, PhD, and is narrated by John Byrnes, PhD. Learning pronunciation begins with learning all the particles of English sound. The smallest unit of speech sound is called a phoneme. Different phonemes make different words. Different languages have different sets of phonemes.

Listen to everyday words and phrases in British English, then repeat, practise and refine! A relaxing way to pick up the language. Covers the words you need for modern life in the UK with topics on home life, work and school environments, shopping, food and drink, sport and leisure, transport, technology, and the environment. Great care has been given to represent modern British culture and enhance your experience of the UK and its people, including food and drink, customs, celebrations, and festivals.

Lettura+Ascolto. Come migliorare l'apprendimento linguistico, emotivo ed empatico con gli audiolibri' è un saggio di Maurizio Falghera che per la prima volta esplora le potenzialità e le ripercussioni dell'esperienza dell'ascolto abbinata, in sincronia, a quella della lettura.

IELTS is the most popular English exam in the world today. It is also the ideal way to perfect the English language from a basic to advanced level. In this series, you will be escorted through the course with Richard Aspinall, a teacher who has a proven track record in teaching the IELTS curriculum successfully all over the world. He will take you through this "easy to follow" step-by-step guide where you will be represented by a student and you will learn everything you need to know to improve your English.

Audiobook summary of Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg.

From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. This growing cultural tension around masculinities has been discussed and analyzed both for general audiences and in burgeoning academic scholarship. What has been typically overlooked, however, is the role that language plays in these mediated performances of masculinity. In Language and Mediated Masculinities, Robert Lawson draws on data to explore language and masculinities across a range of media contexts.

Do you want to become more fluent in English? Do you want to understand everyday language and not just "textbook" English? I taught English for many years and saw that many students get stuck at the high beginner/intermediate stage. They learn the basics and then can't move forward. This problem used to really frustrate me because I had lots of excellent students who were just stuck and eventually they would give up.

IELTS is the most popular English exam in the world today. It is also the ideal way to perfect the English language from a basic to advanced level. In this series, you will be escorted through the course with Richard Aspinall, a teacher who has a proven track record in teaching the IELTS curriculum successfully all over the world, he will take you through this "easy to follow" step-by-step guide, in which you will be represented by a student and you will learn everything you need to know to improve your English.