Language Study

QuickRead.com presents a summary of The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman...a simple guide for making love last by learning how to speak your partner’s love languages. Dr. Gary Chapman has set out to help marriages succeed by identifying the five love languages and explaining how you can speak your partner’s language. Throughout The Five Love Languages, find out your primary love language, how you can speak your partner’s language, and why communication is key in any relationship.

It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh—a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan—stumbled upon a pick-up game of soccer in Clarkston, Georgia, something compelled her to join. The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan, soon welcomed her as coach of their ragtag but fiercely competitive group. Drawn into their lives, Mufleh learned that few of her players, all local public school students, could read a single word. She asks, “Where was the America that took me in? That protected me? How can I get these kids to that America?”

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. In this engaging memoir, Rickford recalls landmark events for his racial identity.

In a sweeping synthesis of new research in a number of different disciplines, this book argues that we humans are not who we think we are. As he explores the interconnections between cutting-edge work in bioanthropology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, human language and learning, and beyond, James Paul Gee advances, also, a personal philosophy of language, learning, and culture, informed by his decades of work across linguistics and the social sciences.

Are you a dedicated healthcare professional frustrated by the language barrier that hampers your ability to provide the best possible care to your Spanish-speaking patients? Don't you wish you had a practical tool at your disposal that could help you learn medical Spanish and connect effectively with your patients? Perhaps it's been a daunting task to find a resource that focuses solely on the healthcare context and makes learning Spanish as easy as sipping your morning espresso.

This is an unofficial summary and analytical review and has not been approved or is affiliated by the original author or publisher of the book. This is a summary and discussions of Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown. Learn key concepts for your self-development or discussion group in 15 minutes without missing the highlights.

The Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is the first book to reveal the insider secrets about how professors really grade. The book offers high-value, practical tips about how to succeed at each of the five "grade-bearing" moments of the semester.

Durch dieses Buch werden sich deine Sprachkenntnisse ohne stundenlanges Büffeln schnell und einfach verbessern. Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten, ins Englische einzutauchen: Englisch-Unterricht, Filme oder Fernsehserien mit Englischen Untertiteln ansehen, Online-Kurse belegen, einem Englisch-Club beitreten, in ein Land reisen, in dem Englisch gesprochen wird oder Bücher lesen....

I recorded this book so you can learn the format and technique to use for the listening, use of English, reading, and speaking papers, while simultaneously practising the techniques through exam exercises.

Offering a nuanced and transformative take on immigration, multiculturalism, and America's role on the global stage, The Newcomers follows and reflects on the lives of 22 immigrant teenagers throughout the course of their 2015-2016 school year at Denver's South High School. Unfamiliar with American culture or the English language, the students range from the ages of 14 to 19 and come from nations struggling with drought, famine, or war.

Do you sometimes worry if your English sounds broken? If you do then you should definitely concentrate on improving your use of prepositions. Why? Because prepositions are the glue that stick English together. If you are not using them properly then your English will sound broken.

Lots of intermediate English speakers tend to get trapped using the same vocabulary over and over again. They often only speak about subjects they know the words for and avoid anything outside of their comfort zone. The problem with this is that, even though they sound ok, they never really get any better.

The "Medical Spanish Terminology" workbook is meticulously designed for healthcare professionals eager to achieve this level of effective communication with Spanish-speaking patients. Proficiency in Spanish isn't just an additional skill; it's essential.

This book is designed for beginner/intermediate students of the English language who wishes to improve his/her English fluency to the next English level. This is a simple English learning guide that presents English learning in a fun and exciting way. You don’t have to learn by following the boring/harsh method of the formal learning system. It is possible to learn and have fun at the same time!

High on a cliff in Hawaii in 1807, an irrepressibly curious native boy dives into the sea and swims to an American merchant ship anchored offshore, embarking on an extraordinary adventure that will change history.

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.

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 4 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 4 is equivalent to CEF level B2 with a word count of 20,000-26,000 words.

In 1918, a fearless 22-year-old arrives in bohemian San Francisco from the Northeast, determined to make her own way. Renaming herself Dorothea Lange, she is soon the celebrated owner of the city’s most prestigious and stylish portrait studio. By the early 1930s, determined to expose the horrific conditions of the nation’s poor, she takes to the road with her camera, creating images that inspire, reform, and define the era. And when the US enters World War II, Dorothea chooses to confront another injustice - the incarceration of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans.

Learn how to express yourself in English with hundreds of time expressions, phrases, and idioms. Find out how to talk about time in English like a pro! These are the expressions of time used by native English speakers in the United States and Canada. This list of English phrases and expressions will prove to be invaluable, with written dialogues filled with helpful sentences, expressions, and phrases, plus each section has practice opportunities to make what you've learned more memorable. You'll improve your English vocabulary and conversational skills related to time in no time!

Professional narrations of all dialogs and exercises! Available also: solutions for all exercises!