Native American Language

This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native-American and African-American peoples throughout the hemisphere. Africans and Native Americans explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo, which no longer carry their original meanings.

Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or home or literature. Our senses of place, however, come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures. Wisdom Sits in Places, the first sustained study of places and place explores place, places, and what they mean to a particular group of people, the Western Apache in Arizona. For more than 30 years, Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names.

What would it mean for your studies or career to be able to speak and write freely in English? How about understanding more of what you hear or read? These idioms and phrases in Advanced English Conversation Dialogues are designed to improve your English quickly and easily.

Speak English fluently like a native speaker with these intermediate English conversation dialogues. What would it mean for your studies or career to be able to speak and write freely in English? How about understanding more of what you hear or read? These idioms and phrases in Intermediate English Conversation Dialogues are designed to improve your English quickly and easily.

Thirteen-year-old Uwohali has not seen his father, Sequoyah, for many years. So when Sequoyah returns to the village, Uwohali is eager to reconnect. But Sequoyah's new obsession with making strange markings causes friends and neighbors in their tribe to wonder whether he is crazy - or, worse, practicing witchcraft. What they don't know, and what Uwohali discovers, is that Sequoyah is a genius, and his strange markings are actually an alphabet representing the sounds of the Cherokee language.

『American Friends』シリーズ第6章。 今回のレッスンでは、ゲストとホスト両方の立場から、アメリカ流のもてなしについて見ていきます。レッスン内容は、「フォーマルなもてなし」「カジュアルなもてなし」の2つの場面で構成されています。玄関で迎え入れるところからはじまり、飲み物や食事をすすめるまで、ホストとしてどう振る舞えばいいのでしょうか?ゲストの場合、手土産はどうしたらいいのでしょうか?お家に招待する時、された時、のマナーと会話例を、日米の違いも織り交ぜつつ詳しく解説します!

『American Friends』シリーズ第4章。今回のレッスンでは、友達と外食する時に知っておくべきいくつかの事項について説明します。「今日はおごるね」「割り勘にしようよ」など、友達同士で外食の際やりとりされる決まり文句。これらも詳しく解説します。　会話１　花とキャシーはショッピングモールのフードコートに行きます。　会話２　武はアメリカに着いたばかりの日本人のビジネスマンです。彼は新しい同僚、ダンとジェーンと一緒にフルサービスのレストランにランチを食べに行きます。　Cultural Vitamin（アメリカ文化についての解説）友達と外食する時、普通誰が支払いをするのかを決めなくてはなりません。支払い方法はさまざまです。二人で出かける場合と大勢で行く場合でも違います。また食べる場所によっても違います。ネイティブの外食時の支払い文化と適切な英会話表現を学びます。このレッスンのテキスト（PDF及びiPod専用テキスト）はEnglish Vitaminのショップで購入できます。