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Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese

ShaoLan Hsueh · Harper Design
Pages: 191
Format: Paperback

Learn to read and write Chinese with Chineasy - a groundbreaking approach that transforms key Chinese characters into pictograms for easy recall and comprehension.Chinese is one of the oldest written languages, and one of the most difficult to master, especially for Westerners. With Chineasy,...
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Barron's AP French Language and Culture with MP3 CD

Eliane Kurbegov Ed.S. · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

In-depth preparation for the Advanced Placement test in French includes:Two full-length practice exams with all questions answered and explainedTips and strategies for mastering all skills and tasks required for success on the examOne MP3 CD containing exemplary conversations and oral presentationsExpanded...
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Japanese Kanji & Kana: A Complete Guide to the Japanese Writing System

Wolfgang Hadamitzky · Tuttle Publishing; Revised, Revised edition
Format: Paperback

This comprehensive book helps you learn the 92 basic Kana characters and 2,136 standard Kanji characters.Looking to learn Japanese and improve your Japanese language abilities? Complete, compact and authoritative—this book provides all the information needed to learn kanji and kana,...
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Raising a Bilingual Child

Barbara Zurer Pearson · Living Language
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback

If you would like your children to experience the benefits of becoming bilingual, but you aren't sure how to teach them a second language, then Raising a Bilingual Child is the perfect step-by-step guide for you.Raising a Bilingual Child provides parents with information, encouragement,...
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Barron's Spanish-English Dictionary: Diccionario Espanol-Ingles

Ursula Martini · Barron'S, 2016.
Pages: 1328
Format: Print book

This comprehensive foreign-language reference volumes features 100,000 entries with translations, making it an ideal reference book for schools, libraries, businesses, and the home bookshelf. Its manageable size and reasonable price also makes it a practical learning tool for students taking...
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Homer

Barbara Graziosi · Oxford Univ Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE,...
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English Made Easy Volume Two: A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures

Jonathan Crichton · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

This is a fun and user-friendly way to learn EnglishEnglish Made Easy is a breakthrough in English language learning - imaginatively exploiting how pictures and text can work together to create understanding and help learners learn more productively. It gives beginner English learners easy...
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Arabic Poems

Marle Hammond · Everyman's Library; Bilingual edition
Format: Hardcover

A bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition. The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. Themes of love,...
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Gisela Erlacher - Skies of Concrete

Gisela Erlacher · Park Books
Pages: 104
Format: Print book

With Skies of Concrete, Austrian architectural photographer Gisela Erlacher explores a fascinating subject for urbanization - our ability to live, work, and play in what might seem like the most inhospitable of places. Erlacher had long been fascinated with the ways existing structures...
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New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway

Edna Nashon · Columbia University Press 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds...
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