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Arabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar, Third Edition

Jane Wightwick · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

The all-in-one guide to mastery of Arabic grammarArabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar provides an excellent introduction to the basics of Arabic if you are a beginner or a quick, thorough reference is you already have experience in the language. It offers a solid foundation of major...
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Spanish Demystified, Premium 3rd Edition

Jenny Petrow · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 455
Format: Paperback

Say adios to your fears of learning Spanish with the updated premium edition of this fast, painless guide The updated third edition of Spanish DeMYSTiFieD provides you with the comprehensive, step-by-step educational experience that has made the DeMYSTiFieD language series such a success....
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Story of Swahili

John M Mugane · Ohio University Press,
Pages: 336
Format: eBook

Swahili, or more properly Kiswahili, was once an obscure littoral dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use Swahili, making it one of the few truly international languages: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world....
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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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Historic German Newspapers Online

Ernest Thode · Genealogical Publishing Company; Bilingual edition
Format: Print book

For genealogical research, German-language newspapers are at least as useful as their English language counterparts. Astonishingly, there are now approximately 2,000 historic German-language newspapers online at numerous public, private, and commercial websites. The combined newspapers...
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Russian English Bilingual Visual Dictionary

DK · DK
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

With the help of a new free audio app, this revised and updated bilingual visual dictionary will help you improve your Russian vocabulary and pronunciation by seeing and hearing more than 7,000 terms.Full-color images with detailed labels display all the elements of everyday life--from...
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Barron's German-English Dictionary: Worterbuch Deutsch-Englisch

Ursula Martini · Barrons Educational Series
Pages: 1264
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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Hebrew-English/English-Hebrew Practical Dictionary

Zohara Sampson · Hippocrene
Pages: 420
Format: Print book

The Hebrew language, in its modern form, was officially adopted as the language of Israel with the founding of the state in 1948. Today, there are nearly 5 million native speakers of Hebrew worldwide. Ideal for businesspeople, travelers, and students, this dictionary includes over 20,000...
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Lonely Planet Fast Talk Latin American Spanish

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherAlthough it is possible to get by in major Latin American cities without speaking Spanish, just a few phrases go a long way in making friends, inviting service with a smile, and ensuring a rich and rewarding travel experience...
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Complete Arabic Beginner to Intermediate Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new language with Teach Yourself

Jack Smart · Teach Yourself
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

Do you want to develop a solid understanding of Arabic and communicate confidently with others?Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations and extensive practice and review, Complete Arabic will equip you with the skills you need to use Arabic in a variety...
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Chineasy Everyday: Learning Chinese Through Its Culture

Shaolan. · Harperdesign
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A unique and highly entertaining introduction to the richness of Chinese language, culture, and civilization, built on the groundbreaking and hugely popular Chineasy visual learning method.To educate the world about the richness and character of China's people, customs, and heritage,...
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Colloquial Czech: The Complete Course for Beginners

J D Naughton · Routledge
Pages: 372
Format: Paperback

Colloquial Czech provides a step-by-step course in Czech as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Czech in a broad range...
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Lingala-English/English-Lingala Dictionary & Phrasebook

Aquilina Mawadza · Hippocrene Books
Pages: 242
Format: Print book

Lingala (a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family) is spoken by approximately 10 million people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) , the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Angola. It originated in the Equatorial Region of the DRC, but as the official...
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Japanese English Bilingual Visual Dictionary

Dorling Kindersley Inc. · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

Japanese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary makes language learning accessible by using photographs to put the everyday vocabulary of the modern world into context.With a thematic organization of more than 10,000 fully illustrated terms labeled in both Japanese and English and comprehensive...
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Chen Haiyan: Carving the Unconscious

Britta Erickson · Ink Studio
Pages: 115
Format: Print book

Chen Haiyan (born 1955) is remarkable for her subversive rethinking of narrative in the populist and politicized medium of woodcut prints and the fine art of traditional brush painting. This volume surveys her surreal yet everyday imagery.
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