Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival.Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know) . This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight -- whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Romani, Czech, and other European languages and was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." This renegade language unsettled those in power, who responded by trying to stamp it out, none more vehemently than the Nazis.
The revised and updated seventh edition of the Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary offers comprehensive coverage of the lanuage and is the most complete guide to grammar offered in a Portuguese dictionary. This updated seventh edition provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all the words and phrases you need and is ideal for intermediate learners - with a Portuguese grammar guide included, a clear layout and in-depth treatment of difficult words, this version is a must for anyone learning or freshing their Portuguese with an added bonus of insight into life in Brazil and Portugal.
Collins Reference
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9780062938275
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Paperback
Practice Makes Perfect Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners
By Torres-gouzerh, Robin
Master English grammar through hands-on exercises and practice, practice, practice Now with digital support! Continuing the success of the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series, Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners embraces all aspects of English grammar that you need to advance your English-language skills. This practical, insightful book helps you in understanding how and why certain grammar elements are used. With help from this book, you will move beyond the basics and master the subtleties that come naturally to native speakers. This second edition provides you with invaluable digital tools to ensure mastery of the content. Features: New flashcards with multiple-choice review exercises pinpoint areas of difficulty Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point An answer key for all exercises in the book
McGraw-Hill Education; 2 edition
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9780071840514
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Print book
Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder
By Swick, Ed
Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your English vocabulary and grammar skills together! You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed--but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible. Practice Makes Perfect: English Sentence Builders picks up from where other grammar books leave off, showing you the variety of structures and how to combine them to make solid sentences. And like every Practice Makes Perfect title, these books feature crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of opportunities to practice, practice, practice!
McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
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9780071599603
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Paperback
Barron's Visual Dictionary
By Team, Pons Editorial
Travelers, students, and lovers of language will find this little visual dictionary to be indispensable. Small enough to slip into a purse or satchel, it includes thousands of common words identified by pictures and defined bilingually. Barron's Visual Dictionary: Italian features approximately 15,000 words and concepts sorted into 13 clearly formatted and color-coded categories. Color-coded page headers make it quick and easy to find words in each category, from people, food, and communication, to education, leisure, and sports. This book also features:3,000 full-color pictures that provide helpful visualization for instant recognitionHelpful vocabulary boxes throughout to expand on abstract terms not covered by the picturesA bilingual index for quick and easy referenceIdeal for beginner and intermediate speakers, Barron's Visual Dictionaries are also available in Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers, and French.
Barron's Educational Series; Bilingual edition
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9781438006024
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Paperback
French - English Illustrated Dictionary
By Dk,
Learn more than 10,000 of the most useful words and phrases in French with this beautifully illustrated dictionary for French-language students. . Building on the success of the English for Everyone course books and the Bilingual Visual Dictionary series, the French English Illustrated Dictionary uses crystal-clear illustrations to show the meaning of over 10,000 words of French vocabulary. . The words are shown in a visual context in themed sections covering practical or everyday topics (such as shopping, food, or study) , providing learners with all the vocabulary they need for work, travel, and leisure. . Fancy becoming an expert in the language? Then open the pages of this French dictionary to discover:. - A comprehensive guide to a wide range of useful French words and expressions.
DK
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9780744080735
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Paperback
The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book
By Hart, Carl W
Updated to reflect questions found on the most recent ESL tests, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English. Phrasal verbs are verbs combined with prepositions or adverbs. Familiarity with phrasal verbs and understanding their use as nouns (breakup, showoff, etc.) or adjectives (spaced-out, broken-down, stressed-out, and many others) is essential to ESL students. Updated information includes:The most commonly used phrasal verbsActivities and examples that reflect our current technology and the world around usAn expanded introduction for the teacher with a thorough breakdown and explanation of phrasal verbsA discussion of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs in Unit I, and more.This books hundreds of examples in context and hundreds of exercises will be extremely useful to ESL students who are preparing for TOEFL or who simply wish to improve their English.
Barron's Educational Series
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9781438009742
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Print book
Arabic for Beginners
By Risha, Sarah
Arabic for Beginners is an ideal introductory textbook - quickly teaching you everything you need to get started learning this beautiful language. Spoken by over 400 million people, Arabic is the world's 5th most spoken language.This book teaches language students Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) , which is understood by all native Arabic speakers. Though spoken dialects vary widely by region, MSA is taught at schools throughout all Arab countries and is the prominent language of TV, print media, advertisements, signs and more.Real-life, easy-to-grasp dialogues that increase your proficiencyFree, corresponding audio recordings by native speakers that help you accurately pronounce Arabic wordsPractice sections in each chapter that reinforce the lessons and help you progressInteresting lessons on culture, geography, customs, pastimes, and everyday life that offer an insight into the Arabic world"Reflections" at the end of each chapter that allow you to record what you have learned, helping you to keep track of your progressOnce you have finished this book, you will be able to read and write in the language, express your feelings, read signs, ask for directions and more!Author Sarah Risha has taught Arabic for over 20 years to thousands of students and with this book has developed an engaging set of lessons that will teach Arabic language students the basics.
Publisher: n/a
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9780804852586
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Paperback
Because Internet
By Mcculloch, Gretchen
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time.Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.Because Internet is essential reading for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.
Riverhead Books
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9780735210936
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Hardcover
Kingdom of Characters
By Tsu, Jing
After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to a world designed for the Roman alphabet and requiring standardization, from an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language to the imprisoned computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup.
The Language of Thieves
By Puchner, Martin
Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival.Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know) . This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight -- whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Romani, Czech, and other European languages and was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." This renegade language unsettled those in power, who responded by trying to stamp it out, none more vehemently than the Nazis.
Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary, 7th Edition
By Ltd., Harpercollins Publishers
The revised and updated seventh edition of the Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary offers comprehensive coverage of the lanuage and is the most complete guide to grammar offered in a Portuguese dictionary. This updated seventh edition provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all the words and phrases you need and is ideal for intermediate learners - with a Portuguese grammar guide included, a clear layout and in-depth treatment of difficult words, this version is a must for anyone learning or freshing their Portuguese with an added bonus of insight into life in Brazil and Portugal.
Practice Makes Perfect Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners
By Torres-gouzerh, Robin
Master English grammar through hands-on exercises and practice, practice, practice Now with digital support! Continuing the success of the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series, Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners embraces all aspects of English grammar that you need to advance your English-language skills. This practical, insightful book helps you in understanding how and why certain grammar elements are used. With help from this book, you will move beyond the basics and master the subtleties that come naturally to native speakers. This second edition provides you with invaluable digital tools to ensure mastery of the content. Features: New flashcards with multiple-choice review exercises pinpoint areas of difficulty Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point An answer key for all exercises in the book
Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder
By Swick, Ed
Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your English vocabulary and grammar skills together! You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed--but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible. Practice Makes Perfect: English Sentence Builders picks up from where other grammar books leave off, showing you the variety of structures and how to combine them to make solid sentences. And like every Practice Makes Perfect title, these books feature crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of opportunities to practice, practice, practice!
Barron's Visual Dictionary
By Team, Pons Editorial
Travelers, students, and lovers of language will find this little visual dictionary to be indispensable. Small enough to slip into a purse or satchel, it includes thousands of common words identified by pictures and defined bilingually. Barron's Visual Dictionary: Italian features approximately 15,000 words and concepts sorted into 13 clearly formatted and color-coded categories. Color-coded page headers make it quick and easy to find words in each category, from people, food, and communication, to education, leisure, and sports. This book also features:3,000 full-color pictures that provide helpful visualization for instant recognitionHelpful vocabulary boxes throughout to expand on abstract terms not covered by the picturesA bilingual index for quick and easy referenceIdeal for beginner and intermediate speakers, Barron's Visual Dictionaries are also available in Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers, and French.
French - English Illustrated Dictionary
By Dk,
Learn more than 10,000 of the most useful words and phrases in French with this beautifully illustrated dictionary for French-language students. . Building on the success of the English for Everyone course books and the Bilingual Visual Dictionary series, the French English Illustrated Dictionary uses crystal-clear illustrations to show the meaning of over 10,000 words of French vocabulary. . The words are shown in a visual context in themed sections covering practical or everyday topics (such as shopping, food, or study) , providing learners with all the vocabulary they need for work, travel, and leisure. . Fancy becoming an expert in the language? Then open the pages of this French dictionary to discover:. - A comprehensive guide to a wide range of useful French words and expressions.
The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book
By Hart, Carl W
Updated to reflect questions found on the most recent ESL tests, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English. Phrasal verbs are verbs combined with prepositions or adverbs. Familiarity with phrasal verbs and understanding their use as nouns (breakup, showoff, etc.) or adjectives (spaced-out, broken-down, stressed-out, and many others) is essential to ESL students. Updated information includes:The most commonly used phrasal verbsActivities and examples that reflect our current technology and the world around usAn expanded introduction for the teacher with a thorough breakdown and explanation of phrasal verbsA discussion of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs in Unit I, and more.This books hundreds of examples in context and hundreds of exercises will be extremely useful to ESL students who are preparing for TOEFL or who simply wish to improve their English.
Arabic for Beginners
By Risha, Sarah
Arabic for Beginners is an ideal introductory textbook - quickly teaching you everything you need to get started learning this beautiful language. Spoken by over 400 million people, Arabic is the world's 5th most spoken language.This book teaches language students Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) , which is understood by all native Arabic speakers. Though spoken dialects vary widely by region, MSA is taught at schools throughout all Arab countries and is the prominent language of TV, print media, advertisements, signs and more.Real-life, easy-to-grasp dialogues that increase your proficiencyFree, corresponding audio recordings by native speakers that help you accurately pronounce Arabic wordsPractice sections in each chapter that reinforce the lessons and help you progressInteresting lessons on culture, geography, customs, pastimes, and everyday life that offer an insight into the Arabic world"Reflections" at the end of each chapter that allow you to record what you have learned, helping you to keep track of your progressOnce you have finished this book, you will be able to read and write in the language, express your feelings, read signs, ask for directions and more!Author Sarah Risha has taught Arabic for over 20 years to thousands of students and with this book has developed an engaging set of lessons that will teach Arabic language students the basics.
Because Internet
By Mcculloch, Gretchen
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time.Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.Because Internet is essential reading for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.
Kingdom of Characters
By Tsu, Jing
After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to a world designed for the Roman alphabet and requiring standardization, from an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language to the imprisoned computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup.