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Oxford Picture Dictionary English-Japanese: Bilingual Dictionary for Japanese speaking teenage and adult students of English

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein - Oxford University Press; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Content is organized within 12 thematic units, including Everyday Language, People, Housing, Food and Recreation. Each unit starts with an Intro page (new to this edition) and ends with a story page, with single or double-page sub-topics introducing new words in a realistic visual context...
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French (Eyewitness Travel Guide Phrase Books)

DK Publishing - DK ADULT; Bilingual edition
Format: Paperback

These pocket dictionaries give business and vacation travelers everything they need for a smooth, successful trip. Organized by subject, the traveler can quickly find the vocabulary relevant to the situation, whether transportation, hotels, meals, shopping, post offices and banks, sports,...
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Read and write Japanese scripts

Helen Gilhooly - Teach Yourself
Format:  Book : English

By the end of the book, you will be reading and writing Japanese with confidence! Read and Write Japanese Scripts is a step-by-step introduction to the script that will enable you to read Japanese signs, notices, advertisements and headlines. Script is introduced in stages, accompanied...
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Reading and Writing Chinese: Third Edition (2,633 Chinese Characters and 5,000+ Compounds)

William McNaughton
Format: Paperback

This is a complete and easytouse guide for reading and writing Chinese characters.Learning written Chinese is an essential part of mastering the Chinese language. Used as a standard by students and teachers learning to read Chinese and write Chinese for more than three decades, the bestselling...
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Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar: A Student's Guide to Correct Structures and Common Errors

Qin Xue Herzberg - Stone Bridge Press
Format: Print book

Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word choices with verbs and adverbs, and letter writing. The simple format has one goal: quick mastery and growing confidence.Qin...
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Pronunciation Pairs Teacher's Book

Ann Baker - Cambridge University Press; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

This new edition of a highly successful pronunciation text covers all of the speech sounds of North American English, as well as spelling, intonation, and stress. Pronunciation Pairs offers a variety of exercises and activities, from very controlled minimal pair and listening discrimination...
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Italian–English Bilingual Visual Dictionary

DK Publishing - DK; Bilingual edition
Format: Paperback

Newly revised and updated, the Italian-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is a quick and intuitive way to learn and recall everyday words in Italian. The Italian-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary introduces a range of useful current vocabulary in thematic order, using full-color photographs...
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Cassell's French Dictionary: French-English English-French

Denis Girard - Cassell's; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A hundred years of experience in dictionary publishing lies behind this edition of the famous Cassell's French Dictionary. After more than thirty impressions of the previous edition this entirely new dictionary has been compiled by a team of eminent linguists.Reviewing the new dictionary...
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The Poetry of Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke - North Point Press; Bilingual Edition edition
Format: Print book

For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, “Rilke’s best contemporary translator” (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke’s major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke—the single most comprehensive...
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NTC's Compact Dutch and English Dictionary

McGraw-Hill Education - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback

Introducing the first softbound edition of this indispensable resource for Dutch-speaking students of English and for English-speaking students of Dutch. It's scope is comprehensive, with 30,000 entries divided between the two languages, and its style is practical with current spellings...
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Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart

William Alexander - Algonquin Books; Bilingual edition
Format: Book

"A delightful and courageous tale and a romping good read. Voila!" - Mark Greenside, author of I'll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do) William Alexander is more than a Francophile. He wants to be French. There's one small obstacle though: he doesn't speak la langue...
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French

DK Publishing - DK; Bilingual edition
Format: Book

Newly revised and updated, the French-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is a quick and intuitive way to learn and recall everyday words in French. The French-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary introduces a range of useful current vocabulary in thematic order, using full-color photographs...
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Practice makes perfect : English problem solver

Edward Swick - McGraw-Hill
Format: Paperback

Tackle head-on all the hurdles that you find hard about learning English as an ESL student Practice Makes Perfect: English Problem Solver doesn't pretend that learning English is easy. Instead of covering the entirety of the language, it hones in on those areas where you might have...
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Pronunciation Pairs Student's Book with Audio CD

Ann Baker - Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback

This new edition of a highly successful pronunciation text covers all of the speech sounds of North American English, as well as spelling, intonation, and stress. Pronunciation Pairs offers a variety of exercises and activities, from very controlled minimal pair and listening discrimination...
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No One Understands You and What to Do About It

Heidi Grant Halvorson - Harvard Business Review Press; Bilingual edition
Format: Print book

Have you ever felt you're not getting through to the person you're talking to, or not coming across the way you intend? You're not alone.That's the bad news. But there is something we can do about it. Heidi Grant Halvorson, social psychologist and bestselling author, explains...
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English Grammar in Use with Answers and CD-ROM: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Learners of English

Raymond Murphy - Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback

English Grammar in Use Fourth edition is an updated version of the world's best-selling grammar title. It has a fresh, appealing new design and clear layout, with revised and updated examples, but retains all the key features of clarity and accessibility that have made the book popular...
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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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Oxford Picture Dictionary English-Korean: Bilingual Dictionary for Korean speaking teenage and adult students of English

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein - Oxford University Press; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Content is organized within 12 thematic units, including Everyday Language, People, Housing, Food and Recreation. Each unit starts with an Intro page (new to this edition) and ends with a story page, with single or double-page sub-topics introducing new words in a realistic visual context...
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June Fourth Elegies: Poems

Liu Xiaobo - Graywolf Press; Bilingual Edition edition
Format: Print book

The first publication of the poetry of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo, with a Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai LamaLiu Xiaobo has become the foremost symbol of the struggle for human rights in China. He was a leading activist during the Tiananmen Square protests of June 4, 1989,...
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Oxford Picture Dictionary English-Vietnamese: Bilingual Dictionary for Vietnamese speaking teenage and adult students of English

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

Content is organized within 12 thematic units, including Everyday Language, People, Housing, Food and Recreation. Each unit starts with an Intro page (new to this edition) and ends with a story page, with single or double-page sub-topics introducing new words in a realistic visual context...
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Downtown 4: English for Work and Life

Edward J McBride - Thomson/Heinle
Format: Paperback

Downtown is a five-level, integrated skills series designed to give adult learners the comprehensive language skills needed for success in everyday life. With Downtown's traditional grammar sequence and solid coverage of federal, state, and local standards, teaching to the standards...
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German-English Visual Bilingual Dictionary (Bilingual Visual Dictionary) (German and English Edition)

Dk - Dorling Kindersley
Format: Paperback

Look and learn - the quick and intuitive way to learn and recall everyday vocabulary in German. Whether for business or leisure, this introduction to key vocabulary covers a range of subjects from food and drink to sports and leisure. With scenes and items from everyday life clearly labelled,...
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Savoir Faire: 1,000 Foreign Words and Phrases You Should Know to Sound Smart

Laura Lee - Wellfleet
Format: Print book

Add hundreds of foreign phrases to your daily lexicon and learn about their quirky, fascinating origins!Some foreign phrases are so good they become a sort of lingua franca. They capture the true zeitgeist, where the English translation is just comme ci, comme ca. If you're a linguistics...
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The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus

Jonathan Franzen - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Bilingual edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A great American writer’s confrontation with a great European critic—a personal and intellectual awakeningA hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, Die Fackel, Kraus...
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GrammarWork 1: English Exercises in Context, 2nd Edition

Pamela Peterson Breyer - Prentice Hall Regents
Format: Paperback

GrammarWork, English Exercises in Context, Second Edition, by Pamela Peterson Breyer, is a four-level series of exercise books that feature structures tied to meaningful contexts. Self-contained, contextualized exercises are designed for written practice; "Make It Work" sections...
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World's End (Bilingual Edition) (English and Spanish Edition)

Pablo Neruda - Copper Canyon Press; Bilingual edition
Format: Paperback

“World’s End, like much Neruda, contains bewildering multitudes. Some poems incite, others console, as the poet—maestro of his own response and impresario of ours—Looks inward and out."—Los Angeles Times “We are faced with the unavoidable...
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Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011

Yves Bonnefoy - Yale University Press
Format: Book

Yves Bonnefoy, who will soon attain the age of ninety, has gratified his readers during the past two decades with the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid lifework. This volume presents in English and French an inviting array of his recent writings, carefully selected for their...
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In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

National Best SellerFrom the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut - an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart...
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics: How to Read and Write Them

Stephane Rossini - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback

Clear, easy-to-follow text tells absolute beginners how to transcribe hieroglyphs by presenting and explaining 134 phonetic elements. Included are an explanatory introduction, section on word analysis, newly enlarged pronunciation guide, tables of phonetic and figurative (or determinative)...
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100 Preguntas para el Examen de E.U. Ciudadanía-Naturalización Rediseñado / 100 Questions for the New U.S. Citizenship Test

J.S. Aaron - Lakewood Publishing
Format: Paperback

[Publisher's Note: See U.S. Citizenship Test (Spanish - English - Espanol - Ingles), revised edition.] Practica Para El Examen de E.U. Ciudadania (espanol y ingles - English and Spanish) 100 Preguntas para el Examen de E..U. Ciudadania Redisenado. Prepare for the New U.S. Citizenship...
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