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Barron's Visual Dictionary: Spanish: For Home, Business, and Travel

PONS Editorial Team · Barron's Educational Series; Blg Tra edition
Format: Paperback

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: Spanish features approximately...
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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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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Gretchen McCulloch · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

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...
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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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Japanese Kanji Made Easy: Learn 1,000 Kanji and Kana the Fun and Easy Way

Michael L. Kluemper · Tuttle Publishing; Paperback with disc edition
Format: Print book

Make character memorization a breeze with Japanese Kanji Made Easy! Learning the fundamental kanji characters used to write Japanese can be challenging, but this book is designed to speed up learning by presenting the 1,000 most common characters using a mnemonic approach. In a fun and accessible...
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Barron's Visual Dictionary: French: For Home, Business, and Travel

PONS Editorial Team · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

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: French features approximately...
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Barron's Visual Dictionary: English for Spanish Speakers: Ingles Para Hispanohablantes

PONS Editorial Team · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

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: English for Spanish...
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Empty Chairs: Selected Poems

Xia Liu · Graywolf Press,
Pages: 118
Format: Print book

The first publication of the poetry of Liu Xia, wife of the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu XiaoboI didn't have a chanceto say a word before you becamea character in the news,everyone looking up to youas I was worn downat the edge of the crowdjust smokingand watching the sky....
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

MARYANNE WOLF · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne...
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Essential Korean Vocabulary: Learn the Key Words and Phrases Needed to Speak Korean Fluently

Kyubyong Park · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

This user-friendly Korean language book pushes readers towards greater fluency in spoken and written Korean.With Essential Korean Vocabulary you will learn to speak Korean the way that Koreans do by learning key words and expressions they use everyday in their natural contexts. You'll...
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