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 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 Italian, English for Spanish Speakers, and French.
Barron's Educational Series; Blg Tra edition
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9781438006031
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Paperback
Chineasy
By Hsueh, Shaolan
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, learning and reading Chinese has never been simpler or more fun. Breaking down the Great Wall of Language, iShaoLan Hsueh draws on her entrepreneurial and cultural background to create a simple system for quickly understanding the basic building blocks of written Chinese. Working with renowned illustrator Noma Bar, she transforms Chinese characters into charming pictograms that are easy to remember.In Chineasy, she teaches the key characters, called radicals, that are the language's foundation, and then shows how they can be combined to form new words and even phrases.
Harper Design
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9780062332097
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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
Flirting with French
By Alexander, William
"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 franaise. In Flirting with French, Alexander sets out to conquer the language he loves. But will it love him back Alexander eats, breathes, and sleeps French (even conjugating in his dreams) . He travels to France, where mistranslations send him bicycling off in all sorts of wrong directions, and he nearly drowns in an immersion class in Provence, where, faced with the riddle of masculine breasts, feminine beards, and a turkey cutlet of uncertain gender, he starts to wonder whether he should've taken up golf instead of French.
Algonquin Books; Bilingual edition
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9781616200206
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Book
Japanese Kanji Made Easy
By Kluemper, Michael L.
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 way to learn Japanese, each kanji is associated with memorable visual and verbal clues. For example, the Japanese character for person is superimposed over a sketch of a smiling man. The visual clue is a person standing on two legs. By seeing the distinctive shape of the kanji, learners create a mental image of its meaning. As well, each character is presented as part of a group of characters which share similar traits. These groups use common root symbols known as radicals they are also categorized by themes such as colors, numbers, animals, or body parts.
Tuttle Publishing; Paperback with disc edition
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9784805312773
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Print book
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: French 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 Italian.
Barron's Educational Series
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9781438006017
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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: English for Spanish Speakers 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, French, and Italian.
Barron's Educational Series
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9781438006000
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Print book
Empty Chairs
By Liu, Xia
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. A new myth, maybe, was formingthere, but the sun was so brightI couldn't see it. -- from "June 2nd, 1989 (for Xiaobo)"Empty Chairs presents the poetry of Liu Xia for the first time freely in both English translation and in the Chinese original. Selected from thirty years of her work, and including some of her haunting photography, this book creates a portrait of a life lived under duress, a voice in danger of being silenced, and a spirit that is shaken but so far indomitable.
Graywolf Press,
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9781555977252
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Print book
Reader, Come Home
By Wolf, Maryanne
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 Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium.Drawing deeply on this research, this book comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us - her beloved readers - to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums.
Harper
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9780062388780
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Hardcover
Essential Korean Vocabulary
By Park, Kyubyong
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 also learn closely-related vocabulary together, which will help you remember and use a wider vocabulary. Each word in this book is clearly explained and useful sentences are given to demonstrate how it's used. Author Kyubyong Park also provides tips on Korean grammar and modern colloquial usage in South Korea, so you can learn to speak like a native speaker.Essential Korean Vocabulary presents the 8,000 most common Korean words and phrases organized into 36 different subject areas.
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: Spanish 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 Italian, English for Spanish Speakers, and French.
Chineasy
By Hsueh, Shaolan
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, learning and reading Chinese has never been simpler or more fun. Breaking down the Great Wall of Language, iShaoLan Hsueh draws on her entrepreneurial and cultural background to create a simple system for quickly understanding the basic building blocks of written Chinese. Working with renowned illustrator Noma Bar, she transforms Chinese characters into charming pictograms that are easy to remember.In Chineasy, she teaches the key characters, called radicals, that are the language's foundation, and then shows how they can be combined to form new words and even phrases.
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.
Flirting with French
By Alexander, William
"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 franaise. In Flirting with French, Alexander sets out to conquer the language he loves. But will it love him back Alexander eats, breathes, and sleeps French (even conjugating in his dreams) . He travels to France, where mistranslations send him bicycling off in all sorts of wrong directions, and he nearly drowns in an immersion class in Provence, where, faced with the riddle of masculine breasts, feminine beards, and a turkey cutlet of uncertain gender, he starts to wonder whether he should've taken up golf instead of French.
Japanese Kanji Made Easy
By Kluemper, Michael L.
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 way to learn Japanese, each kanji is associated with memorable visual and verbal clues. For example, the Japanese character for person is superimposed over a sketch of a smiling man. The visual clue is a person standing on two legs. By seeing the distinctive shape of the kanji, learners create a mental image of its meaning. As well, each character is presented as part of a group of characters which share similar traits. These groups use common root symbols known as radicals they are also categorized by themes such as colors, numbers, animals, or body parts.
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: French 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 Italian.
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: English for Spanish Speakers 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, French, and Italian.
Empty Chairs
By Liu, Xia
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. A new myth, maybe, was formingthere, but the sun was so brightI couldn't see it. -- from "June 2nd, 1989 (for Xiaobo)"Empty Chairs presents the poetry of Liu Xia for the first time freely in both English translation and in the Chinese original. Selected from thirty years of her work, and including some of her haunting photography, this book creates a portrait of a life lived under duress, a voice in danger of being silenced, and a spirit that is shaken but so far indomitable.
Reader, Come Home
By Wolf, Maryanne
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 Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium.Drawing deeply on this research, this book comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us - her beloved readers - to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums.
Essential Korean Vocabulary
By Park, Kyubyong
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 also learn closely-related vocabulary together, which will help you remember and use a wider vocabulary. Each word in this book is clearly explained and useful sentences are given to demonstrate how it's used. Author Kyubyong Park also provides tips on Korean grammar and modern colloquial usage in South Korea, so you can learn to speak like a native speaker.Essential Korean Vocabulary presents the 8,000 most common Korean words and phrases organized into 36 different subject areas.