Foreign Languages

Imagine a former French major getting vocabulary tips from her young children! That was the experience of Kristin Espinasse, an American who fell in love with a Frenchman and moved to his country to marry him and start a family. When her children began speaking the language, she found herself falling in love with it all over again. To relate the stories of her sometimes bumpy, often comic, and always poignant assimilation, she created a blog called "French Word a Day," drawing more admirers than she ever could have imagined.

With an approach that is as charming as it is practical, Espinasse shares her story through the everyday French words and phrases that never seem to make it to American classrooms. "Comptoir" ("counter") is a piece about the intricacies of grocery shopping in France, and "Linge" ("laundry") swoons over the wonderful scent the laundry has after being hung out in the French countryside while "Toquade" ("crush") tells of Espinasse's young son, who begins piling gel onto his hair before school each morning when he becomes smitten with a girl in class.

Steeped in French culture but experienced through American eyes, Words in a French Life will delight armchair travelers, Francophiles, and mothers everywhere.

A bilingual phrasebook and dictionary for international travelers, with more than 1,500 expressions for getting around in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other locations. Books have sturdy clear vinyl covers to keep them protected while they're carried around during travels.

Deborah Fallows has spent a lot of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying learning the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering behavior and habits of its people, and its culture's conundrums. As her skill with Mandarin increased, bits of the language - a word, a phrase, an oddity of grammar - became windows into understanding romance, humor, protocol, relationships, and the overflowing humanity of modern China.

Fallows learned, for example, that the abrupt, blunt way of speaking which Chinese people sometimes use isn't rudeness, but is, in fact a way to acknowledge and honor the closeness between two friends. She learned that English speakers' trouble with hearing or saying tones-the variations in inflection that can change a word's meaning-is matched by Chinese speakers' inability not to hear tones, or to even take a guess at understanding what might have been meant when foreigners misuse them.

Dreaming in Chinese is the story of what Deborah Fallows discovered about the Chinese language, and how that helped her make sense of what had at first seemed like the chaos and contradiction of everyday life in China.

In each compact TravelTalk kit: 60-minute audio cassette in both English and the target language provides key words and phrases with accurate native pronunciation.  Handy fold-out audio guide for quick on-the-spot reference and reinforcement.  Lonely Planet Phrasebook/Dictionary features clear and comprehensive grammar chapters, an extensive, 2-way dictionary, information on local culture plus travel tips.

· Written & developed by University Language Experts!
· The fastest - most intuitive way to learn English
· Suitable for all ages - child through adult
· Takes you from beginner level to intermediate level, step-by-step.
· Ideal for business, travel, school, and home

Millions of people worldwide have discovered the value of Instant Immersion™, the most effective program available for learning to speak a foreign language quickly. Based on the highly effective Euro Method™ (an intuitive approach that surrounds you with native speakers and a new culture), New and Improved! Instant Immersion™ Italian provides authentic dialogue and traditional settings that immerse you in the Italian language and lifestyle. Written and developed by university professors and linguistic experts, each lesson in this 8-CD suite utilizes the same learning methods and retention techniques used in university-level language programs. The lesson plan is designed to build a solid foundation of vocabulary terms and fundamental dialogue skills, all of which are reinforced throughout each advancing lesson. You will quickly move from a basic speaking level to an intermediate level with easy-to-follow activities on pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, sentence formation, and listening. Additionally, the cultural notes provide you with an inside glimpse of Italian customs, and introduce proper etiquette appropriate to various situations. Whether learning for business or for pleasure, you'll quickly learn how to confidently speak Italian with Instant Immersion™.

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A handy reference for mastering verb conjugation.

Verb recognition and conjugation is one of the most difficult aspects of learning any language - especially French. But with The Everything French Verb Book, mastering those idiomatic verbs is a cinch! You'll not only learn basic and advanced verbs and how to use them, you'll also learn the subtleties that distinguish similar verbs.

Enhance your French now with:

• A complete conjugated glossary of more than 1,200 verbs
• Proper pronunciation guidance for flawless speech
• Strategies for recognizing and using verbs with ease
• Special verbs, idiomatic expressions, and prepositions
• Practical instruction on simple and compound conjugations

With easy-to-follow instruction that explains the nuances of tense usage and etiquette-appropriate language, you'll be speaking this splendid romance language with ease and confidence in no time. Impress your friends, travel to French-speaking countries, or wander through a Parisian marketplace - all you need is The Everything French Verb Book!

Phrasebook in hand, bus ticket secured, you discover the bus driver shares your passion for Monet and fromage. He invited you to meet his family over a long lunch – another language-inspired success.

• extensive two-way dictionary & user-friendly sentence builder
• pronunciation for every word
• how to have fun with the French: food, wine and romance
• traveling basics: transport, health and shopping
• useful culinary dictionary for exploring gourmet options

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笑侃非"烦"英语

Maybe you have not noticed that we can find many interesting "stories or jokes" in a "dull" English word if we separate it into "pieces". These stories or jokes are very humorous so easy to remember those whose native language is not English. The author of this book has been exploring the "stories or jokes" for years, and would like to share her success in mastering English words with middle school students with the purpose to help them learn English more efficiently. This book will tell you how to make it. In this book, a lot of words belong to slang or local dialects. Foreigners can learn pure Chinese, which can help them understand Chinese culture. To foreigners who love to learn Chinese, this book is also helpful.

By most measures, Italian, together with Sardinian, is the closest to Latin of the Romance languages. Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City and western Istria (in Slovenia and Croatia). It used to have official status in Albania, Malta and Monaco, where it is still widely spoken, as well as in former Italian East Africa and Italian North Africa regions where it plays a significant role in various sectors. Italian is also spoken by large expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia. It has official minority status in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Romania. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages. Italian is a major European language, being one of the official languages of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and one of the working languages of the Council of Europe. It is the third most widely spoken first language in the European Union with 65 million native speakers (13% of the EU population) and it is spoken as a second language by 14 million EU citizens (3%). Including Italian speakers in non-EU European countries (such as Switzerland and Albania) and on other continents, the total number of speakers is around 85 million.--from Wikipedia

Dive into China's new web-based subculture of tech-savy, subversive netizens with China Online!

Using Baidu, China's form of Google, young Chinese web-surfers are creating their own language on the Internet. With this book, you can get an insider's view of the way the new wave of Chinese youth communicates in code. Author and translator Véronique Michel guides you on a tour of the lifestyles inhabiting modern-day "tribes" on the Internet:

• The "Moonlight" or "Starlight" Tribe
• The "Ant" Tribe
• The "Corporate Insects"
• The "Diamond Man"

China Online describes a youth culture in transition—using humor and creativity to survive in a hugely competitive environment. They enjoy puns—including the ingenious "talking numbers" used to say more things with fewer keystrokes and characters. There is a great deal that lies under the surface. Learn the secret netspeak used by over half a billion of the coolest people in China, and be in the know!

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