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This textbook is the second part of my first Ebook about English expressions - how to say them in Chinese. As we know, many expressions are universal and exist in many languages. Every language uses its own metaphors and its own method to describe them. English contains many commonly used expressions to express many ideas and contents. The parallel Chinese expression are generally (but not totally) not derived by literal translation word by word....
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- Introduction - This book is designed to help learners of a new language accelerate their learning experience by fully immersing them into their chosen language. No longer does the reader have to stop reading, open a dictionary, look up a particular word and then understand which meaning of the word is the most appropriate in the context of the sentence in which it is contained. Instead, a complete translation in the reader's native language and...
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This e book reveals the main issues which occupy the current Chinese society today And some of the main topics concerning the Chinese traditional vast culture. All is written in Chinese characters followed by pinyin and English. Ideal for the mandarin student to gain knowledge about the vast China while increase his Chinese language level.
5) Complementary Book for Mandarin Students: Chinese Easy Stories,Humor,Culture ,Habits,Writing Letters
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This complementary book has 5 chapters which includes Chinese short stories and humor, various topics from the Chinese profound culture and common habits of the Chinese people. Concludes is a format of a Chinese letter. All the content is written in Chinese characters, followed by Pinyin and English.
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Español
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En Estados Unidos residen un millón y medio de dominicanos y dominicanas. La mayoría de los dominicanos residen en New York. Voces de la Inmigración es una antologia de Voces de mujeres dominicanas que viven en esa diáspora. Todas escriben sobre distintas visones de lo que has sido su proceso inmigratorio y seleccionaron de lo que querian escribir y contarnos cada una sobre su historia personal. La diversidad de temas nos enriquece y nos dice...
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This textbook is written for the students of the Chinese language around the world who's level is above beginner and higher.The aim of the book is to enrich their studying and to make it easier and clearer.The book is based of my many years of Chinese learning which include many private lessons with the best teachers,endless self searchings for materials and long time communication with Chinese native speakers friends and worldwide mandarin students.This...
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For one reason or another, after I arrived in Taiwan, I became the world's most serious student. I spent almost every hour in the day memorizing Chinese characters, using special recording machines to listen to the feedback of my spoken Chinese tones and even learning Cantonese at the same time. I probably went to sleep quite early during this time and all I remember dreaming of was my Chinese characters, but I was often awake or kept half awake waiting...
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After failing to learn a new language on five separate occasions, I taught myself to speak Spanish like a native in just six months by watching movies and TV shows, listening to music, and reading books and comics like Harry Potter and Garfield. This simple, easy-to-learn technique, that even the most linguistically-challenged can master literally overnight, is used by many of the most respected and skilled polyglots and language teachers in the world,...
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When studying a new language, people want to learn common expressions. Le must bilingue™ English-French Teentalk fulfills this need for learners of French. This American edition cracks the code of American teenagers in particular and gives you the corresponding expressions used by French teenagers. You will not learn these expressions at school or college due to their slight taste of the forbidden and because a language as it is spoken is rarely...
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This Ebook is dedicated to enrich your knowledge with the most commonly used everyday Chinese slang.every slang word is followed by an example to clarify how to use it. All is writen in Chinese characters following by pinyin and English translation. The slang words were picked by a young native Chinese girl who is very accuanted with the modern most commonly used slang in current China. The Ebook is attached by audio records which ellows you to listen...
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An activity book of contrasts and opposites in Spanish and English-with pronunciation guide in both languages. Set at the historic Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California, Arriba Up includes finding and counting activities and vivid illustrations for language comprehension (ages 2 years & up).
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The faster, easier way to learn Arabic alphabet writing system. As it illustrates - in an invented way- how to read, write the basic shapes of the letter and how to join them to form Arabic words. It offers plenty of exercises and examples, introduces readers to his / her first commonly used Arabic words and how to pronounce them properly. With a FREE companion website More than 2000 printable flashcards with audio to help you to learn Arabic conversation...
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There is never a single story behind becoming multilingual. There is never just one piece of advice that will help you find your foreign language fun. That is why this book gives you over thirty of them - plus a simple one-week plan to finally start your polyglot project. In 2011, a website was launched with one goal: learning languages better. Three years and hundreds of stories later, this ebook brings you the most inspiring, wild and provocative...
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Have you ever been scared by strange noises-sounds that seem to happen all by themselves? What could be causing those squeaks and bumps? Nothing to fear, there's only fun here! Sounds in the House is a funny bedtime story on fear, courage and friendship. It has full text and a pronunciation guide in both English and Spanish (with lots of verbs), finding activities, plus vivid illustrations to aid language comprehension (ages 3 & up).
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This Ebook is dedicated to make the Chinese pronunciation perfect. In this Ebook there is the pinyin chart and various texts following by native Chinese audio.through a link in the end of the book). Reading the chart and the following texts while listening to the audio and follow the pronunciation yourself again and again will bring your chinese pronunciation to a much higher level.
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Top 10 "Best Books" of 2011 – ForeWord Reviews. An activity book about a girl who responds to some unusual animal gifts--that happen to be alive-She Doesn't Want the Worms has full text and a pronunciation guide in both English and Spanish. It includes finding and counting activities and vivid illustrations of insects, reptiles, a cat, and a bat for language comprehension (learn multiple nouns in a new language, ages 3 years & up for ESL/ELL).
19) The Reading Room
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Prosecutor Lex Lektor threatens Zed Literati with Cyberia for misconjugation, misdeclension, and flagrant grammatolatry. He Alleges verbicide most foul and miscellaneous acts of linguistic terrorism in the Russian language. Zed's attorney pleads diminished capacity and factual impossibility in an eloquent defense of illiterati. The freedom of students of Russian, the world over, hangs in the balance. From the Opening Statements to Final Argument,...
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Not a manual, nor a guide, and certainly no road map to fluency in the Japanese language. Marshmallow-Go is instead a short collection of stories told by Matt Keighley, known as Marshmallow Sensei to some, on the realities of learning a language from scratch in its native land while working as an English Language teacher. Marshmallow-Go makes few attempts to guide you in your studies and has little to no interest in the inner workings of the Japanese...
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