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This is the quickest way to effectively learn written Japanese. Japanese characters, called kanji, often intimidate potential students of the language with their complex and mysterious appearance. Read Japanese Today is a comprehensible and story-like approach to an often difficult language. Intended for people on the go, this book will teach you to recognize and read the 400 most commonly used Japanese kanji characters. Completely revised and expanded...
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Russian
a self-teaching guide
Learn Russian at your own pace
How do Russian letters differ from English letters? How do you choose the correct form of specific verbs? What are some useful, everyday Russian words? With Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more about this challenging language.
This thorough primer presents an easy-to-follow, proven method for grasping the basics of Russian, complete...
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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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Welcome to "Discovering English Words: A Comprehensive Guide to Common and Uncommon Vocabulary."
English is a global language that is spoken and understood by people from various cultures and backgrounds. The language is rich and complex, with a vast vocabulary of words that range from common and everyday usage to the more complex and obscure terms. Learning and expanding your vocabulary is essential to communicate effectively and express yourself...
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Making Out in Korean is a fun, accessible and thorough Korean phrasebook and guide to the Korean language as it's really spoken. Nan neoga joa michigesseo! Uri tto mannalkka?(I'm crazy about you! Shall we meet again?) Answer this correctly in Korean and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly, and you could be hurting someone's feelings or getting a slap! Korean classes and textbooks tend to spend a lot of time rehearsing for the same fictitious...
66) Advanced Korean
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Advanced Korean offers a complete, systematic, and streamlined third-year course in Korean. It is ideal for university students and adult learners with plentiful reading texts and written exercises, all in Korean Hangul. Concise Korean grammar notes in English, extensive glossaries, and an answer key make this book suitable for those studying alone, as well as for classroom use. There are 20 comprehensive lessons, each with a reading text in which...
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This book is designed for workers, waiters, receptionists and bartenders interested in learning foreign languages, and tourists who travel abroad. The book is a conversation manual containing basic notions and expressions that facilitate communication with foreign interlocutors.
The easy way to learn the most common words and phrases. From greetings and good-byes to everyday small talk, each entry is presented in a realistic context. Whether you want...
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English Spanish Bilingual Childrens Book. Perfect for kid studying English or Spanish as their second language.
In this touching bedtime story, a little girl describes why her Mom is awesome. We see her going through her day, carrying the warmest feeling about her mother.
Mom always knows how she feels and can help with any problem. Mom can make the most complicated braid and explain fractions; Mom can help to wake her up in the morning and hug...
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330 French expressions about animals + meaning and example The French language is full of idioms and our daily life is full of animals. No wonder we have so many idioms about animals in French! Animals are part of the daily life of French people and of course you will find a lot about pets (dogs, cats...) but also about Animals that we traditionally raise and feed in French agriculture like cows, chicken, sheep, pigs. We also have strong and scary...
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It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication! Do you want to speak simple Korean but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting Korea for a short time and want a Korean phrase book to help you communicate? If so, this Korean phrasebook for you. Incredibly convenient to travel with, but without losing the most essential content for communication. This new, expanded edition contains 15% more content, fun manga-style illustrations,...
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This book enables you to easily recognize the 500 most essential Japanese Kanji-and to memorize their readings and meanings quickly and easily! This book teaches an innovative new method to learn the basic 500 Japanese characters-teaching you how to easily recognize the Kanji and to remember their readings and meanings. Learning to read Japanese and write Japanese requires knowing hundreds of Kanji. Traditionally, the ability to learn Kanji characters...
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Discover How You Can Supercharge Your Spanish Speaking Abilities With These 30 Fun & Engaging Spanish Lessons You Can Do ANYWHERE!
Whether you're learning for an upcoming trip, to impress your family/friends or simply for the joy of becoming a polyglot we've got you covered. Instead of boring you to death with drowned out lessons that leave you dreading your next session, we have decided to make language-learning fun again!
You will be immersed into...
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English Hindi Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids learning English or Hindi as their second language.
This children's book can motivate the kids to take responsibility and keep their room organized. Follow along as little bunny Jimmy and his brothers learn their lesson in this picture book. They learn to work together, clean up their room, and organize their toys.
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Geared toward advanced beginners, this dual-language volume offers the convenient, accessible format of English translations on pages facing the matching Spanish text. It introduces such authors as Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Alarcón, Unamuno, and Darío, and such works as El buscón, Cartas marruecas, El estudiante de Salamanca, and Santa. Contents include plays, lyric and narrative verse, and prose of many kinds-fiction, philosophy, autobiography,...
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English Chinese (Mandarin) children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Chinese as their second language.
Jimmy, the little bunny, likes to eat candy. He sneaks into the kitchen to find a bag with candies that was hidden inside the cupboard. What happens right after Jimmy climbs up to reach the bag of candy? You will find out when you read this illustrated children's book. Since that day, he starts to develop healthy eating habits and even...
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Japanese for Beginners is a straightforward learning guide, which enables beginners to pick up a function knowledge of spoken Japanese very quickly and easily. This complete Japanese language package has helped many thousands of people learn to speak colloquial Japanese. It is designed for busy people who wish to pick up a working knowledge of Japanese on their own in just a few days, rather than a few years. Japanese for Beginners makes this possible...
77) 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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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).
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Featuring "Remembering Blackfish in Black Pool," a short story by Zhang Wei, translated by Chu Dongwei:How much ink is needed to dye such a stretch of sand black! Decades have passed but its color is as before. People nowadays don't know why there is such a large stretch of black sand amid the dozens of square miles of brown soil and sand, but I clearly remember that here in this place there was originally a black pool and the day the pool was filled...
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English Dutch Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Dutch as their second language.
This fun children's picture book follows the story of cute little bunny, Jimmy. Jimmy doesn't want to sleep in his own bed. Every night he sneaks into his parents' room and falls asleep in their bed. Until one night something unexpected happened....
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