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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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A study guide to Spanish conversation is a good start to studying the language when you lack a way to practice it in with another speaker. Since it takes time and repetition to learn any language, you can look over the common phrases throughout the text in order to build up your vocabulary. After several months of practice, combined with practical application with Spanish speakers and structured conversations with someone else reading off of the book,...
3) Hulin and the Mad Goose: Four Chinese Folk Tales in Simplified Chinese and Pinyin, 600 Word Vocabula
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Folk tales are immensely popular in China. Passed down orally over the centuries from grandparents and parents to children, they serve as an unwritten handbook for living. Nearly all Chinese folk tales are about simple people who find themselves in difficult situations. These people are often helped (and occasionally hindered) by talking animals, as well as by powerful gods, wizards and other supernatural beings who actively interfere in events here...
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Two curious creatures set off on a perilous journey to reunite a little bird with his mother. Along the way, the two new friends cross paths with animals of many shapes and sizes. Some of these animals are helpful. Others are hungry!
This wonderful little story for beginning Chinese students is written with a vocabulary of just 260 Chinese words.
Each page of Simplified Chinese also includes pinyin (phonetic spelling) and English. A complete glossary...
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Real Spanish Reading. Engaging and Effective Method.
Lots of intermediate Spanish speakers tend to get trapped using the same vocabulary over and over again. They often only speak about subjects they know the words for and avoid anything outside of their 'comfort zone'. The problem with this is that even though they sound ok, they never really get any better.
If you really want to improve, you need to be able to speak about a wide range of topics....
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Spanish is often cited as one of the most beautiful languages on earth. That's because Spanish employs the use of many soft sounds in conjunction with elongated vowels and an endearing and imperative tone in the traditional tone. Spanish vocabulary has a lot of cognates which makes it a rather easy language for English speakers to pick up on. A cognate is a word which is the same between two or more languages. For instance, in Spanish, the word "real"...
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Learn to speak in German about the things that matter to you. Massively improve your German vocabulary and speaking skills through reading about these 32 everyday topics.
Who is it for? If you are a high beginner with a good understanding of basic grammar and vocabulary then this is the book to help you to take your German to the next level.
How does it work? Each article covers a topic that you would commonly talk about in your own language. So...
8) Buddenbrooks
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First published in Germany in 1901 and translated into English in 1924, Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks" is the story of the decline of a wealthy German family over four generations which takes place in the years 1835 to 1877. Mann began writing the novel, his first, when he was only twenty-two years old and based much of his critically acclaimed work on the story of his own family and their peers. Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929...
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The book is about the Ibos of southeastern Nigeria, whose language is Igbo. This very uniquely distinct ethnic group of people have been accused of being tenacious in their belief, audacious in their venture, intense in their resistance and unrelenting in their persistence. The book is aimed at creating awareness and a more comfortable feeling toward Igbo speaking people and their culture. It is a culture that must not be forgotten, a heritage that...
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Hindko is one of the charming languages of the Pak-Indo Subcontinent which is spoken broadly in the districts of Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra, Attock and the cities like Peshawar, Nowshera, Swabi, Kohat and some other cities and towns of Pakistan.From the viewpoint of some scholars Hindko is a dialect of Panjabi and to the others it is a separate language. Whether one can recognize it as a separate language or a dialect, Hindko is a beautiful language,...
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The Selected Speeches of Dr.Swaminathan cover a wide range of disciplines ranging from sociocultural development to the tools of economic development like higher education, technical education, environment, science and engineering, and technology. The first part covers higher and technical education, value education, engineering and technology, environment, and science. The second part covers the disciplines of development studies, economy, finance,...
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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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Este libro de tarea es para estudiantes del nivel principiante la cual está interesado en mejorando su vocabulario en español para opuestas básicas. Adicionalmente, los estudiantes podarán practicar su desarrollo con la formación de oraciones y su ortografía. Este libro de tarea también se usa como un libro para la clase suplementar para estudiantes del nivel principiante.This workbook is for students at beginner level who are interested in...
14) How to Learn Any Language in a Few Months While Enjoying Yourself: 45 Proven Tips for Language Le
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How to Learn a New Language in as Little as a Few Months – and Have a Boatload of Fun Doing It
Let me make a prediction.
I predict that many, many hundreds of people who will read this description will close this page in a few seconds.
"Learn a new language in a few months? Are you out of your mind?" they'll say. "It's just too good to be true."
And they will go back to their old language learning methods.
You know which methods: toiling away...
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"Esta es una historia parcial y muy simplificada de una idea lingüística. No
se trata de una historia de la lingüística en el sentido clásico de la expresión,
es decir, una historia que hace un recuento cronológico de lo que cada gramático
o cada filósofo dijo sobre el lenguaje. Se trata más bien de la historia
selectiva de una idea contada desde la perspectiva del siglo XXI.
Me he tomado libertades extraordinarias para establecer la forma...
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If you are struggling to learn a language or are seeking a way that can avoid that, then this book is for you. The hard reality is that the vast majority of people struggle to learn another language. This is despite the fact that all of us learned our first language to the level of our peers!So clearly we all have the capacity! What goes wrong is that we are taught in ways that only has us struggle with little reward resulting in the belief that language...
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Revolutionary learning method for conversational French. You'll be speaking French in a matter of weeks, just by studying 10 minutes a day.
Speak French through four verbs. Quickly learn the essential words and vocabulary to communicate. Learn to speak in present, past and future in a simple way and with minimal effort.
19) Learn How to Speak Basic Ukrainian - A Beginners Language Guide to Speaking Conversational Ukrainian
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Do you want to learn the basics of speaking Ukrainian?
Then this is the book for you.
Ukraine is an amazing country with a truly amazing language. This book will help you understand what makes Ukraine unique, who the Ukrainian people are, what is typical for this country and nation and why.
However, the main purpose of this book is to give you the opportunity to learn the basics of the Ukrainian language. Its soundness, richness, variety, and syntactic...
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Compact and comprehensive, this handy guide belongs in the pocket of every traveler. Built to hold up to years of use, it offers the easiest method ever devised for quickly finding the words, phrases, and sentences you need to communicate clearly. The guide includes over 1,000 up-to-date entries for any occasion, simple pronunciation transcriptions, numbered and indexed entries, quick word substitutions, and a handy bilingual glossary.
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