Author: Publisher: mahmood_tareq
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Author: Publisher: mahmood_tareq
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Words in the World
Author: Gary LibbenPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832535828
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Polyglot: How I Learn Languages
Author: Kat— LombPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1606437062
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
KAT LOMB (1909-2003) was one of the great polyglots of the 20th century. A translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, Lomb worked in 16 languages for state and business concerns in her native Hungary. She achieved further fame by writing books on languages, interpreting, and polyglots. Polyglot: How I Learn Languages, first published in 1970, is a collection of anecdotes and reflections on language learning. Because Dr. Lomb learned her languages as an adult, after getting a PhD in chemistry, the methods she used will be of particular interest to adult learners who want to master a foreign language.
Language and Nationality
Author: Pietro BortonePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135007165X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
What role does language play in the formation and perpetuation of our ideas about nationality and other social categories? And what role does it play in the formation and perpetuation of nations themselves, and of other human groups? Language and Nationality considers these questions and examines the consequences of the notion that a language and a nationality are intrinsically connected. Pietro Bortone illustrates how our use of language reveals more about us than we think, is constantly judged, and marks group insiders and group outsiders. Casting doubt on several assumptions common among academics and non-academics alike, he highlights how languages significantly differ among themselves in structure, vocabulary, and social use, in ways that are often untranslatable and can imply a particular culture. Nevertheless, he argues, this does not warrant the way language has been used for promoting a national outlook and for teaching us to identify with a nation. Above all, the common belief that languages indicate nationalities reflects our intellectual and political history, and has had a tremendous social cost. Bortone elucidates how the development of standardized national languages – while having merits – has fostered an unrealistic image of nations and has created new social inequalities. He also shows how it has obscured the history of many languages, artificially altered their fundamental features, and distorted the public understanding of what a language is.
Fluent Forever
Author: Gabriel WynerPublisher: Harmony
ISBN: 038534810X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.
The Bible in Spain and the Gypsies of Spain
Author: George Henry BorrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The New World
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
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The Bible in Spain
Author: George BorrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The Zincali; Or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
Author: George BorrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romani poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Zincali; Or an Account of the Gypsies of Spain
Author: George Henry BorrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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