Vocabulary category: 1591 books

Cover of Vocabulaire Français-Allemand pour l'autoformation. 7000 mots
by Andrey Taranov
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Posséder environ 7 000 mots de lallemand permet de lire des textes dans leur version originale. En associant lacquisition du vocabulaire à la pratique conversationnelle, vous pourrez formuler toutes les phrases que vous voudrez et exprimer précisément vos idées. Il vous semblera alors facile...
Cover of Vocabulaire Français-Hongrois pour l'autoformation - 9000 mots les plus courants
by Andrey Taranov
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Connaître environ 9 000 mots de vocabulaire vous permettra de lire le hongrois en utilisant le dictionnaire le moins possible. Non seulement vous pourrez exprimer votre opinion au cours d’un échange, mais vous saurez trouver exactement les mots justes. A force de pratiquer et de voir des films en...
Cover of Vocabulaire Français-Néerlandais pour l'autoformation - 3000 mots les plus courants
by Andrey Taranov
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Ce livre est un vocabulaire pour débutants, qui vous permettra d’acquérir de bonnes bases en néerlandais. Ses 3000 mots vous aideront à comprendre des phrases simples et à en faire, ce qui vous sera utile lors d’un voyage à l'étranger. Des transcriptions simples seront utiles pour mémoriser...
Cover of Vocabulaire Français-Hongrois pour l'autoformation - 3000 mots les plus courants
by Andrey Taranov
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Ce livre est un vocabulaire pour débutants, qui vous permettra d’acquérir de bonnes bases en hongrois. Ses 3000 mots vous aideront à comprendre des phrases simples et à en faire, ce qui vous sera utile lors d’un voyage à l'étranger. Des transcriptions simples seront utiles pour mémoriser les...
Cover of Vocabulaire Français-Azéri pour l'autoformation - 9000 mots les plus courants
by Andrey Taranov
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Connaître environ 9 000 mots de vocabulaire vous permettra de lire en azéri en utilisant le dictionnaire le moins possible. Non seulement vous pourrez exprimer votre opinion au cours d’un échange, mais vous saurez trouver exactement les mots justes. A force de pratiquer et de voir des films en azéri,...
Cover of In Praise of Profanity
by Michael Adams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f****** deal!" A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude toward swearing and "bad language":...
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First Chinese Reader for Beginners

Bilingual for Speakers of English

by Marina Chan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013

The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel Chinese-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The ALARM method (Approved Learning Automatic Remembering...
Cover of See It & Say It! Jumbo Workbook Edition | First Grade Sight Words
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017

First graders need all the help they need to learn to read. Reading is a skill that must be learned at this stage in order to proceed to advanced educational levels. However, you don’t have to bore your child with all texts and no pictures. You have this picture book available just within reach. Go ahead and secure a copy now!
Cover of Dictionary of the British English Spelling System
by Greg Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015

This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It’s a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed...
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Word Drops

A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities

by Paul Anthony Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Did you know, for example, that scandal derives from the Latin for “stumbling block” and originally described a trap for a wild animal? In nineteenth-century...
Cover of The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two

The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two

The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words

by Anu Garg
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007

From the creator of the popular A.Word.A.Day e-mail newsletter A collection of some of the most interesting stories and fascinating origins behind more than 300 words, names, and terms by the founder of WordSmith.org. Did you know: There’s a word for the pleasant smell that accompanies...
Cover of English Made Simple, Revised Edition

English Made Simple, Revised Edition

A Complete, Step-by-Step Guide to Better Language Skills

by Arthur Waldhorn, Arthur Zeiger
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011

For almost four decades, Made Simple books have set the standard for continuing education and home study. In answer to the changing needsof today's marketplace, the Made Simple series for the '90s presents a thoroughly up-to-the-minute portfolio of skills, information, and experience, with revised...
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Read Japanese Today

The Easy Way to Learn 400 Practical Kanji

by Len Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008

This is the quickest way to learn written Japanese effectively. 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....
Cover of A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi

A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi

Words We Pinched From Other Languages

by Chloe Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009

English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado, chutzpah, pro bono, hoi polloi, ketchup, nous, zeitgeist - we use these foreign words every day without thinking of their origins, but what do they actually mean? And just how and why did...
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