Vocabulary category: 1591 books
More Making Out in Japanese
Revised Edition (Japanese Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
More Making Out in Japanese is a fun, accessible and thorough guide to the Japanese language as it's really spoken.
This phrasebook follows the bestselling Making Out in Japanese providing additional (and classic) phrases for travelers, including ones to help you make acquaintances, discuss...
A Compendium of Collective Nouns
From an Armory of Aardvarks to a Zeal of Zebras
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
This illustrated guide compiles over 2,000 collective nouns and brings them to life in stunningly colorful, graphic artwork from the design dynamos at Woop Studios. Chock-full of treasures of the English language, the diversity of terms collected here covers topics from plants and animals (a parade...
by Martin Manser
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This book explores an aspect of the rich heritage of the English language – the deriving of words from the names of people, eg sandwich, wellington, mackintosh, ampere, watt, volt. Eponyms are the people who give their names to words. Most eponymous words derive from a person’s surname: boycott,...
by Mizue Sasaki
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The Complete Japanese Expression Guide enables students to speak and understand idiomatic Japanese with the ease and fluency of a native speaker.
For the first time ever, over 600 of the most commonly used idiomatic expressions in the Japanese language have been brought together and alphabetized...
First Japanese Reader for Beginners
Bilingual for Speakers of English
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel Japanese-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...
Change in Contemporary English
A Grammatical Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora,...
English Grammar
Understanding the Basics
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Looking for an easy-to-use guide to English grammar? This handy introduction covers all the basics of the subject, using a simple and straightforward style. Students will find the book's step-by-step approach easy to follow and be encouraged by its non-technical language. Requiring no prior knowledge...
Magical Power of Suru
Japanese Verbs Made Easy: Learn the Most Difficult Aspect of Japanese Grammar With This Innovative Method
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Learn how to conjugate difficult Japanese verbs with ease!
Everyone knows that learning the different conjugations of Japanese verbs can be a chore. Wouldnt it be great if you could learn to conjugate just one simple verb and then use that verb in all sorts of situations. Now you can with The...
Word Myths:Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Do you believe that Ring Around the Rosie refers to the Black Death? Or that Eskimos have 50 (or 500) words for "snow"? Or that "Posh" is an acronym for "Port Out, Starboard Home"? If so, you badly need this book. In Word Myths, David Wilton debunks some of the most spectacularly wrong word histories...
Fiske WordPower
The Exclusive System to Learn, Not Just Memorize, Essential Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Test Words You Should Know
1,000 Essential Words for the New SAT and Other Standardized Texts
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
There's a Word for It
The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Word geeks (1984), rejoice! Crack open these covers and immerse yourself in a mind-expanding (1963) compendium of the new words (or new meanings of words) that have sprung from American life to ignite the most vital, inventive, fruitful, and A-OK (1961) lexicographical Big Bang (1950) since the first...
The Anti-Dictionary
A Selected List of Words Being Forced from the Modern Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
Words are dying. Not all words. Only a select few-words that have specific bearing on our moral health as a nation and our moral past. In this book, a selected list of words is given. These words are not dying because of misuse, but because their essential meanings have been forgotten, compromised...
Bad Language
Are Some Words Better Than Others?
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Is today's language at an all-time low? Are pronunciations like cawfee and chawklit bad English? Is slang like my bad or hook up improper? Is it incorrect to mix English and Spanish, as in Yo quiero Taco Bell? Can you write Who do you trust? rather than Whom do you trust? Linguist Edwin Battistella...