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Mandarin Chinese Characters Language Practice Pad
Learn Mandarin Chinese in Just a Few Minutes Per Day! (Fully Romanized)
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Five minutes a day is all it takes to begin learning Chinese!
The perfect guide for busy people who want to learn Chinese, Mandarin Chinese Characters Language Practice Pad helps even those completely unfamiliar with the language learn and write the 332 most essential Chinese characters—in...
by Gladis Kersaint, Denisse R. Thompson, Mariana Petkova
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Today's mathematics classrooms increasingly include students for whom English is a second language. Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides readers a comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face English language learners (ELLs) and ways in which educators might address...
by Ilona Leki, Alister Cumming, Tony Silva
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
'I applaud the authors for this sizeable undertaking, as well as the care exercised in selecting and sequencing topics and subtopics. A major strength and salient feature of this volume is its range: It will serve as a key reference tool for researchers working in L2 composition and in allied fields.' –...
Tuttle Mini Chinese Dictionary
Chinese-English English-Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
This is a completely up-to-date Mandarin Chinese mini dictionary.
Tuttle Mini Chinese Dictionary is ideal for any application where a handy and portable dictionary is required. Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to China or as a Mandarin language study reference...
Mini Indonesian Dictionary
Indonesian-English / English-Indonesian
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
With a pocket-sized format and easy-to-read type, anyone can look up words quickly and easily with this handy little Indonesian dictionary.
Tuttle's Mini Indonesian Dictionary is ideal for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to Indonesia, or as an Indonesian language study...
by Otto Jespersen
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Intermediate Korean
A Grammar and Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume.
This workbook presents twenty-four individual grammar points, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their second year of learning...
The Invisible Origins of Legal Positivism
A Re-Reading of a Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Conklin's thesis is that the tradition of modern legal positivism, beginning with Thomas Hobbes, postulated different senses of the invisible as the authorising origin of humanly posited laws. Conklin re-reads the tradition by privileging how the canons share a particular understanding of legal language...
The Translation of Slang
Within the Bounds of Possibility?
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of St Andrews, language: English, abstract: 'Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.' This is how American poet Sandburg described the linguistic phenomenon of slang...
Central Asia Collection
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in China, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia and Kazakhstan (Including Chinese Mandarin, Kyrgyz, Mongolian and Russian)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Central Asia CollectionWelcome to the Central Asia Collection. This collection includes 5 of our training courses all within the same book. This collection is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to China, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Learn essential words,...
by Steffi Joetze
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: The study of motivation to learn a L2 is a thoroughly discussed and researched subject in the field of L2 acquisition. Nevertheless questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition introduces major current approaches in Arabic second language acquisition (SLA) research and offers empirical findings on crucial aspects and issues to do with the learning of Arabic as a foreign language and Arabic SLA. It brings together...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book explores theories and pedagogies in the L2 classroom that have led to an understanding of how nonnative languages are taught and learned. Featuring a diverse set of perspectives from researchers and language educators from around the globe, this book highlights important theoretical and...
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat
Naval slang and its everyday usage
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
As the crow flies'', ''chunder'', ''cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'', ''three sheets to the wind'' - many terms like these are used in everyday English language conversation and writing. But how many landlubbers know that they derive from naval slang or know what the phrase originally...