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Fast Italian with Elisabeth Smith (Coursebook)
by Elisabeth SmithFollow this course for 35 minutes a day and in six weeks you'll be speaking Italian!Elisabeth Smith has used her wide teaching experience to write a course that covers just the vocabulary and the grammar that you really need. This day-by-day programme is easy to follow and fun to do. At the end of six weeks, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to tackle all the situations you need to know about, such as shopping, eating out and getting around. With just the essential words and phrases to learn, and flashcards at the back of the book to help learn them, progress is fast and enjoyable.By the end of this course, you will be at Level A2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions. Can communicate in simple and routine tasks.
Fast Japanese with Elisabeth Smith (Coursebook)
by Elisabeth SmithThis product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding CD which is sold separately (ISBN: 9781444145045).Elisabeth Smith has used her wide teaching experience to write a course that covers just the vocabulary and the grammar that you really need. This day-by-day programme is easy to follow and fun to do. At the end of six weeks, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to tackle all the situations you need to know about, such as shopping, eating out and getting around. With just the essential words and phrases to learn, and flashcards at the back of the book to help learn them, progress is fast and enjoyable.By the end of this course, you will be at Level A2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions. Can communicate in simple and routine tasks.
Fast Portuguese with Elisabeth Smith (Coursebook)
by Elisabeth SmithElisabeth Smith has used her wide teaching experience to write a course that covers just the vocabulary and the grammar that you really need. This day-by-day programme is easy to follow and fun to do. At the end of six weeks, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to tackle all the situations you need to know about, such as shopping, eating out and getting around. With just the essential words and phrases to learn, and flashcards at the back of the book to help learn them, progress is fast and enjoyable.By the end of this course, you will be at Level A2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions. Can communicate in simple and routine tasks.
Fast Russian with Elisabeth Smith (Coursebook)
by Elisabeth SmithThis product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding CD which is sold separately (ISBN: 9781444145106).Elisabeth Smith has used her wide teaching experience to write a course that covers just the vocabulary and the grammar that you really need. This day-by-day programme is easy to follow and fun to do. At the end of six weeks, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to tackle all the situations you need to know about, such as shopping, eating out and getting around. With just the essential words and phrases to learn, and flashcards at the back of the book to help learn them, progress is fast and enjoyable.By the end of this course, you will be at Level A2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions. Can communicate in simple and routine tasks.
Fast Spanish with Elisabeth Smith (Coursebook)
by Elisabeth SmithLooking for a Spanish course that really works fast? Look no further. In just 35 minutes a day for six weeks, Elisabeth Smith will teach you the 450 most useful words and expressions that you need. Whether you're going on holiday, looking to brush up lost language skills or just curious about Spanish, this course will give you the confidence to communicate in all kinds of everyday situations - shopping, chatting over a coffee, ordering a meal, setting up a meeting, booking a hotel. You'll be able to speak to the locals - and understand what they say back to you! The course is clearly structured and easy to follow. And Elisabeth makes learning fun, fast and easy. Her courses are built around what her students have told her they want - quick, practical, all the essentials. On completion, get your certificate of achievement to impress your friends and family with. Speak Spanish - fast!
Fast Spanish with Elisabeth Smith (Coursebook)
by Elisabeth SmithLooking for a Spanish course that really works fast? Look no further. In just 35 minutes a day for six weeks, Elisabeth Smith will teach you the 450 most useful words and expressions that you need. Whether you're going on holiday, looking to brush up lost language skills or just curious about Spanish, this course will give you the confidence to communicate in all kinds of everyday situations - shopping, chatting over a coffee, ordering a meal, setting up a meeting, booking a hotel. You'll be able to speak to the locals - and understand what they say back to you! The course is clearly structured and easy to follow. And Elisabeth makes learning fun, fast and easy. Her courses are built around what her students have told her they want - quick, practical, all the essentials. On completion, get your certificate of achievement to impress your friends and family with. Speak Spanish - fast!
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary
by Gail JarrowIn the early 1900s, when typhoid fever was killing tens of thousands of Americans each year, Mary Mallon was employed as a cook by several well-to-do New York families. <P><P>When some members of these households developed the disease, suspicion turned to Mary. Did she have anything to do with the spread of the deadly bacteria? <P>Here is the gripping, true story of Typhoid Mary; the epidemiologist who discovered her trail of infection; and the health department that decided her fate. Fatal Fever will keep readers on the edges of their seats as they wonder what will happen next. <P>Award-winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow brings her expertise to this engrossing medical mystery. Extensive back matter includes a glossary, a timeline, and a list of well-known typhoid sufferers and victims.
Fathoming Translation as Discursive Experience: Theorization and Application
by Chunshen ZhuIn his positive approach to translation studies featured in this highly original volume, Chunshen Zhu brings into perspective from the vantage point of translation the workings of human factors in text production, interpretation, and dissemination in and through translation in varying social situations. This book examines a variety of key issues heatedly debated or largely neglected in the field of translation studies and beyond, for example, meaning making, nature of the Unit of Translation, augmentation of transitivity by modification, signification of repetition, and cognitive effects of syntactic iconicity, by critically engaging insights from functional linguistics and philosophy of language, among other fields of study. These issue-driven, phenomenon-focused, and theorization-oriented studies, presented in eight chapters with ample exemplification and case studies, form a coherent whole to bring a network of correlations between theory and practice, linguistics and literature, form and content, information structure and communicative function, intention and effect, and textuality and experience to bear upon the study of translation, fathoming its depths not only as a linguistic operation but more significantly as a textually accountable process of intersubjective and cross-lingual sign making that facilitates humans’ understanding of themselves and of the world. The book is therefore a useful reference for scholars, teachers, and postgraduate and research students who are interested in a comprehensive yet focused approach to translation as an academic subject straddling linguistics and literary, cultural, and social studies, as well as for those who would like to observe bilingualism and cross-cultural communication through translation in general and translation involving the Chinese language in particular.
Feedback in L2 English Writing in the Arab World: Inside the Black Box
by Susan Riley Abdelhamid M. Ahmed Salah TroudiThis edited book uses case studies to offer a comprehensive picture of the feedback practices and perceptions pertinent to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing in the Arab world. It highlights essential themes about feedback in L2 writing in eight Arab countries, and offers a detailed critical analysis of feedback practices and perceptions in six of these: Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. The book will appeal to an international readership of academics, researchers and practitioners interested in EFL writing in the Arab world.
Fidelity: 'The book about infidelity that has shaken up Italy - and is coming to Netflix' (The Times)
by Marco MissiroliSOON TO BE A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES 'An absolute scorcher' Evening Standard'Fidelity thrilled me, made me think and moved me deeply. As deep as any literature and as irresistible as any gossip' Jonathan Safran Foer'Intimate and ultimately moving... completely absorbing'Daily Mail'Cuts right through to the darkness of our inner lives'Roberto Saviano'A gripping novel exploring the tensions in an apparently idyllic marriage' Financial Times 'A must-read'Sydney Morning HeraldCarlo, a part-time professor of creative writing, and Margherita, an architect-turned-real estate-agent: a happily married couple in their mid-thirties, perfectly attuned to each other's restlessness. They are in love, but they also harbour desires that stray beyond the confines of their bedroom: Carlo longs for the quiet beauty of one of his students, Sofia; Margherita fantasises about the strong hands of her physiotherapist, Andrea.But it is love, with its unassuming power, which ultimately pulls them from the brink, aided by Margherita's mother Anna, the couple's anchor and lighthouse - a wise, proud seamstress hiding her own disappointments.But after eight years of repressed desires and the birth of a son, when the past resurfaces in the form of books sent anonymously, will love be enough to save them? A no. 1 international bestsellerSoon to be a Netflix show directed by Andrea Molaioli, director of the Netflix hit series SuburraWinner of the Premio Strega GiovaniShortlisted for the Premio Strega'Powerful, delicate, exquisite' Claudio Magris 'Masterful... The ending is just as good as that of Joyce's The Dead' Corriere della Sera'You'll feel like taking refuge in this book and never leaving its confines' La Stampa'With all-encompassing writing, Marco Missiroli opens the rooms of his characters and the streets of Milan, the thoughts and the concealed desires, makes dialogue and silences reverberate with the spontaneity of great narrators' Il Foglio
Fields of Castile/Campos de Castilla: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish)
by Antonio Machado Stanley AppelbaumMaster poet Antonio Machado y Ruiz is widely regarded as one of the twentieth-century's greatest Spanish writers. His collection of poems celebrating the region of Castile made him one of the primary voices of the Generation of 1898 -- a brilliant group of writers dedicated to Spain's moral and cultural rebirth after the Spanish-American War. Machado's lyrical Campos poems, tinged with nostalgic melancholy, are powerfully introspective and meditative, revealing an evolution away from his previously ornate, Modernist style. With these magnificent poems, Machado moved toward a simpler, more authentic approach that would later distinguish all of his works.This unabridged edition of Machado's landmark Campos de Castilla is presented in a dual-language format which features an excellent new translation on pages facing the Spanish original. A fully informative introduction and comprehensive notes by the translator are also included.
Fiesta Cristiana, Recursos para la Adoración: Resources for Worship
by Raquel Mora MartínezFiesta Cristiana is a bilingual collection of worship services that can be used with Hispanic congregations. Fiesta Cristiana not only contains traditional worship services, but also features services special to the Hispanic culture.
Fiesta!
by Ginger Foglesong GuyBilingual text describes a children's party and provides practice counting in English and Spanish.
Figurative Language
by Barbara Dancygier Eve SweetserThis lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is applied to cross-linguistic data and also to figurative structures in gesture and the visual arts. Comprehensive and practical, the book includes analyses of figurative uses of both word meanings and linguistic constructions. • Provides definitions of major concepts • Offers in-depth analyses of examples, exploring multiple levels of complexity • Surveys figurative structures in different discourse genres • Helps students to connect figurative usage with the conceptual underpinnings of language • Goes beyond English to explore cross-linguistic and cross-modal data
Filipino Friends
by Liana Romulo Corazon Dandan-AlbanoThrough the eyes of Sam, a Filipino-American boy visiting the Philippines for the very first time, children will learn about Philippine customs and language. Soft, whimsical watercolors labeled with English words and Filipino translations bring to light the differences between Western and Philippine lifestyles. Children of expatriate Filipinos as well as expatriate children living in the Philippines will find Filipino Friends indispensable in bridging the gap between the two cultures.
Filipino Friends
by Liana Romulo Corazon Dandan-AlbanoThrough the eyes of Sam, a Filipino-American boy visiting the Philippines for the very first time, children will learn about Philippine customs and language. Soft, whimsical watercolors labeled with English words and Filipino translations bring to light the differences between Western and Philippine lifestyles. Children of expatriate Filipinos as well as expatriate children living in the Philippines will find Filipino Friends indispensable in bridging the gap between the two cultures.
Filipino: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Essential Grammars)
by Maria Sheila ZamarFilipino: An Essential Grammar is a comprehensive and practical reference guide introducing the key grammatical forms and structures in the Filipino language. This book offers a detailed exploration of key phonological, morphological, and syntactic features of Filipino that are essential to achieving high levels of proficiency in the language. Across 14 chapters are concise explanations of important grammatical categories and linguistic features relevant in the description of Philippine languages, complemented by examples relevant for everyday conversations and easy-to-understand rules for navigating Filipino grammar. Taking into consideration the most salient grammatical aspects that need to be presented by teachers and mastered by learners of Filipino, this is the ideal reference grammar for researchers, teachers, and learners of the Filipino language. This book is designed for both independent and class-based studies by learners of Filipino at all levels.
Filmspanism: A Critical Companion to the Study of Spanish Cinema
by Juan F. EgeaFilmspanism explores the geopolitics of knowledge involved in academic approaches to Spanish cinema. This companion rethinks the role of disciplinarity, institutionality, and nationality in the study of film by taking into account a rather specific set of contentious issues, intellectual traditions, discursive servitudes, and invested scholarship. To that end, the book explores the topics of art cinema, popular culture, film genre, and transnationalism, always with Spanish cinema as its concrete object of study. An insightful contribution to the study of Spanish cinema, this discussion will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in Hispanic Studies and Film Studies.
Final Draft 1
by Pamela Hartmann Robyn Brinks Lockwood David Bohlke Wendy AsplinAcademic writing is difficult, and Final Draft gives students all the tools they need. Writing skills and in-depth analysis of models set the stage for development. Corpus-based vocabulary, collocations, and phrases, as well as detailed information on the grammar of writing, prepare your learners for college writing courses. Students learn to avoid plagiarism in every chapter of every level. This dedicated, long-term focus on plagiarism avoidance helps ensure that these students are able to use sources and highlight their own thoughts.
Find Out About China: Learn Chinese Words And Phrases And About Life In China (Find Out About Books)
by Zheng Qing Tim HutchinsonEach Find Out About book introduces boys and girls to a different country, its people, its history, its culture, and its language. The books are divided into four parts:
Finnish: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Essential Grammars)
by Fred KarlssonThis thoroughly revised third edition of Finnish: An Essential Grammar is grounded in fundamental insights of modern linguistics and incorporates some of the latest achievements in the description of written and spoken Finnish. It gives a systematic account of the structures of the written language and offers increased attention to the key characteristics of present-day colloquial Finnish. No prior knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader and grammatical rules are clearly explained without jargon. Features of this new edition include: • pronunciation guide, including the tendencies in present-day colloquial Finnish • thorough descriptions of morphology (word structure) and syntax (sentence structure) • clear rules and an abundance of concrete examples, from both written and colloquial Finnish • updated vocabulary in the examples • an effective new scheme for detecting the morphological structure of any word form • subject index. This is the ideal reference source both for those studying Finnish independently and for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types.
Finnish: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars)
by Fred KarlssonFinnish: A Comprehensive Grammar presents a fresh, accessible and thorough description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Finnish. The book moves from the sound system through morphology and word classes to a detailed analysis of sentence structures and semantic features. Key features include: particular focus on examples from spoken Finnish reflecting current usage, grammatic phenomena classified as common or rare, appendices distinguishing base forms from final letter combinations, English-Finnish contrasts highlighted throughout. This Comprehensive Grammar is an essential reference for the intermediatre and advanced learner and user of Finnish.
Finu' Chamorro for Beginners
by Faye Untalan MSW, MPH, Ph.DFinu' Chamorro for Beginners offers comprehensive and practical lessons and language drills for anyone interested in becoming more confident and proficient in speaking the Chamorro language. Students of all levels will enjoy its easy-to-follow lesson plans on pronouns, sentence structure, verbs, and vocabulary. Content and lessons go beyond language and orthography rules to present the learner with insight into the Chamorro people’s rich traditions. The publication serves both as a textbook for two college-level semesters of beginning Chamorro language instruction and as a workbook with activities intended to help students develop their ability to read, write, and speak in Chamorro.
Fires (Mandarin Edition)
by Raymond CarverA disparate collection of work bound by a unity of vision and obsession.本书收入卡佛的短篇小说,随笔及诗歌 小说方面 卡佛特别不满意 纽约客 文学编辑利什对 洗澡 , 所有的东西都粘在他身上 和 咖啡先生和修理先生 的删节 他改了标题 大量修改内容 都收入 火 里 谎话 , 木屋 等短篇小说则是首次有中译本 诗歌方面 收录 你们不知道什么是爱 , 在克拉马斯河附近 , 我父亲二十二岁时的照片 等著名作品 随笔方面 有 关于写作 , 我父亲的一生 , 火 等文学爱好者期待已久的篇目
First French Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book
by Stanley AppelbaumThis excellent anthology offers the beginning French-language student a first taste of some of the world's most significant prose. Chosen for both their eloquence and ease of reading, excerpts from such masterpieces as Les Misérables, The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, Carmen, and The Three Musketeers will open new worlds for linguists. Readers will savor the words of fifty great writers of multiple genres from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries, including Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Baudelaire, Dumas, Proust, and other literary virtuosos.Lucid and accessible, the unabridged English translations by Stanley Appelbaum appear on pages that face the original French text. Literature lovers, French-language students, and other readers will find this volume a fascinating exploration of French literature...and an invaluable aid to mastering one of the world's most romantic languages.