Language Education

In this beginner-level Audiobook, you will master over 25 common sentence patterns across 25 simple lessons. By the end, you'll be able to ask common questions and answer them in your own way, all while acquiring over 100 French words. Most importantly, you'll be able to have real conversations in various social situations. How, you may ask? Each lesson introduces a new conversation reflecting a real-world situation, including casual chats between friends as well as dialogues in more formal settings.

Have you been trying to learn Chinese (Mandarin) and simply can’t find the way to expand your vocabulary? Do your teachers recommend you boring textbooks and complicated stories that you don’t really understand? Are you looking for a way to learn the language quicker without taking shortcuts? If you answered “Yes!” to at least one of those previous questions, then this book is for you! We’ve compiled the 2000 most common words in Chinese, a list of terms that will expand your vocabulary to levels previously unseen.

Do you work and live with people who are hard to convince? Who dismiss ideas before even thinking about them? Do you want to know how to influence people, without being manipulative? Want to find out how people get motivated, make decisions, how to be more persuasive with everyone? Shelle Rose Charvet, best-selling author, shows you how to match your language to people around you (in your work, with your colleagues, your boss and your clients, and at home, with your partner, family and other relationships).

French is a beautiful language that is spoken by millions around the world! It is hard to find time to learn a new language, however! Language courses at schools and colleges are routine and boring! Learn French for Beginners Easily & in Your Car is perfect for people who have no other time to learn a new language!

Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer's Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven't changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation ( gafol-fisc, or tax-fish).

More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten presented the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said to "give body and soul to the Yiddish language," The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians and students, as well as a perennial best seller for three decades.

The world has opened again, which means you can now finally take that trip to Japan, the country you’ve wanted to visit for so long... But what if you get there and sound like a complete foreigner? What if you start speaking to a local but get tongue-tied finding the right words to say? Sounds like a nightmare, right? It doesn't have to be that way... Here's the deal: We created this Japanese-speaking crash course dedicated to making you conversational in 30 days or less – without spending months on a random language app that you'd mentally force yourself to use.

Do you want to learn Filipino the fast, fun and easy way? And do you want to travel to the Philippines and get around like a pro? Then this is the audiobook for you. Learn Filipino: A Complete Phrase Compilation for Traveling to the Philippines is designed for absolute beginner learners and travelers. You learn the must-know travel phrases, survival phrases, vocab, and cultural insights to make your trip to the Philippines a breeze. All were hand-picked by our team of Filipino teachers and experts.

This audiobook is designed for people who want to study English in English. Start speaking English in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with this completely new way to learn English with ease!

Start speaking Afrikaans in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Introduction to Afrikaans. Our native Afrikaans hosts break down all the sentences, grammar and more in a simple, easily understandable way! This isn't stale textbook material - it's fun, effective, and practical! You learn basic beginner Afrikaans conversation that you can use immediately!

In The Sense of Style, the best-selling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the 21st century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.

Learning a new language as a hobby, like French, can be incredibly satisfying. You are learning a new skill, deepening your mind by learning about a new culture, and exercising your memory. But, did you ever realize that learning French can be a game-changer? As one of the most widely used languages in the world, the ability to speak French can offer new career opportunities as business becomes more global.

Do you know what the hardest thing for a Russian learner is? Finding proper reading material that they can handle...which is precisely the reason we’ve created this audiobook! In this audiobook, we have compiled 20 easily understandable, compelling, and fun stories that will allow you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to improve your grasp of the wonderful Russian tongue.

After years of teaching intermediate students who never seemed to improve, I decided to find out what the problem was. Essentially, intermediate students get stuck because learning at this stage is a different type of learning than at the beginner stage. You have mastered the grammar and the basic vocabulary, but most textbooks just carry on like nothing has changed. However, what you need at the intermediate stage is not just more dry grammar and lists of vocabulary.

Welcome to Everyday Korean for Beginners - 400 Actions & Activities by Innovative Language. This audiobook is a new way to learn and speak a language fast. Start speaking in minutes with powerful learning methods that you'll learn inside. Using this audiobook is simple. You'll learn practical phrases for over 400 daily activities through 10 easy chapters. The phrases were chosen by a panel of professional language teachers and are some of the most frequently used phrases in daily conversation.

We live our lives word by word - to build our relationships, to convey our points of view, to object to wrongs done to us or to others, to comfort our children and our friends. We also use the wrong words - sometimes unknowingly - and get ourselves into situations we'd rather not be in. As Stephen R. Covey points out in his introduction: "Words sell and words repel; Words lead and words impede; Words heal and words kill."

Do you know what studies have shown to improve the outcome of patient care? To deliver quality care in the patient's language! The Spanish-speaking population is growing rapidly, and the number of people who need your help is only going to increase. Providing world-class medical care is challenging enough without the language barrier, not to mention all the stress involved in emergency situations.

Enjoy this single-voice audio recording of the Contemporary Chinese Bible, which offers a concise “thought-for-thought" translation. By focusing on delivering a clear rendition of the Bible’s stories and concepts, the Contemporary Chinese Bible in the Mandarin dialect offers a better comprehension of Scripture for the listener than a word-for-word translation.

Each lesson in Egyptian Arabic Phase 1, Units 1-5 provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Each lesson contains practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons.

Each lesson in Dutch Phase 1, Units 1-5 provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Each lesson contains practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons.