Foreign Language Study

Polish your French grammar with practice, practice, practice. Unlike typical language books, Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar is a combination language guide/workbook that provides you with the knowledge you need to understand the subject and the practice you need to master it in minimal time. more...

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Go beyond arrivedirci and add thousands of words to your Italian vocabulary. To communicate comfortably in Italian, you need access to a variety of words that are more than just the basics. In Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Vocabulary you get the tools you need to expand your lexicon and sharpen your speaking and writing skills. And how do you this? PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!. Each chapter of this comprehensive book focuses on a theme, such as family or travel, so you can build your language skills in a systematic manner. As you lay the foundation for a burgeoning vocabulary, you will perfect your new words with plenty of exercises and gain the confidence you need to communicate well in Italian. Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Vocabulary offers you: More than 250 exercises; Concise grammatical explanations; An answer key to gauge your comprehension. With help from this book, you can easily speak or write in Italian about:. Different occupations and jobs * Italian holidays and traditions * Taking the train * Growing your own garden * Where it hurts on your body * Your house * Your family and friends * What you studied in school * Your favorite TV show * Your family's background . . . and much more! more...

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Learn verb skills and communicate confidently in a new language. Building on the authors’ bestselling The Ultimate Review and Practice series, this book is your best bet to mastering the often tricky verb forms and key sentence structures of the Spanish language. The Ultimate Spanish Verb Review and Practice offers a step-by-step program for experienced beginners through advanced learners to understand how different verb forms work and use that knowledge to build increasingly sophisticated sentences in Spanish. No other book on the market combines guidance and practice in verb formation and usage with tips on the 18 most commonly used sentence models. more...

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This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen (1848-1899). Despite lifelong ill health and short life, Allen was a writer of extraordinary productivity and range. His prosperity, however, was underpinned by fiction. Peter Morton from Flinders University, SA. more...

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Indus Kohistani is a major language of the Dardic group of Indo-Aryan languages. It is spoken in North Pakistan along the west bank of the Indus. The Dardic languages are - in the words of the eminent linguist R.L. Turner - linguistically of great interest. They are of crucial importance for our understanding of the early stages of Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit) and of its prehistory. The dictionary contains around 8.000 entries, many of which are supplemented with parallels from other languages (Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Dravidian, etc.), and with information about their origin. The book is presently the most comprehensive dictionary of a Dardic language and a rich source for linguists and South Asian philologists. more...

Price: $193.20