Korean - Elementary

This sequel to Elementary Korean offers a thorough intermediate level course in Korean, and is designed for students whohave achieved basic proficiency and want to develop a greater mastery of the language. The book includes dialogues, vocabulary, detailed breakdowns of grammatical structures, along with language exercises, and is accompanied by a 74-minute audio CD.

Author Biography: Ross King is Associate Professor of Korean at the University of British Columbia. He completed his B.A. in Linguistics at Yale and his Ph.D. in Linguistics at Harvard.

Jaehoon Yeon is Lecturer in Korean at the Centre of Korean Studies, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. he received his B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics at Seoul National Univeristy in Korea and his Ph.D. in Linguistics at SOAS, University of London.

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Routledge - Colloquial Arabic of Egypt

The second edition of this course in Arabic of Egypt for beginners has been completely revised and updated to make learning Arabic of Egypt easier and more enjoyable than ever before.

Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study and class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Arabic of Egypt. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

What makes Colloquial Arabic of Egypt your best choice in personal language learning?

• The Arabic presented in this course is given in romanised form throughout
• The Arabic script is introduced progressively to aid familiarity with the standard written language
• Emphasis on modern conversational language with clear pronunciation guidance
• Grammar section for easy reference
• Stimulating exercises with lively illustrations

By the end of this rewarding course you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Arabic of Egypt in a broad range of everyday situations.

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The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language

Written by an international assembly of distinguished philosophers, the Blackwell Philosophy Guides create a groundbreaking student resource - a complete critical survey of the central themes and issues of philosophy today. Focusing and advancing key arguments throughout, each essay incorporates essential background material serving to clarify the history and logic of the relevant topic. Accordingly, these volumes will be a valuable resource for a broad range of students and readers, including professional philosophers.

The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language is a collection of twenty new essays in a cutting-edge and wide-ranging field.

• Surveys central issues in contemporary philosophy of language while examining foundational topics
• Provides pedagogical tools such as abstracts and suggestions for further readings
• Topics addressed include the nature of meaning, speech acts and pragmatics, figurative language, and naturalistic theories of reference

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Dialectology

When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial variation into a cohesive discipline. In this second edition, the authors take account of the renaissance of dialect research in the last twenty years. They offer new sections on dialectometry and mapping variability, a revised section on dialect geography as well as updates of other recent developments. A reliable textbook for over seventeen years, this new edition will continue to serve the needs of undergraduates and individual scholars with its comprehensive coverage of methods, models and findings in the study of language variation and change.

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Routledge - Colloquial Scottish Gaelic

Colloquial Scottish Gaelic is the ideal introduction to the language of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland: a modern language with a rich tradition. This step-by-step approach has been devised to make speaking, reading and writing Scottish Gaelic easy and enjoyable. No previous knowledge of the language is required.
What makes Colloquial Scottish Gaelic your best choice for learning the language?

• emphasis on up-to-date, conversational language
• clear explanations of how the language works
• helpful grammar notes
• comprehensive vocabulary lists (Scottish Gaelic-English and English-Scottish Gaelic)
• lively illustrations throughout

This rewarding course will give you confidence in using Scottish Gaelic in a wide range of situations. Two 60-minute cassettes are available to accompany Colloquial Scottish Gaelic. Recorded by native speakers, they will help you perfect your pronunciation, listening and speaking skills.

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Teach Yourself - Gaelic Dictionary

'Teach Yourself Gaelic Dictionary' is a two-way dictionary with Gaelic-English and English-Gaelic sections. It has been specially designed with the needs of learners and speakers of Scottish Gaelic in mind. Whether you are learning Gaelic at an evening class, studying it at school, college or university, or using 'Teach Yourself Gaelic', it is the ideal companion.
The book is extensive in its coverage but also concise and practical to use. It features contemporary language usage, examples of idioms and expressions, modern standardized spellingand a grammatical appendix.

• unique - this is the only compact two-way dictionary on the market;
• comprehensive - gives vocabulary from all leading self-access, TV and school courses;
• indispensable - will cater for the rapidly expanding Gaelic-medium primary and secondary school markets;
• up to date - reflects current language usage.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Gaelic-English Dictionary
English-Gaelic Dictionary
Appendix: Grammar summary

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Teach Yourself - Gaelic - Complete Course for Beginners

This is a complete course in spoken and written Gaelic. If you have never learnt Gaelic before, or if your Gaelic needs brushing up, Teach yourself Gaelic is for you.
Boyd Robertson and Iain Taylor have created a practical course that is both fun and easy to work through. They explain everything clearly along the way and give you plenty of opportunities to practise what you have learnt. The course structure means that you can work at your own pace, arranging your learning to suit your needs.
The book is structured as a series of units which contain graded dialogues, culture notes, grammar and a range of test-yourself exercises. There is also a separate grammar summary and a Gaelic-English vocabulary list.

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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more. The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humor and learning - it's rude, it's delightful and it's a prize for anyone with a love of language.

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First 1000 Words in Arabic

"First 1000 Words" is a picture reference book with numerous scenes similar to the picture on the cover of the book. Even though this appears to be a children's book, I recommend it to adults who are trying to learn Arabic, too.

All of the words in the book are nouns, so a more appropriate title might be "First 1000 Nouns in Arabic". The book is really easy to use. Under each picture is the arabic word (in Arabic script). Beneath that is the English transliteration. This is helpful if you don't know how to read Arabic script or aren't very good at is. For example, under the picture of a fish, you will find the Arabic script, then the tansliteration of fish in Arabic, which is "samak".

A glossary in the back of the book helps you easily locate the word you might be looking for and to clear up any confusion caused by a picture that could mean two or more things, like a picture of a wall, the word beneath the picture could be the word for "brick" or for "wall". The glossary eliminate this confusion.

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A Interprete

Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) é uma intérprete das Nações Unidas que, por acaso, ouve uma ameaça de morte a um chefe de estado africano, planejada para ocorrer em plena Assembléia das Nações Unidas. Como a conversa ocorreu em um raro dialeto africano, poucas pessoas seriam capazes de compreendê-lo. A ameaça faz com que a vida de Silvia se transforme totalmente, passando a receber proteção do agente federal Tobin Keller (Sean Penn). Keller por sua vez vasculha o passado de Silvia, encontrando cada vez mais motivos para desconfiar dela. Ele fica então em dúvida se deve realmente protegê-la ou se Silvia está envolvida em uma conspiração internacional. Durante o filme, descobrimos que Silvia morava no mesmo país deste chefe de estado e o odiava por ter sido “responsável” pela morte de seus pais. Ela possuia amigos que lutavam contra o regime (juntamente com seu irmão). No fim, descobrimos que o responsável pela idéia do atentado matou os dois inimigos do chefe de estado. Acabamos por descobrir que um agente da CIA (que no inicio do filme tenta fazer uma acariação com Silvia), juntamente com seguidores deste chefe de estado “fingiram” uma tentativa de assassinato somente para dar mais poder a ele. Silvia, que não tinha nada a ver com esta tentativa, fica frente a frente com o chefe de estado, mas Tobin acaba convencendo-a a não mata-lo. eles acabam não ficando juntos e ela acaba indo de volta para a sua terra. A Africa.

Curiosidades:

- A Intérprete é o 1 § filme a receber autorização para filmar dentro do prédio das Nações Unidas, no qual estão localizados o Conselho de Segurança e a Assembléia Geral.

- As filmagens no prédio das Nações Unidas foram realizadas sempre em fins de semana, para não atrapalhar os trabalhos do local.

- Foram realizadas filmagens no prédio das Nações Unidas entre abril e agosto de 2004.

- Nicole Kidman teve que deixar as filmagens de A Intérprete por alguns dias para rodar um novo final para Mulheres Perfeitas (2004), seu filme anterior.

- Vários dos extras do filme eram na verdade integrantes da equipe de trabalho do prédio das Nações Unidas, que foram autorizados a participar do filme.

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Formato: DVDRip
Idioma: Português

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O Poliglota!

O Professor aposentado Carlos Amaral Freire, 74, bate o recorde mundial de aprendizado de línguas- 115. O recorde anterior era do cardeal italiano Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774-1849), do século 19, a quem era atribuído o feito de poder traduzir 114 línguas.
Gaúcho de Don Pedrito, fronteira com o Uruguai, Carlos Freire mora num sítio no Morro das Pedras, Florianópolis. Publicou ano passado um livro intitulado “Babel de Idiomas”, onde traduziu para o português poemas em 60 línguas diferentes.
Se não for provado o contrário, Carlos bateu outro recorde: o do ser humano que conseguiu publicar traduzindo para sua língua materna (no caso dele, o português) poemas escritos no maior número de idiomas. O Guinness (livro de recordes) será consultado em breve para dar um parecer.
Freire despertou-se para as línguas muito cedo. Tinha um tio espanhol muito culto, que possuía uma vasta biblioteca, na qual havia muita literatura hispânica e italiana. “Eu me interessei em aprender italiano”, conta Carlos, que cedo aprendeu espanhol por viver numa região de fronteira e escutar o “portuñol”, um idioma híbrido de português e espanhol misturados com pitadas de gramática própria. No mas, Freire passou a vida viajando para estudar os idiomas. Estudou na China, Estados Unidos, Itália, Espanha, na ex-Iugoslávia, na ex-Tchecolosváquia e na ex-URSS.
Detalhe, Freire não fala 115 línguas. Isso é humanamente impossível. Haja memória! Ele fala umas 30 com ou mais ou menos razoável fluência. Na realidade, a capacidade de Freire é traduzir, com ou sem dicionário, textos nas 115 línguas que estudou. Em 2001 Freire recebeu o diploma da Universidade de Cambridge “2000 outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century in honor and outstanding in the Field of Linguistis and Education” (Dois mil notáveis intelectuais do século 21 em honra e notabilidade no campo da Lingüística e Educação).
Tem idioma que ele estudou há 30 anos e nunca mais revisou por falta de tempo porque está sempre estudando uma nova língua. E se ele deparar com o idioma estudando há muito tempo, certamente não o lembrará na hora. Ele precisa de algumas horas ou dias para relembrar a língua.
Hoje ele está “enferrujado” na língua macedônia. Mas na década de 1990, Freire surpreendeu um jornalista macedônio (da Macedônia, região da Iugoslávia) dando uma entrevista naquela exótica língua um mês depois que começou a estudar o idioma.
O professor Freire mora numa casa de dois andares com duas bibliotecas. Na do andar de baixo ficam os livros de línguas que o intelectual vem estudando e consultando mais. Na de cima está guardada a maioria de seus livros- 90% manuais de estudo de idiomas e literatura do mundo inteiro.
Na biblioteca do andar térreo, há um quadro em árabe que exprime exatamente a alma singular de Freire. Está escrito, segundo lê Carlos naquela tabuleta que o homem comum acha que é um monte de “cobrinhas amestradas” tal como parece a escrita árabe a primeira vista: “Ionain la yaîhaean talih zilm uu talih mel” (Há duas pessoas que jamais estarão satisfeitas: a que procura o conhecimento e a que procura o dinheiro”.
Uma figura notável!

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Teach Yourself - Beginner's Italian

Teach Yourself Beginner’s Italian is the right course for you if you really want to learn Italian but are daunted by the prospect of complicated grammar, classes and coursebooks. This book and accompanying CDs start right from the beginning and explain everything in simple English. There are hints throughout to make learning easy and you can learn at your own pace with plenty of practice of each new point. It is a friendly introduction to the language which will help you to understand and speak Italian sufficiently well to function effectively in basic everyday situations. The course will also offer you an insight into Italian culture.

The book is divided into two main parts. Units 1-10 introduce you to the basic structures and grammatical points you’ll need in everyday situations – language functions. Units 11-20 give you the opportunity to put into practice and consolidate the language you have learnt in the first ten units. They deal with everyday situations such as making a telephone call, shopping, eating and travelling. There is a special section on pronunciation at the beginning of the book to get you started and a short test at the end of each unit so that you can check your progress and review any areas of difficulty. New language is introduced through short dialogues and texts which are also on the accompanying recording and there are plenty of exercises to practise each new point as it is introduced. By the end of the course you’ll be able to communicate in a wide range of real-life situations and have all the practical information you need to enjoy your next trip to Italy.

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Cambridge Latin Course - Unit 2

The Fourth Edition Cambridge Latin Course is an introductory program organized into four well-integrated units. Cambridge's proven approach includes a stimulating continuous story line, interwoven grammatical development and cultural information, supportive illustrations and photographs, and a complete Language Information section. Reading is the heart of the Cambridge Latin Course, and all the elements of the program- illustrations, vocabulary, grammar and syntax, cultural contexts and references, activities- are carefully introduced and arranged to provide students with the skills they need to read with comprehension and enjoyment from the very first page. Student Book The most effective tool for students and teachers of Latin!

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Cambridge Latin Course - Unit 1

The Fourth Edition Cambridge Latin Course is an introductory program organized into four well-integrated units. Cambridge's proven approach includes a stimulating continuous story line, interwoven grammatical development and cultural information, supportive illustrations and photographs, and a complete Language Information section. Reading is the heart of the Cambridge Latin Course, and all the elements of the program - illustrations, vocabulary, grammar and syntax, cultural contexts and references, activities - are carefully introduced and arranged to provide students with the skills they need to read with comprehension and enjoyment from the very first page.

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Teach Yourself - Beginner's Hindi Script

The Hindi Script - called Devanagari - is a beautifully logical writing system. Its phonetic arrangement makes it quite easy to learn, and once you know the basic four dozen (or so) characters, you will be well on your way to reading the signs, posters, notices, street names, signposts and advertisements that are part of the everyday scene in North India.'Beginner's Hindi Script' introduces Devanagari in the traditional order. The characters are introduced one by one in phonetic groups, steadily building up your ability to read and write.

The book also gives you some information on the cultural orientation of the language, explaining where Hindi belongs in the history of Indian languages, and showing where its words come from. There are hints for authentic handwriting skills and plenty of exercises throughout so that you can practise what you've learnt. Examples from real-life signs, notices and advertisements show you the language in context.

The book is intended for beginners who are starting to learn Hindi from scratch, and who need guidance in pronunciation as well as in reading and writing. But it can also be used by those who already know something of the spoken language - perhaps learned from family or from Hindi films - and who wish to add an ability to read and write.

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

Crystal, an author, lecturer, and BBC broadcaster on language, here approaches English with the same combination of scholarly seriousness and inviting visual presentation that made his Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (LJ 5/1/88) so successful. This large, lively, and lavishly illustrated volume is divided into six broad topics that cover the English language's history, vocabulary, grammar, writing and speech systems, usage, and acquisition. Within these major topics, the book is divided into logical subtopics and finally into the basic unit of the text-the two-page spread. Nearly every individual subject is treated without turning a page, and how these pages are packed! The clear and spirited text is stunning, enhanced with over 500 illustrations, making this a particularly rich reference work and a browser's dream. The history part consists of chronological chapters that trace the language's development. It offers a fascinating treatment of the growth of English during Shakespeare's time as well as its adaptation to the needs of international trade and late 20th-century technology. Crystal is attuned to the diversity of English usage around the world, providing a variety of wide-ranging quotations, photographs, newspaper clippings, poems, ads, and cartoons. The text treats controversial topics such as black English, word and place origins, regional English, dialect, the U.S. movement to make English the official language, politically correct language, and the future. The book's layout, three indexes, and glossary will make it useful both at the reference desk and in the circulating collection. Crystal has created an attractive and readable work for the lay reader as well as the specialist. For most academic, public, and school libraries.-Paul D'Alessandro, Portland P.L., Me.

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Teach Yourself - Beginner's Japanese Script

The Japanese writing system was introduced into Japan by the Chinese around the middle of the 6th century AD. The Chinese language is very different to Japanese in structure and so the writing system was gradually adapted to fit the structure of the Japanese language. There are now three scripts which make up the Japanese writing system (four if you include roman script): kanji, hiragana and katakana. The latter two are known collectively as kana.

This book will make the reading and writing of Japanese accessible to you through a step-by-step approach which will help you to gradually build up your knowledge of Japanese script. It will show you that written Japanese can be interesting, challenging and also fun to learn. Units 1-4 introduce mainly kanji which developed from pictures of nature. Units 4 & 6-8 will teach you how to decipher more complex kanji giving you the tools to take your study further on completion of the book. Units 8 & 10 give you the chance to put your learning into practice through real-life examples of signs, notices and warnings, and also a number of reading passages. Unit 5 is devoted to hiragana and Unit 9 to katakana. There are lots of practice activities and ideas to help you learn and remember these two scripts. By the end of the book, you'll be able to read and write simple Japanese with confidence.

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Teach Yourself - Beginner's Arabic Script

If you are planning to visit or work in an Arab country or are learning Arabic, then 'Teach Yourself Beginner's Arabic Script' will help you get to grips with the reading and writing the Arabic script. This book is a step-by-step introduction to reading and writing simple Arabic that will enable you to read Arabic signs, notices, advertisements and headlines. If you feel that learning the script is a daunting prospect, then this book will make it simple. The alphabet is introduced in stages and there's lots of practice of each new letter before the next is introduced. There are plenty of example words and phrases that are seen everywhere in any Arab environment so that you will begin to familiarise yourself with the most common signs and directions.

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Teach Yourself - Beginner's Chinese Script

Teach Yourself Beginner's Chinese Script' starts from scratch, explaining the origins of the language and how characters have evolved. It teaches you how to write characters correctly from the beginning and, through a series of carefully graded exercises, how to understand enough from signs, directions, instructions and menus to be able to get by. The book is divided into two main parts. Units 1-4 introduce you to the origins of the Chinese script, explain how characters and words are formed and the basic rules in writing them. Unit 4 ends with a mini test to enable you to check your progress so far. Units 5-9 introduce you to real-life situations such as reading signs, maps, notices and even menus. You will be able to write numbers, dates, tell the time, and fill out simple forms. There is a comprehensive test at the end of Unit 9. Unit 10 explains how to use a Chinese-English dictionary and Chinese word-processing packages with concrete examples. There is also a brief introduction to Chinese idioms.

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