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Even the most profane practitioner of the vulgar tongue must sometimes wonder, Am I doing it right?" This highly entertaining and crucially informative visual guide to the art of swearing employs a variety of quick-read charts and helpful strategies to take salty skills to the next level. Offering history and etymology along with guidance, quips, insults, answers to lingering questions, and much more, How to Swear celebrates the rude ingenuity of...
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The conversations have been gathered, and narrated as an artist by the author. The author takes an abstract perspective of a conversation to assemble conversation essays. Conversation essays help to enhance reading, sharing, learning and presenting abilities of a person in any setting. The author associates abstract topics and relates these topics to conversations that are similar, diverse, parallel, angular, and criteria based for a differentiation...
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A fun jaunt into the convoluted wilds of the English language, Sentence Diagramming 101 explores the relationship between words using traditional sentence diagramming, lots of movie references, and plenty of practice exercises (Yes, it has an answer key and a website with cool videos–as cool as grammar videos can be anyway).
This book begins with an overview of the parts of speech before delving into word function and sentence patterns. From...
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"EXPAND ARABIC Word vocabularies with this Arabic book, speak Arabic in any situation"Enhance spoken ARABIC with this book series 4 Inside access to:2000 Arabic word phraseSentence building and grammar rulesPhrase Builder30 Arabic expressions30 topics to speak What is in this Arabic book seriesThe topics in this series will be more challenging than the previous books. It covers areas to meet people in a meeting room, or colleagues with the same designation...
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Brits and Americans dress the same, eat at the same chain restaurants, and pass music back and forth across the Atlantic, and our national leaders are practically conjoined twins. But the second the Brits open their mouths, all bets are off. So don't dream of visiting the United Kingdom, dating a Brit, or truly understanding what Jude Law is saying without this handy, hilarious, and informative guide to Britspeak.
With the cheekiness of Austin Powers...
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Exploring multilingualism as a complex, context-related, societal, and individual phenomenon, this book centres around perspectives on how multiple languages are made (in)visible within educational settings in the Global North. The authors of each chapter compare and contrast findings across geographical contexts with the goal of understanding the facets of multilingualism that, on the one hand, conform across contexts, and on the other, diverge context-specifically....
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¿Cómo investigar nuevos usos de lenguas indígenas mediante abordajes colaborativos con sus hablantes? En este libro se exponen etnografías, relatos y experiencias sobre cambios en los usos de las lenguas indígenas contemporáneas, situadas en tres provincias argentinas: Chaco, Corrientes y Santiago del Estero. Estas investigaciones en co-labor proponen, así, un viaje por diferentes rincones del norte de la Argentina donde estas lenguas son vigentes...
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Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an integral role in the structures of many languages. This book teaches linguists a tried-and-proven methodology for analyzing tone in any part of the world. Significant features:
• Delivers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to tone analysis for field linguists
• Emphasizes the discovery of contrastive tone patterns of morphemes, as opposed to contrastive...
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Partant d'expériences vécues, de témoignages recueillis et de recherches académiques, l'autrice décrit comment se vit l'expérience de l'insécurité linguistique au quotidien, surtout dans la francophonie, là o l'idée d'une langue unique, la même pour toutes et tous, est la plus forte. Elle montre que les discours sur la langue sont aussi des discours sur les personnes qui les parlent. L'insécurité linguistique peut être liée au sentiment...
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This book explores the gap between policy, practice and academic literature within language learning for refugees and argues that a multilingual approach, which combines translanguaging principles, decolonising methodology and linguistic hospitality, provides a more accessible starting point than current monolingual pedagogies. It considers the multilingual and multilateral approach laid out within Scotland's New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy,...
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People think that learning a new foreign language is tough, but instead the secret is not intelligence but interest, determination, and discipline. That said, having a strategic learning program, a good curriculum, and resources to study. Most importantly the style of study skills.
The process of writing this book is similar to reverse engineering. After the author wrote books in series such as:
Arabic Shortcuts
Learn Arabic for lower Beginners.
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This book presents a sociocultural linguistic analysis of discourses of conflict, as well as an examination of how linguistic identity is embodied, negotiated and realized during a time of war. It provides new insights regarding multilingualism among Ukrainians in Ukraine and in the diaspora of New Zealand, the US and Canada, and sheds light on the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on language attitudes among Ukrainians around the world. Crucially,...
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Traditionally a navigating and migratory people, Portuguese settlers came to the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century. The ancestors of the modern Portuguese community in Trinidad and Tobago hailed from the archipelago of Madeira, fleeing their homeland in search of an economic and religious haven from the 1830s onwards. They came neither to explore nor to conquer, had no history of land and slave ownership in the Caribbean, and they came...
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Through the book, you'll be excited to see what's next and have a hard time stopping at the end of each chapter. With lots of excitement and strange happenings, you'll learn how real detectives handle a case. You may even solve the mystery before they do! With short, easy-to-read sentences, you'll breeze through, become friends with all the characters, and want to
In Dyslexia tools for kids you can find:
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Can AI truly fathom literary artistry or emotion? Is there space for machine-human partnership expanding creative frontiers? As artificial intelligence permeates our world, intriguing questions arise around its role in the arts.In The Future of Storytelling: AI and the Art of Flash Fiction, writer Charles Eugene Anderson chronicles his adventures on the frontier of AI-assisted fiction. With warmth and wit, Anderson welcomes you along his journey pioneering...
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Dennis Roy Craig (1929–2004) was one of the most outstanding Caribbean linguists of the twentieth century. The Society of Caribbean Linguistics honoured him in 2000 for what was described as "an academic career at once awesome and inspiring", for his devotion to Creole linguistics and his tremendous contribution to language education in the Caribbean. He was also an outstanding figure in educational leadership in the region and a poet.
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Across continents and cultures, English has emerged as the shared bridge language that connects business, arts, sciences, and entertainment worldwide. In this thought-provoking and impassioned manifesto, a globally experienced EFL educator sheds light on the humanitarian importance of continuing to spread English as a universal means of communication-most notably in parts of the world where educational standards are lacking.This polemical and informative...
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This book investigates new English language policies and initiatives which have been introduced and implemented across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. Chapters are organized around three themes. Chapters in the first section critically examine newly-implemented English language policies, as well as factors that contribute to and prevent the implementation of such policies. Chapters in the second section describe...
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Here is a book for anyone tired of speaking flat, colorless, homogenized English. Pennsylvania Dutchman Gary Gates provides a glossary, read-aloud section, songs, recipes, and more in this delightful, introduction to Dutch-ified English.
Learn the meaning of "rutch" and "spritz," what a "clod" and a "crotch" are, how to pronounce and make "Cussin Rache's Snitz and Knepp," and what has happened to food when it's "all." Spice up your vocabulary with...
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