Category: Language Learning

By Tacitus

Die ethnographische Schrift »Germania« des römischen Historikers Tacitus zählt - aus naheliegenden Gründen - im ›heutigen Germanien zu den unverwüstlichen Klassikern des lateinischen Literaturunterrichts. Interessant sind freilich nicht nur die darin beschriebenen Gebräuche der verschiedenen Stämme als Reflex eines römischen Germanenbildes, sondern vor allem auch die Interpretationsmöglichkeit des Textes als Sittenspiegel, der den römischen Lesern eine in ihrer Unverdorbenheit und Naturnähe vitale Gesellschaft vor Augen führen wollte. Für den Schulgebrauch bearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Erläuterungen und Literaturhinweisen. Mit Seitenzählung der gedruckten Ausgabe: Buch und book können parallel benutzt werden.

By Richard M. Roberts, Roger J. Kreuz

Adults who are looking to study a international language are frequently discouraged simply because they suspect they can't collect a language as simply as young children. after they start to study a language, adults could be extra discouraged once they locate the tools used to coach little ones don’t appear to paintings for them. what's an grownup language learner to do? during this publication, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive technological know-how to teach that adults can grasp a overseas language in the event that they carry to endure the talents and data they've got honed over a life-time. Adults shouldn’t try and study as young children do; they need to examine like adults.

Roberts and Kreuz file proof that adults can examine new languages much more simply than teenagers. youngsters seem to have purely benefits over adults in studying a language: they gather a local accessory extra simply, and so they don't be afflicted by self-defeating nervousness approximately studying a language. Adults, nevertheless, have the larger advantages—gained from experience—of an realizing in their personal psychological approaches and figuring out tips to use language to do issues. Adults have a particularly beneficial snatch of pragmatics, the social use of language, and Roberts and Kreuz exhibit the best way to leverage this metalinguistic skill in studying a brand new language.

Learning a language takes attempt. but when grownup rookies observe the instruments obtained over a life-time, it may be stress-free and profitable.

By Anna Proudfoot, Tania Batelli Kneale, Daniela Treveri Gennari

This extensive starting place direction in Italian is designed for college students without past wisdom of the language. Accompanying audio fabric containing dialogues, listening routines and pronunciation perform is on the market to buy individually in CD layout. those audio CDs are designed to paintings along the accompanying book.

Students utilizing the Routledge extensive Italian path will preparation the 4 key talents of language studying - examining, writing, talking, and listening - and may collect a radical operating wisdom of the buildings of Italian. The Routledge in depth Italian path takes scholars from newbie to intermediate point in a single yr.

By Eliane Kurbegov

Sharpen your French grammar with skill-building exercises

If you must be knowledgeable in French, you finally need to transparent the bothersome hurdle of grammar. how you can overcome this difficulty is thru hands-on event. masking all aspects of French grammar--from prepositions and pronouns to verbal varieties and tenses--French Grammar Drills is helping you examine often-perplexing themes with enjoyable and interesting workouts.

This finished booklet features:
* greater than one hundred fifty routines that display how the French grammar process works in addition to evaluation routines to augment your studying * a solution key to offer you rapid explanation on any idea * o Quick reports carry you up to the mark on grammar
Topics include:
Indefinite and certain articles * Demonstrative adjectives * Possessive pronouns * Conjunctions * Imparfait and passé composé * Verbal expressions and idioms * and more

By Joseph Germano, Conrad J. Schmitt

Difficult try Questions? overlooked Lectures? now not sufficient Time?

Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package comprises greater than 350 routines with solutions to sharpen your Italian grammar talents. Plus, you could have entry to 2.5 hours of downloadable audio records for added practice--it's similar to having your individual digital educate! You'll locate every thing you must construct self assurance, abilities, and information for the top ranking possible.

More than forty million scholars have depended on Schaum's to aid them achieve the study room and on tests. Schaum's is the most important to speedier studying and better grades in each topic. every one define provides the entire crucial direction details in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic layout. priceless tables and illustrations elevate your knowing of the topic to hand.

This Schaum's define supplies you

• 480 absolutely solved exercises
• assurance of latest conversational Italian together with expressions, slang, and idioms
• help for the entire significant textbooks for Italian courses

Fully appropriate together with your lecture room textual content, Schaum's highlights all of the very important proof you must recognize. Use Schaum’s to shorten your learn time--and get your most sensible attempt scores!

Schaum's Outlines—Problem Solved.

By J. J. Kinder, V. M. Savini

Reviewing key issues, this advisor to Italian utilization is meant for college kids who've received the fundamentals of the language and need to increase their fluency and self belief. It will pay detailed cognizance to these components of vocabulary and grammar which reason the main hassle to English-speakers, and attention is given all through to questions of fashion and sign up. The textual content can be an important reference for beginners looking entry to the finer nuances of the Italian language.

By Michael Campbell, Marta Biffi

For critical language newbies who desire plenty of education to arrive fluency. This direction is usually recommended as a complement for your different reports. We provide you with Mass Sentence education, yet we won't spend any time on clarification or grammar. What we do offer you is real language use by means of local audio system, build up sentence constructions as you pass. What we do provide you with is publicity and hours of audio education . the total path incorporates a booklet and separate audio fabrics (not to be had with this book). those can be found to buy individually in paperback, book and MP3 structure. T

The entire direction includes:
• publication or Paperback: one thousand bilingual sentences with pronunciation guide.
• GMS Audio: 20 tracks of recordings x three codecs (glossika.com)
• GSR Audio: 104 tracks of spaced repetition and overview, used as one song according to day

Features:
• for those who have already got the fundamentals during this language, you could consistently bypass round to anyplace .within the product and perform and concentrate on the components you definitely need.
• plenty of repetition of key sentence parts and vocabulary.
• Introduces find out how to render overseas names and placenames.
• All sentences are bilingual in layout, together with local script, romanization, and IPA (in phonetic—not phonemic—spoken form).
• point of ritual is casual all through, and formal the place appropriate.
• Audio bundled at Audible, or offered individually from glossika.com.
• Fluency 1: sentence styles disguise adjectives, nouns, current and earlier verbs, ordinary, non-stop and accomplished actions.
• Fluency 2: assive vs lively, destiny activities, Modal Verbs and instructions, Existential, oblique Speech, Causative, Verbals (Gerunds, Infinitives).
• Fluency 3: Verbals (Gerunds, Infinitives), Modals, Adjectives + Verbs, Prepositions + Verbs, Reflexives, Adjectives and Adverbs, Conjunctions and Prepositions, Verbs + Prepositions.

Includes:
• If you're fascinated by getting fluent in three months, stick to our in depth time table to complete Fluency 1-3 in three months.
• education of a thousand sentences, cumulatively surpassing even more than a thousand vocabulary phrases, yet constantly utilized in context and collocations.
• All of our fonts together with IPA and international scripts are embedded. Kindle three and above help embedded scripts.

Does now not Include:
• this isn't a grammar e-book. There aren't any grammar notes.
• Pronunciation consultant incorporated. (IPA included)
• now not urged for informal novices as you'll burn out.
• this isn't an off-the-cuff direction you're taking sooner than a visit. notwithstanding you could brush up on a language you might have formerly studied.
• If you're trying to find a Travel dialog or Survival Guide, we propose our Travel Fluency Module!

All newbies will suppose the rate is lovely quickly, notwithstanding we reassure you that each one of our recordings are spoken neither speedy nor gradual, yet at a regular pace for local audio system. in the event that your playback has a velocity keep an eye on, you then are loose to decelerate or accelerate the recordings as you spot healthy.

This is why the Glossika Spaced Repetition (GSR) documents would be the Most worthy. With perform, as you get a growing number of used to the pronunciation and pace, it is possible for you to to additionally communicate and reply on the related pace and intonation. if you happen to stick to our guidance for perform, you'll in achieving potent effects.

By Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura, Richard Glenn Covington, Joyce Yumi Mitamura

Studying to talk eastern, it's universally said, should be performed in a cheap period of time, yet studying to learn and write it can't. The offender is kanji, or chinese language characters, which complicate the japanese writing approach to the purpose of frustration.
A first step towards conquering kanji used to be taken by means of Yasuko Mitamura in 1997 with the book of Let's research Kanji. There, the basics have been introducedstrokes, radicals, and components-and 250 easy kanji to boot. Now, Let's examine extra Kanji strikes directly to complicated kanji and the formation of compounds of multiple personality. now not easily an excellent exposition yet extra importantly a workbook, it teaches the coed the right way to learn tough characters by way of radicals, elements, and uncomplicated kanji; tips to placed kanji jointly into compounds; and the way to acknowledge and examine any kanji no longer truly brought within the ebook. growth is continually checked, and the coed is consistently stimulated via quizzes and workouts. the result's the purchase of three hundred complicated kanji. If the scholar has additionally studied Let's research Kanji, on the finish of this quantity she or he could have mastered 550 kanji for writing and bought publicity to a couple 2,000 kanji altogether. for that reason, the coed might be firmly at the street to interpreting and writing Japanese.

For extra assets on eastern language, try out my discussion board publish on studying Japanese

By André Klein

During this follow-up to “Ferien in Frankfurt”, Dino reveals himself in Cologne, the carnival capital of Germany and residential of the Cologne Cathedral. being affected by cheesy lodgings and an empty pockets, he stumbles over a gig which supplies to be a stroll down effortless road. yet ahead of he is familiar with it, the carnival starts off and he’s confronted with an onslaught of bewildering customs, an drunk four-legged pal and surprising downpours of candy.

Explore Cologne’s colourful carnival culture, know about neighborhood attractions and sounds, and increase your German without problems alongside the best way!

By Martin Durrell, Gudrun Loftus, Katrin Kohl, Claudia Kaiser

Crucial German Grammar is a student-friendly grammar and workbook designed to offer newcomers a company starting place on which to construct a true knowing of either spoken and written German. The reference grammar part bargains transparent causes of key grammar issues whereas a separate workout part supplies scholars the chance to check themselves and positioned into perform what they've got learned.

This new version has been revised and up-to-date all through. motives, tables and workouts were stronger and a few of the genuine texts and illustrations were changed via new fabric. Key positive aspects of this moment variation include:

User-friendly format with up to date 2 color layout, enticing illustrations and visually attractive tables all through to help the training process

Clear and available factors with memorable examples expert through the newest study at the German language and offered according to present instructing methodology

Helpful parallels among English and German supplied the place relevant

End-of-chapter extracts taken from modern journalistic or real literary resources, illustrating grammar in context, with version translations supplied behind the book

Material to allow higher strategic studying and realizing, together with a "Why Grammar? FAQ "section, a thesaurus of grammatical phrases in either English and German and a whole solution key to exercises

Created particularly for the hot version, a significant other site at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.routledge.com/cw/kaiser"; rel="nofollow">www.routledge.com/cw/kaiser</a> supplying a wealth of extra fabrics, together with interactive routines, quizzes and flashcards to check pupil knowing, downloadable PDF sheets for school room use, PowerPoint slides for teachers and audio recordings illustrating the sounds of spoken German.

Written by way of hugely skilled teachers within the box, "Essential German Grammar "is a useful source for intermediate and complicated scholars of German (CEFR degrees A2 to B2, ACTFL beginner excessive to Intermediate High). it's designed to operate both as a free-standing grammar or as a origin grammar for "Hammer s German Grammar and utilization "and is appropriate for either lecture room use and self-study."