Collection: Language Learning

This best-selling Japanese textbook is a user-friendly guide for beginners designed for use in a classroom or for self-study. It adopts a very different approach from other Japanese language books teaching you the underlying sentence structures and patterns of Japanese along with key vocabulary a...

If you want to learn kanji systematically and learn practical use at the same time, you found the right book for you. What does systemically mean here? Pretty simple: Learning techniques that help you remember the right kanji in the right situation--publisher's website.

"These books teach spoken and written Chinese separately, allowing you to focus on the area most important to you, and to learn the spoken and written forms of Chinese at different speeds depending on your available time and interest."--Publisher's website.

"No matter what textbook you're using to learn Chinese, it requires a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective activities and drills--plus an hour of native speaker audio recordings--to help you learn the 288 basic Chinese characters quickly and effectively. This book follows the Basic Mand...

This is a complete beginning-level course for spoken Mandarin Chinese designed to have you speaking quickly and accurately. The free online audio and video recordings included in the book reinforce the content and make the learning process easy.

"This comprehensive Mandarin workbook can be used with any textbook or on its own to dramatically enhance your Mandarin speaking and listening skills. No matter what textbook you're using to learn Mandarin, it requires a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective activities and drills--plus o...

Presenting twenty individual grammar points in lively and realistic contexts, this clearly presented and user-friendly text is an accessible reference grammar with related exercises in one, easy to follow volume.

It offers basic language instruction, with grammar, vocabulary, and common phrases presented in clear, concise lessons -- Back cover.

Learn to speak, read, write and understand French! Love, travel, study, work, friendship--whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' French will help you to: communicate naturally in everyday situations; build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice acti...

An introductory course in German for beginners, featuring twenty-one units that cover greetings, numbers, time, family, shopping, and other topics, with sample dialogues, language notes, vocabulary, and exercises.