Collection: Language Learning

This book walks you step by step through the fundamentals and moves on to more advanced topics. Each chapter concludes with a self-test that allows you to track your progress, and a comprehensive final exam at the end of the book gives instant feedback on new language skills.

Chinese Grammar Step by Step is a useful, easy to understand reference guide to the Chinese language. Based on Hanban’s International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education, it organizes grammar topics in a progressive manner and offers a clear, concise explanation for each language point. Ref...

"Chinese made easy" adopts a new approach to teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language. It has two levels: level 1 (Book 1-3); and level 2 (Book 4-5) After completing this series, learners will acquire a vocabulary of approximately 1,700 Chinese characters and several thousand phrases.

"Chinese made easy" adopts a new approach to teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language. It has two levels: level 1 (Book 1-3); and level 2 (Book 4-5) After completing this series, learners will acquire a vocabulary of approximately 1,700 Chinese characters and several thousand phrases.

Mike Hainzinger's distinctive and video-based approach makes learning Chinese easy and approachable. This is a fully blended learning experience which includes a student book, activity book plus DVDs and audio content. After gaining a fan base in the thousands on YouTube, Mike's methods lead to a...

This guide, with its bilingual dictionary and practical phrasebook, is an essential tool for students, travelers, and business people -- Back cover.

This is the teacher's guide to the Tobira textbook. It is written chiefly in Japanese with detailed explanations of the content covered and suggestions on how to teach the various points.

Comical and dramatic, Maupassant tales take us into the peasant world of the nineteenth century which is nevertheless still so close.

"A thematic anthology of contemporary authors, which pays particular attention to the context in which the various texts are situated and to the cultural threads that intertwine within them, making the literary text a tool for understanding Italian cultural reality"--Publisher's website.

Some people take photos, but artist Betty Reynolds captures memories with her paintbrush and watercolors."Clueless in Tokyo" provides an outsider's take on everyday life in Japan's capital city--a place where vending machines talk, toilets can be terrifying, and centuries-old festivals unfold aga...