Collection: Language Learning

"This new workbook helps you to learn the basic Mandarin chinese characters and vocabulary that all beginning students need to know"--Back cover.

Under 14 different literary types (autobiography, memories, correspondence, poem, etc.), 45 genuine texts are introduced, annotated and explained.

"Jedermann!" rings out over the Cathedral Square in Salzburg. Mrs. Hofer and her husband Manfred are in the audience, and he dies shortly thereafter. His life insurance company doesn't believe it's a natural death, and they commission the SIRIUS Detective Agency to investigate. In the city of Moz...

A textbook, workbook, homework book and project folio in one. Written in Roomaji initially and kana introduced progressively, it is simple in design and presents the 10 units, and Hiragana, in a straightforward manner. Audio CD contains clear pronunciation and modeling of key vocabulary and sente...

Bret's understanding of the Japanese characters is totally unique while his approach is playful and adapted for non-native Japanese language learners.

Let's Speak Indonesian provides beginning and intermediate learners with an introduction to conversational Indonesian. Using a relaxed variety of standard Indonesian spoken among educated native speakers, it offers fifteen thematically based chapters in two volumes that are rich with photographs,...

In the same way she does every year, Belinda de Orgaz travels to the old family home in the Pyrenees to celebrate her birthday. Friends and relatives gather to spend a pleasant weekend but suddenly, one of the guests falls ill and a few hours later is found dead in his room. What happened? How di...

Recitation of 39 great French poems, with full text of the poems in French and English translations on the facing page.

"A highly illustrated introductory book for children aged 8 and over for a first introduction to French based on numerous games, lively dialogues and songs to listen thanks to QR codes, mini-comic strips and many other surprises."-- Provided by Ppublisher.

Diego Velázquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portrait artist.