This book sends a peace proclamation around the world so it may become a new poem in Arabic and Hebrew, Russian and Ukrainian, Tibetan and Mandarin, Tamil, Vietnamese, Polish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, and a host of other languages. Together with notes about peace-making translators and their languages, and QR codes for recordings of voices speaking gentle words, this book is for the children of the world.

Cover photograph by Michael Nye.

The go-to sentence-building guide now includes a brand-new, fully comprehensive review chapter!

You've learned the fundamentals of Spanish grammar, like spelling, word meanings, and parts of speech. Now it's time to take the next step and put them all together to communicate complete ideas. Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Sentence Builder, Second Edition guides you through the process of putting the parts of Spanish together correctly, from connecting words into clauses to writing original sentences to creating whole paragraphs. You'll get where you want in no time through Practice Makes Perfect's systematic, crystal-clear approach to building sentences.

Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Sentence Builder, Second Edition features:

- Clear explanations of how to apply grammar to create well-formed sentences
- Numerous examples of correctly-formed Spanish sentences
- Lesson reinforcement with copious practice exercises, include multiple choice, sentence-correction, and building new sentences from scratch
- Answer key, including suggestions for creative exercises

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Enjoy tales from Latin America while sharpening your new language skills

Practice and improve your reading skills in your new language while enjoying the support of your native tongue with Stories from Latin America, Third Edition. Both insightful and practical, this book features Spanish and English stories presented in a side-by-side format that saves you the inconvenience of constantly having to look up unfamiliar words and expressions in a dictionary. Simply read as much as you can understand in your new language and refer to the facing page for help, if needed. A bilingual vocabulary list featured at the end of the book serves as a handy reference for new words.

The best way to learn about a new culture is through its folktales and legends. Sixteen fascinating stories offer valuable insights into the rich culture of Latin America. And now you can hear the stories read aloud by native Spanish speakers online and via app. This new edition gives you access to a full 60 minutes of audio--ten of the stories included in the book. Hearing the stories read aloud in their original language will help increase your comprehension and pronunciation skills even more.

Stories from Latin America, Third Edition brings you:

- A convenient side-by-side presentation with English on one page and Spanish on the facing page
- Sixteen short stories from Spanish-speaking cultures
- Extensive English-Spanish and Spanish-English vocabulary lists
- 60 minutes of audio recordings read by native Spanish speakers and available online or via app

The Orbis Pictus was the first ever illustrated children's textbook, first published in 1658. This edition is based upon a reprint dated to 1728, and contains 155 drawings, and the full text in both English and Latin.

Intended to provide children with a basic level of familiarity with the principal phenomena of the natural world and human life, the Orbis Pictus - the Visible World - is filled with wide-ranging subjects. Descriptions of plants, animals and the elements, are followed by an anatomical discussion of man. Though the medical knowledge of the time was simple compared with today, the author nevertheless describes the body's functions - digestive and circulatory - with some accuracy.

Later the text moves onto human life. The various professional trades receive chapters; baking, fishing, farming, cookery, brewing and various handicrafts are discussed. The various tools and equipment found in a tailor's shop or a blacksmith's forge are described. The construction of homes and other buildings are elaborated upon, while professional services such as shipping and papermaking are also explained. Though simple, the contents are incredibly rich - since the book dates to the 17^th century, its contents carry historical insights.

John Amos Comenius was a leading educator and theologian from the Czech Republic. He travelled and worked throughout Europe, advocated critical and logical thinking over rote memorization, and advocated for funding education for the poor and for the tutoring of women.

Enjoy tales from Mexico while sharpening your new language skills

Practice and improve your reading skills in your new language while enjoying the support of your native tongue with Stories from Mexico, Third Edition. Both insightful and practical, this book features Spanish and English stories presented in a side-by-side format that saves you the inconvenience of constantly having to look up unfamiliar words and expressions in a dictionary. Simply read as much as you can understand in your new language and refer to the facing page for help, if needed. A bilingual vocabulary list featured at the end of the book serves as a handy reference for new words.

The best way to learn about a new culture is through its folktales and legends. The sixteen fascinating stories offer valuable insights into the rich culture of Mexico. And now you can hear the stories read aloud by native Spanish speakers online and via app. This new edition gives you access to a full 60 minutes of audio--all of the stories included in the book. Hearing the stories read aloud in their original language will help increase your comprehension and pronunciation skills even more.

Stories from Mexico, Third Edition brings you:

- A convenient side-by-side presentation with English on one page and Spanish on the facing page
- Sixteen short stories from Mexico
- Extensive English-Spanish and Spanish-English vocabulary lists
- 60 minutes of audio recordings read by native Spanish speakers and available online or via app

Genevieve Barlow and William N. Stivers are experienced Spanish language educators.

This is the fifth edition of a popular book that provides a unique set of tools designed to enhance an individual's success in communicati0n in a foreign language environment. The devices presented allow the speaker of a foreign language to demonstrate the level of his/her language more impressively, so impressively, in fact, that it appears that the speaker's language itself has improved overnight. These techniques were developed and tested by the author with adult professionals in such varied fields as journalism, diplomacy, government, and international business. Many of these professionals have attested to the efficacy of these tools in their own columns.

Over 150 worksheets to practice, review, and reinforce skills in reading and writing for Spanish students. The activities are in Spanish only and cover the following topics: phonics, reading for meaning, capitalization & punctuation, sentence writing, and story-writing activities. This resource is a compilation of four bestselling titles in our Spanish/English series. This resource has 160 pages.

Fonética/Phonics es un recurso efectivo para enseñar o revisar una gran variedad de conceptos fonéticos. Las actividades que se presentan en este libro incluyen prácticas de reconocimiento de consonantes al inicio de las palabras, la c suave y la c fuerte, la g suave y la g fuerte, vocales acentuadas y no acentuadas, dígrafos, unión de letras, división silábica, antónimos y homónimos. Los ejercicios también permiten practicar los aspectos de deletreo de palabras y sustitución de sonidos.

Leer para Entender/Reading for Meaning es un recurso efectivo para enseñar o repasar las habilidades lectoras. Las actividades en este libro brindan práctica en las siguientes habilidades de lectura: encontrar la idea principal, ver relaciones, sacar conclusiones, hacer inferencias, usar claves de contexto, notar detalles, observar secuencias, seguir instrucciones y comprender vocabulario.

Uso de las Mayúsculas y Reglas de Puntuación/Capitalization and Punctuation es un recurso eficaz para enseñar o repasar el uso de las letras mayúsculas y los signos de puntuación al escribir. Las actividades de uso de mayúsculas refuerzan el reconocimiento de por qué, dónde y cuándo se usan las mayúsculas. Las actividades de puntuación desarrollan la conciencia de dónde y cuándo se utilizan los signos de puntuación, como el punto, el signo de interrogación, el signo de exclamación, la coma y las comillas.

Composición de Oraciones/Sentence Writing: es un recurso eficaz para enseñar la correcta estructura de las oraciones. Las actividades de este libro ayudan a los estudiantes a reconocer la estructura de los cuatro tipos de oraciones: asertiva (decir), interrogativa (pregunta), exclamativa e imperativa (comando); las actividades también brindan práctica de escritura para cada uno de estos tipos de oraciones.

Composición de Historias/Story Writing es un recurso efectivo para enseñar o repasar las habilidades de escritura de historias. Las actividades en este libro brindan práctica en los siguientes conceptos: identificar la idea principal, identificar una oración temática, identificar y escribir detalles de apoyo, secuenciar oraciones, escribir historias descriptivas, narrativas y directivas, y completar historias iniciales con detalles de apoyo.

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Learn how to communicate in Arabic with this accessible, entertaining program!

Learning a new language can be especially challenging when the language uses a non-Roman script. Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners, Third Edition overcomes this obstacle by providing an accessible, entertaining program to reinforce vocabulary and help you create basic structures. Each of the book's eight topics was designed to help you develop your communication skills in key areas of daily life, such as introducing yourself, asking for directions, talking about your family and your country, and describing people, places, and objects.

This updated edition is supported by flashcards for vocabulary in each topic, and two end-of-topic quizzes. The accompanying audio via the McGraw-Hill Language Lab app features all the key words and phrases so you can hear how they are pronounced and then have a chance to repeat them. Fun tests and puzzles reinforce your progress. Additional listening activities and games are also featured for additional language reinforcement.

Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners, Third Edition features:

- An accessible, proven approach to help you communicate in Arabic
- A two-color layout and photographs illustrating key vocabulary
- Games, puzzles, flashcards, and audio lessons to help you build languages skills
- Clear explanations of how basic phrases are used for practical communication
- Streaming audio for valuable speaking and listening practice
- Detachable flashcards for language reinforcement, and more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Becoming Equipped to Communicate (BEC) is a language and culture learning curriculum. The BEC progressively leads learners into broader and deeper local relationships as the learners advance through the learning levels with the associated community-based activities. Even as learners grow in local relationships, BEC helps them move through key areas of culture toward a thematic worldview understanding of the local culture and language community. This approach provides learners with a robust foundation for effective communication and language development work.

By the end of the BEC curriculum, learners who have followed the program will have cultivated many significant relationships in their new community as a part of identifying key themes of life in the worldview around them. In this sense, BEC acts as much more than a language learning program. Through this resource, cross-cultural workers grow to become a normal part of the life of the culture and language community: learning to understand, speak, read, write, and naturally interact in order to take an active and relevant role in people's lives for focused relationship-building and language development purposes.

Few pastors continue to read their Hebrew Old Testament after seminary. One reason is that it is too time-consuming, since many words have to be looked up in the dictionary. The Reader's Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament, now for the first time complete in one volume, enables the pastor and the student to read the Hebrew Old Testament with relative ease. Listed in sequence by chapter and verse are all words that occur fewer than fifty times in the Old Testament, complete with translation (based on Brown, Driver, and Briggs' Lexicon) and numbers indicating how often the word occurs in the particular book and in the Old Testament as a whole. At the end of each entry is the page number in Brown, Driver, and Briggs' Lexicon where a discussion of the word can be found. Appendixes list all Hebrew words occurring more than fifty times in the Old Testament and all Aramaic words occurring more than ten times.