The bestselling guide to learning a new language and remembering what you learned, now revised and updated

A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide . . . If you want a new language to stick, start here.--Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero

Gabriel Wyner speaks seven foreign languages fluently. He didn't learn them in school--who does? Rather, he mastered each one on his own, drawing on free online resources, short practice sessions, and his knowledge of neuroscience and linguistics.

In Fluent Forever, Wyner shares his foolproof method for learning any language. It starts by hacking the way your brain naturally encodes information. You'll discover how to hear new sounds and train your tongue to produce them accurately. You'll connect spellings and sounds to images so that you start thinking in a new language without translating. With spaced-repetition systems, you'll build a foundation for your language in a week and learn hundreds of words a month--with just a few minutes of practice each day. This revised edition also shares fresh strategies that Wyner has refined over years of study. You'll learn to

- use your interests to curate vocabulary that you'll actually be excited to study
- fast-track fluency, with a new appendix devoted to conversation strategies with native speakers
- compile the best language-learning tool kit for your budget
- harness the science of motivation and habit building to turbocharge your progress
- find the perfect level of difficulty with reading and listening comprehension to stay engaged and avoid frustration

With suggestions for helpful study aids and a wealth of free resources, the intuitive techniques in this book will offer you the most efficient and rewarding way to learn a new language.

Tajik is the official language of Tajikistan and the mother tongue of millions of ethnic Tajiks. This bilingual dictionary, with almost 15,000 entries, is a useful tool for both non-Tajiks visiting Central Asia and students of Tajik, with all entries appearing in both the Cyrillic alphabet and Romanized transliteration.

This 2-way Armenian-English dictionary includes over 9,000 entries for the Eastern Armenian dialect. Phonetic pronunciation is included for both English and Armenian entries.

Mongolian vocabulary and phrases are given in both the Roman alphabet and the Mongolian Cyrillic script, enabling the user to pronounce words easily while becoming familiar with the script. Featuring: * 3,500 total entries * Basic Mongolian grammar * Travel-oriented phrases * Commonsense pronunciation * Interesting and helpful cultural information

This dictionary reflects usage largely based on classical norms of the Nahuatl literary tradition, but also includes more contemporary vocabulary.

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Learning with Spanish Novels is easy and straightforward. Forget about difficult long texts with English-translations. This book for Spanish learners is not like that. It will take you to the next level in less time. That means less effort and struggling towards your way to fluency in Spanish. Improving your Spanish can be lots of fun.

A Spanish Book for Intermediates (B1) Both Fun & EasyCrimen en Barcelona is the book number 13 of the Spanish Novels Series. This Intermediate Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday situations: greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has an intermediate command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. You need to know conditionals, gerund, pluperfect and simple past tenses. Besides, in this book you will find longer and more complex sentences.

Felipe Amador is the CEO of Alaires Airlines and the richest man in Barcelona. One night he's found dead in his office. Nobody knows how he died, but many think it could have been a crime. Two private detectives are hired by his son to find out everything about the case.

This Spanish Book for Intermediates will show you the most used grammar structures in different situations. As the difficulty level is just right you will learn and enjoy it at the same time. This Intermediate Spanish book will definitely help you work your way up toward more advanced readings.

Why Spanish Novels

• Short sentences
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• Easy vocabulary
• Simple grammar
• Everyday dialogues

An Intermediate (B1) Spanish Reader in SIMPLE Spanish.From the First Chapter:

El martes 1 de febrero nadie fue a trabajar a la aerol nea. A las 6.10am los empleados de Alaires Airlines recibieron la noticia en sus celulares:

Lamentamos comunicarles que Felipe Amador ha fallecido. El d a de hoy la compa a permanecer cerrada por duelo

La gente se sorprendi con la noticia. La mayor a de los empleados quer a mucho a Felipe. Ahora todos est n muy apenados.

Aparentemente, el CEO de la compa a apareci muerto en su propia oficina. Lo encontraron sin vida el lunes a las 11.40pm. Las empleadas de limpieza golpearon la puerta de su oficina durante media hora. Como no tuvieron respuesta llamaron a los empleados de seguridad. Ellos derribaron la puerta y entraron a la oficina. Lo vieron sentado en el sill n principal, con la cabeza sobre el escritorio. Desde la puerta le preguntaron: Sr. Amador, se encuentra bien?. Como no respond a se acercaron un poco m s al escritorio. Cuando llegaron al sill n se dieron cuenta. Felipe no estaba respirando. Estaba muerto.

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Learn to speak, read, write and understand Thai!

Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Thai will help you to:

- Communicate naturally in everyday situations.
- Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities.
- Understand and pronounce Thai easily with online audio.
- Become familiar with the Thai alphabet.
- Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method.
- Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners.

Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com.

Is this course for me?
Beginners' Thai is for absolute beginners and those who've had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Thai. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it's the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app.

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Continue learning with Teach Yourself Complete Thai.

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The essential Dari language
resource!

Dari, spoken by over 20 million people
worldwide, is one of the official languages of Afghanistan. Closely related to
the Persian (Farsi) of Iran, and the Tajik of Tajikistan, the languages have been
split by politics and geography over time.

This unique, two-part resource
provides travelers to Afghanistan or people working with Dari speakers with the
tools they need for daily interaction. The bilingual dictionary has a concise
vocabulary for everyday use, and the phrasebook allows instant communication on
a variety of topics. Ideal for government and NGO workers,
interpreters, military personnel, resettlement agencies, teachers, and anyone
who needs to communicate in Dari, this guide includes:

• 5,000 (Romanized)
  dictionary entries
• Essential phrases on subjects
  such as healthcare, time, dates, transportation, money, communication services
  and much more
• Practical
  cultural information
• A guide to the Dari alphabet and basic grammar
  and pronunciation sections
  
• A concise Introduction to Afghanistan, including
  history, culture, and development of the Dari language

A comprehensive guide to Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines-- now revised and updated!

Tagalog, also called Pilipino, is a national language of the
Philippines. It is spoken by over 35 million people worldwide.

Expanded and
completely updated, this best-selling reference is designed for students of
Tagalog and native Tagalog speakers in need of a bilingual dictionary.

20,000 entries
Entries include idiomatic expressions, slang, loan words
and derivations
Detailed outline of Tagalog grammar
Appendices include useful vocabulary, menu terms and
cultural references

Nahuatl was the primary native language of central Mexico both before and after the Spanish conquest. It is the Latin of the indigenous languages of the New World. Its tradition of alphabetic writing goes back to the middle years of the sixteenth century and embraces not only grammars, dictionaries, collections of preconquest lore, and works of religious instruction, but also, above all, a great mass of mundane writing by the Nahuas themselves for their own purposes. Though the past quarter century has seen a flourishing of ethnohistorical, philological, and grammatical studies based on this corpus, those interested in the world of Nahuatl texts still find access to it difficult.

James Lockhart, an eminent historian of early Latin America, is also perhaps the leading interpreter of this large body of work. He has translated and edited a wide range of texts, analyzed their cultural and linguistic implications, and over the years trained a large number of students, several of whom have gone on to become well known scholars of Nahuatl and other indigenous languages.

Lockhart's main tools of instruction were: (1) a gradually growing set of lessons consisting primarily of examples culled from many sources of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries (or concocted in the spirit of that time), and (2) the grammar or Arte of Nahuatl published in Spanish by the Florentine Jesuit Horacio de Carochi in 1645. In small groups of students, with a maximum of personal instruction and discussion, these materials accomplished their purpose, but the lessons were only in skeletal form, and the Carochi grammar, too, in the Spanish editions available, needed extensive explanation.

Now, Lockhart has organized and expanded these materials into volumes that can be understood by students working alone or used in organized Nahuatl classes. The two books together will allow any seriously interested person to master Nahuatl sufficiently to begin reading the texts, and they will provide essential reference works as one progresses. They are geared primarily to the older form of the language and its written texts, but they can also be extremely useful to those studying the spoken Nahuatl of later times.

Nahuatl as Written presumes no previous knowledge of the language. Treating all essential features of Nahuatl, it is organized on purely pedagogical principles, using techniques developed over many years of practical teaching experience. The book is in large format, almost like a workbook, with a great abundance of examples that serve as exercises; the examples are also available separately for the student's convenience. The orthography and vocabulary are those found in texts of the time, and the last several of the twenty lessons give the student training in working with texts as they were actually written. Some of the lessons deal with syntax in a way not found elsewhere and develop notions of anticipation and crossreference that are basic to Nahuatl grammar. In line with Lockhart's wish to bring more people into the Nahuatl documentary world, an Epilogue surveys many of the published Nahuatl texts and an Appendix presents substantial selections from ten different texts.

Carochi's 1645 Grammar is the most influential work ever published on Nahuatl grammar and remains an essential work of reference. The best recent grammars of Nahuatl are based on it, but they have not exhausted it. It includes an extensive discussion of adverbial expressions and particles that is found nowhere else, as well as an irreplaceable fund of authentic examples from the time, translated by a contemporary. Though a facsimile edition is available, the original is very difficult to read, and only a few experts can fully understand the seventeenth-century Spanish and Latinate grammatical terms. This new edition presents the original Spanish and an English translation on facing pages. Helpful footnotes provide explanatory commentary and more literal translations of some of Carochi's examples. The volume is at once an indispensable pedagogical tool and the first critical edition of the premier monument of the Nahuatl grammatical literature.

The two books are published jointly with UCLA Latin American Center Publications.

Western Armenian is the language spoken by most of the seven million Diaspora Armenians who live outside their historic homeland. Its speakers form the majority of Armenians in the United States and the Middle East. Armenian is written in its own unique script, but it is presented here in a Romanized, easy-to-use form for instant communication. In addition to a pronunciation guide, included are a resourceful two-way dictionary containing more than 4,000 entries, an informative grammar section, and a collection of travel-oriented phrases. Observations related to Armenian culture are interspersed throughout the phrasebook. There is also a brief history of the Armenian people and Diaspora.

How to approach grammar when teaching for proficiency in today's world language classrooms can be challenging and confusing. Many teachers wrongly believe that proficiency-based instruction means no attention to grammar, but this couldn't be less true! Many teachers feel so strongly about teaching grammar that they continue with outdated methods, even while they incorporate other proficiency-based methods. Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency provides readers with clear, concrete, and easily applicable guidance on how to approach grammar in a proficiency-based classroom. This book will be your guide in redefining your relationship with grammar, and ensuring that it is used in a way that supports the proven proficiency-based approach to language learning! Using real-world exercises and examples, you will get applicable strategies to incorporate grammar into your lesson plans. Grammar is not a bad word! This book will show you how to integrate it seamlessly into your teaching...let's go!

The third edition of the IPA Manual, The Integrated Performance Assessment: Twenty Years and Counting, builds upon the original framework presented to guide instructors in designing and implementing this cutting-edge assessment into their world language classrooms. Informed by the findings of research conducted on the IPA since 2013, this edition describes the potential of the IPA as a vehicle for enacting instruction and assessment for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world language classroom at all levels of instruction. The interpretive comprehension guide has been expanded into three separate templates, each of which addresses a specific modality--interpretive viewing, interpretive listening, interpretive reading. Revised rubrics with several new criteria, together with accompanying tools, assist instructors in more easily rating learner performance across the three modes of communication. A new dedicated chapter articulates the role of the IPA at the post-secondary level in bridging the traditional divide between language and literature. Finally, a new set of model IPAs created by instructors who have implemented the assessment across proficiency levels and languages pro

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This is Book 1 of 7 in the complete course Learning Tagalog: Fluency Made Fast and Easy, Print Edition.

Free Audio Download at LearningTagalog.com (Tagalog sounds in Pronunciation chapter).

Essential Tagalog Grammar: A Reference for Learners of Tagalog

* Comprehensive Tagalog grammar reference that will remain useful even long after you have reached fluency.

* Offers clear explanations, useful tables and thousands of practical examples.

* Ideal for advanced learners and native speakers as a stand-alone product.

Note: For beginner and intermediate learners, we recommend the complete course Learning Tagalog: Fluency Made Fast and Easy. It includes this grammar, as well as lively lessons with audio recordings and exercises.

Essential Tagalog Grammar offers:

* Clear, simple and concise explanations

* Lots of practical everyday examples

* Accurate definitions and translations

* Pronunciation marks (all long vowels and glottal stops indicated)

* Audio recordings of Tagalog sounds in Pronunciation chapter (downloadable)

* Extensive cross-referencing and a comprehensive index

* Simple well-organized format

Recommended for:

* Learners of Tagalog who want to understand how the language works and have a quick reference handy

* Native speakers who want to gain insights into their own language

* Anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of Tagalog grammar

Your grammar book is the best. I took it with me to the Philippines, and studied it every day for a month. - Albert Balingit, Sacramento, California, USA

The indispensable resource for Kurdish Sorani!

Sorani (also called Kurdi or Central Kurdish) is a Kurdish
language spoken mainly in Iraq and Iran, with an estimated 15 million speakers
worldwide. The Kurds are spread across the countries of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria,
as well as Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Lebanon. There is also a large
diaspora of Kurds, which is especially prominent in Europe. In all there are up
to 40 million speakers of the Kurdish languages worldwide.

Generally
written in Perso-Arabic script, Sorani is now also found in Romanized form.
This unique two-part resource uses the official Sorani Latin alphabet and
provides users with tools for daily interactions. The bilingual dictionary has
a concise vocabulary for everyday use, and the phrasebook allows instant
communication on a variety of topics. Ideal for businesspeople, travelers,
students, and aid workers, this guide includes:

• 4,000
  dictionary entries
• Essential
  phrases on subjects such as healthcare, time, dates, transportation, money,
  communication services and much more
• Concise
  grammar and pronunciation sections
• A
  guide to the Kurdish Sorani alphabet
• Map
  of the Middle East

tenpo ku li lon a!

Explore the world's most simple and fun language! How can a language with only 137 essential words express the totality of human experience?

Toki Pona Dictionary is a comprehensive two-way dictionary with a total of over 11,000 entries, garnished with 43 fun illustrations by Vacon Sartirani. These translations will equip you with helpful examples and commonly used options to inspire and guide your self-expression.

kijetesantakalu tonsi li lanpan ala lanpan e soko? This work documents Toki Pona as a living language and includes many new words created by the growing community.

Explore the world's most simple and fun language!

This is the ideal reference tool for people who want to communicate in Albanian but have no previous knowledge of the language. It includes an Albanian-English/English-Albanian dictionary along with helpful phrasebook chapters covering topics like shopping, dining and transportation.

The essential Pashto language resource!

Pashto, also known as Pakhto, Pakhtu, or Pushto, is one of two official languages of Afghanistan and is also spoken in the neighboring Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. It is an Indo-Iranian language spoken by over 40 million people worldwide. Pashto is written in the Arabic Naskh script, but entries in this dictionary are Romanized with phonetic pronunciation for English speakers.

This unique, two-part resource provides travelers to Afghanistan and neighboring regions with the tools they need for daily interaction. The bilingual dictionary has a concise vocabulary for everyday use, and the phrasebook allows instant communication on a variety of topics. Ideal for businesspeople, travelers, students, and aid workers, this guide includes:

• 5,000 (Romanized) dictionary entries
• Essential phrases on subjects such as healthcare, time, dates, transportation, money, communication services and much more
• Practical cultural information
• Concise grammar and pronunciation sections
• A guide to the Pashto alphabet
• Maps

Famed for its great natural beauty and rich cultural heritage, Nepal is the ultimate destination for trekkers and travelers. This two-way dictionary and phrasebook is designed for those who wish to communicate in Nepali and learn its basic vocabulary and grammatical structure. Although the Nepali is given in the Roman alphabet, the Devanagari alphabet is included at the beginning of the book for quick reference. A grammar section, pronunciation guide and practical cultural information provide further insight into the language and culture.

Whether travelling to a foreign country or to your favorite international restaurant, this Nice & Easy guide gives you just enough of the language to get around and be understood. Much of the material in this book was developed for government personnel who are often assigned to a foreign country on a moment's notice and need a quick introduction to the language.