Beginner's Ladino with Online Audio is the ideal guide for anyone who wants to learn the language of the Separdic (Iberian) Jews. Ladino, also known as Judeo-Spanish, dates back to the the Middle Ages, when the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula spoke and wrote in the Romance languages of the host culture. They developed a unified dialect that was distinct from Castilian Spanish. After the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, the Ladino language became part of the Iberian Heritage of the Sephardim throughout the world. Today, although Ladino is in danger of extinction, it is experiencing a revival.

This book's 13 lessons, designed with the beginning student in mind, are ideal for both classroom use and self-study. Each lesson teaches basic conversation through dialogues on everyday topics like greetings, family, weather, shopping, and holidays. Grammar is explained in easy and accessible steps, with exercises throughout to reinforce skills. Accompanying audio for the dialogues is available for free download. Also included are a brief history of the Sephardic Jews, Ladino-English and English-Ladino glossaries, a key to the exercises, and a list of websites in or about Ladino.

A curated Romanian word frequency listAre you looking for unconventional ways to speed up the process of learning Romanian? Then this book is exactly what you are looking for. Following the Pareto principle (80/20 rule), this book is built to streamline the learning process by concentrating on the core words and sentence structures that make up everyday conversations. The result is a unique vocabulary book with 2000 of the most important Romanian words and phrases ordered by their frequency of use.

Who this Romanian learning book is for: This book is for beginners and intermediate learners of Romanian who are self-motivated and willing to spend 15 to 20 minutes a day on learning vocabularies. The simple structure of this vocabulary book is the result of taking all unnecessary things out allowing the learning effort to solely be spent on the parts that help you make the biggest progress in the shortest amount of time. If you are willing to put in 20 minutes of learning every day, this book is very likely the single best investment you can make if you are at a beginner or intermediate level. You will be amazed at the speed of progress within a matter of just weeks of daily practice.

Who this Romanian frequency list is not for: This book is not for you if you are an advanced learner of Romanian. In this case, please go to our website or search for our Romanian vocabulary book which comes with more vocabularies and is grouped by topic which is ideal for advanced learners who want to improve their language capabilities in certain fields.
Furthermore, if you are looking for an all in one Romanian learning book that guides you through the various steps of learning Romanian, this book is most likely also not what you are looking for. This book contains vocabularies only and we expect buyers to learn things like grammar and pronunciation either from other sources or through language courses. The strength of this book is its focus on quick acquisition of core vocabularies which comes at the expense of information many people might expect in a conventional language learning book. Please be aware of this when making the purchase.

How to use this Romanian workbook: This book is ideally used on a daily basis, reviewing a set number of pages in each session. The book is split into sections of 25 vocabularies which allows you to step by step progress through the book. Let's for example say you are currently reviewing vocabularies 101 to 200. Once you know vocabularies 101 to 125 very well, you can start learning vocabularies 201 to 225 and on the next day skip 101-125 and continue reviewing vocabularies 126 to 225. This way, step by step, you will work your way through the book and your language skills will jump with each page you master.

Some final thoughts: Like many language hacking methods, this book is quite unconventional in its approach, but for a driven person that uses it correctly it can significantly speed up the learning process. Vocabulary books have been around for centuries and as with so many things that have been around for some time, they are not very fashionable and a bit boring, but they usually work quite well - and that is what counts in the end.

The most comprehensive 2-way Romanian-English dictionary available, with over 20,000 entries. Entries include modern, up-to-date business, technical, and political terms with clearly indicated parts of speech and grammatical usage labels.

Best way to learn Catalan by readingDo you want to learn Catalan with Catalan literature? It's easy with Catalan and interlinear English. Every word is translated literally and in English idiom so you can keep on reading and learn a lot of new words at the same time.

The only Catalan reader with literal word-for-word translation and idiomatic explanation where necessary. This book contains short stories from contemporary Catalan authors Rafael Vallbona, S nia Moll, Vicen Villatoro and Xevi Sala Puig.

We have added an interlinear translation to the Catalan text. This means that the meaning of every Catalan word is immediately accessible, which in turn will make it much easier for you to expand your Catalan vocabulary fast. This is a unique method enabling you to read Catalan from the start.

How to learn Catalan fast and easyUse the HypLern method to learn to read Catalan with ease and expand your vocabulary fast. Re-read the texts to learn the high frequency words.

Then mark and learn the more difficult words until you master those by re-reading their paragraphs. The repetition and the association of the story will help you memorize the words.

N.B. Be sure to use compact spacing in your Kindle settings for this book. This is a multi-line interlinear book, so otherwise lines might overflow and if the kindle version doesn't work well for you feel free to reach out for a PDF version that you can import on your Kindle device. Also, audio is available as well, just contact us Finally, we have a HypLern Reader website that integrates reading with word practice, for more learning options.

9000-WORD ENGLISH-ROMANIAN VOCABULARY

Knowing and understanding around 9000 Romanian words will give you the ability to read and write with only the minimal use of a dictionary. This knowledge will foster your ability to express your thoughts during conversation in a precise and accurate way. With a little practice and with the added help and experience of having viewed many Romanian films, you will be proud and amazed at your new level of Romanian. You will now see your language level improve to the point where you can say: Romanian? Absolutely I know it very well.

T&P Books vocabularies are intended to help you learn, memorize and review foreign words

• The dictionary contains over 9000 commonly used words
• Recommended as additional support material to any language course
• Meets the needs of both beginners and advanced learners
• Convenient for daily use, reviewing sessions and self-testing activities
• Allows you to assess your current vocabulary
• This book can also be used by foreign learners of English

Special features of T&P Books bilingual vocabularies:

• Words are arranged according to their meaning, not alphabetically
• Content is presented in three columns to facilitate the reviewing and self-testing processes
• Each theme is composed of small blocks of similar lexical units
• The vocabulary offers a convenient and simple transcription for each foreign word

This revised edition (03.2018) contains 256 topics:

Basic Concepts, Numbers, Colors, Months, Seasons, Units of Measurement, Clothing & Accessories, Food & Nutrition, Restaurant, Family Members, Relatives, Character, Feelings, Emotions, Diseases, City, Town, Sightseeing, Shopping, Money, House, Home, Office, Working in the Office, Marketing, Sports, Education, Computer, Internet, Tools, Nature, Countries, Nationalities and more ...

Our Romanian collection includes also vocabularies of 3000, 5000 and 7000 words. All these titles are available as printed books and e-books. For more information please visit www.tpbooks.com. If you have any question, suggestion or feedback, please contact us: admin@tpbooks.com

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Histoires Courtes en Roumain est une collection de 25 histoires courtes non conventionnelles et divertissantes, chacune de quelques paragraphes, qui sont conçues pour aider les apprenants débutants et intermédiaires du Roumain à améliorer leurs compétences linguistiques d'une manière amusante et engageante. La plupart des livres et articles écrits pour des locuteurs natifs peuvent être trop longs et difficiles à comprendre ou peuvent avoir un vocabulaire de très haut niveau, ce qui fait que l'apprenant se sent souvent dépassé et abandonne. Si ces problèmes vous sont familiers, ce livre est pour vous!

Ces histoires courtes créent un environnement propice à la lecture en incluant:

• Un contenu linguistique riche dans différents genres pour vous divertir et vous exposer à une variété de formes de mots.
• Des histoires plus courtes en chapitres pour vous donner la satisfaction de terminer les histoires et de progresser rapidement.
• Des textes écrits à ton niveau pour qu'ils soient plus faciles à comprendre et ne te dépassent pas.
• La traduction en français sur des pages alternées pour une référence directe ligne par ligne pendant la lecture de l'histoire.
• Le vocabulaire clé est imprimé en caractères gras tout au long de l'histoire et de la traduction pour vous aider à comprendre plus facilement les mots qui ne vous sont pas familiers.
• Des questions de compréhension pour vérifier votre compréhension des événements clés et vous encourager à lire plus en détail.

Alors, que vous souhaitiez enrichir votre vocabulaire, améliorer votre compréhension ou simplement lire pour le plaisir, ce livre est le plus grand pas que vous ferez dans vos études cette année. Histoires Courtes en Roumain vous apportera tout le soutien dont vous avez besoin, alors asseyez-vous, détendez-vous et laissez libre cours à votre imagination en vous laissant transporter dans un monde magique d'aventures, de mystères et d'intrigues... en Roumain!

The best way to learn Romanian just by readingDo you want to learn Romanian by reading stories in Romanian? It's easy with Romanian and interlinear English. 90 pages with every word translated so you can keep on reading.

This book contains Romanian versions of the some of the best Grimm stories.

We have added an interlinear translation to the Romanian text. This means that the meaning of every Romanian word is immediately accessible, which in turn will make it much easier for you to expand your Romanian vocabulary fast.

How to learn Romanian fast and easyThe following method can be used to expand your vocabulary fast. Read and re-read this book until you understand the more common words. Because of the immediately visible meaning this is a fast process.

Then mark the words you don't know and practice those separately or re-read only those paragraphs marked to save time.

Mastering a large vocabulary has become a piece of cake the HypLern way

Nono's Kisses for Sephardic Children is Flori Senor Rosenthal's first of the Legacy and Literacy Scholastics Series. The book contains beautiful illustrations representing Ladino phrases. It was written to teach and encourage the usage of the Ladino language to children between the ages of 4 and 9. However, all ages will enjoy it and find it useful. Ladino or Judeo-Spanish is the language of Sephardic Jews. According to the United Nations, it is an endangered language. With each Ladino phrase found in the book, there is a question relating to its picture. This question, engages the parent and child into conversation. Ladino vocabulary words, pronunciations and English translations are provided to be used in these and other conversations and games between parents and their children. To make the learning experience even more fun, there is a hidden butterfly, in every illustration, to be found by the child. Ms. Senor Rosenthal's father inspired her to write Nono's Kisses for Sephardic Children. She wrote it to honor a tradition known specifically to Sephardic Jews. The book is an extraordinary teaching and learning tool for Ladino, and the Sephardic culture. However, those interested in the Spanish language and its history will also find this book interesting. Ms. Senor Rosenthal believes that her series will spark renewed interest in the Ladino language with the goal of having it removed from the endangered language list.

With each generation and with each passing day, we grow closer to losing a key part of our nation's unique heritage-the Cajun French language. Unless a concerted effort is made to preserve the language, this rich and vibrant culture will soon be relegated to the back pages of history. Cajun Vocabulation is one such labor of love-one man's attempt to preserve the unique heritage of his South Louisiana home.

Cajun Vocabulation is a dictionary and pronunciation guide for one of the major dialects of Cajun French. Author Gordon J. Voisin interviewed more than one hundred native speakers in order to create this unique cultural artifact. He not only presents the basics of the language; he does so without sacrificing any of the zest and humor for which Cajuns are famous. The words are written phonetically, so even those with little knowledge of Cajun French will quickly learn to approximate its unique sound.

Engage with a vital and colorful part of American heritage with Cajun Vocabulation.

An Introduction to Old Occitan is the only textbook in print for learning the language used by the troubadours in southern France during the Middle Ages. Each of the thirty-two chapters discusses a subject in the study of the language (e.g., stressed vowels, subjunctive mood) and includes an exercise based on a reading of an Occitan text that has been edited afresh for this volume. An essential glossary analyzes every occurrence of every word in the readings and gives cognates in other Romance languages as well as the source of each word in Latin or other languages. The book also contains a list of prefixes, infixes, and suffixes and a dictionary of proper names.

An up-to-date Catalan language resource for students and travelers to Barcelona and other cities in the Pyrenees region.

Catalan is a romance language named after the autonomous province Catalonia in Spain and spoken by well over 9 million people worldwide. It is also the national and only official language of Andorra. Most Catalan speakers, however, reside in Spain's Catalonia and Valencia provinces. Catalan is not a dialect of Spanish, but a language that developed independently from Vulgar Latin during the Middle Ages around the Pyrenees region. During the 19th century and the rise of a nationalist cultural movement in Catalonia, the language was revived as a literary language. Since the 1980s, Catalan has been the language used in state schools, and thus most residents of Catalonia are bilingual in Catalan and Spanish.

Ideal for businesspeople, travelers, and students, this dictionary features over 16,000 word-to-word entries, including common words as well as technical, legal, business and locally-specific terms (key cities, foods, and cultural terms). It also includes a comprehensive pronunciation guide and a concise discussion of the basics of Catalan grammar.

D-l Goe (Master Goe) is a classical sketch story written by Ion Luca Caragiale. The story follows a boy called Goe who is on a trip to the capital accompanied by his mother, grandmother and Aunt Mița. The story is part of the author's best known work Momente și schițe (Short Stories and Sketches) depicting the ordinary life of the late nineteenth century. This multilingual edition contains the text in five languages: Romanian, English Italian, Finnish and Spanish.

Looking to improve your Romanian reading comprehension skills? Look no further!

Romanian Reading Comprehension Texts: Beginners - Book One is the perfect tool for anyone who wants to learn the Romanian language and improve their reading comprehension skills. This book contains 30 interesting texts on various topics that are sure to engage and motivate beginner Romanian language learners.

From a trip to the Bucegi Mountains to a day at the beach, discovering Bucharest to electric cars, this book covers a range of exciting topics that will keep you engaged and wanting to learn more about the Romanian language and Romanian culture.

Each text is designed to provide a fun and informative learning experience, with vocabulary and grammar suitable for beginners. Each text is accompanied by questions and answers to help you practice your reading comprehension skills and track your progress.

But that's not all - we've also included a step-by-step guide to getting the most out of this Romanian comprehension book and perfecting your Romanian reading comprehension skills making it the perfect tool for Romanian language learners.

Get your copy today and start your journey towards mastering the Romanian language!

Why choose our Romanian Reading Comprehension Texts?

Improved Vocabulary: Reading comprehension texts are a great way to expand your vocabulary in Romanian. By reading texts on a variety of topics, you'll learn new words and phrases that you can use in your daily conversations.

Enhanced Comprehension Skills: Reading comprehension exercises require you to read and understand written texts in Romanian. This helps improve your comprehension skills, which will enable you to better understand Romanian speakers in real-life conversations.

Increased Confidence: As you practice reading Romanian texts and answering comprehension questions, you'll gain confidence in your ability to understand and use the language. This will give you the confidence you need to engage in conversations with Romanian speakers.

Cultural Awareness: Reading comprehension texts cover a variety of topics, including Romanian culture, history, and customs. This exposure to Romanian culture will not only enhance your understanding of the language, but also give you a greater appreciation for the countries where Romanian is spoken and their people.

Convenient Learning: Reading comprehension exercises are a convenient way to learn Romanian, as they can be done at your own pace and on your own schedule.

With its engaging texts and helpful tips and strategies, Romanian Reading Comprehension Texts: Beginners - Book One is a must-have resource for language learners.

This collection of 30 Romanian reading comprehension texts is perfect for beginners (equivalent to CEFR Level A, beginner/elementary stage).

So why wait? Start improving your Romanian today with our fun and engaging reading comprehension exercises!

Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or -expressed differently- to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic devices. The different contributions included in the book point to revealing conclusions concerning the status of surprise in Romance as well as the place that mirativity occupies (if any) in the grammar of these languages. In this vein, the volume tries to answer questions such as to what extent do interactional contexts influence the development of mirative structures or how is the solidarity synchrony / diachrony reflected in mirative constructions.

Técnicas de escritura en español y géneros textuales / Developing Writing Skills in Spanish es la primera publicación concebida para desarrollar y perfeccionar la expresión escrita en español a partir de una metodología basada en géneros textuales. Cada capítulo se ocupa de un género y está diseñado para guiar al escritor en la planificación, el desarrollo y la revisión de textos.

Las novedades de esta segunda edición incluyen: un cuestionario sobre la escritura, listados con objetivos y prácticas escritas, nuevos materiales y actividades, repertorios de vocabulario temático, ejercicios de corrección gramatical y estilo, ampliación de las respuestas modelo y diferentes rutas para la escritura.

Características principales:

- Tipologías variadas: textos narrativos, descriptivos, expositivos, argumentativos, periodísticos, publicitarios, jurídicos y administrativos, científicos y técnicos;

- Actividades para trabajar la precisión léxica, la gramática, el estilo y la reescritura de manera progresiva;

- Vocabulario temático, marcadores discursivos y expresiones útiles para la escritura;

- Pautas detalladas, consejos prácticos y estrategias discursivas en función del tipo de texto;

- Modelos textuales de reconocidos periodistas y autores del ámbito hispánico;

- Recursos adicionales recogidos en un portal de escritura en línea.

Diseñado como libro de texto, material de autoaprendizaje u obra de referencia, Técnicas de escritura en español y géneros textuales / Developing Writing Skills in Spanish es una herramienta esencial para familiarizarse con las características lingüísticas y discursivas propias de la lengua y para dominar la técnica de la escritura en diferentes géneros textuales.

Técnicas de escritura en español y géneros textuales / Developing Writing Skills in Spanish provides intermediate and advanced level students with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Spanish language.

This new edition includes: new material and activities, chapter objectives, exercises on grammar and style correction, thematic vocabulary lists, and an expanded answer key with more detailed explanations.

Designed for use as a classroom text, self-study material or reference work, Técnicas de escritura en español y géneros textuales / Developing Writing Skills in Spanish is ideal for all intermediate to advanced students of Spanish.

Think you know Spanish? Think again! The moment you land in Nicaragua you will be bombarded with words, phrases, and sayings typical of the country's creative-minded inhabitants. What does it all mean? Come with us on a thrilling adventure through 200 of the most common expressions. And learn some history and culture on the way! We don't teach you Spanish; we teach you how to make your Spanish more Nicaraguan! The Insider Spanish series of books have sold thousands of copies the world over. Our guidebooks are not meant to teach you basic Spanish, but rather to tailor your Spanish to the spoken idiosyncrasies of each Spanish-speaking country.

This fourth edition of Colloquial Romanian has been completely updated to make learning Romanian easier and more enjoyable than ever before.

Written by experienced teachers of Romanian, this course offers a step-by-step approach to spoken and written Romanian. No previous knowledge of the language is required.

What makes this new edition of Colloquial Romanian you best choice in language learning?

• lively dialogues reflecting life in contemporary Romania
• a range of stimulating exercises with full answer key
• clear grammar notes and summary
• extensive English-Romanian and Romanian-English glossaries.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

This is a guidebook written for beginning to advanced Catalan language learners. It will help you learn some of the most commonly used verbs in the Catalan language. It is the most comprehensive resource available for learning and mastering Catalan verbs. The verbs are arranged in tabular format in alphabetical order, which will make navigating through the program easier. Each verb is fully conjugated and presented in all forms. This indispensable guide will help you conjugate verbs with ease, enabling you to communicate in Catalan with confidence.

For many years, we have been taught that Romance languages come from Latin. Historical grammar has described this process on the basis of a complicated theoretical framework of successive changes that caused a deep transformation of the parent tongue, which degenerated into the so-called Vulgar Latin. However, as shown in recent research, on a morphosyntactic structure level, linguistic change is a very slow process. Some of the internal changes of a language do not occur over centuries but rather could be traced back over millenia. Why does historical grammar attribute to external influences the evolutionary process from Classical to Vulgar Latin and disregard the fact that it could be caused by the substrate language or languages? Some features of those languages would have survived the Romanization and point to an older common ancestor, an agglutinative and compositional language shared by the various Mediterranean peoples and from which the so-called Romance languages would stem. This work presents some new research hypotheses, which show that Romance languages share a high percentage of phonetic, lexical, morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics, showing a close kinship to a linguistic typology that relates them to each other but distances them from Latin. It is focused on Spanish although some examples are included in different Romances, such as the Romanian language which retains some aspects that help us to get closer to this common parent tongue. How can it be that the Romanian language has survived isolated so many tough, non-Romance invasions? The structural, lexical, phonetic and conceptual similarities between Romanian and the rest of Western Romance languages -distant languages whose people have not been in direct contact for at least two thousand years- suggests an earlier common language which must be much older than Latin. Therefore, the characteristics of the Romance languages might have evolved directly from this common, previous language, without having to justify this development through Latin. The relationship between Romance languages and Latin would then be of kinship and not filiation. The evidence is increasingly conclusive: Romance languages do not originate in Latin. Foreword by Cristina Brescan.

Fluo's Romanian Verb Conjugator is a hands-on verb conjugation book, suitable for every learner of Romanian. If you're tired of endless verb conjugation tables that mostly confuse rather than help you learn conjugating verbs, this book will actually teach you how to conjugate: around 500 of the most common Romanian verbs, all fully conjugated and organized in a practical, dictionary-like manner, so that you can easily browse and find what you're looking for.