Foreign Languages

About the Book In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Je...

A controversial figure of the post-war French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews—hailed on its French publication as Duras’s “secret confession”—offers r...

आज की लक्ष्यहीन शिक्षा-प्रणाली, अध्यापन-पद्धति, भ्रष्ट शासन-तंत्र और जीवन के हासशील मूल्य, विद्यार्थी-समुदाय को किस प्रकार गुमराह और निर्वीर्य बना रहे हैं, इन सबका प्रभावी चित्रण इस उपन्यास में हुआ है। इसमें अच्छाई-बुराई के बीच, आशा-निराशा के बीच ...

How can you effectively motivate young people to engage with foreign language learning?How can young people engage with new ideas and cultural experiences within and outside the classroom?The new and fully revised edition of A Practical Guide to T...

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese is an innovative textbook for students specializing in scholarly Japanese for Asian studies. This book is aimed at scholars in any Asian Studies field in which Japanese scholarship is extremely i...

The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language is a comprehensive survey of diagnostic assessment of second/foreign language (SFL) writing. In this innovative book, a compelling case is made for SFL writing as an individual, contextual, ...

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Turkish literature within both a local and global context.Across eight thematic sections a collection of subject experts use close readings of literature materials to provide a critical survey of ...

Essential French Grammar is a student-friendly French grammar designed to give learners a firm foundation on which to build a real understanding of both spoken and written French. Clear explanations of grammar are supported by contemporary example...

"Clemens Brentano, eigentlich Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano de La Roche, war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und neben Achim von Arnim der Hauptvertreter der Heidelberger Romantik. Das Werk des 1842 in Aschaffenburg verstorbenen Autors geh�rt heute zum...

Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Die Bestimmung des Menschen Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016, 4. Auflage Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck: Berlin (Vo...

YOU ALREADY KNOW FRENCH WITHOUT LEARNING ANYTHING: OVER 1000 WORDS THAT ARE IDENTICAL IN FRENCH AND IN ENGLISHLearning French through English French learning through English is a piece of cake !!!This book is formatted to give you more than 1000 w...

This YCT vocabulary list is a complete Chinese words list for test prep YCT 1-4. There is a Chinese word with pinyin and translation in English. In one page has 8 words. After remembering all these words and practice mock exams, you will be ready ...

Did you know that cats are related etymologically to caterpillars? Or that Thomas Edison played a key role in popularizing the use of the greeting "Hello"? Or that muscles were originally mice, since a flexed biceps looks like a little rodent scur...

Was wurden Sie in einem Brief an Ihre Enkelkinder weitergeben - an die Generation, die sich im dritten Jahrtausend heimisch fuhlen soll? Auf diese Frage antworteten prominente Zeitgenossen fur eine Sendereihe des Deutschlandfunks. Entstanden sind ...

Este es una sintesis de las fisica helioterrestre o 'meteorologia especial, ' inclyando los avances en la tecnologia de la energia y las telecomunicaciones. Entre los asuntos cotidianos relacionados con la fisica helioterrestre se encuentran las f...

The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms.This second edition has been fully revised, with new ch...

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture introduces the intellectual and artistic breadth of early modern Spain from a range of disciplinary and critical perspectives.Spanning the sixteenth and sevent...

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) brings together an international team of scholars to explore new interdisciplinary and comparative approaches for the study of colonialism. Using fo...

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics is the first volume to offer a comprehensive overview of advances in Spanish Pragmatics, addressing different types of interaction and the variables, both social and linguistic, that can affect them. Wr...

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology presents a state-of-the-art, detailed and exhaustive overview of all aspects of Spanish morphology, paying equal attention to the empirical complexities of the morphological system and the theoretical i...

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Phonology brings together leading experts in Spanish phonology to provide a state-of-the-art survey of the field.The five sections present current research on the phonological structure of Spanish including the mo...

The Routledge Handbook of Korean as a Second Language aims to define the field and to present the latest research in Korean as a second language (KSL). It comprises a detailed overview of the field of KSL teaching and learning, discusses its devel...

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching defines Chinese language teaching in a pedagogical, historical, and contemporary context. Throughout the volume, teaching methods are discussed, including the traditional China-based approach, an...

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is the first reference work of its kind.The handbook contains twenty contributions from leading experts in the field of Chinese SLA, covering a wide range of topics such as social conte...

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to acquire comprehensive knowledge of China, the diaspora and the Sino-sphere communities through Chinese language.It examines how Chinese language is used in diffe...

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of studies that relate the Arabic language in its entirety to identity. This handbook offers new trajectories in understanding language and identity more g...

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provid...

From the Back Cover'The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction is a prodigious, paradigm-shifting collection. Made up of leading scholars in the field, it both ranges widely across linguistic and national boundaries and also includes detaile...

This volume offers an introduction to the field of second language acquisition with a particular focus on second language Spanish. It connects key issues in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language to theoretical and empirical issues in the...

The Accurate Use of Chinese: Practical Sentence Structures and Word Usage for English Speakers is a unique learning resource for learners of Chinese who are English speakers. The primary goal is twofold: to help these learners leverage their exist...

Das Buch enthält eine Vielzahl von Themen, die mit Hilfe der Redewendungen und Konnektive strukturiert und ausreichend beschrieben werden.

Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language provides new and experienced teachers of Chinese with a timely review and evaluation of the use of technology in the language classroom. The book draws from second language...

From the Back CoverLearn the lingua franca of East Africa Swahili is the most widely spoken language in sub-Saharan Africa. Swahili For Dummies introduces you to the official language of Tanzania and Kenya, helping you learn the basics and teachin...

Learn over 50 essential words at the heart of Swedish and how to put them together to make yourself understood. This 2-hour basic introduction to Swedish with the Michel Thomas Method will get you speaking the language immediately: no books, no pe...

Liebe Lernende! Liebe DozentInnen und Dozenten! Seit Juli 2022 gibt es, wie wir alle wissen, neue Prüfungsformate für Berufssprachkurse, die es in sich haben und gro e Herausforderungen mit sich bringen. Wir wollen Sie dabei unterstützen, damit...

This text is suitable for first-year high school Spanish and first-semester college Spanish.

Offers a complete set of answers to the exercises in So You Really Want to Learn French Book 1. Suitable for use from Year 5, this book builds a foundation for a confident use of the French language across the key skills of reading, writing, liste...

Semantics of Chinese Questions is the first major study of Chinese questions, especially wh-questions, within the framework of Alternative Semantics. It takes an interface approach to study the syntax, semantics, and phonology of questions and pro...

Semántica: Una introducción al significado lingüístico en español es una introducción integral al estudio de la semántica con un enfoque especial en la lengua española.Sin asumir conocimientos lingüísticos previos, el libro conduce al le...

Say farewell to language faux pas forever Based on the revolutionary Easily Pronounced Language Systems (EPLS) approach, Say It Right in Arabic makes mastering correct Arabic pronunciation simple. With Say It Right you'll learn how to use hundred...

This book provides an accessible introduction to the structure, history and sociolinguistics of Russian. It particularly emphasizes the special linguistic features of Russian which are not shared with English and other non-Slavic languages. For in...

The Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of contemporary research related to the Horn of Africa.Situated at the junction of the Sahel-Saharan strip and the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Afric...

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature presents a comprehensive overview of Chinese literature from the 1910s to the present day. Featuring detailed studies of selected masterpieces, it adopts a thematic-comparative approach. By devel...

Translation-related activities from and into Arabic have significantly increased in the last few years, in both scope and scale. The launch of a number of national translation projects, policies and awards in a number of Arab countries, together w...

Now in its second edition, Romanian: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to modern Romanian. It takes the student through the essentials of the language, explaining each concept clearly and providing many examples of contemporar...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportun...

Practical Chinese Usage offers post-beginner to near advanced students of Chinese a guide to the most frequently misused and confusing words in the language. Entries are arranged in alphabetical order for ease of reference. Sample sentences ...

From the Back CoverRussia increasingly emphasises the importance of 'soft power' for securing its foreign policy interests, but recent research has paid more attention to Russia's intentions rather than to the receiving end of its cultural and pub...

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu ( 18 January 1689 - 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher.He is famous for his articulation of ...

Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numéri...

Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numéri...

De façon pédagogique, dans un style simple et concis, Pierre Commelin s'adresse ici aux personnes désireuses de connaître la Mythologie traditionnelle des Grecs et des Latins. L'ouvrage, ré-édité à maintes reprises, reste l'un des incontou...

The My Korean series of textbooks offers a learner-centered, communicative task-based, interactive approach to learning contemporary Korean. My Korean: Step 1 and My Korean: Step 2 are arranged thematically around topics that any novice learner of...