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| Title: | Author: | Description: |
|---|---|---|
| The complete guide to learning a language: How to learn a language with the least amount of difficulty and the most amount of fun | James, G. | This intuitive guide to learning a language - whether for business, relocation, emigration, holiday or interest - tells you the quickest, most effective way of learning the language you need to know. |
| Multilingual: Reference Price: £9.99 | ||
| Concise compendium of the world's languages | Campbell, G.L. | This work describes over 100 languages, including many minor languages such as Basque, Navajo and Zulu. The articles are ordered alphabetically and each has a standardized structure for ease of reference and features. |
| Multilingual: Reference Price: £40.00 | ||
| Faux Pas?: A No-nonsense Guide to Words and Phrases from Other Languages | Gooden, P. | If you have ever been bamboozled by the use of a foreign word or phrase, or simply want to spice up your vocabulary with some well-chosen bons mots, then this is the book for you. |
| Multilingual: Reference Price: £9.99 | ||
| Going Dutch in Beijing: The International Guide to Doing the Right Thing | McCrum, M. | Going Dutch in Beijing aims to help its readers avoid minor international incidents by offering a light-hearted but informative look at everything from first greetings to last rites, covering key minefields of misunderstanding along the way |
| Multilingual: Reference Price: £9.99 | ||
| The languages of the world | Katzner, K. | This Third Edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. |
| Multilingual: Reference Price: £25.00 | ||
| The origin of language: Tracing the evolution of the mother tongue | Ruhlen, M. | The author of this book argues that there is proof to argue that all languages now spoken on earth are descendents of a single ancestral language. |
| Multilingual: Reference Price: £15.95 | ||
| Speak: A short history of languages | Janson, T. | Tore Janson is a Swedish linguistic scholar who has studied and worked much in the USA. To the surprise of the sceptical, he manages to make the history of language interesting in Speak, a well written and solidly researched little book. |
| Multilingual: Reference Price: £8.99 | ||
| Toujours Tingo: more extraordinary words to change the way we see the world | Jacot de Boinod, A. | Drawing on the collective wisdom of over 300 languages, "Toujours Tingo" has discovered all kinds of actions and objects, tastes and noises that English simply doesn't have the vocabulary for. |
| Multilingual: Reference Price: £10.99 | ||
| Whatever happened to Tanganyika?: The place names that history left behind | Campbell, H. | This book is a fascinating trawl through the place names that history left behind: the stories about where they came from, what happened to them and what they were replaced by. |
| Multilingual: Reference Price: £14.99 | ||
