Arabic for Life takes an intensive, comprehensive approach to beginning Arabic instruction and is specifically tailored to the needs of talented and dedicated students. Unlike the other Arabic textbooks on the market, Arabic for Life is not specifically focused on either grammar or proficiency. Instead, it offers a balanced methodology that combines these goals. Frangieh has created a book that is full of energy and excitement about Arabic language and culture, and it effectively transmits that excitement to students. Arabic for Life offers a dynamic and multidimensiona...
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The authors of the acclaimed Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing and The Pocket Dictionary of Signing have created a text and workbook in one. This volume will teach you how to use signing in English sentence format. Signing Made Easy offers the most thorough, step-by-step approach to learning sign language, complete with drills and practice exercises to increase signing ability and understanding.

Presented in a large-format, easy-to-follow design, this book includes:
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Deaf since the age of seven, Martin L. A. Sternberg, Ed.D., spent most of his career working with deaf people. Inspire by his sign language teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, he devised this vital reference to help anyone learn to speak with their hands.

A must for parents, instructors, and students, American Sign Language Dictionary includes everything you need to know to communicate clearly using ASL. This illustrated abridgment of the most authoritative reference book on sign language features more than 5,000 signs and 8,000 illustrations, as well ...
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Creaky high tones and aspirated consonants have never been so easy Nor has requesting your favourite song at a karaoke bar, chatting to a monk, or bargaining with your cabbie. With our easy-to-use phrasebook to guide you'll be talking up a storm with the locals in no time.

Lonely Planet gets you to the heart of a place. Our job is to make amazing travel experiences happen...
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Chinese is generally considered a difficult language. It is also a fascinating and important language that cannot be ignored. A growing number of English speakers are learning the Chinese language to the enrichment of their lives and the admiration of their friends. Chinese does, however, present a number of challenges. Written Chinese looks like a random set of stroke, dots and dashes. In its handwritten form, it looks like a series of undifferentiated squiggles. Spoken Chinese sounds lik...
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Reading and Writing Chinese has been the leading text for foreign students and teachers of the Chinese writing system since it was first published in 1978. This completely revised edition draws on the lessons learnt from the use of the book in classrooms so as to provide a more convenient and up-to-date introduction to written Chinese. Over 1,100 new combinations of characters have been added, increasing the total vocabulary significantly to about 4,500 items. There are also new no...
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The HarperCollins Robert French College Dictionary is a standout -- you're holding the best buy on the shelf in your hands right now. Here's why: Easiest to use: The attractive color layout gives maximum ease of access and enables effective communication for educational, business, and traveling purposes. Usage levels are indicated throughout, with extensive examples to illustrate how words are used in context. A system of style labels identifies whether a word is formal, informal, literary, offensive, dated, or euphemistic. In addition, specific meanings are clearly marked to guide the user...
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Langenscheidt Pockets are one of the best-selling lines of bilingual dictionaries. Each edition is a powerful language tool with thousands of entries, precise grammar, and helpful listings of foreign abbreviations, proper names, and more. Value priced, easily portable Pockets come in a full ...
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