Language teaching & learning Books

Used as a standard by students and teachers in learning Chinese for morethan three decades, the best-selling Reading and Writing Chinese has beencompletely revised and updated!Reading and Writing Chinese places at your fingertips the essential...

Indonesian Flash Cards is an excellent new Indonesian language learning resource for beginning students of Indonesian. Before heading out to Bali, the best way to learn Indonesian is to start practicing with these flashcards and give a boost to your...

This is a clear, simple and compact guide to colloquial, everyday Japanese. Acquire basic proficiency in spoken Japanese. A streamlined, efficient approach. Perfect for self-learners or classroom use. Includes kanji and kana. Essential Japanese...

To be fluent in Chinese means recognizing about 2,000 characters and being able to write 1,000 of them from memory. This fact summarizes one of the majorchallenges in learning Chinese! To succeed in studying the language, there are three secrets: start...

A new 21st-century edition of the widely acclaimed reference classic! Whatever you need to do with Japanese reading and writing, you'll find the info and details here. This is a detail-rich guide to all aspects of the Japanese writing system. If you...

This is a clear simple and compact guide to colloquial, everyday Japanese grammar. Basic Japanese Grammar teaches all the grammar you need to speak Japanese and understand simple spoken Japanese. Covering only what is essential, it provides an efficient...

Essential Arabic presents the practical language of everyday interactions, conveyed in a way that's clear, concise, accessible and enjoyable. It includes fundamental sentences used when meeting people, starting conversations, and asking and replying to...

"Making Out in Italian" is a fantastic guide to the authentic speech of Italy. Presented in an easy, informal way, it teaches the actual language that is spoken in the everyday situations you're most likely to encounter when in Italy. Featuring a...

It's never a good idea to be overly-relient on technology while traveling! Look up words quickly and easily with this great little Arabic dictionary.Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to the Middle East Pocket Arabic...

This clear, to-the-point phrase book provides you with the most important everyday Hindi words and phrases to get you speaking without fuss or fear. It's current: unlike the other books out there, Survival Hindi offers the most up-to-date ways to say it!...

It's never a good idea to be overly-relient on technology while traveling! Look up words quickly and easily with this great little Malay dictionary.Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to Malaysia Pocket Malay Dictionary...

A simple introduction to Chinese writing, pronunciation and intonation using short stories. Appropriate for beginner Chinese students of all ages.Reading basic Chinese becomes simplified in this highly attractive and unique manual designed for readers of...

This is an introductory book about the history and contemporary usage of the Chinese language. Chinese is generally considered a difficult language. It is also a fascinating and important language that cannot be ignored. A growing number of English...

Japanese Proverbs is filled with universal truths ('Fall down seven times, get up eight') as well as uniquely Japanese sayings and folk wisdom ('Even a one-inch insect has a half-inch soul') which may seem cryptic and difficult to understand until you...

Japanese has 3 writing systems, all used together: hiragana, katakana and kanji. Japanese Hiragana & Katakana for Beginners helps newcomers learn how to use the first two systems' basic 92 characters to read, write and communicate. Memorable picture...

What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, and where is your verb, and what is its tense, and where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so...

This is a handy, travel-sized Balinese phrase book with additional information about the Balinese language.As any seasoned traveler knows, the ability to communicate in the language of the country you are visiting makes a very big difference in the...

Essential Japanese Grammar is an indispensable study guide for students of the Japanese language at all levels. Long the standard in Japanese language education, it provides clear, jargon-free explanations of how Japanese...

At last-there is a truly effective and enjoyable way to learn Chinese characters! This book helps students to learn and remember both the meanings and the pronunciations of over 800 characters. This otherwise daunting task is made...

600 Basic Japanese Verbs is a handy, easy-to-use guide to one of the building blocks of language learning-verbs. This book will come to the rescue as it shows learners how to conjugate the 600 most common Japanese verbs quickly, and with very little...

40 Super Powers Card Deck 36 superpowers + 4 growth mindset cards. Each of the 36 superpower cards includes a positive growth mindset language to practice Positive Self-Talk. Suitable for all ages! Each card starts with I am, I can, I will with a focus...