Elisabeth Smith Traveller's: French

Elisabeth Smith Traveller's: French
Author: Elisabeth Smith
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781444193046

Looking for a French course that works quickly? Learn all the language you need for travelling, shopping, ordering food, staying in a hotel and more. This is your essential guide to getting out and really speaking. In just 35 minutes a day for six weeks you'll be ready to get out and about and make the most of your holiday. -Listen, read and learn wherever you are with this book and MP3 audio course. -Learn 450 useful words and expressions for your travels. -Use the handy flashcards for extra practice and revision. -No complicated grammar - just the essentials for speaking. "Fast, fun and easy" The Independent

50 Ways to Improve your French: Teach Yourself

50 Ways to Improve your French: Teach Yourself
Author: Lorna Wright
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2011-12-02
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 144413227X

Do you have a working knowledge of French, but want to improve? Allow this book to come to your rescue and eliminate basic errors and slips of the pen. Each one of 50 top tips for improving your spoken and written French is presented and analysed across a whole double page, with explanations as to where and why people sometimes go wrong. The tips are grouped into grammar, spelling, false friends, pronunciation and cultural faux pas sections. There's even free downloadable audio content available to help you with your pronunciation. Polish your French with this brand new series from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. 50 ways to improve your French touches all essential bases and is divided into the following easily digestible sections: Only got a minute? A 60-second introduction to French to get you started. Only got five minutes? Get to grips with French and its common pitfalls even if you're short of time. Only got ten minutes? Use your free time wisely to learn something about the French language. Insights Instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on Lorna Wright and Marie-Jo Morelle's many years of experience. Test yourself Tests online to keep track of your progress. Articles Extra information to keep you motivated. Summaries Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. Grammar Easy-to-follow building blocks to give you a clear understanding. Pronunciation Don't sound like a tourist - polish your pronunciation before you go. Audio Downloadable audio support online to help with key areas - iPod/MP3 compatible For your free audio download please visit: www.hodder.co.uk/TYLfreedownloads

Language Hacking French

Language Hacking French
Author: Benny Lewis
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1473677378

It's true that some people spend years studying French before they finally get around to speaking the language. But here's a better idea. Skip the years of study and jump right to the speaking part. Sound crazy? No, it's language hacking. Unlike most traditional language courses that try to teach you the rules of French, #LanguageHacking shows you how to learn and speak French through proven memory techniques, unconventional shortcuts and conversation strategies perfected by one of the world's greatest language learners, Benny Lewis, aka the Irish Polyglot. Using the language hacks -shortcuts that make learning simple - that Benny mastered while learning his 11 languages and his 'speak from the start' method, you will crack the language code and exponentially increase your language abilities so that you can get fluent faster. It's not magic. It's not a language gene. It's not something only "other people" can do. It's about being smart with how you learn, learning what's indispensable, skipping what's not, and using what you've learned to have real conversations in French from day one. The Method #LanguageHacking takes a modern approach to language learning, blending the power of online social collaboration with traditional methods. It focuses on the conversations that learners need to master right away, rather than presenting language in order of difficulty like most courses. This means that you can have conversations immediately, not after years of study. Each of the 10 units culminates with a speaking 'mission' that prepares you to use the language you've learned to talk about yourself. Through the language hacker online learner community, you can share your personalized speaking 'missions' with other learners - getting and giving feedback and extending your learning beyond the pages of the book . You don't need to go abroad to learn a language any more.

Complete Icelandic

Complete Icelandic
Author: Hildur Jonsottir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010
Genre: Icelandic language
ISBN: 9781444127713

The best-selling complete course for a fun and effective way to learn Icelandic. This ISBN is for the paperback book. The corresponding audio support (ISBN: 9781444105384) is also available. The book and audio support can also be purchased as a pack (ISBN: 9781444105377).

If I Ran the Zoo

If I Ran the Zoo
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 63
Release: 1950
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0394800818

Gerald tells of the very unusual animals he would add to the zoo, if he were in charge.

Essential French Vocabulary: Teach Yourself

Essential French Vocabulary: Teach Yourself
Author: Noel Saint-Thomas
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2012-01-13
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1444130838

Essential French Vocabulary is the course for you if you need help with your study of French. This fully revised edition of our best-selling course now comes with free downloadable audio support containing hints on how to learn vocabulary effectively. Unlike a phrasebook or a dictionary, Essential French Vocabulary will take your existing knowledge and build on it systematically and organically, so that you will increase your vocabulary and at the same time expand your range of expression. At the beginning of the book there is a section to help you with your pronunciation, followed by a short and simple grammar summary. The main part of the book is arranged in topics, such as 'Work', 'Travel and Accommodation' and 'Food and Drink', and concentrates on the vital and most current words and expressions, listing those which you might already know and then extending the coverage to teach you those you probably do not know. Finally, the downloadable audio recording will give you hints on how to increase your vocabulary effortlessly. This is an ideal companion if you are a language student or if you are wanting a systematic, easy-to-use tool to increase the range of your vocabulary and improve your ability to express yourself in a wide variety of situations, either on holiday or on a business trip. Learn effortlessly with a new, easy-to-read page design and interactive features: NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. END-OF-UNIT SUMMARIES AND ONLINE TESTS Summaries and tests to help you consolidate and keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at: www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the culture and history of France.

Fast French with Elisabeth Smith

Fast French with Elisabeth Smith
Author: Elisabeth Smith
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2011-05-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1444145118

This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding CD which is separately (ISBN: 9781444144895). Follow this course for 35 minutes a day and in six weeks you'll be speaking French! Elisabeth Smith has used her wide teaching experience to write a course that covers just the vocabulary and the grammar that you really need. This day-by-day programme is easy to follow and fun to do. At the end of six weeks, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to tackle all the situations you need to know about, such as shopping, eating out and getting around. With just the essential words and phrases to learn, and flashcards at the back of the book to help learn them, progress is fast and enjoyable. By the end of this course, you will be at Level A2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions. Can communicate in simple and routine tasks.

Distant Love

Distant Love
Author: Ulrich Beck
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-12-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0745679943

Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother. In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call ‘world families’, by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families- they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. This path-breaking book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the changing character of love in our times.

The Mindfulness Playbook

The Mindfulness Playbook
Author: Barbara Mariposa
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1473636213

In this concise, readable, book, you'll learn useful, do-able skills that you can integrate into every aspect of your life for stress-free success. It will : - give you tools and skills to manage stress, reduce anxiety, and deal effectively with the pace and pressure of 21st century living. - demystify the most important aspect of being human, what drives us, our relationships and our decision-making, at work and at home - our feelings. - explain how you can change the way your brain is wired to effortlessly move towards a fulfilling life of clarity, focus, and balance. This short reassuring book is rich in science but low in jargon, and underpinned by a model which provides proven solutions for combatting stress, anxiety and burnout and will enable you to use simple, easily learned mindfulness techniques to rewire your brain and participate fully and enthusiastically with life. This book is unique in presenting a very easy to grasp way of explaining key aspects of being human, our awareness of ourselves and our feelings. It shows how to live in the present, how mindfulness works in the brain, and how to live a happier life.

Autumn

Autumn
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143197886

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2017 Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That’s what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdon is in pieces, divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith’s new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her Seasonal quartet—four stand-alone books, seperate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are)—and it casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history making. Here’s where we’re living. Here’s time at its more contemporaneous and its most cyclic. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, a story about aging and time and love and stories themselves.