How Languages Saved Me

How Languages Saved Me
Author: Tadeusz Haska
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781633939233

"When I was arrested my whole world crumbled. I knew that leaders of political parties had been arrested, and never heard from again. My only chance at survival was to find a way to escape from the jail." Orphaned in Poland at the age of thirteen, Tadeusz "Tad" Haska survived World War II on the run, narrowly evading the Nazis every step of the way. After the war, he daringly escaped jail by the Soviet Secret Police, fled to Sweden and launched an elaborate plan to smuggle his wife in a coffin on an all-male naval ship. Discover how Tad's knowledge of nine languages helped him survive in the face of unspeakable adversity.

Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

Polyglot: How I Learn Languages
Author: Kat— Lomb
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1606437062

KAT LOMB (1909-2003) was one of the great polyglots of the 20th century. A translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, Lomb worked in 16 languages for state and business concerns in her native Hungary. She achieved further fame by writing books on languages, interpreting, and polyglots. Polyglot: How I Learn Languages, first published in 1970, is a collection of anecdotes and reflections on language learning. Because Dr. Lomb learned her languages as an adult, after getting a PhD in chemistry, the methods she used will be of particular interest to adult learners who want to master a foreign language.

How Languages Changed My Life

How Languages Changed My Life
Author: Project MEITS
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1480884588

How Languages Changed My Life is a collection of stories exploring the importance of languages in shaping the lives of individuals and communities around the world. It brings together writers and musicians, politicians and activists, teachers, students, scientists, comedians, and sportspeople whose experiences are both unique and exemplary. The first-person voices are conversational, intimate and uplifting, but also often very funny and deeply moving. This book is for anyone who loves real-life stories; is interested in languages, culture, and adventure; and believes in global citizenship. It embraces more than forty different languages and offers a kaleidoscope of individual views that collectively make the case for linguistic diversity being as essential to our survival as biodiversity. Irrespective of age and background, whether as first-time learners or professional polyglots, all our storytellers testify to how languages have inspired and empowered them. How Languages Changed My Life is a book for our times, reminding us that what we have in common is always greater than our differences.

God Saved Me

God Saved Me
Author: Wylie Comp
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-04-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1449792073

God Saved Me is written to encourage believers to be aware of their position in Christ and be willing to prepare their minds and hearts for the challenges ahead. Then, believers should be available to participate in sharing the good news whenever and with whomever God gives the opportunity. God Saved Me addresses critical concerns for outreach and witnessing, focusing on the local churchs responsibility; the importance of prayer in witnessing; reliance on the Word of God; dealing with fear and guilt; being approved as a person of faith; making Christ the topic; and development of a personal testimony that can be shared repeatedly. This book speaks directly to the need for believers to come together in support of one another and make a commitment to follow Christs directive to make disciples wherever an opportunity is presented. Using anecdotal comments and personal accounts of outreach, God Saved Me provides fresh insight to help believers respond to the need for people of faith to get in the fight for the souls of their families, friends, and loved ones. Rev. Wylie Comp has written one of the most comprehensive books on the subject of Christian witnessing that I have ever had the privilege of reading or reviewing. God Saved Me is written on a level that anyone can understand and use as a guide for becoming an effective Christian soldier in the army of God. Dr. Gerald F. Terrebrood, Co-Director, Soul Impressions, Ozark, MO

Dragons of Siberia

Dragons of Siberia
Author: Thomas K. Carpenter
Publisher: Black Moon Books
Total Pages: 288
Release:
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Stranded in Siberia, Kat and Ben must navigate the snowy wastes to make it to Moscow so they can stop the god Veles from taking over their world. But surprises lurk in the north, one from her past days in Empress Catherine's court, and the other a creature out of legend. To survive, Kat needs to confront more than her past.

The Alien Immigrant

The Alien Immigrant
Author: William Eden Evans-Gordon
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann ; New York : C. Scribner's sons
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1903
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

South Asian Languages

South Asian Languages
Author: Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1986
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9788120800335

The Languages of the Jews

The Languages of the Jews
Author: Bernard Spolsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 110705544X

A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.

Language Narratives and Shifting Multilingual Pedagogies

Language Narratives and Shifting Multilingual Pedagogies
Author: Belinda Mendelowitz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2022-12-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 135016593X

Winner of the UKLA Academic Book Award 2024 This book challenges monoglossic ideologies, traditional language pedagogies and dominant forms of knowledge construction by foregrounding multilingual and multicultural students' language narratives, repertoires, and identities. The research is based on a sixteen-year longitudinal study of a sociolinguistics course at an English language university and the language narratives produced by the first-year education students. The study was borne out of a need to create a critically inclusive course that would engage a cohort of students from socially and linguistically diverse backgrounds in contemporary South Africa. Drawing on data from over 5,000 students who have journeyed through this course, this book shows how a narrative heteroglossic pedagogy harnesses students' multilingual strengths. A close analysis reveals complex identity work by students located in the Global South. The authors argue that decolonising language education is about reconceptualising language, reconfiguring what knowledges are valued in the classroom, and reshaping pedagogy.