Nonfiction. "This long awaited text once more demonstrates Professor Thackston's mastery over the Persian language and its intricacies, both in its modern and classical form. Thackston makes Persian grammar clear and understandable. His emphasis is on the spoken and written language in today's Iran, on the Persian which is taught in schools and spoken and understood by all the ethnic groups in Iran. This new edition is a major contribution for those involved in teaching the Persian language. It also makes the learning of Persian more accessible and enjoyable" - Haleh Esfandiari, Princeton University.

Master conversation with this bestselling French workbook! Practice Makes Perfect: French Conversation is the go-to guide for expanding your conversational fluency. Organized into 11 units, it presents realistic everyday dialogues, followed by helpful instruction on correct syntax and word usage, as well as lots of conversation-ready phrases. Each dialogue is also followed by a variety of exercises that give the opportunity to put new concepts into action and encourage you to construct your own personalized conversations. This updated edition features a new chapter focused on expressions for communicating virtually. You'll learn how to: Engage in dialogues that illustrate practical conversations Expand your French vocabulary Understand new concepts with numerous realistic examples Overcome common stumbling blocks to fluent speaking Build new conversation skills through extensive practice Improve your pronunciation skills NEW: Communicate more effectively in person-and virtually via Skype and Zoom

This 1901 volume of "A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language" completely updates the classic reference work first published in 1882. Skeat provides a staggering number of words, including those most frequently used in everyday speech and those most prominent in literature. They appear along with their definitions, their language of origin, their roots, and their derivatives. Those who are fascinated with the English language will find much to explore here and many overlooked but interesting tidbits and treasures of an ever-evolving language. Walter W. Skeat was a scholar of Old English, Mathematics, English place names, and Anglo-Saxon. He founded the English Dialect Society in 1873 and was a professor at Cambridge University. Skeat edited many classic works, including "Lancelot of the Laik", "Piers Plowman", "The Bruce", "Lives of Saints", and a seven-volume edition of Chaucer.

"French for Americans, volume 1" is a complete language course that will enable you to learn French quickly and effectively. As you progress through this course you will find yourself reading, writing, speaking and understanding French with ease and confidence. Inside you will find: Clear presentations of everyday words and phrases. Cultural notes with insights into well-known and not so well-known French culture. Easy to understand conjugation and grammar. Proficiency exercises, word puzzles and review chapters. Lively dialogues review vocabulary and grammatical concepts. French-English and English-French glossaries. Verb conjugation tables. Topics covered include: travel--food--shopping--new technologies--work--home life--leisure activities. Appendixes on: numbers--days of the week--months of the year and seasons--time--school--family--foods--clothes and colors--human body--map of France.

Our new English B Textbook and eBook fully support the 2018 Subject Guide. Written by an expert authoring team of experienced teachers and examiners. Structured by prescribed theme. Wealth of topical and authentic texts accompanied by a broad range of activities and exercises. Suitable for Standard Level and Higher Level learners. Audio files and exercises to help students prepare for the listening assessment. Packed full of support for the Internal Assessment

At one time there were almost as many different versions of the Quechan creation story as there were Quechan families. Now few people remember them. This volume, presented in the Quechan language with facing-column translation, provides three views of the origins of the Quechan people. One synthesizes narrator George Bryant's childhood memories and later research. The second is based upon J. P. Harrington's A Yuma Account of Origins (1908). The third provides a modern view of the origins of the Quechan, beginning with the migration from Asia to the New World and ending with the settlement of the Yuman tribes at their present locations.

The Parallel Translations of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament text combines new and old translations to bring an unprecedented tool of study to the Bible student. It combines the standard King James Version and the new translation by Janet Magiera of the Peshitta with the most popular out of print translation of the New Testament by James Murdock. This combination of translations gives an immediate method of comparison and enables the student of the Bible desiring to study the Biblical text from a variety of angles all in one place. The methods of translation vary from scholar to scholar, but with the ability to compare the verses, the student can check the variations in the choices of words, and then get an overall understanding of the passage. This volume is designed to be used with the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament Vertical Interlinear, Dictionary Number Lexicon and Word Study Concordance.

The Vertical Interlinear for the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament in 3 volumes is composed in a non-traditional vertical layout that makes it easy to understand how the text is translated into English. The English translation of the verse is written out directly above the list of individual words and corresponds to the translation from the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament Translation by Janet Magiera. To the left of each individual word is the Dictionary Number used by all of the Light of the Word Ministry publications. Further study can be made by searching the Word Study Concordance and looking up the number in the Dictionary Number Lexicon. Volume I covers Matthew through Luke.

Hedina Tahirovic Sijercic is a Romani journalist, poet, author, and translator, whose accomplishments span decades and continents. Her experiential knowledge of her native Gurbeti Romani and her professional expertise as the translator of several books, plays, and film scripts into the dialect make her the ideal compiler of the first Gurbeti Romani - English dictionary to be published in decades. Containing over 17,000 lexical items, grammatical information, and example sentences illustrating real-world usage, this dictionary is an essential resource for both new learners seeking to communicate with Gurbeti-speaking Roma, as well as native Romani speakers and writers interested in broadening their interdialectal Romani vocabulary. Visit www.RomaniDictionary.com for errata, previews, and other information from Magoria Books.

Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher. Modern course, with strong phrase material and a wealth of pictorial and amusement aids.

A major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school.' Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement The tenth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works includes papers focusing on Language and Society. The papers provide a framework for understanding the social meaning of language, and the relation of language to other social phenomena. The volume begins with Professor Halliday's ground-breaking work on the users and uses of language. Subsequent chapters are organized around a discussion of sociolinguistic theory, and the relation between language and social class and social structure.

This work is the ninth volume in the "Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday" series. The ninth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works is dedicated to the subject of language and education. Professor Halliday sums up the scope of language education under the following five headings: mother tongue education; second language learning; multilingual societies; contexts of language education; and educational linguistics. In addition to the previously unpublished "Applied Linguistics as an Evolving Theme" (2002) originally presented by Professor Halliday on the occasion of his being awarded the first Gold Medal by the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), this volume contains another nineteen papers covering a comprehensive breadth of topics in language and education addressed by Professor Halliday over the course of his career. The chapters cover language development, language teaching, multilingualism, functional variation in language, and the place of linguistics in education.