Das Buch enthalt einen Kurs fur Anfanger und fortgeschrittene Anfanger, wobei die Texte auf Deutsch und auf Niederlandisch nebeneinanderstehen. Die Motivation des Schulers wird durch lustige Alltagsgeschichten uber das Kennenlernen neuer Freunde, Studieren, die Arbeitssuche, das Arbeiten etc. aufrechterhalten. Die dabei verwendete Methode basiert auf der naturlichen menschlichen Gabe, sich Woerter zu merken, die immer wieder und systematisch im Text auftauchen. Satze werden stets aus den im vorherigen Kapitel erklarten Woertern gebildet. Das zweite und die folgenden Kapitel des Anfangerkurses haben nur jeweils etwa dreissig neue Woerter. Die Audiodateien sind auf www.lppbooks.com/Dutch/FirstDutchReader/ inklusive erhaltlich.

Designed to be highly practical, Espanol Comercial is a concise, well-organized resource for advanced, fluent students who want to improve their speaking skills in Spanish for business purposes. The book increases vocabulary and teaches speaking skills for use in professional environments. A practical tool for improving cross-cultural communication, the text also helps students recognize and employ the appropriate register for negotiating successfully in Spanish. The book is organized into twelve chapters, each of which presents a specific business-related topic as the context for language acquisition. These topics include globalization and the Hispanic world, companies in Latin America and Spain, company assets, entering international markets, and the production of goods and services. Each chapter also weaves in information about the countries in Latin America, providing students with a valuable overview of the region. In addition, students learn about business management, human resources, banking, funding and investment, and the future of business. Each of the twelve chapters includes vocabulary, phrases, application exercises, and an expansion activity. Espanol Comercial is written specifically for courses in Spanish that focus on business terminology, topics, and practices.

Non e sempre la solita storia: Dal nord al sud (Italian Stories Level 3) helps students explore the language and culture of Italy in a meaningful, up-to-date context. Readers engage in and learn from the story of two brothers who embark on an adventure across Italy and explore some of the most beautiful regions. As they travel across the boot of Italy, the Stivale, they discover that their adventure is much bigger than they had expected! An immersion text, the language, grammar, and cultural instruction come together seamlessly. A visual dictionary provides pictorial clues to new words in the texts. True/false questions after each reading allow students to immediately check comprehension. Target vocabulary and grammatical structures are recycled throughout the text for review and to function as building blocks for new language and conversational skills. Non e sempre la solita storia is designed to be a companion reader to standard textbooks. It is appropriate for intermediate Italian courses in university programs, and can also serve as a review and refresher for students at the advanced level.

Bridge to China is a new, four-part Mandarin Chinese primer series for today's North American college and high school students. The series opens with an introduction to Pinyin, the Chinese phonetic alphabet, which optimizes students' ability to speak successfully as they learn. The first two books are for beginning students and emphasize pronunciation, listening, and speaking. Book 2 also incorporates reading skills. Books 3 and 4 target intermediate Mandarin Chinese learners and place equal emphasis on speaking and reading skills. The series offers well-chosen, high-interest topics for oral activities, lively situational dialogues, important grammatical structures, and select usages of modern Chinese. It also provides entertaining, culturally informative readings, supplementary vocabulary lists, and two-way vocabulary glossaries at the end of each book. Extensively class-tested, Bridge to China integrates the 5 Cs of language learning-communication, culture, comparisons, connections, and communities. It lays a solid foundation in the target language and successfully prepares students for advanced study. This series can be used in two-year college programs, four-year high school programs, and short-term intensives.

Non e sempre la solita storia helps students explore the language and culture of Italy in a meaningful, up-to-date context. Readers will engage in and learn from the story of a group of young artists who start their own company. They collaborate with an American artist to stage an exhibition set in Ca' Dario - the most haunted house in Venice. An immersion text, the language, grammar, and cultural instruction come together seamlessly. A visual dictionary provides pictorial clues to new words in the texts. True/false questions after each reading allow students to immediately check comprehension. Target vocabulary and grammatical structures are recycled throughout the text for review and to function as building blocks for new language and conversational skills. All verbs are used in the past tense, as is appropriate for the intermediate level. Non e sempre la solita storia is designed to be a companion reader to standard textbooks. It is appropriate for intermediate Italian courses in university programs, and can also serve as a review and refresher for students at the advanced level.

Non e sempre la solita storia is a beginning Italian reader that tells the story of two young people from different continents who happen to meet and begin a relationship. An immersion text, the language, grammar, and cultural instruction come together seamlessly. A visual dictionary provides pictorial clues to new words in the texts. True/false questions after each reading allow readers to immediately check comprehension. Target vocabulary and grammatical structures are recycled throughout the text for review and to function as building blocks for new language and conversational skills. The sections of the story are set against Venetian landmarks, including Il Campanile, La Basilica San Marco, the Giardini della Biennale, and the Ponte di Rialto. The storyline is both familiar and fresh, drawing students in and placing the language in an easily imagined and relatable context. Non e sempre la solita storia is well suited to beginning courses in Italian. It can also be used as a supplemental reader for intermediate students and as a quick refresher and review for those with advanced skills.

Centered around practical, engaging themes, the "Elementary Italian Student Activities Manual" is designed to accompany the textbook "Elementary Italian."
The activities manual features homework assignments and supplemental exercises suitable for first year students of Italian. The progression of the material is tried and tested, and begins with an introductory lesson on the alphabet and pronunciation, greetings and salutations, numbers, days of the week, and months of the year.
It emphasizes the most important grammar points covered in the main text, such as verb tenses, pronouns, comparative and superlative adjectives, and prepositions.
Student friendly and extensively class-tested, the "Elementary Italian Student Activities Manual" was written for college-level beginning Italian courses that meet three days a week over a fifteen week semester, but it can easily be adapted to a quarter system.
Jessica Greenfield earned bachelor's degrees in Italian studies and Classical Civilizations at the University of California, Berkeley, her master's degree in Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and her Ph.D. in Romance Languages, with a specialization in Italian, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Greenfield is a faculty member in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of North Texas, where she also serves as the Italian Language Program Coordinator. The author of numerous articles, reviews, and textbook contributions, she has also presented at regional and national conferences. Her research interests include modern Italian literature, Sicilian writers, and the Italian realist writer Giovanni Verga.

With its unique blend of eastern and western traditions of music and poetry, the world of Russian vocal music is rich in spirituality, intimacy, and passion for singers and their audience. Russian song traditions offer an ideal opportunity for self-expression and the forging of a deep connection with one's listeners. It also presents formidable challenges to singers at every level, ranging from the complexities native to sung and spoken Russian to the intricacies of diction and interpretation that lie behind the nuanced relationship between Russian music and poetry. Founded on the underlying principle that sung language differs dramatically from spoken language, Singing in Russian offers a comprehensive and accessible approach to understanding, mastering, and performing Russian vocal music. After covering the basics of the Cyrillic alphabet and Russian grammar and diction, author Emily Olin encourages readers to take the innovative step of using the music itself to guide the singer's pronunciation and interpretation. English sound comparisons, linguistic and musical examples, and multifaceted exercises complement textual explanations, reinforcing the techniques Olin has employed for over three decades. The addition of repertoire lists and practical recommendations further equip singers to confidently go from start to stage. Furthermore, the online audio examples contain exercises that demonstrate and reinforce the correct sound and interpretation of everything from the alphabet to the presentation of vowels, consonants, words, and phrases. They can be found at https://soundcloud.com/user-869634200/sets/singing-in-russian-a-guide-to-language-and-performance. Singing in Russian is an invaluable resource for students, performers, teachers, directors, conductors, and coaches seeking to increase their access to Russian opera and art song, master the challenges they present to performance, and expand their personal, professional, and institutional repertoire on stage.

The "CAMINANDO 1-2-3" series provides Spanish language students with in-depth review and practice of intermediate-level grammar, as well as multiple opportunities for vocabulary development. Intended as a student workbook to complement the instructor's classroom presentation and oral practice, "CAMINANDO" also includes sample responses to odd-numbered exercises to aid in students' self-correction and therefore deeper understanding of the language.
Developed by two professors, using a classroom-tested approach, the "CAMINANDO 1" workbook is an ideal companion to any level one Intermediate Spanish language classroom.
Professor Rosaura Sanchez, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin (Spanish Linguistics) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Professor Beatrice Pita, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego (Literature) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

The "CAMINANDO 1-2-3" series provides Spanish language students with in-depth review and practice of intermediate-level grammar, as well as multiple opportunities for vocabulary development. Intended as a student workbook to complement the instructor's classroom presentation and oral practice, "CAMINANDO" also includes sample responses to odd-numbered exercises to aid in students' self-correction and therefore deeper understanding of the language.
Developed by two professors, using a classroom-tested approach, the "CAMINANDO 2" workbook is an ideal companion to any level two Intermediate Spanish language classroom.
Professor Rosaura Sanchez, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin (Spanish Linguistics) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Professor Beatrice Pita, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego (Literature) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

The "CAMINANDO 1-2-3" series provides Spanish language students with in-depth review and practice of intermediate-level grammar, as well as multiple opportunities for vocabulary development. Intended as a student workbook to complement the instructor's classroom presentation and oral practice, "CAMINANDO" also includes sample responses to odd-numbered exercises to aid in students' self-correction and therefore deeper understanding of the language.
Developed by two professors, using a classroom-tested approach, the "CAMINANDO 3" workbook is an ideal companion to any level three Intermediate Spanish language classroom.
Professor Rosaura Sanchez, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin (Spanish Linguistics) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Professor Beatrice Pita, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego (Literature) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

THE STUDY SMART SERIES, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays.
Millions of people want to learn to spell correctly, but they fear the task will be tedious and painful. Now, with the unique, logical approach presented in Spelling Simplified, anyone can become a skilled speller quickly and easily. Through the use of simple and effective exercises and tips, "Spelling Simplified" illustrates what many poor spellers forget--that the way a word is spelled is closely related to the sound and meaning of that word.
Chapters devoted to syllables and stress, patterns in the language, consonant clusters, and vowel-consonant combinations are included, each complete with its own set of examples and exercises. From the simplest root words through longer words derived from foreign languages, "Spelling Simplified" guides you through basic techniques for learning how to "hear" a word, how to master irregularities, and how to form large words from smaller ones. Breezily written and easy to use, Spelling Simplified shows that mastering spelling cn be painless--and even fun.

The third volume in a four-part language course, this textbook enables students to become competent in reading and writing Burmese script. Most students find it helpful to begin learning the script at the same time as they start on the spoken language, but this volume can be used independently if preferred. In addition to lists of words for reading and writing practice, presented in a series of short graduated lessons, Okell includes sample texts from Burmese materials such as product labels, newspaper headlines, and maps. Appendices on handwriting and cursive forms, display fonts, the Burmese names of the characters, Burmese alphabetical order, and common abbreviations round out the book.One of the challenges of learning a non-roman script language from traditional course books is that the use of the roman alphabet to describe sounds is not as effective as hearing the sounds. The extensive audio files that accompany this volume allow the learner to hear and produce the sounds corresponding to the symbols. Language professors and their students or those learning Burmese on their own will appreciate the accessible approach and the manageable size of the lessons of the very practical textbooks in this series.

The German Way is a handy guide to understanding how people from every corner of the German-speaking world think, do business, and act in their daily lives. Organized alphabetically for ease of use, The German Way is an indispensable reference to the common as well as the divergent cultural traits of German-speaking people. Included are 77 key traits, representing German-speaking people from all walks of life and from the following countries where German is spoken: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Familiarity with the varied ways in which these people celebrate holidays, interact with one another, eat, dress, and so on will increase your ability to communicate with German-speaking men and women everywhere. Complete with a bibliography and index, The German Way provides keen insights into the rich variety of customs and attitudes found in German-speaking countries. Whether you are a student, tourist, or business traveler, this book will help you break the culture barrier - and appreciate the way things are done in the German-speaking world.

The Yucatan Peninsula draws many North American and European travelers each year to view the ruins of the pre-Columbian Classical Maya civilization and the abundant native flora and fauna. For these travelers, as well as armchair travelers and students, Gary Bevington has prepared the first general English-language introduction to Yucatec Maya, the native language of the people indigenous to the region.

Written in nontechnical terms for learners who have a basic knowledge of simple Mexican Spanish, the book presents easily understood, practical information for anyone who would like to communicate with the Maya in their native language. In addition to covering the pronunciation and grammar of Maya, Bevington includes invaluable tips on learning indigenous languages "in the field." Most helpful are his discussions of the cultural and material worlds of the Maya, accompanied by essential words and expressions for common objects and experiences. A Maya-English-Spanish glossary with extensive usage examples and an English-Maya glossary conclude the book.

Note: The supplemental audiocasette, Spoken Maya for Travelers and Students, is now available as a free download.

Workbook to accompany Reading & Speaking About Russian Newspapers.

Students in early childhood settings don't always get the benefits of shared book reading - a strategy proven to boost language skills and content knowledge. Prepare the next generation of teachers to make the most of shared reading with this accessible textbook, a complete guide to building vocabulary-rich science and social studies lessons and discussions around storybooks and informational texts. Field-tested with children in high-poverty school settings, this instructional approach is valuable for any young learners at risk for comprehension difficulties. This concise book presents the authors' proven, empirically based "Project WORLD" (Words of Oral Reading and Language Development) framework for integrating shared book reading into the classroom. Offering both big-picture curriculum design principles and specific instructional strategies, this text gives teachers the know-how they need to accelerate language skills, vocabulary development, and high-priority science and social studies content knowledge for all young children. Ideal for preservice teacher education courses and in-service professional development! This accessible textbook prepares early childhood educators to teach vocabulary-rich science and social studies lessons through shared book reading. Presents a complete framework for boosting language skills and content knowledge. GET TEACHERS READY TO: Use the most effective shared book reading and vocabulary practices Teach new vocabulary while introducing key science and social studies concepts Align vocabulary instruction with content standards and objectives Stimulate and expand children's oral language abilities via interactive book discussions Implement a framework tested in collaboration with Head Start and preschool teachers Choose their own books and vocabulary words to teach Design lesson plans that get results Build a strong foundation for children's future success in science and social studies Advance learning with proven teaching techniques, such as multiple exposures to words and connected concepts and strategies Successfully teach both English language learners and native English speakers PRACTICAL MATERIALS: A step-by-step Shared Book Reading Instructional Unit Planner, sample vocabulary words with child-friendly definitions, real-life classroom vignettes with embedded instructional techniques and suggestions, examples of appropriate storybooks and informational texts paired by science or social studies themes, and tools to support teachers' content vocabulary instruction.

QUE TE PARECE? is an exciting and innovative new program suitable for any communicative or proficiency-based intermediate Spanish course. QUE TE PARECE? contains unusually interesting material on a wide variety of topics - many not typically included in second year texts - that will capture and hold students' attention. Both the grammar and the activities in QUE TE PARECE? are driven by the content so that they are always presented in an authentic context. The approach of QUE TE PARECE? provides Spanish majors and minors with excellent preparation for upper division classes while still maintaining the interest and meeting the needs of students not intending to continue in Spanish. Full color throughout, QUE TE PARECE? has a stunning design that includes fine art as well as photographs from all over the Hispanic world.