This textbook is intended for advanced intermediate students preparing for work or research in Vietnam or with materials written in Vietnamese. It acquaints them with a range of written styles, expands their lexical range in a variety of topics, develops reading comprehension skills, and expands their awareness of Vietnamese culture and values. Contemporary Vietnamese Readings incorporates authentic reading materials such as street signs, banners, advertisements, news articles from north and south Vietnamese newspapers and magazines, and excerpts from novels and short stories. The materials are categorized under such themes as the Vietnamese land and its people, society and culture, current affairs, the environment, health and safety, demography and family planning, politics, diplomacy and law, economics and finance, literature, and Vietnamese women. The wide variety of different readings and genres represented in this textbook assume prior mastery of basic Vietnamese vocabulary and sentence structures at a level equivalent to completing a beginning and intermediate textbook series. Language professors and their students, or anyone seeking a more advanced understanding of Vietnamese-or more nuanced understanding of Vietnamese culture-will appreciate the instructional value of Contemporary Vietnamese Readings.

Desde su publicacion en 1960 la critica ha visto esta obra como un clasico de la nueva narrativa hispanoamericana. La tregua ha sido planeada en forma de diario intimo de un oficinista a punto de jubilarse. El autor traza una cronica de la frustracion de la vida cotidiana de la clase media uruguaya.

Saaq al-Bambuu (The Bamboo Stalk) by Kuwaiti novelist Saud al-Sanousi provides students at the intermediate-advanced Arabic language level the opportunity to engage with an award-winning work of contemporary fiction. This abridged version has been approved by the author, authenticating the richness of a text that offers students the means to develop vocabulary and reading fluency while sensitizing them to the stylistics of the language. The novel is a coming-of-age story of a half-Filippino, half-Kuwaiti teen who returns to his father's Kuwait. There, he explores his own identity as a poor Filipino in a culture he does not know well and receives a mixed welcome from his own wealthy relatives. Universal concepts of identity, faith, belonging, poverty/wealth, and otherness are explored through a poetic narrative and engaging plot that will keep students captivated from the first line to the very last page. Included within the book are chapter exercises that develop linguistic and cultural competencies, a short biography of the author, and glossaries of literary terms and devices. As with Laila Familiar's Sayyidi wa Habibi, this authorized version of the abridged text by a contemporary Arabic author will be warmly embraced by college and university students of Arabic as well as by independent learners.

A book for Welsh learners, Advanced Level (Uwch). There has been a three car crash on the back-roads of rural Wales one dark night. But what joins the driver's of these vehicles, and how did they end up here? -- Welsh Books Council

A book for Welsh learners, Entry Level (Mynediad), about Rhodri, who is a native Welsh speaker, and Lucy, his wife who has just started learning. -- Welsh Books Council

A book for Welsh learners, Intermediate Level. A light-hearted novel about a man who falls in love with his Welsh tutor. Liam is the newby in his Welsh language class, and before long he starts to develop feelings for his tutor, Liz.... -- Welsh Books Council