Berlitz Italian Phrase Book - Berlitz International
Berlitz Phrase Books, the unparalleled market leaders, feature 1,200 current expressions visitors will hear during their travels plus cultural tips and cautions to guide visitors through social situation and provide valuable safety tips. The phrase books will help you troubleshoot various situations: losing baggage, asking directions, reserving accommodations, visiting the doctor, etc. The essential vocabulary and phrases cover the most common situations a traveler might encounter making this popular series the ideal companion for millions of travelers worldwide. Mini-dialogues provide typical conversations to practice. A grammar section, 2,300 word bilingual dictionary, and an extensive menu-reader complete this pocket-sized reference work.
Building A Medical Vocabulary: With Spanish Translations - Peggy C. Leonard
This text provides the building blocks for effective communication in the health care environment. Using the programmed approach to learning, readers interact with the text by filling in blanks and then confirming their answers to discover new terminology. Its a comprehensive, yet unintimidating way to learn essential medical terms. Instructor resources available; contact your sales representative for details.
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods - Michael Wex
A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint. Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness, and complexity, Yiddish has proven incredibly useful and durable. Its wonderful phrases and idioms impeccably reflect the mind-set that has enabled the Jews of Europe to survive a millennium of unrelenting persecution . . . and enables them to kvetch about it!
Business Communication: Process and Product - Mary Ellen Guffey
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION: PROCESS AND PRODUCT is a time-tested, Web-supported, teaching/learning/testing system that delivers comprehensive resources. The text uses the 3-x-3 writing process to guide the user in writing effectively. Accurate, detailed model documents provide numerous examples for learners to emulate, and abundant activities and cases develop skills. The variety and depth of resources in both print and electronic media are unmatched by any competitor. Mary Ellen Guffey leads the market in providing instructors with timely, innovative, and continuously refreshed teaching tips and support through her Web sites, monthly newsletters, and conference presentations.
Building A Medical Vocabulary: With Spanish Translations - Peggy C. Leonard
This text provides the building blocks for effective communication in the health care environment. Using the programmed approach to learning, readers interact with the text by filling in blanks and then confirming their answers to discover new terminology. Its a comprehensive, yet unintimidating way to learn essential medical terms. Instructor resources available; contact your sales representative for details
Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation - Stephen Mitchell
On the list of the greatest spiritual books of all time, the Bhagavad Gita resides permanently in the top echelon. This poem of patently Indian genius sprouted an immense tree of devotional, artistic, and philosophical elaboration in the subcontinent. The scene is a battlefield with the prince Arjuna pitted against his own family, but no sooner does the poem begin than the action reverts inward. Krishna, Arjuna's avatar and spiritual guide, points the way to the supreme wisdom and perfect freedom that lie within everyone's reach. Worship and be faithful, meditate and know reality--these make up the secret of life and lead eventually to the realization that the self is the root of the world. In this titular translation, Stephen Mitchell's rhythms are faultless, making music of this ancient "Song of the Blessed One." Savor his rendition, but nibble around the edges of his introduction. In a bizarre mixture of praise and condescension, Mitchell disregards two millennia of Indian commentary, seeking illumination on the text from Daoism and Zen, with the Gita coming up just shy of full spiritual merit. Perhaps we should take it from Gandhi, who used the Gita as a handbook for life, that it nourishes on many levels.
Becoming a Translator - Doug Robinson
Becoming a Translator provides the information and advice that translators really need, such as how to translate faster and more accurately, how the job market works, and how to deal with stress. Organized in a user-friendly style, the book provides translators creative activities and exercises designed to speed the learning of both theory and practice.
Bravo! (with Audio CD) - Judith Muyskens, Linda Harlow, Michèle Vialet, Jean-François Brière
All students are not equal when it comes to the intermediate course?they all come to class with different levels of language preparation. It was because of this challenge that BRAVO! was created?and over the years it has evolved into a proven solution for student success. BRAVO! brings parity to the intermediate course, enabling students of diverse backgrounds to review first-year structures independently before delving into new material. A CHANCE TO LEVEL THE LEARNING FIELD Grammaire à réviser?a BRAVO! hallmark and a built-in course equalizer?allows students to self-assess and evaluate their readiness for each chapter's lessons. Grammaire à réviser acts as a diagnostic and/or assessment tool for both the instructor and the learner, checking for mastery of the forms and structures at hand. Those who need the review prior to class have it?and if they need more help on specific grammar points they can to the Workbook/Lab Manual (also available online on the QUIA? platform). If they need even more help, they can access vMentor?, a FREE live online tutoring resource. Students are empowered to come to class on a more level learning field with those students who are better prepared. As a result, more time will be spent in class using the structures functionally as well as practicing new material. No other intermediate French program offers more in-text and study tools to help instructors teach and students learn?effectively bridging the gap between introductory and intermediate course.
Beginner's Chinese with 2 Audio CDs - Yong Ho
If you are serious about learning Chinese, this book and its sequel "Intermediate Chinese" by Yong Ho, head of the Chinese program at the United Nations, are just about ideal. They are by no means phrase books, but form a basis for a thorough but practical study of Chinese. I came to the study of Chinese some twenty years ago because my work took me to China. I have since been six times for visits of two to four weeks, but have never become really proficient. I have bought a number of texts and worked through carefully what was previously the best of them, "Practical Chinese Readers I." I therefore started Ho's second volume, but I found his explanations so wonderfully clear that I went back to read his "Beginner's Chinese".
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