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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Learn Mandarin Chinese in just 15 minutes a day with this revolutionary language learning system, now with an accompanying free app that is available in the App Store and Google Play. Practicing your language skills is quick, easy, and fun with 15-Minute Mandarin. There's no homework. Instead, use the visual guide and the free app to test yourself as you learn. Perfect your pronunciation by listening to native speakers, and learn from real-life examples...
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Award winner of both a Parents' choice Silver Award and Director's Choice Award. Eleven lullabies sung by singers, each in his or her native tongue and then sung in English. This series includes lullabies sung in: Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, Mandarin and Yiddish.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire, with literacy reserved for the elite few. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's greatest and most daunting challenge was a linguistic one. Just as important as China's technological and industrial advances and political maneuvers was the century-long fight to make the Chinese language-with its many dialects...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Storytelling has been with us as long as language itself. The desire to both entertain and explain has resulted in the flowering of language to describe every aspect of the human condition. In this program, Stephen Fry discovers what makes a good story, and why some writers are better at conveying joy or horror than others. Topics include the Odyssey and the Iliad; James Joyce's Ulysses; the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Stephen King (with Lord of...
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