Language Learning

Get the expert instruction and practice needed to take your English skills to the next level! Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners helps you take your English grammar skills to a higher level and gives you the confidence to speak and write in your new language. This...

Master French grammar through hands-on exercises and practice, practice, practice!Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced French Grammar helps you take your French skills to the next level by targeting those key grammar points that may give you trouble. This reference/workbook guides you through each grammatical issue using concise, easy-to-understand language, helping you...

Colloquial Malay: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Malay as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the...

The Official Guide to PTE Academic, provides a complete overview of the test structure. It includes everything you need to know in order to become familiar with the task types, as well as guidance on managing a computer-based test and preparation strategies. The Official Guide and its support resources can...

Building on the success of previous editions, Focus on Grammar continues to provide an integrated skills approach to engage students and help them accomplish their goals of communicating confidently, accurately, and fluently. With comprehensive grammar coverage, abundant practice, and ongoing assessment, Focus on Grammar delivers immediate and visible progress through...

The most hands-on, practical workbook for learning to read, write and speak Spanish flawlessly Practice, practice, practice—and improve your ability to read, write and speak Spanish as it’s really used. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition has everything you need to progress from beginning to advanced fluency,...

AWESOME GRAMMAR PRACTICE: THE FUN WAY TO MASTER GRAMMAR is an attractive three-book series that helps students understand an apply language rules with confidence. Concepts are explained in a clear and concise manner. Lively illustrations provide contexts, engage students and make learning easy. Exercises progress from word level to sentence...

AWESOME GRAMMAR PRACTICE: THE FUN WAY TO MASTER GRAMMAR is an attractive three-book series that helps students understand an apply language rules with confidence. Concepts are explained in a clear and concise manner. Lively illustrations provide contexts, engage students and make learning easy. Exercises progress from word level to sentence...

AWESOME GRAMMAR PRACTICE: THE FUN WAY TO MASTER GRAMMAR is an attractive three-book series that helps students understand an apply language rules with confidence. Concepts are explained in a clear and concise manner. Lively illustrations provide contexts, engage students and make learning easy. Exercises progress from word level to sentence...

The volumes take the novice learner to the intermediate-high level while following a set of fictional students through their university studies. Each lesson presents four to six language functions (e.g., how to greet a stranger, introduce oneself, ask for directions, apologize, offer a suggestion) in socially appropriate contexts. Students begin...

The volumes take the novice learner to the intermediate-high level while following a set of fictional students through their university studies. Each lesson presents four to six language functions (e.g., how to greet a stranger, introduce oneself, ask for directions, apologize, offer a suggestion) in socially appropriate contexts. Students begin...

There are more than one billion people learning English as a second language around the world, and the majority of these language learners are in China. This book provides teachers of English to Chinese students with relevant information on the linguistic, cultural and pedagogical backgrounds of these students. The authors...

In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for? Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language originated with Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago and that...

Have you ever considered learning Korean, but been put off by the unusual look of the characters? Dont let yourself be scared away! Korean has been called "the most logical language there is," and with this friendly and thorough introduction you will soon see why. The best way to learn...

Essential Korean Grammar gives you excellent examples that lay out the best grammar options for communicating, and when to use each option. The grammar items are cleverly rated so you can determine whats most useful for you to study, based on your Korean knowledge level and your plans. There is...

With Essential Korean Vocabulary you will learn to speak Korean the way that Koreans do by learning key words and expressions they use every day in their natural contexts. Youll also learn closely-related vocabulary together, which will help you remember and use a more extensive vocabulary. Each word in this...

Learning Hiragana and Katakana is a systematic and comprehensive Japanese workbook that is perfect for self-study or use in a classroom setting. Written Japanese combines three different types of characters: the Chinese characters known as kanji, and two Japanese sets of phonetic letters, hiragana and katakana, known collectively as kana,...

The method thats helped thousands in the U.S. and Japan learn Japanese successfully. The Japanese language has two primary writing systems, kanji characters—which are based on Chinese characters and hiragana and katakana—a mnemonic based alphabet. This handy book teaches you a new mnemonics-based method to read and write the 430...

An introduction to the Japanese language through common, everyday sentences. This bestselling Japanese textbook is a user-friendly guide for beginners designed for use either in a classroom or self-study. It adopts a very different approach from other Japanese books—teaching you the underlying sentence structures and patterns of Japanese along with...

Japanese Made Easy is a complete self-study guide that allows readers to begin using simple, everyday Japanese vocabulary and sentences from the first day! This handy resource features: Practical exercises to teach you the 30 most common Japanese sentence patternsNotes on the key points of Japanese grammar, sentence structure and...