Learn 10,000 Spanish Words Instantly: The Cognate Method Workbook shows you how to unlock Spanish vocabulary through cognates—English and Spanish words that share similar spellings and meanings. Instead of memorizing endless word lists, you’ll learn simple, repeatable patterns that can help you recognize and understand entire families of Spanish words.

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Mandarin Chinese. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively...

Meet the kappa. Green, about the size of a small child, with a shell on its back and a dish of water balanced on its head. It turns up in warnings about swimming in rivers, in the name of a sushi roll, and in a proverb about how even an expert can come unstuck. This first volume of Learn Japanese with Yokai uses the kappa to carry you through three readings in real Japanese. First, a guide to the creature itself. What a kappa looks like, where it lives, why it loves cucumbers, and why a Japanese speaker might call a strong swimmer a kappa.

Learn French naturally through short, engaging stories designed for English-speaking beginners. Listen to each story first in French, then hear the English translation to confirm your understanding, followed by the French story once more to reinforce what you have learned. Each story introduces useful vocabulary, everyday expressions, and common sentence patterns in a clear, memorable context.

Meet the tengu. Long nose, red face, the robes of a mountain ascetic, and a fan that raises a great wind. He guards the deep mountains, flies, disappears under a straw cloak, and taught the ninja everything they know. His name is also what a Japanese speaker reaches for when someone has grown too pleased with himself. This second volume of Learn Japanese with Yokai. First, a guide to the creature himself. What a tengu looks like, the mountains he lives in, the powers he is said to have, and the scroll he hands a student who finishes training.

Hikoichi is back. If you listened to Volume One, you already know him: the clever young man whose quick thinking always leaves somebody else standing there scratching their head. This volume brings three more tales, and in the last of them Hikoichi steps aside for a story of a very different kind. First, a shattered vase and a village chieftain who cannot find the culprit, until Hikoichi proposes a strange little test. Then a shape-shifting tanuki who has been tormenting the whole village and makes the mistake of trying his tricks on Hikoichi.

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE FOR BEGINNERS is a comprehensive two-volume textbook designed to help you learn to speak, read and write in Russian. It is available in three formats: a printed book, an e-book and an audiobook. The printed book and the e-book versions focus on learning to read and write in Russian, while the audiobook is an excellent resource for improving listening comprehension and learning correct pronunciation. For the best learning experience, we recommend using the printed book or the e-book in combination with the audiobook.

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE FOR BEGINNERS is a comprehensive two-volume textbook designed to help you learn to speak, read and write in Russian. It is available in three formats: a printed book, an e-book and an audiobook. The printed book and the e-book versions focus on learning to read and write in Russian, while the audiobook is an excellent resource for improving listening comprehension and learning correct pronunciation. For the best learning experience, we recommend using the printed book in combination with the audiobook.

This comprehensive guide is specifically designed for English speakers who want to learn Arabic the right way starting from the very first stroke of the pen and building step by step until you are forming sentences and navigating real-life situations with confidence. Unlike other books that rush...

Master French from the Ground Up: Your Complete Guide to Speaking, Reading, and Writing with Confidence Whether you are a complete beginner or someone looking to finally "get" the grammar, This Audiobook is the all-in-one resource you have been waiting for. This comprehensive guide takes you by...

Learn Spanish naturally through short, engaging stories designed to make reading practice feel manageable and rewarding. Each story is presented first in Spanish and then in English, allowing you to test your understanding from context before checking the meaning and details in the translation.

Meet Chiyo-ni. A morning glory has wound itself around her well bucket overnight. Rather than tear it off, she goes next door to borrow water. That single act, and the seventeen sounds she wrote about it, made her one of the most loved poets Japan has ever produced. Fukuda Chiyo-ni was born in 1703, widowed young, and became a Buddhist nun in her fifties. She wrote right up to her death poem at seventy-three. Her haiku are small, kind, and often funny, and they are written in the real Japanese of three hundred years ago. This audiobook teaches you twenty-five of them, whole.

Learn German naturally through short, easy-to-follow stories. Each story is presented first in German, then in English, and finally once more in German, helping you check your understanding and recognize more words, expressions, and sentence patterns on the second listen. Everyday situations...

Learn Brazilian Portuguese naturally through 23 short, everyday stories — a lost phone at a bus stop, a missing cake, a rained-out picnic, a first day at the gym. Each story plays first in Portuguese, then in English, then once more in Portuguese, so you check your understanding on the first...

Learn Italian naturally through 23 short, everyday stories — a lost phone at a bus stop, a missing cake, a rained-out picnic, a first day at the gym. Each story plays first in Italian, then in English, then once more in Italian, so you check your understanding on the first pass and catch more...