Language Education

Real French people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn natural spoken French in the process.

The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success. Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat!...

Instead of just reading about Thai, you learn through everyday conversations between native speakers. In each lesson, you hear a practical dialogue. Then, our teachers translate and explain every word—and you understand it all within minutes.

Learn Conversational Tagalog (Filipino) Vol. 1 is an audio course for beginners or for anyone who struggles with becoming fluent in Tagalog. The focus of this course is to practice speaking conversational Tagalog from the very first lesson. The course is divided into 30 lessons: 6 review lessons and 3 listening comprehension lessons. Each lesson contains useful everyday phrases related to a specific topic.

This audiobook teaches Arabic in a natural and engaging way through simple bilingual short stories designed for English-speaking learners. Each story presents everyday situations, dialogues, and observations that place the vocabulary and sentence patterns of Modern Standard Arabic into a clear and familiar context. By listening to the Arabic passages and then hearing the English translation, learners can compare meaning, grammar, and common expressions directly, developing an intuitive sense of how the language works.

Want to learn to speak authentic French quickly and easily and have fun in the process? Designed to teach you to speak French while on the go, Power French Accelerated is a refreshingly intense, upbeat and positive 8 hour audio language program whose 144 study units establish a challenging pace and friendly tone that are designed to keep you constantly motivated and learning to speak and understand real spoken French at optimal speed.

Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them. Here are 1001 terms everyone needs, whether it's the best kind of hug (CWTCH), the relief found in swearing (LALOCHEZIA), or the ability to endure till the end (PERTOLERANCE).

30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary quickly became a bestseller in its category back in 2015. Now, in this updated and revised edition—which now contains the 700 most important words you need to master—you'll quickly learn why this title has been such a positive impact in the personal and professional lives of tens of thousands in the English-speaking world.

Sure, you can learn English with a language course or a textbook just fine, and climb up the ranks in terms of your grasp of the language....but are you sure you can talk like a native? For starters, many expressions used by fluent speakers of English can’t exactly be learned in a book, and it can be frustrating to realize that your formal learning hasn’t been enough to teach you the way people talk in real life. Sometimes, it’s all about having the right tools at your disposal...and this is where The Great Book of American Idioms comes in!

"I am learning Slovak": 300 essential words and phrases, 140 common expressions, the 100 most common verbs, the 1000 essential words. Slovak is spoken by about 6 million people, 5 million of whom live in Slovakia. How to learn a language differently? Today, language learning is revolutionized: you do not have to go to traditional language classes anymore. Our learning method: a selection of hundreds of phrases and essential words. You listen to them, you repeat them, and you speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening, combined with words.

Ce recueil d’histoires courtes propose une manière simple et motivante d’apprendre l’anglais à partir de situations réelles du quotidien. Plutôt que de s’appuyer sur des listes de vocabulaire ou des règles compliquées, il offre une immersion progressive dans une série de récits clairs, vivants et accessibles. Chaque histoire met en scène un moment marquant : une rencontre inattendue, une découverte culturelle, une discussion dans un café, un trajet en bus, un marché animé ou encore un instant de réflexion paisible.

This audiobook is built on a powerful truth: Spanish and English share thousands of cognates—words that look similar, sound similar, and mean the same thing. By learning how these words work, you can rapidly expand your Spanish vocabulary without memorizing endless lists.

Apprenez les expressions les plus importantes en italien pour vos vacances ou votre voyage d'affaires. Vous pouvez écouter ce cours dans le train, au travail ou en vous endormant, pour vous aider à apprendre toutes les phrases importantes dont vous aurez besoin pendant vos voyages. Pratiquez pendant 20 minutes par jour et en peu de temps, vous parlerez bien italien - que ce soit dans un hôtel ou un restaurant, ou dans un magasin.

Il y a plusieurs façons de s'immerger dans une langue anglais: prendre des cours anglais, regarder des films ou des séries télévisées avec sous-titres anglais, suivre des cours en ligne, rejoindre un groupe, anglophone, voyager dans un pays, lire des livres.... Ce livre vous propose un moyen simple, mais efficace d'apprendre l’anglais à travers des histoires pour débutants (niveaux A1 et A2).

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Apprenez les mots et les expressions les plus importants pour la vie quotidienne et les voyages grâce au cours audio " L'espagnol d'Amérique latine pour tous ". Plus de 1300 mots et expressions sont arrangés par thèmes, résumés en chapitres et transmettent de façon authentique les bases fondamentales de la langue. Ainsi, vous pouvez vous concentrer sur l’apprentissage des mots et expressions relatifs à certains sujets comme "les bases", "voyage", "banque", ou "moyens de communication".

One learner broke his years-long French plateau in 10 weeks with SmartFrench, speaking naturally on his first trip to France. Course #3 trains real conversations, imitating diplomats, chefs, and models, while Course #4 accelerates fluency. Speak authentic French confidently—private-level coaching, not an app.

The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains: How you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world (hint: Seattle) connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what precisely the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.

Ever dream of writing a book, article, poem, or play that means something to you—and maybe to someone else as well? Do you have an idea you're ready to get down on paper? In Creative Writing For Dummies, you'll learn how to unleash your creative side and become a confident and productive writer.

Start speaking French in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Ultimate Getting Started with French Box Set, a completely new way to learn French with ease! Ultimate Getting Started with French Box Set will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your French friends.

Introducing Learn Vietnamese Bundle: The Complete Beginner to Advanced Course (Levels 1-5). This complete audiobook bundle is a fast, fun, and easy way to pick up Vietnamese, regardless of your age or learning experience.