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Advanced English words, phrases, expressions, idioms, and more. Jackie Bolen has 20 years of experience teaching ESL/EFL to students in South Korea and Canada. With her help, you'll improve your English vocabulary in no time at all!

STOP struggling with Italian that sounds nothing like real life. Apps teach you vocabulary. Textbooks teach you grammar rules. Neither teaches you how Italians actually talk. Speak Italian Fluently: The Learn Italian Like a MF Method fixes that. Developed by Valentina Romano — one of Rome's most in-demand Italian instructors — this immersive audio program rewires the way you learn. Instead of translating in your head, you train your ear and your mouth to work together until real Italian starts to feel natural.

This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native-American and African-American peoples throughout the hemisphere. Africans and Native Americans explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo, which no longer carry their original meanings.

What would it mean for your studies or career to be able to speak and write freely in English? How about understanding more of what you hear or read? These idioms and phrases in Advanced English Conversation Dialogues are designed to improve your English quickly and easily.

Stop studying Spanish. Start speaking it — real conversations, from your very first lesson. Most Spanish courses leave you able to conjugate a verb but frozen the moment a real person talks to you. They bury you in grammar rules or one country's slang — and almost none of it comes out of your mouth when it counts. This course is built backwards from the only goal that matters: actually talking to people.

What's the secret to speaking English better? It's mastery of those tricky idioms and phrases that are so common in English. And learning these idioms and phrases will not only help you speak better, it will help you understand Americans better. In this course, you'll join an American family as they go about their day-to-day lives. Along the way, you will master over 300 of today's most common English idioms and expressions!

The Global Citizen Vocabulary Mastery audiobooks are intentionally and judiciously structured for vocabulary definition and pronunciation learning, retention, and recall for individuals who are completely new to the language!

Stop trying to memorize Chinese as random phrases. Learn Mandarin as a system you can hear, use, and remember. Most beginner Chinese courses give you scattered pieces: a tone chart, a phrase list, a grammar rule, a dialogue that moves too fast, and a few vocabulary words you forget by the next day. This course is built differently. Learn Chinese is a complete 20-hour beginner Mandarin course for English-speaking adults.

Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or home or literature. Our senses of place, however, come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures. Wisdom Sits in Places, the first sustained study of places and place explores place, places, and what they mean to a particular group of people, the Western Apache in Arizona. For more than 30 years, Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names.

In the current volume, the author describes in detail the theory and nature of the principles and practices used in his approach to language teaching. He is not afraid to talk about some aspects of language learning and teaching, such as the development of lexical and grammatical accuracy, as well as the need for memorization and the development of memory, that have been increasingly omitted from the classroom as a result of the rise in popularity of theories that debase their significance but which are very important, especially if students are to reach the highest level of proficiency. He...

Let te reo Maori advocate and expert Scotty Morrison teach you the basics of the Maori language in easy 30-minute lessons - anywhere, anytime. Scotty's bestselling Maori Made Easy books and workbooks in print have already helped over 100,000 people on their journey to learn te reo Maori. Now...

Real fluency doesn’t come from grammar charts—it comes from hearing, repeating, and responding in rhythm. This system trains your ear and voice together—helping you absorb grammar naturally through dialogue and context instead of memorization. In this 3-in-1 bundle, you’ll learn ‘Street’ Arabic for everyday life, Formal Arabic for universal understanding, and essential grammar for dialogue—so you can move fluidly between both worlds.

Experience the New Testament as it was first heard - in clear, flowing English. Not verse by verse, but heart to heart. Translated from the ancient Aramaic—the language Yeshu’a spoke—this edition seeks to restore the natural rhythm and beauty of Scripture. Without chapter and verse divisions, the words move as they once did: living, intimate, and deeply personal Let these timeless truths draw you nearer to the heart of God—revealing His message not merely as words to study, but as life to be lived. Ancient words. Living faith. A story that still speaks. This modern English rendering...

What if the story of the Aztecs you were taught was never meant to be remembered? Beneath the concrete sprawl of modern Mexico City lies a buried world—one of floating gardens, sacred geometry, and a civilization that once rivaled the greatest empires of history. This is not the tale of savagery and sacrifice that filled your textbooks. This is the story of a people who built a city on water, mapped the stars, governed with law, and fed millions with ingenuity that still humbles modern science. The Aztec Empire You Were Never Taught is a sweeping, emotionally resonant journey into the ...

More Speak English Like an American brings you another 300+ idioms and expressions you need to know for everyday life and for business success! If you liked Speak English Like an American, you're going to love More Speak English Like an American! In More Speak English Like an American, you'll follow the story of an American business as its employees come up with new product ideas, travel to China, throw themselves into office romances, and have exciting adventures.

Unlock the vibrant and colorful world of French slang with the "French Slang Dictionary: Mastering Everyday French." Whether you're a language enthusiast, a student, a traveler, or simply curious about the informal expressions that make French so dynamic, this comprehensive guide is your ultimate resource. Features: Extensive Collection: Over 500 entries of the most commonly used French slang words and phrases, covering the entire alphabet from A to Z. Detailed Explanations: Each slang term comes with a clear English explanation to help you understand its meaning and context. Practical ...

A wild dive into the talk distinctive to the West, with lore that makes its true character, its many peoples, and its astonishing landscape come rousingly alive. Between “Aarigaa” and “zopilote” you’ll find keys to understanding not only cowmen but many Westerners neglected in previous dictionaries, including Native peoples, women, miners, Mormons, Hispanics, fur traders, French Canadians, Basques—all the carnival of human beings who lived and still thrive between Texas and Alaska. In their copious and colorful terms you’ll see the chief preoccupations of the Westerners of the...

If you've ever wondered about accents and how they shape the way you speak English, this book is for you. "Achieving A Fluent English Accent: An English Pronunciation Guide for Non-Native Speakers" dives deep into the intricacies of English pronunciation, helping you master the sounds and nuances of the language to help you sound like a native speaker.

Care to have a good command of spoken English? If you’re willing to, look no further. You’re in good hands now! As a matter of fact, listening comes on top of the list when it comes to mastering a second language (this is how we learned our first language in the first place). Thus, exposing ourselves to extended periods of audible language input can never be underestimated. Besides, if we’re keen to take our spoken English to the next level, we are expected to focus on the language as a whole. In other words, it pays to study the grammar, the vocabulary, the phrasal verbs, the idioms ...

You know your job. You know your English is "good enough" for reports and emails. So why do you freeze when a colleague asks, "How was your weekend?" For millions of non-native professionals, the hardest part of English is not the meeting. It is the two minutes before the meeting starts. The coffee break. The elevator ride with your manager. The networking event where everyone seems to know exactly what to say — except you. This book fixes that. English Small Talk & Networking for Non-Native Speakers gives you the exact phrases, questions, and conversation strategies that native speakers ...