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  An invaluable reference companion that gives guidance on English language, with help on spelling, grammar and usage. Helpful for formal communication, email and letter writing, with practical guidance on usage, style, sentence construction, writing and composing letters.

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  Don’t Learn Italian The Wrong Way! 
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  This easy and highly effective structure, will hijack your learning curve effectively as you will learn the Italian language in the same way you learned your native language as a child. 
  If you think about it, you learned your native language by listening to your parents communicating. You had no clue what grammar was, and yet you learned rapidly! And the words you learned first, were the ones your parents used most frequently. 
  By following the same logical principle you will learn the Italian language fast and in an easy manner. 
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  From the literary agent and author of the bestselling The First Five Pages, comes a groundbreaking new book on plot development 
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  A lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead languageFrom the acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, a personal and passionate look at the Latin language: its history, its authors, its essential role in education, and its enduring impact on modern life—whether we call it "dead" or not. 
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