Publisher: Dylan Michael Saccoccio
An exploration of etymology, magick, occult knowledge, the sacred science, and the Language of the Birds.
Fast – Easy – EffectiveMy trained native Spanish speakers and I can show you how to speak Spanish faster and easier than you ever thought possible, from any location, and during your otherwise wasted down time with my #1 rated Bite-Sized Spanish audio program. 10 Minutes a Day Is All You NeedWith this fast and easy-to-use audio program, you begin immediately to speak authentic Spanish in just 10 minutes a day, using your otherwise wasted down time. Time you spend waiting in traffic, on trains, for the dentist, from any location! And 10 minutes a day is all you need! Here’s the SecretWith Bite-Sized Spanish, you simply learn to speak easy but powerful bite-sized pieces of your new language during your daily down time. A professional American instructor explains everything to you in English, while trained native speakers teach you Spanish the way it’s really spoken. You then learn how to put the tiny pieces together into easy but powerful and original Spanish sentences that you easily speak and the natives understand!Immediately use English to speak Spanish without guessing at meaningsLearn from an expert American Instructor with real native Spanish speaking assistantsLearn high frequency words and phrases that are the most common and easy to useUse your otherwise wasted down time to learn to speak real Spanish in just 10 minutes a dayCreate your own original sentences in Spanish in the first ten minutes of instruction!No grammar – Learn Spanish naturally like you learned English as a child! Learn While Driving, at the Gym, From Any LocationYou don’t need a computer, an hour or even a half hour of free time. You learn Spanish while waiting or while on the run, from any location, for pennies a day, one easy bite at a time. Remember. Just 10 minutes a day from any location will do the trick.Show book
A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them.The word bitch conjures many images for many people, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn’t refer to gender at all — it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy — which simply meant housewife — or slut, which meant an untidy person and was also used to describe men. These words are just a few among history’s many English slurs hurled at women.Amanda Montell, reporter and feminist linguist, deconstructs language — from insults and cursing, gossip, and catcalling to grammar and pronunciation patterns — to reveal the ways it has been used for centuries to keep women and other marginalized genders from power.Ever wonder why so many people are annoyed when women talk with vocal fry or use the word like as a filler? Or why certain gender-neutral terms stick and others don’t? Or where stereotypes of how women and men speak come from in the first place?Montell effortlessly moves between history, science, and popular culture to explore these questions and more — and how we can use the answers to effect real social change. Montell’s irresistible humor shines through, making linguistics not only approachable, but both downright hilarious and profound, demonstrated in chapters such as:"Slutty Skanks and Nasty Dykes: A Comprehensive List of Gendered Insults""How to Embarrass the Shit out of People Who Try to Correct Your Grammar""F--k it: An Ode to Cursing While Female""Cyclops, Panty Puppet, Bald Headed Bastard and 100+ Other Things to Call Your Genitalia"Montell effortlessly moves between history and popular culture to explore these questions and more. Wordslut gets to the heart of our language, marvels at its elasticity, and sheds much-needed light into the biases that shadow women in our culture and our consciousness.Show book
I am learning Punjabi : 300 essential words and phrases, 140 common expressions, the 100 most common verbs, the 1000 essential words. Punjabi is a language spoken in Punjab (India and Pakistan) by about 100 million speakers. How to learn a language differently ? Today, language learning is revolutionizing : 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, essential phrases, and a vocabulary list. 20% of the words are used 80% of the time. The end goal is to get a sufficient level in one language to be able to hold simple conversations, to be able to understand simple exchanges, deal with with everyday life and start exploring the new culture that opens up to you.Show book
Discovering Characters is like investigating a house we want to buy. No, I’m serious. Characters have an exterior façade that we comment upon as we drive past. Through the windows we catch glimpses of interior lives. As writers, we want to capture individual characters and save them from the cookie-cutter boxy stereotypes. We delve into their interior rooms for glimpses of weighty baggage. Finding their backstory is a search through attics and cellars, storage closets and garages. Characters hide their pain and fears, painting them over and adding distracting artwork. Discovering Characters helps writers find the exteriors and interiors, public and private. We’ll dig around the foundations and climb to the roof. We’ll explore the open rooms and the storage closets. We’ll peek into rooms inhabited by such characters as diverse as Elizabeth and Darcy, the Iron Man, Aragorn and Frodo, Travis McGee, Medea, Macbeth, and Nanny McPhee. Five areas comprise this guidebook. 1. Starting Points ~ templates and character interviews 2. Classifications ~ common and uncommon ways to discover characters 3. Relationships ~ couples, teams, allies, enemies, mentors, etc. 4. Special Touches ~ progressions, transgressions, and transitions for character arcs 5. Significant Lists ~ archetypal characters and much more Discovering Characters, with 44,000-plus words, is the second book in the Discovering set, part of the Think like a Pro Writer series for writers new to the game as well as those wanting to up their game. Writer M.A. Lee has been indie-publishing fiction and non-fiction since 2015. She has over 50 books published under her pseudonyms. Visit www.writersinkbooks.com to discover more information.Show book
The 1000 essential words. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening, combined with words, essential phrases, and a vocabulary list. 20% of the words are used 80% of the time. The end goal is to get a sufficient level in one language to be able to hold simple conversations, to be able to understand simple exchanges, deal with with everyday life and start exploring the new culture that opens up to you.Show book
Top 25 Questions You Need to Know Going to Brazil and looking to make friends? Don't leave home without the Top 25 Portuguese Questions You Need to Know! In this powerful audiobook, you'll master responses to all the basic questions, from "What's your name?" to "Where are you from?" and more. Built into every lesson you'll find opportunities for extensive practice, self-review, and self-evaluation. By the end of the audiobook, you'll not only be answering these questions, but asking them yourself! If you haven't studied Portuguese but want to be well prepared for simple social situations, this is the audiobook for you. Why are the audio lessons so effective?Short and to the pointTwenty five 8-minute lessons make them the perfect lengthSyllable-by-syllable breakdown of each word and phrase so that you can say every word and phrase instantlyRepeat after the professional teacher section so that you can practice proper pronunciationQuick cultural tips in each lesson will help you navigate your way even betterAbove all, fun and relaxed approach to grasping a lot of information quickly and easily You see, unlike other audiobooks, we actually teach Portuguese and Brazilian culture. With each lesson, you will master a frequently asked question in daily conversation, and key vocabulary. This is a complete lesson taught by a professional, bi-lingual teacher! This is NOT a vocabulary audiobook with just words and their translations. These 25 short and effective audio lessons will allow you to:Speak Portuguese within minutes of your first lessonUnderstand Brazilian culture, customs, and peopleAsk and answer the 25 most frequently asked questionsPerfect your Portuguese pronunciation with built in prompts and exercises aimed at getting you speaking Start speaking Portuguese now!Show book
