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With our earliest utterances, we announce ourselves—and are recognized—as persons ready for social life. With our final ones, we mark where others must release us to death's embrace. In Bye Bye I Love You, linguist and author Michael Erard explores these phenomena, commonly called "first words" and "last words," uncovering their cultural, historical, and biological entanglements and honoring their deep private significance. Erard draws from personal, historical, and anthropological sources to provide a sense of the breadth of beliefs and practices about these phenomena across eras, religions, and cultures around the world. What do babies' first words have in common? How do people really communicate at the end of life? In the first half of the book, Erard tells the story of first words in human development and evolution, and how the attention to children's early language—a modern phenomenon—arose. In the second half, he provides a groundbreaking overview of language at the end of life and the cultural conventions that surround it. Throughout he reveals the many parallels and asymmetries between first and last words and asks whether we might be able to use a linguistic understanding of end of life to discover what we truly want.Show book
Struggling as an Author? Do you have an amazing story in mind, but you can’t get it down on paper? You’ve got the idea and the characters but soon run out of steam? Perhaps you are a beginner and need help putting it all together. Whatever your reason, this book helps to unlock the secrets of novel writing in simple-to-follow ways that will bring significant results fast. Tips to Write Engrossing Page-Turners ”How to Write a Novel: Step-by-Step” provides a breakdown of essential aspects of writing Romance, Fantasy and Mystery novels and unveils crucial tips and tricks that will help flesh-out the characters in your book. Contents Summary Each section is summarized with a series of short questions to help inspire deeper reflection. These are: THE OUTLINE – how to refine major schemes & subplots that make sense to the reader & also your protagonist. THE SETTING – the art of crafting a sense of place & how to work with multiple locations & time-periods. POINT OF VIEW – helping you to form the best character perspectives for your story. CHARACTERS – the best way to choose your central character to drive the story forward & one in whom your audience will discover a gripping read. CONFLICT – how & when to use struggle to keep the reader engaged. ADDITIONAL TIPS – A final section that motivates the author to think differently to engage emotion & lose the reader in the heart of the story. Marsh helps an author to think outside of the box when faced with over-used clichés, and to deal with the pressures of deadlines and expectations. Order Now!Show book
The complete method. 300 essential words and phrases, 140 common expressions, the 100 most common verbs, 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
Learn Conversational Italian Vol. 1 is an audio course for beginners or for anyone who struggles with becoming fluent in Italian. The focus of this course is to practice speaking conversational Italian from the very first lesson. The course is divided into 30 lessons and six review lessons. Each lesson contains useful everyday phrases related to a specific topic. Based on techniques and strategies that make language learners succeed: Learn in short bursts every day. Each lesson takes about 10-15 minutes to complete. Learn in context. Isolated words or random sentences won’t get you far. By learning phrases related to a specific topic or situation you will see much better results. Focus on high-frequency words. Starting with the most frequently used words will boost your comprehension and communication in your target language. Review the material. Repeating the phrases at certain specified intervals is a powerful technique to help your memory absorb and recall what you have learned. Listen to native speakers. All the phrases are translated and spoken by native speakers.Show book
With the rapidly increasing Spanish-speaking workforce, knowing Spanish has become crucial in human resources. Learning Spanish will empower you to meet the needs of the growing number of Spanish-speaking employees and will help you in fulfilling your career goals. If you are in the human-resources field and need to make yourself understood with Spanish-speaking employees and applicants, Spanish for Human Resources will provide you with the essential phrases to meet your needs. Learn the words and phrases that relate to the most commonly encountered situations in human resources without tedious grammar lessons. Topics covered: The Application Process Interviewing Applicants Explaining Benefits General Instructions Praising Employees Handling Problems Explaining Policies And Much More! ©2006 Stacey Kammerman; (P)2006 Stacey KammermanShow book
What is the secret to being a captivating and credible speaker? Never be boring! If you are boring, people will not listen. The central message and focus of PowerSpeak is the importance of engaging, stimulating, and maintaining an audience's attention.This book focuses on the elements of speaking effectively from a design and a delivery perspective. Dorothy Leeds isolates these essential elements to assure that any speaker can gain and keep the audience's attention. She focuses on the trouble spots of any presentation and the six major faults speakers make.This book also includes tips on the following:Breaking the fear barrier.Ten steps that guarantee a complete presentation.How to avoid weak, passive language and make humor your ally.Voice and speech exercises.How to handle the Q & A portion of a presentation.How to develop your own style and project positive body language.How to incorporate (or not incorporate) new technology into presentations.Show book
