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  Journey to the West

  Janet Hardy-Gould

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  'Tripitaka, can you go to the west for me – and for Buddha?' When the holy woman Guanyin asks the young Chinese monk Tripitaka to bring some holy writings back from India, he says 'yes'. But how can he travel across rivers, and fight terrible monsters and demons, on his long journey? He needs three strong helpers – Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy – to do that! But where do they come from? Do they always help? And can they bring the holy writings home again? Read this old Chinese story, and find out.

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  Babel - Around the World in...

  Gaston Dorren

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  “Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don’t have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it’s just so much fun to read.” —NPR 
   
  English is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn’t speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s people in their mother tongues, you’d need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In Babel, he sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Whisking readers along on a delightful journey, he traces how these languages rose to greatness while others fell away, and shows how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues.  
   
  Whether showcasing tongue-tying phonetics, elegant but complicated writing scripts, or mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs that seem as self-evident to those born into it as they are surprising to outsiders. Babel reveals why modern Turks can’t read books that are a mere 75 years old, what it means in practice for Russian and English to be relatives, and how Japanese developed separate “dialects” for men and women. Dorren also shares his experiences studying Vietnamese in Hanoi, debunks ten myths about Chinese characters, and discovers the region where Swahili became the lingua franca. Witty and utterly fascinating, Babel will change how you look at and listen to the world. 
   
  “Word nerds of every strain will enjoy this wildly entertaining linguistic study.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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  The Mathematical Journey of a...

  Sarah Kartchner Clark

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  Three narrators share a delightful tale of a young boy and his friend who come to appreciate the role math plays in their lives as they take the journey of a lifetime. During their journey, they must use their math skills to solve problems. Without math, their incredible journey would not be possible. The mathematical connection is understanding and solving factorials.

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  uTalk Latvian

  Eurotalk Ltd

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  It's naturally easier to learn something when it's set to rhythmic music, so that is exactly what we've done. Simple words and phrases are set to a varied pattern of rhythms and music designed to help you learn and to keep you engaged so that you won't just switch off after five minutes. It will give you an easy road into starting to learn a completely new language.  If you just want a few simple words and phrases before going abroad, Rhythms is all you need. It covers absolute essentials such as how to greet people, basic directions, getting around, food and drink. You'll hear everything spoken by both a male and a female native speaker and there will be plenty of opportunity for you to test how well you're doing with the review stages built in at key points in each track.Rhythms can be used anytime, anywhere: listen in the car or on the train, walking the dog, doing housework or exercising at the gym. Absorbing a language couldn't be easier and uTalk Rhythms has over 120 different languages to choose from.

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  The King of the Golden River

  John Ruskin

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  The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
  
  libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. 
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  Learn Japanese - Level 8: Upper...

  Innovative Language Learning

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  Done with Intermediate Japanese? Take the challenge with the upper intermediate level as you get advanced.Welcome to Upper Intermediate Japanese: Volume 1. Speak with anyone, anywhere, in Japanese!Start speaking Japanese in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Upper Intermediate Japanese. Our native Japanese hosts break down all the sentences, grammar, and more in a simple, easily understandable way! Here are a few topics covered in this audiobook: Basic business-level conversations How to express opinions How to talk about the weather How to handle doctor appointments in Japanese Japanese cultural tips and more!This isn't stale textbook materialIt's fun, effective, and practical! You learn upper intermediate level Japanese conversation that you can use immediately!What you get in Upper Intermediate Japanese: More than 220 pages of Japanese learning material  Twenty-five Japanese lessons: dialog transcripts with translation, vocabulary, sample sentences and a grammar section Twenty-five audio lesson tracks  Twenty-five audio review tracks (practice new words and phrases) Twenty-five audio dialog tracks (read along while you listen)This book is the most powerful way to learn Japanese. Guaranteed.You get the two most powerful components of our language learning system: the audio lessons and lesson notes.Discover or rediscover how fun learning a language can be with the future of language learning.Buy this now, and start speaking Japanese instantly!Download the PDF and read along:https://bit.ly/33HxICH

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