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  Dutch - Learn Dutch with These...

  Vincent Noot

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  Five hundred phrases that will help you learn the language! 
  Even though languages contain thousands of words and phrases, at least you can get started by memorizing some of these common sentences and expressions. It's a fun, easy travel guide with simple things people say in everyday situations. As a native speaker, I know exactly what a Dutch person would say, so you can consider yourself safe to be taught correctly. Chapters include:Common questions.Conversation related to work, religion, and hobbiesAll kinds of small talkExplaining personal dataMoney matters, the weather, and taking picturesWhat to say in case of an emergencyAsking directionsAnd much more! 
  So are you looking for a quick, simple, easy-to-use language guide? Then why not pick up this one and find your way in a foreign country or get some of the basics down with these short sentences?

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  The Sayings of Lao-Tzu - An...

  Lao Tzu, Lionel Giles (translator)

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  A prose translation of the Tao that focuses on bringing out the subtlety and depth of the classic Way.Translations of the famous Way and Virtue (Dao De Jing/Tao Te Ching) focus on the poetics and depth of the original. In contrast, Giles’ translation focuses on telling stories with the text, drawing out the nuances in a way that is more familiar to Western audiences from philosophical and religious texts.“Few can help being struck by the similarity of tone between the sayings of Lao Tzu and the Gospel enunciated six centuries later by the Prince of Peace. There are two famous utterances in particular which secure to Lao Tzu the glory of having anticipated the lofty morality of the Sermon on the Mount. The cavilers who would rank the Golden Rule of Confucius below that of Christ will find it hard to get over the fact that Lao Tzu said, "Requite injury with kindness," and "To the not-good I would be good in order to make them good." It was a hundred and fifty years later that Plato reached the same conclusion in the first book of the Republic.It is interesting to observe certain points of contact between Lao Tzu and the early Greek philosophers. He may be compared both with Parmenides, who disparaged sense-knowledge and taught the existence of the One as opposed to the Many, and with Heraclitus, whose theory of the identity of contraries recalls some of our Sage's paradoxes. But it is when we come to Plato that the most striking parallels occur. It has not escaped notice that something like the Platonic doctrine of ideas is discoverable in the "forms" which Lao Tzu conceives as residing in Tao. But, so far as I know, no one has yet pointed out what a close likeness Tao itself bears to that curious abstraction which Plato calls the Idea of the Good.”

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  Russian for travelling - an...

  Anna Makarenko, Tomas Dvoracek

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  Thank you for your interest in the audiocourse Learn Russian for Travelling by Audioacademyeu. The course is designed for beginners and slightly advanced learners and focuses on words and phrases you can use when travelling .The course is based on contextual learning, which means that you will not only learn words, but also sentences in which you can use the words you have learned. In this course you will find a total of 600 words and practical sentences. If you are an absolut beginner, you will without a doubt appreciate a minicourse of the Russian pronunciation. The individual lessons are divided into the topics of travelling by car, travelling by plane, travel destinations, in a hotel, in a restaurant,on a trip,   shopping and chatting.  Listening to this course you can combine the pleasant with the useful - you will refresh your holiday vocabulary and revise your Russian in general at the same time.What is the best way to work with the course? Choose the lesson you want to start with. Each lesson contains six tracks. First,  familiarize yourself with the actual vocabulary (tracks 1 and 2). In order to get a better grip over the new expressions  in Russian, in track one you hear the  Russian word twice. Next, you have a  word  followed by a contextual sentence, again in both translation options (tracks 3 and 4).  Then you move on to complete sentences (tracks 5 and 6). ). Again, in track 5, you will hear the sentence in Russian twice. Once you have mastered translating sentences from English into Russian (lesson 6) in the time gap before the English translation, you have won. The words alone will help you in understanding the meaning, but using the mastered complete sentences will help you communicate much better.There is a script to this course available for free download at www.audioacademyeu.eu which will make your activities with the course much more effective. In its  introduction, you will find a learning guide along with helpful tips on how to make the lessons more effective and a lesson plan for you to record your learning progress. The script is divided thematically into three parts.  In the first part you will find a written version of the audio tracks you will listen to.  In the second part you will find the writing tests. For each lesson there is one test of vocabulary and one test of sentences. The key to both tests is available right after the tests too In the third part of the script you will find double-sided flashcards that you can cut out with scissors and practice even when you can't or don't want to listen. The course is narrated by native speakers - Jeff Short in English, Anna Makarenko and Alexander Podolkhov in Russian.

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  The Art of Subtext - Beyond Plot

  Charles Baxter

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  The Art Of series, edited by Charles Baxter, is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on an important craft issue. Each book investigates an aspect of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present. The books in The Art Of series are not strictly manuals, but serve readers and writers by illuminating aspects of the craft of writing that people think they already know but don't really know.The first book in The Art Of series of books on the craft of writing, fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. As Baxter notes in one essay, "A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen."Using an array of examples from Melville and Dostoyevsky to contemporary writers Paula Fox, Edward P. Jones, and Lorrie Moore, Baxter explains how fiction writers create those visible and invisible details, how what is displayed evokes what is not displayed.

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  Worshiping on the Way - The...

  Jonathan Landry Cruse

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  “Drink deeply from this stream that flows from the well of Scripture, that the Lord might make you more like Christ.” In Worshiping on the Way, Pastor Jonathan Cruse explains how the Psalms of Ascents (Psalms 120–134) were divinely inspired to grow and sustain Israel in their journey to Jerusalem. Today, these same songs give the Christian church a glimpse of the new Jerusalem and draw our hearts heavenward. Explore these Psalms to enrich your corporate worship during our earthly pilgrimage to the heavenly Mount Zion.

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  Spanish Short Stories for...

  Just Fluency

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  The ANTI-Boring way to start communicating in Spanish in the next 30 days without memorizing words from a boring dictionary... 
  How do tons of people already learn several languages and have fun doing so? 
  While you’re probably hustling your way through boring dictionaries or old-school language learning books (and still no hablas español?), 
  There are tons of people who already speak several languages and have fun while learning them. 
  So what are they doing differently to learn multiple languages without hassle and have fun? 
  Well, they learned the engaging language learning formula from the "Spanish Short Stories for Beginners," including:How to spend less than 1 hour per day learning the language while still getting results and having fun doing soTurning the question of IF you will learn Spanish into WHEN you will become fluent in SpanishInstructions on how to use the book efficiently and apply a growth mindset to become consistent from day oneTips and tricks to remember much faster using proven memory techniquesThirty engaging stories written in Spanish and set in Latin America that showcase local culture, allowing you to enjoy the readingA summary of each story in Spanish and English to ensure you understand what you've readA list of frequently used words from the text to repeat and learn fasterShort quizzes to check your comprehension, with answers to track your progressBuy this now to start communicating in Spanish effortlessly within the next 30 days, without getting bored for a single moment!

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