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Writing Conversational Korean

200 Korean Writing Prompts

by Katarina Pollock, Chelsea Guerra ...

Series Book 1 - Writing Conversational Korean
ANSWER OVER 200 WRITING PROMPTSWriting Conversational Korean: Book One is designed to help the intermediate or advanced Korean learner practice their conversational writing skills by answering writing prompts over four themed chapters: experiences, abilities, habits, and travel. Answer over 200 writing prompts, including: "물건을 도둑 맞아 본 적이 있어요?" (Have you ever had something stolen?).Each page of ... Read more

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ANSWER OVER 200 WRITING PROMPTSWriting Conversational Korean: Book One is designed to help the intermediate or advanced Korean learner practice their conversational writing skills by answering writing prompts over four themed chapters: experiences, abilities, habits, and travel. Answer over 200 writing prompts, including: "물건을 도둑 맞아 본 적이 있어요?" (Have you ever had something stolen?).Each page of
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Impolite Periodicals

Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century

by Emrys D. Jones, Adam James Smith, Katarina Stenke, Anthony Pollock, Jennifer Batt, Claire Knowles, Richard Squibbs, Jennifer Buckley0, Laura Davies1, Amélie Junqua2, Charlotte Roberts3, Manushag Powell4 ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period’s own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodicals such as Addison and Steele’s popular The Spectator, and a fuller sense of their value within ... Read more

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Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period’s own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodicals such as Addison and Steele’s popular The Spectator, and a fuller sense of their value within
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Esl (English As A Second Lang)

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This guide was created to accompany ESL courses. This guide includes the basics of English in a simple, easy-to-use format. ... Read more

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This guide was created to accompany ESL courses. This guide includes the basics of English in a simple, easy-to-use format.
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The Language Wars

A History of Proper English

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"Chock-full of historical and literary references . . . a fascinating, eye-opening look at the evolution of the English language." ― The Huffington PostThe English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values—morality, politics, and class.The Language Wars examines the present state of ... Read more

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"Chock-full of historical and literary references . . . a fascinating, eye-opening look at the evolution of the English language." ― The Huffington PostThe English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values—morality, politics, and class.The Language Wars examines the present state of
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Languages Fast and Easy ~ Mandarin

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2nd edition of our popular Manadarin course - improved! Remember trying to learn a language at school? Remember trying to get your head around conjugating verbs? Past tense, present tense, present participle, imperfect subjunctive? Yes, that's right, it was all mind numbing. Language is not about perfect grammar. Language is about communication. This edition includes a comprehensive phrasebook ... Read more

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2nd edition of our popular Manadarin course - improved! Remember trying to learn a language at school? Remember trying to get your head around conjugating verbs? Past tense, present tense, present participle, imperfect subjunctive? Yes, that's right, it was all mind numbing. Language is not about perfect grammar. Language is about communication. This edition includes a comprehensive phrasebook
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Defining the World

The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

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"[A] marvelous account" of Johnson's towering achievement, nearly a decade of labor and linguistic fact-finding, presented by "a buoyant, zestful writer" ( The Boston Globe).By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath ... Read more

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"[A] marvelous account" of Johnson's towering achievement, nearly a decade of labor and linguistic fact-finding, presented by "a buoyant, zestful writer" ( The Boston Globe).By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath
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The Misadventures of Zhou Haisheng

Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Breakthrough Level

by John Pasden, Jared Turner ...

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Zhou Haisheng is a fun-loving and determined young boy whose life revolves around school and his family’s Chinese restaurant. Always well-intentioned, he finds ways to help out his hard-working parents with the family business. Whether it's inventing his own noodle recipe, delivering the wrong order to a customer, or resorting to extremes when a competing noodle shop opens across the street, Zhou ... Read more

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The Rise Of The Novel

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This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt's landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time.In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers -- Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding -- invented an entirely new genre of ... Read more

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This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt's landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time.In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers -- Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding -- invented an entirely new genre of
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Cruelty & Laughter

Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

by Simon Dickie ...

Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental—the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility, Dickie uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor that forces us to recognize just how ... Read more

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Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental—the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility, Dickie uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor that forces us to recognize just how
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Short Stories in Korean for Intermediate Learners

Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Korean the fun way!

by Olly Richards ...

Series series Readers
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Korean."Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller ... Read more

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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Korean."Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller
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Haitian Creole Phrasebook: Essential Expressions for Communicating in Haiti

by Jowel C. Laguerre, Cecile Accilien ...

The essential terms you need to communicate with the nation’s 8-plus million Haitian Creole speakersIf you are travelling to Haiti to help with the relief effort or to aid in its rebuilding, Haitian Creole Phrasebook is your must-have resource. In addition to featuring content specifically related to relief and rebuilding, this book also covers the basic topics such as introducing yourself, asking ... Read more

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The essential terms you need to communicate with the nation’s 8-plus million Haitian Creole speakersIf you are travelling to Haiti to help with the relief effort or to aid in its rebuilding, Haitian Creole Phrasebook is your must-have resource. In addition to featuring content specifically related to relief and rebuilding, this book also covers the basic topics such as introducing yourself, asking
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The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... Read more

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In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of
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