#thai #language #translation #travel #linguistics #foreignlanguage

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

How to Express 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases!

It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication!

Do you want to speak simple Thai but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting Thailand for a short time and want a Thai phrase book to help you communicate? If so, this Thai phrasebook is for you--it's the easiest and quickest way to learn Thai. It's tiny 0.4 x 4.1 x 5.9 inches size makes it incredibly convenient to travel with but without losing the essential content for communication.

The idea of Instant Thai is simple--learn 100 words and phrases and say 1,000 things. The trick is knowing which 100 words to learn, but the authors Stuart Robson and Prateep Changchit have solved the problem, choosing only those words you'll hear again and again. Even with a vocabulary this small, you'll be surprised how quickly and fluently you too can communicate in the Thai language. It also has an English-Thai wordlist, arranged alphabetically. At the end of the book are useful appendices for telling the time, kinship terms, some Thai proverbs, and emergency expressions. Here's a sample of what you'll be able to do with this Thai phrasebook:
 * Meet people.
 * Go shopping.
 * Ask directions.
 * Ride the subway.
 * Order food and drinks.
 * And much more.

Instant Thai

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#Greek #language #dictionary #travel #Berlitz #translations #linguistics

Soon, "It's Greek to me" will have new meaning. This phrase book is an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, color-coded guide to the Greek language. Greek letters and their English equivalent are represented, allowing you to communicate with confidence and travel with ease! The Berlitz phrase book is the unparalleled market leader in its category.

Greek Phrase Book

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Understanding the New Rules of Language

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

Because Internet

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Good condition - see photos. $15+ = free shipping. #nonfiction #paperback   #linguistics #yiddish #language #bestseller

New York

Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods

A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness, and complexity, Yiddish has proven incredibly useful and durable. Its wonderful phrases and idioms impeccably reflect the mind-set that has enabled the Jews of Europe to survive a millennium of unrelenting persecution . . . and enables them to kvetch about it! Michael Wex—professor, scholar, translator, novelist, and performer—takes a serious yet unceasingly fun and funny look at this remarkable kvetch-full tongue that has both shaped and has been shaped by those who speak it. Featuring chapters on curse words, food, sex, and even death, he allows his lively wit and scholarship to roam freely from Sholem Aleichem to Chaucer to Elvis. Perhaps only a khokhem be-layle (a fool, literally a "sage at night," when there's no one around to see) would care to pass up this endearing and enriching treasure trove of linguistics, sociology, history, and folklore—an intriguing appreciation of a unique and enduring language and an equally fascinating culture.

Born to Kvetch

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Whether you need extra books to help you with studying Italian, need a crash course for your upcoming trip or want to brush up on your knowledge, these 2 books will be of help. Both books in very good condition.  #Italian #language  #reference #learningaid #learning #education #linguistics #translating

Italian Language Learning Books

Some water (coffee?) damage to the bottom but in great shape. #hardcover #alphabetversusthegoddess #malewords #femaleimages #linguistics #etymology #history #language #leonardshlain 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

#hardcover #nonfiction #humor #writing #language #English #linguistics

Iowa

Or, the Joy of Text

Alphabetter Juice

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#hardcover #nonfiction #science #psychology #language #linguistics #sociology #health #mentalhealth #history 

Ohio

The Amazing Science of Bad Language

An irreverent and impeccably researched defense of our dirtiest words.

Swearing Is Good for You

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#hardcover #educational #linguistics #Englishlanguage #Englishlanguagedevelopmemt #OldEnglish #GermanicEnglish #developmentofEnglish

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Kansas

English

The English language is now accepted as the global lingua franca of the modern age. But how did it evolve? How did a language spoken originally be a few thousand Anglo-Saxons become one used by over a quarter of the human race? The Stories of English is a groundbreaking and entertaining history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and linguist. Crystal turns the history of English on its head and provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity, and diversity of the language truly lies-in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the world. Whatever their regional, social, or ethnic background, each group has a story worth telling, whether it is in Scotland or Canada, South Africa or the United States. Interwoven within this central chronological story are accounts of uses of dialect around the world and examples taken from current popular culture as well as literary classics. As Newsday wrote, "Crystal is bold, thoughtful, and often very funny.... His comparisons and allusions are effortless, and he's as up on Ali G and Middle Earth as he is on Anglo-Saxon and Middle English".

The Stories of English

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#paperback #nonfiction #animals #pets #dog #psychology #memoir #science #nature #linguistics 

Utah

Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words

Shares the story of a Border Collie who recognized an unprecedented number of human words to explore her role in advancing understandings about animal intelligence, recounting how she also demonstrated an ability to use deductive reasoning and imitation.

Chaser

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Some pages have the practice exercises filled in, however your exercises can be written on paper. #arabic #language #linguistics #foreignlanguage #DVDs #al-kitaab #alifbaa #culture

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds

Newly revised and packaged with two DVDs containing both audio and video exercises, Alif Baa with DVD: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, is the first part of the Al-Kitaab program. It teaches learners to recognize and produce both letters and sounds accurately through a variety of exercises designed to develop listening, reading, and writing skills. In addition, it introduces about 150 basic vocabulary words in authentic contexts, and it includes video footage of an Arabic calligrapher, a large collection of street signs, social greetings, capsules on Arab culture, and an English-Arabic glossary.

Alif Baa with DVDs

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#hardcover #language #nonfiction #linguistics The book has underlined passages here and there.

Texas

#paperback #nonfiction #theskinthatwespeak #education #culture #language #linguistics

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

A collection that gets to the heart of the relationship between language and power in the classroom.

The Skin That We Speak

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#paperback #English #grammar #writing #editing #copyediting #reference #education #language #linguistics

From the back cover:

A Student's Grammar of the English Language is a shorter and revised version of A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, the widely acclaimed definitive grammar of modern English on which the authors worked in collaboration with Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik.

The structure of the parent book has been preserved so that reference to it can easily be made, but this version takes particular account of the needs of students who require depth of treatment and also clear presentation with detailed exemplification. A Student's Grammar of the English Language draws on the most recent research, including new findings not only in grammar but also in the neighbouring fields of semantics, pragmatics, and text linguistics. Discourse features are dealt with throughout, as well as being the theme of a major chapter entitled: 'From Sentence to Text."

The authors are careful to point out those features of grammar which distinguish spoken from written, formal from informal, and British from American English.

A Student's Grammar of the English Language will be a standard work and an indispensable text book for all those who need an advanced and authoritative description of 

contemporary English.


A Student's Grammar of the English Language

#hardcover #internet #internetculture #language #linguistics #languageandculture #nytbestseller 

Massachusetts

Understanding How Language Is Changing

THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.

Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time.

Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer 'LOL' or 'lol', why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

'McCulloch is such a disarming writer - lucid, friendly, unequivocally excited about her subject - that I began to marvel at the flexibility of the online language she describes, with its numerous shades of subtlety.' New York Times

#hardcover #nonfiction #english #language #history #linguistics #writing #vocabulary #languagearts #stories 

Why Do We Say It? uncovers the roots of the English language and connects them to their intriguing origins. From idioms to cliches, this comprehensive book shows you the way around the English language The intriguing origins of hundreds of unusual words and expressions are here for your perusal, handily organized in an alphabetical format. Useful for reference or just for browsing, Why Do We Say It? is also a great way to expand your vocabulary and have fun while doing it. This edition makes a wonderful gift for readers, writers, scholars, and students. Uncover the mysteries of the modern English language and share the facts and trivia with your family and friends.

Why Do We Say It? : The Stories Behind the Words, Expressions, and Cliches We Use

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#paperback #nonfiction #reference #writing #language #english #rhyming #poetry #dictionary #linguistics 

The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary is an indispensable reference companion for anyone who writes verse - whether lyric poet, songwriter or composer of limericks or jingles. Clearly arranged and easy to use, it offers an astonishing wide range of suggestions for rhyming words, from the common and everyday to the more difficult and obscure.

The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary (Penguin Books, 1985)

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#dictionary #linguistics #cueword
Answers the question: “Now what is that word?”

Find the words on the tip of your tongue

Illustrated Reverse Dictionary

#hardcover #language #alphabetjuice  #english #letters #words #phonemes #linguistics 

The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof - Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences - With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

From sources as venerable as the OED and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com, and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, this book derives an organic take on language that is unlike any other.

Alphabet Juice

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Alaska

A Linguistic Excursion into the Five Styles of English Usage 

The Five Clocks

Illinois

Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guidebegins his discussion with the oldest, 'arts' end of the subject and moves chronologically through to the newest research - the 'science' aspects.A series of short thematic chapters look in turn at such areas as the prehistory of languages and their common origins, language and evolution, language in time and space (the nature of change inherent in language), grammars and dictionaries (how systematic is language?), and phonetics. Explicationof the newest discoveries pertaining to language in the brain completes the coverage of all major aspects of linguistics from a refreshing and insightful angle.

Linguistics: a Very Short Introduction

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#paperback #newyorktimesbestseller #linguistics #AfricanAmerican #language #racism

Self-Sabotage in Black America

Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected black America. Losing the Race explores the three main components of this cultural virus: the cults of victimology, separatism, and antiintellectualism that are making blacks their own worst enemies in the struggle for success. More angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more forward-looking than Stanley Crouch, McWhorter represents an original and provocative point of view. With Losing the Race, a bold new voice rises among black intellectuals.

Losing the Race

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#paperback #educational #nonfiction #language #humor #writing #english #grammar #selfhelp #linguistics 

Eats, Shoots and Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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#paperback #nonfiction #linguistics #language #history #science

Social Studies

A Natural History of Language

"An essay in origins ... as theoretical as Hawking and Gorst in trying to see into the deep past. McWhorter is a clear and witty writer."-- Harper's

In the first book written for the layperson about the natural history of language, linguistic professor John McWhorter ranges across linguistic theory, geography, history, and pop culture to tell the fascinating story of how thousands of very different languages have evolved from a single, original source in a natural process similar to biological evolution.

There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a living, dynamic entity that adapts itself to an ever-changing human environment. Full of humor and imaginative insight, The Power of Babel draws its illustrative examples from languages around the world, including pidgins, Creoles, and nonstandard dialects.

Stuart Robson; Prateep Changchit

Instant Thai

Berlitz Editors (Editor); Berlitz Publishing Staff

Greek Phrase Book

Gretchen McCulloch

Because Internet

Michael Wex

Born to Kvetch

Margarita Madrigal; Giuseppina Salvadori; Passport Books

Italian Language Learning Books

Leonard Shlain

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

Roy Blount

Alphabetter Juice

Emma Byrne

Swearing Is Good for You

David Crystal

The Stories of English

John W. Pilley; Hilary Hinzmann; John W. Pilley

Chaser

Kristen Brustad; Mahmoud Al-Batal; Abbas Al-Tonsi

Alif Baa with DVDs

Gretchen McCulloch

Because Internet

Lisa Delpit (Editor); Joanne Kilgour Dowdy (Editor)

The Skin That We Speak

Sidney Greenbaum, Randolph Quirk

A Student's Grammar of the English Language

Gretchen McCulloch

Because Internet

Editors of Chartwell Books

Why Do We Say It? : The Stories Behind the Words, Expressions, and Cliches We Use

Rosalind Fergusson; Market House Books Ltd.

The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary (Penguin Books, 1985)

Readers Digest

Illustrated Reverse Dictionary

Roy Blount

Alphabet Juice

Martin Joos

The Five Clocks

P. H. Matthews

Linguistics: a Very Short Introduction

John McWhorter

Losing the Race

Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots and Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

John McWhorter

The Power of Babel