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Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology. Every self-paced language course introduces the learner to cultural insights and grammatical nuances specific to their language of choice, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Assesses historical "hyperpolyglot" linguistic high achievers who demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for learning and speaking languages, and explains the sources of such abilities and what it reveals about the nature of memory and language.
Publisher
Make believe ideas
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Step into a baby's world with Yes, Baby! Look at the step-by-step instructions or scan the QR codes to watch the baby-signing videos. Learn how to sign 25 key words together. Then try signing the words as you read along and explore the busy pictures. Have fun helping everyone communicate, from big to small!" --
6) This is baby
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's The Tonight Show and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA and Everything Is Mama, returns with a book that teaches new babies the words for the various parts of their body--This is Baby."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, that's because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by "code-switching" between dialects or learning a new language. But for...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A lot of babies' first words were Dada. However, everything after that was Mama. Readers take a look from a baby's point of view as different animals try to teach their children that there are other words in addition to Mama for familiar objects and activities."--Publisher's description.
Publisher
Baby Hands Productions
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Introduces babies to words and signs to help them discover and communicate about the world around them. Offers words and signs for colors, foods, nature, and play. Includes a parent tutorial with key guidelines and a printed quick reference signing card.
Author
Publisher
Huron Street Press, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Appropriate for adults who are completely new to signing, this authoritative guide on sign language helps them engage with children up to age five, regardless of their hearing ability. Each of the eight chapters contain a variety of activities, such as games, finger plays, songs, and crafts, which help children develop language learning, improve communication and self-expression, and raise their self-esteem. A ll vocabulary comes from American Sign...
Publisher
BFTV
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Explore, giggle, and grow with the funniest, sunniest Harry the Bunny! Harry invites his friends to go on exciting adventures as he learns and senses the world around him. Through expressive and playful repetition, little ones will grasp new words, sounds, shapes, and numerous other development concepts by inspecting environments familiar to them. Full of floppy-eared discoveries, the collection looks at the world through the eyes of everyone2s favorite...
Publisher
Two Little Hands Productions
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Teaches 30 American Sign Language signs. Combines signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Teaches babies to sign before they can speak. Includes sign concepts like friend, play, please, thank you, etc.
Publisher
Two Little Hands Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Teaches American Sign Language signs. Combines signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Teaches babies to sign before they can speak. Includes signs for home, family, brother, sister, grass, rain, tree, coat, excited, surprised, love, and many more.
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