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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
Milet Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Milet's New Bilingual Visual Dictionary series provides an entertaining way for children to learn words in two languages. The dictionary features useful, everyday words that will help learners to build their vocabulary. The words are grouped by subjects, so children can focus on one set of related words at a time. The text is large and easy to read, and the vector illustrations are colourful, detailed and highly realistic. Ideal for home as well as...
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Deutsch
Description
You learned English by listening. With Pimsleur, you listen to learn another language. This Language Program was developed by renowned memory expert, Dr. Paul Pimsleur. His research led him to the realization that the most important use of memory is in language learning. Based on this, Dr. Pimsleur designed a learning program that works for any language. The Pimsleur Language Program is an integrated system which immerses you in the language, encouraging...
Publisher
Living Language
Pub. Date
[2002], p1997
Language
English
Description
An English-speaking narrator guides the user through 35 short lessons; listen and repeat after the native German speakers. The guide shows the spelling and text of all the dialogues, along with a brief grammar summary and a glossary of grammatical terms. Designed to help learn the German language while driving, working around the house, or exercising at the gym.
29) In-flight German
Series
Publisher
Living Language
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Deutsch
Description
Offers a quick lesson in spoken German for everyday situations including greetings, asking directions, checking into a hotel, and ordering in a restaurant.
34) Lore
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Deutsch
Description
Abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings, led by fourteen year old Lore embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country.
Publisher
Living Language
Pub. Date
[2002], p1997
Language
English
Description
An English-speaking narrator guides the user through 35 short lessons; listen and repeat after the native German speakers. The guide shows the spelling and text of all the dialogues, along with a brief grammar summary and a glossary of grammatical terms. Designed to help learn the German language while driving, working around the house, or exercising at the gym.
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems of The Book of Hours to the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snow's commentaries on Rilke, as well as an important new introduction by the award-winning...
39) Helvetica
Publisher
Plexifilm
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An exploration of urban spaces and the type that inhabits them, Helvetica invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
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