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Winner of the Prix Goncourt (France), the Leipzig Prize (Germany), Premio Von Rezzori (Italy), shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the center of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East.
With exhilarating prose and sweeping erudition, Mathias Énard pulls astonishing elements from disparate sources--nineteenth-century composers and esoteric orientalists, Balzac and Agatha Christie--and binds them together in a most magical way.
Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations and extensive practice and review, Complete Brazilian Portuguese will equip you with the skills you need to use Brazilian Portuguese in a variety of settings and situations, developing your cultural awareness along the way. What will I achieve by the end of the course?
By the end of Complete Brazilian Portuguese you will have a solid intermediate-level grounding in the four key skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening - and be able to communicate with confidence and accuracy. Is this course for me?
If you want to move confidently from beginner to intermediate level, this is the course for you. It's perfect for the self-study learner, with a one-to-one tutor, or for the beginner classroom. It can also be used as a refresher course. What do I get?
-18 learning units plus verbs reference and word glossary and revision section
-Discovery Method - figure out rules and patterns to make the language stick
-Teaches the key skills - reading, writing, listening, and speaking
-Learn to learn - tips and skills on how to be a better language learner
-Culture notes - learn about the people and places of Brazil
-Outcomes-based learning - focus your studies with clear aims
-Authentic listening activities - everyday conversations give you a flavor of real spoken Brazilian Portuguese
-Test Yourself - see and track your own progress *Complete Brazilian Portuguese maps from Novice Low to Advanced Low level proficiency of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) and from A1 Beginner to B1/B2 Upper Intermediate level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) guidelines. This pack includes a book and one CD of audio material. The audio for this course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com. What else can I use to learn Brazilian Portuguese?
If you require an absolute Beginner course, you can try our Get Started in Brazilian Portuguese Absolute Beginner course: 9781444198539 Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.
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Go from beginner's Spanish to mastery with this single, comprehensive guide!
Experts agree: the quickest route to learning a language--from beginner to advanced--is through a solid grounding in grammar and well-crafted exercises that reinforce lessons in vocabulary, essential structures. This premium resource combines two bestsellers, Easy Spanish Step-by-Step and Advanced Spanish Step-by-Step into one easy-to-use guide.
Following a series of logically interconnected "steps," you'll progress from the basics and essential structures to more advanced concepts that govern how Spanish is spoken and written--including the use of preterit and imperfect tenses, commands, the present and past subjunctive, idiom, and much, much more.
Complete Spanish Step-by-Step brings you:
- Two bestselling books in one convenient, easy-to-use guide
- Unique "building block" approach to mastering essential grammar, verbs, and vocabulary
- Tools to help you begin speaking Spanish almost immediately
- Audio recordings of answers to 150 exercises via the exclusive McGraw-Hill Language Lab app
- Exercises to help test and measure your progress, and more
The most widely used introduction to Haitian Creole.
A simple guide to Haitian Creole for English speaking people.
The basic elements of Creole grammar and vocabulary in sixteen easy lessons.
In less than an hour a day the short lessons will have you speaking basic Creole in about a week. You will learn key Creole words, how to pronounce those words, and how to put those words together into useful sentences.
This book is ideal for those who will visit or work in Haiti and desire to communicate with her people.
"Creole Made Easy gets everything right. It's exactly the vocabulary and concepts you need, clearly explained, in just enough depth." -Carlo Diy, HaitiHub.com
An audio pronunciation guide is available separately as MP3 files or a 2 CD set.
Things put underground in New Orleans don't often stay there. Even things that should - like bodies, and secrets.
How do you fight an enemy you can't see that can kill on a whim? In 1820s New Orleans, on the eve of her twenty-first birthday, Zéolie Cheval discovers the mangled body of her father murdered in his bed and a maniacal voice haunting the recesses of her mind. When the priest sent to comfort her is killed while the house is swarming with police, Zéolie becomes entangled in a web of mystery that takes her from the French Quarter, to the Ursuline Convent in the Ninth Ward, and deep into the Louisiana swamps.
Officer Louis Saucier, who is losing his heart to Zéolie and his grip on logical reality, helps her find the pieces to her puzzle. The mother superior of the Ursulines offers assistance from a mediumistic nun and a voodoo priestess, blurring the lines between the spiritual and the supernatural.
After opening the family crypt to find it uninhabited, Zéolie realizes that her father lied about her mother's death - amongst other things. Now, Zéolie must come to terms with magic she inherited from her grandmother and the price that comes with it.
Step inside the magic and mystery of the 1820s French Quarter to see if an unlikely menagerie can help Zéolie take down a murderous maniac while she shields the officer she loves. Can she harness powers she didn't know she had? Or, will she make the ultimate sacrifice?